Right now Firewall is out-scaling everything else by a factor of like 20x; it's not even funny. Everything else is literally just being used/setup to apply Firewall damage to be competitive.

While as an IncineBro I am happy to see burning in general get some pumps, it's currently way too lopsided into and reliant on one skill.

It's also not helping that the supporting Aspects like Ancient Flame catapults it (Fire Ring) even higher.

I tested Leoric's Crown on the PTR, and for S15 it helps the shift a little; as slotting a seasonal damage Splinter gives you damage in the Helm slot that applies to everything; as opposed to only Firewall with the FireStorm helm. But the actual gap on the skill output themselves is still massive.

It's always risk wanting change, because Blizzard's logic is often "OK, we made them all suck now - problem solved".

Edit: I am mostly referring to amongst other Burning/Pyromancy skills btw; Like Incinerate, Inferno, Meteor, etc.

Replicated the notes and bugs sections that seemed relevant to Sorc below.

Splinter of Pain looks great for any setup that gets around mostly using Teleports, and Splinter of Hellfire looks great for any DoT builds.

I personally like that they limited ring of fire to Pyromancy skills, this makes it less exploitable by all setups (and thus less likely to get super nerfed later). Give us Pyros something to hold on to lol.

The Leoric's Crown looks cool, but only useful for this season's mechanic. Where it counts as a Jewelry item, so you can place these/two Soul Splinters in it, and it doubles the effect? I hope it actually works this way.

Sorcerer

• Core stat scalar increased from 1.25 to 1.625.

Developer’s Note: This change increases Damage per 10 points of Intelligence from 1.25% to 1.625%. We're continuing to evaluate how the balance of each class holistically differs, and the core stat scalar helps adjust for some of these differences.

Skills

Firewall

• Ring of Fire Variant
  • Now only affected by Direct Damage from Pyromancy Skills.
• Will now spawn on you if used from the Enchantment.

Frozen Orb

• Great Orbs of Fire Variant
  • Now only consumes 1 stack of Overpower to explode 3 times.

Fireball

• Frostball Variant
  • No longer requires enemies to be Frozen to create Ice Spikes.
  • Reduced amount of Ice Spikes from 5 to 3.
  • Damage decreased from 170% to 85%.

Ball Lightning

• Orbital Variant
  • Can now be cast while moving.

Paragon

Pyromaniac Glyph

• Maximum Damage bonus reduced from 18%[x] to 15%[x].

Enchantment Master Legendary Node

• Damage increase reduced from 100%[x] to 60%[x].
• Removed increased damage for second Enchantment if it is a different element.

Developer’s Note: We want to simplify this node by removing the need to decide if having different elemental enchantments was worth more than having the same elemental enchantments.

Legendary Aspects

Shivering Aspect

• Damage increased from 60-90%[x] to 90-120%[x].

Frozen Wake Aspect

• Damage increased from 2-3%[x] up to 60-90%[x] to 3-4%[x] up to 90-120%[x].

Blasting Aspect

• Damage increased from 60-90%[x] to 80-100%[x].
• Normalized ranks to 21.

Elemental Constellation

• Damage reduced from 80-120%[x] to 45-60%[x].
• Normalized ranks to 21.

Uniques

Blue Rose

• Damage increased from 40-60%[x] to 80-100%[x].

Talisman

Tirahj's Uncanny Insight

• Added a 60%[x] Conjuration bonus damage multiplier to the 2-Piece Set Bonus.
• 5-Piece Set Bonus: Damage increased from 175%[x] to 200%[x].

Breath of the Frozen Sea

• 3-Piece Set Bonus: Increased Maximum Life and Barrier Generation from 20% to 30%.
• 5-Piece Set Bonus: Now also reduces Mana Cost of Frost skills by 30%.

Seasonal Mechanic - Souls Splinters

Note: The values provided below scale between the different Item Quality tiers.

Splinter of Anguish

• 250/175/2625/4375 Fire Resistance
• You gain 15/20/25/35%[+] Critical Strike Chance and Attack Speed, but your Primary Resource Costs are increased by 30%.

Splinter of Sin

• 250/175/2625/4375 Lightning Resistance
• You gain 10/20/30/40%[x] Maximum Health, but your Maximum Primary Resource is reduced by 30%.

Splinter of Lies

• 250/175/2625/4375 Cold Resistance
• You gain 40/60/80/100% increased Gold Drop Rate, Crafting Material Drop Rate, and 25% Bonus Experience, but you are always Weakened and Vulnerable.

Splinter of the Black Soulstone

• 7/20/30/50 All Stats
• Killing enemies absorbs a soul for 15 seconds. Each soul increases your damage by 2/3/4/5%[x], but increases your damage taken by 0.5%. This effect stacks but does not refresh.

Splinter of Pain

• 250/175/2625/4375 Poison Resistance
• You gain 10/20/30/40% Damage Reduction, but you lose 30% Movement Speed.

Splinter of the Mother

• 250/175/2625/4375 Physical Resistance
• You are Unhindered. Touching enemies makes them Vulnerable for 10 seconds. After touching 100/150/200/250 enemies, you are Stunned for 4 seconds.

Splinter of Hellfire

• 35/50/375/625 Resistance to All Elements
• You deal 40/60/80/100%[x] increased damage but lose 100% Critical Strike Chance.

Splinter of Damnation

• 250/175/2625/4375 Shadow Resistance
• Killing an Elite Pack increases Monster Power by 1 for 10/15/20/25 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Frostbite would not be consumed on staggered enemies when using Breath of the Frozen Sea set.
• Fixed an issue where Cauldron set stacks could reset erroneously.
• Fixed an issue where Flame Shield would grant more stacks than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Frigid Hydra Variant base damage was lower than intended.

The big W:

• Fixed Avakot’s Gots being abnormally empty, and has returned to selling his goods once again!

All ye, rejoice!

Just have to say how much I appreciate this game engine. It can look pretty good dialed up, but can also be dialed down to look decent and performs very well. Speaking from the perspective of having it actually run well on lower end devices like my Steam Deck.

So many devs just using Unreal Engine X when it's not even necessary and performs horribly unless you have some super beefy rig.

Always a good choice when performance isn't barrier to entry for a game like his.

So basically I created a character that had the kind of wilding/horizon-zero-dawn hairstyle. Once I unlocked the appearance NPC, click on a different hairstyle to see what it looked like... no confirmation of saving; ok so I back out.

Oooff... that is now my hairstyle. But now the hairstyle I had before is not "unlocked"; had to spend premium currency to buy/unlock it again apparently (even though I had it on before).

Anyways, just be careful with that.

I recently downloaded and installed Soulframe. Install went fine, updated and installed the new content in the launcher.

But when I click ENTER (which is supposed to launch the game itself I think), my entire system reboots.

I have tried using Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, etc. Same result.

Anyone else tried it having similar issues, or have it working right now (as of today)?

Thanks

Update: Thanks for the feedback guys. I tried Proton-GE 10-34 and it is working using that.

I am on Steam Deck. Not sure if this belonged in SteamOS or SteamDeck. But since it's software, figured SteamOS was the place for it.

Not sure if anyone else if having this similar issue. I recently downloaded and installed Soulframe. Install went fine, updated and installed the new content in the launcher.

But when I click ENTER, which is supposed to launch the game itself, my entire system reboots.

I have tried using Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, etc. Same result.

Anyone else tried it, or have it working right now?

PS. Until tomorrow, you can register (on the website) and get access to the EA/Prelude permanently; if anyone is inclined to try it themselves.

Edit/Update: Was able to get it launching successfully using Proton-GE 10-34. Seems the regular Proton has issues with this game.

Right now the rate at which Poison does damage is just ridiculous. The tiniest bit of poison and you have to pop 2-3 potions in succession just to survive. It's pretty much pointless to even have poison resist.

This has been a long standing issue. As in title, I feel that on Potion use any poison effects should be removed, and grant immunity to poison for 6s or so to account for if it's a ground effect.

In addition, the poison ground effect durations are beyond nonsense. It lasts for like 30-45s. I can die to a boss/elite, respawn, run back, and the poison effect is still there. This is especially irritating when you've just killed a boss in the pit etc and have to wait 30+ seconds just to interact with the pillars.

TL;DR: Poison on player effects are OP, plz nerf.