Version 1.2.2

Version History
← 1.2.1b September 3, 2014	1.2.2 September 11, 2014	1.2.2b → September 12, 2014

Patch notes

These are the official patch notes for version 1.2.2 released by Grinding Gear Games.

Content/Features

• Pets can now be placed in your hideout. To unleash a pet, right-click on it in your microtransaction stash and then click somewhere in your hideout. It will roam around until it is reclaimed. You can have many pets in your hideout at the same time.
• New craftable mods have been added to the Armourer's Workbench, Bowmaker's Tools, Headstones, Sharpening Wheel and Blessing Font.
• Masters can now sell you hideout decorations from towns, as long as you have a hideout.
• Microtransaction portal effects now apply to portals created by Map Devices.
• Added three new cosmetic microtransactions: Ghostflame Summon Raging Spirit, Demonic Flameblast and Demonic Reave.
• Masters now offer the Abandon Mission conversation option for daily missions for when you absolutely want to fail your mission.
• You can now destroy items in your hideout.
• We have changed portals for daily missions to close when the owner of the mission receives the reward, rather than when the mission is complete.
• Footprint effects no longer leave a permanent mark in hideouts.
• Added additional mastery icons for themed clusters in the passive skill tree.
• Local chat has been disabled for spectators of PvP.
• Health, Mana, Energy Shield and Experience values are now displayed with commas separating each group of three digits.

General Balance

• We have restricted skills to only work with a single trigger gem at a time. Skills supported by multiple triggers will be disabled and won't work with any of them.
• Cast on Melee Kill SupportCast on Melee Kill SupportSupport, Melee, Attack, Spell, Trigger
  Icon: &
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%
  Cooldown Time: 0.15 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Must support both a melee attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it kills an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.Supported Melee Attacks will Trigger a Supported Spell on Kill
  Supported Spells have (20-39)% more Spell Damage
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Attack Damage
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. now has a 100% chance to trigger supported skills at all levels. Triggered skills deal 20% increased spell damage at gem level 1, up to 77% at gem level 20.
• We have reduced the damage of Merveil's Ice Spear by 15% in normal difficulty, with smaller reductions in Cruel and Merciless. Her Geysers now hit a smaller area.

Master and Mission Balance

• The levels of daily master missions has been adjusted.
• Vagan has had his life reduced for most variations, and had several of his skills adjusted to deal less damage.
• Igna Phoenix can no longer be chosen as a target of Vorici missions. They are old friends and he wouldn't risk raising her ire.
• Tora no longer asks you to track her targets from their corpses in cases where those corpses tend to explode.
• Various adjustments have been made to mission side area sizes and pack sizes in those areas.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Frost WallFrost WallSpell, Duration, Cold
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (9-33) Mana
  Cooldown Time: 3.00 sec
  Can Store 3 Use(s)
  Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 4Creates a wall of ice which holds back enemies. Targets under the wall are damaged and pushed back.Deals (8-462) to (12-693) Cold Damage
  Base duration is (3.00-4.90) seconds
  0.15 seconds between appearance of Wall sections
  Wall will be (2.8-5.6) meters long
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. did not deal damage to targets it could not push.
• Fixed a bug where supporting auras with Spell TotemSpell Totem SupportSupport, Spell, Totem
  Icon: T
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 200%Requires Level 8Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.Supported Skills deal (49-40)% less Damage
  Supported Skills will summon a Totem which uses that Skill
  Totem lasts 8 seconds
  Supported Skills have 40% less Cast Speed
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speedThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. allowed for free auras.
• Fixed a bug where ArcArcSpell, Chaining, Lightning
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-23) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.70 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 120%Requires Level 12An arc of lightning reaches from the caster to a targeted enemy and chains to other enemies, but not immediately back. Each time the arc chains, it will also chain a secondary arc to another enemy that the main arc has not already hit, which cannot chain further.Deals (6-198) to (32-1122) Lightning Damage
  Chains +(4-7) Times
  15% more Damage with Hits and Ailments for each remaining Chain
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Chains +(0.05-1) TimesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. did not chain off targets that did not leave corpses.
• Fixed an issue with Shockwave TotemShockwave TotemTotem, Spell, AoE, Physical, Nova
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (21-39) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.60 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 110%
  AoE Radius: 24Requires Level 28Summons a totem that shakes the earth around it, knocking back and damaging nearby enemiesDeals (33-412) to (65-765) Physical Damage
  Totem lasts 8 seconds
  25% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit
  Summons a Totem which uses this Skill
  Base radius is 2.4 metres
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. when it would not cast when enemies that were both untargetable and damageable were in range.
• Fixed a bug where you could not Lightning WarpLightning WarpSpell, AoE, Duration, Movement, Lightning, Travel
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (9-26) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.70 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 90%
  AoE Radius: 16Requires Level 10Waits for a duration before teleporting to a targeted destination, with the duration based on the distance and your movement speed. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt to the area around both where the player was and where they teleported to. Casting again will queue up multiple teleportations to occur in sequence.Deals (1-51) to (19-965) Lightning Damage
  +(0-0.4) metres to radius
  (30-49)% reduced Duration
  Can queue up to 50 uses
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (1-20)% increased Cast SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. while you also had a Lightning Warp totem active in the area.
• Fixed a bug where Tornado ShotTornado ShotAttack, Projectile, Bow
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (10-12) Mana
  Attack Speed: 80% of base
  Attack Damage: (100-120)% of base
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: (100-120)%Requires Level 28Fires a piercing shot that travels until it reaches the targeted location. It will then fire projectiles out in all directions from that point, which will travel for a short time before disappearing.Fires 3 secondary Projectiles
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (2-40)% increased Projectile SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. would hit the same monster multiple times when it chained or returned.
• Fixed a bug where the Locomancer achievement could not be completed.
• Fixed a bug where the Full Clear: Archives achievement could not be completed.
• Fixed a bug where Haku's crafting mod would not apply to EnlightenEnlighten SupportExceptional, Support
  Icon: +
  Level: (1-3)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: (100-92)%Supports any skill gem. Once this gem reaches level 2 or above, will apply a cost & reservation multiplier to supported gems. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  This Gem gains (5-100)% increased ExperienceThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., EmpowerEmpower SupportExceptional, Support
  Icon: +
  Level: (1-3)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Supports any skill gem. Once this gem reaches level 2 or above, will raise the level of supported gems. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.+(0-2) to Level of Supported Skill Gems
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  This Gem gains (5-100)% increased ExperienceThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or EnhanceEnhance SupportExceptional, Support
  Icon: +
  Level: (1-3)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports any skill gem. Once this gem reaches level 2 or above, will raise the quality of supported gems. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.+(0-16)% to Quality of Supported Skill Gems
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  This Gem gains (5-100)% increased ExperienceThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket..
• Fixed a bug where you could fail a Zana mission after completing it if you didn't hand it in before the timer expired.
• Fixed a bug where minions raised by Necromancers would instantly die in some Elreon missions.
• Fixed a bug where dummies killed by Vagan's totems would count as kills by the player.
• Fixed a bug where killing the first form of a two-form monster could cause a full clear event.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes monsters created in the Sewer areas by the Tora and Vorici missions could be placed in inaccessible locations.
• Fixed a bug where the Elreon mission that involves feeding a relic would display the wrong collection circle size.
• Fixed a bug where corpse targetting made it hard to select NPCs (except Catarina).
• Fixed a bug where crafted mods would not be copied when using Ctrl-C on an item.
• Fixed a bug where Korean and Telugu characters would not work in chat.
• Fixed a bug where a party on the public party list would jump around as the list refreshed, if it was selected.
• Fixed an issue with the Secluded Copse side area having incorrect tiles.
• Fixed a bug where characters could appear at the wrong spawn point, when returning from corrupted areas to a hideout.
• Fixed a bug where the client would crash when exiting to the character screen while the client was running on a secondary screen.
• Fixed a bug with the display of your pointer when using a crafting device.
• Nerfed the Marauder's noisy loincloth.