PTS Patch Notes - Depth Stepper

August 11, 2021 by Trove Forums

Source: forums.trovegame.com

Depth Stepper

Depth Steppers are a new type of Delve Gateway available for craft & purchase in the hub!
After placing a Depth Stepper, the placing Player may interact with it to bring up a UI that allows them to manually set the starting Depth (usually between 23 and 110, but some adept Delvers may find they can start deeper, and many Depth Steppers have a minimum depth higher than 23).
Depth Steppers often point to a specific BOSS or BIOME, guaranteeing you'll see them on the first Shadowy Soul Vault floor of the Delve (the 3rd floor in) .
- Each subsequent Shadowy Soul Vault also has an increased chance to spawn the BOSS or BIOME.
- This increased chance to spawn will persist until a Shadowy Soul Vault without the BOSS or BIOME is generated, at which point the Delve will behave as normal.
Personalized Chests can sometimes spawn in Depth Stepper Delves (on any floor), giving an opportunity for a second loot roll to a single player participating in the Delve. These chests can spawn for any of the players present, but will usually spawn first for whichever player placed the Depth Stepper.
Among other ingredients, crafting BOSS or BIOME Depth Steppers require 1x "Depth Stepper (Private Mode)" and 1x "Epic Condensed Memory".
"Depth Stepper (Private Mode)" gateways can either be purchased from Rokatan for 800 Inert Geodes (limited to 3 per week), or from Gateway Gladys for 50 Credits (limited to 10 per week). These can also drop, albeit rarely, from Depth Stepper Delves of Depth 100 or greater.
"Epic Condensed Memory" is obtained when deconstructing Biome Mementos or Depth Steppers.
All BOSS Depth Steppers can be crafted all the time, whereas only 2 BIOME Depth Steppers are available to craft each day of the week.
BOSS Depth Steppers can be purchased from Gateway Gladys in the Delve building in the HUB for prices ranging from 100 to 150 Credits; Gateway Gladys does not currently sell BIOME Depth Steppers.

New Ability Modifiers (Public Evaluation)

The team has been creating some additional abilities, and would like to have feedback on how these abilities feel. To acquire the abilities for testing, simply equip rings that will be granted in claims. Additional abilities will be made available for testing over time.
The following abilities are available for the initial round of testing:
- Neon Ninja - Float Like A Butterfly - 8 seconds of slowfall after using Final Technique.
- Pirate Captain - All Hands On Deck - A Pirrot Cannoneer is now spawned with Man O'War.
- Candy Barbarian - Spin To Win - Swirlwind increases your movement speed instead of slowing and reduces the energy cost from 60 to 30.
- Tomb Raiser - Ghost More - Banshee's Boon now consumes 3 energy per tick instead of 5.
- Shadow Hunter - Tactical Shot - A fully charged Radiant Arrow will grant a 10% damage boost for 5 seconds (once every 10 seconds).
- Gunslinger - Stunning Ammo - Charged Shot has a 50% chance to stun a target for 1 second (once every 3 seconds).
- Boomeranger - Blast Bow - Triggers an AoE when bow attacks land.
- Bard - Crystal Teleport - Crystal Pop now teleports the player to the singing crystal’s location.
- Chloromancer- Phytobarrier - Creates a shield at low health that reduces damage.

Additional Updates

The Neon Ninja now generates a Shuriken whenever they use Shadow Flip.
Changed the way Revenant’s Spirit Spears movement speed debuff is applied. This should have no visible change.
Fixed an issue that could prevent delve worlds from generating occasionally.
Boss Gateways will still have a chance of many bosses, but not at every loot level forever and ever.
Boss-specific Gateway objects have had their appearances updated!
Reduced how often the Fae Wilds biome shows up in Delves relative to other biomes.
Coxcomb should no longer show up as a defeat creature requirement in Delves.
The Delve Gateway recipes for the Wildfae King, Wildfae Queen, and Wildfae Spider were erroneously giving mastery, they now give none like the other Delve Gateway recipes.
Minor fixes for the Party Island and Meadow Mover mag riders.
Updated the back right foot of the Peter Pirate Guineapig ally.
Fixed a typo in the Crown of the Leviathans Badge.