One step forward, one backflip off a cliff.

EDIT: The patch is now out. I fucking told you so.

So the Hotfix 80 notes are out, and there's some nice stuff in here. A mix of balance changes that range from nice to "who honestly cares", a nice expansion to sorcerer to round out what they're considering to be the class's completion, randomization of Ruins and GC, etc.

And of course, how can we forget, the return of High Roller to the world's shittiest Battle Royale...

God fucking dammit Ironmace, you actually went ahead and did it. Ever since the most recent devcast and expressing sdf's desire to make High Roller more "hardcore" we've been telling you not to, but you went ahead and brought back the old circle and random portal mechanics that were originally removed because the community hated it.

"Our goal for High-rollers is no longer broad appeal or high participation, but a return to a true hardcore playground that serves as a high-end test for only the strongest willed players and parties" allow me to translate this sdf-ism.

"We couldn't be bothered to make High Roller an enjoyable challenge our players actually want to play. Our attempts to fiddle with numbers instead of actually reworking systems or developing new ones to make HR not suck for 99% of the playerbase have failed, so High Roller is now our designated Cool Kids Club where if you don't like it your "will" just isn't strong enough and totally not because our PvP is an unbalanced clusterfuck."

Welcome to our new add/remove +all four different times.