Din's Champion patch 0.807 - Skills

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Patch 0.807 of Din's Champion is now available on Steam.

This patch focuses on fixing and improving skills for the 39 player classes.

0.807 change list:

• fixed whirlwind sometimes not targeting enemies correctly (might affect other skills?) (LumberingTroll)
• fixed Arcane Swarm movement (ulyssessword/goodgimp/sPiNdRy/HossPorkchops)
• skills like Marked for Death will no longer target entities marked as CanOnlyTargetDirectly unless directly targeted
• whirlwind can now hit targets behind you
• HolySymbol & Earthquake skills now need line of sight to damage an enemy
• halved damage penalities for skills with ExtraEnemies
• improved targeting for lighting type skills (and probably others) (DysDaemoN/Nailclippins)
• now chain lighting prioritizes monsters higher than other targets
• now debuffs won't try to target non-monsters even if you are targeting them
• improved targeting for corpse related skills (Molnyfio)
• now summoned Fire Elementals, Chaos Lords, Furies, Guardians, and Ghosts are smaller so they fit in the same space as a player and can move around better (Molnyfio)
• fixed trap aiming (still needs to have a real gravity applied)
• halved damage penalities for SkillMultiStrike and QuakeStrike
• Savage Strike now teleports correctly
• fixed Savage Strike large range being applied to damage area
• combo master skill now increases weapon damage
• made sleight of hand and feint work on all enemies in range and in front of the player
• shield bash skills hit more enemies reliably
• added some offset to extra projectiles so you can actually see them (AhaloOnDeck91)
• fixed Insidious Poison not actually doing poison damage (Voidbearer)
• now StatusEffectAuraOfPoisonVictim, StatusEffectAcidTouch, StatusEffectPoisonMist, StatusEffectPollution, and StatusEffectLethalPoison do poison damage
• fire shield can no longer hurt the entity it is protecting (Nailclippins)
• skills like Arcane Swarm will no longer randomly target entities marked as CanOnlyTargetDirectly
• critters no longer count for successfull hits or kills (Delilah/ulyssessword)
• added HealthChangeInflation 0.1 to StatusEffectInvigorate (HossPorkchops)
• fixed highlighting player size
• can now use dark ritual from necromancer and summoner on same pets (Molnyfio)
• made block and energizing blocks a little longer
• decreased ShieldBash and ShieldBlast reuse time from 10.0 to 5.0
• lifeburn can now repeat
• flame blade now casts more light
• now MultiShot extra projectiles are easier to see
• StrengthOfStone no longer changed your size
• shatter and bone shatter can now repeat
• doubled Banish distance
• death rune only works if can see enemy
• Slaughter can hit monsters behind player now
• HypnotizingFlow skill now increases weapon damage and attack
• now there is a backwards skill option for the mouse wheel (Molnyfio)
• added "Weapon Attack" wording on skills that do a weapon attack to be a little more clear
• now status effect damage line now always tells you damage type to be more consistent (Voidbearer)
• damage mult bonus now shows an extra digit of precision
• added "without attack penalty" to skill descriptions that have ExtraEnemies
• fixed create character ok button highlight text (no longer references clan name)
• added "Highlight this when using a skill to target." to party member and client highlights
• changed shockwave effect to be in x/z instead of x/y
• added 36 male names for NPCs (really way more since use markov chain)
• added 41 female names for NPCs (really way more since use markov chain)
• sorted npc names and removed duplicates (just easier to work with)