Changes

• Blossom has been reworked
  • More blossom types introduced.
  • Blossom now only halve at the END of the round.
  • Blossoms now have a max stack count.
  • Fragrant blossom now gives blossom boost.
  • A new buff 'rot' introduced, gained each time blossoms halve, and can be spent on a variety of new techniques.
  • New 'fungal' technique set introduced, that grow slowly but infinitely.
  • Seed type techniques now bloom at the start of the next round.
  • Fatal Flora now only affects the first blossom type gained after it is itself gained.
  • Many techniques deleted, reworked, or moved.
  • Rebalanced a lot of items that gave fragrant blossom.
• Quality and Hidden Potential now factor into an items cost.
• Companions now animate attacks during combat.
• Enemies in a horde animate attacks.
• You can now set multiple conditions on a stance rule on either an 'AND' or 'OR' mode.
• Combat results now show damage from DOT's too.
• Reworked custom images to be stored seperate from the save file, reducing file bloat.
• Removed the round limit on auto-battle.
• Training ground leaving is now bound to escape.
• You can now duplicate a stance. Also improved the stances list layout to be more compact.
• Fracturing tiles in the pillar grid now has a better UX.
• Tidao Feng now has animations.
• Changing stances now shows the stance name.
• The progenitor echoes now have 3 rounds of 100% damage reduction.
• You can now right click a technique in the edit stance techniques to edit it.
• Reworked manuals. They now all have some lore, give many more techniques, and contain a full style with rules.
  
• Rebalance growth rate / yield of fruits vs treasures.
• Added blossom masteries for all blossom types.
• Nerfed the harmonious fountain.
• Improved stance management screen to be better sized.
• Disabled removing the qi vessel once placed.
• Allow editing techniques by right clicking in the stance list.
• Craftskill now has a cap of 250 craft skill per realm. If over this limit, crafting lower realm recipes will not give craft skill.
• On the world map, when travelling the location dialog automatically reopens on completion.
• Improved the auction UI.
• You can now sell items in the auction. Attend multiple auctions to be invited.
• Added new auction abilities that can be found throughout the world.

Balance Changes

• The progenitor echoes are now MUCH harder.
• Gravitational Anomaly is now slightly easier.
• Power debuffs are now limited to a maximum of 90% of your power for each debuff.
• Max barrier is now a softcap. You can exceed it, but you lose half of the excess after each technique. Reduced max barrier significantly to compensate.
• The scaling of most monsters has been heavily reduced. In return, base hp and damage increased.
  
• Barrier degen now scales up the higher you raise your barrier above the cap, to a limit of 90% degen.
• Barrier now always blocks damage before health. Barrier effectiveness now acts as damage reduction for barrier (at all values), with a falloff for high values of effectiveness (capping at 500% effectiveness).
• Nerfed Life from Decay.
• Nerfed turtle infusion slightly.
• Shadow sickness scaling items now all have a cap on their bonuses.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a number of places that were showing excessively accurate numbers.
• Fixed background destinies when skipping tutorial.
• Fixed stats given by modded backgrounds.
• Fixed many many typos.
• Fixed many more cases of -defense to be vulnerabilty.
• Fixed many stances that were using dayspring.
• Fixed grudge plate stacking.
• Fixed alchemical synthesis mastery names.
• Fixed mastery tutorial softlock if you are lucky enough to roll max mastery tier.
• Fixed some techniques not having the flat heal mastery.
• Fixed stacking of energy resonance.
• Fixed being able to click through dialogs in the pillar grid.
• Fixed reflective curse being able to be set more than once.
• Fixed display of Karmic Reprise mastery.
• Fixed Shen henda fruit buffs not stacking by giving them each unique names.
• Fixed seeping corruption not stacking.
• Fixed Zi Liang being a madlad and patrolling into places he really SHOULDN'T be.
• Fixed infinite loops in some triggers
• Fixed culminating destruction stacking.
  
• Fixed symbiotic parasite to trigger at the end of the round.
• Fixed artefacts not appearing in combat results.
• Fixed thorn shot damage.
• Fixed being able to create over the max stacks of a buff.
• Fixed iron clad garden masteries.
• Fixed crushing undergrowth damage.
• Fixed stance rules selector breaking with large rules.
• Fixed forge blademaster icon being blurry.
• Fixed many typos.
• Fixed many logical inconsistencies in event dialogues.
• Fixed Shield Reinforcer tooltip.
• Fixed unleash arsenal giving double the shards it should.
• Fixed shop and quest board reset display.
• Fixed tooltips persisting when they shouldn't