As stated in the announcement made by Grinding Gear Game yesterday, they took the Archnemesis Modifiers issues reported by players very seriously and released a patch today.

Sentinel has just been released for less than a week, but many players have reported in the community that Archnemesis Modifiers make it too difficult to defeat rare monsters. The game production team also responded to players' feedback on time and opened the adjustment work of game performance.

3.18.0b Hotfix 1 mainly includes balance changes to Archnemesis Modifiers and preliminary fixes to some Bugs. This adjustment involves a lot of details: the first is to improve the defense and healing of players. Verdant Spores inflicted by the Healing Nova now grants a 60% reduced Recovery Rate of Life and Energy Shield, and Magma Barrier's defense against blast damage has also been improved. Second, skills such as Frenzied, Incendiary, Storm Strider, etc. have all increased their damage effects to help players deal with difficult monsters.

On top of that, Archnemesis Modifiers' bonuses to monsters and the number of magic and rare monsters encountered in rituals have been reduced, and the Items players get after defeating them will be compensated.

At the same time, the patch also fixes two bugs:

Fixed a bug where Heralding Totems and Lightning Beacons from the Heralding Minions and Storm Strider modifiers would sometimes fail to despawn.

Fixed a bug where the Impossible Escape Unique Jewel could roll Keystones no longer on the Passive Skill Tree.

Grinding Gear Game tweeted that this patch is not the whole story, their improvement work is still in progress, and this is only the first move. Although there are still some players complaining about Archnemesis Modifiers and other issues in Sentinel, from the attitude of GGG, they may give players a satisfactory answer recently.

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