Dwarven Realms: Season 2 - Depths of the Forsaken

Zul, the Forger of Worlds, has fallen. Victory was within our grasp—or so we thought. In the aftermath of his defeat, a new threat emerges, hidden within a dark and forsaken path that leads deep beneath the realms.

What awaits in the depths?
Explore the uncharted underground labyrinth, uncover unparalleled treasures, and wield powerful new abilities. But beware—what lies below is not for the faint of heart.

Season 2 Highlights:

New Endgame System: The Forsaken Path
Venture deeper into the abyss with new procedural challenges, deadly bosses, and unique mechanics that push your skills to the limit.

New Items & Builds:
Discover powerful relics, legendary weapons, and exclusive crafting materials designed to create game-changing builds.

Expanded Skill Tree:
Customize your hero further with an enhanced skill tree, offering more paths to mastery and new abilities.

Exclusive Seasonal Rewards:
Unlock rare pets, unique cosmetic skins, and exclusive titles for those brave enough to conquer the depths.

Dynamic Challenges:
Each delve offers increasing difficulty and greater rewards, introducing enemies and mechanics you've never faced before.

Seasonal Leaderboards:
Prove your worth and earn eternal glory. Only the strongest will dominate the Season 2 leaderboards.

New Bosses:
Face off against terrifying new adversaries, each more fearsome and relentless than the last.

Prepare to descend deeper than ever before. Treasures await—but so does death.


Detailed Notes:
The Underrealm

• Venture into a challenging new endgame system where you forge your own path to greater rewards.
  
• Unlock Requirement: Complete Rupture Level 70
  
• Entry Cost: Underrealm Key (obtainable from Infused Ruptures)
  
• Key Features:
  
• Choose your own path through the Underrealm
  
• Target specific rewards by planning your route

The Vault

• A high-stakes gambling system within the Underrealm
  
• Wager gold for exceptional rewards
  
• Higher stakes yield greater potential rewards

New Endgame Boss: Skorch the Ash Weaver

• The most formidable foe yet emerges from the depths of the Underrealm!
  
• Surpasses Zul in difficulty and complexity
  
• Features intricate new combat mechanics

New Weapon Tier

• Obtain exclusively from defeating Skorch the Ash Weaver
  
• Represents the pinnacle of weapon progression

New Catacombs Zone - Unlocks at Catacombs Level 125
Features two new crafting stations:
#### Celestial Forge
Add crafting specifications to Unique or Flawless items
Cost: 1 Celestial Dust (obtained from defeating Zul)
#### Hell Forge
Transfer affixes from Unique or Flawless items to Epic items
Cost: 5 Forger Dust
Defeating extremely strong bosses such as Zul or Skortch now have a chance to drop a new rare resources - The Forager or Celestial Dust.


NEW OFFHAND MODIFIERS

• Dragon Flame: Increased dragon flame breath, +10% damage per stack
  
• Carnage of Fire:
  
• Spawns flaming spike (+10% damage)
  
• Scorching effect (20% damage/0.33s, 1s duration)
  
• Fire Beam: Creates fire rings (+10% damage, +10% per stack)
  
• Blood Dragons: 10% chance for Dragon Burst (200% damage), +10% per stack. Scales with dragon size
  
• Arcane Orbs: Transform to Chaos Orbs (+20% damage per orb, +10% Arcane Blast chance)
  
• Delusion of Zelkors: Mage explosions spawn fire spikes (20% damage per mage, +5% per stack)
  
• Spinning Blades: Shoots shurikens (10% damage each)
  
• Spark: 50% chance for plasma sphere on collision (50% damage/0.3s)
  
• Lightning Totems: 25% explosion chance on strike (base damage), +25% per stack
  
• Electric Dragons: Spawns electric meteors (10% damage/0.5s)
  
• Chain Lightning: Adds sky strike on link connection (matches Chain Lightning damage)
  
• Ferocity of Wolves: Wolf transforms into electric bat (+20% base damage)
  
• Rain of Flames: Lava rain from portals (0.5s duration, matching damage)
  
• Arcane Totems: 10% explosion chance on despawn (130% damage)
  
• Eye of the Storm: Spawns additional matching-damage cloud
  
• Burning Shield: Spawns raging bull (25% damage + 150% explosion), +25% radius per stack
  
• Star Blades: Summons 3 electric kunai (20% damage each)
  
• Arcane Apocalypse: 10% chance for aftermath explosion (+10% chance per stack)
  
• Static Charge: +20% damage radius
  
• Kraken Seed:
  
• Shoots 4 tentacle darts (20% damage each)
  
• Walking projectiles explode for matching damage
  
• Toxicity:
  
• 10% chance for chemical splash (50% bonus damage)
  
• 10% chance to spawn additional toxicity
  
• Vortex: Spawns 2 small vortexes (50% of main damage)
  
• Fire Orbs: Launches 2 mini-orbs (50% damage), additional orbs per stack
  
• Death Blades: Emits arcane spike on circle completion (30% damage, +10% per stack)
  
• Fiery Totems:
  
• Creates damage-dealing fire wall (10% damage, 3x/second)
  
• Adds fire vortex to activated totems (10% damage, 3x/second)
  
• Lightning Beam (Reworked):
  
• Fires additional beam
  
• +1 second duration and +10% damage per stack

SKILL TREE CHANGES

• Base Node Adjustments
  
• Vitality: 3% → 1% HP
  
• Attack Damage: 2% → 1%
  
• Armor: 5% → 2%
  
• Overwhelm: 0.5% → 1% critical damage
  
• Boss Hunter: 3% → 1% boss damage
  
• Inventory: 6 → 3 slots per node
  
• Elemental Changes
  
• Small nodes: 3% → 1%
  
• Medium nodes: 10% → 5%
  
• Large nodes: 25% → 10%
  
• Major Node Adjustments
  
• Defiance: Removed elemental bonus, armor reduced 50% → 10%
  
• Ancestral Barrier: Armor 50% → 10%, regeneration 10 → 5
  
• Heightened Sense: Critical damage 25% → 10%
  
• Carrier Has Arrived: 20 → 10 inventory slots
  
• Warstrike: Base damage 30 → 10
  
• Beast Mode: Critical damage 15% → 10%

Status Effect Reworks

• Now provide constant bonuses instead of stacks:
  
• Arcane Fury: 20% elemental damage
  
• Fire Starter: 20% elemental damage
  
• Taste My Lightning: 20% elemental damage
  
• Elementalist: 10% elemental damage

Node Replacements

• Soul of the Prophet → 5% Wisdom (Foresight nodes: 2% wisdom)
  
• Invigorating Gust → Vigor (5% Stamina, 10 Max Health, Fortitude nodes: 2% stamina)
  
• Strength and Honor → Ambidextrous (5% Dexterity, Precision nodes: 2% dexterity)

Additional Adjustments

• Colossal Force: Changed to 5% + 10 armor
  
• Infinite Wind: Energy regen reduced to 10
  
• Phantom Strike: Critical chance 5%, base damage 10
  
• Tolerance: Regeneration 2%, endurance 5%
  
• Slice n Dice: Agility reduced to 5%
  
• STANCE TREE CHANGES
  
• General Balance
  
• All stances have been rebalanced
  
• Made adjustments to fit current game meta

MONOGRAM SYSTEM CHANGES
Bracer Modifications

• New Bloodlust effect: Kills/boss hits grant blood stacks (1% damage per stack, max 100)
  
• Unholy Void: 1 base damage per 20 stats
  
• Adjusted ratio: Per 20 stats gain 1% damage
  
• New effect: Every 100 stat grants +100% damage to Charged R ability

Ring Modifications

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
  
• New: Per 20 Strength grants 1% damage
  
• Added: +100% damage to Charged ability
  
• Added: R ability charges twice as fast

Helmet Modifications

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
  
• New: Per 20 Strength grants 1 Base Damage
  
• Unholy Void: 2 base HP per 5 STAT
  
• Critical chance mods moved to boots (adjusted to per 50 stat)

Amulet Modifications

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
  
• New: Per 20 dexterity grants % health
  
• R charged attack: 50% more damage, double energy cost
  
• Removed Features:
  
• Charged glyph stacking buff
  
• 500 dexterity trade-off
  
• Long-range double damage

Boot Modifications

• Inherited critical chance mods from helmet (now per 50 stat)
  
• Received "5% bonus per max potion slot" from Relic
  
• Removed Features:
  
• All energy regeneration (2/4/6)
  
• All max energy bonuses (4/8)
  
• All movement speed bonuses (5%/10%/15%)

Relic Modifications

• New Unholy Void effect: Triggers R ability when charged
  
• "5% bonus per max potion slot" moved to Boots

Balance Adjustments

• Close range damage modifier reduced from double damage to 50% bonus