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Illuvium: Arena Update 1.17.12

Patch Notes

  • Date PublishedAug 3, 2026
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Balance Update

This update again tries to makes Stage 3 Lynxes shine, includes small reworks to Colossus and Shock and continues the path of reducing the power of Augments while buffing weapons that are underperforming. Also includes some key bugs regarding descriptions


Illuvials

Singe: Reduced Max Health.

  • Max Health: 2350 → 2250

Sear: Reduced Max Health.

  • Max Health: 3100 → 3000

Jotun: Reduced Max Health.

  • Max Health: 2800 → 2700

Phyriox: Reduced Omega Energy Attack Damage. Attack Speed and area duration are unchanged.

  • Omega Energy Attack Damage: 70 → 60

Scoriox: Slightly reduced Omega Energy Attack Damage. Attack Speed and area duration are unchanged.

  • Omega Energy Attack Damage: 100 → 95

Geyyser: Increased Omega ally heal. Enemy Energy Damage over time is unchanged.

  • Omega Heal: 250 → 350

Stage 3 Lynxes: Increased the permanent stacking payoff on Omega, per affinity. Omega damage is unchanged.

  • Earth — Physical Resist per stack: 3 → 5
  • Water — Energy Regen per stack: 0.2 → 0.3
  • Fire — Attack Damage per stack: 1% → 2%
  • Nature — Health Regen per stack: 3 → 5
  • Air — Energy Resist per stack: 3 → 5

Weapons

Ember Bastion: Reduced Energy Cost.

  • Energy Cost: 160 → 140

Ember Buckler: Reduced Energy Cost.

  • Energy Cost: 180 → 160

Ripple Flail: Reduced Energy Cost.

  • Energy Cost: 160 → 140

Tempest Lance: Reduced Energy Cost.

  • Energy Cost: 130 → 120

Suit Amplifiers

Earthgrasp Sceptre — Ensnaring Vines: Increased Omega Silence duration.

  • Silence: 1s → 1.5s

Elderwood Stave — Amplified Roots: Reduced the Damage Amp granted to Shielded allies. Health is unchanged.

  • Damage Amp: 10% → 7%

Emberling Rod — Cauterizing Pollination: Increased both Health and Healing reduction.

  • Health: 400 → 500
  • Healing reduction: 80% → 100%

Emberling Rod — Verdant Surge: Increased Omega Power gained on Omega. Health is unchanged.

  • Omega Power: 25 → 40

Flamewarden Staff — Crushing Aftershock: Increased both Health and Max Health Energy Damage.

  • Health: 300 → 400
  • Max Health Energy Damage: 12% → 15%

Flamewarden Staff — Searing Echo: Increased Health. Max Health Energy Damage over time is unchanged.

  • Health: 400 → 500

Grove Sword — Frenzied Gale: Increased both Health and the Attack Speed cap.

  • Health: 300 → 400
  • Attack Speed: 100% → 125%

Grove Sword — Savage Rhythm: Increased both the Pure Damage spike and its duration. Health is unchanged.

  • Attack Pure Damage: 50 → 75
  • Duration: 3s → 4s

Vinebound Cleaver — Desperation Surge: Reduced Health. Missing-Health Attack Speed scaling is unchanged.

  • Health: 500 → 300

Vinebound Cleaver — Enhanced Draining: Reduced Omnivamp. Health is unchanged.

  • Omnivamp: 10% → 7%

Lava Gauntlet — Conservation Flow: Reduced Energy refund on Omega. Health is unchanged.

  • Energy Cost refund: 35% → 25%

Lava Gauntlet — Cumulative Ignition: Reduced Attack Damage gained on Omega. Piercing is unchanged.

  • Attack Damage: 10% → 5%

Lava Gauntlet — Energy Catalyst: Reduced Omega Power gained on Omega. Health is unchanged.

  • Omega Power: 35 → 25

Strike Boomerang — Denial Protocol: Reduced Health. Stun duration is unchanged.

  • Health: 200 → 100

Augments

Charged Force Reactor: Reduced its immediate stat efficiency.

  • Attack Damage: 30% → 25%
  • Damage Amp: 3% → 2%

Phasebreaking Impact Reactor: Reduced passive stats and Untargetable duration. Health trigger is unchanged.

  • Attack Damage: 4% → 3%
  • Health: 4% → 3%
  • Untargetable: 1.5s → 1s

Tesselating Omega Reactor: Reduced Omega Power. On-Attack Energy and Attack Speed are unchanged.

  • Omega Power: 20 → 10

Hyper Force Reactor: Reduced Attack Damage. Stacking Attack Speed on attack is unchanged.

  • Attack Damage: 15% → 10%

The Omni Spark: Reduced both its passive stats and Untargetable duration. Health trigger is unchanged.

  • Omnivamp: 10% → 5%
  • Omega Power: 20 → 10
  • Untargetable: 3s → 2s

Drone Augments

Offensive Boost: Reduced team-wide offensive stats.

  • Attack Damage / Attack Speed / Omega Power: 2 / 3 / 5% → 1 / 2 / 3%

Solid Start: Increased I, reduced III and the max stage.

  • I duration: 1s → 1.5s
  • III duration: 3s → 2.5s
  • Max-stage duration: 3s → 2.5s

Veteran’s Might: Reduced Attack Damage and Resistances granted to 2 Tier 4 allies.

  • I: 8% / 8% → 4% / 4%
  • II: 12% / 12% → 7% / 7%
  • III: 20% AD / 16% Res → 10% / 10%
  • Max stage: 15% / 15% → 10% / 10%

Synergies

Verdant: Increased zone healing at the first two thresholds. Burst heal percentages are unchanged.

  • Zone Heal: 20 / 25 → 40 / 50 per second

Colossus: Small rework: Colossus now grants team-wide Damage Reduction and no more Thorns. Colossus Max Health stays 30 / 40 / 55%.

  • Team Damage Reduction: 5% / 10% / 15%
  • Thorns on taunt: removed

Predator: Reduced execute threshold at 2 and extra damage at all thresholds.

  • Execute Health: 12 / 15 / 20% → 10 / 15 / 20%
  • Extra Damage: 225 / 325 / 450% → 200 / 300 / 400%

Vanguard: Reduced Crit Amp converted from Resistances. Max Health damage on the empowered hit is unchanged.

  • Crit Amp: 40 / 60 / 80% → 30 / 45 / 60%

Behemoth: Reduced Max Health damage on empowered attacks and the max-threshold Attack Speed. Max Health and Stun durations are unchanged.

  • Max Health Damage: 6 / 9 / 12% → 4 / 6 / 8%
  • (4) Attack Speed: 12% → 8%

Shock: Lightning still deals 300 / 400 / 500 Energy Damage. Each strike now also shreds Energy Resist.

  • Energy Resist per lightning: 2 (max 20 stacks)

Mystic: Updated the description to include the existing 6% stacking Attack Damage on ally vanquish at max stacks.

Bug Fixes

Drone Synergy Matrices (Stage 3): Corrected the Augment granted with the Imprint in the description

  • Bulwark Matrix: Bracing Stasis Reactor → Halo Stasis Reactor
  • Empath Matrix: Safeguard Void Reactor → Infusing Void Reactor
  • Fighter Matrix: Accelerating Force Reactor → Hyper Force Reactor
  • Fire Matrix: Piercing Force Reactor → Charged Force Reactor
  • Nature Matrix: Growing Stasis Reactor → Dense Stasis Reactor
  • Rogue Matrix: Charged Force Reactor → Precise Force Reactor
  • Water Matrix: Primal Omega Reactor → Inversion Void Reactor

Aero Edge with Razor Squall Amplifier: Description now matches live Omega scaling (from 450 to 750, was incorrectly showing 250).

Earthgrasp Sceptre with Ensnaring Vines Amplifier: Localized descriptions now use the live Silence duration instead of a hardcoded 1s.

Lava Gauntlet with Consuming Flames Amplifier: Omega should now still deals its Energy Damage in the 15-hex splash, in addition to the 15% Max Health Pure Damage over 4 seconds.