Today’s massive patch notes shared all the changes coming on August 6th with Season 5. Some of the more impactful ones, especially if you’re still looking for Uber aka Mythic Uniques, are those related to Endgame bosses.
From much easier ways to access them, with lower costs and more mats dropping, to not having to exit dungeons to re-summon them, individual boss changes, there’s plenty going on. But the highlight is a massively increased chance at Mythic Uniques from ALL Tormented bosses. Each Tormented boss has 5 chances to drop one of the rarest items in the game. Each drop has a a 1.5% chance to be a Mythic Unique! This also means they could drop multiple Mythic Uniques from one kill if you’re very lucky. And on top of all that, the cost to summon them has been halved!
Let’s take a look:
- The summoning Urn now respawns after the boss is defeated, allowing players to more quickly reset and defeat the bosses repeatedly.
- Beast in the Ice
- The Beast in the Ice boss fight now functions as a standard dungeon— you no longer must craft a sigil to enter the fight.
- After defeating the Beast in the Ice, any players on the Eternal Realm can use leftover crafted Sigils to immediately resummon it again without paying the summoning material cost.
- The boss fight is now much closer to the entrance —you’ll no longer need to progress through the Dungeon to fight the boss.
- We’ve removed Sigil Dust as a material cost to summon the Beast in the Ice.
- Summoning Varshan now only requires Malignant Hearts. Trembling Hands, Blackened Femurs, and Gurgling heads have been removed from the game. Eternal Characters that have the other body parts can convert them to hearts at the Alchemist.
- Boss Ladder bosses no longer drop Rare items. They now drop additional Gold instead of Rare items.
- Tormented Bosses
Developer’s Note: The goal of these changes is to broaden the chances of acquiring Mythic Unique Items. Now, players can engage with whatever Tormented Boss they have the materials for in their quest to find a Mythic Unique.
- Tormented Bosses now drop 5 times as many Boss Materials.
- Rebalanced Tormented Boss loot to have parity with each other.
- All Tormented Bosses have 5 chances to drop a mythic at 1.5% chance each. In total, a 7.5% chance to drop a Mythic Unique. The resulting effect of this change is that the bosses have a chance to drop multiple Mythic Uniques instead of just 1.
- The cost to summon a Tormented boss had been reduced from 2 Stygian Stones to 1.