Runic Skills

[2.0.4] - 2026-09-03 — Skills, Powers & Integration Fixes

This update completes a major gameplay audit of Runic Skills, fixing inactive perks and Powers, incorrect effects, integration issues, and several balance inconsistencies.

No protocol, config schema, or save-data changes. Network protocol remains at 11.

Added & Fixed

• All 19 previously inactive Iron's Spells Powers now work, including Marrow Sense, Arcane Echo, Shield Wall, Scorched Earth, Shatter, Static Cling, Blight Spread, Venomous Harvest, and more.
• Arcane Reprieve and Continuous Flow now trigger correctly from mana changes.
• Scholar now properly controls whether enchantment names are revealed.
• Wisdom XP Bonus now correctly increases earned experience.
• Enchanting Power now improves vanilla and Apotheosis enchanting strength.
• Magic level cooldown reduction now works with Iron's Spells and stacks independently with Tempo.
• Scorched Earth now properly extends Wall of Fire duration.
• Reforge the Shadow now remembers its owner across saves and restarts, allowing its death effect to trigger correctly.
• Fixed several combat perks and cooldowns behaving incorrectly after death, respawning, logging out, or restarting the server.
• Break Speed no longer gives an unintended bonus at rank 0.
• Iron's Spells and Ars Nouveau integration settings now affect only the features they are intended to control.
• Power overrides are now validated more safely, including support for registered Powers from other namespaces.
• Fixed duration inconsistencies for Counter Attack, Fighting Spirit, and Quick Reposition.
• Fixed Apotheosis gem socketing occasionally attributing the action to the wrong player.
• Added missing localization for Mortal Strike.

Iron's Spells Powers

The previously unfinished school Powers now have functional gameplay effects, with their values, durations, and chances configurable through datapacks.

Reforge the Shadow uses Summon Polar Bear because the supported Iron's Spells version does not provide an Ice Shadow summon. Its tooltip has been updated accordingly.

Balance Note

Counter Attack now correctly treats its configured duration as seconds. Its default value of 3 therefore lasts 3 seconds instead of the unintended 6 seconds from previous versions. Set it to 6 if you want the old duration.

Fighting Spirit and Quick Reposition also now use their configured durations exactly.