Responding to criticism about 1.05 and Malice nerf Steve Mackey, an Ironclad employee, stated that the change was necessary "to improve its impact on runtime performance in large battles". He also stated that patch 1.1, due to be a major content update, will fix old bugs such as the Marza Missile Barrage. It will also buff many abilities, one named ability is Vengeance.

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