Up to now, if your blade reached a target, it landed. Every time. The enemy could dodge with real i-frames and outmaneuver you, but a clean hit was always a clean hit — no roll, no whiff, no drama in the connection itself. That's changed. Every strike in the game now has to actually land, and for the first time, that cuts both ways.
Your accuracy comes from Agility, which used to just be the stat that made you nimble. Now it's also the stat that decides how often your blade finds its mark, and — worth saying plainly — the same stat that lets you slip an incoming hit and take nothing at all. Strength, meanwhile, picked up armor's old job: raw physical resistance now flows from muscle, not from footwork. The two attributes finally mean something different from each other, and a build built purely around one will feel that tradeoff in real time.
The monsters didn't get left out. Every enemy in the game now rolls to hit you too, weighted by how deep into the world you've traveled — a graveyard skeleton and a cathedral guard don't threaten your dodge the same way, and neither should they. Miss chance is capped in both directions, so a fresh, undergeared character isn't helpless and an overleveled one still has to care, but the numbers move, and you'll see it: a grey MISS flashing off an enemy's chest where a hit used to be automatic, or the same word popping off your own health bar as a swing you were sure would land turns out empty-handed.
An evaded hit doesn't just deal no damage — it skips the flinch and the recovery lock entirely, which is the difference between "that grazed me" and "that never happened."
Gear caught up with the new math. A fresh line of Accuracy affixes now rolls on weapons, gloves, and jewelry — the world's answer to monsters that get harder to hit as you go deeper, and a real new lever for the loot table to pull on builds that lean into precision.
Spells and ground effects sit outside all of this on purpose — a curse or a poison cloud isn't a swing, and it never misses. But every blade, bolt, and swung weapon in the game now has to earn the hit it lands. Combat just got a little more honest, and a little more dangerous, for everyone standing in the room.