Patch Notes

Patch Notes - Issue 28: Legacy, Page 2

What's New in Issue 28, Page 2?

Marquee Features

• The Kallisti Wharf Zone Comes To Life!
• Five (5) Brand New Kallisti Wharf Story Arcs + Repeatable Missions!
• New Enemy Group: Blackwing Industries
• New Control Powerset: Pyrotechnic Control
• New Armor Powerset: Psionic Armor

Powers & Gameplay Adjustments

• New Control Mechanic: Deep Sleep
• Controller & Tanker Inherent Changes
• Armor Powerset Balancing Pass
• Balance Tweaks & Fixes

Various Adjustments, Improvements & Fixes

• New Costume Parts (60+), Aether Rewards, Vanity Pets and more!
• Over twenty (21) new Badges!
• Many bug fixes!
• ...and much, much more!

CURRENT KNOWN ISSUES

Marquee Features

Kallisti Wharf Zone Comes To Life! 

• Kallisti Wharf has been given a substantial amount of work to bring the zone to life/parity with other city zones!

 At last! Kallisti Wharf is a fully realized zone! 

Zone Improvements

• As stated on the tram/submarine destination, Kallisti Wharf is a Level 40-50 co-op zone.
• Kallisti Wharf now has eight standard exploration badges and an accolade, same as other zones.
  • New Tour Guides are available to help people locate all the new badges!
• Many areas of the zone were given expansive polish passes and detail work.
• All neighborhoods given music. No more silence!
  • The zone is using a mix of new Homecoming-original compositions, a few previously unused tracks, and a couple of favorite older classics!
• Numerous extra Day Job locations added to the zone:
  • Blackwing Headquarters:  Law Enforcer / Dirty Cop
  • Crey Towers:  Crey Employee / Crey Test Subject
  • Wentworths:  Day Trader / Marketeer
  • Vanguard Outpost:  Vanguard Recruit

Enemies Encountered

• Added ambient atmospheric/combat spawns to the entirety of the zone.
• The following are the main enemy groups found in Kallisti Wharf:
  • Blackwing Industries [NEW]
  • Freaklok
  • Crey
  • Freakshow
  • Warriors
  • Skulls
  • The Awakened
  • Unified People's Army (UPA)
  • Wyvern

 Watch out, the Freaklok are out in force! 

Giant Monster Event

• New Giant Monster spawn, the P.E.A.C.E. Keeper, has been added to the zone. They are spawned manually by defeating 200 points worth of Blackwing Industries enemies in the zone. Minions = 1 point; Lieutenant = 2 points; Boss = 3 points; Elite Boss = 4 points.
  • The P.E.A.C.E. Keeper will spawn in One Statesman Plaza and fly a patrol around the outside of the tower in the center of the zone; If not engaged in fighting, they should default back to patrolling the tower.
  • Only one P.E.A.C.E. Keeper can be spawned at any moment.

• Drops six (6) Reward Merits, two (2) Monstrous Aether on defeat, and a low chance (10%) for Pet: Mini P.E.A.C.E. Keeper invention recipe.
  • This recipe can be freely traded like other Giant Monster vanity pet recipes, and also drops from the randomized pet recipe pool found on the Benevolabs vendors located inside Vault Reserve locations.
  • P.E.A.C.E. Keeper's dropped rewards are on an 18-hour cooldown per character.

 Blackwing Industries is dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of Kallisti Wharf! 

New Story Arc

Mergers and Acquisitions - Dap-Dap the Deal-Maka (Level 40-50)

“Once ‘Down with the street’, Dap-Dap the Deal-Maka’ has exhausted his fifteen minutes of fame for being quotable in the replays of his arrest video where he got pinched for a weapons deal with Nemesis. Since leaving the spotlight, he’s found new purpose selling his services to the Freaklok in a bid to help establish them.

In this madcap escapade that resembles kayfabe more than negotiation, Dap-Dap will direct you to interface with nearly every faction in the Wharf as the Freaklok establish legitimacy and a foothold in the Old Slough.”

• CONTACT: Dap-Dap the Deal-Maka

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 1578 47 4995
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Villain, Level 40-50
• OUROBOROS / ARC: 28.02

Cutting Back Old Growth - Erin West (Level 40-50)

“'Crey CARES!' That's the tagline of Crey's newest PR campaign, engineered by their rising marketing star, Erin West. Now she's got a new plan... hire a 'rogue with a heart of gold' to lead Alpha Team, the premiere subteam of the Altruist Division, Crey's new supergroup of unmasked Paragon Protectors known as the 'Real-ID Protectors'. And you are just the rogue to play the role, regardless of the actual makeup of your heart." 

• CONTACT: Erin West

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 7213 55 2649
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Rogue, Level 40-50
• OUROBOROS / ARC: 28.03

The Sunlight and the Spotlight - Robert Kogan (Level 40-50)

“Crey's new super group, Altruist Division, has been gaining fame for their fight against crime in Kallisti Wharf. Though not everyone buys Crey's intentions, the heroes themselves seem forthright. When they beat you to investigating a tip about the Skulls and Family, Robert Kogan, an investigative reporter for a progressive, independent newspaper, introduces himself. He also doesn't believe Altruist Division is all they claim to be and wants your help in finding concrete proof... Or, if nothing else, causing the public to question their existence."

• CONTACT: Robert Kogan (The contact requires completing the tip mission "Skulls vs Family" first.)

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 1789 57 3436
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Vigilante, Level 40-50
• OUROBOROS / ARC: 28.04

Know Thy Enemy - Alexander the Great (Level 40-50)

“Alexander the Great asks you to engage in strategic strikes against Warrior outposts and supply routes, to get to the bottom of their current operations in Kallisti Wharf. He suspects that something is terribly wrong with the upper ranks of the Warriors, but he can’t prove anything.”

• CONTACT: Alexander the Great

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 2147.2 11.9 -423.5
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Hero, Level 40-50
• OUROBOROS / ARC: 28.05

Hunting the Hunters - Adelard Ziegler (Level 40-50)

“Adelard Ziegler has contacted you to work on his behalf as the acting force behind his investigation into the Council. The Council’s Void Hunter division has been a subject of much controversy and rumor, and now have suddenly withdrawn from active duty. On top of that, the black market sales of their Void Rifles to other factions seem to be drying up or delivering ‘Dead on Arrival’.

Players will aid Adelard is determining what has happened to the most dangerous and notorious cadre within the Council to see if they are retiring, mutinying, or worse…”

• CONTACT: Adelard Ziegler

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 6072 65 1304
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Hero, Level 40-50
• OUROBOROS / ARC: 28.06

Kallisti Wharf Repeatable Missions - Levels 40-50

• Players can take repeatable tasks from either of Kallisti Wharf's two mission brokers, depending on alignment:

• CONTACT: Blackwing Liason (Hero) or Broker Chip (Villain)

• LOCATION: Kallisti Wharf /thumbtack 5816 46 2511 or /thumbtack 1829 43 2458
• ALIGNMENT / LEVEL: Any, Level 40-50

New Enemy Group: Blackwing Industries

• Now available in Architect Entertainment!

 These men & women ensure that the Kallisti Wharf citizenry remain protected from super threats! 

Who Are They?

• Blackwing Industries is a private military company that has been contracted by Emil Christie to replace the Paragon Police in protecting Kallisti Wharf. The branch of their company that is responsible for this task is known as: P.E.A.C.E. (Police Emergency Action & Crisis Engagement).
• They've been specially-trained and armed with cutting-edge technology to excel in suppressing meta human threats! These men & women are dedicated to maintaining peace and order in the zone that is their jurisdiction.

What Can They Do?

• Most Blackwing Industries personnel are decked out in the group's trademarked Excelsion armor, nano-carbon kinetic dampening interlocking hex plates. This armor gives them resistance to conventional weaponry, but also leaves them vulnerable to Toxic!
• Most of the group gets access to more attacks when below 75% HP!

• The group deals a variety of damage types, however the most notable are:
  • Range: Cold/Toxic (major), Fire/Psionic (minor)
  • Melee: Smashing/Energy (major), Lethal/Fire/Toxic (minor)
  • AoE: Fire/Psionic (major), Cold (minor)

The following Blackwing Industries critters are noteworthy threats for their powers and behaviors! (Spoilers for those who wish to fight them blind!) This is only a partial list, detailing some parts of the enemy group's roster:

New Powerset: Pyrotechnic Control (Controllers, Dominators)

You have the ability to incapacitate enemies with creative and dazzling fireworks-like displays that incorporate elements of light, fire, energy, and sound. Many powers have a chance to Blast Off targets, flinging them into the air and reducing their damage resistance with a vibrant explosion.

Sparkling Cage

• Ranged, Moderate DoT(Fire, Energy), Foe Immobilize, Chance for Blast Off
• Immobilizes your target in a ring of pyrotechnic energy, dealing Fire and Energy damage over time. More resilient foes may require multiple Sparkling Cages to Immobilize.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air.

 Dazzle

• Ranged, Moderate DMG (Fire, Energy), Foe Hold, Chance for Blast Off
• Incapacitates a distant foe with a brilliant explosion of pyrotechnic energy. The target is left helpless for the duration.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air.

 Sparkling Chain

• Ranged (Chain), Minor DoT(Fire, Energy), Foe Immobilize, Chance for Blast Off
• Immobilizes a group of foes one by one in a chain formation, dealing Fire and Energy damage over time to each enemy in the chain. More resilient foes may require multiple casts to Immobilize. Sparkling Chain is slower and less damaging than Sparkling Cage, but can capture multiple targets.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air. This chance is greater on the initial target of Sparking Chain.

 Glittering Column

• You summon a column of brilliant, glittering energy that is sure to capture foes' attention. The column will reduce the ToHit of any foe within a short range, while also Taunting them, forcing them to direct their attacks in its direction. 
• When the Glittering Column expires, it explodes, Blasting Off nearby enemies into the air.

 Hypnotizing Lights

• Ranged (Cone), Foe Sleep, Foe Confuse (Within 20ft), Moderate DoT (Psionic)
• You conjure a whirl of lights with differing effects depending on the distance from which it is viewed. Most all targets within the area will be placed into a sleep like trance. Up to five enemies within 20 feet of the display are Confused and receive Psionic damage over time.

 Brilliant Barrage

• Ranged (AoE), Foe Stun, Foe Terrorize, Minor DMG (Fire, Energy)
• With a single gesture, you conjure pyrotechnic missiles to assault two locations at once. Enemies near the target you have selected will be bombared with miniature missiles and Stunned. Meanwhile, enemies near the location of have selected on the ground will be hit by shrill noisemaking rocket and become Terrified.

 Incendiary Aura

• Toggle: PBAoE, Chance for Blast Off. -ToHit, -Defense
• You create an aura of pyrotechnic energy around yourself that has combustible properties. Enemies within range of the power have a persistent chance of Blasting Off into the air, as well as suffer from reduced ToHit and Defense.

 Explosive Bouquet

• Ranged (AoE), Foe Hold, Blast Off
• You create an explosion of light and sound in a flower formation. Foes inside the blast radius will be Held and Blasted Off into the air.
• Every foe you hit will increase its recharge by 14.5 seconds, up to a maximum of 240 seconds. If no foe is hit, the power will recharge in 8 seconds.

 Catherine Wheel

• Summon Catherine Wheel: Ranged DMG (Fire, Energy), Special
• You can craft a wheel of pure pyrotechnic energy to assist you in battle. The Catherine Wheel employs a variety of pyrotechnic powers to damage and distract enemies. If an enemy becomes affected by the Blast Off effect from one of your powers, the Catherine Wheel may Intercept the enemy with an attack, dealing additional damage.

New Powerset: Psionic Armor (Brutes, Scrappers, Sentinels, Stalkers, Tankers)

You use your psionic powers to shield yourself reducing incoming damage, as well as steal your foes own psyche and use it against them, be it by empowering your own regenerative powers, weakening their defenses or completely subduing their will!

 Psychic Wall: 

• Toggle: Self +Res(Smash, Lethal, Psionic)
• You focus to create a psychic wall that dampens the smashing, lethal and psionic damage.

 Psionic Shield

• Toggle: Self +Res(Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative, Toxic, End Drain)
• This power generates a psionic shield that dampens most energy and elemental damage types while also reducing the effect of endurance drain effects.

 Impenetrable Mind

• Toggle: Self Res (Psionics, Disorient, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep, Fear, Confuse, Knockback)
• When you toggle on this power, it grants protection from Sleep, Disorient, Fear, Immobilize, Confusions, Knockback and Hold effects. Impenetrable Mind also grants moderate resistance to Psionic based attacks.

 Consume Psyche

• PBAoE Foe -Regen, -Recovery; Self +Regen, +Recovery
• Only available to Tankers and Brutes
• You Consume the Psyche of nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Although this power has a low recharge, each affected foe will increase its recharge by 5.5 seconds for a maximum total of 60 seconds.

 Devour Psyche

• Cone Foe -Regen, -Heal, -Recovery; Self +Regen, +Recovery
• Only available to Scrappers, Sentinels and Stalkers
• You Devour the Psyche of foes in front of you, weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Although this power has a low recharge, each affected foe will increase its recharge by 5.5 seconds for a maximum total of 60 seconds.

 Precognition

• Auto: Self Def(Melee, Ranged, AoE, Psionic)
• Precognition allows you to read your enemies' minds, letting you see their attacks before they happen. This power is always on and costs no Endurance.

 Psychokinetic Barrier

• Self, +Absorb, +MaxHP, +Res(-Regeneration, -Recovery, -Recharge, -Endurance)
• You can erect a temporary wall of crystalized psionic energy that will absorb a large amount of damage before breaking off. Psychokinetic Barrier will grant a moderate amount of absorption and reduce the effect debuffs have on you.

 Impose Presence

• Toggle: Self +DEF(Melee, Ranged), +To Hit, Foe -Recharge
• Only available to Tankers and Brutes
• Impose Presence your presence on nearby enemies, slowing their attack rate down and increasing your defense and chance to hit

 Mask Presence 

• Toggle: Self Stealth, +DEF(Melee, Ranged)
• Only Available to Scrappers and Sentinels
• Mask Presence makes you almost impossible to detect. When you attack or are damaged while using this power, you will be discovered. Even if discovered, you are hard to see and retain some bonus to Defense. While stealthed, the strength of your next attack will be more powerful; however, you can only attempt this after spending 8 seconds without attacking.

 Aura of Insanity

• Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Confuse, Disorient, Sleep, Hold, Fear, DoT(Psionic), +Special
• You emit a powerful psychic aura that causes the minds of those around you to become weak and distracted. Foes may be stunned, held, terrified or even confused in your presence, in addition to suffering a debuff derived from the applied control effect. Those that resist these effects will suffer damage over time. This power allows you to use your own Hit Points to keep enemies near you disabled. The power cost no endurance but can be dangerous to use.

 Aura of Madness

• Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Confuse, Disorient, Sleep, Hold, Fear, -Damage(All), +Special

• You emit a powerful psychic aura that causes the minds of those around you to become weak and distracted. Foes may be stunned, held, terrified or even confused in your presence, in addition to suffering a debuff derived from the applied control effect. Those that resist these effects will see their damage reduced. This power allows you to use your own Hit Points to keep enemies near you disabled. The power costs no endurance but can be dangerous to use.

 Memento Mori

• Self Rez, +Max HP, Special

• Terrify your foes projecting images of their own impending demise into their minds. Memento Mori inflicts fear on targets while healing you even if you have been defeated. Each affected foe will increase your maximum hit points and heal you. Using this power while conscious will give you one opportunity to get back up should you be defeated while its effects are active.

Powers & Gameplay Adjustments

Sleep Revamp

Stacking

• Sleep is no longer canceled by damage or any canceling event unless the target is already asleep. This allows for sleep to be stacked even if the sleep-casting power does damage, and sleep stacks that don't render the target asleep won't vanish if the target is hurt but awake.

 
Deep Sleep

• This is a new variant of sleep. Deep Sleep is stickier than regular sleep. Enemies under its effect don't instantly wake up if damaged, instead the duration of their sleep is shortened. How much the sleep is shortened depends on the enemy rank, with minions taking more attacks to wake up and AVs being woken up by a single hit.

The following powers have been flagged as Deep Sleep:

•  Arsenal Control > Tranquilizer
•  Earth Control > Salt Crystals
•  Ice Control > Flash Freeze
•  Mind Control > Mesmerize
•  Mind Control > Mass Hypnosis
•  Plant Control > Spore Burst
•  Pyrotechnic Control > Hypnotizing Lights
•  Symphony Control > Enfeebling Lullaby

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Design Notes:

This new mechanic should make many (not all) sleep effects in the game much more powerful as control tools. Note that auto-hit sleep powers will only apply a weaker old-style sleep if they fail their hit-roll.

 

Pulsing sleep powers like Sleep Grenade and Static Field will not be converted to Deep Sleep.

Misc Changes

There has been an implementation change to critter tables and their maximum levels. This does not change critter maximum level directly, but it gives designers the ability to expand in the future

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Design Notes:

There may be some minor changes on critter stats as they level, especially at the end game, but it should not be drastically impactful. The most obvious impact should be level 54 foes potentially having up to +2% extra HP, something some number crunchers may notice while parsing some optimized farms.

 

Please keep your eyes open for any oddity in behaviors, especially on player pets or critters above level 50.

Critters Only:

• All -regen debuffs (not flagged to be irresistible) should now be resisted by magnitude, not duration.
• Reduced the magnitude of many (not all) low recharge -regen debuffs with magnitudes greater than -100%.

Archetype Inherent Changes

 Controllers

• Controllers inherent now allows them to command their Tier 9 pets.
• Containment now also triggers on critters that are Terrified.
• Containment now also triggers on critters that have been asleep in the last 3 seconds.
• Containment damage now has an additional "Containment" float message across all sets.
• The following controller pets now have a 33.33% chance to proc containment damage:
  •  Arsenal Control > Tri-Cannon
  •  Darkness Control > Shades
  •  Darkness Control > Umbra Beast
  •  Earth Control > Volcanic Gases
  •  Earth Control > Animated Stone
  •  Electric Control > Gremlins
  •  Fire Control > Bonfire
  •  Fire Control > Fire Imps
  •  Gravity Control > Singularity
  •  Ice Control > Ice Slick
  •  Ice Control > Jack Frost
  •  Illusion Control > Phantasm
  •  Plant Control > Carrion Creepers (Entangle attack only)
  •  Plant Control > Fly Trap
  •  Pyrotechnic Control > Catherine Wheel
  •  Symphony Control > Reverberant

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Design Notes:

These changes should make many control sets a lot more viable for controllers, especially Electric and Arsenal control.

 Tankers

• Self damage buff lowered from 1.0x to 0.875x.
• -Res modifiers lowered to match other melee ATs.
• Diminishing returns:
  • All powers Melee set powers that go over their standard caps will inflict work at 1/3rd efficiency on those targets
  • Gauntlet is immune to these diminishing returns
• Removed passive global Arc/Radius buff
• Increased the radius of all tanker Primary and Secondary Sphere AoEs by 50%
  • The increase wont push radius above 15ft

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Design Notes:

In the last Tanker revamp, we aimed to beef up Tankers to better compete with Brutes in damage in a way that was distinct by focusing on AoE output. This was primarily achieved by:

• Increasing the base damage Tankers deal
• Adding an Area buff to Gauntlet, effecting most Tanker powers by increasing AoE size indirectly,
• Adding increased target caps for Tanker AoE attacks (5 targets became 10, and 10 targets became 16)

 

Initially, this was balanced out by Brutes still dealing more damage per swing as well as a pyramid effect as enemies are defeated, diminishing the Tanker AoE advantage as there were not as many targets to hit as a fight went on. We also wanted them to have a better start, with higher base damage, but lesser burst. We have found that over time this intended balance did not hold up by virtue of the same changes making it easier to keep the player AoEs saturated with targets across various mission and map types. The result was tankers overshooting our goals.

 

The changes in this page are intended to address the following points from the prior Tanker revamp:

• The damage buff reduction is proportionate to last revamp's damage increase, achieving the intended higher base but lower bursts. This was something that should had been part of that but was missed. 
• Manually changing the radius of Tanker AoEs ensures that there are no unintended outliers from the global boost, while also having their AoEs follow the normal formula where larger coverage comes with slightly reduced output as a tradeoff.
• A Tanker that can easily hit 10/5 and 16/10 enemies compared to other Melee AT's is dealing +100%/+60% more damage to the group. Diminishing return mechanics past standard caps are meant to ensure that the intended target caps still hit correctly, while anything beyond the normal caps still receive bonus damage.
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Tankers will still deal more damage than they had in the past, and be AoE specialists among the Melee AT's. We believe that this is a more balanced take for their intended role compared to more damage-focused counterparts. Despite all these changes, Tankers will still find themselves in a much better standing than they were before the previous revamp.

Powers

Darkness Manipulation

 Touch of the Beyond.

• This power can now be activated without a targeting an enemy.
• If used without an enemy target, the power will not root and apply all the sustain effects.

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Design Notes:

We understand the desire to move the sets sustain to a toggle, but we are not looking to homogenize all Blaster Manipulation sustain powers that way. With this change we are attempting to alleviate the need to start a fight without the sustain being active. With this change, players should be able to refresh the sustain effects while having no target or if the targeted enemy is far enough away.

 

This is not part of a set-wide revamp, only a QoL improvement on the power.

Sonic Attack

Simplified the -res stacking.

The following powers now apply a scale -1.5 resistance debuff for various durations:

•  Shriek - 8s
•  Scream - 8s
•  Howl - 8s
•  Shout - 10s
•  Screech - 15s
•  Dreadful Wail - 20s

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Design Notes:

This changes should make it much easier to understand Sonic Blast's -res effects. Each power is simply independent of each other and has their stacking set to replace. Players should be able to see slightly higher average -res than live with most builds, but the effects will continue to be much lower than they used to be before the last pass.

Water Blast

 Water Jet

• Enhanced Water Jet will do 3 extra ticks of scale 0.4433 cold damage increased over 4.5 seconds (totaling scale 2.8) (PvE only)

 Dehydrate

• This power's DoT will do extra ticks of damage if used against a foe that has been recently hit by other water-based attacks, Dehydrate excluded (PvE only)

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Design Notes:

Although water Blast is a well performing set in the AoE department, it's ST leaves a lot to be desired for, especially if the player attempts to build around the set's own attacks. These changes seek to give a slight bump in single target DPS while focusing on a water-only attack chain.

Dark Miasma

 Black Hole 

• This power now applies a trawl (reverse repel) effect.
• Targets that are immune to the trawl effect will be phased.

Staff Fighting

•  Perfection: Levels are now granted on misses.
  • Perfection stacks duration increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds
•  Sky Splitter: Increased bonus damage inflicted by Sky Splitter while under level 3 Perfection from scale 0.828 to scale 1.656.
•  Eye of the Storm: Increased bonus damage inflicted by Eye of the Storm while under level 3 Perfection from scale 0.246 to scale 0.4920.

Dark Armor

 Cloak of Fear

• Endurance cost lowered from 0.56 per second to 0.26 end per second.
• Pulse rate changed from every 5s to every 1s.
• Power is now auto hit (Fear effect still requires a hit roll).
• Radius increased from 8ft to 15ft (Fear and Taunt still only apply within 8ft).
• Accuracy increased from 0.67 to 0.8.
• Power now applies a scale 2 -dmg debuff (equal to Chilling Embrace).
• Power now applies a -25% kb str debuff on all affected targets.
• Power now grants + 1.0KB protection for each enemy in range for 5 seconds. This Stacks and refreshes even if only one foe is in range and is capped at 10 for a maximum of 10 kb mez protection. The most foes you have in melee range, the faster you will reach the cap..
• Enhancements and resistance now affect magnitude instead of duration.

 Shadow Dweller (Stalkers)

• This power now also grants a regeneration buff in addition to all previous effects.

 Tenebrous Regeneration (Sentinels)

• Renamed Shadow Dweller
• This power now grants a small amount of defense in addition to it's regen buff.

 Soul Transfer

• Can now be used while alive.
• Using this power while alive will cost endurance.
• This power now recharges in 10 seconds if no targets are hit.
• This power now grants a minor Absorb buff per foe hit, as well as Mez Protection for 30 seconds. 
• Power now also grants resistance to -ToHit and -Endurance for 30 seconds
• Used while conscious, this power now grants an auto self rez if the player dies within 45s of using it in it's conscious state. Note this resurrect is not as strong as it could be if the player was to use it while as a rez with multiple foes in range and requires to hit at least one foe.
• Used while conscious, the power will apply mag 3 stun on all affected enemies.
• This power will not inflict damage nor heal the caster if used while conscious.
• Now accepts accuracy enhancements and sets (only useful for alive usage).

 Dark Regeneration

• This power is now available to Sentinels as a mutually exclusive option from Obscure Sustenance.

 Obscure Sustenance

• This power is now available to Brutes, Scrappers, Stalkers and Tankers as a mutually exclusive option from Dark Regeneration.
• Increased self heal component from 5% to 25% heal.
• This power now offers -ToHit and -Regeneration resistance for its duration
• Fixed a bug where Soul Noir theme would trigger the incorrect animation
• This power is now a click, no longer requires foes in range.
• No longer accepts damage or accuracy enhancements or sets
• No longer roots

 Dark Embrace

• Reduced recharge from 4s to 2s

 Murky Cloud

• Reduced recharge from 4s to 2s

Electric Armor

 Static Shield

• This power now grants scale 2 Toxic resistance.

 Grounded

• This power now grants scale 0.8 resistance to Smash/Lethal/Fire/Cold.
• Knockback protection should now last for up to 10 seconds after touching ground.

 Power Sink

• This power now adds a regeneration buff for each enemy hit.
• 17.5% regen for the first target hit (only while grounded).
• +17.5% regen for each additional target.
• +End per target lowered from 25 to 15.
• No longer has a chance at lowering enemy recovery.
• -End lowered from -40 to -35.

 Energize

• Regeneration buff duration increased from 30s to 45s.

 Power Surge

• Crash removed (EM Pulse remains).

• Recharge lowered to 350s.

• All effect durations lowered from 180s to 30s.

• Power now grants a +400% regen buff.

• Resistances lowered.

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Design Notes:

 

We are seeking to upgrade the overall sustainability of this set. Although the set provides some solid resistances (making its burst/alpha survival rather solid) it suffers in sustained survivability. For this reason, we are giving Power Sink some scaling regenerative buffs in trade of some of its endurance drain capabilities. The duration of Energize's regeneration buff is also being extended and Power Surge is getting a makeover that is more in line with the live version of Icy Bastion while retaining it's closing AoE burst. We are going to evaluate the viability of this change based on feedback, there is a high possibility for it to  get very minor adjustments or being rolled back to it's live form.

Energy Aura

 Energy Drain

• Per target +def lowered from scale 0.5 to scale 0.4.
• Up-front +def lowered from scale 0.1 to scale 0.08.

 Power Shield

• Fire and Cold defense lowered from scale 2 to scale 1.7.

 Overload

• Added visual indicator of an impending crash within 10s of expiration.

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Design Notes:

The set is getting some minor toning down on its defenses due to some relatively minor over-performance. This also helps the set's portability to tankers, despite the tanker version not being a carbon copy of the set.

Energy Aura Proliferated to Tankers

•  Kinetic Shield: Toggle: Self +DEF(Smashing, Lethal, Energy), Res(DeBuff DEF)
•  Dampening Field: Auto: Self +Res (Smashing, Lethal, Energy, Endurance Drain)
•  Power Shield: Toggle: Self +DEF(Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative), Res(DeBuff DEF)
•  Entropic Aura: Toggle: Self +Res(Knockback, Repel, Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Immobilize, Teleport, DeBuff DEF), Self +Recharge, Foe -Recharge.
•  Energy Protection: Auto: Self +Res (Energy, Negative, Toxic, Psionic, Slow)
•  Power Armor Energy Reserve: Auto: Self +MaxHP, +Resist(All DMG)
•  Energize: Self Endurance Discount, Heal, +Regen
•  Energy Drain: PBAoE, Self +End, +Def, Foe -End
•  Overload: Self +DEF(All), +Recovery, +MaxHP, Res(DeBuff DEF)
  • This power is different from other versions of Overload.
  • 300 second recharge, 30 second duration
  • 25% def against all but toxic/psi
  • 20% def against toxic/psi
  • +30% MaxHP
  • Scale 1 Res(-Defense)
  • +100% Recovery
  • Has no crash.

Ice Armor

 Hibernate (Tanker/Brute)

• This power has been converted to Icy Bastion.

 Icy Bastion (Scrapper/Sentinel/Stalker)

• This power now is a toggle.
• It will make you untouchable and give high regeneration rate.
• It will deactivate automatically after 30s.
• It can be deactivated early, keeping reduced effects for the remainder of the window.
• If under the effects of No Phase, the power will automatically deactivate and just provide the reduced +regen/+recovery and +Res.
• Note: After shutting this toggle down, the power will be identical to the previous version of Icy Bastion.

 Icicles

• Now inflicts cold damage instead of lethal.

 Rime

• New power, mutually exclusive from Hoarfrost.
• 90s recharge, 30s 30% Absorb, +100% regen, & 60s +Scale 2 Res(Toxic).

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Design Notes:

We are seeking to consolidate the T9 power between Tankers/Brutes and Scrapper/Stalker/Sentinels. The new consolidated power should have the benefit of both versions, with the minor inconvenience of having to double-click it if the player rather not enter a period of invulnerability and inability to attack.

 

We area also giving the power an alternate power option to Hoarfrost: Rime, that should provide a more active mitigation choice for players that prefer a more involved defensive play style over the long duration/high heal of Hoarfrost.

Radiation Armor

 Ground Zero

• The offensive components of this power now can only hit 16 foes.
• Power still can hit up to 255 allies.

 Radiation Therapy

• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 15 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by varying amounts to a maximum total of 60 seconds. First target adds 12 seconds, each additional target adds recharge proportionate to it's buff strength.
• Every subsequent target will yield a 25% weaker effect than the previous target
• Accuracy lowered from 3x to 1.2
• Heal per enemy increased from scale 2.2% to scale 11%.
• Heal with no enemy in range lowered from scale 11% to scale 6%
• Total maximum heal with all targets increased from 33% to 38%
• Regeneration buff reduced from +100% to 50%, duration reduced from 60s to 45s

 Meltdown

• Power now has a visual indicator that the power is going to crash in the next 10 seconds.

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Design Notes:

Ground Zero is a power that should had never been released in its current form. It's high cap was set so it could reliably cover allies and still be able to hit some foes. This ideally should had been split into two independent components when finalizing the set, but was not done due to how hard it was to create such powers at that time. Making an armor power affect more enemies than even incarnate nukes was never the intended goal. These days we have new tools to properly split these components without the legacy headaches. We should had done this long ago, but that does not give the power a pass. 

 

Radiation Therapy is another power that has other issues. It does too many things at once. The original version left by the devs never had such a high accuracy, nor did it grant endurance to the caster. These are things that were added later in an experiment and resulted in the power being too overloaded. The accuracy was never meant to be increased to 3, but to 1.13 (would had resulted in about 85% acc against even level foes). The original power, as left by the dev team, had an accuracy of 1.0x. We are compromising with 1.2 in this pass, but at 3x we may as well make the power auto hit. Such an incarnation would lose access to accurate healing enhancement sets. 

 

Despite this we still feel the power does a lot for it the set out of a single power, and that should be reflected somehow, either by removing effects or increasing recharge. Simply increasing recharge did not seem like a good compromise since it would make the power way less useful in boss encounters so decided to use the new Adaptive Recharge technique with the power. This means the power has a very low recharge that scales with it's usage. At maximum saturation, the power will have a higher recharge than it does currently live, but with fewer foes around the power will recharge much faster up to the point where 1v1 fights the player will be able to continually use the power. The power can now be used anywhere between every 25 seconds and 90 seconds depending on how many enemies (if any) were in range.

 

We understand nerfs are never popular, but sometimes we need to tone some sets down.

Regeneration

 Fast Healing

• Now grants 20% fixed regen resistance at all levels, for all ATs.
• (Stalker only) Now grants 15% recovery buff and 20% recovery debuff resistance.

 Resilience

• Power icon updated to represent its effects.

 Quick Recovery

• Now grants 20% recovery debuff resistance.

 Dull Pain > Second Wind

• Converted to Second Wind.
• Grants a 20% Max HP buff, this buff is retained even if the caster is defeated.
• Provides a 40% heal.
• This heal ignores resistances.
• Recharge increased from 300s to 360s, matching Dull Pain's recharge.
• Cast time lowered from 1.5s to 0.73s (same as live Dull Pain).
• While during the effects of Second Wind, should the player be defeated, they will be given a chance to get back up and keep fighting.

 Reactive Regeneration [New power for scrappers/brutes/stalkers]

• Mutually exclusive power from Instant Healing.
• This power is a toggle, pulses every 2 seconds.
• Grants a 200% enhanceable regeneration buff.
• Grants an additional 25% non-enhanceable regeneration for 20 seconds if damaged in the last 2 seconds. This can stack up to 10 times.
• Grants a 5.5% regen debuff resistance for 20 seconds if damaged in the last 2 seconds. This can stack up to 10 times.
• Grants a 3% recovery and end drain resistance for 20 seconds if damaged in the last 2 seconds. This can stack up to 10 times.
• Sentinel's Reactive Regeneration power will follow this implementation of the power.

 Revive > Ailment Resistance 

• Converted this power to Ailment Resistance.
• This power is now an auto power.
• Grants a 24% MaxHP buff, half enhanceable.
• Grants -15% resistance to heals (making all heals on you 15% stronger).
• Grants 20% resistance to -Defense, -Endurance, -Speed, -Regeneration, -Recovery, -Recharge, -Range and -ToHit.
• Power no longer accepts endurance or recharge enhancements.

 Moment of Glory

• Cast time reduced from 2.57s to 1.5s.
• Now grants a small damage buff that decays over time.
• Now grants a small amount of Psionic and Toxic defense.

Power order changed to:

Stalker:

• Hide
• Reconstruction
• Fast Healing
• Ailment Resistance
• Integration
• Resilience
• Instant Healing/Reactive Regeneration
• Second Wind
• Moment of Glory

Scrapper/Brute:

• Fast Healing
• Reconstruction
• Quick Recovery
• Ailment Resistance
• Integration
• Resilience
• Instant Healing/Reactive Regeneration
• Second Wind
• Moment of Glory

Sentinel/Tanker:

• Fast Healing
• Reconstruction
• Quick Recovery
• Ailment Resistance
• Integration
• Resilience
• Reactive Regeneration
• Second Wind
• Moment of Glory

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Design Notes:

Existing builds will now have access to an option that let them opt into more reliable and constant performance at the expense of occasional spike survivability with the new toggle alternative to Instant Healing: Reactive Regeneration. The set is also gaining new debuff resistances.

 

The new MaxHP passive should allow low recharge builds access to more constant/reliable source of mitigation as well as constant debuff resistances. This should also give even more breathing room to, if desired, hold back the use of the HP buff click (now Second Wind) for moments of more danger. Most ATs should also be able to reach their current MaxHP caps only with Second Wind, if only temporarily, via very high recharge builds or combination of Second Wind and Burnout in addition to accolade powers and set bonuses.

 

Some players should likely find Ailment Resistance optional to their builds if all they want is to retain live functionality, unless they highly desire the additional passive benefits. The power is still intended to be highly desirable.

Regeneration proliferated to Tankers

•  Fast Healing
•  Reconstruction
•  Quick Recovery
•  Ailment Resistance
•  Integration
•  Resilience
•  Reactive Regeneration
•  Second Wind
•  Moment of Glory

Electric Control

 Tesla Cage

• Cast time reduced from 2.17s to 1.67s

 Chain Fences

• This power now applies an additional 3 ticks of scale 0.1 energy DoT over 5.2 seconds in addition to its base damage

 Static Field

• Converted into a true pseudopet.
• Domination should now work on this power even if activated when the patch is already out

 Jolting Chain

• This power has been turned into a real chain.
• Damage increased from scale 0.3 to scale 1.2 against primary target.
• All jumps now take full advantage of caster inherents.
• Endurance drain is now auto hit.

 Conductive Aura

• Target cap increased from 8 to 16.
• After the 8th target hit, the power will yield diminishing returns.

 Synaptic Overload

• This power has been turned into a real chain.
• All jumps now take full advantage of caster inherents.
• Endurance drain is now auto hit.
• Max Target Cap 16.
• Domination now reliably works on this power.
• Cast Time lowered from 2.37s to 2.0s.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 6 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 6.5 seconds for a maximum total of 110 seconds. 

 Paralyzing Blast > Tesla Coil

• Power renamed to Tesla Coil.
• Now summons a Pseudopet that will hold up to 16 foes on summoning and then continue to hold up to 5 every 4 seconds for 60 seconds.
• Now inflict damage over time to up to 5 foes every 4 seconds
• This power now applies -Recharge, -Fly and -Jump to up to 16 foes in the area of effect

 Gremlins

• Pets now spawn as even level.
• Gremlins have been given a new attack.
• Gremlin's Jolting Chain power is now a true chain.
• Damage resistances against non-smash/lethal/energy increased.

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Design Notes:

Paralyzing Blast is getting a complete makeover as a static pet that constantly chain-zaps enemies near its area, as well as inflict damage to held enemies.

 

The chain powers have been adjusted with an auto-hit component that should make the powers immune to critical failure where the chain dies on its first target.

Fire Control

 Bonfire

• This power is now a true pseudopet.

 Cinders

• Endurance cost reduced from 15.6 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds. 

Ice Control

 Glacier

• Endurance cost reduced from 15.6 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds. 

Illusion Control

 Flash

• Endurance cost reduced from 15.6 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds. 

Gravity Control

 Gravity Distortion Field

• Now summons a Pseudopet that will hold up to 16 foes on summoning and then continue to hold up to 5 every 4 seconds for 60 seconds.
• Now inflict smashing damage to up to 5 foes every 4 seconds
• Now takes damage enhancements and sets.
• Now applies a -Speed debuff on up to 16 foes in the area of effect
• Now applies the Gravity Distortion effect to all enemies that enter its area of effect

Symphony Control

  Chords of Despair

• Endurance cost reduced from 15.6 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds. 

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Design Notes:

Early feedback about Adaptive Recharge has been mostly positive outside it's impact on procs, perhaps one of the most positive feedbacks we have received for a change to existing powers in a long time. Based on this, we will be expanding this system to more sets. We still are aiming to not homogenize every set into this schema. We are aiming to keep a rather even split between Adaptive Recharge 240s holds and area of denial ones. We will be applying these as it makes most thematic and playable sense for the individual set.

Other sets had their 240s holds switched into longer duration area of effect patches. Although less effective at holding all enemies at a given time, these patches are immune to purple patch (at least on their overall duration) making them a lot more flexible at various level ranges to create area of denial zones. Dark Control, Earth Control and Arsenal Control' already had access to Shadow Field, Volcanic Gasses and Tear Gas  respectively. Now Electric Control's Tesla Coil, Plant Control's Vines and Gravity Control's Gravity Distortion Field join them at creating such areas of effect. As additional counterbalance to their lower flexibility, these powers now also inflict damage to enemies they manage to overcome.

Mind Control

 Terrify

• Accuracy increased from 0.9 to 1.0.

 Total Domination

• Endurance cost reduced from 15.6 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds. 

 Mass Confusion

• Accuracy increased from 0.8 to 1.0.
• Endurance cost reduced from 26 to 8.528.
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 8 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 14.5 seconds for a maximum total of 240 seconds.

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Design Notes:

Total Domination and Mass Confuse recharge are being adjusted to have a lower endurance cost and base recharge. Each foe affected will increase its recharge by 14.5s resulting in a maximum recharge of 240s at maximum saturation. This allows the power usage to scale with the encounter, increasing its value in smaller fights without making Confuse redundant, at the same time it lowers the penalty of missing with the power.

 
Plant Control

 Spore Burst

• Upgraded to Deep Sleep.

 Seeds of Confusion

• Scale reduced from scale 20 to scale 8.
• Endurance cost lowered from to 15.6 to 8.528
• This power now has Adaptive Recharge. It has a base recharge of 6 seconds, and each affected foe will increase the recharge by 6.5 seconds for a maximum total of 110 seconds. 

 Spirit Tree

• Cast time lowered from 3.2s to 1.67s.
• Recharge reduced from 200s to 120s.
• Duration reduced from 90s to 60s.
• Spirit tree can now be attacked.
• Spirit tree now taunts and has a scaling defense and resist aura.
• Even after being defeated, spirit tree's regen aura should remain.

 Vines

• Now summons a Pseudopet that will hold up to 16 foes on summoning and then continue to hold up to 5 every 4 seconds for 60 seconds.
• Cast Time reduced from 3.1s to 2.1s
• Now inflict damage over time to up to 5 foes every 4 seconds
• Now applies a -DMG debuff on up to 16 foes in the area of effect
• Now accepts damage set and enhancements.

 Carrion Creepers

• VFX now moves along with the pet patch.
• Carrion Creepers can now proc Domination, Containment and Overpower.
• This power should no longer execute an excessive proc cascade.
• Vines should now be able to trigger Containment (for reals this time)

 Fly Trap

• AI mode changed from Pet_Base to Pet_Ranged.
• Resistances have been improved
• Pet should use Smash more often if in range (but maybe not, pets dont always listen... not even to us)

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Design Notes:

We are aware this will initially stir some reactions. Please test these changes before making your final judgements. With the introduction of Deep Sleep, we are seeking to re-adjust the set balance so its not as focused on 2 powers.

 

You may have noticed, we are standardizing confuse powers to 90s recharge with a lower scale. Spirit Tree will continue to work as it always did, but now also can dub as a pseudo-tank, at least for limited window. This will not come at any cost, as even if defeated the +regen portion will persists for its standard duration.

 

Similar to some of the other sets we mentioned above, Vines is getting a pseduopet revamp. We are not looking to homogenize all the 240s holds into the same form, instead we are trying to give them a some flavor, but some may be a bit similar. You should find this new incarnation much more useful.

 

Finally, Carrion Creepers was implemented in a way that interacted with multiple procs in an abusive way. The pet had many powers that created other pets that executed other powers resulting in sometimes triple proc rates, bypassing all safeguards the game has to prevent such things. This is being finally adjusted in this iteration. We expect all the additional buffs to other powers, especially in controller containment capabilities, to result in a much more well rounded set.

Arsenal Control

 Tear Gas

• Now will hold up to 16 foes on summoning, then continue to hold up to 5 foes every 4 seconds for 60 seconds.
• Increased duration from 45s to 60s, set stacking to replace
• -Damage debuff applies to up to 16 foes in the area of effect

 Sleep Grenade

• Pulse timer reduced from 4s to 3s.

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Design Notes:

Although relatively a minor change, this should have significant impact when combined with the new 3s rules for Controller Containment triggers after sleep is broken. In the previous configuration, a 4s pulse, the 3s of containment on sleep foes left about 25% chance for no containment damage. You likely wont notice this impact, but having it at 3s pulses will make containment work smoother and have a nearly unnoticeable buff to the regularity enemies fall asleep again after being disturbed.

New Powerset: Pyrotechnic Control

New control set for Controllers and Dominators.

You have the ability to incapacitate enemies with creative and dazzling fireworks-like displays that incorporate elements of light, fire, energy, and sound. Many powers have a chance to Blast Off targets, flinging them into the air and reducing their damage resistance with a vibrant explosion.

Sparkling Cage: 

• Ranged, Moderate DoT(Fire, Energy), Foe Immobilize, Chance for Blast Off
• Immobilizes your target in a ring of pyrotechnic energy, dealing Fire and Energy damage over time. More resilient foes may require multiple Sparkling Cages to Immobilize.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air.

 Dazzle: 

• Ranged, Moderate DMG (Fire, Energy), Foe Hold, Chance for Blast Off
• Incapacitates a distant foe with a brilliant explosion of pyrotechnic energy. The target is left helpless for the duration.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air.

 Sparkling Chain: 

• Ranged (Chain), Minor DoT(Fire, Energy), Foe Immobilize, Chance for Blast Off
• Immobilizes a group of foes one by one in a chain formation, dealing Fire and Energy damage over time to each enemy in the chain. More resilient foes may require multiple casts to Immobilize. Sparkling Chain is slower and less damaging than Sparkling Cage, but can capture multiple targets.
• This power has a chance of Blasting Off targets into the air. This chance is greater on the initial target of Sparking Chain.

 Glittering Column: 

• You summon a column of brilliant, glittering energy that is sure to capture foes' attention. The column will reduce the ToHit of any foe within a short range, while also Taunting them, forcing them to direct their attacks in its direction. 
• When the Glittering Column expires, it explodes, Blasting Off nearby enemies into the air.

 Hypnotizing Lights: 

• Ranged (Cone), Foe Sleep, Foe Confuse (Within 20ft), Moderate DoT (Psionic)
• You conjure a whirl of lights with differing effects depending on the distance from which it is viewed. Most all targets within the area will be placed into a sleep like trance. Up to five enemies within 20 feet of the display are Confused and receive Psionic damage over time.

 Brilliant Barrage: 

• Ranged (AoE), Foe Stun, Foe Terrorize, Minor DMG (Fire, Energy)
• With a single gesture, you conjure pyrotechnic missiles to assault two locations at once. Enemies near the target you have selected will be bombared with miniature missiles and Stunned. Meanwhile, enemies near the location of have selected on the ground will be hit by shrill noisemaking rocket and become Terrified.

 Incendiary Aura: 

• Toggle: PBAoE, Chance for Blast Off. -ToHit, -Defense
• You create an aura of pyrotechnic energy around yourself that has combustible properties. Enemies within range of the power have a persistent chance of Blasting Off into the air, as well as suffer from reduced ToHit and Defense.

 Explosive Bouquet: 

• Ranged (AoE), Foe Hold, Blast Off
• You create an explosion of light and sound in a flower formation. Foes inside the blast radius will be Held and Blasted Off into the air.
• Every foe you hit will increase its recharge by 14.5 seconds, up to a maximum of 240 seconds. If no foe is hit, the power will recharge in 8 seconds.

 Catherine Wheel: 

• Summon Catherine Wheel: Ranged DMG (Fire, Energy), Special
• You can craft a wheel of pure pyrotechnic energy to assist you in battle. The Catherine Wheel employs a variety of pyrotechnic powers to damage and distract enemies. If an enemy becomes affected by the Blast Off effect from one of your powers, the Catherine Wheel may Intercept the enemy with an attack, dealing additional damage.

New Powerset: Psionic Armor

New armor set for Tankers, Brutes, Scrappers, Sentinels and Stalkers

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Design Notes:

Psionic is a type that has been lacking defensively in the game outside a few select Epic Pool powers and the infamous Dominator/Blaster sustain power Drain Psyche. This power was always considered so iconic (and in its heyday, overpowered) that when designing a Psionic Armor set, there was zero doubt a form of this power had to be the cornerstone of the set's performance. As such, each version of this set contains a similar power that help Psionic Armor achieve extremely high levels of regeneration.

 

Given the existence of other psi toggles in Psi mastery pools being resist based, the secondary balance factor for the set is designed around resistances. As a unique power for the set, Aura of Insanity costs no endurance and applies one of 5 random control effects on targets, albeit at the cost of your own health. The aura also applies debuffs that are tied to these control effects. Although chaotic, this opens up many build opportunities. From building for a specific control effect, using HOs to boost them all, or using a variety of enhancement sets be it for set bonuses or procs. The power is extremely versatile on the kind of enhancements that it can accept.

Finally, Memento Mori is a discrete power. It can be used to come back from defeat, but it's primary usage is to boost your Maximum HP while applying fear on its targets. With Adaptive Recharge, you can either boost yourself in a large feed, granting some solid survivability for its duration. If facing fewer foes, the power can be used more casually to get a smaller HP buff more regularly.

You use your psionic powers to shield yourself reducing incoming damage, as well as steal your foes own psyche and use it against them, be it by empowering your own regenerative powers, weakening their defenses or completely subduing their will.

 Psychic Wall: 

• Toggle: Self +Res(Smash, Lethal, Psionic)
• You focus to create a psychic wall that dampens the smashing, lethal and psionic damage.

 Psionic Shield

• Toggle: Self +Res(Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative, Toxic, End Drain)
• This power generates a psionic shield that dampens most energy and elemental damage types while also reducing the effect of endurance drain effects.

 Impenetrable Mind

• Toggle: Self Res (Psionics, Disorient, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep, Fear, Confuse, Knockback)
• When you toggle on this power, it grants protection from Sleep, Disorient, Fear, Immobilize, Confusions, Knockback and Hold effects. Impenetrable Mind also grants moderate resistance to Psionic based attacks.

 Consume Psyche

• PBAoE Foe -Regen, -Recovery; Self +Regen, +Recovery
• Only available to Tankers and Brutes
• You Consume the Psyche of nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Although this power has a low recharge, each affected foe will increase its recharge by 5.5 seconds for a maximum total of 60 seconds.

 Devour Psyche

• Cone Foe -Regen, -Heal, -Recovery; Self +Regen, +Recovery
• Only available to Scrappers, Sentinels and Stalkers
• You Devour the Psyche of foes in front of you, weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Although this power has a low recharge, each affected foe will increase its recharge by 5.5 seconds for a maximum total of 60 seconds.

 Precognition

• Auto: Self Def(Melee, Ranged, AoE, Psionic)
• Precognition allows you to read your enemies' minds, letting you see their attacks before they happen. This power is always on and costs no Endurance.

 Psychokinetic Barrier

• Self, +Absorb, +MaxHP, +Res(-Regeneration, -Recovery, -Recharge, -Endurance)
• You can erect a temporary wall of crystalized psionic energy that will absorb a large amount of damage before breaking off. Psychokinetic Barrier will grant a moderate amount of absorption and reduce the effect debuffs have on you.

 Impose Presence

• Toggle: Self +DEF(Melee, Ranged), +To Hit, Foe -Recharge
• Only available to Tankers and Brutes
• Impose Presence your presence on nearby enemies, slowing their attack rate down and increasing your defense and chance to hit.

 Mask Presence 

• Toggle: Self Stealth, +DEF(Melee, Ranged)
• Only Available to Scrappers and Sentinels
• Mask Presence makes you almost impossible to detect. When you attack or are damaged while using this power, you will be discovered. Even if discovered, you are hard to see and retain some bonus to Defense. While stealthed, the strength of your next attack will be more powerful; however, you can only attempt this after spending 8 seconds without attacking.

 Aura of Insanity

• Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Confuse, Disorient, Sleep, Hold, Fear, DoT(Psionic), +Special
• You emit a powerful psychic aura that causes the minds of those around you to become weak and distracted. Foes may be stunned, held, terrified or even confused in your presence, in addition to suffering a debuff derived from the applied control effect. Those that resist these effects will suffer damage over time. This power allows you to use your own Hit Points to keep enemies near you disabled. The power cost no endurance but can be dangerous to use.

 Aura of Madness

• Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Confuse, Disorient, Sleep, Hold, Fear, -Damage(All), +Special

• You emit a powerful psychic aura that causes the minds of those around you to become weak and distracted. Foes may be stunned, held, terrified or even confused in your presence, in addition to suffering a debuff derived from the applied control effect. Those that resist these effects will see their damage reduced. This power allows you to use your own Hit Points to keep enemies near you disabled. The power costs no endurance but can be dangerous to use.

 Memento Mori

• Self Rez, +Max HP, Special

• Terrify your foes projecting images of their own impending demise into their minds. Memento Mori inflicts fear on targets while healing you even if you have been defeated. Each affected foe will increase your maximum hit points and heal you. Using this power while conscious will give you one opportunity to get back up should you be defeated while its effects are active.

Misc Power Changes

 Epic > Dark Mastery > Black Hole 

• This power now applies a trawl (reverse repel) effect.
• Targets that are immune to the trawl effect will be phased.

 Epic > Psionic Mastery > Telekinesis

• Target cap increased from 5 to 10.
• Toggle duration reduced from 20s to 10s.

Armor Sets > Self heals (all)

• Self heal click powers no longer are irresistible
• Following heals will ignore Heal Resistances:
  •  Regeneration > Second Wind
  •  Invulnerability > Dull Pain
  •  Ice Armor > Hoarfrost
  •  Empathy > Absorb Pain
  •  Pain Domination > Share Pain
• The following armored AT Heal Resistance caps have been lowered to:
  •  Tanker: 75%
  •  Brute: 75%
  •  Scrapper: 85%
  •  Stalker: 85%
  •  Sentinel: 90%
  • All other ATs remain at 100%

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  Design Notes:

  This should allow self heals to become stronger while using Field Medic and Incandescence Destiny actually impact players. This will potentially force some changes in Hamidon tanking strategies, but the encounter should still be possible even with the HealRes debuffs. The heal resistance caps will prevent armored classes to ever be debuffed to the point they are entirely immune to healing.

   

  With this change, Armored ATs should never be able to become immune to healing unless they are on an Untouchable state.

 Self Resurrect powers

• Self resurrect powers will now show a separate buff icon for their  Untouchable and  Debt Protection durations.
• Players can now cancel the Untouchable buff they receive after self-resurrecting by right clicking on the buff icon .
• This only applies to powers from armor sets, epic pools and prestige powers.

 Battle Axe > Axe Cyclone

• Cast time increased from 1.76s to 2.1s.
• Pull distance is now resistible.

 Battle Axe > Swoop

• Cast time increased from 1.23s to 1.37s.

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Last round of buffs to Battle Axe were potentially too good, we are doing a minor bump-back on Axe Cyclone's and Swoop due to the unexpected boost. Axe Cyclone will continue to pull enemies, but foes will be able to resist the effect where resistances apply.

 Street Justice > Sweeping Cross (All versions) 

• Arc increased from 50 degrees to 75 degrees.
• Pre-combo damage scale reduced from 1.5 to 1.444.
• Max combo damage reduced from 1.875 to 1.805.

 Invulnerability > Unstoppable

• A visual cue should show up informing of the impending crash.

 Ninjitsu > Kuji-In Retsu

• A visual cue should show up informing of the impending crash.

 Shield Defense > One with the Shield

• A visual cue should show up informing of the impending crash.

 Stone Armor > Geode

• Cleaned up power info screen.
• 25% of this power's regen and recovery buffs will persist for the full 30 second window even if the power is shut down or if the Geode is destroyed.

 Super Reflexes > Elude

• A visual cue should show up informing of the impending crash.

 Willpower > Strength of Will

• A visual cue should show up informing of the impending crash.

Bug Fixes

•  Enhancements > Performance Shifter: Chance for +Endurance: Fixed a bug where the ally buff could potentially be weaker based on level differences.
•  Enhancements > Coercive Persuasion: Contagious Confusion: This proc no longer ignores combat modifiers.
•  Dark Armor >  Obscure Sustenance: Fixed a bug where Soul Nier theme would trigger the incorrect animation.
•  Tactical Arrow > Glue Arrow: Fixed power short description.
•  No Phase: Fixed a bug where No Phase would disable Jump Pack and Steam Jump.
•  Pool > Fighting: Changes to the attacks power info screen to clarify the conditional effects.
•  Mace Mastery > Web Envelope: Fixed this power's description to denote the power does toxic damage over time.
•  Prestige Travel > Jump Pack/Steam Jump: These powers buff should now flash when the 30 second timer is about to run out, as well as give a "low fuel" warning.
•  Plant Manipulation > Wild Fortress: Fixed a bug where the power's vfx would fade away if the player selected color customization options.
•  Atomic Manipulation > Metabolic Acceleration: This power no longer accepts Endurance Discount enhancements. The power costs no endurance.
•  Dark Mastery > Possess: Fixed a bug where the debuff applied to the caster instead of the target.
•  Dark Mastery > Black Hole: Fixed this power range (was erroneously set to 10ft instead of 50ft).
•  Devices > Remote Bomb: Fixed a bug that would cause the bomb to become defunct if the targeted critter died during the power's placement animation.
• Traps > Temporal Bomb: Fixed a bug that would cause the bomb to become defunct if the targeted critter died during the power's placement animation.
•  Accolades > Mark and Recall: Name changed from 'Mark & Recall' so the power can be functionally linked in chat.
•   Energy Mastery > Energy Torrent: Fixed Laser Beam Sweep customization option's hitfx desynced from attack.
•  Arsenal Control > Cryo Freeze Ray: Fixed VFX timing errors in attack and hit FX.
•  Fiery Aura > Cauterizing Blase: Fixed Dark Fire customization option missing FX.
•  Mercenaries > Commando: Fixed Commando's Full Auto attack FX attached to their hand instead of their Assault Rifle.
•  Atomic Manipulation > Gamma Burst: Fixed several bugs with this mechanic implementation and adjusted powers descriptions to clarify the mechanics.
•  Ice Melee > Frozen Aura: This power should no longer display it's effects twice in the power info screen.

Character Customization Improvements

Costumes

New Costume Parts (62)

• Male/Female/Huge > Head > Various > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Head > Various > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Male/Female/Huge > Head > Various > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Female > Head > Various > Detail 2 > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Female > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 2 > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Widow > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Widow > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Arachnos Widow > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Female > Arachnos Widow > Detail 2 > Seer
• Huge > Head > Standard > Troll*
  • *Notice: The Troll head option is mutually exclusive with details that clip and they will not appear. Likewise, if you currently have incompatible head details selected, the Troll head option will not appear.
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Clean*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1 Flipped*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2 Flipped*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Clean*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1 Flipped*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2 Flipped*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Clean*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1 Flipped*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2*
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2 Flipped*
  • *Notice: The Awakened chest options are mutually exclusive with shoulder pads that clip and they will not appear. Likewise, if you currently have incompatible shoulder pads selected, the Awakened chest options will not appear.
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Jackets > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Light Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Heavy Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Chest Details > Special Symbols > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Light Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Heavy Original
• Female > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing > Custom
• Female > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing > Original
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Light > Custom
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Light > Original
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Heavy > Custom
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Heavy > Original
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Imperial Defense Heavy
• Female > Upper > Tight > Belt > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Beholder
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Scryer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Seeker
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Beholder
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Scryer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Seeker
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Light > Custom
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Light > Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Heavy > Custom
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Heavy > Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Backpacks > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Backpacks > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Full Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Half Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Asymmetrical Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Single Shoulder Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Over Shoulder Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Jump
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Fly
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Jump & Fly
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Paragon Protector
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Blackwing Heavy

Costume Proliferation

• Missing costume options added to missing categories:
  • Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Wolf > Detail 1 > Parity Pass - Many missing options added.
  • Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Wolf > Detail 2 > Parity Pass - Many missing options added.
  • Male/Female/Huge > Standard > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Standard > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Masks w/Hair > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Masks w/Hair > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Full Mask > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Full Mask > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hats > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hats > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hoods > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hoods  > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza 1 Glow
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza 2 Glow
  • Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Jackets > Gloves > Elemental Order
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Jackets > Gloves > Imperial Defense Heavy
  • Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Robes > Gloves > Elemental Order
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Robes > Gloves > Imperial Defense Heavy
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Spectrum
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Gold Bricker
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Gold Bricker (Legacy)
  • Female/Huge > Back > Backpacks > Circle of Thorns
  • Male > Upper > Sleeveless Robes > Chest > Spectrum

Costume Fixes

• Various skirt models have had poor/non-functional LOD models that cause them to appear broken at distance; Skirt models should now always render the higher detail model.
• Female > Upper > Various > Asymmetrical Shoulders > Skull 1: Fixed this option being listed twice.
• Male/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Flat > Spectrum: Fixed this option using the wrong texture.
• Female > Lower > Various > Boots > Flat > Spectrum: Fixed this option being listed twice.
• Fixed many categories that were missing the tintable Aeon Gloves.
• Fixed a few Gold Bricker gloves that weren't set to collapse options properly.
• Fixed a mistake on the skin mask of the Labeaux option for Sleeveless Robes on Female body types.

Power Customization

Force Field

• Epic > Personal Force Field > Excelsion customization option added.
• Force Field > All > Excelsion customization options added to every power available in the powerset.

 Oh hex! That's pretty cool! 

Traps

• Force Field Generator > Excelsion customization option added.

Teleport

• Pool > Teleportation > Teleport > Bright Electricity customization option added.
• Pool > Teleportation > Teleport > Dark Electricity customization option added.
• Pool > Teleportation > Combat Teleport > Bright Electricity customization option added.
• Pool > Teleportation > Combat Teleport > Dark Electricity customization option added.

Broadsword

• Swordfish custom weapon option added.

Rifles

• Shotgun custom weapon option added.
• Advanced Shotgun custom weapon option added.
• Grenade Launcher custom weapon option added.
• Advanced Grenade Launcher custom weapon option added.

Custom Weapon Fixes

• Fix to rifle weapons appearing on the back when they should be in the hand at the time.
• Fixed broken Munitions Rifle model FX for Devastator, Shard Cannon, and Shock Rifle options on all three body types.
• Fixed broken base Munitions Rifle FX on Huge body type.

Aether Shop Rewards

Reward Additions

• New NPC costumes added to the Tier 1 Aether reward vendor offerings:
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Razorvine
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Geode
  • Costume: Freaklok Boomer
  • Costume: Freaklok Tecromancer
  • Costume: Mastermind Oni
  • Costume: Mastermind Assault Bot
  • Costume: Mastermind Lich
  • Costume: Mastermind Spec Ops
  • Costume: P.E.A.C.E. Ballistier
  • Costume: P.E.A.C.E. Commander
  • Costume: P.E.A.C.E. Coordinator
  • Costume: PPD Guardian
  • Costume: PPD Undercover Cop
  • Costume: Slag Golem
  • Costume: Slag Heap
• (Mastermind Aether costumes include power customization option to pick their upgraded visuals.)

• New NPC costumes added to the Tier 2 Aether reward vendor offerings:
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Lunaflora

• New NPC costumes added to the Tier 3 Aether reward vendor offerings:
  • Effect: P.E.A.C.E. Coordinator
  • (Make your character look like one of Blackwing Industry's psychic tacticians! Projects a data display around your character and encapsulates your head in an energy field! Tintable power customization options and data-only or dome-only.)

Reward Adjustments

• Tier 2 has been renamed from 'Vintage' to 'Vintage/Extra' to include the non-legacy costumes that are Homecoming additions.
• The following costumes have had their names adjusted:
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Plant -> Costume: Devouring Earth Bladegrass
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Crystal -> Costume: Devouring Earth Quartz
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Mushroom -> Costume: Devouring Earth Fungoid
  • Costume: Devouring Earth Rock -> Costume: Devouring Earth Bedrock

• The following costumes have had customization options expanded:
  • Effect: Luminous > Symbiote
  • Effect: Luminous > Symbiote Tintable
  • Effect: Umbral > Symbiote
  • Effect: Umbral > Symbiote Tintable
  • Effect: Luminous > Tentacles
  • Effect: Luminous > Tentacles Tintable
  • Effect: Umbral > Tentacles
  • Effect: Umbral > Tentacles Tintable

• The following costumes have had customization options removed:
  • Effect: Luminous > No Bubble (duplicate with Eyes)
  • Effect: Umbral > No Bubble (duplicate with Eyes)

Reward Fixes

• Effect: Luminous: Fixed an issue where this effect's eye glow would not appear on Aether costumes that didn't support sheathed weapons.
• Costume: Freakshow Stunner: Ambient sound effects removed from this costume.
• Costume: Freakshow Super Stunner: Ambient sound effects removed from this costume.
• Costume: Longbow Mender: Fixed this costume using the incorrect boots option.
• Costume: Rularuu Wisp Overlord: Ambient sound effects removed from this costume.

Vanity Pets 

New Pets Recipes

• The following Rare recipe has been added with a 0.1% (1 in 1000) chance to drop from any Blackwing Industries enemy group Boss or Elite Boss rank defeats:
  • Pet: P.E.A.C.E. Drone
• The following Uncommon recipe has been added with a 10% (1 in 10) chance to drop from the P.E.A.C.E Keeper Giant Monster when defeated.
  • Pet: Mini P.E.A.C.E. Keeper
• As with other recipes, these can be traded to other players or on the Auction House.

Various Additions, Enhancements, & Fixes

New Badges (22)

Accolade

•  The Prettiest One - Obtain this accolade by earning the following Exploration badges: On The Shoulders of Giants, In Their Prime, Protest Too Much, Fueled by Greed, Raving Mad, Marked Out, Quay to the City and Tourist Trapped.

Accomplishment

•  Staring Into The Abyss - Complete Adelard Ziegler's story arc to earn this badge.
•  Business Savvy - Complete Dap-Dap the Deal-Maka's story arc to earn this badge.
•  Front Person - Complete Erin West's story arc to earn this badge.
•  Justified Ends - Complete Robert Kogan's story arc to earn this badge.
•  Thicker than Water - Complete Alexander the Greats's story arc to earn this badge.
•  Generational Trauma - Earned from completing bonus objectives within Adelard Ziegler's story arc.
•  Uncomfortable Truths - Earned from completing bonus objectives within Erin West's story arc.
•  Truth Seeker - Earned from completing bonus objectives within Erin West's story arc.
•  Brass Tax - Earned from completing bonus objectives within Dap-Dap the Deal-Maka's story arc.

Defeat

• Two Birds One Stone - Defeat 250 Blackwing Industries enemies to earn this badge.
• Peacekeeper / Peacemaker - Defeat the P.E.A.C.E. Keeper in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.

Exploration

•  In Their Prime - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Protest Too Much - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Fueled By Greed - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Raving Mad - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Marked Out - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Quay to the City - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.
• Tourist Trapped - Explore in Kallisti Wharf to earn this badge.

History

•  Christie Consolidation - Learn more about the brave and bold leadership of Emil Christie.
• Flagtown Memorialist - Learn more about the Flagtown history in Kallisti Wharf.
•  Patron of the Arts - Learn more about Theatre Row and Maxwell Stadium to earn this badge.

Badge Adjustments

Changes

•   Dreamwalker / Dreamkiller - Quill and The Unnamed One are now required for this badge. No changes to those who already earned the badge.
• Variety Act - Badge art updated to look more like proper badges.
• License to Chill - Badge art updated to help differentiate Winter events by year (2021).
• Home for the Holidays - Badge art updated to help differentiate Winter events by year (2023).
• Hypothermia - Badge art updated to help differentiate Winter events by year (2024).
•  Bicentennial - Relocated 200th Anniversary Plaque in Kallisti Wharf to Theatre Row.
  • New coordinates are [2380, 56, 1132].
•  Protector of Paragon City - Changed criteria of Protector of Paragon City badge to replace Shauna Braun's arc (heroic ending) with completing Roy Cooling's arc. (Beyond Reasonable Doubt -> Helping Hand).

City Badge Tracker

• Added a City Badge Tracker kiosk to Pocket D at [-234.2 0.0 -908.8].
  • This kiosk will display the badges that you're missing, and a Leaderboard with every character who entered Pocket D since the last mapserver reset. There is no persistent storage at the moment, and it might not be possible.
  • The player with the most badges will be displayed as a "hologram" next to the City Badge Tracker kiosk. Clicking on this NPC will display their character information and badge progress.
  • In the event of a tie, the character who last clicked the City Badge Tracker kiosk (not the NPC!) will be displayed, and there's a 60-second cooldown between switches to avoid spamming back and forth.
• City Badge Tracker also displays progress towards Bicentennial, Dimensional Warder, River Rat and Dreamwalker/Dreamkiller.
  • Null the Gull no longer shows progress towards Dimensional Warder, since the City Badge Tracker "Progress" page has that info.

Zones

Tasks

Mission Maps

Enemies

Architect Entertainment

New Custom Enemy Powersets

• Pyrotechnic Control: Now available on custom AE enemies.
• Psionic Armor: Now available on custom AE enemies.

Blackwing Industries

• This group is now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

Freaklok

• This group is now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

Skulls

• The new high level versions found in Kallisti Wharf are now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

Wyvern

• The new high level versions found in Kallisti Wharf are now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

Kallisti Wharf Office Maps

• All existing Kallisti Wharf Office maps in AE have been moved to a new category: 'Kallisti Wharf Office (Legacy)'.
  • These older maps are overly-populated, but we can't remove them due to their usage in existing AE arcs, so these maps will be labeled seperately instead.
• The new correctly-populated maps and new layouts used in Kallisti Wharf are now found in AE under 'Kallisti Wharf Office'.
• These mission map tileset pieces have had an extensive decoration pass on all rooms which will automatically apply to existing AE arcs using these maps.

New Mission Map

• Unique > Rikti War Zone > Rikti Space Station: New map added. Comes with baked-in map-defined Rikti turrets and generators and low gravity.

Miscellaneous

• The villain Level 10 level-up trainer dialog now mentions the SG Registrar found in Mercy Island.
• Fixed the respec counter from becoming negative when a character earns 128+ respecs.
• Switching alignments will no longer remove the Event Messages channel for that alignment. It will still add the new one.
  • For example, if you're a villain and switch to hero, the Hero Zone Event Messages channel will be added to whichever tab contains Villain Zone Event Messages, but Villain Zone Event Messages will be retained unless manually removed.

Inspirations

• Corrected the description in Greater Protection Imbuement and Superior Protection Imbuement to no longer claim they last 3 minutes.

LFG

• Fixed incorrect merit payout award listed in Katie Hannon's Task Force in the LFG tab.
• Fixed inaccurate level ranges displayed on Summer Blockbuster, Kane's House of Horror, and SSA 1.1.

Anniversary Event

• Event script has been rewritten in Lua and the legacy script discontinued.
• Automatically starts on April 28th and ends on June 1st.
• Ambushes will now spawn using the player level, capped to the level range of the zone.
• Ambushes have a 50% chance of being an enemy group that the player needs for badge credit.
• Decreased ambush chance from 75% to 65%.
• Ambushes only reward the player with one Anniversary Merit.
• Temporary Powers, Inspirations, Pet Summons and Minipet rewards can only drop from capsules without an ambush.
• Fixed two glowie spawn points in Brickstown that were floating above the ground and not working correctly.

Badges

New Badges

Event

•  Cheers! - Log-in during the City of Heroes 21st anniversary to earn this badge. Purchasable from Luna in Ouroboros during the month of May.
• Mafioso - Defeat 25 old school Family during the City of Heroes Anniversary Event to earn this badge.
• Skull Killer - Defeat 25 old school Skulls during the City of Heroes Anniversary Event to earn this badge.

Events

Fixes

• Fixed a scaling issue with some of the higher-level enemy groups when spawned in low level zones via a Time Capsule that would cause them to be far more difficult than intended when fought by lower level characters.
• Old school Family / Skulls have had their spawn weight increased to match Circle of Thorns / Rikti so the mobs who give badge credit are most likely to spawn when opening Time Capsules.

Events

Pocket D

• Move Sigil, Kadabra Kill, and the Ouroboros crystal down to the main floor where it's less likely to cause traffic jams.

Sister Psyche's Wedding

• Pause the ceremony when no players are in the map; this fixes an issue with the post-cutscene spawns not triggering correctly if there are no players in the map.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hero version of the Nemesis Plot to consider the heroes defeated by default.

Badges

• Grant 'Entrusted With The Secret' to those entering the wedding flashback mission.

Enhancements

• Cupid's Crush: Add missing text for Universal Damage enhancement conversion.

Spring Fling Event

Spring Fling Event has been enabled and will run from 2/7/2025 - 3/11/2025
 

NEW Seasonal Mission

• Kadabra Kill & Sigil are available in Pocket D as mission contacts during the event.
• Help them solve a debate regarding the specific details from Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding.
• Check out @Cobalt Arachne's Dev Diary on the event for further info!

Five NEW Badges

•  Best Man/Maid of Honor
•  Wedding Crasher
•  Down in Front
•  Chaos Spiel
•   Officiator

NEW Costume Aura

• Spring Aura has been added to the costume editor for Male, Female, and Huge body types.
• It includes 6 Sub-Variants:
  • Flowers
  • Love
  • Jealous
  • Flowers - Combat
  • Love - Combat
  • Jealousy - Combat

NEW Enhancement Set: Cupid's Crush

• Unique Universal Damage set (attuned-only)
• Special Chance for Confuse proc enhancement.
• Converting this set of enhancements out-of-set will result in an Overwhelming Force IO, and vice-versa.
• Available to be purchased from any Merit Vendors for 100 Reward Merits each, in the Auction House, or as a reward for completing the seasonal mission.
• Cannot be made Superior.

General

• Updated the UI of the City Info Terminal kiosks in order to improve legibility.

Badges

• River Rat's badge marker #6 in Nova Praetoria was floating above the water surface, it has been brought down to the same level as the other markers.

Enhancements

• Fix Brute's Fury: Recharge/Fury Bonus proc being affected by level differences with the target.
• Fix minimum slotting level for Dark Watcher's Despair.

Tasks

• The wounded Vanguard soldier in the last mission of the LGTF will stop talking if there's nobody nearby to hear them.

Zones

Labyrinth of Fog

• Fixed a number of tech lab doorways that could cause the Minotaur In The Fog to become stuck in the wall if they traveled through them.
• Prevented Benefactor in the Fog's Accelerate Metabolism from unintentionally buffing the Minotaur.
• Avatar of Achlys can now cast their cone attacks through mez.
• Players in the entrance lobby area or Core of the Labyrinth will no longer be timed out.
• Doubled the value of shift points earned by defeating Elite Bosses in the Labyrinth.
• Re-write of the Labyrinth's informational navigation window to better explain the zone.
• Minotaur's invincibility field now using a unique FX to be more visible.
• Mythic Fog's anchor field now using a unique FX to be more visible.
• Mythic Fog's appearance now includes a glowing chain that extends to the ceiling of the arena, to make positioning easier.
• Mythic Fog can no longer be targeted or killed.
• Font high score counter can now be viewed from the nav while inside the True Core of the Labyrinth.
• Description on the Avatar of Achlys cleaned up.
• Added some protection to the Font GM spawns to prevent more spawns than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused the high score counter in the Font of Malevolence to not display.
• Restored the fog plume FX to the center of the Font of Malevolence.

Task Force:

Lady Grey Task Force (Advanced Mode)

• Adjusted K'ong's spawn so that the War Priest is always in the far away spot to prevent Recovery Aura inconsistencies.

Dr. Aeon's Strike Force

• Collision ramps added to the outer edges of the smelting cauldrons in the final encounter to allow King Midas to be pulled into them easier when he is inflicted with -Jump debuffs.

Miscellaneous

Bug Fixes

• Fixed invention vanity pet recipe crafts from not counting for the crafting badges.
• Fixed Crey Cryogenicist Beam Rifle attacks firing from their hands instead of their rifle.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a rare issue where under certain circumstances many more giant monsters could spawn in the Labyrinth of Fog than intended.

Server Stability

• Fix a potential crash issue in the Labyrinth zone.

Zones

Labyrinth of Fog

Additions

• High score counter added to the Font of Malevolence.
  • Appears in the navigation bar when in the Font.
  • Tracked per hour reset cycle, high score is recorded per server and persists.
  • Does not impact rewards, just statistical information for players.

Adjustments

• Enhanced visuals on the Font of Malevolence doors.
• Improved movement control on the Minotaur In The Fog.
• Avatar of Achyls given increased resistances to Slow, Endurance Drain, and Immobilize.
• Avatar of Achyls HP scaling changed to scale from 8 players up to 40 players, previously 16-32; Amount of HP per player increased slightly.
• Avatar of Achyls' Malevolent Explosion recharge increased to 45 seconds from 30 seconds.
• Increased delay between warning and execution on Malevolent Explosion to 5 seconds from 2 seconds.
• Mythic Fog are now 50% larger so they're easier to see.
• Mythic Fog now produce a bubble geometry surrounding their area of effect.
• Mythic Fog now plays a float message when changing location.
• Fall-off time for Anchor buff increased to 7 seconds from 3 seconds.
• Players can now activate powers in the True Core of the Labyrinth.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused many GMs to spawn in the Font of Malevolence.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Labyrinth zone to unload if idle.
• Temporary Halloween Minotaur costumes can now activate the secret cow door.

NPCs

Council

• Council Super Soldier is now less super.

5th Column

• Fixed Lt/Boss Rifle Butt missing an endurance cost.
• Fixed Steel Valkyrie Missile Launcher dealing smashing instead of fire damage.
• Fixed Robot defense having duplicate Terrorize protection.
• Fixed Krieger Dragons Tail having scrapper crit chance.

Banished Pantheon

• Fixed Storm Shaman Hurricane omitting certain archetypes from range debuff.

Carnival of Shadows

• Fixed the pet version of Illusionist Phase Shift not suppressing when mezzed.
• Fixed Vanessa's Psyche recovery debuff not affecting enemies.
• Fixed Carnival Mallet attacks redrawing off each other.

Crey

• Fixed Paragon Protector Spine Throwing missing toxic damage over time.
• Fixed Paragon Protector Elite Incinerate being an AoE.

Freakshow

• Fixed Super Stunner Paralyzing Blast not affecting players.
• Fixed Super Stunner using the wrong tinted FX for Reserve Power.

Rewards

Giant Monsters - Labyrinth of Fog

• Giant Monsters defeated in the Labyrinth of Fog no longer reward Monstrous Aether per the amount encountered there.

Costume Matrix Macro Accolade

• Fixed incorrectly named 'Mini Seed of Hamidon' to correct 'Mini Seedling of Hamidon'.

Powers

Energy Melee

• Fixed an FX error in fast cast Energy Transfer.

Miscellaneous

Bug Fixes

• Added missing defense debuff continuing FX to various NPC powers.
• Fixed FX / animation desyncs for various NPC weapon powers.
• Corrected the attack types used for defense checks for various NPC powers.
• Corrected the AIGroup / NPC behavior for some powers.
• Corrected typos in various missions and dialogues.
• Corrected the level ranges for critter spawns.
• Moved the Nutrient Rich badge to a more appropriate location in the badge list.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a long-standing bug in the chat system that could cause random client crashes in certain circumstances, more likely to be triggered by heavy use of the emote channel.

A small client-only hotfix has been released to the launcher.

Stability

• Added a workaround to mitigate a client crash in third-party PhysX code often seen under heavy graphical load (i.e. Peregrine Island trick-or-treat leagues).
• There was already a partial workaround for this crash in place that would prevent the client from crashing immediately, but it could still crash later when attempting to unload PhysX objects -- typically when leaving the zone to go somewhere else.
• The new workaround should mitigate this secondary crash as well. However, due to the PhysX engine being in an unstable state, clientside debris objects will be disabled for the rest of the game session, until the client is restarted.