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Please use these feedback threads to discuss the changes in this build:
- General Feedback: Issue 27, Page 2
- Focused Feedback: Tour Guide Missions
- Focused Feedback: Travel Power Updates
- Focused Feedback: Travel Power Updates (Fly Pool)
- Focused Feedback: Power Changes
- Focused Feedback: Story Arc Updates
- Focused Feedback: PvP Changes
Please note that Focused Feedback threads are heavily moderated to ensure they remain on topic.
- Any off-topic posts in these threads will be removed without warning.
- The thread will be locked when no more feedback is required, but you are more than welcome to continue the discussion in a new thread.
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Beta Server FAQ | Feedback Threads | Bug Reports | Character Copy
Beta Installation: Homecoming Launcher
Beta Patch Notes: Issue 27, Page 2 (Build 2)
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Most changes from the previous beta build are listed in green.
- Green text will become white text in the next set of patch notes.
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Any changes or fixes that are only relevant to the beta builds (ie: fixes / tweaks to new features) are listed in blue.
- Blue text will be deleted in the next set of patch notes as it is only relevant to highlight changes between beta builds, not a changes from live.
- Known issues are listed in purple.
Tour Guide Missions (Focused Feedback Thread)
Issue 27, Page 2 introduces a brand new type of mission: Tour Guide Missions. These are special tip missions which drop when street sweeping in most zones, and will direct you to any exploration badges that you haven't yet earned in that zone. This is especially helpful for unlocking Long Range Teleporter destinations without needing to rely on VidiotMaps.
Detailed Info
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Enemies in most zones now have a small chance to drop a Tour Guide Mission Tip
- The tips will only drop when street sweeping, by defeating enemies out on the streets (critters spawned through other means will not count)
- The tips will drop regardless of your level - grey conned mobs will still drop tips - however, the tip drop rate increases based on the rank of the enemy you're fighting (ie: bosses are more likely to drop tips)
- Tour Guide Missions are classed as Tips, and will show up in the Tips tab of the Contacts window
- You can only hold one tip per zone at a time, but can carry a total of three
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Investigating this tip will direct you to one of the exploration badges in that zone
- Once accepted, these missions cannot be abandoned, autocompleted, or team completed - you must visit the badge location, which will auto-complete the mission
- If you earn the exploration badge for a specific tip before investigating it, it will point you towards a different exploration badge in that zone
- If you earn the exploration accolade before investigating the tip, you will only be able to dismiss it
- They do not grant any additional rewards beyond the badge
- All zones which can be unlocked in the Long Range Teleporter have Tour Guide Missions set up (apart from Pocket D and Kallisti Wharf), which is a total of 288 missions!
- Fixed various text fields for typos, inconsistencies and clarity adjustments per feedback received
- Rikti War Zone's Homewrecker badge tip mission rewritten
- Egg Hunter navigation text updated to help with locating the badge's hidden location
- The "Tipped Off" badge will now be awarded if your first tip drop is a Tour Guide tip, not just on Alignment tips
Step 1: Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
Step 2: Acquire Tips.
Step 3: Collect Badges.
Travel Power Updates (Focused Feedback Thread)
This update brings a wide range of buffs for travel pools, a brand new travel power (as part of an update to the Concealment pool), and some mechanical improvements to how travel powers work. Our goals with these changes were as follows:
- Real travel powers (ie: actual power picks) should always be a significant step up over the free options (free jet packs should not be almost the same speed as Fly at level 50)
- Real travel powers should never cause you to lose something you've already got (turning on Super Speed shouldn't cause you to lose Ninja Run's jump buff)
- Classic travel powers (Fly, Super Speed, etc) should be on even footing with Origin Pool travel powers - and ideally, be better at the core thing they do (running, flying, jumping)
- Slotting travel powers for speed should actually matter (looking at you, Fly)
- Free (prestige / temporary) travel powers shouldn't be made any slower than they are currently, but the gap between free and real travel powers needs to be made clear - the result being that real travel powers are now much faster (by boosting you above the standard speed caps), and free travel powers now cost more endurance than real travel powers
Note: This pass is primarily aimed at the mobility of each set - other aspects (ie: the attacks) were not in the scope of these changes, but may be looked at in the future.
Check out Bopper's detailed breakdown of these changes here
Gotta Go Fast
Travel Power Stacking
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Almost all travel powers are no longer mutually exclusive and can be activated at the same time, but only the strongest buff of each type (run speed, jump speed, jump height, fly speed) will apply
- This ensures that every power you pick or activate will only ever improve your mobility
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Examples:
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Super Speed + Ninja Run
- Previously: These powers couldn't be used together - if you turned on Super Speed, you lost the jump buff from Ninja Run
- Now: You'll gain the run speed bonus of Super Speed and the jump bonus of Ninja Run (along with the cool pose!)
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Mighty Leap + Beast Run
- Previously: These powers couldn't be used together - if you turned on Mighty Leap, you lost the run speed buff from Beast Run
- Now: You'll gain the jump bonus of Mighty Leap and the run speed bonus of Beast Run (along with the cool pose!)
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Super Jump + Combat Jumping
- Previously: These powers couldn't be used together - you had to choose between Super Jump's speed and Combat Jumping's defensive buff
- Now: You'll gain the jump bonus of Super Jump along with the defensive buffs of Combat Jumping
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Fly + Hover
- Previously: These powers couldn't be used together - you had to choose between Fly's speed and Hover's defensive buff
- Now: You'll gain the fly speed of Fly, along with the air control and defensive bonus of Hover
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Super Speed + Ninja Run
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Some exceptions:
- Prestige Run powers (Ninja Run, Beast Run, Athletic Run) are still mutually exclusive with each other
- Temporary jetpacks are still mutually exclusive with each other
- Sprint powers still stack with other run speed buffs and are still mutually exclusive with each other
- Click buffs (eg: Inertial Reduction), external buffs (eg: Speed Boost), and auto powers (eg: Swift) still stack as they did before
Level Scaling
- Travel powers no longer increase in strength as you level up, the previous level 50 values now apply at all levels
- Travel speed caps no longer increase in strength as you level up, the previous level 50 values now apply at all levels
Inherent Fitness
- All Inherent Fitness powers are now gained at level 1 rather than level 2
Pool: Concealment
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Concealment has been updated to include a new sneaky & versatile travel power: Infiltration
- Concealment is now classed as a travel pool - the first 3 powers in the pool are available immediately instead of just the first 2
- Invisibility and Stealth have been merged together, the best parts of both powers are now available with just Stealth
- Infiltration now sits where Invisibility used to be in the T3 slot
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Stealth
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Stealth radius increased to match the numbers Invisibility had before this patch
- PvE radius has increased from 36ft to 55ft
- PvP radius has increased from 389ft to 611ft
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Out of combat defense increased from 3.5% to 7%
- The defense bonuses suppression in this power has been cleaned up, and will now suppress if the user attacks, heals or buffs an ally, is hit by a foe or the user attacks or interacts with a mission objective
- Added a new 'Invisible' customization theme that makes the player barely visible when active
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Stealth radius increased to match the numbers Invisibility had before this patch
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Infiltration
- Grants a run and jump bonus similar to Ninja Run
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Grants out-of-combat stealth
- 36ft in PvE, 389ft in PvP (the same values as Stealth before this patch)
- Grants 1.75% out of combat defense
Pool: Flight - (Focused Feedback Thread)
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Hover
- Added new customization themes that allows you to remove the hover animation
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Fly
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Now increases your fly speed cap by 50% while toggled on (from 58.6mph to 87.9mph)
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This increased cap is the equivalent of fully slotting the old version of Afterburner
- You now get this for free, without picking two more powers, and without old Afterburner's Only Affect Self component
- This means Fly speed buffs and enhancements actually matter, as you won't hit the new cap without them
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
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This increased cap is the equivalent of fully slotting the old version of Afterburner
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Afterburner
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Now built into Fly as a free secondary (server tray) power that doesn't require a power pick
- If you already had Fly, you will now also have Afterburner for free
- Now a timed toggle with a 30 second duration and a 60 second cooldown
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Increases flight speed cap by a further 25% (to 102.27mph), and speeds you up to the cap
- This allows Fly to match Super Jump's new speed cap for short bursts of time (it wouldn't be appropriate to have Fly match that speed permanently)
- Note that the old speed cap that fully-slotted Afterburner previously allowed you to reach is now built into Fly for free, you don't need to use this new version of Afterburner to reach that speed
- No longer applies Only Affect Self or any other effects - Evasive Maneuvers has inherited most of Afterburner's old defensive effects
- Null the Gull will allow you to hide Afterburner's pop-up tray
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Now built into Fly as a free secondary (server tray) power that doesn't require a power pick
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Now increases your fly speed cap by 50% while toggled on (from 58.6mph to 87.9mph)
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Group Fly
- This power now applies to all pets regardless of their distance from the caster
- No longer inaccurately claims it applies -Acc
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Evasive Maneuvers
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Replaces the old version of Afterburner as Flight's tier 5 power
- If you previously had Afterburner, you now have Evasive Maneuvers
- Note that if you previously had Fly, you will now have the new version of Afterburner for free
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Toggle with moderate endurance cost, aimed at providing you with excellent airborne combat mobility
- Evasive Maneuvers is not intended as a travel power, it is a defensive combat mobility power
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Whilst flying, this power provides:
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Protection against -fly and immobilize, and some resistance to knockback
- The knockback resistance has been reduced from the previous iteration (it was an erroneously extremely strong)
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A small amount of flight speed
- This flight speed is not affected by travel suppression, allowing you to remain mobile in combat
- Good air control (the same level that Afterburner previously provided)
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Protection against -fly and immobilize, and some resistance to knockback
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Also provides the same level of defense as old Afterburner while out of combat, but this is removed while in combat
- This bonus is suppressed for 10s when entering combat (the same as Stealth's out-of-combat defence)
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The defense bonuses will suppress if the user attacks, heals or buffs an ally, or interacts with a mission objective
- No longer cancels when being hit by a foe
- Fixed a bug where the speed buffs on this power would be intermittent while used only with Group Fly
- Endurance cost reduced from 0.52/s to 0.26/s
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Replaces the old version of Afterburner as Flight's tier 5 power
Pool: Sorcery
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Mystic Flight
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Now increases your fly speed cap by 50% while toggled on (from 58.6mph to 87.9mph)
- See Fly above for more information on this speed cap increase
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
- Range increased from 300ft to 350ft
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Now increases your fly speed cap by 50% while toggled on (from 58.6mph to 87.9mph)
- Note: Rune of Protection has received some unrelated changes - see the Powers Changes section for more info
Pool: Speed
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Super Speed
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Now increases your run speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 92.5mph to 120.25mph)
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
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Now has a new momentum leap mechanic
- Running will build up momentum, allowing you to perform a single very high, very long jump after approximately 4 seconds of running
- Jumping will cause you to expend your momentum - after landing, you'll need to remain grounded and running in order to perform another momentum jump
- Super Speed's icon will gain a yellow ring when you are at maximum momentum
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Speed Phase
- New free secondary (server tray) power that doesn't require a power pick
- Toggle, moderate endurance cost
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Removes collision with characters (ie: phase shift without being untargetable), and sets you to Only Affect Self
- This allows you to pass through enemies, allies, civilians, cars, and even the Atlas Park blimp!
- The effects of this power (including the OAS component) will suppress if you are attacked or damaged by an enemy
- Note: as this power doesn't actually make you intangible, it doesn't trigger (and isn't affected by) the No Phase timer
- Null the Gull will allow you to hide Speed Phase's pop-up tray
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Now increases your run speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 92.5mph to 120.25mph)
Pool: Experimentation
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Speed of Sound
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Now increases your run speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 92.5mph to 120.25mph)
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
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Now increases your run speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 92.5mph to 120.25mph)
Pool: Leaping
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Super Jump
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Now increases your jump speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 78.2mph to 101.8mph)
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
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Double Jump
- New free secondary (server tray) power that doesn't require a power pick
- Timed toggle, 30 second duration (10s in PvP), 30 second cooldown shared with Jump Pack and Steam Jump
- Allows you to jump to an unlimited height and jump again mid-air
- Null the Gull will allow you to hide Double Jump's pop-up tray
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Now increases your jump speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 78.2mph to 101.8mph)
Pool: Force of Will
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Mighty Leap
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Now increases your jump speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 78.2mph to 101.8mph)
- This increased cap doesn't apply in PvP
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Takeoff
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Now increases jump speed cap by a further 10% (to 110.39mph) and boosts Mighty Leap to put you at the jump speed cap for 30 seconds
- Previously this bonus was just under 20%, but it now stacks with the 30% bonus from Mighty Leap
- Fixed a bug that was causing the power to display multiple icons when it hit foes
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Now increases jump speed cap by a further 10% (to 110.39mph) and boosts Mighty Leap to put you at the jump speed cap for 30 seconds
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Now increases your jump speed cap by 30% while toggled on (from 78.2mph to 101.8mph)
Pool: Teleportation
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Teleport Target
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The following changes have been made when teleporting allies only (the teleport foe component remains unchanged);
- Removed the 4s interrupt window, significantly speeding up the activation time
- Increased the recharge by 4s
- These two changes combined result in the total time between teleports being the same if you have no recharge buffs or enhancements - but it will much faster if you slot for (or are buffed for) recharge
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The following changes have been made when teleporting allies only (the teleport foe component remains unchanged);
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Teleport
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Base range increased from 300ft to 350ft
- Enhanced range (2x level 50 IOs) increased from 449.1ft to 523.95ft
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The post-teleport hover buff has been adjusted
- Now lasts up to 15s, rather than 6s
- The hover buff will cancel if you move, interact with an objective, attack a foe or are attacked by a foe
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The actual teleport now happens at 0.6s rather than 1.17s into the 2s activation
- This doesn't allow you to teleport again sooner, but it does allow you slightly more time to select the location of your next teleport
- Location targeting has also received some improvements which also affect Teleport, see "Teleportation Targeting & /powexec_location" in the Miscellaneous section
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Base range increased from 300ft to 350ft
Peacebringer
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Energy Flight
- Mirrored all i27, Page 2 changes for Fly
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Quantum Acceleration
- Now built into Energy Flight as a free secondary (server tray) power that doesn't require a power pick
- Mirrored all i27, Page 2 changes for Afterburner
- Note that Quantum Acceleration shares a cooldown with Afterburner
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Combat Flight
- Combat Flight's defensive buff is mutually exclusive with Hover's defensive buff
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Quantum Flight
- Endurance cost reduced from 2.6/s to 0.65/s
- This puts the endurance cost in line with Phase Shift
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Quantum Maneuvers
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Replaces Quantum Acceleration as a picked power
- If you previously had Quantum Acceleration, you now have Quantum Maneuvers
- Note that you will also still have Quantum Acceleration as it's now built into Energy Flight
- Mechanically identical to Evasive Maneuvers, but prettier
- Note that Quantum Maneuvers cannot be active at the same time as Evasive Maneuvers
- Fixed incorrect power icon
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Replaces Quantum Acceleration as a picked power
- Fixed various VFX bugs with Peacebringer fly powers
Warshade
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Shadow Recall
- Mirrored all i27, Page 2 changes for Teleport Target
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Shadow Step
- Mirrored all i27, Page 2 changes for Teleport
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Nebulous Form
- Endurance cost reduced from 2.6/s to 0.65/s
- This puts the endurance cost in line with Phase Shift
Prestige & Temporary Powers
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Ninja Run + Beast Run + Athletic Run + Temporary Jetpacks
- All travel speeds remain unchanged
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Normalized endurance costs to 0.57/s (slightly higher than Fly at 0.46/s)
- These weren't consistent before - most were lower, some were higher
- The PvP jetpack has not been modified and still has a 2.0/s endurance cost
- These powers no longer benefit from global endurance discounts
Powers Changes (Focused Feedback Thread)
Power Animation & Rooting Update
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Power animation time and rooting time have been decoupled - meaning that powers now decide how long they should root the character for, not the animation
- This greatly increases our flexibility in making adjustments to power timing, animations, and rooting, and also fixes various issues surrounding animation cancelling
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The following powers will now never root during their activation:
- Ally-targeting abilities that do not hit enemies (eg: Healing Aura, but not Twilight Grasp)
- Self-only abilities that do not hit enemies (eg: Build Up, but not Soul Drain)
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The following powers will still root during their activation (and will do so more reliably):
- Any power that applies any kind of effect to enemies (this includes attacks as well as taunt and damage auras)
- All powers that summon other entities
- All interruptible powers (snipes/assassinations/etc) will now root for their uninterruptible window
- In addition, many powers with excessively long cast times have been sped up (listed below)
- Fixed various issues with rooting time for interruptible powers
Mastermind Summons & Henchmen Buffs
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Mastermind Henchmen Summons have had their recharge times reduced:
- T1 Henchmen: reduced from 60s to 5s
- T2 Henchmen: reduced from 90s to 10s
- T3 Henchmen: reduced from 120s to 15s
- These summon powers are no longer affected by recharge buffs or debuffs
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Mastermind Henchmen Summons have had their endurance costs reduced:
- T1 Henchmen: reduced from 19.5 end to 5.46 end
- T2 Henchmen: reduced from 19.5 end to 9.62 end
- T3 Henchmen: reduced from 19.5 end to 13.18 end
- Henchmen upgrade end costs have been reduced from 22.75 to 11.375
- Note: This were some quick low hanging changes to help Masterminds out a bit, we are currently investigating further improvements to Masterminds for the future
Demon Summoning
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Summon Demonlings
- Cast time reduced from 4s to 2s
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Summon Demons
- Cast time reduced from 4s to 2s
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Hell on Earth
- Cast time reduced from 4.03s to 2.03s
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Summon Demon Prince
- Cast time reduced from 4s to 2s
Assault Rifle & Mercenaries
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Ignite (All Versions)
- Cast Time reduced from 4s to 2s
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Full Auto (All Versions, including Henchmen)
- Cast Time reduced from 4s (or 6s) to 2.5s (Mercenary Commando actually took a whopping 6s before!)
Stone Armor
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Stone Armor > Rooted
- No longer applies any movement debuffs to the caster
- No longer suppresses travel powers
- VFX has been toned down slightly as it no longer represents you being glued to the ground
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Stone Armor > Granite Armor
- This power now disables all Flying, Running and Jumping toggle powers
Ninjitsu
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Scrapper > Shinobi-Iri
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This power no longer grants movement buffs (as they would be absorbed into the new stacking mechanics)
- This power no longer accepts Jump, Run and Universal Travel enhancements
- The buff has been toned down and moved to Kuji-In Rin
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Stealth crit mechanic has been significantly improved
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Now kicks in after 8s of no combat, rather than 20s
- This allows the bonus to be used every encounter without requiring you to stop for 20s
- Stealth crit chance for single target attacks is now 65%
- Stealth crit chance for AoE attacks is now 30%
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Now kicks in after 8s of no combat, rather than 20s
- Power icon updated
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This power no longer grants movement buffs (as they would be absorbed into the new stacking mechanics)
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Sentinel > Shinobi-Iri
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This power no longer grants movement buffs (as they would be absorbed into the new stacking mechanics)
- This power no longer accepts Jump, Run and Universal Travel enhancements
- The buff has been toned down and moved to Kuji-In Rin
- Stealth damage buff has been doubled from +20% to +40%
- Power icon updated
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This power no longer grants movement buffs (as they would be absorbed into the new stacking mechanics)
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Scrapper | Sentinel | Stalker > Kuji-In Rin
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This power now grants a small run speed and jumping buff (and as a click power, this will stack with all other movement buffs)
- This power now accepts Jump, Run and Universal Travel enhancements
- This power now accepts damage resistance sets (which will improve the psionic resistance component)
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This power now grants a small run speed and jumping buff (and as a click power, this will stack with all other movement buffs)
Dual Pistols
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Dual Pistols > Hail of Bullets (All Versions)
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Cast time reduced from 4.17s to 2.47s
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Adjusted Hail of Bullets animation
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Fixed timing issues with VFX
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The text description for Dual Pistols powers have been updated for readability, if no issues are found with these descriptions, other powers will follow similar formatting
Other Powers Changes
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Snipe Powers
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Fast (in-combat) snipes have had their ranges normalized to 80ft (and 100ft for Psi)
- Slow snipes are unaffected and retain their increased range
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Scrapper & Stalker epic snipes only: Internal cooldown reduced from 24s to 12s
- The internal cooldown is only used for PPM calculations, the actual power cooldown is still 24s
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Fast (in-combat) snipes have had their ranges normalized to 80ft (and 100ft for Psi)
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Phase Powers
- No Phase suppression window for all powers (PvE and PvP) has been reduced from 2 minutes to 90 seconds
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Inherent > Rest
- This power no longer has a recharge, making it easier to use at low levels
- No longer accepts recharge reduction enhancements
- It should now be a bit harder to accidentally move and interrupt Rest before it begins properly
- Can now be activated in the air, but you will fall to the ground once Rest is fully active
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Hibernate (All Versions)
- This power no longer de-toggles flight powers, but will still suppress flight
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Sorcery > Rune of Protection
- Duration reduced from 90s to 60s to match the other Origin pool tier 5 powers
- This power now grants damage resistance even if you use it whilst mezzed (previously only the mez resistance component would be granted)
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Sentinel > Mace Mastery >
Focused AccuracyCoordinated Targeting- Unlike other versions of Focused Accuracy, this power is a team buff
- To distinguish it from other versions of Focused Accuracy, it has been renamed to Coordinated Targeting and now has a new icon
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Electrical Blast > Thunderous Blast (All Versions)
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Cast Time reduced from 3.7s to 2.93s
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Radiation Emission > Choking Cloud
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Cast Time reduced from 3.47s to 1s
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Darkness Manipulation | Dark Armor > Death Shroud (All Versions)
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Cast Time reduced from 3.47s to 2.47s
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Ice Manipulation | Ice Melee > Ice Patch (All Versions)
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Cast Time reduced from 3.47s to 1.57s
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Beast Mastery > Summon Dire Wolf
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Cast Time reduced from 4.67s to 2s
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Sentinel > Bio Armor > Athletic Regulation
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The stance benefits of this power have been modified
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Defensive:
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Before: 65% Resistance(-Run/-Fly)
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Now: 40% Resistance (-Run/-Fly)
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Offensive:
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Before: +227.5% Run Strength / +88.7% Fly Strength
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Now: +14mph Run Speed (a flat increase to movement speed in and out of combat)
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Known issue: Fly speed increase is currently missing
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Efficient:
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Before: +113.75% Run Strength / +44.36% Fly Strength / 32.5% Resistance(-Run/-Fly)
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Now: +33% Run / Fly Speed Strength (increases the strength of all your travel powers - essentially a free SO in every run / fly power)
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Jump Pack + Steam Jump + Double Jump
- Improved the reliability of the mutual exclusivity mechanics for these powers
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Trick Arrow > Disruption Arrow
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The visual FX for this power has been changed to alleviate headaches being induced by the old FX
- Further adjustments have been made to this FX
- This FX is no longer customisable to in order to prevent problematic configurations which re-create the old problem
- Due to the health implications of the old FX, this is not an optional change
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The visual FX for this power has been changed to alleviate headaches being induced by the old FX
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Freedom Corps > Nullifier > Sonic Grenade
- The visual FX for this power has been changed to alleviate headaches being induced by the old FX
Story Arc Updates (Focused Feedback Thread)
The Graveyard Shift (Agent Watkins, Blueside)
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Intro
- Made a more obvious note that "Ask about available missions" bypasses the intro text when starting it organically in the 20-30 range
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Mission 1 (Forum Brawl)
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Zoombies
- Ambushes all reduced to 1 (From 2)
- More susceptible to control effects - Sleep, Hold, Stun, Immob and Confusion
- Slowed them down slightly
- Made them spawn from further away to give players a moment of reaction time
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Explosion damage decreased, accuracy increased, radius increased (15ft > 22ft), target cap increased (12 > 30)
- 1s activation added to explosion - there will not be a telegraphed animation.
- Added -fly to their vomit
- -Fly should now actually take it away instead of gifting it
- -Fly potency increased, duration 15s
- Zoombies can barf from a range of 30 (was 10)
- Barf animation changed to the quick projectile barf
- Zoombies will disappear properly whether the explosion hits or not
- Zoombie explosion autohits entities friendly to it
- AI issues resolved
- Zoombie backpack solved
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Zoombies
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Mission 2 (Cannibal Corpses)
- Moved mission location to Steel Canyon
- Added dialog to explain that Dubstitch was the brains behind the Zoombies
- Added additional context mob for more flavor text
- Zoombie ambush should show up during, not after, the Dubstitch fight
- Added resistances and sonic resistance field to Dubstitch
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Dubstitch's Zoombies should not spawn directly on top of you
- I mean, in theory anyway
- Bring inspirations just in case!
- Dubstitch ambush properly functions
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Mission 3 (Freak Rave)
- Rebalanced entry mob density in front room after lobby
- Replaced one instance of an LT spawn with a Minion, which should make the spawns more in line in terms of expectation of difficulty
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Mission 4 (Investigation)
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Added a Bypass dialog function that will allow you to skip the entire investigation and move forward to the next mission in the Rivet
- For people who don't want to read, or teams of people who don't want to stand around
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Added a Bypass dialog function that will allow you to skip the entire investigation and move forward to the next mission in the Rivet
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Mission 5 (Rusty Rivet)
- Added additional UsePower functions for Salamander and Grey Matter (DNA Siphon and Psychic Shockwave, respectively)
- Added some additional dialog to the mission intro explaining Mander is Salamander
- Added an objective on Nav to rescue hostages
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Mission 6 (Pathogen)
- Added more lab equipment to the Pathogen fight room, made all of them throughout mission much easier to destroy
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Debuffed the Viral Cocktail and added an element of randomness to the power:
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ALWAYS:
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-Regen, -MaxHP, -Def
- No longer debuffs Max Endurance or Recovery by default. However...
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-Regen, -MaxHP, -Def
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10% chance every 10.5s for each of the following debuffs:
- -End, -Recovery, 15s
- -ToHit, 15s
- -Recharge, 15s
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2.5% chance every 10.5s for...
- A chance to stop and vomit for a moment. Heroes get upset tummies too!
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ALWAYS:
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To offset this change, the lab equipment will now:
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ALWAYS:
- +Regen, +MaxHP, +Def, 60s (Double what the debuff was taking away, 4x the duration of the debuff)
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85% chance for:
- +MaxEnd, +Recovery, 40s
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80% chance for:
- +Recharge, 40s
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75% chance for:
- +ToHit, 40s
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ALWAYS:
- The fires are now friendly to NOBODY and do half the previous damage, or 1/4 of the first iteration (for those keeping track)
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Rewrote the "I failed the timer" mission branch to the finale, including CDC Commander dialog
- Players should not feel miserable for failing that mission now
- Softened and altered Watkins' dialog to accommodate an improvement to his personality
- Pathogen now applies -Fly with several of their attacks
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Mission 7 (Finale)
- Cortex confuse recharge increased to 30s from 20s
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Souvenirs
- Adjusted all souvenirs to reflect changes
Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok (Doc Buzzsaw, Redside)
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Mission 3 (Vah's Lab)
- Fixed some hostage code errors
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Mission 4_1 (Council Base)
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Vandal
- No longer has Detention Field
- Added an occasional repel power
- Added an AOE Knockup power called Drill Strike
- Added status protection
- PBAoE Smashing Damage with 75% chance for Knockup
- All remaining powers in his toolkit have been reduced by a decent margin
- Coded down to Elite Boss in redside encounter (Other versions are unchanged)
- Fixed his KB/KD/Repel resistance only existing for 5s
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Changed AI and attack power priorities on Vandal
- Vandal should now use both his ranged and melee attacks more frequently
- Ranged attacks should be seen more often in rotation
- Drill Strike recharge lowered to 15s
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Vandal
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Mission 4_2 (Crey Lab)
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Hopkins
- Damage needs to be evaluated in teams, solo, and against various build types and ATs
- Coded down to Elite Boss in redside encounter (Manticore TF unchanged)
- Removed overlapping resistance powers
- Should be easier to fight now
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Gave in to my dark temptations anyway, so:
- Total Focus removed
- Whirling Hands removed
- Spinning Strike added
- Crushing Uppercut added
- Initial Strike added
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Changed AI and attack power priorities on Hopkins
- Should now use both his ranged and melee attacks more frequently
- Ranged attacks should be seen more often in rotation
- Fixed bug causing loop between just Initial Strike and Barrage
- Hopkins should no longer have the Street Justice combo system factoring into his attacks
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Tavish Bell
- Resistances buffed
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Immature Paragon Protectors
- Death Gas removed from their powersets within the mission
- Death Gas will return to their future incarnations
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Hopkins
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Mission 4_3 (Bile's Hideout)
- TechDeck given additional insurance to not be accidentally killed before you can interrogate him
PvP Changes (Focused Feedback Thread)
Animation Rooting
- In PvP only, all powers will only root for 75% of their total cast time
Mez Protection
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The following powers now provide mez protection in PvP:
- Storm Summoning > O2 Boost (stun/sleep only, 60s)
- Sonic Resonance > Clarity (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s)
- Empathy > Clear Mind (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s)
- Force Fields > Insulation Shield (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s, main target only)
- Kinetics > Increase Density (held/immob/stun only, 60s)
- Pain Domination > Enforced Morale (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s)
- Poison > Antidote (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s)
- Thermal Radiation > Thaw (confuse/terrorize/held/immob/stun/sleep, 90s)
- Electrical Affinity > Faraday Cage (held/immob/stun/sleep, while inside the static sphere)
- Trick Arrow > EMP Field (generated by EMP Arrow, held/immob/stun/sleep, while inside the sphere)
- Magnitude protection will not stack from multiple casters, but the strongest protection will always be active
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Protection granted by these powers per AT:
- Defender 10.81 Mag (requires 4 to 6 successful equal type mez to break through [based on the mez being mag 2 or mag 3])
- Controller 8.65 Mag (requires 3 to 5 successful equal type mez to break through)
- Corruptor 8.65 Mag (requires 3 to 5 successful equal type mez to break through)
- Mastermind 6.49 Mag (requires 3 to 4 successful equal type mez to break through)
Epic Snipes
After investigating many reported bugs on Epic snipes, we found a large number of implementation inconsistencies introduced during the snipe revamp done a while back. For example: snipes should have always had 50% damage crits, some powers did, mostly on PvE, some didn't. This has resulted in the following changes:
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Epic > Soul Mastery > Moonbeam
- Internal Recharge reduced from 24s to 12s, power still recharges in 24s
- PvP Base Damage (fast) lowered from 129.2401 to 102.16
- PvP Base Damage (slow) lowered from 247.7055 to 181.14
- Hidden and crit damage lowered to 50% of base damage for slow version
- Quick Snipe range lowered from 150ft to 80ft
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Epic > Mace Mastery > Mace Beam
- Internal Recharge reduced from 24s to 12s, power still recharges in 24s
- PvP Base Damage (fast) lowered from 155.6974 to 128.62
- PvP Base Damage (slow) lowered from 274.1628 to 207.6
- Hidden and crit damage lowered to 50% of base damage for slow version
- Quick Snipe range lowered from 150ft to 80ft
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Epic > Mu Mastery > Zapp
- Internal Recharge reduced from 24s to 12s, power still recharges in 24s
- PvP Base Damage (fast) lowered from 129.2401 to 102.16
- PvP Base Damage (slow) lowered from 247.7055 to 181.14
- Hidden and crit damage lowered to 50% of base damage for slow version
- Quick Snipe range lowered from 150ft to 80ft
Other PvP Power Changes
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Scrapper ATOs and Shinobi-Iri
- Fixed a bug that prevented most Epic pool attacks from having their crit rate increased by these in PvP
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Temp Powers > Raptor Pack
- Duration reduced from 2 minutes to 45 seconds
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Radiation Emission > Enervating Field (All Versions)
- Increased -Resistance debuff from scale 2 to scale 3 (30% to 40% in the case of Defenders)
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Empathy > Absorb Pain (All Versions)
- Self Debuffs have been increased from 20s to 25s
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Pain Domination > Share Pain (All versions)
- Self Debuffs have been increased from 15s to 20s
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Super Reflexes > Elude (All Versions)
- This power now grants 20% Elusivity(AoE/Melee/Ranged) in PvP
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Ninjutsu > Kuji-In_Retsu
- This power now grants 20% Elusivity(AoE/Melee/Ranged) in PvP
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Pool > Experimentation > Jaunt
- In PvP, this power now recharges in 30s
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Poison > Envenom
- Resist Debuff lowered from 40% to 30% (defender values)
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Pain Domination > Soothing Aura (All Versions)
- In PvP, this power grant Heal over Time instead of +Regen, same way it does in PvE
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Water Blast > Dehydrate (All Versions)
- In PvP, this power grant Heal over Time instead of +Regen, same way it does in PvE
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Time Manipulation > Temporal Mending (All Versions)
- In PvP, this power grant Heal over Time instead of +Regen, same way it does in PvE
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Time Manipulation > Chrono Shift (All Versions)
- In PvP, this power grant Heal over Time instead of +Regen, same way it does in PvE
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Nature Affinity > Regrowth (All Versions)
- In PvP, this power grant Heal over Time instead of +Regen, same way it does in PvE
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Stalker > Dark Melee > Shadow Maul
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Hidden PvP Crit chance lowered from 100% to 50%
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Stalker > Dual Blades >Ablating Strike
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PvP damage chance against held/sleep foes lowered from 100% to 20%
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Stalker > Staff Melee > Sky Splitter
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PvP critical damage against held/sleep foes increased from 1.4905 to 2.9810
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Miscellaneous (Focused Feedback Thread)
Coordinates & /thumbtack
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Added a /thumbtack <x> <y> <z> command to set the thumbtack in the minimap with world coordinates
- Increased the max coordinates range in order to accomodate for how huge The Storm Palace is
- The /loc command now displays the current position as a thumbtack link
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Writing a location in chat surrounded by square brackets will generate a thumbtack link to that position
- They will only be considered valid if they consist of exactly three numbers, separated by spaces or commas
- Added the $loc chat variable which translates to your current coordinates into a clickable thumbtack link
- The /whereami command will now also display your current position as a thumbtack link
Teleportation Targeting & /powexec_location
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Added a "cursor" targeting mode to /powexec_location
- It behaves as if the power was activated with a click at the current mouse cursor location
- This will allow you to quickly activate teleport with a hotkey without needing to click
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Significantly improved the targeting cursor for teleportation powers and it's now much easier to reliably choose the desired destination
- The 'red ring of doom' should rarely appear now, and it should be almost impossible to have it fall back to the character's feet
- Fixed issues with two-side polygon collision that prevented the use of teleportation powers in a few places, the most notable being the outer ring of the Chantry / Storm Palace
Inspirations
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Ambrosia
- This inspiration now applies to the caster and all pets
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Essence of the Earth
- This inspiration now applies to the caster and all pets
Barracuda Strike Force
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Power of Black Scorpion (the power required to kill Reichsman) is now always granted to the team leader, regardless of Archetype
- Defenders now receive Power of Ghost Widow
- Masterminds now receive Power of Captain Mako
Badges
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Added the "Complicated" badge to Frostfire's story arc
- This will be granted retroactively to characters that already have the arc's souvenir
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Corrected the badge art for many "stature level" missions that were using the wrong level range or duplicate art
- Hero badges; Negotiator, Spelunker, Plague Stopper, Spirit Warrior, Pwnz, Do No Harm, Emancipator, Meteorologist, True Nemesis, Bodyguard, Agent
- Villain badges: Stone Cold, Bone Collector, Plague Carrier, Mask Maker
Null the Gull
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Simplified the dialogue options for hiding pop-up trays
- All travel powers now use the same option for hiding trays
- Previously they all used the same flag, but presented as different dialog options - this was fine when only Origin pools had pop-up powers and you could only ever have one
- With the standard travel powers gaining pop-up powers it was necessary to simplify this
User Interface
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Enhancement Boosters and Catalysts can now be applied directly by clicking on them, without using the Combine button
- The confirmation dialog box is optional and can be enabled or disabled from the Options window
- Applying an Enhancement Booster that doesn't make the Enhancement +5 will have a faster animation
- Known issue: the Enhancement returns to the power after a fast Booster application - the intention is that it stays selected so you can spam-click to +5 it, and only then it returns to the power
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"Current Absorb" can now be monitored in the combat attributes window
- Note: This change may mean your currently tracked combat attributes need to be re-selected
- Power details screens should no longer mix up PvP and PvE attributes
- Changed the wording of defense and defense debuff attributes in power details screens so players can more accurately distinguish between them
Bug Fixes
- The inter-dimensional Katana and Bow thief has finally be caught and brought to justice! (fixed Katanas and Bows frequently being invisible to other players)
- Improved the validation of certain chat links; things like [Recipe:Boresight] or [Salvage:Tactics] will no longer be considered valid
- Fixed a crash relating to buds spawning during Hamidon raids
- Fixed a crash bug when trying to open detail info for any power that granted or revoked other powers
- Fixed "Medium Arcane Supergroup Banner 1", "Medium Tech Supergroup Banner 1" texture issue
- Fixed the Merit vendor display name for Encouraged Accuracy: To Hit Buff (Recipe)
- Fixed malformed .fx file causing debug client errors ("FXGEO: Failed to alloc a child fx") when drawing a katana
- Fixed a crash bug that caused a crash while hovering power info for some powers (example: Bio Armor > Evolving Armor)
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Fixed a crash relating to viewing detailed info for certain powers
- A hotfix for this issue was pushed earlier to the week for those using the Homecoming Launcher
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Fixed a client-side collision issue with certain surfaces (including shallow water and trees)
- A hotfix for this issue was pushed earlier to the week for those using the Homecoming Launcher
- Renamed a warehouse door in Kallisti Wharf to fix issues with CityZone Any Warehouse missions breaking co-op teams
Costume Fixes
- Fixed "Lebeaux" top not tinting correctly for "Robotic Arm 1" and "Robotic Arm 3"
- Fixed Arachnos Soldier "Wolf Collar" from interfering with ear selection when "Wolf" helmet style is selected
- Restored "Wolf 2" collar option
- Fixed "Praetorian Police" boot option for males not appearing in asymmetry mode for the right boot
- Fixed missing texture on "Impervium Katana" for Dual Blade models
Powers Bug Fixes
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The following Enhancements should no longer be weaker when hitting higher level enemies:
- Impervious Skin
- Numina's Convalescence
- Sentinel's Ward
- Miracle
- Aegis
- Dominating Grasp
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Titan Weapons (All versions): Fixed a bug with some Titan Weapon powers starting Momentum too early, most notably Crushing Blow
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Shield Defense > Phalanx Fighting (All Versions): Fixed a bug that caused the self buff in this power to be intermittent
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Blaster > Mace Mastery > Summon Spiderlings: Fixed an error in the power description that claimed you required 2 powers to acquire (only one power is required)
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Stalker > Rad Melee > Radiation Siphon: Power had the wrong level requirement. Now properly set to be available at level 18
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Electric Blast > Thunderous Blast (All Versions): Fixed a bug where the two chances for -end were not doing independent chance checksr example)
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Ice Melee > Assassin's Ice Sword: This power's stealth bonus damage should no longer be resisted in PvP
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Fighting > Boxing: Fixed this power missing it's 35% synergy chance for stun in PvP
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Sentinel > Epic > Mace Mastery > Focused Accuracy: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
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Sentinel > Ice Armor > Frigid Shield: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
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Beast Mastery > Summon Lions: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
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Beast Mastery > Summon Dire Wolf: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
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Weapon Redraw should no longer cancel attack animations
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Pool > Leaping > Spring Attack: Reimplemented this power with new tools, should address some odd bugs with this power
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Prestige > Athletic Run: Should no longer flash upon login
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Trick Arrow > Glue Arrow: Fixed the short help text (for reals this time)
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Electricity Assault > Static Discharge: Should no longer list Endurance Modification enhancements twice.
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Pool > Fighting > Cross Punch: Fixed critical damage values
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Boosts > Power Transfer > Chance to Heal Self: Should be able to stack when slotted in multiple passive powers regardless of server timing
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Scrapper > Mu Mastery > Zapp: Fixed a bug that was causing the fast version of this power inflict slow-version criticals
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Dominator > Psionic Mastery > World of Confusion: Fixed this power triggering Controller Overpower instead of Domination
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Blaster > Electricity Manipulation > Dynamo: Fixed a bug where this power would do damage to the caster
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Dark Servant > Twilight Grasp: Fixed a bug where this power was doing -damage instead of -regen in PvE
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Radiation Blast | Radioactive Assault > Proton Volley (All versions): Fixed a bug where these powers were doing 20% less than intended damage in PvP
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Kinetics > Increase Density (All Versions): This power should no longer root when used (per the animation rooting updates)
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Experimentation > Speed of Sound: Fixed various PvP stacking bugs
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Stalker > Fiery Melee > Fire Sword Circle: Fixed this power now granting Assassin's Focus
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Stalker > Ice Melee > Frozen Aura: Fixed this power now granting Assassin's Focus
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Dominator > Savage Assault > Spot Prey: The perception buff on this power was lasting only 0.75s instead of 10s, this has been corrected
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Blaster > Temporal Manipulation > Time Wall:
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Fixed this power not accepting Blaster, Ranged Damage and Universal Damage sets
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Fixed this power using melee damage modifiers instead of ranged damage modifiers (damage has increased slightly as a result)
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The following powers had their attack types corrected (this only impacts defense types):
SpoilerArachnos_Soldiers.Arachnos_Soldier.Heavy_Burst
Blaster_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Brute_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Brute_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Corruptor_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Defender_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
DilemmaDiabolique.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
Epic.Brute_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Corruptor_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Mastermind_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.VEAT_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Guns.Laser_Rifle.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Banished_Support_Attack.Frigid_Blast
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Knives_LT.Shockwave_Slice
Magisterium.Chimera.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Pets.Droid_3.Full_Auto_Laser
Mastermind_Pets.Howler_Wolf_3.Throat_Bite
Mastermind_Pets.Zombie_2.Projectile_Vomit
Mastermind_Summon.Beast_Mastery.Call_Locusts
Mastermind_Summon.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Summon.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Pets.ChargeCone.Shield_Charge
Pets.Martial_Manipulation_Burst.Burst_of_Speed
RedCaps.RedCap_Ranged_Cone.Fistful_of_Arrows
Scrapper_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Scrapper_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Sentinel_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Signature_Summon.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
SkyRaiders.Sky_Raider_Crimson_Pets.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Syndicate.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tanker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Tanker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Tsoo.Endgame_LT_Archer.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Endgame_TubCi.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Arachnos_Proxy.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore_RV.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Ninja_Mastermind.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Robotics_Mastermind.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
V_Luddites.Boss_Low.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Snakes.Elder_Mamba.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Boss_Sting_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Elite_Boss_Raptor_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Lt_Fang.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Quick
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Stealth
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravimetric_Snare
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravity_Well
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Most changes from the previous beta build are listed in green.
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17th Anniversary Badge
The 17th anniversary is upon us, which means it's time to pick the name of the badge!
Help Name This Badge!
If you have any suggestions please reply to this thread! We'll then pick our favorites and host a public poll to decide upon the final name.
The requirements: it has to be one word, and it should be usable to describe a character; Celebrant is someone who celebrates, Rhapsodic is someone who is exceptionally emotional, Torchbearer is someone who carries a torch, Timeless is someone who is not affected by the passage of time.
All previous anniversary badges will be available for purchase from Luna in Ouroboros throughout the month of May 2021.
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Hid a bunch of posts that went off the rails; which is a shame because there were some interesting points in them.
Reminder to everyone again - everyone is allowed to have their preferences. You cannot force someone to change their opinion. This thread is to gain the feedback of everyone's experience, not to be calling out other individuals why their opinion is wrong.
When in doubt just report the comment and don't respond to it.
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9 hours ago, Bopper said:
SG Bases too?
Yes, the SG Bases will be wiped as well.
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3 hours ago, firelightx said:
I mentioned it elsewhere, but I'll mention it here, too.
Losing Invisibility is fine from a mechanics point of view (being rolled into Stealth makes a lot of sense, those powers were always weirdly redundant), but aesthetically I'm going to miss being actually invisible. Is there some way we can get Invis levels of transparency added to Stealth's tailor options?
I've posted this elsewhere in the thread; but it got a bit lost. There's already been an 'invisible' theme applied for Build 2 of the beta!
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1 minute ago, ScarySai said:
I take it the fly poses can't be included as a selectable default stance while moving, while we're on topic?
This is correct. It's something we've investigated previously and as Jimmy stated Powerhouse is looking into some alternative options!
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Okay, time to take a breather, everyone.
There are lots of opinions being tossed around. All feedback provided by a player who has tested the changes and shares their experience is valid feedback, even if you disagree with it. The point of the thread is to provide your feedback/experience with the changes, let's try and stay focused on that as opposed to attacking other players' experiences.
Or don't, but I'll likely just hide your post.
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23 minutes ago, Mezmera said:
Oh the humanity would someone think of the Badgers!
@Heraclea Or you can get one of those spiffy EM stalkers running around lately and have them run ahead and two piece those bombs.
I have a pretty fun method where I trigger the detonation and then teleport Jimmy into the explosion as I run away.
We fail to get the badge due to his frequent deaths, but one can not deny it's amusing.
Well, I suppose Jimmy could....
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5 hours ago, Heraclea said:
This may work poorly with the Underground Trial as currently constituted, and may well make Preservation Specialist, and the master badge, unobtainable.
1 hour ago, Heraclea said:On TB it has been the custom on badge runs to form a detachment of snipers to take out the Proximity Charges before they can arm themselves. Doing this requires an attack with a range of 150 feet or greater, thus the group of snipers is the only one that should engage them. I don't know any other way how to do it, and taking this out of the game would break the badge. Having to wait until all the snipers are out of combat before moving to the next would make the longest and slowest trial even longer and slower.
The slow snipe range is still set to 150' where as the "Fast Snipe" had its range reduced. Theoretically if you prefer to use this method to get the badge, you can continue to do so!
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As a follow-up to the above, you will likely see a wording change to Null the Gull in the next build which more objectively states "Click this to turn off the pop-up tray on this character".
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4 minutes ago, Tigraine said:
So, going off of my previous question regarding how these trays will interact with Kheldian forms - if the "Mystic Flight popup tray" is disabled, will that also disable Kheldian popup trays (or any other similar trays), or will they be controlled independently?
Yes, currently that option disables the tray, regardless of the power/wording.
Just now, Bopper said:Can you go on Beta and test it out? It would be good info to pass along to the developers if it is not working as desired. Asking for how something is intended to work is fine, but it should still be tested to see how it actually works as WAI is not always the case.
Also, this. We appreciate the questions/feedback, however, testing something and then providing feedback on what you think of that change is typically more useful to the development team.
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11 minutes ago, Infinitum said:
curious, how do you do this?
Switch off the server tray that is.
2 minutes ago, CaptainLupis said:Just drag it to another slot when it is up then disable the bar at null the gull.
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19 minutes ago, Jacktar said:
So if “Travel Pools” can have the first three powers open to pick straight away why do I have to have the first two powers in Flight to open up Group Fly?
Make it available same as the new stealth powers and I can get it on my Mm’s at same time as I get my pets. That would be a great QOL gift from the dev’s.
Thanks guys
So to clarify - yes, the first three power pools of a travel class become available immediately.
The first three powers of Flight are Hover, Air Superiority, and Fly. Therefore to get Group Fly you will need to be at least Level 14 and have two of the other powers as it's the fourth power pick. This is working as intended.
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I'm borrowing this spreadsheet from @Bopper to help list out the detailed numbers for those who have questions/are concerned regarding the Flight Speed changes.
You can checkout his full post here.
Flight Pool (Fly, Hover, and Evasive Maneuvers):
HC Live:
Page 2:
I understand there are other concerns regarding the change. However, for those interested in the numbers, there they are.
Also, for those who dislike numbers and appreciate more of an artistic approach, here's an excellent visual diagram from @Lines
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2 minutes ago, Super Atom said:
Was really hoping to see FSC on stalkers not giving AF addressed.
There should be a fix for this implemented in the next build.
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20 minutes ago, Ohsirus said:
Do the Kheldians Nova forms get the speed boost also?
They do not. The flight powers of Peacebringers do receive it, though.
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Okay, I think now's a good time to call it quits on this conversation. We've gathered all we can from it. The feedback and opinion has been noted!
Let's move on to additional constructive feedback of the Travel Powers.
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3 minutes ago, Tigraine said:
The link to the Tour Guide Missions Focused Feedback thread does not appear to be working; just getting a page that reads:
Sorry, there is a problem
We could not locate the item you are trying to view.Error code: 2F173/O
Fixed! I blame Jimmy.
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15 minutes ago, Super Atom said:
Finally a fly buff. Living the dream now
this isn't a sarcastic post, i am delighted with all of these.2 minutes ago, Super Atom said:Is there a reason Infiltrate and Stealth can't be on at the same time or is this just a bug?
As a floating spellbook, I would be inclined to agree with you.
This is a similar design to not being able to stack Stealth & Invisibility buffs at the same time.- 1
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3 minutes ago, ryuplaneswalker said:
Are the stealth powers within powersets going to receive a similar buff?
The change is only applied to the Stealth Concealment Pool Power. It's taking Invisibility's stealth radius and applies it to the stealth power as Invisibility essentially no longer exists.
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Testing Cheats
- Merit vendors sell everything for free
- Crafting recipes do not require any ingredients
- Incarnate powers do not require any ingredients
- Day jobs grant powers at 1000x the normal rate
- Cheats for character progression can be accessed through the quickchat menu:
Please use these feedback threads to discuss the changes in this build:
- General Feedback: Issue 27, Page 2
- Focused Feedback: Tour Guide Missions
- Focused Feedback: Travel Power Updates
- Focused Feedback: Power Changes
- Focused Feedback: Story Arc Updates
- Focused Feedback: PvP Changes
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Miscellaneous
Coordinates & /thumbtack
- Added a /thumbtack <x> <y> <z> command to set the thumbtack in the minimap with world coordinates
- The /loc command now displays the current position as a thumbtack link
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Writing a location in chat surrounded by square brackets will generate a thumbtack link to that position
- They will only be considered valid if they consist of exactly three numbers, separated by spaces or commas
- Added the $loc chat variable which translates to your current coordinates into a clickable thumbtack link
- The /whereami command will now also display your current position as a thumbtack link
Teleportation Targeting & /powexec_location
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Added a "cursor" targeting mode to /powexec_location
- It behaves as if the power was activated with a click at the current mouse cursor location
- This will allow you to quickly activate teleport with a hotkey without needing to click
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Significantly improved the targeting cursor for teleportation powers and it's now much easier to reliably choose the desired destination
- The 'red ring of doom' should rarely appear now, and it should be almost impossible to have it fall back to the character's feet
- Fixed issues with two-side polygon collision that prevented the use of teleportation powers in a few places, the most notable being the outer ring of the Chantry / Storm Palace
Inspirations
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Ambrosia
- This inspiration now applies to the caster and all pets
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Essence of the Earth
- This inspiration now applies to the caster and all pets
Barracuda Strike Force
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Power of Black Scorpion (the power required to kill Reichsman) is now always granted to the team leader, regardless of Archetype
- Defenders now receive Power of Ghost Widow
- Masterminds now receive Power of Captain Mako
Badges
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Added the "Complicated" badge to Frostfire's story arc
- This will be granted retroactively to characters that already have the arc's souvenir
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Corrected the badge art for many "stature level" missions that were using the wrong level range or duplicate art
- Hero badges; Negotiator, Spelunker, Plague Stopper, Spirit Warrior, Pwnz, Do No Harm, Emancipator, Meteorologist, True Nemesis, Bodyguard, Agent
- Villain badges: Stone Cold, Bone Collector, Plague Carrier, Mask Maker
User Interface
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Enhancement Boosters and Catalysts can now be applied directly by clicking on them, without using the Combine button
- The confirmation dialog box is optional and can be enabled or disabled from the Options window
- Applying an Enhancement Booster that doesn't make the Enhancement +5 will have a faster animation
- Known issue: the Enhancement returns to the power after a fast Booster application - the intention is that it stays selected so you can spam-click to +5 it, and only then it returns to the power
- "Current Absorb" can now be monitored in the combat attributes window
- Power details screens should no longer mix up PvP and PvE attributes
- Changed the wording of defense and defense debuff attributes in power details screens so players can more accurately distinguish between them
Bug Fixes
- The inter-dimensional Katana and Bow thief has finally be caught and brought to justice! (fixed Katanas and Bows frequently being invisible to other players)
- Improved the validation of certain chat links; things like [Recipe:Boresight] or [Salvage:Tactics] will no longer be considered valid
- Fixed a crash relating to buds spawning during Hamidon raids
- Fixed a crash bug when trying to open detail info for any power that granted or revoked other powers
- Fixed "Medium Arcane Supergroup Banner 1", "Medium Tech Supergroup Banner 1" texture issue
- Fixed the Merit vendor display name for Encouraged Accuracy: To Hit Buff (Recipe)
- Fixed malformed .fx file causing debug client errors ("FXGEO: Failed to alloc a child fx") when drawing a katana
- Fixed a crash bug that caused a crash while hovering power info for some powers (example: Bio Armor > Evolving Armor)
Costume Fixes
- Fixed "Lebeaux" top not tinting correctly for "Robotic Arm 1" and "Robotic Arm 3"
- Fixed Arachnos Soldier "Wolf Collar" from interfering with ear selection when "Wolf" helmet style is selected
- Restored "Wolf 2" collar option
- Fixed "Praetorian Police" boot option for males not appearing in asymmetry mode for the right boot
- Fixed missing texture on "Impervium Katana" for Dual Blade models
Powers Bug Fixes
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The following Enhancements should no longer be weaker when hitting higher level enemies:
- Impervious Skin
- Numina's Convalescence
- Sentinel's Ward
- Miracle
- Aegis
- Dominating Grasp
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Titan Weapons (All versions): Fixed a bug with some Titan Weapon powers starting Momentum too early, most notably Crushing Blow
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Shield Defense > Phalanx Fighting (All Versions): Fixed a bug that caused the self buff in this power to be intermittent
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Blaster > Mace Mastery > Summon Spiderlings: Fixed an error in the power description that claimed you required 2 powers to acquire (only one power is required)
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Stalker > Rad Melee > Radiation Siphon: Power had the wrong level requirement. Now properly set to be available at level 18
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Electric Blast > Thunderous Blast (All Versions): Fixed a bug where the two chances for -end were not doing independent chance checksr example)
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Ice Melee > Assassin's Ice Sword: This power's stealth bonus damage should no longer be resisted in PvP
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Fighting > Boxing: Fixed this power missing it's 35% synergy chance for stun in PvP
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Sentinel > Epic > Mace Mastery > Focused Accuracy: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
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Sentinel > Ice Armor > Frigid Shield: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
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Beast Mastery > Summon Lions: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
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Beast Mastery > Summon Dire Wolf: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
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Weapon Redraw should no longer cancel attack animations
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Pool > Leaping > Spring Attack: Reimplemented this power with new tools, should address some odd bugs with this power
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Prestige > Athletic Run: Should no longer flash upon login
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Trick Arrow > Glue Arrow: Fixed the short help text (for reals this time)
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Electricity Assault > Static Discharge: Should no longer list Endurance Modification enhancements twice.
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Pool > Fighting > Cross Punch: Fixed critical damage values
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Boosts > Power Transfer > Chance to Heal Self: Should be able to stack when slotted in multiple passive powers regardless of server timing
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Scrapper > Mu Mastery > Zapp: Fixed a bug that was causing the fast version of this power inflict slow-version criticals
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Dominator > Psionic Mastery > World of Confusion: Fixed this power triggering Controller Overpower instead of Domination
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Blaster > Electricity Manipulation > Dynamo: Fixed a bug where this power would do damage to the caster
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Dark Servant > Twilight Grasp: Fixed a bug where this power was doing -damage instead of -regen in PvE
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Radiation Blast | Radioactive Assault > Proton Volley (All versions): Fixed a bug where these powers were doing 20% less than intended damage in PvP
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Blaster > Temporal Manipulation > Time Wall:
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Fixed this power not accepting Blaster, Ranged Damage and Universal Damage sets
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Fixed this power using melee damage modifiers instead of ranged damage modifiers (damage has increased slightly as a result)
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The following powers had their attack types corrected (this only impacts defense types):
SpoilerArachnos_Soldiers.Arachnos_Soldier.Heavy_Burst
Blaster_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Brute_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Brute_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Corruptor_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Defender_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
DilemmaDiabolique.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
Epic.Brute_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Corruptor_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Mastermind_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.VEAT_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Guns.Laser_Rifle.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Banished_Support_Attack.Frigid_Blast
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Knives_LT.Shockwave_Slice
Magisterium.Chimera.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Pets.Droid_3.Full_Auto_Laser
Mastermind_Pets.Howler_Wolf_3.Throat_Bite
Mastermind_Pets.Zombie_2.Projectile_Vomit
Mastermind_Summon.Beast_Mastery.Call_Locusts
Mastermind_Summon.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Summon.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Pets.ChargeCone.Shield_Charge
Pets.Martial_Manipulation_Burst.Burst_of_Speed
RedCaps.RedCap_Ranged_Cone.Fistful_of_Arrows
Scrapper_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Scrapper_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Sentinel_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Signature_Summon.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
SkyRaiders.Sky_Raider_Crimson_Pets.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Syndicate.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tanker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Tanker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Tsoo.Endgame_LT_Archer.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Endgame_TubCi.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Arachnos_Proxy.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore_RV.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Ninja_Mastermind.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Robotics_Mastermind.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
V_Luddites.Boss_Low.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Snakes.Elder_Mamba.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Boss_Sting_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Elite_Boss_Raptor_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Lt_Fang.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Quick
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Stealth
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravimetric_Snare
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravity_Well
Widow_Training.Widow_Training.Dart_Burst
General Feedback: Issue 27, Page 2
in [Open Beta] Focused Feedback
Posted
Build 2 - March 20th
Miscellaneous (Focused Feedback Thread)
Coordinates & /thumbtack
Teleportation Targeting & /powexec_location
Inspirations
Barracuda Strike Force
Badges
Null the Gull
User Interface
Bug Fixes
Costume Fixes
Powers Bug Fixes
Titan Weapons (All versions): Fixed a bug with some Titan Weapon powers starting Momentum too early, most notably Crushing Blow
Shield Defense > Phalanx Fighting (All Versions): Fixed a bug that caused the self buff in this power to be intermittent
Blaster > Mace Mastery > Summon Spiderlings: Fixed an error in the power description that claimed you required 2 powers to acquire (only one power is required)
Stalker > Rad Melee > Radiation Siphon: Power had the wrong level requirement. Now properly set to be available at level 18
Electric Blast > Thunderous Blast (All Versions): Fixed a bug where the two chances for -end were not doing independent chance checksr example)
Ice Melee > Assassin's Ice Sword: This power's stealth bonus damage should no longer be resisted in PvP
Fighting > Boxing: Fixed this power missing it's 35% synergy chance for stun in PvP
Sentinel > Epic > Mace Mastery > Focused Accuracy: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
Sentinel > Ice Armor > Frigid Shield: This power should no longer detoggle when mezzed
Beast Mastery > Summon Lions: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
Beast Mastery > Summon Dire Wolf: Fixed a bug where this power was never actually playing the summoning animation
Weapon Redraw should no longer cancel attack animations
Pool > Leaping > Spring Attack: Reimplemented this power with new tools, should address some odd bugs with this power
Prestige > Athletic Run: Should no longer flash upon login
Trick Arrow > Glue Arrow: Fixed the short help text (for reals this time)
Electricity Assault > Static Discharge: Should no longer list Endurance Modification enhancements twice.
Pool > Fighting > Cross Punch: Fixed critical damage values
Boosts > Power Transfer > Chance to Heal Self: Should be able to stack when slotted in multiple passive powers regardless of server timing
Scrapper > Mu Mastery > Zapp: Fixed a bug that was causing the fast version of this power inflict slow-version criticals
Dominator > Psionic Mastery > World of Confusion: Fixed this power triggering Controller Overpower instead of Domination
Blaster > Electricity Manipulation > Dynamo: Fixed a bug where this power would do damage to the caster
Dark Servant > Twilight Grasp: Fixed a bug where this power was doing -damage instead of -regen in PvE
Radiation Blast | Radioactive Assault > Proton Volley (All versions): Fixed a bug where these powers were doing 20% less than intended damage in PvP
Kinetics > Increase Density (All Versions): This power should no longer root when used (per the animation rooting updates)
Experimentation > Speed of Sound: Fixed various PvP stacking bugs
Stalker > Fiery Melee > Fire Sword Circle: Fixed this power now granting Assassin's Focus
Stalker > Ice Melee > Frozen Aura: Fixed this power now granting Assassin's Focus
Dominator > Savage Assault > Spot Prey: The perception buff on this power was lasting only 0.75s instead of 10s, this has been corrected
Blaster > Temporal Manipulation > Time Wall:
Fixed this power not accepting Blaster, Ranged Damage and Universal Damage sets
Fixed this power using melee damage modifiers instead of ranged damage modifiers (damage has increased slightly as a result)
The following powers had their attack types corrected (this only impacts defense types):
Arachnos_Soldiers.Arachnos_Soldier.Heavy_Burst
Blaster_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Brute_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Brute_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Corruptor_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Defender_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
DilemmaDiabolique.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
Epic.Brute_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Corruptor_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.Mastermind_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Epic.VEAT_Leviathan_Mastery.School_of_Sharks
Guns.Laser_Rifle.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Banished_Support_Attack.Frigid_Blast
Incarnate.Lore_Pet_Knives_LT.Shockwave_Slice
Magisterium.Chimera.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Pets.Droid_3.Full_Auto_Laser
Mastermind_Pets.Howler_Wolf_3.Throat_Bite
Mastermind_Pets.Zombie_2.Projectile_Vomit
Mastermind_Summon.Beast_Mastery.Call_Locusts
Mastermind_Summon.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mastermind_Summon.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Ninjas.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Robotics.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Mission_Maker_Attacks.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Mission_Maker_Secondary.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Pets.ChargeCone.Shield_Charge
Pets.Martial_Manipulation_Burst.Burst_of_Speed
RedCaps.RedCap_Ranged_Cone.Fistful_of_Arrows
Scrapper_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Scrapper_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Sentinel_Ranged.Archery.Fistful_of_Arrows
Signature_Summon.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
SkyRaiders.Sky_Raider_Crimson_Pets.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Stalker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Syndicate.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tanker_Melee.Kinetic_Attack.Focused_Burst
Tanker_Melee.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
Tsoo.Endgame_LT_Archer.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Endgame_TubCi.Fistful_of_Arrows
Tsoo.Tub_Ci.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Arachnos_Proxy.Staff_Fighting.Serpents_Reach
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_FreedomPhalanx.Manticore_RV.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Ninja_Mastermind.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_GenericVillains.Robotics_Mastermind.Pulse_Rifle_Burst
V_Luddites.Boss_Low.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Snakes.Elder_Mamba.Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Boss_Sting_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Elite_Boss_Raptor_Low.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
V_Wyvern.Lt_Fang.Talon_Fistful_of_Arrows
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Quick
Villain_Pets.Kinetic_Melee_Assassins_Strike.Assassins_Strike_Stealth
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravimetric_Snare
Warshade_Offensive.Umbral_Blast.Gravity_Well
Widow_Training.Widow_Training.Dart_Burst