Focused Feedback: Miscellaneous Power Changes & Fixes

[The Curator]

 

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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.

 

 

 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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Design Notes:

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 cueshould show up informing of the impending crash.

 

 Shield Defense > One with the Shield

• A visual cueshould 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.
•  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
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•   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.

•  Dark Mastery > Black Hole: Fixed this power range (was erroneously set to 10ft instead of 50ft).

• Changed the buy requirements for Possess (no player visible change, but make sure you can still level into this power).

 

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[macskull]

The Blaster version of Black Hole still incorrectly has a 10ft range instead of the expected 50ft.

[Cobalt Arachne]

Been made aware of a bug with the Remote Bomb/Temporal Bomb fix... I will look into it.

[ScarySai]

On 5/26/2025 at 7:09 AM, The Curator said:

 Enhancements > Coercive Persuasion: Contagious Confusion: This proc no longer ignores combat modifiers.

Unnecessary change. This proc is one that's never 'bombed' and is very often fully 6-setted. Why mess with it?

[Mystoc]

Please add Serum to list of self heals that are no longer irresistible, this would greatly benefits crabs ability to fill as tank when there is no tank or brute on the team.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 03:38 AM by Mystoc

[Goblinman]

Does the heal resistance cap lowering also apply to EATs?

[Seldom]

Please consider changing "Absorb pain" from being a heal to being a true "absorb." Currently, the power's effects are rendered redundant against Heal other/heal aura which in many cases do what Absorb does just with lower values and no downside. Shifting the power to a true absorb would not change way invention sets in the power power are used, allow it to give Empathy some pre-fight protection, and honestly give Empathy characters a reason to choose the power!

 

After all, it's in the NAME!

[Crimsanotic]

Sweeping Cross is already useless, why lower it's damage? Honestly, the only thing to make Sweeping Cross actually viable would be to change it to a combo builder or (and this would be significantly better), have it's recharge get refunded when it's used as a finisher. That way it at least has a niche over Spinning Strike.

[Parallel]

Is the Axe Cyclone pull working correctly? I logged into beta to test it but the pull doesn't seem to do much of anything now. It seems very inconsistent and barely pulls at all. I was testing in Cimerora wall area against level 54 mobs (sorry I don't test much so not sure if this is a good place to test). 

[Dazl]

So to be clear any tank de-buffed by "Endocronic Blast" taunting the Hami will be able to use their self heal and have a 25% chance for a direct heal?

[Mezmera]

2 hours ago, Dazl said:

have a 25% chance for a direct heal?

 

A direct heal you receive from others you would get 25% of its value that you would normally receive.  Stalkers would receive 15% of a heal from others.  So things like kin and nature heals will be of lowish value along with direct heals from things like heal other from Empathy when under these effects.  BUT Empathy does get a full heal out of Absorb Pain along with that one from Pain Domination.  Their intention for this is pretty well written out in their Design Notes.  

Edited Thursday at 07:20 AM by Mezmera

[Reiska]

11 hours ago, Crimsanotic said:

Sweeping Cross is already useless, why lower it's damage? Honestly, the only thing to make Sweeping Cross actually viable would be to change it to a combo builder or (and this would be significantly better), have it's recharge get refunded when it's used as a finisher. That way it at least has a niche over Spinning Strike.

The damage change was probably an automatic consequence of the arc increase due to how the engine actually calculates damage.  In any event, it's a 3.8% damage loss for a 50% arc increase; personally, I'll take that trade as someone who likes the power for its aesthetics. 😛

[Unrecognized]

Armor Sets > Self heals 

 

What about Kheldians? PB/WS? Shouldn't they have some kind of resist? Gonna miss doing MT as my Peacebringer Dwarf with these changes. 

I would think at the very least they should have like a 80% heal debuff cap. Not quite the strength of a tank, but able to fill the role when needed.

Also, the ones that still ignore debuffs are the +Max HP powers, what about Earth's Embrace from Stone Armor? Shouldn't that be included?

Edited 14 hours ago by Unrecognized