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FC.31.20170310.21 - Nightmare Invasion/Power Changes
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Nightmare Invasion
Archetypes
Misc
Power Changes
Ebon Ruin
Holy Water
New Power: Dark Tether
New Power: Shade Storm
New Power: Holy Torrent
- Added preview images to missing items.
- Updated boss drop table to include the auras in the store.
- Greatly increased the chance to get action figures from bosses.
- Added a exchange vendor to the Toy Master.
- Added goto mission to Golden Seraph for the toymaster's store.
- The toy master will now take spare nightmare action figures and exchange them for titles or extra Elysium Coins.
- New Exchange Titles: Horror, Horror Story, Nightmare, Conspirator, From the Shadows, Seraphim, Skeletal, Manipulator, Imp.
Archetypes
- Corrected diminishing return values on the Void archetype.
- The Void can now choose between Shadow Shroud or Dark Transfusion at level 30.
Misc
- The initial soundfx for Upload teleport will now only play for you and not any other players.
Power Changes
- Cleaned up most of the Darkness power tooltips.
- The heals on shade storm, ebon ruin and grasping shadows are considered lifedrain effects for power purposes like dark transfusion.
- Illumination (power) now has access to challenge advantage.
- Aurora and Rebirth should now share a cooldown.
Ebon Ruin
- Power now refreshes any of your existing despair dots when fully charged.
- Adjusted despair dot damage to be based on the damage of Ebon Ruin and rank up.
- Despair dot now ticks once every 2 seconds, damage has been adjusted taking this into account.
- Despair Dot now ignores shields and cannot be dodged.
- No longer summons a pet.
- Cost has been recalculated for the removal of the pet.
- New advantage: Consumes any shadows you summoned with the power summon shadows and heals you for each one consumed.
Holy Water
- New Advantage: Applies Deadly Poison instead of Disorient.
New Power: Dark Tether
- Similar to other lariat powers.
- Advantage: Work Up
- Advantage: Applies the Devoid debuff on full charge.
New Power: Shade Storm
- Unlockable via the GCR store
- Similar to powers like Conflagration.
- Chance to fear targets.
- Advantage: Chance to knock down targets. Knocks into the air if targets are feared.
- Advantage: Consumes your fear stacks and heals you.
- Advantage: When fully maintained stuns targets.
New Power: Holy Torrent
- Unlockable via the GCR store
- Damages foes and heals nearby allies.
- Consumes all illumination or illuminated stacks and heals/does more damage if consumed.
- Advantage: Knocks down targets.
- Advantage: Chance to apply Clinging Flames. Chance is guaranteed against illuminated targets.
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Bug: Holy Torrent does not heal the user (may be working as intended).
Where it happens: Upon using Holy Torrent.
What happens: The player using Holy Torrent receives no heals from the power
Bug: Holy Torrent is unaffected by some healing cost and effectiveness specializations (also applies to Absorb Heat).
Where it happens: Using Holy Torrent while under the effects of a variety of specializations.
What happens: Holy Torrent ignores some specializations which affect healing power cost or effectiveness. Examples: Administer, Conservation, Preservation, Genesis, Enforcer.
Note: Healing effectiveness specialization testing was based on what the power tooltip reports before and after committing to a specialization. Other healing powers were affected by such specializations, while Holy Torrent wasn't.
Bug: Holy Torrent can't critically heal without hitting a hostile target.
Where it happens: Upon using Holy Torrent with no nearby hostile targets.
What happens: Holy torrent will not critically heal if the attack portion of the power hits no targets.
Bug: Inconsistent on-crit specialization triggering when using Holy Torrent.
Where it happens: When Holy Torrent scores a critical hit.
What happens: Some on-crit specialization effects do not trigger when using Holy Torrent. For example, Reinforce does not trigger at all, while Fortify only triggers reliably with the critical heal portion of the power; the damage portion requires a critical hit on the hostile target farthest from the user.
Suggestion: Lower the energy cost or increase the heal amount on Holy Torrent
Holy Torrent's energy cost is around 40% higher than Absorb Heat's (a similar power) while healing for a lower amount. It also (currently) does not heal the user, and is unaffected by several specializations which reduce costs and increase effectiveness of outgoing heals (as is AH).
Suggestion: If Holy Torrent is currently working as intended, allow it to heal the user.
Holy Torrent is currently only useful in group content, since the damage portion is low enough (comparable to a single tic of Fire Breath, two if Illuminated is consumed) that it is unlikely it will be used as a primarily offensive power. Giving it a self-heal component, even if it is a portion of the allied heal, would give this power more use outside of group content.
Nice changes to Ebon Ruin. Darkness peeps won't be scolded for using ER in Cosmics now.
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I take this quote from a review that I agree with.
"customisation is so linear; everyone is after the optimal dps:survivability ratio with 0 reliance on other players = autonomous gameplay... Players don't need each other anymore... which in my opinion is a bad thing."
It sounds REALLY awesome, and if it has the DPS potential of Conflagration I have already found use for it
I'm really happy Darkness is getting extra power
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another power with Devoid debuff is super useful, this may be the missing link to help Martial Art builds experised in Dimensional melee damage
and since those powers are useful primary for their restoration ADVs, this is a WIN-WIN case for both theme, survability and utility
Just like Holy Water harms Vampires, so it does make sense thematically
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Please consider giving Shade Storm its own distinct SFX, giving it a more distinct icon, and perhaps fleshing out its visuals a touch. Atm, it's just a reskin of Avalanche and unfortunately underwhelming. I want to like Shade Storm, but it feels like it still needs to be fleshed out. I'm pretty sure you guys are still working on it, but I wanted to point it out as soon as possible. I feel like it's appearance needs to be notch top quality even more so because it is a GCR store power. All the other powers of that type (Conflag/Avalanche/Lightning Storm) feel unique and Shade Storm deserves to feel the same. I feel like one of the the things I hate the most is how "bright" the color is when the shards impact. There should be some black in those visuals with the color as accents. Darkness has always had such a beautiful theme in that regard.
I adore dark tether. Perhaps the visuals could be slightly touched up so the outer edge has more obvious color? (I know it sounds like I'm contradicting myself! I did say slightly though. lol)
Holy Torrent feels... a touch awkward for me, and that's probably because the character model is essentially throwing their arms out, pressing their breasts toward the sky and then... liquids everywhere. I love that you guys are really working toward the water visuals though and I love the advantages and everything the power does! Well done!
Excellent on the rest of the changes! I know the Ebon Ruin has needed to be axed for awhile.
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I take this quote from a review that I agree with.
"customisation is so linear; everyone is after the optimal dps:survivability ratio with 0 reliance on other players = autonomous gameplay... Players don't need each other anymore... which in my opinion is a bad thing."
I take this quote from a review that I agree with.
"customisation is so linear; everyone is after the optimal dps:survivability ratio with 0 reliance on other players = autonomous gameplay... Players don't need each other anymore... which in my opinion is a bad thing."
Since it is the same as Shadow Form, I wonder if we could have it change it for the one with green shade, used on the Void Possesion device please?
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Block timing explained
Ebon Ruin
It's good that the cosmic crowd no longer has to deal with the pet doing stupid things, however for everyone else, the new version is a straight-up nerf in terms of utility. Allow me to explain why: 1) the pet makes a semi-useful shield for soloing when you want something else to soak up a few knocks and stuns, and 2) The healing was a fantastic bonus feature that was largely overlooked due to people not using this power because "ERMHAGERD PERTS R BERD!"
Please consider one of these things as a middle ground of sorts:
1) Change "Back to the Darkness" to "From the Darkness" and have it be a way for people to opt back in to the shadow pet if they want it. (It should be 50-100% chance to summon based on charge time, regardless of rank since rank 3 cannot be obtained with this advantage)
2) Change the Despair dot to heal the user for 50% of any damage it does. This is to retain the healing given from the shadow pet and should be roughly similar to what it used to give, if not a bit weaker.
3) Move the shadow summon over to Dark Tether as an advantage. 50-100% chance to summon, based on charge time.
Dark Tether
This is the start of a good utility power option for Darkness, but it seems like it could do a bit...more. It also should probably look a little more...wispy, tendrily, or energy-ish. Right now, it just looks like a black string or chain.
An alternate source of Devoid is neat, however this one is inferior to Shadow Blast in many ways:
1) Shadow Blast is spammable, Dark Tether has a cooldown
2) Shadow Blast has 100ft range, Dark Tether has only 50ft.
3) Shadow Blast applies Devoid innately, Dark Tether requires 2 advantage points.
To offset these, why not have it apply Devoid 100% of the time, regardless of charge time?
Shade Storm
While I greatly welcome the addition of an aoe of this type finally being available outside the energy projector set, please don't gate this behind the GCR store.
Void Feast: Consuming Fear is an illogical and somewhat disruptive thing to stuff into Darkness because its energy unlock depends on Fear being present. In this case, the heal isn't really strong enough to warrant permanently locking the user out of their energy unlock when they use this power. Also, the heal seems to happen a couple times per target, which doesn't seem intentional. All around pretty buggy. Please consider changing this advantage to: Your Shade Storm has a X% chance to heal you if Shade Storm deals damage to a target affected by Fear.
Holy Torrent
This power doesn't seem to heal the user. Bug or intentional?
That said, this power is a neat idea, but the "consumes the X" doesn't seem like it offers anything really very interesting gameplaywise. Press Illumination, press Holy Torrent, get intended result. Part of that could be because Illumination as a buff isn't very interesting. (The debuff is fine though, but that's for another topic I suppose)
So instead of consuming Illumination/ed for more damage/healing, why not have it do that much damage/healing base, and give it an advantage to apply those effects to targets it hits instead? That would make it feel less fiddly and more like a solid power, worthy of gating behind the gcr grind
Shade Storm's heal advantage still triggers Spirit Reverberation before the Fear is consumed. If you are not experiencing this, please report it as a bug.
Also, Summon Shadows can have pet costume options. there will be 2 new ones next patch, but that is something that can be suggested (must stick to the human skeleton for attack animation purposes and costumes should be simplistic for memory use).
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
Hydra
These two powers
the other darkness AoE(forgot the name)
42 40s, LTSer.
Holy Torrent is to dependent on illumination to do good healing, it's extremely difficult to get illumination on the targets that will be affected by the heal in any bigger group fights. As a pbaoe it's also outperformed quite a bit by vala's light, and circle of of radiant glory (healing might be slightly higher on torrent, but the heal is only a secondary part of the circle). And the big 25feet damage (low as it is) restricts the use during the red orb phase on Eidolon.
+ Chaos Imps
+ Ghost Pirates
+ Ghostly Skinned Generic Humanoids
if anything it encourage more endgame farming... and more Currency sink
Powers being locked behind event vendors on the other hand...
BTW im REALLY looking forward for Shade Storm
The imp from Qliphothic Warzone would make a great skin
Why am I even suggesting this? I cannot change power colours and skins
Skeletons - both human and monstrous - would be nice too, but I'm not sure if those would qualify as 'simplistic'.
Here's some off the top of my head:
- Socrates/Rogue Processes (not Dark themed, I know, but it'd still be neat)
- Zombies
- Skeletons with various weapons (may not work is the attack animation must be uniform)
- Qliphothasdf horrors/imps/etc
- Ghosts (glowy, legs invisible)
- Shadow Orbs (all body parts invisible but the head. shadowy.)
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-Dark, shadowy occultists
-Shadowy demonic beings (not like the ones from the ebon summoning power, unique beings).
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That's really dissapointing
Bug: Summon Shadows has the same appearance for Default and Shadow.
The other two shadow pet variant appearances are gone, which used to correspond to R2 and R3 of the Summon Shadows power.
Please fix this. I have a toon whose concept is summoning shadow clones, based on the old R3 shadow pet appearance.
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is the Elysium Guard perk still bugged and gives the wrong title?
The first time I did the event last year, it gave out the Colossal Menace title instead of the Elysium Guard
I was on holidays when we have Nightmare Invansion for the second time last year and I forgot about that
please Fix this and provide a solution for FIXER NPC for those who have already completed the perk