FC.31.20190228.5 - Misc

kaiserin

Circus Malvanum

• Added Roman Guard arm accessories.
• Updated the look of the Regal Lion mask costume.
• Added Brute Force and Unknown Force mods to the event store and as possible drops from Forum Malvanum. These mods affect threat generated by Crushing typed attacks.
• Added 5 titles to the event store.

Gravitar

• Added Brute Force and Unknown Force mods as possible drops.

Fire and Ice

• Added Icy Grasp, Cold Front, Hot Stuff and Soothing Flames mods as possible drops. These mods affect threat generated by Fire and Cold typed attacks. The Cold versions are also available during the Winter event.

Auction

• Added Titles auction house category. Existing items in the auction house will not appear in that category, but new ones will be sorted.
• Fixed a bug where the new power unlock items were not being sorted into the power unlock category. Existing items in the auction house will not appear in that category, but new ones will be sorted.

Powers
Crashing Incantation

• Fixed a bug where this power wasn't tagged as an area effect.

Circles

• Circle of Primal Dominion and Circle of Ebon Wrath's drawback effects no longer scale with rank, having a flat rate across ranks.

Regeneration Modification

• Fixed a bug where this was triggering Compassion.

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sergeantmahoff1

Considering how much damage melee does I feel like damage oriented confronts should be ranged only. There isn't really much of a reason to have more threat gen for melee characters.

pantagruel01

Being limited to crushing does limit some threat sources (e.g. onslaught slicer gloves, various devices), you'd probably be better off with regular confronts anyway.

kamokami

kaizerin wrote: »

Circus Malvanum
Circles

• Circle of Primal Dominion and Circle of Ebon Wrath's drawback effects no longer scale with rank, having a flat rate across ranks.

That's much better. Now it's more of a decision.

chaosdrgnz43

I'm just putting this out there.

I don't get the purpose of these specific dmg threat boost mods. How can it compare to Confront mods which is an all-rounder? Is a 1.2% additional threat gonna make a difference? You could probably redirect that time making unwanted mods into power revamps, or give power sets that don't have dmg boost mods like Archery, Force, Earth, etc.

deadman20

kaizerin wrote: »

Circles

• Circle of Primal Dominion and Circle of Ebon Wrath's drawback effects no longer scale with rank, having a flat rate across ranks.

Very nice. I'm sure a lot of people considering circles will feel better about ranking them up knowing that the drawbacks won't go up with them now.​​

pantagruel01

Yeah, unknown force (like all threat reducers) is completely useless (much better to take a threat wipe) other than ATs that don't have a threat wipe, and brute force is typically going to be worse than a confront

leuchadegoutiere

My Force tank will have great use of those mods. *look at all "melee doesn't deserve special confront" and "damage specific mods are useless" tellers >:( *

However I also feel the damage reduction mods don't have a great usefulness. That said, I was on Discord when she made those mods. It took her 5 mins to make them. Power revamps don't happen in 5 minutes

chaosdrgnz43

leuchadegoutiere wrote: »

My Force tank will have great use of those mods. *look at all "melee doesn't deserve special confront" and "damage specific mods are useless" tellers >:( *

However I also feel the damage reduction mods don't have a great usefulness. That said, I was on Discord when she made those mods. It took her 5 mins to make them. Power revamps don't happen in 5 minutes

I'm aware power revamps takes time. But the constant "useful items" being released just irks me. That time could have been spent on more pressing matters. Like those "promised" magnifiers that has been in PTS for MONTHS.(could have at least given a ETA on those)

Btw, I can't seem to see Unknown Force mod in the Event Store or Debugger.

jaazaniah1

Well, since they won't be available except for events they will be rarer than Confronts, meaning that those who want one R7+ are likely to buy a catalyst or two to rank them up and that means more money for CO. That's my guess anyway.

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

I'm just putting this out there.

I don't get the purpose of these specific dmg threat boost mods. How can it compare to Confront mods which is an all-rounder? Is a 1.2% additional threat gonna make a difference? You could probably redirect that time making unwanted mods into power revamps, or give power sets that don't have dmg boost mods like Archery, Force, Earth, etc.

poptartmaniac

I like the circus stuff, and the bug fix to crashing incantation \o/

It's a long shot but is there any chance circle can get a knock resist advantage (since they removed it from that) for tanks who don't have str, and can't fit in knock resist mods cuz they require other stuff to run?