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Release Notes 10/26/2023

kaiserin#0958 kaiserin
kaiserin#0958
 Posts: 3,210 Cryptic Developer
edited October 2023 in Release Notes
Bloodmoon
  • Added Pumpkin Patch monster as a chance to spawn from Trick or Treaters.
  • Added Pumpkin Lich Head, Pumpkin Lich Leg Armor to the event store.
  • Added Runic Auras to the event store.
  • Pestilent Cloud and Center of Gravity devices have been removed as drops.
  • Added Cold Burst device as a possible drop from Nimbus.
  • Added Telekinetic Disarray device as a possible drop from Crusher.
  • Added Fist of Defiance device as a possible drop from Johnny Hercules.
  • New Mission: Complete Turakian Termination 10 times, rewards the Pumpkin Lich Staff costume.



Costumes
  • Added TK Lance as a weapon skin for TK Blades.



Misc
  • Fixed an issue where Mist auras were not scaling.



Powers
  • Fixed a bug where Ego Weaponry wasn't affected by mods.
  • Fixed a bug where Redirected Force wasn't triggering form stacks.
  • Fixed a bug where Rank 2 of Protection Field wasn't triggering shield open mission scores.
  • Fixed an issue where Planar Fracture and Endbringer's Grasp damage and power cost were not taking into account their required charge times. Damage and cost have increased.



Concentration/Chilled Form
  • Fixed a bug where Concentration wasn't triggering reliably with powers that were not a maintain or charge.
  • Updated the description of Concentration to be more clear about trigger conditions.
  • Fixed an issue where Concentration wasn't triggering properly when fully charging a power.




Devices
  • Cold Burst
  • Single target Cold damage.
  • Applies Chilled and hard Frost to target.
  • 60 second cooldown.


Telekinetic Disarray
  • Deals aoe Ego damage.
  • Chance to apply Disorient.
  • Applies Stress to primary target after the first damage tick.
  • 60 second cooldown.



Fist of Defiance
  • Deals aoe crushing damage.
  • Knocks Up primary target.
  • Applies Demolish to primary target.
  • Knocks down secondary targets.
  • 60 second cooldown.
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  • guyhumualguyhumual Posts: 2,397 Arc User
    "New Mission: Complete Turakian Termination 10 times, rewards the Pumpkin Lich Staff costume"
    is this event going on for another week?
  • thisiscraftaaathisiscraftaaa Posts: 251 Arc User
    • Pestilent Cloud and Center of Gravity devices have been removed as drops.

    Shhhh, it's okay Crusher. It's finally over. Nobody's coming to hurt you any more. You can finally rest.

    Hopefully these two devices don't get forgotten and left off next year though, like some other junk (I'm looking at you, Nephilim primaries from TT and gold shinies/costume drops from Mandragalore) has been.
    The fact that the forums refuse to tell you how close you are to the character/post size limit until you attempt to post something that happens to be too big- and the automated spam filter will immediately completely lock you out of posting long-term if you attempt to post or edit posts too close to the character limit- is genuine agony.

    This is my cry for help
  • spookyspectrespookyspectre Posts: 646 Arc User
    guyhumual wrote: »
    "New Mission: Complete Turakian Termination 10 times, rewards the Pumpkin Lich Staff costume"
    is this event going on for another week?

    There are two weeks left for the event.
  • championsrperchampionsrper Posts: 70 Arc User
    kaiserin#0958 wrote: »
    Bloodmoon


    Concentration/Chilled Form
    • Fixed a bug where Concentration wasn't triggering reliably with powers that were not a maintain or charge.
    • Updated the description of Concentration to be more clear about trigger conditions.
    • Fixed an issue where Concentration wasn't triggering properly when fully charging a power.
    ​​

    Oh thank god
  • shapey#5696 shapey
    shapey#5696
         Posts: 76 Arc User
    kaiserin#0958 wrote: »
    Bloodmoon

    Concentration/Chilled Form
    • Fixed a bug where Concentration wasn't triggering reliably with powers that were not a maintain or charge.
    • Updated the description of Concentration to be more clear about trigger conditions.
    • Fixed an issue where Concentration wasn't triggering properly when fully charging a power.

    You wanna be a little more transparent about the fact you just straight up changed (or more accurately, nerfed) Concentration/Chilled Form? It used to trigger if you half-charged or halfway maintained a power, now it does neither, which has completely blown out its use for Ranged tanks at Cosmics. The fact there isn't even a free retcon for that demonstrates a lack of understanding on how much that actually changes for certain builds.

    This change ideally should be reverted or simply given back the ability to work off half-charge/maintains.
  • apeboy#2015 apeboy
    apeboy#2015
         Posts: 60 Arc User
    please revert concentration changes. PLEASE better understand what you are changing BEFORE pushing something like this.
  • xerseez#8034 xerseez
    xerseez#8034
         Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited October 2023
    For real, the full charge requirement breaks most ranged tank FF builds, giving ego scaling ranged tanks no viable form (unless toxic). Please please make it so it works at half charges like it already was.
  • h4forumsh4forums Posts: 280 Arc User
    I tested the concentration changes and confirm that charges to be full now to proc, where this wasn't the case before. Pls revert.
  • gammabreakergammabreaker Posts: 246 Arc User
    Changing Conc/Chill toggles to full maintain only is a substantial change, when boss attacks hit at the frequency that they do. Many charges also exceed that timing window. It's effectively unstackable for most ranged tanks in most scenarios this way, because Dino/Ape/Black Fang/Therakiel walk up to you and Kiga/Vlad have limited working space.

    Further, sometimes Concentration now simply will not refresh at short range on a full maintain. I spent 3 minutes unloading full 2 Gun Mojos into a dummy at point blank and never got a refresh, it was stuck at 0 stacks. On outdoor content, it was randomly not refreshing at short range on full attacks either.

    Whatever happened to this power, it's borked. Please revert it to its original form, warts and all; it may have been slightly buggy before, but it worked the vast majority of the time on all encounters.
  • ultronyte#7191 ultronyte
    ultronyte#7191
         Posts: 53 Arc User
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMrjhc7pa7Y
  • jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,553 Arc User
    Clearly the devs don't like ranged tanks and are trying to force players to be meless tanks. Time to adapt.​​
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  • thisiscraftaaathisiscraftaaa Posts: 251 Arc User
    Wait, what's the deal with the nerf to Concentration and Chilled? Proccing stacks/refresh on half-charge and half-maintain was a vital part of keeping stacks up when being forced to block constantly while up close to an enemy (which basically all melee bosses force on tanks by virtue of knockspam or chasing down, all Cosmics (+ Eidolon) by virtue of being Cosmics (and Eidolon,) and CERTAIN bosses (I'm looking at you, Black Fang + Vladic Dracul and Vikorin) force on ALL players by virtue of room-wide knockspam or mechanics punishing players for being more than 15'-20' away.)

    This is bad for the QoL of ranged tanks in general, and effectively all ranged DPSes when facing down certain bosses.
    The fact that the forums refuse to tell you how close you are to the character/post size limit until you attempt to post something that happens to be too big- and the automated spam filter will immediately completely lock you out of posting long-term if you attempt to post or edit posts too close to the character limit- is genuine agony.

    This is my cry for help
  • drcairnstorm#2703 drcairnstorm
    drcairnstorm#2703
         Posts: 5 Arc User
    Yooooooo seriously? Revert the concentration changes. I appreciate the alleged bug fixing but, Concentration proc'd stacks were always up to -half- the maintain or -half- the charge.
  • miorummiorum Posts: 67 Arc User
    edited October 2023
    In regards to Concentration/Chilled Form changes:
    We've a soft confirmation that there's issues with the current implementation - but even if these are corrected to be consistent (a stack after a full charge/full maintain), that does not take away from the fact it's lead to considerable changes in play style.

    Given the current Cosmic fights e.a. the changes today make it plausible for stacks to drop off entirely. I would imagine this is undesirable. For comparison, such a thing would not happen with MA's Form of the Tiger, a Melee Form which operates under the old rule of half-charge.
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  • rinzler156rinzler156 Posts: 120 Arc User
    Ok. Can I please ask why Concentration and Chilled form now requires full maintains or charges? This changes the power dynamic for quite a few builds. Some builds actually require that energy half-way through the toggle/maintain in order to keep energy up while chewing through it.

    This was an unneeded change, please put it back the way it was.
  • phasestarphasestar Posts: 126 Arc User
    kaiserin#0958 wrote: »
    [*] Fixed a bug where Redirected Force wasn't triggering form stacks.
    [*] Fixed a bug where Rank 2 of Protection Field wasn't triggering shield open mission scores.
    ​

    Thank you for this!

  • ansemthedarkansemthedark Posts: 668 Arc User
    Will there ever be a fix for the Electrical Storm Transformation Perk?

    Taking this here since problem still exists as it is:

    From Release Notes 12/14/2022

    by n8mcd, December 2022

    "The unlock 5x 'Electrical Storm Costume Transformation' perk STORM SUMMONER is a hot mess.

    1. The perk appears on the LOCKBOX perk list, but the transformation is not in a lockbox, it's in the Q store.
    2. Unlocking the 'Electrical Storm Transformation' does not register on the count for the perk.
    3. The perk description suggests the transformation is purple quality, and is named 'Electrical Storm Costume Transformation'
    4. the Q-Store transformation is blue, and is named 'Electrical Storm Transformation'
    5. If these are not the same transformation, you need better naming discipline.
    6. if these are not the same transformation, where is the one for the perk supposed to be found? It isn't in the lockbox."
  • guyhumualguyhumual Posts: 2,397 Arc User
    spookyspectre wrote: »
    guyhumual wrote: »
    "New Mission: Complete Turakian Termination 10 times, rewards the Pumpkin Lich Staff costume"
    is this event going on for another week?

    There are two weeks left for the event.
    Well if they got stuff planned for the last week than great, although they really should have started this event sooner because Halloween in November isn't a great look

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