FC.35.20241205.21 - Misc

kaiserin

Winter Event

• Added a fx marker for the winter open mission to help see where the location is.
• Added a countdown timer on the open mission once completed.
• Reduced cooldown to 30 minutes.
• Added Bitter Storm power variant device as a potential drop from Clarence.

Powers
Avalanche
Increased chance to Knock and Apply Chill per rank.


Chill

• Fixed an issue where this effect did not always reapply properly when at 3 stacks.

Icicle Spear

• Increased chance to apply Chill per rank.

Brimstone

• Fixed an issue where some of the fx did not hue shift properly.

Ice Burst

• Cold Drift Advantage: Additionally adds a small chance to refresh Hard Frost while active.

Power Variant Devices
Bitter Storm

• Scales off of Brimstone
• Maintain. Deals Cold damage in a 15ft pbaoe.
• Chance to apply Chill. Chance icnreases if affected by Cold Snap.
• Chilled Targets are immediately affected by an Ice Cage.

Callous Cleave

• Fixed an issue where the cone radius was incorrect for each hit.

avianos

Kaiserin, could you please tell us before the Event ends WHICH Perks each of the ICE PVDs will require in order to be purchased from the SCR/GCR when they will be added?

I order to AVOID another situation like Bloodmoon, when the PVDs were added 1 week after the end only to be met with BITE perks requirements!

Winter Event

Added a fx marker for the winter open mission to help see where the location is.
Added a countdown timer on the open mission once completed.
Reduced cooldown to 30 minutes.
Added Bitter Storm power variant device as a potential drop from Clarence.

Great Quality of Life additions, Thank you very much!

Trying to farm Clarence for the PVDs is a messy nightmare compared to farming Tako

Power Variant Devices
Bitter Storm

Scales off of Brimstone
Maintain. Deals Cold damage in a 15ft pbaoe.
Chance to apply Chill. Chance icnreases if affected by Cold Snap.
Chilled Targets are immediately affected by an Ice Cage.

PVD that turns the base power from Charged to Maintained, interest! It's like KAREN MORPHONTRAXS's Lighting Storm Brimstone
That's EXACTLY what BRICK powerframes need



So here is the problem. THE ICE PVDS BENEFIT FROM COLD SNAP but NONE OF THEM APPLY COLD SNAP!

I'm testing it with Unstoppable as passive, and I don't want to be forced to change my block from HW's Guard to Ice Shield+Cold to the Touch ADV

Suggestion: Update one of the ICE PVDs to apply Cold Snap on yourself when the right criteria are met

Ice Burst

Cold Drift Advantage: Additionally adds a small chance to refresh Hard Frost while active.

Oh hey, my suggestion from last year finally becoming a reality

theravenforce

I have to agree, it would be very nice if one of the PVDs could apply Cold Snap to self, as most who take the time to invest and build around these devices will be using melee builds so Ice Form wouldn't be the preferred passive. Perhaps a

"If at least half way maintained, applies Cold Snap to self" could be added as a condition on Bitter Storm?

shaman

I think Ice Form should be encouraged as the main passive to go with here, otherwise you'd just take NW or Unstoppable.

But you can also get Cold Snap from a 1-point advantage on Ice Shield, so you can have R3 and also tap it to have it apply Cold Snap to you. This lets you be a tank and still have Cold Snap, if that's what you're worried about passives for.

For DPS, you really should be pushed toward Ice Form, these PVDs do so much damage it wouldn't be balanced if they could use the extra tankiness from Unstoppable. (You can already use the extra tankiness from Vicious Descent's Bold Entrance advantage to get 50% of your damage to shield!!)

theravenforce

shaman#2823 wrote: »

I think Ice Form should be encouraged as the main passive to go with here, otherwise you'd just take NW or Unstoppable.

But you can also get Cold Snap from a 1-point advantage on Ice Shield, so you can have R3 and also tap it to have it apply Cold Snap to you. This lets you be a tank and still have Cold Snap, if that's what you're worried about passives for.

For DPS, you really should be pushed toward Ice Form, these PVDs do so much damage it wouldn't be balanced if they could use the extra tankiness from Unstoppable. (You can already use the extra tankiness from Vicious Descent's Bold Entrance advantage to get 50% of your damage to shield!!)

I think you're forgetting that most people's base builds will be for HW with the PVDs added as flavour, not them having built directly for the Ice Form.

The damage from these PVD's is far from being crazy. I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting the devices to accent the build and be somewhat self sufficient / working in tandem.

avianos

Outside Ice Form and Ice Shield, What other Powers apply Cold Snap?

• Vapor Form (Invigorating Chill)
• Ice Sheath

A threat whip and an AO (the later which I Never use ever again in my builds)

Yeah. . . This is cooked

Frozen Lance seems to be the only power to take if you want to completely avoid the whole Cold Snap min maxing fiasco and ditch Ice Breaker

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avianos

Technically not a BUG but it's quite jarring
The PVDs that force weapon material on the weapons reveal the Imaginary Weapon's model

The Imaginary weapon for HW was the Robot Samurai's sword this entire time


Not so Imaginary weapon anymore

gammabreaker

Nice new addition to the PVD roster, and having the power be notably different in function (a maintain rather than a charge) is something I hope to see more of in future PVDs. Rather than just replacing the debuff class and damage type, converting the power into a different style.

As far as the Cold Snap buff goes, perhaps this is an opportunity to address the extremely outdated design of theStormbringer passive. It just doesn't do much compared to other updated passives in terms of auxiliary functions. Ex Shadowform features a small heal, threat reduction, and stealth. Fiery Form features a damage aura, reactive clinging flames, and the Fiery Light buff.

In short, modern, updated passives usually have two or three minor additional functions on top of +Damage Strength, +Damage Resistance, and energy gain on type-specific damage received. Stormbringer has only these core functions.

Suggestion: Stormbringer

• Bake in: Chance to apply Cold Snap when dealing Cold Damage; Chance to apply Negative Ions when dealing Electric Damage; Chance to apply Disorient when dealing Crushing Damage. Perhaps scaling application with rank at 15/20/25%.
  -OR-
  
• A set of individual 1pt advantages that do the above at a high rate (50%?) so the passive can be slanted toward its preferred mechanic.
  

shaman

When will this go live? There wasn't a maintenance today during the usual time. Will we get a chance to farm for Bitter Storm, or will it only be purchaseable with recog + some unknown perk after?

Never mind, it's just 1 day late.