Release Notes 5/4/2017

kaiserin · May 2017

Nightmare Invasion

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.
Updated Nightmare Colossus attacks to be more in line with existing event bosses.
Gave the Nightmare Colossus a new tail lash attack.
Updated Nightmare Colossus costume.
Optimized a few powers that the Nightmare spawns use to help with memory consumption.
Millennium City has been dropped to a 50 player max for this event.
Nightmare spawns can now drop a variety of Nightmare Event items like consumables, Elysium coins and the Void Defense mod.
Added Unnerved emote to the store.
Added Void defense mod to the store.
Added Crimson and Moonlight vehicles to the store.
Added the following costumes to the store: Bear Skull, Skeletal Monster legs.
Added a exchange vendor to the Toy Master.
Added goto mission to Golden Seraph for the Toy Master'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.

ZEN Store

Added Ghost hair pack.

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.
The Dark Shield used by DEMON and Qliphotic Acolytes now has a 2 second charge time and 1 second activate. This power can be interrupted.
Added a shield readout to many NPC shielding powers that did not previously have one.

Power Changes

Players who owned the Ebon Ruin power should receive a respec.
Cleaned up most of the Darkness power tooltips so they're more clear about what they do.
Updated many tooltips to state if they are considered a Life Drain or not.
Illumination (power), Celestial Conduit and Rebuke now have access to the Challenge! advantage.
Added new icons for Shadow Shroud, Dark Transfusion.
Self-Resurrection powers like Rebirth and Aurora now activate a global cooldown on other Self-Resurrection powers.
Changed the groundfx for Expulse to be more fitting for Celestial.

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: Aurora

Self-Resurrection power.
Gives health upon defeating a foe.
Applies Cold Snap to you.
Applies Chill to any foes that attack you.
Available in the GCR/SCR store.

marioze87 · May 2017

Admittitly making any sweeping changes carries risk but would it not be easier(and possibly more enticing to make tanks) if you just removed all "challenge" advantages and boosted the threat bonus that tank role and the Bulwark spec gets instead? Effectively making every power they use act as if they have taken the challenge advantages.

lastmaxstanding · May 2017

marioze87 said:
Admittitly making any sweeping changes carries risk but would it not be easier(and possibly more enticing to make tanks) if you just removed all "challenge" advantages and boosted the threat bonus that tank role and the Bulwark spec gets instead? Effectively making every power they use act as if they have taken the challenge advantages.

It's a bit clunky, but the system as it stands now lets off-tanks and kiters exist as options. And if we changed it all up and left Challenge so they could still do that (or some other form of taunt)...well, Tanks would just take that too.

kaiserin · May 2017

The tank role already comes with a threat boost. The Challenge advantages are there for an extra boost. We are content with the way Challenge currently works and have no plans to make any further changes on it.

avianos · May 2017

Aww the new darkness didn't make it live yet

nacito · May 2017

marioze87 said:
Admittitly making any sweeping changes carries risk but would it not be easier(and possibly more enticing to make tanks) if you just removed all "challenge" advantages and boosted the threat bonus that tank role and the Bulwark spec gets instead? Effectively making every power they use act as if they have taken the challenge advantages.

that would actually make tank more boring

hugoguerrero · May 2017

I'm pretty sure you forgot you buffed horrors and worms for the qliphotic warzone, now this event is extremely tedious to farm even with a 2 people party, having those portals with a permanent shield + Aura of radiant protection from those Acolytes makes me want to just quit farming the portal mission daily.

themightyzenith · May 2017

How long will this event last? Two weeks?

avianos · May 2017

themightyzenith wrote: »

How long will this event last? Two weeks?

Two Weeks
From 4 May to 17 May

jer · May 2017

uh... why has my damage been reduced, I know with my hurricane, it said the max damage was at 574 cold and crushing damage or something, now it says 320 cold and crushing damage, what's going on? I have nothing turned off or anything, if wind got nerfed in some way, why has it not been mentioned?

theravenforce · May 2017

jer#1883 said:
uh... why has my damage been reduced, I know with my hurricane, it said the max damage was at 574 cold and crushing damage or something, now it says 320 cold and crushing damage, what's going on? I have nothing turned off or anything, if wind got nerfed in some way, why has it not been mentioned?

Have you checked your star count on your character's portrait or switched roles?

jer · May 2017

theravenforce wrote: »

Have you checked your star count on your character's portrait or switched roles?

Yeah I have all 5 stars on him and all my good gear like I did before the patch, and no I'm still in the ranged role, so it must've gotten nerfed with no acknowledgement of it.

theravenforce · May 2017

jer#1883 said:

theravenforce wrote: »

Have you checked your star count on your character's portrait or switched roles?

Yeah I have all 5 stars on him and all my good gear like I did before the patch, and no I'm still in the ranged role, so it must've gotten nerfed with no acknowledgement of it.

I wouldn't be surprised, but I am a bit shocked that it's a Wind power that had an unacknowledged nerf, it's usually Telepathy.

Still, it could be a tool tip error which has been accidentally introduced. Patch notes did say tool tips were being cleaned up, so something might have gone a bit wrong.

Check the actual damage on targets and see if there is a distinct difference.

criswolf09 · May 2017

Thanks for the small improvements with the new icons for Dark Transfusion and Shadow Shroud as I suggested.

roughbearmattach · May 2017

hugoguerrero said:
I'm pretty sure you forgot you buffed horrors and worms for the qliphotic warzone, now this event is extremely tedious to farm even with a 2 people party

Non-trivial for many players now, to be sure.

After playing some, the mobs are definitely tougher. Teaming up is super helpful, but frustrating for folks who like solo play.

sterga · May 2017

The dailies that have Qzone mobs are freaking awful now. They are quite a bit harder to deal with than the Warzone since they have double the numbers. Having harder mobs than the zone that is almost always a ghost town is a terrible idea. Especially for a temp event that should be accessible to a wider number of people.

jaazaniah1 · May 2017

I looked at the rewards for the event, but there was nothing of interest that I didn't already have, except for maybe an aura or two, but since those are BoP and I have no way to be sure how they will look on a character before I grind for it, and thus may spend a bunch of time going after something I may not use, I guess I'll do other things instead of the event.

kallethen · May 2017

Did we really have to replace the mobs on the Nightmare event with the Warzone mobs? Way to make this not newbie or solo friendly.

guyhumual · May 2017

It really feels like they're trying to kill solo play. I still managed to do it with my main, but it might not be possible with my other characters.

pantagruel01 · May 2017

Hurricane is no longer ramping damage, it's flat damage. I haven't compared overall damage output or energy cost, but it's clearly changed.

avianos · May 2017

URG, This shows how much broken the Skull level tech is

I'm doing th dailies on Low level characters with a good-geared vehicle (lvl 10-25)

there are groups of mobs that are instant lvl 40 because someone with the same level fought them and abandoned them

so instead of the level to reset to refrect my own now, they are stucked on lvl 40 until someone take them down and reset the mob group

Which means, whoever tags them first get to force his own level on their difficulty

ah the return of KNOCK-STUN-KNOCK-PARALYZED-KNOCK-STUN DEAD Dailies...

xacchaeus · May 2017

enjoy your event, in going to go do something else

spinnytop · May 2017

Usual complaining about having to face mobs that are an actual threat I see u3u I like the Ebon Ruin thing, shame the pet didn't work out.

themightyzenith · May 2017

spinnytop said:
Usual complaining about having to face mobs that are an actual threat I see u3u I like the Ebon Ruin thing, shame the pet didn't work out.

Usual complaining about complaining.

Complainception.... we must go derper.

guyhumual · May 2017

The event was too hard last year for most silvers to solo, the obvious solution: make it harder!

zemmax · May 2017

So the Demolisher's respawn if you don't destroy the portal first? That's what I was told, cuz I was kinda pissed that Demolisher respawned while I was fighting it.

pantagruel01 · May 2017

zemmax said:
So the Demolisher's respawn if you don't destroy the portal first? That's what I was told, cuz I was kinda pissed that Demolisher respawned while I was fighting it.

Most of the mobs are owned by the portal. Not sure how fast they respawn though.

spinnytop · May 2017

themightyzenith said:
Usual complaining about complaining.

Complainception.... we must go derper.

According to you if someone said "Hey look a bird", they would be complaining about the bird.

zemmax said:
So the Demolisher's respawn if you don't destroy the portal first? That's what I was told, cuz I was kinda pissed that Demolisher respawned while I was fighting it.

Yeah, they just keep streaming out. The portal should be a priority target - getting it down early makes the fight a lot easier.

themightyzenith · May 2017

spinnytop said:
According to you if someone said "Hey look a bird", they would be complaining about the bird.

Worst analogy ever.

Folks were bringing up some legitimate concerns with the event in this thread and you just dismissed them all as "complaining". Ironic.

spinnytop · May 2017

themightyzenith said:
Folks were bringing up some legitimate concerns with the event in this thread and you just dismissed them all as "complaining". Ironic.

You complain too much.

markhawkman · May 2017

spinnytop said:

zemmax said:
So the Demolisher's respawn if you don't destroy the portal first? That's what I was told, cuz I was kinda pissed that Demolisher respawned while I was fighting it.
Yeah, they just keep streaming out. The portal should be a priority target - getting it down early makes the fight a lot easier.

Yeah, I learned that the first time, and I've been making it top priority this time.

themightyzenith · May 2017

spinnytop said:
You complain too much.

Of course I do, I'm part of the playerbase in CO. We all do according to you.

*grumbles*

xacchaeus · May 2017

themightyzenith said:

spinnytop said:
You complain too much.
Of course I do, I'm part of the playerbase in CO. We all do according to you.

*grumbles*

I expect nothing less from Captain Cheerleader!
Theme song: Everything is Awesome

guyhumual · May 2017

themightyzenith said:

spinnytop said:
You complain too much.
Of course I do, I'm part of the playerbase in CO. We all do according to you.

*grumbles*

Take everything Spinny says with a grain of salt . . . did I say salt? I meant a glass of scotch. Really mellows me out. Course if you get a bit punchy when you've been drinking I'd recommend sticking to the salt.

spinnytop · May 2017

This player base has enough salt.

wink!

guyhumual · May 2017

spinnytop said:
This player base has enough salt. wink!

Mmmm, delicious scotch.

avianos · May 2017

The random Citizen NPCs need to be complety removed during events

They cause lag, their speech bubbles overflood the screen, they move your characters and they are very annoying during Colosus battles

Overall this is a really poorly optimized Event
I had hopes it would be different that last year...

there are lvl 40 mobs in westside now...

jer · May 2017

So who thought it was a good idea for the acolytes to make shields that stack and give the portals 17k in overshield health, and for the substantiators to make 2 to 3 groups of 3 worms happen at once? The warzone isn't even this bad in comparison, and don't get me started with the constant getting knocked back held pulled to and stunned through block with the portal guys and the nightmare demolisher, and why is it that they have that "aura" that reduces ranged and AOE damage, they already have invulnerability to them? Literally like all but 2 of my powers are AOEs. I Honestly just feel personally attacked this week.

spinnytop · May 2017

guyhumual said:

spinnytop said:
This player base has enough salt. wink!
Mmmm, delicious scotch.

I feel like we really accomplished something here today. Together.

guyhumual · May 2017

I did a bit of a guide last year, some of the stuff still applies, like king of the hill and Br'er Rabbit, but I full on assault ones won't anymore I don't think,

opalflame · May 2017

Not sure what people are complaining about. I've soloed the dailies a few times now and they don't seem that much harder. It does take a bit longer because of the shields, but those go down pretty fast.

flyingfinn · May 2017

opalflame said:
Not sure what people are complaining about. I've soloed the dailies a few times now and they don't seem that much harder. It does take a bit longer because of the shields, but those go down pretty fast.

Seems that they need to make it harder next time then.

blockwave · May 2017

If you do it on a full justice/OV took, sure, it will be easy, I can do it on my main, try soloing it on a fresh level 40 and watch yourself get chain-knockback and die.

opalflame · May 2017

I'm not saying it needs to be harder, I'm just saying it's not much harder than it was last time this event happened.

guyhumual · May 2017

opalflame said:
Not sure what people are complaining about. I've soloed the dailies a few times now and they don't seem that much harder. It does take a bit longer because of the shields, but those go down pretty fast.

flyingfinn said:

Seems that they need to make it harder next time then.

I think that's the idea. They managed to make the event unplayable for me this year. Next year they'll need to make it even harder.

hugoguerrero · May 2017

Pretty sure most people is awared of the "Elysium Guard" title glitch, it cant be unlocked

Unlocking Elysium Guard Perk, grants Colossal Menace title

@kaizerin

avianos · May 2017

hugoguerrero wrote: »

Pretty sure most people is awared of the "Elysium Guard" title glitch, it cant be unlocked

Unlocking Elysium Guard Perk, grants Colossal Menace title

@kaizerin

AHA, so this bug hasn't been fixed yet
It's been like that since last year

riverocean · May 2017

It might be time to consider moving the Nightmare Invasion to Vibora Bay. Placing high-level mobs (Elder Worms & Horrors) in a lowbie zone (Millennium City) is pretty darned sadistic. And I say that in a non-snarky & mean way. I tested the area out with a lower-level and those mobs just stomped him to death.

I realize that the Invasion is team based content. I have no problem with that.. but forcing level 6-10's to circumvent mobs that are right in the middle of their mission spawn areas.. is just plain cruel. Luckily they don't spawn their sheilds at this level, but they still hit pretty hard.

I've always felt odd about high-level events spawning in the games lowbie zone.. which for the most part hasn't been an issue. But in this case (especially post npc-buffs) it's really noticeable. Plus Vibora Bay is a much better themed fit for the event IMHO any way... maybe next year

.

theravenforce · May 2017

riverocean said:
It might be time to consider moving the Nightmare Invasion to Vibora Bay. Placing high-level mobs (Elder Worms & Horrors) in a lowbie zone (Millennium City) is pretty darned sadistic. And I say that in a non-snarky & mean way. I tested the area out with a lower-level and those mobs just stomped him to death.

I realize that the Invasion is team based content. I have no problem with that.. but forcing level 6-10's to circumvent mobs that are right in the middle of their mission spawn areas.. is just plain cruel. Luckily they don't spawn their sheilds at this level, but they still hit pretty hard.

I've always felt odd about high-level events spawning in the games lowbie zone.. which for the most part hasn't been an issue. But in this case (especially post npc-buffs) it's really noticeable. Plus Vibora Bay is a much better themed fit for the event IMHO any way... maybe next year .

^ This.

It would also mean people actually leave Millennium City for content again.

I guess a compromise could be having mobs in MC spawn up to level 30 and for level 30+ (so scary monster tech) mobs as well as the open missions be placed in Vibora Bay.

draogn · May 2017

theravenforce said:

riverocean said:
It might be time to consider moving the Nightmare Invasion to Vibora Bay. Placing high-level mobs (Elder Worms & Horrors) in a lowbie zone (Millennium City) is pretty darned sadistic. And I say that in a non-snarky & mean way. I tested the area out with a lower-level and those mobs just stomped him to death.

I realize that the Invasion is team based content. I have no problem with that.. but forcing level 6-10's to circumvent mobs that are right in the middle of their mission spawn areas.. is just plain cruel. Luckily they don't spawn their sheilds at this level, but they still hit pretty hard.

I've always felt odd about high-level events spawning in the games lowbie zone.. which for the most part hasn't been an issue. But in this case (especially post npc-buffs) it's really noticeable. Plus Vibora Bay is a much better themed fit for the event IMHO any way... maybe next year .
^ This.

It would also mean people actually leave Millennium City for content again.

I guess a compromise could be having mobs in MC spawn up to level 30 and for level 30+ (so scary monster tech) mobs as well as the open missions be placed in Vibora Bay.

It would also mean fewer people to participate, at least while they require everyone to complete the intro to get there. I've done the intro/crisis twice, that as more then enough for me. Putting them in both would simply split up those who are participating, I'm not entirely sure that would be healthy for the event.

blockwave · May 2017

They could always remove the requirement for the intro after you have done it once on a character

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