Release Notes 8/29/2019

kaiserin · August 2019

Anniversary
Happy 10th Anniversary! For the next 4 weeks we will be celebrating! Every week will bring new goodies and things to do!

Added Retro Defender Chest Wear, Hips Layer and Boots costumes to the event store.
New Event Contact: Top Ten. He will have new weekly missions during the anniversary!

Week 1 Highlights:

Witchcraft is here to give double XP this week.
Gifts and event currency will be dropping from enemies.
Top Ten has a mission for you to reconvene with past contacts.
Martha Reece is looking for help rescuing cats from trees.
Sapphire is putting on a concert every hour. Dance!
Weekly Event store: This week Become Devices are available in the event store.

Secret Identity Lockbox
We have a new lockbox out!

New items to this lockbox:

Casual Costume Box
Power Skating travel power
Bladed Fury ultimate power
Phonebooth costume transformation
Energy Surge costume transformation
Run Scared emote

Casual Costume Box can contain the following items:

Casual Hair 1
Casual Hair 2
Casual Glasses
Casual Hood 1
Casual Hood 2
Casual Sweater
Casual Shirt 1
Casual Shirt 2
Casual Jacket 1
Casual Jacket 2
Casual Belts
Casual Pants 1
Casual Pants 2
Casual Pants 3
Casual Pants 4
Casual Boots 1
Casual Boots 2
Casual Sneakers 1
Casual Sneakers 2

ZEN Store
New Key Pack:

20 Keys
Gauntlet of Power costume
Requin Exocet vehicle
25x Nighthawk’s Talons mods
3x Triumphant Recovery
10x Healing Device Plus
10x Energy Surge Plus

kaiserin · August 2019

Powers
All players have received a free respec. Free respecs do not stack, so if you already had one this one will not stack on top of it.

Might Power Changes

Defiance

Now scales with rank and superstats.
No longer provides energy when damaged.
No longer provides additional stacks with ranks.
Can be applied once every 2 seconds (from 4).
Removed Force of Will advantage. This effect has been moved to another power.

Unstoppable

Energy return trigger has been changed from 'attempting to knock a target' to 'being knocked by a target'.
Changed energy amount from a flat rate into a percentage.
Increased damage absorption.
Added Hold resistance.

Reckless

Removed offense effect.
Now applies Bastion when dealing direct damage, giving you a small shield based on the amount of damage you deal.

Defensive Combo

Moved this power to Tier 0.
Added area effect damage.
Slightly increased damage and cost.
Removed Defiance application. This power now applies a shield effect every hit. This shield effect takes into account your resistances.
Removed bonus threat effect.
Surge of Strength advantage: Now only refreshes the Defiant buff instead of applying it.
New Advantage (2): Chance to Disorient targets.
New Advantage (2): Chance to knock down targets on last hit. Chance on primary target increases if affected by Enrage. Last hit becomes a knock upward if target is affected by a hold effect or hold resistance.

Beatdown

Added area effect damage.
Slightly increased damage and cost.
Removed Stagger effect.
Now has a chance to Knock down targets.
Blindside Blow: Removed damage bonus effect. Now applies Blindside when finishing this power's combo, which increases the base damage of your next 3 Brick Framework attacks based on the number of Enrage stacks on you but reduces any other attack damage. Also partially refreshes the duration of Demolish.
New Advantage (2): Applies Reckless to you on the last hit. Refreshes Reckless if you have 3 stacks.

Nuclear Shockwave

No longer needs to be charged.
Reduced radius to 10ft (from 20).
Increased target cap to 7 (from 5).
Increased damage and cost.
Increased cooldown to 30 seconds (from 0).
Now has a chance to apply Particle Burn based on rank.
Now Knocks back, down or repels targets based on distance from you.
Updated visuals.
New Advantage (2): Applies Disintegrate to targets.

Haymaker

Lowered bonus damage on knock resistance targets from 0-60% (based on charge time) to a flat 30%.
Increased base damage and cost.
Removed Enrage effect.
Removed Nullifying Punch advantage.
New Advantage (2): Increases base damage if affected by Reckless.

Uppercut

Changed charge time to 1.17 seconds (from 1.33). Changed activation time to .83 seconds (from 0.67). This was done to line up the activation time with the animations.
Damage and cost has been adjusted for the new activation time.
Slightly increased damage and cost.
New Advantage (2): Fully charging this power applies Reckless to you. Refreshes Reckless if you have 3 stacks.
New Advantage (2): Applies Blindside when fully charged, which increases the base damage of your next Brick Framework attack based on the number of Enrage stacks on you but reduces any other attack damage.

Kick

Madness advantage: Now only refreshes the Defiant buff. Refreshes on tap now.
New Advantage (2): Applies an Interrupt effect.
New Advantage (2): Refreshes the duration of Demolish.

Unleashed Rage

Now deals Crushing damage.
Replaced Fear effect with Disorient.
New Advantage (1): Changes damage to Sonic typed.
New Advantage (1): Large threat over time bonus.

Hurl

Removed Strong Arm advantage.
Removed Snare from base effect.
Added knockdown effect.
Rubble Trouble advantage: Increased damage. Fixed a bug where it wasn't flagged as ranged damage.
New Advantage (2): Disorients target.
New Advantage (2): Applies Demolish to target if target is Disoriented.

Thunderclap

Removed Enrage effect.
Collateral damage advantage: Increased to 20ft (from 15).
New Advantage (2): Knocks back targets.
New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Disorient to targets.

Havoc Stomp

Removed Enrage effect.
Cooldown increased to 6 seconds (from 0).
Knock is guaranteed now when charged or tapped.
Slightly increased base damage and cost.
New advantage (2): Changes the knock back to a knock to.

Shockwave

Increased Damage and cost.
Damage within 10ft is now crushing typed.
Power Shift advantage: Now also has a small chance to knock targets to you every hit.
Removed Leg Rumbler advantage.
New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Reckless.
New Advantage (2): Applies Demolish when fully maintained.

Roomsweeper

Removed Enrage effect.
Targets are knocked upward if affected by a hold effect or hold resistance.
New Advantage (2): Disorients targets.
New Advantage (2): Applies Demolish to your primary target.

Clobber

Removed Onslaught advantage.

Demolish

Reduced charge time to 0.83 seconds (from 1.33).
Damage and cost has been adjusted for the new charge time.
Below the Belt advantage: Changed to knock targets upward. This effect has a short cooldown.
New Advantage (2): Fully charging Demolish now applies Despondency to your target, lowering their dodge chance.

Retaliation

Fixed a bug where the Retaliation buff was not lasting for its full duration.
This effect will no longer be consumed by dots.
Punitive Pummeling Advantage: Increased knock chance to 100%.
New Advantage (3): Increases your resistance to damage, hold and knock effects for a short time when taking damage while blocking. This amount starts small but scales the lower your health gets.

Enrage

Removed Endorphin Rush advantage. This effect has been moved to a new power.

Mighty Leap

Bull Rush Advantage: Increased area effect to 10ft (from 7).
New Advantage (2): Applies Reckless to you.
New Advantage (2): Applies a non-scaling Stun to nearby targets.

Aggressor

Removed enrage effect.
Added cost discount effect.
New Advantage (2): Chance to Stun targets on all damaging attacks.

Iron Chain

Removed Knock Down on first two attacks to make the Knock Up on the last attack apply more reliably.

New Power: Impressive Physique

Might Framework
Maintained Heal
Heals nearby allies. Does not heal yourself.
Heal scales with your Strength instead of Presence.
Shields you while maintaining.
Advantage (2): Greatly increases knock resistance while maintaining.
Advantage (2): Chance to stun targets while maintaining.

New Power: Call To Battle

Might Framework
Applies Reckless to nearby allies.
Applies Disorient to nearby targets.
Advantage (2): Knocks down targets.
Advantage (2): Applies Restoration to you.

New Power: Indestructible

Brick Framework Shared Power
Active Defense
Increases your damage resistance by a large amount.

New Power: Pulverizer

Brick Framework Shared Power
Energy Unlock
Grants energy over time when you knock a target. This effect can stack up to 3 times. Scales with your Recovery primarily and Endurance.
If you are at 3 stacks of this effect, triggering this effect will refresh existing stacks.

New Power: Endorphin Rush

Brick Framework Shared Power
Heals you over time when taking or dealing direct damage. Heal scales off of your Recovery and Constitution up to a certain amount.
Places other Self Heal over Time powers (like Bountiful Chi Resurgence) on shared cooldown.
Advantage (2): Taking damage applies Charged Up to you.

New Power: Final Punch

Brick Framework Ultimate
Deals heavy damage to one target that scales with your Enrage stacks. Knocks back your target and nearby targets. Expires all Form stacks on you.

kaiserin · August 2019

Power Changes

Circles

Fixed a bug where Advanced Casting on Circle of Arcane Power and Ebon Wrath was not working.

Cleave

Defensive Stance advantage: Now only refreshes the Defiant buff.

Onslaught Gloves of the Defender

Updated tooltip to state the correct amount of threat bonus this gear gives.
Bastion can only be triggered by direct damage now (from any kind).
Capped out Bastion stacks to 10 (from 100). This was done for balance and performance reasons.
The shield effect no longer takes into account your damage resistance.
Increased amount of shield gained from damage to 6% (from 5).

Force Shield

Force Sheathe advantage: Increased cost to 3 advantage points (from 1).

Telekinetic Shield

Telekinetic Reinforcement advantage: Increased cost to 3 advantage points (from 1).

Inborn Tenacity Device

The low health damage trigger effect can no longer stack and no longer refreshes itself.
Increased duration to 10 seconds (from 9)
Increased trigger chance to 15% (from 12).

Howl

Adds additional stacks of Furious per rank.
Additional ranks no longer reduce the power's cooldown time.

Ultimate Powers

The following Ultimate powers have had their cooldown changed to 60 seconds (from 90):
Storm Strike, Crashing Incantation, Showdown, Fire All Weapons, Mental Impact, Gravity Driver, Planar Fracture, Fractal Aegis, Implosion Engine, Whirlpool, Mechanical Monstrosity.

Active Powers

Active Offense and Defense powers now place powers of their type on a 90 second cooldown (from 30). This was done to address balance issues with using active powers back to back.
Active Offense powers no longer scale their duration with rank and have a flat duration of 15 seconds.
Added Active Power category for the powers list.

Active Offenses

The damage bonus on ranks 2 and 3 have been boosted.

Master of the Mind/Feral Rage

Reduced cooldown to 90 seconds (from 150).

Imbue

Reduced Critical and Severity amount.
Updated tooltip to reflect that the amount scales with your health.

Ice Sheathe

The Critical Severity now scales based on the amount of your Chill stacks on your target.

Masterful Dodge

Dodge bonus now scales with rank (from a flat amount every rank).
Increased Dot resistance.
Removed Unfettered Strikes advantage.
New Advantage (2): Greatly increases breakout damage and adds a stack of Knock and Hold resistance.

Resurgence

Added a Regeneration effect to this power.
Evanescent Advantage: Renamed to Unchained. Greatly increased breakout damage and now adds a stack of Knock and Hold resistance. Removed Furious effect.

Unbreakable

Updated tooltips as they referenced an unused effect.
Removed Better You Than Me advantage.
New Advantage (2): Greatly increases breakout damage and adds a stack of Knock and Hold resistance.

Ice Barrier

Removed innate root effect. Removed root removal advantage.
Replaced healing effect with a Healing Rune. This rune is summon when activating this power and will not vanish if the barriers are destroyed.
Fixed a bug where the resistance on this power could scale from other stats.
Increased base resistance value to 20% (from 15).
New Advantage (2): Greatly increases breakout damage and adds a stack of Knock and Hold resistance.

Field Surge

Removed Power Swell advantage.
New Advantage (2): Greatly increases breakout damage and adds a stack of Knock and Hold resistance.

Power Chord

Increased activation period to 0.5 seconds (from 0.3).
Damage and cost adjusted based on the change.
Maintain damage now scales based on your Enrage stacks.
No longer provides a scaling damage bonus while maintaining.
Now properly applies Disorient when fully maintained.
Increased knock back distance significantly.
Changed damage to melee typed.
Rock Concert advantage: Exhilarate has been changed to apply a charge speed bonus and energy to nearby players.

Block

Fixed a tooltip error where blocks were only displaying part of the value of the amount of energy they return.
Updated Block energy return to apply in 1 amount instead of 2. The amount of energy returned is the same, it's just combined into 1.
Fixed a tooltip error where some blocks did not state their additional effects.

Fissure

The heal on this ability is now considered a Rune effect.

Charged Up

Reduced amount of speed each stack gives, but increased the max stack count to 5.

Versatility

This advantage now applies Charged Up instead of Versatility.

Laughing Zephyr

Now applies 2 stacks of Charged up at r1, 3 at r2, and 5 at r3.

Intensity

Rage of the Beast advantage: Now applies 5 stacks of Charged Up on you.

Lightning Strike

Charged Up advantage: Can now stack Charged Up. Also refreshes existing stacks.

Chill

Chill can now stack up to 9 times on a target. Individual players can still only stack up to 3, but the total amount that can be on a target is now 9.

Wall of Ice

Damage from this power is now a short duration dot. Chill provided from this power now counts as the player's Chill stacks.

Ebon Ruin

Fixed a bug where this power had a very small window to block cancel it.

New Power: Destructive

Earth Framework
Grants power when applying Stagger to enemies. Scales with Endurance primarily and Recovery.

New Power: Bladed Fury

Martial Arts Shared Ultimate
Available in the Secret Identity lockbox.
Deals damage to targets around you that scales off of your focus stacks. Knocks down targets and applies Shredded.

Archetypes

Behemoth
Corrected diminishing return values on this archetype.

New Power Progression:

1 Clobber
1 Defensive Combo
6 Mighty Leap
8 Defiance
11 Thunderclap OR Roomsweeper
14 Enrage
17 Uppercut OR Haymaker
21 Retaliation
25 Pulverizer
30 Havoc Stomp OR Shockwave
35 Indestructible OR Endorphin Rush
40 Call to Battle

Devastator
Changed power choices:

35: Aggressor OR Endorphin Rush

Mountain
Changed power choices:

25: Destructive
30: Fault Line OR Quicksand
35: Unbreakable

chaosdrgnz43 · August 2019

tbh I kinda liked "War Cry" better than "Call to Battle and "Brute Force" than "Pulverize". Sad that Impressive Physique didn't have a self-heal adv, but that's just how it goes.

This lockbox kinda gives the impression that you're lowkey calling us filthy casuals. Which is true in a way.

Also...

spinnytop · August 2019

Yaaaaaay, the "spam knocks in alerts" update is here! \o/

avianos · August 2019

Suggestion: Please give Bladed Fury an 1point ADV that makes it scale with ENRAGED stacks instead of Focus

Since Bestial got such a... that kind of ultimate... we need alternative powers and Bladed Fury fits perfectly Bestial

Was the Unlocking issues with Skating travel power and Run Scared Emote fixed?

bluhman · August 2019

A fine set of updates. No clue what the actual new anniversary content entails so I guess that'll be a surprise.

also

spinnytop · August 2019

kaizerin wrote: »

New Power: Endorphin Rush
Brick Framework Shared Power

Heals you over time when taking or receiving direct damage. Heal scales off of your Recovery and Constitution up to a certain amount.

Places other Self Heal over Time powers (like Bountiful Chi Resurgence) on shared cooldown.

Advantage (2): Taking damage applies Charged Up to you.

I see this typo made it into the release notes. That should be "when taking or dealing direct damage". Taking and receiving mean the same thing in this context .-.

redcastle56 · August 2019

Is the Behemoth AT change out with this patch? Or did you take away its energy gain from Defiance, but NOT give it the EU to make up for it?

spinnytop · August 2019

redcastle56 wrote: »

Is the Behemoth AT change out with this patch? Or did you take away its energy gain from Defiance, but NOT give it the EU to make up for it?

I'm willing to bet she forgot to post those changes, and that they are definitely included. It would be a disaster otherwise.

kaiserin · August 2019

My bad, knew I forgot to post something.

avianos · August 2019

bluhman wrote: »

A fine set of updates. No clue what the actual new anniversary content entails so I guess that'll be a surprise.

also

This is Sapphire's Final Form, She ascended after singing for years she becomes a huge mecha of cats at the end!
Now get ready to add A LOT and i mean A LOT OF TEN-puns
Why is Caterpie here?

spinnytop · August 2019

bluhman wrote: »

5/10, not enough cats.

redcastle56 · August 2019

Behemoth 11 lvl choice is wrong. Thunderclap or Demolish, not thunderclap or roomsweeper. (unless you changed it from what was in PTS)

nacito · August 2019

avianos wrote: »

Why is Caterpie here?

because hes a CATerpie

avianos · August 2019

naciiito wrote: »

because hes a CATerpie

GOD DAMN IT

spinnytop · August 2019

God damn I just tested out Resurgence and that regeneration it gives is FIERCE, and that's without even having Regeneration passive.

jaazaniah1 · August 2019

I always enjoy how the currency sale never mentions CO https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/11242933

I also like how the Secret ID box provides us with Reactor Costume Boxes https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/11243843-the-secret-identity-lock-box-and-key-pack!

lezard21 · August 2019

Cross Post:

I have a bone to pick o3o

New MA Ultimate:
1) is a click
2) commanding presence
3) knocks
4) applies shreded

MEANWHILE

New Brick Ultimate:
1) is a charge
2) knocks
3) eats all your form stacks

WHY are the MA Ultimates universally better than the Brick Ultimates?

3 out of the 5 MA Ultimates apply Commanding Prescence vs 1 of the Brick Ultimates
4 out of the 5 MA Ultimates deal spike damage without having an impact on your overall DPS vs 1 of the Brick Ultimates

For comparison's sake

Energy Projector Ultimates: 6
Number of Ultimates that apply Commanding Presence: 2 (Fractal Aegis and Storm Strike)
Number of Ultimates that don't negatively impact on your DPS: 2 (Gravity Driver and Whirpool)

Technology Ultimates: 5
Number of Ultimates that apply Commanding Presence: 1, Showdown (BIG LOL)
Number of Ultimates that don't negatively impact on your DPS: 2 (Fire All Weapons and Meltdown)

Mentalist Ultimates: 4
Number of Ultimates that apply Commanding Presence: 2 (Mental Impact and EBP)
Number of Ultimates that don't negatively impact on your DPS: 2 (Mental Impact and EBP...wow much vary)

Mystic Ultimates: 5
Number of Ultimates that apply Commanding Presence: 1, Feral Rage (LOL x 2)
Number of Ultimates that don't negatively impact on your DPS: 1 (Crashing Incantation) + Utility Ultimate: Transcendence

flyingfinn · August 2019

****!!!10
Allready!!??
And no time to retcon all that...
And i got $50 right here, for all those CostumeParts in a bundle.

originaltyger · August 2019

Casual Hair 2 (The Long one) gives you the Casual Short hair. According to a friend, Casual hair 1 unlocks the Long hair, so they`re just swapped.

garyg07 · August 2019

PLEASE STOP BREAKING MY CHARACTERS!!!!

ealford1985 · August 2019

Must be a weak hero then

gentlegiantvexx · August 2019

Huzzah on the 10th anniversary!

Also, there's a tool tip error as Indestructible is reading that it's an Active Offense in it's first descriptions.

championsrper · August 2019

Can we get the extra threat Advantage on Catastrophic Pummeling? Its a super cool power I'd like to use but not having the extra threat on your Ult is unfortunate when just about every other Ult does

chaosdrgnz43 · August 2019

Just tried Impressive Physique in Kiga. BK was right. It's pretty underwhelming. You can barely save squishy dps and the shield doesn't really protect you from the storm. You have to use healing items or Resurgence to make up for it.

Still, I do love the power. I'm gonna try to get Virt gear to make the most of it!

championsrper · August 2019

Also I ABSOLUTELY NEED that Power Skating TP as just a regular rollerskating power. Also rollerskates costume.

championsrper · August 2019

I'm also really sad that you removed the Threat bonus from Defensive Combo

I mean, shields are cool, but I wanted to Aggro! I just wanted the damage and threat to scale better

avianos · August 2019

Now that Skating works in PTS, i Absolutely LOVE IT
We need more Unique travel powers like this

https://youtu.be/4V4IEV8l-gA

saruro1994 · August 2019

Well is definitely not getting old the fact that every update here and there you got to fix the same builds to do the same “OLD CONTENT” time and time again for not other parent reason than the sake of it, while things like archery stone powers and what not are keep forgotten and untouch.
Have a happy 10 anniversary champions.

n8mcd · August 2019

Using the single-charge party bombs from the anni-gifts near the cake/stage no longer seem to give the perk 'Dance Party' - I used 5 of them in the area that would give the perk last year to no effect, some on the cake, some on the stage, some on the ground between.

Also, targeting DJ Madbot with the party bomb does not give the 'D.J.' perk, as it did last year. I did not have enough to test the party-bombing perks on other perk-y targets, but I suspect that whatever change was made that counts the number of affected targets has broken the other target and location based party-bomb perks.

guyhumual · August 2019

Should the emote's name be changed to "Run in place scared"? Or is it gonna be changed to let your character move about while it's active?

ealford1985 · August 2019

I was hoping it worked like moonwalk

horripilante · August 2019

The Retro Defender Helmet is not avileable on the event store right now.
Will it be placed there later ?

criswolf09 · August 2019

What happened with the Wrecker AT? I thought it was going to be added with this update.

ogremindes · August 2019

Damnit, every time I plan out a Heavy Weapons build something changes that screws it up.

atherris · August 2019

Rock Concert advantage on Power Chord doesn't seem to be doing anything at all

hasukurobi · August 2019

atherris wrote: »

Rock Concert advantage on Power Chord doesn't seem to be doing anything at all

It is a real shame that they changed it as they did. A charge reduction bonus is nearly useless compared to a flat-out damage buff. I rarely see people use charge attacks fully charged unless they are super fast to charge to begin with.

Also, did we really need to kill the advantage of the two shields? I mean I know the Dark shield's version is 3 points but it provides stronger defense when fully loaded as far as I know.

spinnytop · August 2019

I see people doing full charges quite frequently, and the damage bonus got eaten up by diminishing returns so it wasn't really useful. Charge speed bonus is better.

xparibax · August 2019

Is... is that the Roller Skating travel power I've been asking for, since on alert hit?? Pleasepleaseplease tell me it is..

magpieuk2014 · August 2019

Happy 10th Anniversary!

This year we decided to break all your Characters so you can spend even longer in the Powerhouse!

Don't worry though, you can obtain a free Excel macro from the Event Store (cost 1,000,000 Boffin tokens). to help you work out the optimal Cosmic DPS setup for this week! (May not work next week).

(I'm joking, sort of).

avianos · August 2019

criswolf09 wrote: »

What happened with the Wrecker AT? I thought it was going to be added with this update.

Next Week

spinnytop wrote: »

I see people doing full charges quite frequently, and the damage bonus got eaten up by diminishing returns so it wasn't really useful. Charge speed bonus is better.

It's true and I can confirm since im using it with adv on 3 support builds
The offensive buff was hit HARD by DM, it wasn't even worth using

poptartmaniac · August 2019

atherris wrote: »

Rock Concert advantage on Power Chord doesn't seem to be doing anything at all

What she meant is it literally doesn't work xd, it's bugged.

poptartmaniac · August 2019

Bug: Ascii Oakley isn't showing any visual effects when hit, some debuffs not showing up on her either.

hasukurobi · August 2019

spinnytop wrote: »

I see people doing full charges quite frequently, and the damage bonus got eaten up by diminishing returns so it wasn't really useful. Charge speed bonus is better.

On things that have a charge time that this would actually effect? I mean I see full charge moves being used when the charge period is short and even then sparingly mostly but any of the serious ones seem to mostly just get spammed at low charge because they are not worth full charge in my experience.

The DR thing is valid though. It helps a lot with lower level less Minmaxed characters around you but top level Minmaxed it does nothing much for. Then again, it is not a very valid skill to use in those circumstances anyway.

spinnytop · August 2019

The great thing about charge speed bonus is that it helps all builds equally, so long as they're using charges, and collectively we benefit more from having our top dpsers have their dps increased by 12% than we do from having the bottom dps increased 20%. Incidentally all Melee builds use charges, often long ones, and that's where a Heavy Weapons toon that might use this power is likely to be hanging out.

I'm not sure what you mean by charges only being worth using if the charge time is short, or people using charges sparringly. You must be watching different people than I am, because I see lots of fully charged powers, even when the charge time is long. Many of my toons dps using charged attacks, and barring some un-updated sets, using full charges produces better dps - the only toon I have that dpses using taps is my Telepathy CCer, and I can't wait for them to change telepathy to use a maintain or full charges instead. There's no reason to minimize your charges either, since blocks will always interrupt them if you need to suddenly block in the middle of a charge.

kaiserin · August 2019

8/30/2019 Patch:
Addressed an issue where the Casual hair 1 and 2 unlocks were swapped.
Addressed an issue where the Casual Jacket 2 costume wasn't unlocking for female characters. These changes are retroactive.

mastercontrol7 · August 2019

> @spinnytop said:
> The great thing about charge speed bonus is that it helps all builds equally, so long as they're using charges, and collectively we benefit more from having our top dpsers have their dps increased by 12% than we do from having the bottom dps increased 20%. Incidentally all Melee builds use charges, often long ones, and that's where a Heavy Weapons toon that might use this power is likely to be hanging out.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by charges only being worth using if the charge time is short, or people using charges sparringly. You must be watching different people than I am, because I see lots of fully charged powers, even when the charge time is long. Many of my toons dps using charged attacks, and barring some un-updated sets, using full charges produces better dps - the only toon I have that dpses using taps is my Telepathy CCer, and I can't wait for them to change telepathy to use a maintain or full charges instead. There's no reason to minimize your charges either, since blocks will always interrupt them if you need to suddenly block in the middle of a charge.

The only people who use fully charged powers are ones at cosmics or being forced to do so, or doing it just out to make sure they get out the max damage, there not much of reason to max out your charge unless you can do this willingly without cool down behind it, if your attacks are must be full charge to fire\used, you at a disadvantage because if you are

Knocked, it will be cancelled.
Held, it will be cancelled.
Interrupted, you already know.

This will be even worse if we are talking about involving cooldowns if you if hit the 100% mark on your charge and get knocked, held, interrupted, shot\action will fail and you will go in to a cooldown as if it was initiated, me personally I think fully charged to attack is bad thing to put on any power, unless device power e.g psionic accelerator, and lost of DPS, IF you can do 10k with half or 75% of a charge why should I fire defile at full for 13k? Is it that 3k worth that? No, not worth to me anyway, rarely anything hold still in this game, so a fully charged power to fire would be a chore, I do enough of that when I comeback from work.

Also rocket launcher known as rocket is 20 seconds power and must be fully charged to fire that do if I was to get knocked or held, at the time of it's firing\ 100% charged up, it will be cancelled out go into cooldown and I will have to wait 15-20 seconds to be used just to try to fire again, and this is always going to be a problem regardless if you doing cosmics or not, even if you think the shot is going to be wasted all you have to do is block and your shot is canceled
And any powered get benefits from a full charge is TK Lance with it semi dependent buffs.

mastercontrol7 · August 2019

Also, find this on steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/9880/Champions_Online/

Hi-Octane Excitement: Combat is instantaneous and electrifying. No more boring auto attacks and lengthy recharge times

I want my rocket launcher back too 5-7 seconds again and be able to fire it at any percentage of charge, please

and you could get rid of the 7target cap it not useful anyway, and make red hot fury turn it into a 20-15 second recharged time modifier.

Please do this kaiserin.

pantagruel01 · August 2019

mastercontrol7 wrote: »

The only people who use fully charged powers are ones at cosmics or being forced to do so

Rock Concert is for buffing teammates, so you can assume you're in team content. I use full charges all the time in team content, though when soloing it's mostly only for alpha strikes.

mastercontrol7 · August 2019

That should also be the same for rain lance too.

Release Notes 8/29/2019

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