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What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Release Notes 5/27/2021
kaiserin
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Power Changes
All players have received a free respec. This respec does not stack with previous respecs.
Archery
Straight Shot
Taser Arrow
Sonic Arrow
Gas Arrow
Torrent of Arrows
Storm of Arrows
Focused Shot
Hunter's Instinct
Explosive Arrow
Quarry
Snap Shot
Arrow Assault
New Power: Fair Game
New Power: Rapid Shots
New Power: Caltrops
New Power: Desperate Shot
New Power: Precision
New Power: Medical Arrow
All players have received a free respec. This respec does not stack with previous respecs.
Archery
Straight Shot
- No longer applies the effect that increases archery damage for the next 2 hits.
- Now has a chance of applying Root based on charge time.
- Split the Arrow advantage: Changed to apply Armor Piercing when fully charging the power.
- New Advantage (1): Applies Download to you.
- New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Disorient to target.
Taser Arrow
- Moved to Crowd Control.
- Must now be fully charged.
- Removed energy reduction effect.
- New Advantage (2): Creates a Static Field on the target.
- New Advantage (2): Applies Superconductor to the target.
Sonic Arrow
- Moved to Crowd Control.
- Added 10 second cooldown.
- Increased target cap to 5.
- Stuns targets if not fully charged.
- Paralyzes targets if fully charged.
- New Advantage (2): Applies Deafening to your primary target. Applies to additional targets when fully charged.
Gas Arrow
- Fixed an issue where the Noxious Fumes advantage wasn't counting the Stun as your own.
- Noxious Fumes Advantage: Stun chance is increased if the target is Disoriented.
Torrent of Arrows
- Now has an innate chance to Knockdown targets.
- Removed cooldown.
- This power was using an outdated damage/cost calculation, and its cost has gone up dramatically.
- Relentless Recurve Advantage: changes the Knockdown to Knockback.
- New Advantage (2): Applies Armor Piercing to primary target. If other targets are affected by Disorient, applies Armor Piercing to them as well.
Storm of Arrows
- Fixed an issue with the animation looping improperly.
- Fixed an issue where the arrows were using the wrong texture.
- Removed cooldown.
- Achilles Heel Advantage: Fixed an issue where the root was not being refreshed every hit.
- New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Disorient to targets.
Focused Shot
- Successfully using this power reduces the charge time of the power. Stacks up to 3 times. The effect is removed when you take damage. Does not stack with other Chargespeed reduction effects.
Hunter's Instinct
- Scaling changed from Ego to Intelligence.
- Now restores energy over time.
Explosive Arrow
- Now has a chance to Knock targets.
- This power was using an outdated damage/cost calculation, and its cost has gone up dramatically.
- New Advantage (2): Leaves behind a Pyre Patch.
- New Advantage (1): Changes the Fire damage portion of this attack to crushing. This also applies to the Where's the Kaboom? advantage.
- Where's the Kaboom? Advantage: Damage for this was originally fixed despite power rank and diminished with additional targets. The damage now scales with charge time and no longer diminishes with additional targets.
- Where's the Kaboom? advantage: Increased Fire damage amount and lowered the Piercing damage amount.
Quarry
- Removed Fair Game advantage.
- Added passive icon.
Snap Shot
- Moved to T0.
- Now a combo power.
- Damage and cost adjusted for being a T0 combo power.
- Applies Disorient when finishing the combo.
- Finish Him Advantage: Changed to apply bonus damage to all Archery powers when the target is at low health.
- New Advantage (2): Applies Floating Lotus Blossom to you.
- New Advantage (2): Refreshes Armor Piercing.
Arrow Assault
- New Advantage (1): Changes the Fire damage portion of this attack to Crushing.
New Power: Fair Game
- Tier 2 Archery
- Applies a heal over time when you defeat a target. Stacks up to 5 times.
- Scales with Intelligence and Dexterity.
- Advantage (2): Applies the Lithe buff to you when you defeat a target.
New Power: Rapid Shots
- Tier 3 Archery
- Maintained single target damage.
- Chance to snare targets.
- Advantage (2): Increases base damage of power, but you can no longer move while using.
New Power: Caltrops
- Tier 2 Archery
- Area damage over time
- Places Caltrops in front of you, dealing Piercing damage and snaring enemies.
- Advantage (2): Chance to cause targets in the Caltrops to starting Bleeding.
New Power: Desperate Shot
- Tier 1 Archery
- Single target damage. Increased damage when a critical hit.
- If used while under 50% health, deals double damage and stuns.
- 10 second cooldown.
- Advantage (2): Applies Restoration.
New Power: Precision
- Tier 1 Archery
- Form
- Grants a stack of Analyze whenever you get a critical hit with a damaging Archery ability.
- Scales with Intelligence
New Power: Medical Arrow
- Tier 1 Archery
- Creates a healing rune on the target.
- Advantage (2): Disorients target.
- Advantage (2): Applies Illuminated to target, and Illumination to allies near the target.
- Advantage (1): Applies Download to you.
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Mental Storm
Tanglecoil Launcher
Bolas
Binding Shot
Gas Pellets
Holdout Shot
Sonic Boom Generator
Gattling Gun
Debuffs
Shredded
Demolish
Serpentine Fire
Debilitating Poison
Stress
Stagger
- Now has a maximum cap of 9 on a target (player cap is still 3).
The Marksman
Corrected diminishing return values.
New Power Progression:
- 1 Strafe
- 1 Straight Shot
- 6 Sonic Arrow OR Desperate Shot
- 8 Quarry
- 11 Torrent of Arrows
- 14 Precision
- 17 Rapid Shots
- 21 Parry
- 25 Hunter's Instinct
- 30 Storm of Arrows OR Gas Arrow
- 35 Evasive Maneuvers OR Fair Game
- 40 Explosive Arrow OR Focused Shot
Giant Monster Week
ZEN Store
For the next week the Mach Key Pack will be available.
Cost: 900 ZEN
Powerhouse Theater
Questionite Store
Costumes
- Increased texture resolution for Heavy Sword Broad weapon skin.
- Added Heavy Sword Broad as a default Back costume.
Female characters do not appear to have this costume available. It is there for male ones, though.
It works fine for me. Make sure your travel powers aren't on, Display devices don't work then.
Literally the best part of this whole update.
Can we get more of these? :O
> Questionite Store* Added Weapon Display: Heavy Weapon Shoulder item to the Questionite store.
> * For the next week this item will cost 1 Questionite.
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> Literally the best part of this whole update.
> Can we get more of these? :O
Yes pls, this is the sort of stuff I love to see. Great for RP or just standing around looking cool. More stuff like this with weapons, or even with other stuff maybe, like holding a fireball or something.
More stuff like this please
but man can that get a different or another trigger, like let's say, on kill or on crit with archery power?
This is a big journey, so far if you're reading this, wish you a good day
I'm happy to see the so waited Archery Revamp for the powerframe to stand up it's ground after almost 1 and a half year
Looking forward for Gadgets, Force, Earth, Celestial as well as Dual Blades and Fighting Claws to a lesser degree next
I simple never gonna use Fair Game since in Boss fights its useless, even if I spend the majority of my time Soloing QWZ Dailies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm not falling for this!
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
Absolutely useless trigger. Only helpful if you're soloing trash mobs. Useless on a team or on bosses.
What in the world makes you think this is a good idea, Kais? You KNOW the whole membership loathes "on kill" procs. Another power hardly anyone's going to take except by mistake. You might as well have not bothered.
Bit early yet for that. It's during anniversary event which isn't until September. Next annual event should be the Patriot one.
Kind of surprised that the archery utility mod hasn't yet been added to the scr/gcr vendor? You'd think it would be there to go along with the revamp. Or, failing that, that it would at least be re-released in a key pack.
> Well, yeah. They usually do one leading into the anniversary
Anniversary is over 3 months away dawg.
Because you die.
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
For anyone who is not aware the Creator of the most well known manga BERSERK, Kentaro Miura, passed away early this month, leaving his legacy behind
Final Fantasy 14 players paid tribute to him while standing in lines of heroic poses while in dark armours similar to the one the protagonist wears and having campfires
...no, really? It's not like I just pointed that out or anything
[img]https://i.imgur.com/KJPiBjS.png[/img]
Also Snap Shot says combo but looks pretty static to me. Desperate Shot could look more flexible to. Rick and Morty anyone?
Things I like from this update:
1) Standardized Debuff Length - love standardized things. Does this also mean the slot for debuffs is standardized (also for buff removal/Debuff removal a la Celestial Cleansing)
2) Single Damage type debuffs. Forcing players to choose the Damage they want to be most used for offense is a good change that will allow for diverse resistances in enemy choice.
3) Damage standardization overall. I'll trust the parsers to double check but it seems welcome.
4) Archery feels like it belongs with the Technology Tree now. But it brings other parts of Tech into real doubt. I hope it still feels run and gun to be players even with some new stationary casts.
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Some missed opportunities that I hope are coming:
1) Debuff and CC gameplay is still a Zero Sum mechanic. Allowing archers so many CC powers means ultimately all other CC players are currently going to have worse overall performance as past of a team. Additionally CC is not calculated in Open Missions (For those who like first place performance).
2) INT as a stat has been pretty gutted since COs launch. It was once the "Pets Stat" but pet gameplay has Changed Drastically. I would like to see some of the newer mechanics like Charge Time and some of the older mechanics like Proximity to target for efficacy to really play in the final calculated build. I need to re-check maths but DoTs (Multi-Hit from other games) still does not calculate for all the hits but only the first.
3) Threat values to all of these things is not really included. As CCer I've "FELT" much more targeted by NPCs but there's no way for me to verify that CC powers are now receiving more Threat per second. (Which I do think would be a good change). Players overall have no UI to watch their threat during combat.
Some general questions about this first redesign framework
1) Shouldn't Caltrops be a destructible pet like other Gadget pets? Maybe same with Healing Arrow? I mean if I'm Still Carrying around a Prototype Brain bomb with no clue what it's doing there besides making Particle mine look good. Or does this change note that pets overall are being moved to more of a device/trap gameplay (pets that aren't targetable or destructible)
2) Is click activating self heals being standardized? Fair Game, BCR, and Endorphin Rush seem to get it but should we look for the other self-heal powers attached to forms and passive to change too (Looking Squarely at Medical Nanites.. aka the sentinel aura)
3) Are 100ft Range powers going to have energy updates to standardize with what Telepathy and Archery can do with their high INT values? (Increased energy costs for longer range powers)
Something that would be fun is if the combo worked like Ranged Telekinesis, or like Reaper's Embrace where you apply effects like bleeds for a burst (with moderate damage ofc since ranged). maybe use explosive arrow for that, who knows.
I did try finish him adv with focused shot and it was fun to have another route but it's not worth the effort/time lost doing the whole thing, or not as satisfying I guess. Maybe a FX or Sound change to the focused shot when it lands on enemies could help.
Other than that it's pretty solid, desperation shot and the Medical Arrow rune heal are awesome.
Focused shot stacking up like that is amazing and the damage is nice.
Still not pleased about the physical debuffs but oh well.
Side note: The weapon display is AMAZING
please consider having this idle pose for other weapon types as well.
> ...no, really? It's not like I just pointed that out or anything
Oh whoops you're right, my bad.
Just used to people constantly think anniversary is just around the corner for some reason.
Is it bugged, or is this an otherwise undocumented "fix" to the power?
Yes it bugged nothing is stated in the PTS patch notes or else about the "iniquity" change.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, this shouldn't be the case. Even if the buff didn't expire on getting hit, the damage is currently too low.
Now I can combo it with Torrent of Arrows and give it more uses and interesting combinations! NICE
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
Here is the Facebook video Archieve for the Q&A steam for everyone who would like to watch
Here is the Twitch VOD as well but they don't last long before getting deleted
Honestly, Having Gadgeteering being the LAST to be revamped is completely understandable!
It's not only massive as you said, It's also all over the place I may add
> Kael is the writer, but still doesn't know much about the lore/game because the company don't give him time to play the game.
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Terrible excuse to not know the game.
Well, this kills a few of my builds. Once again, fixing something that isn't broken. I'm all for new powers in existing powersets, but this wasn't exactly an OP ability, it was mainly single target with a small AOE if something happened to be close. It was the perfect power for a character that just needed one ranged ability that was more of a "techno archer" than an archer; but once again, I'm losing something for no real reason other than the devs don't understand the value of an existing power. Well it is your game, I just hope you never succeed in "fixing" my desire to play.