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kaiserin
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Lockbox
Costumes
Alerts
Vigilance Mission
Devices
Modular System Devices
Nighthawk Devices
UNTIL Recognition Limited Devices
UNTIL Recognition Summon Devices
Argent Neutralizing Taser
Bleak One Minion Net
Necrotic Disruptor
Qularr Adhesive Grenades
Argent Neutralizing Taser
Steelhead Flamethrower
- Added Heraldry costumes to the pts lockbox store.
- Added Shining Knight auras to the pts lockbox store.
Costumes
- Added Chainmail 2 pattern to Chest and Leg tights.
Alerts
Vigilance Mission
- The Vigilance mission has been reworked. Players with the current mission will be able to complete it if they currently have it active.
- New Vigilance: Complete any custom alert daily mission 3 times, rewards Questionite Ore, Silver Recognition and UNTIL Recognition. Repeatable weekly.
Devices
- Many temporary devices are receiving changes to address various balance issues.
- Known issues: Many of the devices have been given temporary tooltips over the messy auto-generated ones that may not reflect everything the device does.
Modular System Devices
- Can no longer stack. Harmon Labs alert now drops a box that contains one of these devices that stacks up to 20.
Nighthawk Devices
- Can no longer stack. Franklin Stone's Penthouse alert now drops a box that contains one of these devices that stacks up to 20.
UNTIL Recognition Limited Devices
- Reduced charge count to 1.
UNTIL Recognition Summon Devices
- Fixed an issue where many of the summoned entities were not considered pets for the purposes of power interactions.
- All summon devices in this store are now toggle effects to match other summon devices. Only one can be active at a time.
Argent Neutralizing Taser
- Updated the hold effect on this device to apply a Stun.
Bleak One Minion Net
- Updated the hold effect on this device to apply a Paralyze.
Necrotic Disruptor
- Updated the hold effect on this device to apply a Paralyze.
Qularr Adhesive Grenades
- Updated the hold effect on this device to apply a Stun.
- Updated the root effect on this device to apply a regular Root.
Argent Neutralizing Taser
- Fixed an issue with this device's FX not playing properly.
Steelhead Flamethrower
- Fixed damaged being set to level 1.
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Heraldry Gloves
For female avatars only, the Heraldry Gloves are not available by selecting "both" hands in the tailor. You have to choose it on the left and right hand individually, or by searching in the unlocked costumes tab.
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I hear you. I tried to get some use out of such devices when I first started playing and rapidly found out that all they were good for was vendor trash. At least this part is not a change to something important.
Was rather hoping there'd be straps to the shield rather than it floating out like that.
This image shows that there are arm accessories to these. Are they unique to the set or are they something else? Because they're not within the lockbox contents.
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This is pretty much a giant kick in the arse for silver/premium players with a refinement limit of 8k ore/day. At least with the current vigilance you could look forward to a refined Q reward at the end. Anyone running any kind of content that rewards ore instead of refined Q (which is basically a lot of the endgame stuff) can tell you how easy it is to have a ton of ore that builds far faster than you can refine it to Q for the exchange.
Example: I had a toon that had to build a bunch of scr/gcr for gear. By the time I had enough, I had accumulated so much ore I've spent at least a month not playing that toon so I could refine all the excess ore. And I'm still waiting probably another month before the remaining ore excess will be refined.
I don't see any scenario where this change doesn't result in a silver player having to wait even longer now to exchange Q for the Zen store
Not asking this to be a wise-guy, it's a sincere question: Was this decision fueled by a desire from up the ladder to get players using their credit card more often for Zen tokens by slowing down the Q to Z exchange?
I think, respectfully, you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. With this update, you will now have a chance at 6000 Q per week, totalling 48,000 to the 30,000 vigilance now awards. Plus now we can skip alerts we don't like (*cough* STE), and we now have access to 20 SCR per week that we didn't have before.
I get the complaint about refining Q, but all in all this is a big improvement
Probably yes. I'm all for any changes to the game that get other players than me (since I do buy Zen) to fork over money to support the game I play. Win-win as far as I'm concerned.
I'd like to highlight in short, especially with the change of 6kQOre, not even refined Q, that all this is doing is further punishing people who want to grind Questionite doing something that isn't Cosmics, which are themselves partially responsible for the same "too much Qnite in the market" issue this Vigilance nerf seems like it's intended to fix. Lairs are already a bad choice versus Cosmics despite being harder, Rampages aren't run enough to be a viable secondary source, Adventure Packs take too long and Vigilance only held up due to at-your-leisure mass farmability across tens of characters when just two or three characters doing Cosmics every 20 hour span in the same time would generate that same amount of Questionite. And the issue is that the strongest source of Questionite (Cosmics are the strongest/fastest, Vigilance is just a lower-effort but much less rewarding alternative, just like how Lairs (which need a reward buff) are a much higher-effort but STILL less rewarding alternative) still vastly outdoes... honestly, not even its alternatives, but the Q sinks already in the game. We need more Q sinks, since the TPB was done with a lack of understanding of what the average player really cares to spend on.
Honestly? This is the exact same problem that Resources/Globals have, the difference being that since Resources/Globals don't have a direct conversion to Zen (having to use Questionite as a proxy,) Gs don't get touched as inflation continues, when what both need aren't making farming it in ways outside of "dev-friendly optimum strat spam" (Smashes in Aurum/Lockbox Merc-equivalent and Cosmics in Lockbox Merc-equivalent) more nightmarish and un-fun than the optimum already is, but more (actual important/valuable things) to spend them on. Give us power unlocks that take Gs and useful endgame consumables that cost Q; allow us to use Gs and/or Q to buy (account bound) fusable R4s or R5s directly, give us a Q equivalent of the GCR self-rez device and let people burn Resources directly to buy trace amounts of event currencies, and many, many more like that.
I repeat: we need many, many more interesting things to spend old money on to get it out of circulation (fun goes up, problem gets smaller); not the bandaid solution of making it harder for people to get new money (fun goes down, problem gets bigger more slowly but still keeps getting bigger.)
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Bug. Temporary sidekicks no longer in the until store. They were a nice way to try out a sidekick to see if it fit your playstyle, etc. Why did they vanish.
I really don't see the reason for the nerf on the temp devices. You just nerfed the modular devices recently to make them single use, and increased cooldown but at least made them stackable. So that was at least somewhat useable.
To make them single use, and not stackable is crazy. Will take up too much bag space to be useful and trying to shuffle inventory to belt mid combat is crazy. Either leave the charges, or make them stackable. And reducing the charges on things like the trident, temper etc completely defeats the purpose of those devices.
A little explanation as to why this was necessary might be nice. particularly for those of us to don't live in the discord.
The change in pets is annoying as well. Just did a bunch of research to describe the difference between different pet device types. Can you at least make the cooldown a little shorter, or fix it so that they don't share a cooldown. If I choose to have 2 or 3 different pet devices slotted, I should be able to cycle between them at a reasonable pace, Use a different one if one is on cooldown. Can do that with backup devices for example.
I know you have to balance out trying to make the devices useful vs making them too powerful, and I assume that there are probably some PvP exploits that you are trying to control. But this seems a little heavy handed. There has to be a better way to make the devices fun to use occasionally (like letting my melee toss radiation balls for a little bit with temper), without causing problems.
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