FC.31.20220721.2 - A Whole Lot of Power Changes

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• kaiserin

  kaiserin#0958

  Posts: 3,086 Cryptic Developer

  July 2022 edited July 2022

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  Ultimates

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  Crashing Incantation

  • Increased range to 25ft (from 20).

  
  
  
  Mental Impact

  • Increased range to 25ft (From 20).
  • Increased damage.

  
  
  
  Vorpal Blade/Bladed Fury/Meltdown

  • Increased range to 20ft (from 15).

  
  
  
  Meteor Blaze

  • Increased range of initial hit to 25ft (from 20).
  • Increased Pyre Patch damage.

  
  
  
  Planar Fracture

  • Fixed a bug where the damage from this power did not count as a Sorcery ability.
  • Increased damage.

  
  
  
  Corrosive Pit

  • Fixed a bug where the pit effect could critically hit.
  • Increased damage.

  
  
  
  EndBringer's Grasp

  • Increased range to 25ft (from 15).
  • FX adjustments.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Wind

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  Wind Reverberation

  • This power should apply more reliably against Repel immune targets.

  
  
  
  Hurricane

  • Fixed incorrect power cost.
  • Moved this power to Tier 2.

  
  
  
  New power: Weather Shaping

  • Form
  • Boosts ranged damage primarily. Scales off of Endurance.
  • Triggers when attempting to Repel a target.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Ice

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  Icicle Spear

  • Removed bonus damage with Chill stacks.
  • Increased base damage of power.
  • New Adv (2): Increases base damage based on number of your Chill stacks on a target.

  
  
  
  Ice objects

  • Lots of under the hood changes have been made to Ice Objects made by ice powers for optimization purposes. Please check to make sure they are functioning properly.

  
  
  
  Wall of Ice

  • Increased duration to 16 seconds (from 6).
  • Increased overall damage.
  • Reduced chance to apply Chilled to 15% (from 50) due to duration increase. Chance now increases with rank.
  • New Adv (2): Instead of applying Chilled, this power can now apply Bleed.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Martial Arts

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  Shadow Strike

  • This power has been removed from Night Warrior and is now an Ultimate power.
  • Reduced damage.
  • This power can now critically hit.
  • Increased activation time to 1 sec.
  • This power is considered to be a Claws power for mod purposes.

  
  
  
  Night Warrior

  • No longer ignores defenses.
  • Increased damage bonus.
  • Increased Avoidance Rating.

  
  
  
  Stealth

  • Reduced bonus damage at R3.
  • Increased Perception Stealth bonus.
  • Updated Stealth fx.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Munitions

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  Hold Out Shot

  • New Adv (2): Applies Frail Armor to targets.

  
  
  
  Bullet Ballet

  • Updated tooltip.

  
  
  
  Two-Gun Mojo

  • Close the Gap Adv: Increased bonus damage to 35% (from 30).

  
  
  
  Rocket

  • Reduced cooldown to 15 seconds (from 20).

  
  
  
  Concussion Grenade

  • New Adv (2): Applies Demolish to your primary target if they are affected by Disorient.
  • New Adv (2): Applies Disorient to targets.

  
  
  
  Mini Mines

  • New Adv (2): Applies Disorient to targets.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Misc

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  Armor Piercing/No Quarter/Burn Through

  • These debuffs are now considered personal debuffs. Only the person who applied the debuff can now benefit from their effects.

  
  
  
  Repel

  • All player repel effects now grant repel resistance. Against npcs this effect is minor, where against players this effect grants a greater resistance boost.

  
  
  
  Energy Form

  • This effect has been retired. If you find any mentions of it, please report it.

  
  
  
  New Effect: Frail Armor

  • Reduces Piercing damage resistance on a target.

  
  
  
  Desperate Shot

  • New Adv (2): Applies Frail Armor to targets.
  • Updated tooltips.

  
  
  
  Nuclear Shockwave

  • Lowered Damage.
  • Reduced cooldown to 15 seconds (from 30).

  
  
  
  Energy Wave

  • Reduced cooldown to 10 seconds (from 15).
  • Fixed incorrect power cost.

  
  
  
  Ball Lightning

  • Fixed incorrect power cost.

  
  
  
  Call To Battle

  • Reduced cooldown to 20 seconds (from 30).
  • New Adv (1): Using a damaging Brick power reduces the cooldown on this power.

  
  
  
  Howl

  • Reduced cooldown to 20 seconds (from 30).
  • New Adv (1): Using a damaging Supernatural power reduces the cooldown on this power.

  
  
  
  Moonstruck

  • Frenzy Adv: Removed cooldown effect. Now adds shield effect to the caster while standing in Moonlight if you have used the Howl power.

  
  
  
  Tractor Beam

  • Final Delivery Adv: Fixed a bug where this knock ignored resistances.

  
  
  
  Ricochet Throw

  • Moved to Tier 0.
  • New Adv (2): Fully charging this power applies Shredded to your initial target.

  
  
  
  Banish

  • New Adv (2): Applies Power Shield to nearby targets.

  
  
  
  Holy Water

  • Increased breakfree damage.

  
  
  
  Mindful Reinforcement

  • Revitalizing Boost: Fixed an issue where this advantage was scaling off the target's Presence.
  • New Adv (1): Applies breakout damage to the target.

  
  
  
  Lance Rain

  • Reduced cooldown to 10 seconds (from 20).

  
  
  
  
  Defile

  • New Adv (2): Increases base damage based on the number of poison stacks on a target.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Devices

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  Demonic Flesh Graft/Force Shield Belt

  • Reduced cooldown to 60 seconds (from 180).

  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Specs

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  Vulnerability/Trapped/Initiative/Debilitating Challenge/Rend

  • Updated tooltips.

  
  
  
  Honor

  • Changed to boost base damage.
  • Reduced damage boost to 2.5% (from 5) to account for base damage boost.
  • Changed to only trigger on direct heals.
  • Will no longer expire on dots.

  
  
  
  Enforcer

  • Now affects ranged combo powers.

  
  
  
  Arbiter/Overseer Ruthless

  • Increased max count to 3 (from 2).

  
  
  
  Arbiter Aura/Overseer Aura
  These specs have been retired.
  Dev note: The damage bonuses on these specs were negligible. We chose not to buff them due to teamwide auras like that being taxing on the game.
  
  
  
  Enhanced Mending

  • This spec will be replacing Arbiter Aura and Overseer Aura.
  • Increases the duration of Rune powers when attacking.

  
  
  
  Arbiter Mastery

  • Can no longer heal targets at full health.
  • Heal can no longer be dodged.

  
  
  
  Wither

  • This effect was being applied directly on the Mez effect, which prevented it from being used against any target that was immune to those effects. This effect has now been changed to work on those targets, and its duration scales based on rank of the target.

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• kaiserin

  kaiserin#0958

  Posts: 3,086 Cryptic Developer

  July 2022 edited July 2022

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  Archetypes

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  Night Warrior
  Corrected diminishing returns on abilities.
  Removed Ego stat and added Recovery to help with energy management.
  Dev Note: Powers had to be reallocated to account for Shadow Strike's change. This Archetype lacked an energy unlock so it was given one. Concentration was removed as the on-demand heavy hitting powers in this setup are not ranged base.

  • Level 6: Rend And Tear OR Ricochet Throw
  • Level 11: Smoke Bomb Lunge OR Grapple Gun Pull
  • level 14: Form of the Tiger
  • Level 21: Dragon's Claws OR Tiger's Bite
  • Level 25: Relentless
  • level 30: Parry
  • level 40: Strafing Run OR Shadow Strike

  
  
  
  
  The Impulse
  Corrected diminishing returns on abilities.
  Dev Note: Gave this archetype some much needed energy return. Force Snap was removed as it didn't really improve the setup.

  • 6: Force Eruption OR Crushing Wave
  • 11: Protection Field OR Containment Field
  • 14: Force Control
  • 17: Force Cascade
  • 25: Impact Force
  • 30: Field Surge
  • 40: Redirected Force

  
  
  
  
  The Squall
  Corrected diminishing returns on abilities.
  Dev Note: Hurricane's cost correction made it a not very good choice for a level 6 power, even before its adjustment it wouldn't be easily managed at that low level.

  • Level 6: Stormbringer
  • Level 8: Wind Breath OR Frost Breath
  • Level 11: Updraft OR Twister
  • Level 14: Weather Shaping
  • Level 17: Hurricane

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