Release Notes 9/1/2022

kaiserin · September 2022

Anniversary Event
Happy 13th Anniversary, Champions Online!
For the next 4 weeks, this event will be running.

Added new store to purchase past titles.
Added Dazzling Auras to the event store.
Added Retro Steel Commando Jetpack and Rifle costumes to the event store.
Logging in this week will grant the Fortune Smiles perk.
The Archetypes store will be featured during week 1 of the Anniversary.
All enemies in game can drop Anniversary Favor.
Destroids Rise Again open mission drops Anniversary currency during the event.

Trade Paperback

For the next 2 weeks, the Trade Paperback event will be acttive.

Story Event

For the next week, Story missions will grant boosted XP, Resources and Questionite.

ZEN Store

Players can claim a free pack of goodies from the ZEN store for the duration of the Anniversary. This can be claimed once per account.
During week 1 of the Anniversary, you can claim the Capes Collection pack for free.

New Anniversary Keypack:

Cost: 1800 ZEN
1x Feathered Arm Costume
25x Storm Chaser Mods
25x Teleiosaurus Rage Mods
1x Teleport to Rencen Device
3x Triumphant Recovery
5x Safeguard Catalysts
10x Healing Device Plus
10x Energy Surge Plus

Lockbox
The Untamed Lockbox is now available!
New to this lockbox:

SSSSSSSSSSSSSeth Loyal Sidekick
Tommy Toebeans Loyal Sidekick
Selfie Emote
Do the Wave Emote
Tornado Ultimate Power Unlock
Untamed Aura Box
Untamed Costume Box

Untamed Costume Box:

Cobra Head
Cobra Chest
Cobra Hands
Cobra Legs
Cobra Tail
Cobra Feet
Cobra Back
Coyote Head
Coyote Hair
Coyote Collar
Coyote Fur
Coyote Chest
Coyote Hands
Coyote Legs
Coyote Feet

Wild Aura Box

Wild Head
Wild Head (Black)
Wild Head (White)
Wild Head (Rainbow)
Wild Hands
Wild Hands (Black)
Wild Hands (White)
Wild Hands (Rainbow)
Wild Chest
Wild Chest (Black)
Wild Chest (White)
Wild Chest (Rainbow)
Wild Feet
Wild Feet (Black)
Wild Feet (White)
Wild Feet (Rainbow)
Oil
Oil (Black)
Oil (White)
Oil (Rainbow)

Social Instances

Added Argent Hunting Lodge as a social instance.

Bosses
Mind Slayer

Updated visuals.
Added new TK Wave, lariat and lunge power.

Lockbox

Added account unlock perks for Frustrated and Disco emotes.

Tailor

Added Wolf Smooth tail costume.

Tickets

Fixed an issue where players could not submit ingame tickets.

kaiserin · September 2022

Archetypes

Night Avenger
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

kaiserin · September 2022

All players have received a free respec. As a reminder, these respecs do not stack with other free respecs.

Power Changes: Force

Dev Note: Force has been made to work with its shields a bit more and given some general Forms and Energy Unlocks.

New Effect: Power Shield

Striking a target affected by this power restores some energy to you.

Shield Effects

Direct Shields and Personal Force Field now credit during open missions.
Note: Some open missions may not credit damage taken, please call those out.

Force Blast

New Adv (2): Applies Demolish on full charge.
New Adv (2): Fully charging this power applies a shield effect on you. Scales with your protection Field rank.

Crushing Wave

Moved to Tier 1.
Changed to apply every 0.5 seconds (from 1).
Disruptive Force: Chance to knock down every hit.
New Adv (2): Chance to apply a Power Shield to targets.
New Adv (2): Maintaining this power temporarily shields you.

Kinetic Manipulation

Added knock resistance.

Gravitic Ripple

Corrected fx for area effect.
No longer applies gravity well.
This power now repels away targets.
Changed activation period ot 0.5 seconds (from 1).
Reduced cooldown to 20 seconds (from 30).
New Adv (2): Repels targets towards you instead of away.

Force Eruption

Gravitational Polarity Adv: Now applies a Power Field Rune in place of its old effect, which restores energy over time.
New Adv (3): if you are affected by a direct Shield effect, removes it and shields nearby allies. Scales additionally based on the rank of your Protection Field power.

Protection Field

Fixed a bug where it stated the energy gained from this power scaled with Ego. It scales with Recovery.
Expel Impurity Adv: Reduced cost to 1. Number of effects removed now scales with rank. Can now remove most damage over time effects.
New Adv (1): Applies breakout damage to the target.

Redirected Force

This power is now an Active Ultimate.
Provides a continuous shield to yourself and allies that uses resistance.
Greatly increases knock resistance of yourself and allies.
Makes you immune to most forms of control effects while maintaining.
Allies hit grants you energy.
Grants a stacking buff that increases your base damage for a short time. This effect expires once you attack.
New Advantage (1): This power counts as using a block for power interaction purposes for a short time. This does not grant any buffs, it only provides protections against powers that check if you are blocking for interaction purposes. The duration increases based on the rank of your Force Shield power.

Force Cascade

Reduced the damage on this power.
New Advantage (2): Turns this power into a single target ability. Boosts damage significantly.
New Advantage (2): If you are affected by a direct Shield effect, when fully charged consumes the shield, increases the radius of this power and deals additional damage to secondary targets. If your target is affected by a shield effect, deals additional damage around them.
Removed Containment Blast advantage.

Gravity Driver

Reduced damage.
Removed Stun effect.
Knockdown can now apply to all affected targets.
New Adv (2): Applies a Stun to targets.

Force Geyser

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

Containment Field

New Adv (2): Applies Power Shield to nearby targets.
Now applies Power Shield on immune targets.

Force Bolts

New Adv (2): Chance to apply Power Shield.

Force Detonation

Corrected power cost.
Now deals increased damage against knock immune targets.
Made the Field Inversion effect innate to this ability.
New Adv (2): Knocks Up targets instead of back.
New Adv (2): Applies Restoration.

Inertial Dampening Field

This power is now a Support Passive and scales off o f your superstats.
Additionally increases Knock and Hold resistance.
Directly shielding allies improves the effectiveness of your shields and the damage absorption on this power for a short time.

Field Surge

The amount it repairs your Personal Force Field now scales with how potent it is.
Increases the regeneration of PFF as if you were blocking.
Shield granted by this power now takes into account your resistances.

New Power: Force Control

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

New Power: Vital Shielding

Form.
Boosts healing and shield strength. Scales off of Endurance.
Triggers when applying any direct shield effect or inverting shield effects.

New Power: Impact Force

Energy Unlock.
Scales off of Endurance and Recovery.
Triggers when attempting to knock a target.

New Power: Power Barrier

Energy Unlock.
Scales off of Endurance and Recovery.
Triggers when applying any direct shield effect or inverting shield effects.

New Power: Singularity Bomb

Tier 2 Force.
15 Second Cooldown.
Deals Crushing damage and knocks targets towards your primary target.
Chance to apply power shield based on charge time.
Adv (2): Instead of Knocking, on full charge this power now Paralyzes the primary target and stuns secondary targets.

New Power: Shield Restoration

Tier 1 Force.
Applies a small shield to targets within the rune.
If the target is affected by a Direct Shield, restores the shield. This effect scales with your Endurance.

kaiserin · September 2022

Ultimates

Crashing Incantation

Increased range to 25ft (from 20).
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Mental Impact

Increased range to 25ft (From 20).
Increased damage.
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Vorpal Blade/Bladed Fury/Meltdown

Increased range to 20ft (from 15).
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Meteor Blaze

Increased range of initial hit to 25ft (from 20).
Increased Pyre Patch damage.
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Planar Fracture

Fixed a bug where the damage from this power did not count as a Sorcery ability.
Increased damage.
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Corrosive Pit

Fixed a bug where the pit effect could critically hit.
Increased damage.
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

EndBringer's Grasp

Increased range to 25ft (from 15).
FX adjustments.
Cost has been adjusted for new area effect.

Fury of the Dragon

Corrected power cost.

Showdown/Power Chord

Now applies knock resistance and CC immunity while maintaining.

Wind

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.

Powers
New Power: Tornado
Available in the Untamed Lockbox

Wind Ultimate.
Deals Crushing and Cold damage to nearby targets.
Deals Crushing damage to far away targets.
Pulls in far away targets.
Chance to repel, knock back or knock up near targets.
Grants flight.
Grants immunity to Control effects while maintained.

Ice

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.

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.

Ice Cages

Fixed a bug where Ice Cages were not triggering specs that triggered off of roots.

Martial Arts

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.

Munitions

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.

Misc

Sorcery Aura Passives/Medical Nanites

Updated the way these powers grant their bonuses for optimization purposes.
Fixed a bug where some untargetable pets were taking up spots for support auras.
Reduced activation period for support auras.
Teammate effect will now only be active while the passive user is in combat.

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.

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.

Strafing Run

Corrected cost.
Adjusted damage per hit. Overall damage remains the same.

Lead Tempest

Fixed a bug where the damage chance of this power was not varying based on range.

Stealth Granting Powers

Many powers that grant stealth have had the duration of the effect extended by 1 second.

Devices

Demonic Flesh Graft/Force Shield Belt

Reduced cooldown to 60 seconds (from 180).

Become Devices

Fixed an issue where the Disable effect would disable these devices.

Psionic Echoes Device

Fixed an issue where these would expire after their target was defeated.

Roinesh Artifact

Now has unique values independent from Planar Fracture.

Invocation of the Eclipse

Now considered ranged damage.
Reduced overall damage.
Reduced activation to time 1.67 sec (from 2).

Totemic Helm

Fixed a bug where this power didn't always apply properly.

Tame Warbeast/Horn of Allegiance/Slaver Remote

Now a toggle device to match other summon devices.

Pirated override Codes

Now a toggle ability to match other device summons.
Added device to Fixer vendor to correct versions with a fixed lower level.

Specs

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.

Sentinel Aura

This specialization will now only trigger while in combat.

spookyspectre · September 2022

Yayyy to this huge update!!!

heroshima1 · September 2022

Dang, someone's been spinning the hamster wheel!

nos4ra2 · September 2022

Surprising and welcoming!! If this is thanks to Gear Box, Kudos!

jaazaniah1 · September 2022

Since everyone will want to know where the cats are, here's a map: https://aesica.net/co/images/anniversary-cat-map.jpg

flyingfinn · September 2022

Happy 13th!

metalheart · September 2022

Heavy, much to unpack here. Can't Wait to wrap my head around all this. One thing I'll point out is the devs decision to add another variant of cartoon dog head to the game when they could be giving us different human shaped heads based on real and fictional races. But don't take this as negativity. There is a lot of good stuff here to test on live.

areee · September 2022

Inertial Dampening Field - RIP

Farewell to the only form that was viable for a summoner build. You made my pets sturdy enough to be useful. I will miss you.

theravenforce · September 2022

Looking forward to the update! Selfie emote is defo one of the select highlights from the box for me! Power updates are eagerly anticipated!

iamrune · September 2022

areee wrote: »

Inertial Dampening Field - RIP

Farewell to the only form that was viable for a summoner build. You made my pets sturdy enough to be useful. I will miss you.

It doesn't cover pets anymore?

areee · September 2022

iamrune wrote: »

areee wrote: »

Inertial Dampening Field - RIP

Farewell to the only form that was viable for a summoner build. You made my pets sturdy enough to be useful. I will miss you.

It doesn't cover pets anymore?

It was changed from a FORM to a Passive. Reduced in power just to toss in some ineffective knock resistance.

theravenforce · September 2022

iamrune wrote: »

areee wrote: »

Inertial Dampening Field - RIP

Farewell to the only form that was viable for a summoner build. You made my pets sturdy enough to be useful. I will miss you.

It doesn't cover pets anymore?

Still covers pets.

avianos · September 2022

Untamed Costume Box:

Cobra Head
Cobra Chest
Cobra Hands
Cobra Legs
Cobra Tail
Cobra Feet
Cobra Back

Badass Snake time!

shapey · September 2022

Please make Coyote/Cobra legs available to all leg types, not just Beast.

avianos · September 2022

shapey#5696 wrote: »

Please make Coyote/Cobra legs available to all leg types, not just Beast.

I AGREE WITH THIS! Give us the pattern for regular human legs please!

The beast legs category is awful and outdated!

Lockbox

Added account unlock perks for Frustrated and Disco emotes.

BUG: Both the 5/5 Disco and Frustated perks are called Irate!

They are Duplicated

xerseez · September 2022

shapey#5696 wrote: »

Please make Coyote/Cobra legs available to all leg types, not just Beast.

I second this, Beast legs are just awful and don't work for most people.

spookyspectre · September 2022

NVM. I didn't read the patch notes well enough..

beretta249 · September 2022

Super glad to see an anniversary event, super glad to see Champions around to celebrate another anniversary. Imo this would be just the right time to put the Lifetime Membership on sale. Do that and I can't be the only one who'd buy one today.

theravenforce · September 2022

BUG: Distinguished & Virtuous Primarily Utility Gear has received a hefty energy return nerf from Power Surge. This was not listed on PTS nor in these notes. Please fix this bug.

guyhumual · September 2022

RIP night warrior passive. You were a fun passive but off you go to never to be used again content.

stoopidme · September 2022

RIP Gravatic Ripple. One of the most interesting powers with fun synergy reduced to a boring repel.

avianos · September 2022

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Distinguished & Virtuous Primarily Utility Gear has received a hefty energy return nerf from Power Surge. This was not listed on PTS nor in these notes. Please fix this bug.

If this was intentional then: COOL Bait and Switch undocumented NERF! 🙄
I'm sure glad i wasted my time with CO's endgame to get full Distinguished gear
5% Chance to give +16 Energy on one of my main TANKs! 👏 BRAVO! 👏

guyhumual wrote: »

RIP night warrior passive. You were a fun passive but off you go to never to be used again content.

Ah yes... Still one of the BEST passives ingame that buffs ALL DAMAGE TYPES, both melee and range, being marked as "Useless" because it lost Shadow Strike and the small defense penetration bonus! Despite gaining additional DPS boost, Avoidance and still having Charge speed bonus! 🙄

It's still the Bread and Butter to me and other FF Builders who make DPS with different families of Damage frameworks!
Neither my Warlock nor my Elementalist are gonna remove it because its the Heart of their synergies!
Doing SOLO QWZ dailies with them now, nothing changed they are still doing great with high difficulty content
I'm already thinking what other theme builds i can make with it

stoopidme wrote: »

RIP Gravatic Ripple. One of the most interesting powers with fun synergy reduced to a boring repel.

The TRUE Victim of this update and i'm also incredible mad that it got the shortest end of the stick! ☝

Gravitic Ripple is just a horrible now, and the fact its 20 seconds! It has no unique trait nor innate ability anymore

rerrot · September 2022

Possible bug in the heals of Boun Chi Resurgence and Conviction. I use the Masterfull Dodge + BCR and it doesn't heal.

metalheart · September 2022

The light effect/FX that use to be on IDF was essential to my angel theme. Where can I get back that aura or FX?

wizeman · September 2022

Unannounced changes what permanent device pets I own:

1. Revenant of Firefight
- removed its Fiery Form passive
2. Reprogrammed Prospector, Dr. Destroyer's Head, Psionic Echoes
- no longer respawns when killed
3. Ragged Proletariat's Armband
- now a toggle
- now follows the player outside of combat and no longer attacks nearby enemies automatically
4. Manimal Control
- now a toggle
- Rat Hybrid's unique dmg debuff removed and no longer spawns weaker Rat Hybrids
5. Manifest Mind Worms
- no longer spawns behind the target, now spawns around it

Bug: Auras still not applying to Sidekicks including but not limited to David Antares, Windchill, Zettabyte, Blaise, Bouldero, Blizzard Fox, Anapa, and Chaos Imp. The only one I tested that was affected was Holiday Henchman, which is unique in other ways, so the rest should be checked out as well.

ansemthedark · September 2022

Both perks for the Account wide unlock, for Disco and Frustrated, are both called Irate. Still unlocks normally tho.

warcanch · September 2022

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

Bug: New Adv not proccing from Hyper Voice.

thisiscraftaaa · September 2022

Bug: Condemn's "Dark Rune" isn't spawning a rune on full charge even though it is supposed to.

If Condemn's rune isn't spawning, potentially due to the rune changes, then maybe other runes and/or similar rune advs are messed up too? Don't know though, haven't tested that yet.

avianos · September 2022

BUG: Bad Sector's duration is now inconsistent!
Sometimes it stays for 10 Seconds as intended, and other times it instantly despawns within 5-6 seconds

So it turns out because the build has been using Healing Arrow as well, the Runes were cancelling each other!
This update basically made both Healing Arrow and Bad Sector properly tagged as runes

theravenforce · September 2022

BUG: Two Gun Mojo Rank 2 is only giving a 15% chance to apply Furious instead of the 25% it should (15/25/35% as rank improves).

theravenforce · September 2022

BUG: Sorcery Auras seem to be slightly weaker in terms of how they apply to self. I seem to be missing -8 stat from AoPM for example.

behemothking · September 2022

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Two Gun Mojo Rank 2 is only giving a 15% chance to apply Furious instead of the 25% it should (15/25/35% as rank improves).

IIRC, it was always like that

theravenforce · September 2022

behemothking#9246 wrote: »

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Two Gun Mojo Rank 2 is only giving a 15% chance to apply Furious instead of the 25% it should (15/25/35% as rank improves).

IIRC, it was always like that

So are you saying it has always been:

Rank 1 - 15%
Rank 2 - 15%
Rank 3 - 35%

Cause that doesn't seem right. Cause Rank 3 grants 35% chance.

behemothking · September 2022

theravenforce wrote: »

behemothking#9246 wrote: »

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Two Gun Mojo Rank 2 is only giving a 15% chance to apply Furious instead of the 25% it should (15/25/35% as rank improves).

IIRC, it was always like that

So are you saying it has always been:

Rank 1 - 15%
Rank 2 - 15%
Rank 3 - 35%

Cause that doesn't seem right. Cause Rank 3 grants 35% chance.

Yes. I remember that for 2gm it was r3 always because r2 had significantly less chance for furious. And yeah it doesn't make sense. If that chance is a bug, it is a long-standing bug.

PA toggles now deactivate upon any knock or repel or reverse repel. It makes sense for knock, but for the repels, that should be a bug.
Bug
PA toggles deactivate upon repel or reverse repel.

theravenforce · September 2022

behemothking#9246 wrote: »

theravenforce wrote: »

behemothking#9246 wrote: »

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Two Gun Mojo Rank 2 is only giving a 15% chance to apply Furious instead of the 25% it should (15/25/35% as rank improves).

IIRC, it was always like that

So are you saying it has always been:

Rank 1 - 15%
Rank 2 - 15%
Rank 3 - 35%

Cause that doesn't seem right. Cause Rank 3 grants 35% chance.

Yes. I remember that for 2gm it was r3 always because r2 had significantly less chance for furious. And yeah it doesn't make sense. If that chance is a bug, it is a long-standing bug.

PA toggles now deactivate upon any knock or repel or reverse repel. It makes sense for knock, but for the repels, that should be a bug.
Bug
PA toggles deactivate upon repel or reverse repel.

2GM is being addressed on PTS thankfully but didn't know about PA toggles...

guyhumual · September 2022

avianos wrote: »

Ah yes... Still one of the BEST passives ingame that buffs ALL DAMAGE TYPES, both melee and range, being marked as "Useless" because it lost Shadow Strike and the small defense penetration bonus! Despite gaining additional DPS boost, Avoidance and still having Charge speed bonus! 🙄

It's still the Bread and Butter to me and other FF Builders who make DPS with different families of Damage frameworks!
Neither my Warlock nor my Elementalist are gonna remove it because its the Heart of their synergies!
Doing SOLO QWZ dailies with them now, nothing changed they are still doing great with high difficulty content
I'm already thinking what other theme builds i can make with it

Huh, outside of solo PvE I've always found it does **** damage, mostly because the stealth is often useless, and then on top of that your chances are survival once they see though your stealth is pretty abysmal. The one bonus being that you're highly unlikely to gain agro because of the **** DPS. If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

h4forums · September 2022

bug: pillar of poz's rune duration not getting extended by overseer's enhanced mending spec. It works with other runes, so theres something going on with pillar of poz.

avianos · September 2022

guyhumual wrote: »

Huh, outside of solo PvE I've always found it does **** damage, mostly because the stealth is often useless, and then on top of that your chances are survival once they see though your stealth is pretty abysmal. The one bonus being that you're highly unlikely to gain agro because of the **** DPS. If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

How do you even manage that!?

guyhumual wrote: »

If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

Hell yeah I do! I don't know how you are building characters but I will not tolerate slander on Night Warrior! It's still on the top of the best FF Building tools

captainhunter1 · September 2022

So much stuff with this patch!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-c3MT1FZE

Happy Anniversary Champions!

bringmeaslab · September 2022

Bug: "Cutting It Close" title purchase from the anniversary vendor is not unlocking correctly. When the item is used, it gives the title "Cloud Nine" and no perk is granted. If the player does not already have the "Cloud Nine" perk, its unlock item becomes unusable, preventing the player from getting that perk as well.

wingedkagouti · September 2022

kaiserin#0958 wrote: »

Gravitic Ripple
Corrected fx for area effect.

No longer applies gravity well.

This power now repels away targets.

Changed activation period ot 0.5 seconds (from 1).

Reduced cooldown to 20 seconds (from 30).

New Adv (2): Repels targets towards you instead of away.

REALLY stupid change to a fun power. I expect to have the OV currency spent to purchase the power refunded on top of the respec.

guyhumual · September 2022

avianos wrote: »

guyhumual wrote: »

Huh, outside of solo PvE I've always found it does **** damage, mostly because the stealth is often useless, and then on top of that your chances are survival once they see though your stealth is pretty abysmal. The one bonus being that you're highly unlikely to gain agro because of the **** DPS. If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

How do you even manage that!?

guyhumual wrote: »

If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

Hell yeah I do! I don't know how you are building characters but I will not tolerate slander on Night Warrior! It's still on the top of the best FF Building tools

Sure, my AoPM characters can out DPS any of the night warrior characters I've ever built, I mean it's a great passive if I'm doing solo content, but the moment you're facing open world minions they see though your stealth and without the 50% melee bonus you're better off with a more focused passive. Like I'm not sure how you're getting that the damage bonus night warrior is giving you is somehow better than say the the one you get from Way of the Warrior, or the one from unstoppable

warcanch · September 2022

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Distinguished & Virtuous Primarily Utility Gear has received a hefty energy return nerf from Power Surge. This was not listed on PTS nor in these notes. Please fix this bug.

avianos wrote: »

theravenforce wrote: »

BUG: Distinguished & Virtuous Primarily Utility Gear has received a hefty energy return nerf from Power Surge. This was not listed on PTS nor in these notes. Please fix this bug.

If this was intentional then: COOL Bait and Switch undocumented NERF! 🙄
I'm sure glad i wasted my time with CO's endgame to get full Distinguished gear
5% Chance to give +16 Energy on one of my main TANKs! 👏 BRAVO! 👏

This should not be intentional, nor is it cool.

Many powers just got their energy cost greatly increased. So the ONLY point to this being intentional is that the Devs want everyone to use their Energy Builder more. Otherwise, it needs to be corrected.

guyhumual · September 2022

I would once again like to thank the Devs for giving me another character slot, I'll be able to make a new character for this next Defender national training program again, instead of having to delete a character

theravenforce · September 2022

guyhumual wrote: »

avianos wrote: »

guyhumual wrote: »

Huh, outside of solo PvE I've always found it does **** damage, mostly because the stealth is often useless, and then on top of that your chances are survival once they see though your stealth is pretty abysmal. The one bonus being that you're highly unlikely to gain agro because of the **** DPS. If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

How do you even manage that!?

guyhumual wrote: »

If you're somehow doing good damage with that passive all the power to you.

Hell yeah I do! I don't know how you are building characters but I will not tolerate slander on Night Warrior! It's still on the top of the best FF Building tools

Sure, my AoPM characters can out DPS any of the night warrior characters I've ever built, I mean it's a great passive if I'm doing solo content, but the moment you're facing open world minions they see though your stealth and without the 50% melee bonus you're better off with a more focused passive. Like I'm not sure how you're getting that the damage bonus night warrior is giving you is somehow better than say the the one you get from Way of the Warrior, or the one from unstoppable

If your AoPM characters are outDPSing any of your Night Warrior characters, I'd be really concerned.

ultimategamerxx · September 2022

Dark Rune enhancement from Condemn got bugged!

ravynfallenstar · September 2022

All this changing to force powerset and personal force field still not a viable endgame tank build... such a wasted opportunity

theravenforce · September 2022

ravynfallenstar wrote: »

All this changing to force powerset and personal force field still not a viable endgame tank build... such a wasted opportunity

Far better this way.

I'd rather have a focused patch to handle PFF than a patch where there's a million things going on at once and something catastrophic is missed.

Release Notes 9/1/2022

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