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Release Notes 10/26/2023
kaiserin
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Bloodmoon
Costumes
Misc
Powers
Concentration/Chilled Form
Devices
Telekinetic Disarray
Fist of Defiance
- Added Pumpkin Patch monster as a chance to spawn from Trick or Treaters.
- Added Pumpkin Lich Head, Pumpkin Lich Leg Armor to the event store.
- Added Runic Auras to the event store.
- Pestilent Cloud and Center of Gravity devices have been removed as drops.
- Added Cold Burst device as a possible drop from Nimbus.
- Added Telekinetic Disarray device as a possible drop from Crusher.
- Added Fist of Defiance device as a possible drop from Johnny Hercules.
- New Mission: Complete Turakian Termination 10 times, rewards the Pumpkin Lich Staff costume.
Costumes
- Added TK Lance as a weapon skin for TK Blades.
Misc
- Fixed an issue where Mist auras were not scaling.
Powers
- Fixed a bug where Ego Weaponry wasn't affected by mods.
- Fixed a bug where Redirected Force wasn't triggering form stacks.
- Fixed a bug where Rank 2 of Protection Field wasn't triggering shield open mission scores.
- Fixed an issue where Planar Fracture and Endbringer's Grasp damage and power cost were not taking into account their required charge times. Damage and cost have increased.
Concentration/Chilled Form
- Fixed a bug where Concentration wasn't triggering reliably with powers that were not a maintain or charge.
- Updated the description of Concentration to be more clear about trigger conditions.
- Fixed an issue where Concentration wasn't triggering properly when fully charging a power.
Devices
- Cold Burst
- Single target Cold damage.
- Applies Chilled and hard Frost to target.
- 60 second cooldown.
Telekinetic Disarray
- Deals aoe Ego damage.
- Chance to apply Disorient.
- Applies Stress to primary target after the first damage tick.
- 60 second cooldown.
Fist of Defiance
- Deals aoe crushing damage.
- Knocks Up primary target.
- Applies Demolish to primary target.
- Knocks down secondary targets.
- 60 second cooldown.
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is this event going on for another week?
Shhhh, it's okay Crusher. It's finally over. Nobody's coming to hurt you any more. You can finally rest.
Hopefully these two devices don't get forgotten and left off next year though, like some other junk (I'm looking at you, Nephilim primaries from TT and gold shinies/costume drops from Mandragalore) has been.
There are two weeks left for the event.
Oh thank god
You wanna be a little more transparent about the fact you just straight up changed (or more accurately, nerfed) Concentration/Chilled Form? It used to trigger if you half-charged or halfway maintained a power, now it does neither, which has completely blown out its use for Ranged tanks at Cosmics. The fact there isn't even a free retcon for that demonstrates a lack of understanding on how much that actually changes for certain builds.
This change ideally should be reverted or simply given back the ability to work off half-charge/maintains.
Further, sometimes Concentration now simply will not refresh at short range on a full maintain. I spent 3 minutes unloading full 2 Gun Mojos into a dummy at point blank and never got a refresh, it was stuck at 0 stacks. On outdoor content, it was randomly not refreshing at short range on full attacks either.
Whatever happened to this power, it's borked. Please revert it to its original form, warts and all; it may have been slightly buggy before, but it worked the vast majority of the time on all encounters.
This is bad for the QoL of ranged tanks in general, and effectively all ranged DPSes when facing down certain bosses.
We've a soft confirmation that there's issues with the current implementation - but even if these are corrected to be consistent (a stack after a full charge/full maintain), that does not take away from the fact it's lead to considerable changes in play style.
Given the current Cosmic fights e.a. the changes today make it plausible for stacks to drop off entirely. I would imagine this is undesirable. For comparison, such a thing would not happen with MA's Form of the Tiger, a Melee Form which operates under the old rule of half-charge.
This was an unneeded change, please put it back the way it was.
Thank you for this!
Taking this here since problem still exists as it is:
From Release Notes 12/14/2022
by n8mcd, December 2022
"The unlock 5x 'Electrical Storm Costume Transformation' perk STORM SUMMONER is a hot mess.
1. The perk appears on the LOCKBOX perk list, but the transformation is not in a lockbox, it's in the Q store.
2. Unlocking the 'Electrical Storm Transformation' does not register on the count for the perk.
3. The perk description suggests the transformation is purple quality, and is named 'Electrical Storm Costume Transformation'
4. the Q-Store transformation is blue, and is named 'Electrical Storm Transformation'
5. If these are not the same transformation, you need better naming discipline.
6. if these are not the same transformation, where is the one for the perk supposed to be found? It isn't in the lockbox."