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Big Patch - 2-12-08
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COMBINED NOTES
Feature - Combat Attribute Window
This window displays all the character’s current attributes.
It can be accessed by clicking on the “Powers” text on the Powers Icon Tray.
Players may also access the Combat Attribute window with the following command : “/toggle combatnumbers”
Below each attribute is a list of all powers affecting the attribute and the power's contribution.
There should be tooltips for every attribute thoroughly explaining them.
Each attribute can be sent to the Attribute Monitor window (via right-click context menu)
Masterminds can right-click their pet and view their pet’sattributes.
The Attribute Monitor window is a minimalist window designed to be unobtrusively left up at all times.
Up to 10 attributes can be monitored.
You can drag the window to any part of the user interface.
You can right-click on elements to re-order or remove them.
If there is a monitored attribute, the window will stay open. If all attributes are removed, it will close
If you right-click the buff icons by the health bar the context menu should list everything it’s actually doing.
Game
XP Curve Adjustment:
Enemy XP values (and Influence/Infamy dropped) have been increased across nearly all levels. The size of the increase directly relates to datamined leveling speeds for characters, so levels where characters have found themselves ‘stuck’ or ‘slowed’ will have enemies of that level’s XP increased more than other levels. Enemy Levels with the greatest increase in XP rates are: 13 to 20, and 36 to 50. Other levels have had smaller, but still significant, XP and Influence adjustments. This may mean that characters will find it impossible to do ‘all’ the content of a given level range before outleveling it.
Debt incurred for being defeated has been lowered by 20% across all levels.
Tasks
Players can now drop missions as often as once every 3 days.
Fixed a bug where players that weren’t level 35 or higher could get missions in the Rikti War Zone through the Ouroboros device.
Fixed an issue where Task Force/Strike Force members could buy from contacts using cell phones.
Fixed bug that caused some flashback missions to spawn enemies for a group size of 8, regardless of the size of the group.
Fixed Flashback story arc "Alone In The Darque" – it was not awarding a gold star on completion, or counting for any Challenge badges
Bases
Keeping track of what goes in and out of base storage bins has been improved. When you query any of the storage bins in your base (invention, inspiration, enhancement, etc.) they will now show a unified log for anything stored in all shared bins within the base. This change addresses a stability issue with the previous log file system that only impacted extremely large bases.
Powers
Ouroboros Portals can no longer be opened in the Ouroboros zone.
Ouroboros Portals may no longer be summoned in PvP Zones.
Ouroboros Portals will no longer aggro critters.
Using your Summon Ouroboros Portal power while your portal still exists should no longer cause the power to fail.
Tweaked Group Flight to help alleviate latency issues with the power.
Moment of Glory: Removed Health crash and Heal resistance. Reduced Recharge time to 240 seconds (four minutes). Decreased Protection, Resistance and Defense durations to 15 seconds.
Flares for Blasters and Dominators range increased from 60’ to 80’
The Recharge time for Choking Cloud has been reduced from 90 seconds to 20 seconds.
Taunt Aura powers, such as Invincibility, no longer accept Taunt IO Set Enhancements.
Increased damage on Force Field Repulsion Bomb. Previously, it was Minor damage (scale 0.1) and it is now Moderate damage (scale 1.0) The Endurance cost of this power increased slightly, as a result of this change.
Super Strength Rage no longer has an Only Affect Self period. Instead, it is given a huge damage reduction coupled with the inability to use Temporary Powers for 10 seconds as its ‘crash’ effect. Be careful if using Rage while wearing a disguise, such as a Freakshow Disguise or the Holographic Projector, as this crash will disable those effects!
Super Reflexes powers which granted Defense Debuff Resistance were, in most cases, not increasing that resistance when enhanced. This has been corrected. In other words, your Defense slotting will now also increase your resistance to Defense Debuffs
Force Field Repulsion Bomb Knockback changed to Knockdown.
Force Field Repulsion Bomb now accepts Damage Enhancements
Vahzilok Disease should fade after 3 hours now.
Nictus Hunter Quantum Array Guns bonus damage against Kheldians is no longer irresistible.
User Interface
For Windows Vista Users: Added Vista compatible cursors for when the game is run in Full Screen mode. Vista users will no longer need to use the “-compatiblecursors 1” line in their CoHUpdater.exe shortcut to make their cursor appear.
Characters below 10th level cannot send emails.
Characters that are not high enough level to send emails can now delete emails they receive.
Added two buttons to the Log In screen.
Manage PlayNC Account – Clicking this button will launch the default web browser and take players to the PlayNC.com website to add more time or upgrade their City of Heroes account.
View Community Website – Clicking this button will launch the default web browser and take players to the City of Heroes website.
Auction House
Sort by Rarity filter added.
Get all Influence / Infamy button added.
Combat Channel (found on the Chat tabs)
Hit rolls have been added to the text in the combat channel.
Context Menu for Buff Icons added (found underneath the Health and Endurance bars, and to the right of the team member list when grouped.)
The Context Menu for Buff Icons shows the effect of the buff.
Veteran Rewards
45 Month Veteran Reward added. This reward grants a free respec.
Inventions
Ultra Rare Enhancements and their Set Bonuses should now work at all levels if exemplared.
Ultra Rare IO Enhancements now correctly state they cannot be slotted until level 50.
Fixed inconsistent Salvage requirements on new Issue 11 Recipes (Level of recipe did not match level of Salvage needed for it)
Allowed slotting level range for Crafted Enhancement Set - Sniper / Extreme Measures should now be correct.
Allowed slotting level range for Crafted Enhancement: Boost Set: Red Fortune should now be correct.
Energy Manipulator: Chance to Stun will no longer have any effect on PVP targets.
Achilles’ Heel: Chance for Resistance Debuff should no longer accidentally debuff the caster
Touch of Lady Grey: Chance for Negative Energy Damage will no longer damage the user in certain cases.
Endurance Modification IOs should now affect endurance draining powers such as Short Circuit.
Performance Shifter: Chance for +Endurance is no longer resistible. If your powerset includes Endurance Drain resistance, you will now see full benefit of this enhancement.
Force Feedback Chance for Recharge should no longer display the wrong Icon on the status effect bar.
Absolute Amazement: Chance for To Hit Debuff was buffing enemies To Hit Value. This has been corrected and it will now properly reduce an enemy’s chances to hit.
Absolute Amazement: Chance for To Hit Debuff when slotted into a pet summoning power would sometimes proc on the caster. This has been corrected.
Karma: Defense/Recharge was inadvertently giving global recharge bonuses, rather than adding recharge only to the power in which it was slotted. It behaves correctly now.
Dampened Spirits: To Hit Debuff/Endurance Reduction was using an incorrect table lookup to determine its To Hit Debuff value. This has been corrected.
Corrected an issue which would prevent you from slotting Dark Watcher’s Despair: Chance for Recharge Slow or Touch of Lady Grey: Chance for Negative Energy Damage if you had Gaussian’s Synchronized Fire-Control: Chance for Build Up already slotted in any power.
Endurance Modification IOs were always applying the End Mod value on a single attribute IO. For Multiple attribute IO’s this was not correct! The buff amount from multiple attribute IOs has been corrected they follow the established rules.
Fixed an issue which could cause Confusion powers to cause aggro if they were slotted with the Contagious Confusion enhancement.
Changed display name of ‘Debilitative Action: Recharge/Immobilize’ to match what it actually does. It is now ‘Debilitative Action: Immobilize/Endurance Reduction’
Fixed bad deions in Recipes
Many cases where the Recipe name did not match the resulting Enhancement have been fixed.
Updated display names of all IO Set Bonus powers to be more user friendly.
Server Transfer
Clarified Character Transfer warning to indicate that Arena kiosk ratings do not transfer with a Server Transfer.
Graphical Effects
Full animation for Whirling Hands (as well as all other powers that share this animation) has been restored.
Summoned Snow Beast will no longer play their spawn animation twice when summoned.
Oil Slick will now display a ‘Defense Debuff’ graphic effect on targets.
CITY OF HEROES
Powers
Scrappers
Scrapper Martial Arts Crippling Axe Kick had its recharge time listed as ‘Fast’ when it should be referred to as ‘Moderate’. The help text has been corrected.
Scrapper Invincibility was set to use the wrong operator for its Taunt Aura. This has been corrected and should be back to its I10 effectiveness.
Blasters
Energy Blast Power Bolt for Blasters had a 5% chance to not deal the smashing portion of its damage. This has been corrected -- it should now always do the smashing damage, assuming the power hits a target.
Devices Auto Turret did not have a Defiance modifier active. This has been corrected. It now adds ~39% damage buff when successfully cast.
Devices Web Grenade now properly stacks its Defiance modifiers.
Repaired Ice Blast Blizzard for Blasters. Its Endurance Crash was inadvertently removed.
Blasters irresistible damage in PVP reduced from 33% to 10%
Blaster Fire Sword Circle was inadvertently doing considerably too much damage in PVP after the unresistible damage change. This has been corrected.
Defenders
Defenders version of Voltaic Sentinel duration set to 60 seconds.
Tankers
Frozen Aura for Tankers now has a damaging component.
Tanker Dual Blade Taunt recharge rate was set to 3 seconds, instead of the 10 seconds all other Tanker Taunt powers are set to. This has been corrected.
Increased radius of Ice Melee Frost from 7’ to 10’.
Increased radius of War Mace Crowd Control from 5’ to 8’.
Decreased radius of War Mace Shatter from 10’ to 8’, but increased its arc of attack from 20 degrees to 45 degrees.
Controllers
Force Field Repulsion Bomb for Controllers no longer benefits from Containment.
Animations
Fixed issue with some Archery and Trick Arrow animations not playing correctly at all times. Specifically if the power required the weapon to be drawn before activating.
CITY OF VILLAINS
Powers
Masterminds
Mastermind Robotics Pulse Rifle Burse was doing Negative Energy Damage instead of Energy Damage. The damage type is now correctly set to the Energy type.
The following Mastermind commands have been added to facilitate sending inspirations to your pet.
/inspexec_pet_name
/inspexec_pet_target Stalkers
Fixed an issue with Stalker Dual Blades One Thousand Cuts that was causing it to have less than desired area of effect. The new radius is 10’.
Graphical / Sound Effects
Resolved issue with a shared wristband activation sequence that was resulting in sounds being shared between powers such as Robotics Masterminds and the portable workbench/Ouroboros portal summon.
Transitioning from running forward to strafing left or right has been fixed for Dual Pistols.
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LordStarwolf
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Read that Ron. This might actually get me playing more.
Guardian
Avant Guard = Emp/Rad/Psychic Defender Lvl 50 (Dedicated Healer)
Astral Plane = Peacebringer Lvl 50
Spica = Fire/Em/Energy Tank Lvl 50 (Scranker)
Avant Spines = Spines/Regen Scrapper Lvl 50 (AOE King)
Beliskner = Eng/Eng Blaster Lvl 41 (Blapper)
Avant Kin = Ill/Kin Controller Lvl 36
BMG = AR/Dev Blaster Lvl 27
Avant Psy = Psychic Blast/Empathy Defender Lvl 20 (Offender)
Avant Def = Kinetics/Energy Blast Defender Lvl 16
Avant Stone = Stone/Storm Controller lvl 15 (Super Controller)
Umbral Plane = Warshade Lvl 14
Triumph
Lord Yu = MA/Regen Scrapper Lvl 24
Protector
T-99 = Ice/Ice Tanker Lvl 20
Electrostun = Electric/EM Blaster Lvl 21 (Sapper)
Starwolf = Katana/Inv Scrapper Lvl 18 (my very first toon, 3 years ago)
Pinnacle
Avant Claws = Claws/Regen Scrapper Lvl 18 (Non-power pool toon)
Champion
Avant Dragon = Fire/Fire Blaster Lvl 20
Freedom
Avant Arch = Archery/NRG Blaster Lvl 25
And many, many, many more....
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| 02/12/08 10:11 |
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bigspeer
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wow. dem a lot of changes!
My New House - Almost Done Moving In...
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| 02/12/08 10:16 |
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Lightfoot27
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And welcome back Moment of Glory! Glad to see that NCSoft is taking this game seriously... can't even wait to see the next set of upgrades we get with how fast this one came into play.
BEST TEST ANSWERS EVER!
"Who was responsible for inventing the cotton gin?"
"I'm unable to divulge that information as it may compromise our agents in the field."
"What was the date of Columbus' journey to the americas?"
"I do not believe in linear time, the past and future are one, existence in the temporal sense is illusionary... this question is therefore meaningless and impossible to answer."
-Calvin and Hobbes
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| 02/12/08 10:19 |
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bigspeer
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What did they do to Mog? Aside from giving him a starring role in Space Balls...
My New House - Almost Done Moving In...
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| 02/12/08 10:36 |
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LordStarwolf
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Rotflmao!!! Sweet Big. Very nice reference.
Guardian
Avant Guard = Emp/Rad/Psychic Defender Lvl 50 (Dedicated Healer)
Astral Plane = Peacebringer Lvl 50
Spica = Fire/Em/Energy Tank Lvl 50 (Scranker)
Avant Spines = Spines/Regen Scrapper Lvl 50 (AOE King)
Beliskner = Eng/Eng Blaster Lvl 41 (Blapper)
Avant Kin = Ill/Kin Controller Lvl 36
BMG = AR/Dev Blaster Lvl 27
Avant Psy = Psychic Blast/Empathy Defender Lvl 20 (Offender)
Avant Def = Kinetics/Energy Blast Defender Lvl 16
Avant Stone = Stone/Storm Controller lvl 15 (Super Controller)
Umbral Plane = Warshade Lvl 14
Triumph
Lord Yu = MA/Regen Scrapper Lvl 24
Protector
T-99 = Ice/Ice Tanker Lvl 20
Electrostun = Electric/EM Blaster Lvl 21 (Sapper)
Starwolf = Katana/Inv Scrapper Lvl 18 (my very first toon, 3 years ago)
Pinnacle
Avant Claws = Claws/Regen Scrapper Lvl 18 (Non-power pool toon)
Champion
Avant Dragon = Fire/Fire Blaster Lvl 20
Freedom
Avant Arch = Archery/NRG Blaster Lvl 25
And many, many, many more....
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| 02/12/08 10:47 |
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robot mind
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ALRIGHT MODS!!!!!!!!!!!
w00t!
lovey changes!
I'm not a altoholic...no really i only have 1000+ toons...thats not..really...never mind.
Ninja Strike!!!
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| 02/12/08 11:47 |
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Sturmwolf
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| QUOTE | Big Patch - 2-12-08
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Moment of Glory: Removed Health crash and Heal resistance. Reduced Recharge time to 240 seconds (four minutes). Decreased Protection, Resistance and Defense durations to 15 seconds.
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Wow!
MoG will now become the true godemodepower of the set, right?
No more need to skip a tier 9 power!
I'm listening to real music.
Real Rock, real Gothic, real Rap, real Soul, real Funk...etc
(If you feel insulted by any of my posts.
Remember first, that I'm not writing in my native language.
You might missjudge me.)
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| 02/12/08 12:00 |
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Lightfoot27
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I played with MoG on test a bit before it went live and its not much of a god mode in the stricter sense as it only lasts for 15 seconds (5 sec. longer than build up) and the resist and defense have been lowered, and the recharge is till fairly long, but it at least makes it useable as a means of mitigating a large alpha strike. That was always regens big downfall, 10 baddies hitting you at once means a dirt nap.... this will help add to your initial survivability.
BEST TEST ANSWERS EVER!
"Who was responsible for inventing the cotton gin?"
"I'm unable to divulge that information as it may compromise our agents in the field."
"What was the date of Columbus' journey to the americas?"
"I do not believe in linear time, the past and future are one, existence in the temporal sense is illusionary... this question is therefore meaningless and impossible to answer."
-Calvin and Hobbes
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| 02/12/08 14:11 |
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Falcon15
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**Grumble** Made a kheldian...worked my toosh off to get him to 50...now they fix the damage from quantum array weaponry **end of grumble**
Awesome changes...can't wait for the next set myself!
"The most skillful sword never leaves it's sheath" - Japanese Proverb
No matter how powerful and mighty you are, a bullet between the eyes will seriously screw up your day.
"The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes" - Vlad Taltos
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| 02/12/08 14:42 |
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Fort05Nox
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I'm so glad, no more 'Only Affecting Self' for rage crash in Super Strength.
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| 02/12/08 17:06 |
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Fort05Nox
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Ohh and whats with the vet reward. Just a respec after 45 months? thats not much of a reward if you ask me, but I'm only at 9 months so not much of a vet
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| 02/12/08 17:07 |
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Solarix
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those are pretty sweet! some of my favorites are the moment of glory change, as i have been working on my claws/regen scrapper, and that force field's repulsion bomb now has damage, and is knockdown! that makes it incredibly useful as a crowd control power. before, it would blow everyone out of the clump, away from whichever enemy the targeted AoE was centered on.
also, those combat stat things sound cool!
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City of Heroes
Global Name: @Lethal Dose
Virtue
Lady Arya - lvl 50!! D3 defender(main)
Luna Moonlink - lvl 27 Peacebringer
Ethereal Phoenix - lvling Fire/Kin Controller
Aurelei - lvl 28 Warshade
Amazing Alice - lvl 21 Dark/WP Scrapper
SpecOps Wink - lvl 36 claws/regen scrapper
Imamu - lvl 24 sonic/ice blaster
Phoenix Android - lvling Psy/Fire Blaster
SpecOps Psion - lvling Psy/Mental Blaster
SpecOps Aether - lvling Dark/Energy Tanker
Arya Android - lvl 21 Robots/Dark Mastermind
and various others...
Freedom
La Psypathe - lvl 34 FF/Psy Defender
True Psight - lvl 28 illusions/empathy controller
Tru Element - lvling Ice/Thermal Controller
Plus, I play Guild Wars.
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| 02/12/08 19:44 |
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BigChill
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I'm still mixed on the Frozen Aura stacking nerf. Sure, pure Cold dmg is a signifficant PbAoE additive, but, I miss the reliable safety option. However, it does speed up Ice Meles'e ability to deal with a mob considerably.
But best of all: exp lvling curve changes.
Oh, all they are doing is feeding altitis now.
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Big Chill is a conscranker: he conrols a mob so they do nothing, scraps a target till they can't stand, and tanks what's left till the job's done.
Dive in, have fun, and think about it later.
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| 02/13/08 01:00 |
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