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08.31.05

Issue #5: Forest of Dread

New Zone : Croatoa

Croatoa is a three hour train ride upstate from Paragon
City , and was once the favorite lakeside vacation spot
for city dwellers. For the past three years, the train
service has been closed due to the Rikti Invasion, but
due to recent events the government have reopened the
line.

• To get to Croatoa, heroes can take a train from
  any Green Line station.
• Locals are asking for heroes of security levels
  25 to 34 to investigate recent strange goings on.

New Powers

• Sonic Attacks (Blaster Primary and Defender Secondary)
• Sonic Resonance (Defender Primary and Controller
  Secondary)
• Archery (Blaster Primary and Defender Secondary)
• Trick Arrow (Defender Primary and Controller Secondary)
• Electric Mastery (Blaster Ancillary Power Set)

Mission Customization

• Many existing missions have been updated with hostage
  escorts, friendly heroes who fight by your side, waves
  of attacking villains and more.

Updated Zone: The Shadow Shard

• Shadow Shard Maps show the location of each Jump
  Pad. A dotted line connects the Jump Pad with its
  end point.
• A teleporter on Firebase Zulu takes players to any
  of the other three zones in the Shadow Shard (works
  both ways).
• Dr. Scott Wachhorst, a prominent xenobiologist and
  Portal Corp. leader, willingly purchases Enhancements
  from heroes in Firebase Zulu.
• A renegade Brute, Kallarn, purchases Enhancements
  with the hope that he might gain enough power to overthrow
  Ruladak. It can be found in the Cascades.
• Slarrah, a Wisp who has been converted by Faathim
  the Kind, relieves heroes of excess Enhancements in
  the Chantry.
• The Nameless Mystic, an interdimensional being who
  feeds off the energy kicked off by the dreaded Lanaru,
  happily accepts Enhancements from heroes. Can be found
  lurking near the Storm Palace .

Updated Zone: Rikti Crash Site

• The military controls a teleporter in Peregrine
  Island that connects to one in the entrance of the
  Rikti Crash Site. Heroes can go back and forth from
  this point.
• Col. Barry Woodhouse works for Military Intelligence,
  gathering info on the Rikti activities. heroes can
  sell excess Enhancements to him.

Updated Zone: Club Zero

• There are now NPCs in the Paragon Dance Party who
  will sell Inspirations to heroes.

Updated Zone: Outbreak

• The tutorial has been modified.

New Badges

• In addition to new badges associated with Croatoa
  and the new Zone Events, many new Achievement badges
  have been added for those who have exceeded the existing
  ones.

Experience System Changes

• Heroes will not start receiving experience debt
  for defeats until level 10.
• Defeats in missions will only result in half the
  usual debt.
• Experience awards for defeating level 25+ enemies
  have been increased.

New Zone Events

• Steel Canyon : The Hellions are living up to their
  name and have taken to arson.
• Skyway City : The Trolls are starting raves (Troll-style)
  when they find a new supply of Superadine.

Game Balance

• We have made great efforts (as seen in the Powers
  changes below) to make sure that the ‘conning'
  system for how tough your enemies are still holds
  its meaning in the higher (level 25+) game. Enemies
  whose names appear in red or purple should present
  a legitimate challenge to heroes, both solo and in
  groups.
• Some heroes may find themselves having to fight
  things closer to their level now, so Experience rewards
  have been increased for those enemies to offset the
  increased difficulty of fighting higher level foes.
• Please note that you may need to vary your soloing
  and group tactics to account for this increase in
  difficulty.

Free Respec

• All heroes will be receiving a free respec due to
  these balance changes. This will be awarded
  24 hours after Issue 5 is released. To use
  this simply type /respec – you will be able to reselect
  all your character's Powers and Enhancement slots.
• We strongly recommend that you
  spend some time playing with your current character
  in this new version of the game before
  using your free respec. You only get one free respec,
  so make sure that your character is exactly how you
  want them before you commit – our GMs are unable to
  grant additional respecs if you make a mistake.
• If in doubt, remember that you can copy your hero
  to the Test server to try out the respec command and
  see the results before using it on the Live servers.
  (See the Training Room message board for full details
  of how to set up and access the Test server.)
• Free respecs do not ‘stack'. If you already have
  one that you have not used, you will not receive an
  additional one. Free respecs are counted separately
  from the respecs granted for completing the Terra
  Volta trial.

Powers - General

• All Archetypes will now be able to reach their Defense
  cap at sooner (was level 40, now level 20). Tankers
  now have a higher Defense cap than Scrappers and Kheldians.
  Scrappers and Kheldians have a higher Defense cap
  than all other archetypes.
  

  • This refers to the max Defense that a character
    can be buffed to. This cap increases as a character
    levels. Rather than waiting until level 40, the
    highest cap is now reached at level 20. Tankers,
    Scrappers and Kheldians now have a higher maximum
    Defense cap than other Archetypes.

• Set a maximum number of targets that can be affected
  by most offensive powers:
  
  AoE Debuffs, Ranged cones, and Melee AoE (PBAoE) are
  set to 10.
  
  Some Large PBAoE (like Nova) are set to 16.
  
  Ranged AoE damage powers are set to 16.
  
  All AoE crowd control powers are set to 16.
  

  Melee Cones are set to 5.
  
  Taunts (including Tanker inherent Taunt - 'PunchVoke')
  are set to 5.
  
  Buffs are unaffected.
  

  • This will limit the amount of 'herding'
    done by players to a more reasonable and realistic
    level.

• Powers and Inspirations that resurrect will now
  leave the target protected from XP Debt (duration
  dependent upon the power).
  

  • Change to make these powers more useable
    in combat.

• Travel powers will no longer be suppressed by toggle
  powers. Flyspeed of Fly, Speed Buff of Super Speed
  and JumpHeight/Distance buff of Super Leap will now
  only suppress if you use a ‘click' attack powers (toggles
  like Enervating Field and Invincibility will no longer
  cause Suppression).
  

  • The penalty was too great for players who
    rely on toggle powers to protect themselves.

• Using a power that completely drains your endurance
  (such as Nova, Thunderous Blast, Inferno, and so on)
  will now cause all toggle powers to drop.
  

  • These powers did not always drain 100% of
    endurance before, and with the addition of Stamina
    or other Endurance regen buffs, it was possible
    to maintain toggle powers through the endurance
    crash. This change makes these powers work as
    described.

• Cone Enhancements removed from the game. Increased
  Range Enhancements now have the same effect on Cone
  powers.
  

  • The difference between Cone enhancement
    and Range enhancement was confusing. Now one Enhancement
    works to increase the reach of all powers.

• Inherent Powers of Archetypes (such as the Scrapper's
  Critical Hit ability and the new Blaster and Controller
  Inherent Powers introduced in this Issue) now appear
  in a character's Powers menu.
  

  • Quality of life feature, making these powers
    and their effects more obvious to new players.
    

• Blasters have a new Inherent Ability called Defiance
  . As a Blaster's health falls, their damage begins
  to dramatically increase. The lower their health,
  the greater the damage boost. There is a new ‘Defiance
  Meter' below the Endurance bar on the User Interface
  to show this effect.
  

  • Makes the Blaster into a more comic-booky
    Archetype to play. As they begin to lose a battle,
    their power increases dramatically, giving them
    the edge they need to defeat powerful foes.

• Blaster hit points increased.
  

  • Overall increase in the survivability of
    Blasters.

• Blaster damage cap increased.
  

  • Overall increase in the damage output (and
    thus survivability) of Blasters. Blasters may
    need Buffs from other Archetypes in order to reach
    the new caps.

• Controllers have a new Inherent Ability called Containment.
  All Controllers will do double damage (+100% unenhanced
  base Damage) to a target (non pvp) that is Immobilized,
  Disoriented, Slept or Held.
  

  • Increasing the non-Pet damage potential
    of all Controllers. This change is intended to
    give them a more balanced and even game-play experience
    throughout all of their levels.

• Controller AoE Holds, Disorients and Sleeps (and
  a few others like Quicksand and Ice Slick) recharge
  times have been increased and duration reduced.
  
  AoE Immobilize and Phase Shift powers were not affected.
  
  
  Volcanic Gasses duration was not affected.
  

  • Game balance change due to the new increased
    damage of Controllers.

• Controller Pets, Dark Miasma/Dark Servant and Electrical
  Blast/Voltaic Sentinel can no longer ‘stack'. Reusing
  these summon powers before your pet has expired will
  remove the old pets and spawn new ones.
  
  Illusion Control/Phantasm can still summon multiple
  decoys.
  
  Fire Control/Fire Imps now always summons 3 Imps at
  your level.
  
  Illusion Control/Phantom Army now always summons 3
  Decoys.
  

  • Pet powers were too strong with multiple
    instances out at once. Once a Controller or Defender
    had pets, their play style and balance completely
    changed. Pets remain a powerful tool for heroes,
    but are no longer class-defining. Due to the change
    in the powers, we removed the randomness in the
    number of pets you get with Fire Imps and Phantom
    Army.

• Significantly increased duration of Controller high
  level pets. They are effectively permanent until you
  zone, log out or are defeated.
  

  • Quality of life change.

• Gave Animate Stone resistance to KnockBack.
  

  • Improves the ability of the pet to tank.
    

• Reduced Singularity's damage resistance.
  

  • These pets were virtually indestructible.
    They remain quite tough after the change.

• Reduced Duration of Earth Control/Earthquake and
  Ice Control/Ice Slick.
  

  • Changed to bring these powers more in line
    with other AoE control powers.

• Increased Recharge time of Ice Control/Shiver.
  
  

  • Change to bring this power more in line
    with other AoE control powers.

• Slightly decreased duration of Disorient from Gravity
  Control/Wormhole, but added a chance to Disorient
  Bosses to be consistent with similar powers. (Disorient
  duration for Wormhole is still higher than other Controller
  AoE Disorient powers.)
  

  • Change to make Wormhole more like other
    AE disorient powers.

• Fixed Gravity Control/Wormhole so the Disorient
  improves over level, like other Controller Disorient
  powers.
  
  

  • Bug fix.

• Animation time of Gravity Control/Crush decreased.
  
  

  • Power slightly rebalanced.

• Increased the Recharge time of Radiation Emmision/Lingering
  Radiation.
  

  • Change to bring this power in line with
    other AoE control powers.

• Reduced Hold Duration of Ice Blast/Freeze Ray, Ice
  Blast/Bitter Freeze Ray and Electrical Blast/Tesla
  Cage (to bring it into line with other non-controller
  single-target Hold powers).
  

  • These hold powers were stronger than other
    non-controller holds, so they were rebalanced
    to bring them in line.

• Scrapper damage increased for all powers.
  

  • Our goal is to increase the overall 'Scrappery'
    nature of Scrappers, making them melee combat
    masters, but without Tanker-level defense. This
    change counters some of the general reduction
    in defense that Scrappers are seeing with this
    update.

• Changed Regeneration/Instant Healing from a Toggle
  Power to a Click power. Gave it a new animation so
  it activates faster.
  

  • The power was simply too strong as a toggle
    that could be kept on all the time. Rather than
    further increase the end cost or decrease the
    healing ability of the power, we made it a click
    power to be used when really needed. As a click
    with a long recharge, its Endurance cost can remain
    low, and its Regeneration boost can stay high.
    

• Slightly reduced the non-enhanceable health regeneration
  buff of Regeneration/Integration.
  

  • The health regeneration component was slightly
    too high when combined with the other effects
    of the power.

• Broadsword/Parry animation time reduced.
  

  • Power slightly rebalanced.

• Reduced the Duration of the Fire Damage Boost for
  Fiery Aura/Fiery Embrace (it is now 20 seconds. Boost
  to other damage types is still 10 seconds).
  

  • Slight rebalancing of the power.

• Increased the recharge time of Fiery Aura/Burn.
  Decreased its damage.
  

  • Burn was one of the most damaging powers
    in the game. It is still quite strong after the
    change.

• All versions of Hibernate (Tanker/Ice Armor, Controller/Ancillary/Ice
  Mastery and Blaster/Ancillary/Cold Mastery) will no
  longer disable your toggle powers when activated.
  You cannot, however, activate new powers once Hibernate
  is on, and your powers will still not affect anyone
  else.
  
  Hibernate will now give you an Endurance Recovery
  boost.
  
  Hibernate will automatically switch off after 30 seconds.
  
  

  Hibernate will now activate instantly.
  

  • Faster activation makes the power much more
    useful as a defense. Not dropping toggles makes
    it more viable to turn the power off while still
    in combat. Endurance boost also makes it more
    useful. The duration the power can be maintained
    was lowered to help balance out some of the improvements.
    

• Ice Armor/Frozen Armor and Ice Armor/Wet Ice will
  no longer accept Damage Resistance Enhancements (This
  to help avoid confusion and prevent players from Slotting
  Enhancements sub-optimally).
  

  • These powers only give resistance to Fire
    and Cold attacks. Many players slotted these
    powers for resistance, thinking that they were
    getting a bonus against the same attacks the powers
    give Defense against.

• Slightly increased the Fire Damage Resistance of
  Ice Armor/Frozen Armor and Ice Armor/PermaFrost.
  
  

  • To compensate for the change to Frozen Armor
    and Wet Ice, above.

• Ice Armor/Permafrost now gives resistance to Slow.
  
  

  • Improvement to the power to make it more
    attractive.

• Ice Armor/Chilling Embrace now reduces the Damage
  of affected foes.
  

  • Improvement to the power to make it more
    attractive.

• Fixed Ice Armor/Energy Absorption so it no longer
  grants less Endurance and Slow protection if used
  against a higher level foe.
  

  • This is a Bug fix. When used against a higher
    level foe, your buff was lower than normal. Your
    Endurance Buff and Slow protection will now always
    be the same, regardless of what foe you use this
    power on.

• Increased Super Reflexes/Evasion Defense buff.
  

  • This will help Super Reflexes Scrappers
    against foes that tend to use AoE powers, like
    Bosses (who typically have a higher accuracy than
    minions).

• Slightly reduced end cost of the Dark Armor powers
  Dark Embrace, Murky Cloud and Obsidian Shield.
  

  • Change to help decrease Endurance problems
    with this power set.

• Reduced Dark Armor/Cloak of Fear's Accuracy Debuff.
  
  

  • With the previous changes to Fear effects,
    Cloak of Fear's Accuracy Debuff was too powerful.
    

• Movement penalty removed from Storm Summoning/Steamy
  Mist.
  
  Power slightly rebalanced.
• Reduced Duration on Dark Miasma/Fearsome Stare.
  Increased its recharge time.
  

  • Originally, the recharge and duration of
    this power were balanced against the old Fear
    effect (run away). Fear is now more of a control
    power and much more effective (targets are essentially
    Held). As such the old recharge time and duration
    were too powerful for what is now essentially
    a ‘control' power.

• Reduced Duration on Dark Miasma/Petrifying Gaze
  and increased its recharge time. (Dark Servant version
  as well.)
  

  • This power was stronger than most Controller
    Hold powers, and thus too powerful for a Defender
    power.

• Reduced duration of Ancillary/Darkness Mastery/Petrifying
  Gaze to match changes made to the Defender version.
  
  

  • Change to assure that the Ancillary version
    of the power is not stronger than the original
    version.

• Added Psionic Defense to Force Field/Dispersion
  Bubble.
  

  • Improvement to the power to make it more
    attractive.

• Increased the recharge time and decreased the duration
  of Pool/Presence/Intimidate. It only affects Lieutenants
  on a Critical.
  

  • Originally, the recharge and duration of
    this power were balanced against the old Fear
    effect (run away). Fear is now more of a control
    power and much more effective (targets are essentially
    Held). As such the old recharge time and duration
    were too powerful for what is now essentially
    a ‘control' power.

• Increased the Recharge Time and decreased the Duration
  of Pool/Presence/Invoke Panic.
  

  • Originally, the recharge and duration of
    this power were balanced against the old Fear
    effect (run away). Fear is now more of a control
    power and much more effective (targets are essentially
    Held). As such the old recharge time and duration
    were too powerful for what is now essentially
    a ‘control' power.

• Pool/Medicine/Aid Self: now also grants you some
  resistance to Disorient.
  

  • Change to make this power more useful and
    attractive to take.

• Pool/Fitness/Health: now also grants you some resistance
  to Sleep.
  

  • Change to make this power more useful and
    attractive to take.

• Pool/Fighting/Weave: now also grants you some resistance
  to Immobilize.
  

  • Change to make this power more useful and
    attractive to take.

• Pool/Leadership/Assault: now also grants some resistance
  to Taunt (mostly for PvP).
  

  • Change to make this power more useful and
    attractive to take.

• Pool/Leadership/Vengeance: now also grants high
  resistance to Sleep, Hold, Disorient, Immobilize,
  Confuse, Taunt and Knockback.
  

  • Change to make this power more useful and
    attractive to take.

• Pool/Concealment/Phase Shift: Although still a Toggle
  power, Phase Shift will deactivate if you leave it
  on for more than 30 seconds. Increased its Recharge
  Time.
  

  • This power was rebalanced to limit its effectiveness
    in PvE and PvP.

• Pool/Flight/Air Superiority now accepts Recharge
  Reduction Enhancements.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Added an f/x to Regeneration/Moment of Glory when
  it expires to indicate your Regeneration is debuffed
  (this is a visual f/x change only).
  

  • Quality of Life feature.

• Added an f/x to Elude when it expires to indicate
  your Recovery is debuffed (this is a visual f/x change
  only).
  

  • Quality of Life feature.

• Fixed missing sticky f/x for Radiation Blast/Cosmic
  Burst Defense Debuff (visual f/x only, no power change).
  
  

  • Quality of Life feature.

• Accolade power icons changed.
  
  

  • Quality of life feature.

• Fixed Kheldian Dwarf-form healing powers to heal
  an appropriate amount of HP (were not healing enough).
  
  
  

  • Powers rebalanced.

• Fixed typo in Peacebringer/Cosmic Balance.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed some help text for Empathy/Fortitude (text
  change only).
  

  • Bug fix.

• Kinetics/Fulcrum Shift Icon was displaying as Kinetic
  Transfer. Changed the name to the correct one in display
  
  

  • Bug fix.

• Kinetics/Siphon Power Icon now displays properly.
  
  

  • Bug fix.

• Removed Debuff Defense Enhancements from Spines/Impale
  (this power does not debuff Defense, so Debuff Defense
  Enhancements were not doing anything).
  

  • Bug fix.

• Removed Range Enhancements from Spines/Spine Burst
  (this power is a PBAoE and has no 'range' to increase,
  so Range Enhancements were not doing anything).
  

  • Bug fix.

• Scrapper/Spines: characters will no longer go through
  a ‘redraw' animation between attacks.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed Warshade Stygian Circle so it no longer gives
  you less Endurance when you drain an enemy that is
  higher level than you. Also, it no longer accepts
  Accuracy Enhancements (they were unnecessary because
  Stygian Circle is an auto-hit power).
  

  • Bug fix.

• Marked Quicksand summonable to not show duplicate
  icon in the buff tray.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed excessive long immobilization effect when
  casting or getting hit by Transfusion, Transference,
  Twilight Grasp, and Howling Twilight.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Updated Energy Blast/Power Burst help (text only,
  no power changes).
  

  • More accurately describes the power.

• Some Combat system chat message fixes for Spines
  powers (text only, no power changes).
  

  • More accurately describes what's going on.
    

• Fixed Hydra Travel Enhancement (Theta Exposure).
  It was not boosting travel speeds enough.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed Giant Crystal Titans Travel Enhancement (Selenite
  Shard). It was not boosting travel speeds enough.
  
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed bug with minimap where ‘fog of war' would
  reset after returning to a level by an elevator.
  
  

  • Bug fix.

Powers – PVP

• Controller/Gravity Control/Lift now does extra damage
  in PvP.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed Ice Blast/Frost Breath damage in PvP (it was
  set too low).
  

  • Bug fix.

• All Taunts (pool, Tanker and Scrapper) will now
  only be effective 50% of the time when used in PvP
  (not an accuracy decrease, so it cannot be modified
  with enhancements).
  

  • Taunt powers were too effective in PvP.
    

Powers - Global Defense Decrease

In order to facilitate a more balanced game for higher
level characters (Level 25 and up), the defensive abilities
of several powersets have been adjusted so that they
are more in line with one another. Villains have had
their To Hit values reduced accordingly to work with
these defensive changes (see Powers – Villains
, below).

• Reduced all Archetypes' base ability with Damage
  Resistance and Defense powers.
• Reduced Defense rating of Force Field powers (Deflection
  Shield, Insulation Shield and Dispersion Bubble).
• Reduced Defense bonus from Pool/Concealment/Stealth.
  Defense bonus is partially suppressed if you attack.
• Reduced Defense bonus from Pool/Flight/Hover (and
  Kheldian Combat Flight).
• Reduced Damage Resistance bonus from Pool/Fighting/Tough.
  Increased its Endurance Cost.
• Reduced Defense bonus from Pool/Fighting/Weave.
  Increased its Endurance Cost.
• Reduced Defense bonus from Pool/Leadership/Maneuvers.
• Reduced Defense bonus from Pool/Leaping/Combat Jumping.
• Pool/Speed/Hasten no longer buffs Defense.
• Reduced Ice Armor/Frozen Armor Defense Bonus.
• Reduced Ice Armor/Wet Ice Defense Bonus to around
  1%. Removed the ability to slot Defense Enhancements
  into this power to prevent players from inefficiently
  slotting this power for Defense. Enhancements that
  are currently slotted into this power will continue
  to work until they are outlevelled.
• Reduced Ice Armor/Glacial Armor Defense Bonus.
• Reduced Ice Armor/Energy Absorption Defense Bonus
  and set its max number of affected targets to 14.
  Added an Endurance Buff to the Caster for each affected
  target.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Temporary Invulnerability
  Damage resistance bonus.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Physical Damage resistance
  bonus.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Elements Damage resistance
  bonus. Added resistance to Toxic.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Energies Damage resistance
  bonus.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Unyielding Damage resistance
  bonus.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Invincibility Defense and
  Accuracy bonus. Increased its max number of affected
  targets to 14.
• Reduced Invulnerability/Tough Hide Defense bonus.
• Reduced Stone Armor/Rock Armor Defense Bonus.
• Reduced Stone Armor/Brimstone Armor Damage Resistance.
• Reduced Stone Armor/Crystal Armor Defense Bonus.
• Reduced Stone Armor/Mineral Armor Defense Bonus.
• Reduced Dark Armor/Cloak of Darkness Defense bonus.
• Reduced Super Reflexes/Focused Fighting Defense
  bonus.
• Reduced Super Reflexes/Focused Senses Defense bonus.
• Reduced Super Reflexes/Dodge Defense bonus.
• Reduced Super Reflexes/Agile Defense bonus.
• Reduced Super Reflexes/Lucky Defense bonus.
• Reduced Dark Miasma/Shadow Fall defense bonus.
• Reduced Storm Summoning/Steamy Mist Defense Bonus.
• Set some of Illusion Control/Superior Invisibility
  Defense bonus to suppress if you attack. Reduced its
  overall Defense bonus.
• Reduced defense bonus of Illusion Control/Group
  Invisibility.
• Defense of Devices/Cloaking Device is partially
  suppressed if you attack.
• Increased Ancillary Pool/Force Mastery/Force of
  Nature recharge time.
• Reduced Ancillary Pool/Psionic Mastery/Mind Over
  Body Damage Resistance.
• Reduced Ancillary Pool/Electric Mastery/Charged
  Armor Damage Resistance.
• Reduced Ancillary Pool/Munitions Mastery/Body Armor
  Damage Resistance.
• Reduced Umbral Aura/Absorption Damage Resistance.
• Reduced Umbral Aura/Shadow Cloak Defense bonus.
• Reduced Luminous Aura/Incandescence damage resistance.
• Reduced Defense and Damage Resistance values of
  defensive Temporary Powers appropriately based on
  above changes.

Powers - Villains

• Reduced Lt. base Accuracy to 57.5%.
  

  Reduced Boss base Accuracy to 65%
  
  Reduced Elite Boss base Accuracy.
  
  Reduced ArchVillain base Accuracy from 90% to 75%
  
  
  Reduced Giant Monster base Accuracy from 90% to 75%
  
  
  Reduced Minion level Turret base Accuracy from 75%
  to 58%
  
  Reduced Lieutenant level Turret base Accuracy from
  94% to 65%
  

  Reduced Boss level Turret base Accuracy from 113%
  to 75%
  
  Reduced Sniper base Accuracy from 75% to 65%
  
  Reduced Monument Minion base Accuracy from 75% to
  58%
  
  Reduced Rularuu Boss bas Accuracy from 90% to 75%
  
  

  • This is to limit the severity of defensive
    adjustments made to some powersets.

• There is a new low level Circle of Thorns minion,
  The Guardian.
  

  • Power sets for CoT minions slightly redesigned.
    

• Higher level Circle of Thorns Minions should no
  longer repeatedly cast the same debuffs over and over,
  nor should they stack them on top of already existing
  Debuffs of that type.
  

  • Bug fix.

• Some higher level Circle of Thorns minions are exhibiting
  new powers.
  

  • Power sets for CoT minions slightly redesigned.
    

• Banished Pantheon Summoned Husks no longer give
  experience when defeated. The Death Shaman has been
  given a slight increase in experience reward to offset
  this somewhat.
  

  • Fix to prevent farming of Summoned Husks.
    

• Devouring Earth Herders should summon fewer Swarms
  now.
  

  • Villain slightly rebalanced.

AI

• Fixed issue where Controller pets were not aggroing
  on villains unless the villains were already attacking.
• Pets will now follow their master through elevators.
  Pets cannot follow through zone or mission doors.
• Adjusted the way Confusion powers work with pets.
  Confused villains will no longer attack a player pet.
  Confused player pets may now attack players.
• Enemies may chase players through elevators.
• Enemy AI will now be more aware of dangerous areas,
  such as a Burn patch, and will do their best to avoid
  them.

Tasks

• Moved spawns on many mission maps (especially Warehouse
  maps) to decrease the chance of stacked spawns (two
  or three groups of enemies spawning in the same place).
• All Task Forces now award badges upon completion.
• Any character above the maximum level for a Task
  Force will be automatically exemplared to the maximum
  level of that Task Force when they join, and will
  remain exemplared until they leave the Task Force.
• Eliminated the ‘Grace' level of the following task
  forces: Positron, Synapse, Sister Psyche, Citadel,
  and Manticore. With the new ability to Auto-Exemplar
  yourself to Task Forces, the ability to join the Task
  Force one level after you "passed" it is
  no longer needed. (For example, you used to be able
  to join Synapse's Task Force up until Level 21, now
  that you can join it at any time, you can join it
  after level 20 and be auto-Exemplared to level 20)

UI

• Contact names now appear a different color from
  other NPC names.
• There is now a new option to disable dragging powers
  around in the power tray.
• Options window now allows you to specify additional
  texture quality options, including Anisotropic filtering.
• Improved ‘World Detail' slider in the options window.
  It no longer requires a restart of the game to apply
• Right-clicking on a character's status bars will
  bring up an information window showing current totals
  for health, endurance, experience and debt.
• Improved text editing on Character ID screen.
• Options menu rearranged slightly for ease of use.
• The name of the player controlling a pet now appears
  below the pet's name.
• JPEG screenshots are now automatically tagged with
  information regarding the location of the image and
  the members of your team. This is done using IPTC
  headers.
• New slash commands:
  
  /reply - replies to the last person who sent you a
  /tell.
  
  /tell_last or /tl - sends a tell to the last player
  you sent a /tell to.
  
  /texAniso - sets the anisotropic filtering level.
  
  
  /release_pets - unsummons all of your pets.
  

  
  
  Game

• Players can now push aside a pet, hostage
  or friendly NPC that blocks their way in a mission.

 

07.13.05

Game

• Improved game stability.
• Fixed bug that caused incorrect costume pieces to
  appear in the Supergroup and Tailor windows.
• Fixed bug that made it impossible to target enemies
  through some open doors.

Tasks

• All Task Forces and Trials will now accept any player
  who has reached at least the minimum level of the
  Task Force or Trial to play it. Players above the
  maximum level of the Task Force or Trial will be auto-exemplared
  to the highest level of the Task Force or Trial. They
  will remain exemplared until they are no longer a
  member of the taskforce or trial.
• Fixed bug in Terra Volta Trial that made it difficult
  for players to target the Coolant Belts.
• Fixed bug that occasionally allowed unlimited numbers
  of Rikti to spawn from portals in some mission maps.

Chat

• The /hide and /ghide commands are no longer linked.
  /hide makes you appear offline to others in local
  chat. /ghide makes you appear offline in global chat.
  The commands are canceled by /unhide and /gunhide
  respectively.

 

06.21.05

Game

• Improved game stability.
• Fixed several minor text error.

Powers

• Reduced the effectiveness of Hamidon
  Enhancements. They now act as multiple Single Origin
  enhancements. For example, instead of a Damage/Accuracy
  Hamidon Enhancement boosting both attributes by 50%,
  it will now boost those attributes by 33% each.

06.16.05

Game

• Added fix to increase mapserver stability.

 

06.15.05

Game

• Added fix to increase game stability.

Sidekicks/Exemplars

• Fixed bug that caused a Mentor to lose any pets
  when his sidekick moved out of range.
• Fixed bug that caused a Sidekick to lose any pets
  immediately upon moving out of range of their Mento,
  rather than after 60 seconds. Generally improved code
  for Sidekicking and Exemplaring.

06.10.05

Game

• Added fix to increase game stability.

06.07.05

Game

• Fixed bug in ICON that made some costume changes
  not be saved.
• Search comments no longer remain the same when switching
  between different characters.
• Fixed bug that could ground players with Hover
  or Fly turned on as they zone.
• Fixed bug that caused the wrong mission tobe selected
  in groups.
• Fixed bug causing text in some Powers' descriptions
  to become very small and unreadable.

06.01.05

Powers

• Set Defender Fallout debuff to be unresistable in
  PvP.
• Reverted out the change to the Hamidon enhancement
  "Enzyme Exposure".
• Fixed Hamidon con color. The Hamidon will no
  longer con blue to level 50 characters.  The
  Hamidon's actual powers and level are unchanged.
• Claws/Follow Up now displays an icon for the buff
  it gives.
• Warshade pets will now be dismissed when their
  caster becomes an exemplar, like other pets.
• Siphon Speed now correctly displays a buff icon
  Game Stability Fixed occasional crash when a Peacebringer
  changed costumes in Bright Nova or White Dwarf form.

Chat

• Fix for bug that could cause chat to go to the incorrect
  channel after zoning.
• In Coalition Chat, All Supergroup members can see
  the channel options.  If they are not eligible
  to change the options, the options are grayed out.

UI 

• Dragging Inspirations into full Powers slots will
  no longer delete them.

05.25.05

Powers

• Fixed bug in Transference that was causing you
  to resist the Endurance gain from this power if
  you had resistance to Endurance Drain.

• Fixed some CoT Earth Mage powers.

• Soul Transfer now accepts Recovery Enhancements.

• Limited the number of Rikti Communication Officers
  that may spawn.

• Fixed a bug that was causing enhancements in Wormhole
  not to work.

• Fixed a bug that was causing Black Dwarf Strike
  and Black Dwarf Smite to deal Energy damage instead
  of Negative Energy damage.

• All powers that debuff flight will now affect villains
  up to three levels higher than the caster. Previously,
  these powers would only affect villains that were
  equal level or lower than the caster.

• Changed Enzyme Exposure +Defense boost to match
  the +Defense given by other Hamidon Enhancements.

• Fixed a typo in the Titan Citrine Shard enhancement.
  It was marked as increasing accuracy, while it actually
  increases To Hit buffs

• Corrected the Text of Soaring Dragon in the Katana
  set. The long description conflicted with the short
  description. No numerical data was altered.

• Fixed a grammatical error in the Cyclone Elemental's
  description

• Banished Pantheon Death Shaman in Portal Missions
  should summon zombies of the appropriate level now.

• Fixed bug that allowed suppression to be avoided
  by restarting a power

• Fixed bug where taunts would continue after taunter
  died

• Fixed issue with pets returning to their caster
  rather than attacking.

Rewards

• Increased xp award for defeating Giant Monsters.

Game Stability

• Fixed mapserver crash when taunter leaves map

• Fixed memory leak 

• Fix for most common client crash (game crashes
  at startup)

• Fixed random shadow crash bug

• Fix for crash involving very long messages

U I

• Fixed issue where screenshots would not work for
  users running ATI cards with anti-aliasing turned
  on

05.12.05

Powers

• Lightning Storm cast by villains will no longer
  cause player toggles to be shut off.
• AI was improved on the following villains so that
  they cycle through their powers better:

  • Envoy of Shadow, Baphomet, Behemoth, Behemoth
    Master, Behemoth Lord, Behemoth Overlord, Fire
    Thorn Caster, Possessed Scientist, Far Fire, Fire
    Dagger, FrostFire, Damned, Infernal, Demon Overlord,
    Lead Scorcher, Scorcher, Lead Quantum Scorcher,
    Rikti Magus

• Fixed Tanker/Ice Armor/Hoarfrost so that it no
  longer attempts to Animate when unavailable.
• Added Taunt HitFX to Mace/Taunt
• Martial Arts/Storm Kick no longer uses the old multiple
  kick sound effect
• Defeated players will no longer continue to affect
  other players with Taunt powers.  The duration
  of Taunt powers ends with defeat. (this bug only
  happened in PvP.  No change to PvE.)

Tasks

• Modified Rank of Nictus Crystal Shard. Also,
  it will no longer appear in Kheldian missions randomly.

  • These enemies were set as a Giant Monster level
    threat as opposed to a Boss level threat. 
    This has been fixed.  Also, they were sometimes
    appearing in random Nictus Hunter spawns.  Now they
    will only show up in specific high level Kheldian
    missions.

• Fixed crash in Terra Volta Trial if players failed
  the Trial and did not go to the Hospital.

UI

• Fixed bug in Character Creation where if you switched
  from Male to Female or Huge body type, a Male body
  appeared on the Create Your Costume screen.

City Zones

• Skyway City: Hero Corp Field Analyst is no longer
  floating in the air.

Arena

• Fixed graphical problems with temp power vendors.
• Fixed bug that made Peacebringers in Light Form
  who left an Arena match invisible when they left the
  Arena and reentered the city.

Game

• Peacebringers in White Dwarf form can now change
  /boombox music selections.
• Rewards for defeating Giant Monsters have been
  adjusted across all levels. 
• If the source of a power is a Giant Monster,
  then the effect on an individual target is as if the Giant
  Monster was the target's combat level.  Thus,
  it will hit a level 10 as if it is level 10, and hit
  a level 50 as if it is level 50.  This affects
  both accuracy and base damage of all attacks.
• If the target of a power is a Giant Monster,
  then the effect is as if the caster were the monster's
  combat level if the monster's combat level is below
  that of the caster.  Otherwise, the effect is
  at the caster's combat level.  Example:
  against the Kraken (a level 14 Giant Monster), all
  powers cast against it by characters of 14th level
  and above do the same base effect as if the caster
  was 14th level.  Characters below 14th level
  have the same base effect as if they used the power
  against a target of their level.

Game Stability

• Fixed bug that caused the client to crash if a
  player changed zones while defeated, and then prevented
  the player from logging back on.
• Improved game stability

NPCs

• Trainers no longer refer to Citadel as Bastion.

Global Chat

• Fixed bug that occasionally caused the chat server
  to overload and crash.
  

05.11.05

Arena

• Players can no longer use Inspirations to resurrect
  in Arena battles.
• Fixed rare bug that allowed players in Observer
  mode to die, resulting in a client crash.
• An event creator's Ready button no longer shows
  placeholder text.
• The Troll Tunnels map has been removed from the
  arena map list.
• Fixed issue where an event creator who quit
  out of an event could not drop the event in the Arena
  terminals.
• Fixed bug on Tech maps where observers would
  spawn in the ceiling.
• Fixed issue where the Arena Chat channel could not
  be set as the default channel.

Game

• Fixed bug that made the Friends window difficult
  to resize.
• Fixed bug that allowed the /respec command to be
  used to remove all holds and debuffs from a player.

Powers

• Removed ToHit penalty from Super Speed, Super Leap,
  Fly and Peacebringer Fly.
• If you attack a target while you have Super Speed
  on, you will be reduced to your base run speed for
  4 seconds.
• If you attack a target while you have Super Leap
  on, you will be reduced to your base jumping for 4
  seconds.
• If you attack a target while you have Flight on,
  you will be reduced to Hover flight speed for 4 seconds.
• The following powers can now significantly affect
  enemies with Super Speed and Super Leap: Chilling
  Embrace (Tanker, Blaster and Jack Frost), Mud Pots,
  Ice Patch (Tanker, Blaster), Caltrops, Rain of Fire,
  Ice Storm, Blizzard, Shiver (Blaster, Controller),
  Arctic Air, Tar Patch, Snow Storm (Defender, Controller),
  Freezing Rain, Lingering Radiation, Siphon Speed,
  QuickSand, Ice Slick.
• Fixed Epic/Telekinesis to match the effect of Mind
  Control/Telekinesis in PvP.
• Fixed AV Infernal so he is no longer 100% resistant
  to Fire.
• Fixed Assault Rifle FlameThrower PvP damage. It
  was incorrectly set much higher than its PvE damage.
• Fixed Nemesis Staff Short Help (it used to say Minor
  damage. Text now says High damage).
• Fixed the KnockBack on some Battle Axe, Super Strength
  and Earth Melee powers. Many were changed to KnockBACK
  and should have stayed KnockDOWN. This was a bug and
  all affected powers have been reverted.
• Set up a fix to reduce the chance of single targeted
  Tanker Melee powers from affecting multiple targets
  (e.g. Energy Transfer bug).
• Updated Snow Storm Help text to indicate it can
  bring down flying foes (power did not change).
• Fixed Nemesis Staff. It was working as an AoE, when
  it was supposed to be single targeted. Decreased the
  lifetime of this Temp power to 3 days. Increased its
  chance to Knock Back.
• Added combat text for the Nemesis Staff temporary
  power.
• Fixed an issue with the Web Grenade and Stun Grenade
  purchasable Temporary powers. The number of uses was
  increased from 1 to 6.
• Fixed an issue with Controller/MindControl/Mesmerize
  -- The Magnitude of the power for PvP was set too
  low. It should now be possible to sleep your opponents.
• Fixed Controller/Kinetics/Transfusion so that it
  properly debuffs the targets Regeneration Rate instead
  of Buffing it. This bug was not in evidence in the
  Defender version of the power.
• Fixed Knockback in PvP for Power Push
• Fixed Suppression on Spines/Barb Swipe Immobilization.
• Fixed issue where pet icons remained in the status
  window even after the pet was destroyed.
• Fixed issue with missing tooltip information for
  all Kheldian Dwarf and Nova powers.

Costumes

• ICON: fixed bug that charged players for body and
  face scaling although no changes were made.

Chat

• Super Group Chat: Fixed bug that prevented players
  on a channel from logging on if the Message of the
  Day was too long.

Tasks

• Fixed level 45 ambush spawn in Taskforce Numina

05.04.05

Issue 4: Colosseum

Arenas!

Construction of the Arenas is complete, and heroes
of all Security Levels are encouraged to check them
out.

• Arenas are located in Galaxy City, Talos Island,
  and Peregrine Island.
• All events are interlinked. This means players
  joining events in Galaxy City’s arena can play
  against players who joined in Talos Island or Peregrine
  Island.
• Joining events is as easy as entering the arena
  lobbies and clicking on any available Battle Terminal.
• Events are broken down into Weight Classes, ensuring
  a more even fight between the heroes involved.
• You can join events in weight classes lower than
  your current Security Level allows. Doing this will
  automatically Exemplar you down to the appropriate
  level for the Weight Class.
• Stores inside the arenas sell small Inspirations
  as well as some useful Temporary Powers. These powers
  can only be used during Arena matches.
• Event Creators can set their own ground rules for
  events that they initiate. These include No Travel
  Powers, No Pool Powers, Max Recovery (extremely fast
  Endurance recovery), Limit Stealth Powers, and Tactical
  Start (all players start the match with 0 Endurance).
  Some ground rules will disable PVP Rating.
• Duels are one on one battles. These do not count
  towards PVP Rating.
  
  Team Duels are battles with 2 or more people per side.
• Battle Royals and Team Battle Royals are battles
  with three or more sides.
• Pentad Challenges are Team Duels that require one
  Blaster, one Controller, one Defender, one Scrapper,
  and one Tanker on each team (no more, no less).
• Supergroup Rumbles are set up between the leaders
  of two Supergroups, and limit combatants to belonging
  to one or the other Supergroup in order to participate.
  This means that the largest possible battle is 65
  people versus 65 people. Once we fix a technical problem,
  we want to increase this to 75 vs 75 to match the
  maximum supergroup size.
• The default Arena matches are 10 minute Deathmatch.
  You have 10 minutes to defeat your opponent(s) as
  many times as possible. 20 and 30 minute matches are
  also available.
• Other Arena possibilities are Last Man Standing,
  which are single elimination matches or Domination
  Matches, where teams share a pool of “lives�,
  and when they are all used up, the entire team loses
  the match.
• When you are defeated in a Last Man Standing match,
  you can come back as a floating camera and watch the
  action. Cameras are invisible to other players, and
  intangible (so they can pass through you without incident).
  Outside observers can also watch matches in progress
  as cameras, as long as the Event Creator allows it.
  Cameras are not allowed to chat to any other player
  in the game.
• A Chess-style ranking system has been implemented
  to track your skill in PvP. All players begin with
  a 1500 Rating. Defeating someone of a higher rating
  than you will give you more points added on your Rating
  than defeating someone of a lower rating than yourself.
  Inversely, losing to someone of a lower rating than
  you will cost you more points off your rating than
  losing to someone of a higher rating than yourself.
  You can see any other player’s rating on the
  Battle Terminals or by right clicking on them.

Character Creation

• New body scaling feature allows you much more ability
  to customize your character’s appearance.
• Body scaling can be modified at Icon stores, along
  with your costume. This costs influence (rate varies
  depending on character’s Combat Level).
• New costume pieces have been added to give your
  character a wider range of choices.

Powers

• Numerous changes have been made to powers specifically
  for player-vs-player situations, as well as many changes
  that affect all parts of the game.

Power Changes (PvE and PvP):

• Improved Max Stealth capability (High stealthy
  powers like Superior Invisibility can now better protect
  against foes with high Perception, like Snipers).

• Gives more improvement to powers like Superior
  Invisibility.

• Enemies can now knock you back, instead of just
  knocking you down.

  • Makes for more comic-book like gameplay.

• Removed the base -30% Damage Resistance debuff
  from Kheldians and decreased their base HP by 12.5%
  (this gives them an effective net increase in HP).

  • This was to solve an issue with non-grouped
    Kheldians taking too much damage.

• Increased Kheldians Base Range Damage. This gives
  them 4% less base damage than Defenders when solo.

  • This was to increase the damage potential of
    a solo Kheldian.

• Increased the Damage Bonus Kheldians get from the
  appropriate teammates to +20% each. This makes their
  damage equivalent to Blasters with 3 teammates of
  the appropriate archetype, and +50% greater damage
  than Blasters with 7 teammates of the appropriate
  archetype.

  • Gives a better incentive for Kheldians to group.

• Defenders and Controllers will now drain more Endurance
  when using powers that drain Endurance. More specifically,
  Defenders will drain more Endurance when using Electricity
  Blast than a Blaster using the same power. Controllers
  will now drain more endurance with powers such as
  Transfusion, but Defenders will still drain more than
  Controller.

  • Defenders Secondary Effects (debuffs) should
    be better than a Blaster’s or a Controller’s.

• Increased Damage resistance of Singularity, and
  decreased the Endurance cost.

  • Bring Singularity more in-line with other pets.

• Increased Damage resistance of Animate Stone.

  • Bring Animate Stone more in-line with other
    pets.

• Increased Jack Frost's resistance to Cold. Jack
  Frost now has a permanent Chilling Embrace. Jack Frost
  Power now accepts Slow Enhancements. Jack Frost is
  now highly resistant to Slow effects (recharge and
  movement).

  • Bring Jack Frost more in-line with other pets.

• Decreased the Endurance cost of Jack Frost.

  • Bring Jack Frost more in-line with other pets.

• Added Fear visual f/x to Manipulation fear powers.

  • Graphical improvement

• Increased Gravity Control/Propel damage.

  • To compensate for its long activation time.

• Significantly increased the Max HP of Kheldians
  while in Dwarf form.

  • To make them more Tanker-like in this form.

• Radiation Emission/EM Pulse now also drains Endurance
  and accepts Endurance Drain Enhancements.

  • Normalizing what EMP powers should do.

• Radiation Emission/EM Pulse now also debuffs targets’
  Regeneration rate.

  • Normalizing what EMP powers should do.

• Increased the Damage buff of Leadership/Assault
  and Vengeance by 50%.

  • Improved the powers to compensate for the fact
    that it can not take Enhancements.

• Doubled the effectiveness of the Recharge Boost
  of Empathy/Adrenaline boost.

  • Improved the power to make it better than previous
    ones in the set.

• Kheldian Dwarf Form now resists Confuse and Fear.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players,
    so characters will get some resistance to them.

• Modification to Perception attribute: Increased
  Perception will now allow you to see stealthy foes
  or resist powers that reduce your Perception (like
  Smoke Grenade).

  • Enemies can reduce your Perception, so characters
    will get some resistance to such effects.

• Accuracy Inspirations now increase Perception.

  • Enemies can reduce your Perception, so characters
    will get some resistance to such effects.

• Leadership/Tactics now offers increased Perception
  and resistance to Confuse.

  • Enemies can now Confuse and Fear and reduce
    your Perception, so characters will get some resistance
    to such effects.

• Leadership/Vengeance now offers resistance to Fear.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Medicine/Stimulant now offers resistance to Fear
  and Confuse.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Ice Armor/Glacial Armor now offers increased Perception.

  • Enemies can reduce your Perception, so characters
    will get some resistance to such effects.

• Stone Armor/Minerals now offers increased Perception
  and resistance to Confuse.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Removed Resistance Enhancements from Crystal Armor,
  as they had no effect.

  • It’s a Defense power, it was never supposed
    to take Resistance Enhancements.

• Dark Armor/Obsidian Shield now offer resistance
  to Fear.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Dark Armor/Cloak of Darkness now offers increased
  Perception.

  • Enemies can reduce your Perception, so characters
    will get some resistance to such effects.

• Super Reflexes/Focused Fighting now offers resistance
  to Confuse.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Super Reflexes/Focused Senses now offers increased
  Perception.

  • Enemies can reduce your Perception, so characters
    will get some resistance to such effects.

• Dark Miasma/Shadow Fall now offer resistance to
  Fear.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Empathy/Clear Mind now offer resistance to Fear
  and Confuse, and grants increased Perception.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Storm Summoning/Steamy Mist now offers resistance
  to Confuse.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Fixed a bug in Hasten that was allowing its attack
  rate boost to be resisted. The result was powers like
  Wet Ice and Energy Absorption were resisting the recharge
  boost of Hasten.

  • Bug fix.

• Updated Short and system help of Hoarfrost (no power
  change).

  • Text change

• Increased base movement of pets.

  • So they can keep up with you better.

• Modified Spectral Terror attack power so it tends
  to make foes run away less.

  • To reduce the “scatterâ€? effect.

• Added Confuse and Fear protection to Kheldian Cosmic
  Balance and Dark Sustenance.

  • Villains can now Confuse and Fear players, so
    characters will get some resistance to them.

• Fixed Super Strength/Rage animation.

  • Animation bug fix

• Fixed a bug that would cause a bad shield graphic
  f/x error to appear if you used Unyielding and Stone
  Mallet.

  • Graphic bug fix.

• Fixed Cryonic Armor missing ice armor f/x.

  • Graphic bug fix.

• Fixed Earthquake (hero and villain version) from
  continuing to affect foes even if they leave the affected
  area

  • Bug fix.

• Gravity Control/Wormhole is now an AoE (Wormhole
  applied a Disorient, so now Gravity Control has another
  AoE Control power). Recharge Time was increased to
  compensate.

  • Gives Gravity Controllers another AoE control
    power.

• Fixed bad Disorient Duration for Assault Rifle/Beanbag
  (duration was twice as long as normal at higher levels).

  • Bug fix.

• Dark Miasma/Howling Twilight now restores Full Hit
  Points and Endurance to those you resurrect. This
  power no longer accepts Heal and Recovery Enhancements
  (it already restores the maximum HP and END, so there
  is nothing to Enhance).

  • This power was hard enough to pull off in combat
    already. Increased its effectiveness appropriately.

• Slightly reduced the Fear Time of Invoke Panic.

  • New Fear effect is more powerful, this reduction
    is to compensate for the power increase.

• Spectral Terror now only targets one foe when it
  uses its Terrify attack.

  • To reduce the “scatterâ€? effect that
    could happen.

• Fixed some bad Disorient durations on Warshade powers
  (Gravitic Emanation and Unchain Essence).

  • Bug fix.

• Resolve, Strength of Will, and Sheer Willpower Inspiration
  are now removed from the game. Break Free, Emerge,
  and Escape Inspirations will now protect you from
  all effects including Sleep, Hold, Immobilization,
  Disorient, Fear, Knockback and Confuse, and can be
  activated even while under such effects.

  • New Inspiration consolidates all effects into
    one Inspiration. Can be used while under such
    effects. Old Inspirations now all act like the
    new ones.

• Reduced the duration of Break Free, Emerge, and
  Escape Inspirations.

  • Since the Inspiration is now all-encompassing,
    we reduced the duration to compensate for the
    power increase.

• Increased the invulnerable time after you cast Rise
  of the Phoenix (Tanker and Ancillary versions)

  • Improved the power to prevent you from dying
    immediately after you rez yourself.

• Modified powers that protect you from controlling
  effects. They will all now generally improve over
  level.

  • Mez Protection Powers scale more effectively
    over level.

• Reduced Ice Blast/Blizzard Duration and increased
  its Damage.

  • Improvement to Blizzard.

• Dark Miasma/Tar Patch now also debuffs affected
  targets’ damage resistance and prevents foes
  from jumping and flying. Recharge time has been increased.

  • Improvement to the power, now gets a Damage
    Resistance debuff. The increase to the recharge
    time prevents stacking of the effect.

• Dark Miasma/Twilight Grasp now debuff the targeted
  foes’ Regeneration Rate.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Dark Miasma/Howling Twilight now debuff the targeted
  foes’ Regeneration Rate.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Kinetics/Transfusion now debuffs the targeted foes’
  Regeneration Rate.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Kinetics/Siphon Speed now also transfers attack
  rate (debuffs targets attack rate and buffs the casters).

  • Improvement to the power.

• Radiation Emission/Lingering Radiation now also
  debuffs targets’ Regeneration rate.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Increased the duration of the Freezing Rain’s
  debuffs.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Increased Defender’s Freezing Rain Slow debuff.

  • To make it better than the Controller’s
    version. Defender’s increased more.

• Earth Control/Quicksand now debuffs a target’s
  defense and prevents foes from flying or jumping.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Tanker Hurl and Hurl Boulder and Scrapper/Spines/Impale
  can now knock flyers down.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Changed rank of Devouring Earth beacons. They should
  be easier to destroy now.

  • Beacons were too difficult to destroy.

• Improved/decreased the cast time of siphon speed.

  • Improved the power.

• Reduced the END cost of Dark Nova Bolt and Dark
  Nova Blast.

  • To bring these more in-line with other comparable
    powers.

• Reduced the amount of Regeneration Buff that can
  be enhanced in Instant Healing and Integration (base
  values were not changed).

  • A step in bringing Regeneration powerset more
    in-line with other equivalent powersets.

• Put a cap on the max defense you can gain from Energy
  Absorption.

  • There was no cap. Allowed you to have infinite
    defense.

• Increase Time Bomb Accuracy.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Dark Armor/Murky Cloud, Stone Armor/Rooted, Storm
  Summoning/O2 Boost, Radiation Emission/Accelerate
  Metabolism, and Force Field/Insulation Field now offer
  resistance to Endurance Drain effects.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Increased Immobilization Protection in Combat Jumping.
  Also, Protection now increases over level.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Increase Range and Decreased Interrupt times of
  Medicine/Aid Other and Stimulant.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Increased Hit rate of Choking Cloud.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Added some Immobilization protection to Cloak of
  Darkness.

  • Dark Armor was missing Immobilization Protection.

• Warshade Shadow Cloak now somewhat protects you
  from Immobilization, and Stealth.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Warshade/Stygian Circle: Added Endurance gain per
  defeated foe drained. Significantly reduced its Endurance
  activation cost.

  • Improvement to the power.

• Fixed Rage defense debuff.

  • Was giving a defense buff after Rage wore off
    instead of a debuff

• Reduced the effect Duration of Terrorize powers.

  • Terrorize improved significantly, so the durations
    needed to be reduced to compensate.

• Added Accuracy Enhancements to Rain of Fire, Freezing
  Rain, Ice Storm, and Blizzard.

  • Bug Fix

• Increased recharge time (less often) for Yellow
  Ink Men Holds and Sleeps.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Decreased Chance for DE Fungi men to put you to
  sleep with their Spores.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Increased the recharge time (less often) for Malta
  Tasers and Web Grenades.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Modified Knives of Artemis stealth.

  • They got better.

• Increased the recharge time (less often) for Modified
  Knives of Artemis sleep dart.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Decreased chance Dominatrix minion can sleep you.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Increased chance Dominatrix Boss can hold you.

  • They got better.

• Decreased chance Carnival Attendant Energy Rings
  can Disorient you.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Decreased chance Rularuu Brute minions can knock
  you down.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Decreased chance Rularuu Wisp minions can Immobilize
  you.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Decreased amount Rularuu Sentry minions can slow
  you.

  • So you are not perma-held by Minions.

• Blizzard, Ice Slick, Ice Patch, Earthquake, and
  Freezing Rain will no longer knock lower level minions
  out of the affected area.

  • Bug fix to prevent lower level enemies being
    knocked out of the area of effect.

• Modified Hydra Head powers. Fixed bug that allowed
  attacks to get through without taking out the shield
  generators.

  • Bug fix.

• Fixed Sewer Kraken collision/selection.

  • Bug fix.

• You can now attack targets while Superior Invisibility
  is on. Superior Invisibility is the only self toggle
  invisibility power that allows you to attack while
  it is active.
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