Going Rogue/Issue 18 - Patch notes for build 1850.201009101722.1T

Patch notes for build 1850.201009101722.1T.

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Alignment System

• Characters under level 20 can no longer be awarded credit for alignment missions before level 20.

• Burn (all versions) – the tick damage will now show up in combat chat as pet damage.

• Rikti Chiefs shouldn’t skate any more.

• Chance to Heal Self IO's will no longer heal enemies when slotted into Chain type powers.

• Cathedral of Pain - Fixed Merit diminishing returns. Merit rewards were dropping off too quickly when diminishing returns kicked in. This has been fixed.
• Warburg Missiles can no longer be used in the Cathedral of Pain.

• Corrected the swapped prestige costs for Small Steel Lab Tank and Steel Alembic Tank.

• Fixed a bug that prevented being awarded the Day Job Accolade Mercenary.
• Fixed a bug that prevented being awarded the Day Job Accolade Rapid Response (Hero)/Trouble Maker (Villain)

• Someone had kidnapped all the wandering pedestrians in Paragon City. They have now been rescued to pace the streets once more.

• Force Mastery/Force of Nature - The bonus recovery of this power was marked to ignore Buffs and debuffs, including enhancements. This has been corrected and it is now enhanceable and buffable.
• Fire Manipulation/Burn – This power will no longer damage the caster on its first tick.

• Mace Mastery/Personal Force Field - This power has been replaced with Focused Accuracy.

• Power Mastery/Force of Nature - The bonus recovery of this power was marked to ignore Buffs and debuffs, including enhancements. This has been corrected and it is now enhanceable and buffable.

• Fixed a number of Patron Powers that were not unlocking properly at level 41:
• Mu Mastery/Electrifying Fences
• Mace Mastery/Web Grenade
• Leviathan Mastery/School of Sharks

• The Achievement badge for completing a Hero Morality Mission has been renamed "Gallant" from "Resolute" to correct a duplicate title with the Veteran badge "Resolute".

• Fixed a bug in the first mission of the Positron Task Force (Teleport Assault into Orenbega) which could cause critters not to move.
• Peregrine Island - Maria Jenkins - Olympian Guards now spawn at an appropriate level.

• Primal Forces Mastery/Energy Transfer - Reduced Self Damage from scale 2.75 to Scale 3.0
• Primal Forces Mastery/Energy Transfer - Correct IO Set Slotting -- no longer accepts Stun or Melee AoE sets, now accepts Melee IO Sets.
• Ice Mastery/Sleet - increased recharge time from 60s to 90s.

• Ancillary Power Pools: attack powers in these pools were incorrectly given a chance to crit. This chance has been removed.
• Field Mastery/Temporary Invulnerability – This power now properly accepts Resistance IO sets instead of Defense IO sets
• Robotics/Battle Drones - fixed grammar in the info text.

• Kinetic Melee/Build Up - adjusted the Cast Time from 1.93 to 1.17 to match other versions of the power.

• Destroyer Crusher bats should no longer become invisible.
• Praetorian Clockwork Dismantler - "Particle Burst" no longer automatically hits its target.

• All Praetoria Story Arcs will now give out the proper amount of completion XP, before some were giving out slightly lower XP than intended.
• Charles Monroe must now be defeated before you actually arrest him.
• Jessica Flores is clearer in her instructions for her mission to manipulate files inside Athena Labs.
• Metronome now makes an effort to stop you from rescuing Susan Beck, but less so with Alec Parson.
• Alec Parson will now really tell you important information over the micro-communicator as you are investigating the Haywire Clockwork in M.I.C.I.R.
• Dumpster, the Resistance Leader in Praetor White's "Rescue PPD in Tunnels", will now appropriately display his information.
• Clockwork in Penelope Yin's mission to "Retrieve Clockwork info for Aaron" will no longer say the word "TEXT"
• The clues for Warrant's storyarc, Guns and Money, no longer have their titles chopped off.
• The Resistance attack on Gravatech Labs now has a more 'heroic' pace to it.
• The computer desk inside Athena Labs is now correctly oriented.
• Neutropolis - On Neuron's "Help Test Neuron's Latest Experiment", the clone will use its powers as expected to fight back.
• Neutropolis - Allies will now spawn at the correct level during Calvin Scott's "Assist the Storehouse Raid" mission.
• Neutropolis - Penelope Yin: Players of opposing factions can no longer attack each other on Penelope Yin's final mission.

• Defeats of Nightstar as appearing in the Praetorian arcs now counts towards the Dimensional Warder badge.

How about another badge title correction!

The Exploration badge Justice Avenger (Hero name) has the (Villain name) Socialite, which is also an Accolade badge.

It would be nice to have this corrected as well please. That way people will stop sending me thousands of emails asking why it's not verifying for them on the badge tracking sites.


Thanks

Still NO fixes to Stalker APPs lacking Criticals?

As someone who leads regular Pug style CoPs I can say even on PuG teams I find they nukes to be a crutch. I know I and many others really wanted to not use any temps. Unfortunatly grabbing the crutch out from someone that is still hobbling isnt kind. I think the "Big Red" AV will still be doable. I think untill the devs fix the only affecting self issue this trial will be like smacking against a brick wall for far too many players. This will leave a bad taste in many players mouth and there is not even any incentive to run this. Please can we have some perspective on why this happened before other fixes to the CoP?

this is starting to sound like a bad patch

I am baffled by the upcoming change to the Cathedral trial.

I've yet to be on an attempt that defeated the Storm/Psi AV Aspect, and yes, they have been balanced teams with skilled players. I applaud those that have, but clearly there are other issues with this Trial that are not being addressed. This change feels like a slap in the face.

The rest of the patch looks to have many positive changes/fixes. I especially look forward to seeing more fixes like this:

The Achievement badge for completing a Hero Morality Mission has been renamed "Gallant" from "Resolute" to correct a duplicate title with the Veteran badge "Resolute".

So we don't have so many duplicate badge title conflicts.

Oh look another reason not to do CoP. Castle puts in for a reward buff and they make it harder to complete without any buff to the rewards O.o!!

Still no shields in the MM epics missing them???

*2 thumbs down!!*

Before I call out "Cottage Rule?" I have to ask--what is that "Base Fix" in the notes? I don't understand.

I'm not a fan of the no nukes in the CoP trial either....I haven't been able to even run a CoP trial since it's launched in i18/GR... :/

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If they removed the Warburg option and won't say why -- exploit.

The fact that there's an outcry of a single mcguffin being disabled when you have like 5 others saddens me.