Issue 20 Patch Notes - Build 2010.201105131851.1.0

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Combat Attributes

• Your effective Level Shift now displays in this window under Base Attributes.
• Influence totals in the Combat Attributes windows now display comma separators.

• A taskforce will no longer be able to join a league that is full, rather than break up the task force.
• Buff sending settings now properly work in leagues.

• The effective interaction area of the pet window has been expanded to include the lower portion of the window.

• Corrected power disabling flags in Incarnate Trials, Ouroboros, and PVP zones.
  • Travel Temps, Costume Powers and MTX Powers are restored for use in Incarnate Trials.

• In an effort to ensure that Lambda Sector's merits are more widely available regardless of whether the league is attempting badges or not, the following changes have been made to merit distribution:
  • 1 Merit will be awarded when acquiring 10 Grenades.
  • 1 merit will be awarded when acquiring 10 Grenades.
  • 1 Merit will be awarded when defeating 30 of Marauder's reinforcements (the enemies from the doors) in the final stage.
  • 1 Merit will be awarded when defeating Marauder.
  • 2 Merits will be awarded if the league completes Antacid. This is to compensate for the 10 Grenades merit this badge precludes.
  • 2 Merits will be awarded if the league completes Well-Stocked. This is to compensate for the 10 Acids merit this badge precludes.
  • 1 Merit will be awarded if the league completes Lambda Looter. This is because the league would also have acquired the 10 Acid and 10 Grenade merits.
  • Merits will no longer be awarded for gathering all 20 powers.
    • This merit is moved to the kills in the final stage to have fewer merits dependent on power gathering.
• The overall results are:
  • A standard run which gets all 10 of both powers and ignores badges will receive at least 4 Merits.
  • Any power-related badge run (Antacid, Well-Stocked or Lambda Looter) run has the potential to acquire at least 5 Merits.
  • In order to make sure that all raid sizes can achieve the new bonus merit in a reasonable amount of time, we have activated one of the two permanent doors which was previously not active for smaller leagues. This will increase the rate at which reinforcements spawn by 1 every minute for league sizes less than 10.
  • Please note that ONLY the reinforcements which follow Marauder will give credit for the counter. The pets of those reinforcements, the turrets, IDF remaining from a previous stage and the IDF guarding the containers during the final stage will not count for the merit.
• Removed Marauder's base 30% S/L resistance and reduced the duration of his Unstoppable power.
• A door blocking access to one of the lab interiors in Lambda Sector has been replaced with an openable door.

• Added direct conversion recipes for the following:
  • Notice of the Well converts into 40 Incarnate Threads
  • Favor of the Well converts into 100 Incarnate Threads

• Greatly reduced the probability that Ion Judgment powers will strike the same target multiple times in the same activation.
• Individual pet commands can now properly be issued to the Lore WarWorks Victoria Essence.
• Lore pet combat text has been adjusted to indicate which pet is acting.
• Rebirth Destiny powers now properly ignore buffs apart from those conferred by the Alpha Slot.
• Ageless and Barrier Destiny powers now properly accept increases to Damage Resistance, Defense Buff, and Recovery as conferred by the Alpha Slot.
• Team Teleport now works properly on Lore pets of all varieties.
• Level shifted players should not longer experience strange combat results versus very low level mobs.
• Switching Reactive Interface abilities equipped should no longer potentially result in the DoT effect being lost until zoning.

• The Woodsman Task Force (aka the Eden Trial) "Prisoners of Eden" will now properly start if the leader of the team is above level 41.
  • Members of the TF team above level 41 will be auto-exemplared to 41 for the duration as per standard Task Force mechanics.
• Restored missing text to "The Aura of Power" hero storyarc.

• On Vincent Ross's mission "Learn the Source of True Power" players should no longer find themselves entering the mission into non-playable space.

• Re-entering the the ship on the final mission will cause the player to now appear in the ship's interior, instead of falling through the world.

• Warrior bosses on the Mortimer Kal Strike Force now count towards the Legionnaire badge.

• Corrected several instances where two doors (one unopenable) were appearing in certain Praetorian Tech maps.
• Increased time between howls of the Moon-Crazed Dancer in Studio 55.

• The nav bar text will properly update now to tell the player to enter Talos after talking with the Resistance member.

• Aid your Powers Division Team - The door to the roof where Reese is located has been restored.

You left off "Interface Incarnate Powers are now useless in damage auras and rains." Please note, I am not referring to the correction of the proc on every tick, I am referring to the "will only work on 1 enemy, rains will only proc 1 time per casting (again impacting 1 enemy), auras will only proc once per 10 seconds (again impacting 1 enemy)."

Nice fixes...with the exception of the Incarnate Interface nerf.

Finally a fix to the Eden trial. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Also does the change to Marauder's S/L resistance make having scrappers and brutes on a MoLambda run feasible now?

Hey all,

Interface procs should have been obeying the standard 10 second per proc in toggle/auto/location power rules from the start. The fact that they weren't was the result of a bug which we are addressing with this patch. Any information I or anyone else at Paragon may have given to the contrary in the past was in error: The intention is that Interface procs behave as close to "having a proc IO slotted in all powers" as possible, and we are making these and the future changes to better achieve that intent.

The issue that rain powers are now only hitting 1 target per 10 seconds is a side-effect of the fix which we will be addressing in a future build. Rain powers should have chance to hit all targets with the proc (but only one "round" of application per 10 seconds across all powers of this category).

Your bud in the Incarnate-powered armor,
Black Scorpion

Thank goodness on the S/L change. Before it was a guaranteed failure if you had more than 2 or 3 scrappers on the league.

Awesome patch.

All the Lambda changes are greatly appreciated.

Awesome patch.

I love the Notice of the Well conversion to 40 Threads. This gives a pretty plausible way to do Incarnate advancement for those who hate the Trials but don't mind TFs.