Issue 20 - Patch Notes for build 2010.201105131851.1.0

Patch notes for 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.

• Patch Note: Bosses in trials whose player count is less than the event minimum will now spawn with a scaling strength locked to a minimum value, rather than scaling to match the lower number of players.
• 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 Acids.
  • 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.

• Corrected an error where the BAF occasionally would award more than one Empyrean Merit per 20 hour period.

• 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.
• Toggle and Auto powers will collectively only apply the effects of the Interface slot procs once every 10 seconds across all Toggle/Auto powers. Click power Interface slot procs are unaffected by this timer. Known Issue: This fix currently causes the Interface proc to only occur versus one target in a round of procs. This is unintentional and will be fixed in a future patch.
• Corrected an error which allowed players to summon more than one set of Lore pets.

• 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.

[*]Toggle and Auto powers will collectively only apply the effects of the Interface slot procs once every 10 seconds across all Toggle/Auto powers. Click power Interface slot procs are unaffected by this timer. Known Issue: This fix currently causes the Interface proc to only occur versus one target in a round of procs. This is unintentional and will be fixed in a future patch.



Why bother fixing one thing with a bugged fix? I would do something right or not at all, instead of "fixing" something with a bugged solution.......


AWESOME fixing the Woodsman Trial, long time coming on that one.

I think the reasoning would be it's better for Rain of Fire to apply a DoT to one guy every 10 seconds than continue to let caltrops or freezing rain do more damage than a blaster's T9 nuke.

Agreed with Goliath and the others: Better to temporarily overnerf than to let it continue to be ridiculously OP. They said they're gonna fix-fix it, so unbunch those tights and go on about your business.

I only got 2 astral merits on a Lambda that completed the sabotage phase and killed Marauder.

I think I can deal with Interface being useless for a week, even if I disagree with pushing this patch to live so quickly, but if it's anything longer than a week it's pretty unprofessional IMO.

Since its not mentioned, but was said in the thread about it, a preliminary fix is in place for the ridiculous overactive word filter in AE. If your arc was broke due to copyright/profane violation errors, it might be fixed now, if not post the blocked words that shouldn't be in the topic in the Mission Architect forum.

Just want to mention how much I hate the Interface nerf outside of rain powers. Rain power ticks were way too much - no one is denying that, but toggles really, really anger me. So ticks of 12-13 damage every two seconds is godlike, eh? Really? Whatever, I am allowed to flare my nostrils once in awhile, just like others will ignore me for it.

Yay! a Sinfest fan!

Known Issue: This fix currently causes the Interface proc to only occur versus one target in a round of procs. This is unintentional and will be fixed in a future patch.

This is bush league. To push a 'fix' that creates a new bug is ridiculous. This isn't a fix, you're just changing how the situation is broken, and in a manner that will piss off your players who use aoe powers with the reactive proc. It's very discouraging to see you guys operating like this.