What is the Kheldian surprise?

As per this thread. A wise Pilgrim told us to be expecting something, but my download is at like, 1% and I must know now.

Please do tell!

From the patch notes:

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Originally Posted by Freitag CITY OF HEROES POWERS Peacebringers Combat Flight now correctly provides defense to all types of attacks. Luminous Blast Build Up has been renamed "Inner Light". It now grants a large damage and ToHit bonus for 10 seconds, and then a moderate damage and ToHit bonus for 20 seconds thereafter, for a total of 30 seconds of boosted damage. Photon Seekers cooldown has been reduced from 300 seconds to 180 seconds. Luminous Aura : Quantum Acceleration Added a new power available at level 24: Quantum Acceleration. Quantum Acceleration is similar to Afterburner. This allows Peacebringers to select this power if they wish. This power now provides a moderate amount of defense, improved flight control, and -fly protection, but has a 30 second cooldown once toggled off. This power can now accept Defense enhancements, IOs and Defense set IOs. This power will no longer allow the user to fly unless the user has a flight power active. This power's long help now clarifies that this power's flight protection is only granted while Combat Flight, Energy Flight, Quantum Flight or Group Energy Flight is active. Light Form has been redesigned. Its cooldown has been lowered from 1000 seconds to 300 seconds, but its duration has been reduced to 90 seconds to match that of Eclipse. The recovery bonus from the power and the status protection from the power have been moderately reduced to compensate for the drastic increase in uptime now possible. Additionally, Light Form now persists when activating White Dwarf or Bright Nova. White Dwarf now protects you from status effects as soon as its animation begins, preventing the power from being interrupted. Solar Flare and White Dwarf Flare are now generated by the Peacebringer's hands instead of their feet, and can now be used while in midair. Warshades Umbral Aura : Shadow Slip Added a new power available at level 24: Shadow Slip Shadow Slip is similar to Long Range Teleportation. This allows Warshades to select this power if they wish. Decreased this power's interrupt time from 13 seconds to 10 seconds and decreased its recharge from 450 seconds to 300 seconds. Black Dwarf now protects you from status effects as soon as its animation begins, preventing the power from being interrupted. Shadow Cloak - This power has been updated to reflect changes to power pool Stealth that have occurred since it was made. It now provides defense to all types of damage, rather than just positional defense, and half of the defense bonus now suppresses while in combat.

EDIT: Sorry, this is about all I can do here, because while I have access to the Beta, I got hit with the Zero Vet Rewards bug, so the game thinks my account is F2P and has those ATs locked out.

Apparently all Kheldians are named Dale.

Gotta say, I did not see this twist coming.

Awesome, I ctrl+f and typed "kheldian" in that thread and nothing came up.. Just read through it on a whim before getting back here.

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Something I'm thinking of now- If Light Form works in forms now (which is awesome) does that mean that it won't turn us into a ball of light anymore, or will dwarf and nova form be balls of light too? I'm bad at maths, but with the timers being adjusted, if LF can be made perma, will all forms be a perma ball of light? (My Beta Patch is still at 1% >=O)

Light form had a new effect. It's now an aura instead of a form change.

Of all the things to change about Solar Flare, they change the animation. What do you mean, there's an elephant in this room?

Bah, hate the hand clap animation ¬¬

Still...nice changes. Me likey.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Not fair.

PBs get all kind of buffs and get to swap a LotG caddy for a fun power and we have to try and squeeze in a teleport.

Not fair, I say!

Here are suggestions I have made that still need to be made to Peacebringers/Kheldians (Warshades needing fewer).

1. Make Solar Flare KD. Been stated enough elsewhere. It's just not on par with other PbAOE melee powers.
2. Make Pulsar a guaranteed Mag 3, and possibly shorten the animation as well. I'm not sure why people aren't mentioning this more here, but it is a common complaint in the rest of the forums. Pulsar is far weaker then the Warshade AOE mez power, and it should not be. The two should be roughly balanced.
3. Shorten the shapeshifting animation time. This really prohibits Kheldians from being fun with one of their major mechanics.
4. Improve the Kheldian inherent so it provides a boost while solo. I'm currently working on a proposal for this, but I believe it should happen. Other ATs that gained less use from their inherent while solo have recently been improved (Tankers and Defenders spring to mind), and Kheldians should be included in this.

Arbiter Hawk made an over all post later, saying that the desire for changes to Solar Flare and Pulsar are noted, but he did not want to bring them in at this point because the other changes to them are so significant, and he does not want Peacebringers to become overpowerd.

I and others are more than on the record to say this is not the case. If I ever compare Peacebringers to Warshades or other melee ATs in the future, it's easy to note that the current powers changed are in line with similar Warshade powers, but that Solar Flare and Pulsar are behind what other similar powers can do.

Until Solar Flare and Pulsar are improved, they are sub-par and weakened, meaning that Peacebringers are also lagging behind their Warshade brethren and the melee ATs they are meant to emulate in human form. Pulsar is not worth using in its current form as a crowd control power (unable to reliably mez a lieutenant in a lengthy three second power), and Solar Flare is iffy mitigation that does not allow a Peacebringer to follow up with any of their other attacks.

And... thanks for the compliment, PC Guy.

Zenyth, Light Form has half of the crash it used to have. Half your endurance or health is easily fixed by a Peacebringer's other powers. The power is now awesome and I use it whenever it is up on Test.

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Peacebringers are in far more need of help than Warshades, and the main things Warshades need are being worked on. +def to all from their stealth power, better form shifting to dwarf, and (eventually/hopefully) a faster shifting between forms.

I'll miss being a bright little fuzz-ball... That was one of the things I really enjoyed about Light Form... But given everything else? I can deal with it.

Now, if they'll just change that that Solar Flare KB into KD...

I'd like to ask for them to look at extracted essence. there has been a bug for quite a while now that if you use the power on a dead body and said dead body either disappears or revives, the essence isn't summoned. I can't imagine this is working as intended but if it is, can it not? also i'd be nice if they acted like VS or PA in that they can't be targeted but i can see how that would be a bit OP. any other WS changes that I would want would be coupled with PB changes I.E. reduced form change time and a solo inherent buff.


Also since both PBs and WS's now have a t9 that can be made perma and basically cap resist (or get very close to it) i'd be nice to give the shields a smaller res value and a defense component. possibly mez protection, but if dwarf change time gets reduced along with this current change, then that should solve that problem.

also if CB/DS keeps the same mechanic (different buffs depending on team) can we make it a constant and not a proximity buff?

Changing toggle shields from resist to defense would be a little overpowered, don't you think? Imagine a perma eclipsed human form warshade with softcapped s/l/e/n defense (and spots for lotg 7.5% recharge IO's in those shields on top of it.) It would be god mode.

So, Warshade's version of Siphon Life, Essence Drain, remains doing low damage with the justification that the archetype isn't a Melee type and the power heals its wielder.

I rather like using Siphon Life on my Dark characters. On my Warshade, it's a severe afterthought... Especially since the pittance of healing it does doesn't justify the mezzing enemies turning toward my Warshade and riddling him full of holes.

Wow. Thanks devs for actually listening to us and taking the time to fix some of these issues.

One problem though: "Shadow Cloak - This power has been updated to reflect changes to power pool Stealth that have occurred since it was made. It now provides defense to all types of damage, rather than just positional defense, and half of the defense bonus now suppresses while in combat." Shadow Cloak is a copy of Cloak of Darkness (Dark Armor), not of Stealth, and as such its defense values are not supposed to be halved when discovered. It even had a text bug for a while on live where the power description called it Cloak of Darkness.

I'll be submitting a bug report in beta with this info. Would appreciate it if some others would as well so we make sure someone notices the problem.