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Patch Notes / PTS June 12, 2020 - Ri4

« on: June 12, 2022, 09:28:06 pm »

White and Black Dwarfs now have their own Heal tables that are scaled up to account for their increased HP.  This means the following:

White Dwarf - Essence Boost and Restore Essence
- Restore Essence healing amount was corrected.  It once again heals 25%.
- Essence Boost has its healing properties boost by 1.75x.

Black Dwarf - Black Dwarf Drain and Stygian Circle
- Dwarf Drain  healing amount was corrected.  It once again heals 10%.
- Stygian Circle has it's healing properties boost by 1.75x.

New Power Customization option "No Fade" for  Warshade Shadow Cloak.

Black Dwarf Mire and Orbiting Death (Dwarf form) now taunt foes.  The taunt radius of Orbiting Death is 8ft.

Combat Jumping now suppresses instead of performing a transformation into human form like travel powers.
Pool power toggles now grant a recovery bonus equal to their endurance cost while suppressed in Nova or Dwarf forms.
  Additionally, we've corrected recovery bonus to match the endurance cost value as it changes due to being enhanced for endurance reduction.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause powers to become stuck in disabled mode when quickly shifting between shapeshift forms while on powers were on cooldown.
- Shadow Step had its hover length fixed and is back to 4s.  This power's changes were released in an incomplete state with some elements present from our upcoming pool revamp.  Shadow Step has been reverted to its original effects for now.  The complete improved version will appear in a future update.

Bug fixes:
- Mastermind Heat Mastery, Rise of the Phoenix: Can now properly slot rez sets.
- Mastermind Cold Domination, Infrigidate, Snow Storm, Sleet, and Heat Loss: Can now properly slot universal debuff sets.
- Stalker Ice Melee, Build Up: The Assassin's Mark Stalker ATO set proc will now correctly recharge this power.
- Stalker Ice Melee and Radiation Melee: The AoE attacks in these sets now correctly have a chance to critically hit.
- Stalker Radiation Melee, Atom Smasher: The stun effect in this power now actually functions.
- Doppelganger NPCs for player characters with the Ninja Assault, Military Assault, Kinetic Assault, and Infiltrator Training power sets will now have appropriate powers to match the player they are mimicking.

Balance tweaks:
- Consume (all versions): Duration on minor recovery effect increased from 15s to 30s. Recharge reduced from 180s to 120s (primary/secondary versions) or from 360s to 180s (epic pool versions).
- Savage Melee, Blood Thirst: Recharge reduced from 180s to 90s.
- Guardian Infiltrator Training, Intrusion: Now grants a global endurance discount effect when active.

Other:
- The fire holds Char and Cinders now have a new 'fiery binds' visual customization option. This includes epic pool versions of Char as well.

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Announcements and Important News / June 12, 2022 weekly all clear

« on: June 12, 2022, 09:23:04 pm »

Server reset it complete and back up.  644 tokens have been handed out for the week.

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Announcements and Important News / Weekly reset all clear June 5th 2022

« on: June 05, 2022, 09:24:37 pm »

Server is back up and the reset completed with no issues. 602 tokens have been handed out for the week and 1043 tokens for the month.

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Live Bug Reporting / New Toons not getting superpacks during event resets.

« on: May 29, 2022, 06:34:33 pm »

During special events we sometimes hand out superpacks to the last character that was logged in before the reset.  If the Character has not received their first piece of salvage then they will not receive the superpack.  A fix for this issue is being investigated, feel free to reach out by direct messaging the PPD Drone on discord if you did not receive your packs on the May 22 reset.

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Announcements and Important News / May 22, 2022 Anniversary reset

« on: May 22, 2022, 10:07:02 pm »

FARM TANKS CONDENSED RESET ALL CLEAR ANNOUNCEMENT.

- The number of accounts that logged in for the anniversary week is  678

- All accounts that logged in that last week will receive 3 tokens for the anniversary

- All xp is 3x for 24 hours more, 3xp WILL be turned off May 23rd at 10 pm est

- All accounts logged in last week get 3 Halloween and 3 Winter packs in the special salvage tab of the last character logged in

- Also the Anniversary badge will be available to anyone that logs in until the server reset on June 19.

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Announcements and Important News / Discord Outage March 8, 2022

« on: March 08, 2022, 01:22:40 pm »

We are aware of a discord outage and will be unable to answer requests sent to PPD-Drone while this is going on.  Please feel free to post any in game issues into the Tech Issues section for now until Discord comes back.

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Calendar / EVERYTHING IS FINE

« on: March 06, 2022, 08:39:54 pm »

Just wanted to let you all know that everything is fine, there is no cause for alarm.

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Calendar / Spring Fling (Valentines) Event

« on: February 08, 2022, 10:40:32 am »

Spring Fling (Valentines) Event will be live until server reset on Sunday Feb 27

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Calendar / Everythings fine in Dark Astoria

« on: November 25, 2021, 12:25:36 pm »

Friday November 26th at 9 PM est GM Farm Tank will be in Dark Astoria with a bag full of summoning commands and no Admin supervision.

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Calendar / Fright Before Christmas

« on: November 25, 2021, 12:16:42 pm »

Fright Before Christmas

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Calendar / Winter Event 2021

« on: November 25, 2021, 12:13:33 pm »

Event will run from Dec 19 until Jan 3rd 2021

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Calendar / 2XP on

« on: November 25, 2021, 12:11:11 pm »

2XP on

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Calendar / Movie Magic Mimicry 1PM EST

« on: October 23, 2021, 08:30:14 pm »

Saturday, Oct 30, 1pm EST
Nova Praetoria at the central circle

Remember the joy of dressing up as your favorite literary or movie character as a child? Come relive that magic and play dress-up with us! Bonus points for creativity and recognizability!

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Calendar / Halloween Horrors Costume Contest 9 pm EST

« on: October 23, 2021, 08:29:04 pm »

Friday, Oct 29, 9pm EST
Neutropolis near the trainer at the city center.

Come wow us with your freakiest, scariest, goriest, most undead, most demonic, or otherwise frightful look or costume character.

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Patch Notes / PTS (Test Server) Aug 29, 2021 - Ri2

« on: August 29, 2021, 10:24:32 pm »

Guardian ATOs have arrived.

    Guardian's Gift and Absolute Resolution are the Series 1 and Series 2 Archetype Origin Enhancements for Guardian.  Each set features unique abilities tailored to the archetype that walks between Melee, Ranged, Armor, and Support.  Here's some of what you'll find.

    Guardian's Gift: Recharge/PBAoE Resolve
UNIQUE -- No more than 1 enhancement of this type may be slotted by a character. This enhancement boosts the effectiveness of Resolve. While attacking the power slotted with this enhancement has a chance to trigger a PBAoE Resolve around the caster, even if the foe has not yet been defeated. Additionally, this effect stacks with other Resolve effects. This power effect can stack Resolve up to 4 times. Additionally, this enhancement reduces recharge time by X%. This enhancement can only be slotted by Guardians and may be slotted into any of their damage powers."

    Absolute Resolution: Recharge/Chance for Energy Damage Bonus
UNIQUE -- No more than 1 enhancement of this type may be slotted by a character. This enhancement gives the slotted power a chance to inflict moderate energy damage when you have Resolve. The energy damage from Absolute Resolution increases by 30% with each stack of Resolve on the caster. Additionally, this enhancement reduces recharge time by X%. This enhancement can only be slotted by Guardians and may be slotted into any of their damage powers.

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Cosmetics:

F- Female, M-Male, H-Huge

Adds multiple integrated tops to asym chests (F):

  - Catsuit
  - Leotard High Hip
  - Leotard Turtleneck High Hip

Adds integrated bottom to asym hips (F):

  - Leotard High Hip

Adds new detail category Upper Body Details to multiple chest bonesets. Models include (F):

  - Cropped Hoodie
  - Oversized Shirt
  - Cropped Tank
  - Shinobi Gi
  - Harness

Adds Shinobi Hakama and Booty Shorts to asym Skirts / Shorts. (F)

Adds chest Holsters to chest details section for tight chest profiles. (M/F/H)

Adds Suspenders and Suspenders with Harness to belts section of tight chest profiles. (M/F/H)

Adds Shinobi Headband and Blindfold to detail 1 for heads. (M/F/H)

Adds Shinobi Scarf and Shinobi Scarf for Capes to detail 2 for heads. (M/F/H)

Adds Fighter's Gloves to left and right gloves. (F)

Adds Shoulder Sheath Left, Shoulder Sheath Right, and Clairvoyent's Sash to shoulder details. (F)


Bug fix:
    - Athletic Pattern Mask should now be available on asym torsos.
    - Swan's Costume has been fixed.

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Power animation/balance tweaks:

The 'Total Focus' animation has been sped up, reducing its animation time from 3.3s to 2.2s. This affects all player versions of the following powers: Total Focus, Tremor, Thunder Strike, and Incandescent Strike.

Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor Archery:
Rain of Arrows: Animation time reduced from 4.0s to 2.0s. Damage delay reduced from 1.0s to 0.3s.
Explosive Arrow: Damage changed from scale 0.6 lethal + 0.3 smashing to scale 0.3 lethal + 0.3 smashing + 0.3 fire, so that the power can now light Oil Slick Arrow.

Force Field, Repulsion Bomb and Radiation Blast, Neutron Bomb: Unified both powers to use the faster Repulsion Bomb version of the animation, and corrected the erroneous mismatches between activation time and animation length for both powers. This shortens the activation time of both powers to 1.47s, and affects all player versions of these powers.

Scrapper and Stalker Weapon Mastery, Exploding Shuriken: Radius corrected from 10 feet to 15 feet and max targets increased from 10 to 16 - this power was balanced incorrectly relative to other APP TAoEs.
Power bug fixes:

Blaster Darkness Manipulation, Touch of the Beyond: Now is correctly typed as a ranged attack rather than melee, and no longer ignores range buffs since it is a ranged attack. No longer accepts Blaster ATO sets, since it does not deal damage.

Blaster Electricity Manipulation, Force of Thunder: Now accepts Endurance Modification and Healing IO sets.

Blaster Fire Manipulation, Cauterizing aura: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets.

Blaster Devices:
Web Grenade: Now accepts Slow IO sets.
Field Operative: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets.

Blaster Ice Manipulation, Frigid Protection: Now accepts Endurance Modification IO sets.

Blaster Mental Manipulation, Scare: Now is correctly typed as a ranged attack rather than melee.

Defender, Corruptor, and Mastermind Traps, Web Grenade: Now accepts Slow IO sets.

Medicine pool, Injection: Now accepts Tohit Debuff and Accurate Tohit Debuff IO sets.

Presence pool, Pacify: Now accepts Endurance Reduction enhancements.

Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Bio Armor, Parasitic Aura: Now accepts Endurance Reduction enhancements.

Scrapper, Brute, and Tanker Radiation Melee, Irradiated Ground: Now accepts Defense Debuff enhancements, Defence Debuff and Accurate Defense Debuff IO sets, and ATO sets.

Scrapper, Stalker, and Brute Broad Sword, Scrapper and Brute Katana, Stalker Ninja Blade: All defense debuff effects now correctly have a 100% chance to trigger instead of 99.8%.

Fixed missing jumpspeed and jumpheight slow resistance.
    -Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Electric Armor, Lightning Reflexes:
    -Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, and Tanker Super Reflexes, Quickness:
    -Arachnos Soldier Training and Gadgets, Mental Training:
    -Arachnos Widow Widow Teamwork, Mental Training:

Controller and Dominator Wind Control:
    -Wind Shear: No longer accepts ATOs, as it does not have any mez effects.
    -Wind Shear: Corrected endurance cost to 1.04 end/s (Dominator only).
    -Breathless: No longer accepts slow IO sets, as it does not have an enhanceable slow effect.

Blaster, Defender, and Corruptor Beam Rifle, Overcharge: Fixed the erroneous damage delay on this power.

Scrapper and Stalker Mu Mastery, Zapp: Damage significantly increased; this power was unintentionally doing much less damage than it should have been.