December 8, 2015 Patch Notes

Pre-Season PVP 26

Rewards

• Adamantium : 12 x Saya and all lower tier rewards below
• Vibranium : 10 Gold and all lower tier rewards below
• Diamond : 200,000 and all lower tier rewards below
• Gold : 90,000 Silver and all lower tier rewards below
• Silver : 40,000 Silver

Saya

• One should always fear a saya without its blade
• Offense : 25826
• Defense : 12913

This item is only available as a reward, and is not purchasable in the store.

PvP Armory and Hero Bonuses

• There has been a general reduction across all Armory and Hero Bonuses in order to scale back the exponential growth of pvp bonuses and to make them more manageable
  • This change is universal across all players and affects all players the same way.
  • The bonuses received are the same but are now smaller instead of the larger numbers that most are used to.
• The stat bonus provided by Level 15 Heroes in PvP have been increased
  • This change has been made to make it more beneficial in owning more max level characters in PvP

Bugs and Balance Fixes

• Tooltip fix for the Synthetic Cube, tooltips should appear like new gear pieces with the headers for Special Properties, One Enemy, All Enemies, Self, Allies, etc.
• Victor Mancha's Reboot now has a cooldown of 2 rounds once it triggers
• Magik's Stepping Disc passive now has a higher chance to dodge Catastrophic attacks
• Shatterstar's Extreme Reflexes now has an increased chance to trigger (to 50%, up from 20%)
• Black Knight's Parry no longer triggers on buff, debuff, or subtle actions
• Black Knight's Parry can no longer trigger while Black Knight is Stunned or affected by a Pinpoint effect
• Black Knight's Absorb Power no longer procs on psychic, psychic energy, stealthy, defensive, buff, debuff, or subtle actions
• Black Knight's Absorb Power will no longer trigger while Black Knight is affected by a Stun effect or a Pinpoint effect
• Advanced Protection is now exploitable by Exploit Protect
• Kuurth, Breaker of Stone must hit her target with Stonebreaker for Runes to explode
• Cloaked can only dodge single-target attacks, can be removed by buff removal
• Union Jack's Bounding no longer triggers on subtle attacks
• Union Jack's Bounding Attack buff has had its damage boost reduced (to 10%, down from 18%)
• Spitfire's Together passive will now only trigger on single-target attacks
• The following Protect effects will no longer protect Temporal attacks
  • Advanced Protection
  • Aegis Defender
  • Bruiser Safeguard
  • Chronolift Protect
  • Dignified Protector
  • Ionic Wall
  • Energy Protector
  • Holographic Shield Guard
  • Paladin Array
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Selective Protector
  • Photographic Reflexes
  • Guardian Shard
  • Guardian of Attilan
  • Watcher of Attilan
  • Svalinn Defender
  • Teleos Suspension
  • Way of the Spider
  • Wretched Defender
  • Bulwark
  • Chivalrous Duty
• The following Protect effects will no longer protect Phased allies from single-target attacks
  • Advanced Protection
  • Aegis Defender
  • Bruiser Safeguard
  • Chronolift Protect
  • Dignified Protector
  • Holographic Shield Guard
  • Selfless Defender
  • Paladin Array
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Selective Protector
  • Photographic Reflexes
  • Guardian Shard
  • Deadly Attraction
  • Teleos Suspension
  • Wretched Defender
  • Bulwark
  • Chivalrous Duty
• Photographic Reflexes will no longer protect Cat-tastrophic attacks
• Self-Sacrifice will no longer protect while Cornered
• The following Evasion effects will no longer evade Temporal attacks
  • Mirror Images
  • Shrinking
  • Blazing Speed
  • Oracular Vision
  • Reality Hacking
  • Amped Up
  • DefiANT
• The following Evasion effects will no longer evade while affected by a Pinpoint effect:
  • Mirror Images
  • Dodge
  • Oracular Vision
• The following Evasion effects will no longer dodge Cat-tastrophic attacks
  • Blazing Speed
  • Shrinking
  • Oracular Vision
  • Reality Hacking
  • Amped Up
  • DefiANT
• Stealth Field can now be prevented by Obsolete Tech or Downgrade
• Watchful Eye is no longer guaranteed to dodge unarmed attacks, adjusted to a high chance to dodge unarmed attacks (to 70%, down from 100%)
• Heroes that are granted 2 turns per round are now affected by Exhausted so they only have 1 Turn per round
  • Visually, each of these characters will appear to have 1 Turn on the Turn Order Bar, but they will gain another turn once performing any action
    • Quicksilver
    • Doctor Doom
    • Spitfire
    • Omega Sentinel
    • Kang (Immune to exhausted by visually the same)
• Tag Team will no longer trigger while Exhausted
• Many counters and follow-ups have had their maximum number of triggers per round reduced
• The following counters will no longer trigger while affected by Off balance
  • Advanced Learning Algorithm
  • Nocked and Loaded
  • Souldrainer
• The following follow-ups will no longer trigger while affected by Winded
  • Tempest
  • Master Sword
  • Sweet Tooth
  • Team Hawkeye
  • Custom NF3000
  • Ceramic Blade
  • Slingshot
  • Slingcannon
  • Ceramic Knife
  • Power Gauntlet
  • Depletor
  • Depletor Mk2
  • Nonlethal Stun Baton
  • Stun Baton
  • Chaoshot SMG
  • Gauntlet
  • Golden Glazed Ceramic Knife
  • Revolt 4
  • Multishot SMG
  • Overloader
  • Coulson Special

Undocumented

Gear

Soulfire Blade

• Min damage increased from 0.351 to 0.386
• Max damage increased from 0.527 to 0.579

Heroes

A-Bomb

• Ready To Rumble
  • Min damage increased from 0.283 to 0.288
  • Max damage increased from 0.339 to 0.346

Agent Venom

• Hail Mary
  • Min damage reduced from 0.659 to 0.561
  • Max damage reduced from 0.923 to 0.785

Anti-Venom

• Crusade
  • Min damage reduced from 0.837 to 0.711
  • Max damage reduced from 1.004 to 0.854

Baron Mordo

• Bolts of Balthakk
  • Min damage reduced from 0.461 to 0.346
  • Max damage reduced from 0.553 to 0.415
• Sinister Summoning
  • Min damage reduced from 0.171 to 0.145
  • Max damage reduced from 0.205 to 0.174
• Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
  • Removed Desperation Attack

Bishop

• Headhunter
  • Min damage reduced from 0.2 to 0.182
  • Max damage reduced from 0.26 to 0.236

Black Cat

• Nerve Chop
  • Min damage reduced from 0.417 to 0.354
  • Max damage reduced from 0.583 to 0.496

Black Panther

• Wakandan Arts
  • Min damage increased from 0.339 to 0.441
  • Max damage increased from 0.475 to 0.617

Black Widow

• Martial Arts Combo
  • Min damage reduced from 0.296 to 0.253
  • Max damage reduced from 0.415 to 0.354

Captain Britain

• Save the Queen
  • Min damage increased from 0.483 to 0.497
  • Max damage increased from 0.773 to 0.795

Daredevil

• Manrikigusari
  • Min damage reduced from 0.943 to 0.707
  • Max damage reduced from 1.225 to 0.919

Deadpool

• Bang Bang Bang!
  • Min damage reduced from 0.03 to 0.023
  • Max damage reduced from 0.042 to 0.032

Drax

• Daggerfall
  • Min damage increased from 0.406 to 0.569
  • Max damage increased from 0.569 to 0.797

Elsa Bloodstone

• The Slayer
  • Min damage increased from 0.29 to 0.348
  • Max damage increased from 0.464 to 0.557

Fixer

• Self-Destruct
  • Min damage reduced from 0.394 to 0.348
  • Max damage reduced from 0.512 to 0.452

Gorgon

• Show No Mercy
  • Min damage increased from 0.752 to 1.373
  • Max damage increased from 1.129 to 2.059

Groot

• I AM GROOT!
  • Min damage reduced from 0.729 to 0.51
  • Max damage reduced from 0.947 to 0.663

Heimdall

• Hofund
  • Min damage reduced from 0.763 to 0.573
  • Max damage reduced from 1.145 to 0.859

Hercules

• Rock of Ages
  • Min damage reduced from 0.756 to 0.653
  • Max damage reduced from 1.058 to 0.915

Hulk

• Thunder Clap
  • Min damage reduced from 0.283 to 0.2
  • Max damage reduced from 0.368 to 0.26
• Titanic Hurl
  • Min damage increased from 0.172 to 0.273
  • Max damage increased from 0.258 to 0.41

Human Torch

• Nova Blast
  • Min damage reduced from 0.424 to 0.361
  • Max damage reduced from 0.509 to 0.433

Hyperion

• Hubbled
  • Min damage reduced from 0.308 to 0.15
  • Max damage reduced from 0.492 to 0.24

Jessica Jones

• S.W.A.T.'ed
  • Min damage reduced from 0.191 to 0.162
  • Max damage reduced from 0.229 to 0.195

Juggernaut

• Mountain Crusher
  • Min damage increased from 0.556 to 0.572
  • Max damage increased from 0.667 to 0.687

Kang

• Maha-Kalpa
  • Min damage reduced from 0.97 to 0.824
  • Max damage reduced from 1.164 to 0.989

Medusa

• Splitting Hairs
  • Min damage increased from 0.576 to 0.727
  • Max damage increased from 0.691 to 0.873

Nightcrawler

• Ambush
  • Min damage increased from 0.39 to 0.399
  • Max damage increased from 0.547 to 0.558

Psylocke

• Telekinetic Katana
  • Min damage reduced from 0.436 to 0.31
  • Max damage reduced from 0.524 to 0.372

Punisher

• Battle Van
  • Min damage reduced from 0.384 to 0.288
  • Max damage reduced from 0.461 to 0.346

Sabretooth

• Brutal Slash
  • Min damage reduced from 0.265 to 0.233
  • Max damage reduced from 0.358 to 0.315

Sandman

• Hammering Blow
  • Min damage reduced from 1.261 to 0.945
  • Max damage reduced from 1.513 to 1.135
• Sand Spikes
  • Min damage reduced from 0.553 to 0.513
  • Max damage reduced from 0.663 to 0.616

Satana

• Enthralled Guardian: Bound Blade
  • Min damage reduced from 0.571 to 0.485
  • Max damage reduced from 0.742 to 0.631

Shatterstar

• Mojo Skewer
  • Min damage reduced from 0.557 to 0.473
  • Max damage reduced from 0.668 to 0.568
• Vibro Shockwave
  • Min damage reduced from 1.0 to 0.85
  • Max damage reduced from 1.2 to 1.02

Sif

• Leaping Slash
  • Min damage reduced from 0.727 to 0.637
  • Max damage reduced from 0.873 to 0.764

Silk

• Web Rush
  • Min damage reduced from 1.156 to 0.982
  • Max damage reduced from 1.618 to 1.375

Thing

• Clobberin' Time
  • Min damage reduced from 0.736 to 0.614
  • Max damage reduced from 0.883 to 0.737

Wonder Man

• Hollywood Hammer
  • Min damage reduced from 0.147 to 0.126
  • Max damage reduced from 0.22 to 0.189

Effects

 Holographic Assistant

• Increased chance to 25%. Up from 20%
• Can now proc up to 1 time per round. Down from 3

 Mystic Shroud

• Added icon border from
  
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 Sacrifice

• Added icon border

 Touch of Corruption

• Renamed from Exploit Corruption to Touch of Corruption

 Rune of Fear

• Updated description
  • FROM: • 20% chance for attacks to fail and cower in fear, only occurring once per round
    • Reduces the damage of attacks
    • This character's buffs are removed when this Rune explodes
    • Counts as a Fear effect
  • TO: • Chance for attacks to fail, only occurring once per round
    • Reduces the damage of attacks
    • Removes Buffs on Explosion
    • Counts as a Fear effect
    • Damage dealt is based on the affected character's Attack stat

 Rune of Control,

 Rune of Ruin

• Damage dealt is based on the affected character's Attack stat

Team-Up Bonuses

• Added Money Talks, Tough Love, and Gumshoes
• Elektra and Moonstone added Suffragettes

External Links

• Original Patch Notes on Playdom Forums.