November 20, 2012 Patch Notes

2012/11/20 Patch Notes

Storm

Storm has received an all-around adjustment to her skills, as well as improvement to her Classic Storm costume.

Storm

• Passive - Flying
  • Immune to Ground attacks
• New Passive - Mistress of the Elements
  • Storm takes 50% less damage from Fire, Lightning, Ice, and Water attacks
• Lightning
  • Static Charge
    • Electricity attacks against nearby targets may cause this target to take additional Electricity damage
  • Arc Lightning
    • If Storm has Elemental Mastery, causes Static Charge on all enemies
  • Electrified
    • Applies Electrified to any allies that have Protective Shroud
    • Deals Electricity damage when attacked
    • This can trigger Static Charge
• Protective Shroud
  • Grants Protective Shroud to all allies
    • Concealment grants a chance to Avoid single-target attacks
    • Unlocks additional defensive benefits on Storm’s attacks
• Blizzard
  • All enemies
  • Grants Elemental Mastery to Storm
    • Increases Storm’s elemental damage
    • Unlocks additional offensive benefits on Storm’s attacks
  • Applies Chilled to enemies
    • Reduces Evasion
    • Deals damage every round
• Tornado
  • High Crits
  • Squall Line
    • If Storm has Elemental Mastery, Tornado exploits Chilled and triggers Static Charge on all enemies
  • Calm Before the Storm
    • Refreshes the duration of Protective Shroud on all allies
  • Wind Wall
    • Grants Wind Wall to allies that have Protective Shroud
    • Absorbs damage on each attack
    • Applies Off-Balance to attackers

Classic Storm Costume

• Weather Witch
  • Allies with Protective Shroud take 50% less Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Water damage
  • While Storm has Elemental Mastery, has a chance to strike attacking enemies with lightning

Black Friday Sale

In celebration of Black Friday our original Spec Op hero, Mockingbird , will be available for 4 days (ends 11/26). She is available for Command Points in the Team Page.

Bug Fixes Items

• Girl’s Best Friend will now give Strengthened after every attack
• Blade of Guardians (LE item)
  • Damage increased
  • Removed High Crits
  • Now grants Blessing of Heroes
    • If the wielder has Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, and Agile, grants Blessing of Heroes
    • Refreshes the duration of Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, and Agile
    • All attacks gain a 100% chance to crit
• Fury (LE item)
  • Fury will now correctly cause Burning, Dark Void, Deathfrost, and Poison if the Agent has Dark Void and counter-attacks
  • Fury will no longer cause Burning, Dark Void, Deathfrost, and Poison if the attack is dodged
  • Fury will now constantly reapply Deathfrost if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Deathfrost
  • Fury will now correctly grant an increase to Evasion as soon as the Agent gains Dark Void, and remove the increase if Dark Void is removed
• Hotshot (Daily Spin reward)
  • If the Agent has Poison, the chance to cause Stun on enemies is random per enemy (as opposed to all or none)
  • Will not cause Stun on targets that dodge the original attack
  • Hotshot will now constantly reapply Burning if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Burning
  • Hotshot will now correctly grant an increase to Defense as soon as the Agent gains Poison, and remove the increase if Poison is removed
• Grief (Crafting quest reward)
  • Increased damage
  • Grief will now constantly reapply Dark Void if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Dark Void
  • Grief will now correctly grant an increase to Attack as soon as the Agent gains Burning, and remove the increase if Burning is removed
• Signpost (SO4 Quest Reward)
  • Increased chance to hit
  • Does not crit
  • Now a Subtle effect
  • No longer displays 0 damage
  • The Agent will gain health even if the enemy dies from the attack
  • Signpost will now constantly reapply Poison if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Poison
  • Signpost will now correctly grant an increase to Accuracy as soon as the Agent gains Deathfrost, and remove the increase if Deathfrost is removed
• Quantum Jumper
  • Cooldown reduced to 2 rounds
  • The Agent will no longer gain an extra turn after the first time the Quantum Jumper is used

Characters

• Hercules
  • Son of Zeus passive will no longer reduce the effect of healing abilities
• Deadpool
  • No Holds Barred will now correctly create debuffs when Deadpool has Imba
  • No Holds Barred will now correctly remove debuffs in all cases
• Beast
  • Oh, my stars and garters! Beast now uses a new animation when Bleak House procs
• Prisoner (Infiltrator)
  • Drunken Master will no longer avoid attacks with True Strike or similar effects

Misc

• Mental Scarring no longer stacks
• Phased and Astral Form will no longer be removed from any sort of counter-attack
• Deathfrost correctly deals more health and stamina damage when afflicted with Bane
• Deathfrost no longer deals Soulfire damage when afflicted with Bane
• Characters that have Stun, Off-Balance, or Force Cage will no longer be able to perform Coordinated Attack or Cooperative Defense
• Static Charge duration reduced to 3 rounds

Reference

• Forum Playdom 11-20-12 Patch Notes