Patch Notes/2008-07-09

7.9.08 Version 17.20080625.1T

COMBINED NOTES

AI

• Lady Jane should act more intelligently in combat situations now.
• 48 Month Veteran Reward pets should no longer charge into combat. Really.

Animation

• New animation for Super Strength / Punch while flying.

Badges

• Defeating Romulus Nictus should correctly award the Roman badge
• Rularuu weapons now unlocked via Shadow Shard TF badges

Chat

• Fixed condition for chat ban that would cause players to be banned for excessively long times.
• Fixed coalition chat name display to display SG name and player name correctly.
• Fixed a condition where a player could receive messages from a globally ignored player.

Powers

• Energy Blast / Power Burst - Changes to root time for Energy Blast - Power Burst. This does not affect the activation time. It’s just something that was broken when 1st and 2nd tier blaster powers had their Activation times shortened.
• Energy Melee / Energy Transfer – Activation time changed from 1.0 seconds to 2.67 seconds. New Animation and Graphical Effects also made.
• Dark Armor / Dark Embrace - Corrected the activation text to explain it also adds toxic resistance.
• Total Focus: All player versions of Total Focus Disorient Magnitude reduced to 3.
• All versions of Martial Arts Eagles Claw chance to Disorient a target increased from 75% per attack to 100% per attack.
• All versions of Martial Arts Storm Kick now have a 5% greater chance to cause a Critical Hit in all cases.
• FX for Controller and Mastermind Glue Arrow should persist after the initial target’s demise now (the Defender version already had this property.)
• Dual Blades / Vengeful Strike: Synched this power’s floating numbers to better fit with when the character hits the target.
• Trick Arrow powers should no longer cause weapon redraw issues with Archery (Blaster or Defender) or Mastermind Ninja bow powers.

Tailor / Custom Weapons

• The Rulaaru claws should now be unlockable
• Bowstring on Talsorian bow should now stay attached to the bow

User Interface

• Buff Icon Bugs
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue where Icons would disappear from Allies before the Buff Timer was over.
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue where Buff Icons would disappear when a teammate (in the same non-instanced zone) logs out of the game.
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue where teammates Zoning into a mission at different times caused Buffs Icons to disappear

CITY of HEROES

Powers

Defenders

• Defender / Vigilance will no longer increase the Defender’s endurance costs when grouped with teammates with greater than normal Health values.

Scrappers

• Scrapper / Martial Arts / Dragon’s Tail - Damage and Endurance cost were slightly too low. These have been adjusted.
• Scrapper / Dual Blades / Vengeful Strike: Added PvP Knockdown suppression to this power

Tankers

• Fixed an issue with Tanker Dark Melee and Dual Blades powersets which allowed “Chance to” enhancements to affect areas of effect, rather than just the target of the attack.
• Tanker / Dual Blades / Vengeful Strike: Added PvP Knockdown suppression to this power.

Tasks

• Safeguard Missions: Burning Daemon should now always spawn at the appropriate level for the mission he is in.
• Gordon Stacy now assigns the second mission in his story arc again.

CITY of VILLAINS

Powers

Arachnos Soldiers

• Bane Spider Cone attacks did not have a max number of targets defined. This has been corrected.
• Shortened the time between the activation and effect for Crab Spider Training – Serum

Arachnos Widows

• Arachnos Widow / Teamwork - Placate should no longer cause redraw with Widow Claw powers.

Brutes

• Brute / Dark Armor / Dark Regeneration: This power should now accept taunt enhancements and enhancement sets.
• Brute / Dark Melee / Touch of Fear: This power should now accept taunt enhancements and enhancement sets.

Dominators

• Dominator / Energy Assault / Power Burst now has red graphical effects

Masterminds

• Mastermind / Mercenaries / Serum - Fixed a typo in this power.

Stalkers

• Stalker / Electrical Melee / Thunder Strike - This power should now accept PBAoE damage sets.
• Changed “%” to “percent” in the Stalker/Assassination inherent ability. Some information would be displayed incorrectly because of the % sign..

Veteran Rewards

• Fixed typo in villain veteran title from “Vengful” to “Vengeful”