Test Server Hotfix - June 22, 2017

General

• Updated items that were missing sockets.
• Acrobatics
  • Throwing Knives:
    • Doubled the cone width to match other long range cones.
    • Updated visuals.
  • Backflip Attack (supercharge):
    • Renamed to Devastating Flip.
  • (New Ability!) Backflip Attack:
    • 200 power cost.
    • 3s cooldown.
    • Flip away from your target, damaging and knocking back nearby enemies.
  • Forward Flip Attack:
    • Is now classified as melee.
    • Removed knockback and increased damage.
    • Now hits enemies around the target.
    • Updated visuals.
• Items
  • Mods:
    • PvP (prefab) mods have had their item levels adjusted to fall within standard PvP clamp ranges.
  • Trinkets:
    • Fixed trinket abilities for Anniversary, Starro, and Age of Justice trinkets.
• Skill Points
  • Updated Skill Points tooltips with suggested Roles.
• Weapons
  • Adjusted calculations for weapon attacks with a cast time, which affects the following abilities:
    • Bow:
      • Arrow Storm, Flurry Shot, Flurry Shot Mastery, Follow-Up Volley, Long Draw, Lunging Stab, Smoke Bomb Mastery.
    • Brawling:
      • Enhanced Shuriken Mastery, Ground Pound, Lunging Right, Stomp Smash, Stomp Smash Mastery.
    • Dual Pistols:
      • Lunge Strike, Meteor Blast Mastery, Slip Shot.
    • Dual Wield:
      • Double Throw, Double Throw Mastery, Explosive Shot Mastery, Flurry Shot Mastery, Flurry Shot Mastery, Whirlwind Strike.
    • Hand Blaster:
      • Leap Attack.
    • Martial Arts:
      • Axe Kick, Crushing Lunge, Loft Shot Mastery.
    • One Handed:
      • Focused Blast, Focused Blast Mastery, Quick Chop, Solar Flame Mastery, Stunning Swipe Mastery.
    • Rifle:
      • Air Launch Mastery, Backslide, Flip Burst, Flip Burst Mastery, Mortar, Rolling Barrage, Rolling Barrage Mastery, Sliding Barrage, Slip Shot Mastery, Surprise Volley.
    • Shield:
      • Big Scoop Mastery, Overhand Throw, Sidearm Throw, Spinning Backhand.
    • Staff:
      • Focused Spin, Focused Spin Mastery, Mortar Mastery, Sweeping Slice.
    • Two Handed:
      • Arrow Storm Mastery, Big Scoop, Clobber, Hammer Throw, Hammer Throw Mastery, Lunging Smash, Melee Attack.

Atomic

• General:
  • Tank Role:
    • Now correctly displays the shield buff when Quark-Gluon Aura is active, rather than always while in Tank role.

Celestial

• Corrupted Virtuous Light:
  • The heal over time now properly ticks 6 times instead of 5 times.
• Virtuous Light:
  • The heal over time now properly ticks 6 times instead of 5 times.

Fire

• General:
  • Tank Passive:
    • Increased Tank Health and Incoming Healing buff to 40%, up from 35%
• Mass Detonation:
  • Increased cost to 400 and increased the damage accordingly.
• Spontaneous Combustion:
  • Reduced the maximum number of detonations to 3, down from 4, and increased the damage accordingly.

Gadgets

• Battle Drone:
  • Updated the description and fixed issues with the pulsing shield.
• Cryo-Field:
  • Reduced number of total ticks and increased the tick gap.
• Will not Encase while Burning.
• Cryo-Foam:
  • Healing debuff.
  • Now properly grounds targets.
  • Will not Encase while Burning.
• EMP Pulse:
  • Decreased cost to 300.
  • Now properly stuns without Daze effects.
• Fear Gas:
  • Changed the panic effect to a stun, and updated the visual FX.
• Gauss Grenade:
  • Defense debuff.
  • Decreased cost to 100; Increased projectile duration to improve reliability.
• Implosion Mine:
  • Now properly deals damage and increments the hit counter.
  • Will not Encase while Burning.
• Napalm Grenade:
  • Healing debuff.
  • Decreased cost to 100.
  • Increased projectile duration to improve reliability.
  • Fixed description errors.
• Paralyzing Dart:
  • Damage debuff.
  • Decreased cost to 300; Fixed target reaction animation.
• Stasis Field:
  • Defense debuff.
  • Now properly appears on the Power list.
• Sticky Bomb:
  • Damage debuff.
  • Fixed incorrect cost to 200; Updated description to include encasement detonation.
• Thermite Mine:
  • Now increments the hit counter.
  • Fixed description errors.

Ice

• Frost Blast:
  • Fixed an issue where casting an ability while casting Frost Blast would prevent Frost Blast from hitting.

Light

• Lunging Swing:
  • Increased damage to account for cast time.

Nature

• PHEROMONES
  • Returned to 3 stacks (Bloom, Cross Pollination, Metabolism).
  • Bloom, Cross Pollination, and Metabolism healing has been adjusted to account for unique Pheromones.
  • Blossom:
    • Increased cost to 250.
    • No longer consumes Pheromones but continues to exploit for group healing (tooltip still needs to be updated).
  • Flourish:
    • Now a burst heal.
    • No longer consumes Pheromones, but spreads and refreshes them.
  • Roar:
    • Decreased cost to 150.
    • Now consumes Poison for burst damage and Pheromones for burst healing.
• POISON
  • Returned to 3 stacks (Vine Lash, Briar, Serpent Call).
  • Vine Lash:
    • Deals single target Poison damage over time.
  • Briar:
    • Decreased cost to 100
    • Deals single target Poison damage over time, with an AOE burst component.
  • Serpent Call:
    • Deals Poison damage over time
  • Savage Growth:
    • No longer consumes Poison.
  • Harvest:
    • No longer consumes Poisons, but spreads and refreshes them.
  • Thorn Burst:
    • PBAOE burst.
    • No longer consumes Poisons, but spreads and refreshes them. These effects will not show until next build.

Rage

• Plasma Retch:
  • Reduced cast time.
  • Increased cooldown to 6s, up from 5s.
  • Reduced DoT duration to 6s, down from 12s.
  • Increased DoT damage per tick.
  • This should help Plasma Retch fit a little more smoothly into damage rotations.