Test Server Update - March 20, 2020 - Game Update 103

Game Update 103

Tank Balance Changes
Rage

• Fervor grants 45% defense bonus (down from 50%).
• Scar Tissue grants max 50% of dominance as health at 15 hit counter (down from 100% at 30 hit counter).

Atomic

• Quark-Gluon Aura now lasts 14 seconds (up from 12 seconds).
• Quark-Gluon Aura now 35% control resistance (up from 15%)

Fire

• Fire Soul Base Defense increased to 35% (up from 30%).
• Fire Soul stack counts have been reduced to requiring 5 (down from 20) to get max defense bonus.
  • (Stack count increases each time you hit a burning target.)
• Fire Soul max stack defense bonus increased to 25% (up from 20%).
• Fire Soul buff reduces power costs of abilities by 30%.

Earth

• Fortify Golem now applies a heal over time on Brick.
• Fortify Golem should now be more reliable when healing Brick.
• Increased healing from Earth's Totem ability.

Pet Damage Balance Changes
Robot Sidekick

• Rockets (melee/ranged) now deal damage in AoE
• Increased Ranged damage by approx. 50%
• Melee damage remains the same.

Suppressor Turret

• Increased base damage by 30%.
• Greatly increased damage on targets suffering from PIs (approximately 40% total damage increase)
• No longer self-destructs out side of combat.

Crystal

• Reduced base damage by 8%.
• Increased overall damage increase when buffed.
• Fortify Golem now buffs Crystal's damage by 15% for 6 seconds.
• Cleaned up AI for less variance on types of auto attacks.

Fury

• Increased base damage to match Crystal's base damage.
• Offering now buffs Fury's damage by 15% for 6 seconds.

Guardian

• Reduced damage by 25%
• Increased threat generation on attacks by 200%

Other Pet Balance Changes
Brick

• See Earth Tank changes above.

Watcher

• Group heal increased by 20%.
• Can now cast 4 times before running out of power (up from 2 times)
• Using offering now allows Watcher to benefit from 10% of your Restoration for 8 seconds.

Powers

• Reduced the cooldown of Mental's 'Bastion' to 30 seconds (down from 60 seconds)

New Artifacts

• Introduced three new artifacts: Source Shard (DPS), B.O.P. Commlink (Controller), and Everyman Prototype (Tank)

General

• Reduced size of Manbat form to match a player's regular size. This will make it's dodge distance equal to that of the player's regular dodge distance.