March 20, 2013 Patch Notes

Forum Patch Notes: PvP Seaon 6

New Hero - Fantomex (PvP Season 6 Reward)

 * Class: Tactician
 * Passive: Team Misdirection
 * Attacks against Fantomex and his allies have a 20% chance of being negated by illusions
 * Level 1 : Diabolique
 * Single Target
 * Target Focus
 * Increases damage taken by the next single-target attack
 * Grants Focused to all allies
 * Accuracy increased by 25%
 * Level 2 : Allons-y
 * All Enemies
 * Lock-On
 * Taking additional damage from ranged attacks
 * E.V.A.
 * Chance for E.V.A. to counter when an ally attacks or is attacked
 * Level 6 : Fantôme
 * Single target
 * Stealthy
 * Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
 * Disoriented
 * Has a chance of attacking allies
 * E.V.A
 * Single Target
 * Hyperfocus
 * Deals extra damage while Focused
 * Some Assembly Required
 * Not usable without E.V.A.

Nightcrawler Refactor

 * Passive: Whiff of Brimstone
 * Chance to BAMF away from single target or AOE attacks
 * Applies Combo Setup when he BAMFs away
 * Passive: Noble Sacrifice
 * Chance to protect 30%
 * Single Target, or AOE
 * 1. Ambush
 * Stealthy
 * Combo Setup
 * Exploits Combos
 * 60% chance of doublestrike
 * 2. Night Kick
 * Stealthy
 * Cooldown 2
 * Stun 60%
 * Weakened
 * 3. Triple Threat
 * Stealthy
 * Cooldown 2
 * 60% Ambush against any target with Dizzy, Weakened, Exposed, or Slowed
 * Dizzy
 * 4. Shadow Dance
 * Stealthy
 * AOE
 * Slowed, Exposed

Nightcrawler Swashbuckler Costume

 * Swashbuckling
 * All attacks now cause Bleeding, Ambush now causes hemorrhaging

Character Tuning
A number of our heroes have been tuned to be more fair and competitive in pvp. Below you will find the list of changes.
 * Tigra
 * Tigra now receives Sharpened Claws on attack when countering
 * Sharpened Claws is no longer triggered on Quick Actions
 * Reduced the bonus of Tiger’s Fury
 * Wolverine
 * Wording of passives has been clarified
 * Wolverine is now less likely to protect against his counter-class
 * “Come At Me, Bub” now does a protect animation properly
 * “The Best There Is” should only have a chance to activate when Wolverine protects with “Come At Me, Bub” or counter-attacks with “Berserker Rage”
 * Wolverine will no longer counter-attack at very high health or protect at very low health
 * Wolverine can only trigger “The Best There Is” once per turn
 * Healing Factor can only prevent KOs once a round
 * Berserker Rage should no longer trigger while stunned
 * X-23
 * Fixed a bug where Made For Walking was not exploiting bleeds
 * Captain Britain
 * Captain Britain will no longer trigger Merlyn’s Gift (extra turn) if his target does not have Weakened, Exposed, Dizzy, or Slowed
 * Captain Britain’s chance to gain an extra turn increases for each of those debuffs on the target
 * The chance for Smashing to cause Stun reduced to 40%
 * A typo in Britannic has been corrected
 * Britannic’s damage has been corrected
 * Hercules
 * The chance for Column Down to cause Stun has increased to 40%
 * Magneto
 * Magnetism and Master of Magnets no longer announces every time someone attacks
 * Magneto’s first attack now does more damage when someone is already magnetized
 * Magneto is now immune to Magnetized in his passive
 * Stun chance of Heavy Metal adjusted to 50%/75%. Tooltip updated
 * Magneto’s PVP AI has been improved
 * Psylocke
 * Mental Coordination can now be removed
 * Psionic Shadow no longer avoids Catastrophic attacks
 * Havok
 * Havok will correctly take reduced damage from energy attacks
 * Cosmic Absorption will no longer pop-up every time Havoc absorbs
 * Wasp
 * Fist Bump is now Catastrophic
 * Hank Pym
 * Army of Ants is now correctly tagged as a ranged attack
 * Default counter-attack has been changed to Goliath Punch
 * Phoenix
 * Phoenix Fire’s damage has been adjusted
 * Changes to the Future Foundation
 * Tingling (Future Foundation Spider-Man), Tough Guy (FF Thing), Flexible Thinking (FF Mr. Fantastic), and Reactive Shields (FF Invisible Woman) no longer expire and continue providing their effects throughout the fight
 * Reactive Shields (FF Invisible Woman) are only created 70% of the time (down from 100%)
 * Toughness (FF Thing) and Awareness (FF Spider-Man) now only stack to 10
 * Amount of Defense per stack of Toughness and amount of Evasion per stack of Awareness reduced from 7% to 5%
 * Toughness and Awareness only stack 10 times
 * Fourth Field (FF Invisible Woman), Toughness, and Awareness are now tagged as buffs and can be removed by effects that remove them
 * Now each application of Toughness and Awareness expires after 3 rounds
 * Dr. Strange
 * Now starts the fight with one stack of Mystic Energy, rather than one stack of Power of the Principalities
 * Reduced the amount absorbed by Light of the Seraphim by 20%
 * Initial damage of Vapors of Valtorr is no longer considered an energy attack
 * Hulk
 * Increased the base damage of Rage Punch by 42%
 * Increased the base damage of Thunder Clap by 14%
 * Increased the base damage of Hulk Smash by 7%
 * Thor
 * Increased the base damage of Empowering Strike by 49%
 * Increased the base damage of Hammer Throw by 17%
 * Increased the base damage of Summon Thunder by 20%
 * Reduced the damage increase of Might of Mjolnir by 12%
 * Storm
 * An attack animation should no longer play for Storm’s Wind Wall ability
 * A new shield animation has been implemented for Storm’s Wind Wall ability
 * Wind Wall now has a duration of 5 rounds
 * Wind Wall’s damage absorption has been increased
 * Wind Wall is now considered a buff for removal purposes
 * Wind Wall will appropriately apply Off-Balance to attackers
 * Kitty Pryde
 * Strike from the Shadows counter now stacks with Combat Reflexes
 * Valkyrie
 * Increased the damage of Gierr by 9%
 * Fixed an issue with Desperation attack triggering on Geirr
 * Human Torch
 * Fixed an issue with Desperation attack triggering on Nova Blast
 * Desperation Attack
 * Desperation attack will not trigger above 72% health
 * Desperation attacks now deal more damage at low health
 * Text has been revised
 * Party buffs brought by a character or a costume no longer continue to apply when that character is knocked out
 * Dr. Strange Light of the Seraphim
 * Captain America Morale
 * Phoenix 5
 * Colossus
 * Phoenix
 * Emma Frost
 * Cyclops
 * Magik
 * Future Foundation
 * Invisible Woman
 * Mr. Fantastic
 * Thing
 * Spider-Man
 * Pyrophorric now correctly procs extra damage in the presence of a fire or explosive attack
 * The following moves have been tagged as explosive attacks
 * Missile Barrage
 * Phoenix Fire
 * Nova Blast
 * Rocket pistol
 * Phosphorous Pang
 * Golden Phosphorous Pang
 * Handheld Hohlraum
 * Sgt’s Fury
 * Single-Shot Thumper
 * Single-Shot Hobbler
 * Custom Thumper
 * Grenade Revolver
 * “Rolling Thunder” Launcher
 * Army of One

Item changes

 * Handheld Hohlraum now behaves like Nova Blast
 * Radian Cannon no longer performs a counter-attack or follow-up attack while stunned
 * Blaster Power Armor should no longer reflexive flash on counter-attacks
 * Blaster Power Armor will no longer trigger on Ground attacks
 * Chakra Strike damage has been adjusted
 * Chakra Strike now tagged as unarmed
 * Servoguard Programming Interface now marked as Stealthy, instead of Subtle
 * Face Punch has had its damage lowered
 * Decade has had its damage lowered
 * Mahayuga has had its damage lowered

Scroll of Angolob

 * Performs an animation when removing debuffs on the party
 * Should no longer display a damage number on the enemy team

Kuzuri

 * Chance to protect and counter has been modified to match that of Wolverine.
 * Red in Tooth will now fire after each attack with Kuzuri
 * Red in Tooth will not fire after counter-attacks

Bleeding

 * Bleeding will no longer cause damage when passive or triggered abilities such as the Blaster Power Armor or Laufey’s Needle fire

Soulfire

 * Soulfire now replaces Burning on targets instead of both being applied. Burning will not replace Soulfire if applied.

Deathfrost

 * Deathfrost now replaces Chilled on targets instead of both being applied. Chilled will not replace Deathfrost if applied.

Blind

 * Miss chance caused by Blind has been reduced
 * It is now removed after the next attack, whether that attack hits or misses
 * It is now removed after any attack (such as counter-attacks)

Bruisers

 * Reduced the amount of stats gained from Enraged slightly. In particular, Bruisers will gain less Evasion than other stats.

Defensive Experiment

 * Text has been revised

Exploit Flying

 * Displays Bonus Damage pop-up when attacking a target with Flying

Bug Fixes

 * Hero bonus calculations for the Generalist class bonuses have been fixed
 * We fixed an issue that was causing the news page to not show up correctly for all users, subsequently this also affected the Daily roulette as well
 * Some users may have experienced an issue whereas the Spec Op jet went missing from the Flight Deck. This has been resolved
 * Facebook Only: Hero recruitment announcements that are posted on your timeline will now appear as large square images, rather than small rectangular ones.

Known Issues

 * Wolverine may sometimes not trigger “The Best There Is” at the right time. We are investigating this
 * The “PVP Tournament is now live” pop-up will pop up every time you visit the flight deck until you join the tournament.
 * The “Advanced Idea” has a chance to cause a combat validation error.
 * Stacks of Timestream Displacement being removed are not properly damaging the host.

Amendment

 * When entering a PvP match, if your hero is at max experience, they may receive a notification about leveling up their hero. This notification pop up may cause users to be unable to properly load a PvP match.
 * If a user has not yet entered the PvP tournament 6, or Spec Op 8 the news page will continue to pop up after it has been dismissed.