Patch Notes: NW.310.20231207a.14

Release Notes
 

Content and Environment

Achievements

• The Hardcore Epic Dungeoneer Achievement will now properly grant when completing Temple of the Spider (Master) on hardcore mode.

Spelljammer

• The issues with the Wildspace golden path on Planet Beloria have been addressed.
• The issues with the Wildspace golden path on Asteroid Tannis have been addressed.
   

Combat and Powers

Classes: Barbarian

• Bravery (Class Feature)
  • Movement Speed and Deflect bonuses apply outside of combat.
• Trample the Fallen (Class Feature)
  • Self effect reworked to give a +5% damage bonus for 10 seconds after hitting with a control power.

Blademaster Paragon

• Barbed Strikes Class Feature
  • Critical Strike and Critical Severity bonus increased 4% -> 5%
• Escalating Rage Feat
  • Rampage buff is now removed when Battlerage ends.
• Overpenetration
  • Overpenetration now scales from Critical Strike and Critical Severity.
  • Overpenetration damage bonus increased 5% -> 10%

Classes: Bard

• Critical Tuning (General)
  • Duration increased 10s -> 20s.
• Truly Inspired (General)
  • Duration increased 10s -> 20s.
• Fleche (At-Will)
  • Magnitude of final hit increased 180 -> 240
  • Tooltip identifies this enhanced magnitude.
• Reprise (At-Will)
  • Attack times has been revised for better animation syncing.
• Dancing Lights (Encounter)
  • Magnitude increased 700 -> 1000.
  • Cooldown decreased 21 -> 14.
  • Elemental Songs no longer change the Ranged tags incorrectly to Melee.
  • Improvised Dancing Lights now fully benefits from Elemental Song bonuses.
• Lunge (Encounter)
  • Lunge no longer has 2 Charges, and instead, has a single use on an 8 second cooldown.
    • This change was made to insure Lunge works more smoothly with Performer, as well as with effects that decrease cooldowns by a flat amount.
  • Slight animation delay added on hit to sync animations better as per our other 'charge' attacks.
  • Damage is now tagged as melee damage.
  • The improvised version no longer hits twice.
• Mystifying Strikes (Class Feature)
  • The damage and heal triggered by a teammate can no longer trigger more than once per second.
  • Total Magnitude of the damage over time increased 250 -> 500.
  • Damage Over Time effect can now critically strike.
  • Tooltip now lists the total magnitude x hits of the Damage Over Time effect.
• Sforzando (Class Feature)
  • Duration increased 10s -> 20s.

Songblade Paragon

• Performance Regeneration
  • Performance Regeneration increased 8.5 tick -> 20.0 tick.
  • This should allow Songblades to perform a song every 15 seconds.
• Staccato (At-Will)
  • Attack times has been revised to be a bit slower for better animation syncing.
  • Magnitude increased 80 -> 120 to compensate.
  • Hit timing adjusted to try and insure more even flow of hits across the combo.
• Con Elemento Variants (At-Will)
  • All variants now have a maximum targets of 15.
  • Con Elemento, Con Fuoco, Con Moto, and Con Brio have all had their timings reworked
    • Accordingly, their Magnitudes have been reworked as well.
    • The powers should now properly cycle into one another, without pauses.
  • Con Moto and Con Brio now fire towards the player's reticle, regardless of character facing.
  • Con Brio
    • Changed to be Melee Damage instead of Ranged Damage.
    • Range increased 21 -> 25.
  • Con Fuoco
    • Now has a unique VFX that marks it different from Con Elemento.
  • Con Moto
    • Targeting changed to be completely freeform and not magnetize to the closest enemy target.
    • This should allow for aiming of Con Moto between targets to hit both more reliably.
    • Screenshake reduced substantially.
• Contre (Encounter)
  • Contre generates slightly less Action Points while charging.
  • Improvised Contre's critical damage is no longer reduced by your own Critical Avoidance.
  • No longer hits twice after playing an Elemental Song.
  • Rebalanced all Magnitudes, generally making them larger.
  • Contre Seconde
    • Knockback changed to Knockdown.
  • Contre Septime
    • Add Knockback.
  • Contre Neuvieme
    • Charge time decreased 3s -> 2s.
• Ad Libitum (Encounter)
  • Magnitude increased to be 800.
  • No longer hits twice after playing an Elemental Song.
  • Elemental Songs no longer change the Melee tags incorrectly to Ranged.
• Volti Subito (Encounter)
  • No longer hits twice after playing an Elemental Song.
  • Elemental Songs no longer change the Melee tags incorrectly to Ranged.
• Lore (Daily)
  • Now increases your damage by 20% for 10s.
• Ballad of the Witch (Song)
  • Witch's Finale cast time slightly decreased and animation reworked.
  • Witch's Finale should no longer attempt to target friendlies and fail.
• Tailwind Mambo, Steel March, and Blaze Flamenco (Song)
  • The activation portion of these powers should now critically hit.
• Musician's Flow (Class Feature)
  • Effect reworked to increased Performance Regeneration by +25% (20.0 -> 25.0)
  • No longer decreases Song costs.
• A Due (Feat)
  • Now applies to the player as well as a single party member.
  • Range increased 20 -> 25.
  • Tooltip updated to clarify effects.
• Ballad Colla Voce (Feat)
  • Now applies to the player as well as his party members.
  • Duration increased 15s -> 20s.
  • Tooltip updated to clarify effects.
• Loremaster (Feat)
  • This feat has been reworked to provide the Songblade with a more targeted 'burst'. Battle Research is still generated in the same way, through at-wills and Research.
  • When at 5x Battle Research stacks, activating Lore or Research consumes them to grant Ready to Exploit!
  • Ready to Exploit! increases your encounter and ballad finale damage by 100% for 10s.
  • Loremaster no longer modifies the damage type bonuses of Lore.
  • Damage bonus increased 50% -> 100%
• Performer (Feat)
  • Improvised encounter powers no longer deal reduced damage.
  • Activation rate of improvised encounters has slightly decreased.
  • Number of stacks needed for Grandstand decreased 30 -> 8.
  • Fixed various encounter powers to properly display the 'trigger' UI effect when an improvised version activates.
• Redoublement (Feat)
  • This feat has been internally reworked and should now function correctly and play nicely with Performer.

Classes: Rogue

Assassin Paragon

• Toxic Blades no longer triggers from damage sources tag'd as Damage Over Time or Reflective.
• Smoke Bomb's hits, after the first, are now tag'd as Damage Over Time.

Classes: Wizard

• Oppressive Force (Daily)
  • Total number of hits decreased 5 -> 3
  • Total Magnitude of initial daze hits decreased 420 -> 400
  • Magnitude of final repel hit increased 370 -> 500
  • Tooltip updated to indicate number of hits

Arcanist Paragon

• Storm Spell (Class Feature)
  • Has been reworked and no longer triggers many times from some powers like Arcane Singularity.
  • No longer has a hidden internal cooldown.

Thaumaturge Paragon

• Critical Conflagration (Class Feature)
  • This feature has been technically reworked to address numerous issues with when it triggered its effect.
  • No longer increases Critical Severity.
  • Without Directed Flames feat, only applies Smolder if the target is not affected by Smolder.
  • With Directed Flames feat, applies Smolder.
• Directed Flames (Feat)
  • Clarified the tooltip to note the damage occurs on application or reapplication.
• Furious Immolation (Daily)
  • Max Targets increased 8 -> 15.
• Smolder and Rimefire Smolder (Mechanic)
  • Reworked so that these continue to display a debuff icon even when under the effect of Directed Flames.

Companions

• Shadow Demon’s Presence
  • Deflect Severity bonus is now consistently disabled (on all characters) for 30s after a Deflect.

Mount Insignia Bonuses

• Enchanter's Hex
  • No longer damages the source player in some cases.
  • Magnitude decreased 75 -> 50.

Item Powers

• Divine Muse Item Power
  • Reworked to provide a +% Resource Regeneration (10% or 20%) instead of a flat +3 or +6 Regeneration Bonus.
  • This has no effect on Healer paragons, but some DPS paragons no longer overly benefit from this item power.
     

Items and Economy

Zen Market

• Players who have opened the Playful Pink Yeti - Account vanity pet pack can now properly reclaim the vanity pet from the Reward Claims Agent.