Marvel Avengers Alliance: Game Update 2012/02/15 Forum Patch Notes+ + ADDENDUM

New Hero: WASP

Infiltrator
Flying
Opportunist
- Counter-attack enemies that attack with Staggered, Distracted, Off-balance, Cornered, or Dizzy
- Exploits Staggered, Distracted, Off-balance, Dizzy
1. Bioenergy Blast
- Single Target Ranged Bioenergy attack
- Causes Biofeedback & Weakened
2. Distracting Shot
- Puts Distracted & Removes Buffs
3. Skirmish Scramble
- Stealthy
- AOE
- Nimble - high chance to dodge attacks
- Off-balance
4. Fist Bump
- Super AOE
- Cornered, Dizzy
Default Counter. Buzz Kill
- Flies off the screen and appears behind the enemy
- Exploits Staggered, Distracted, Off-balance, or Dizzy
- Deadly Crits

Hero Updates
Wolverine, Havok, and Magneto have received major updates to their skills and abilities.

Update: Wolverine

Passives
- Healing Factor
  - Always restores health each first turn
  - Bleeds and Poison durations reduced
  - Has a chance to survive fatal damage
- Come at me, Bub
  - Has a chance to protect allies from single-target attacks
  - This chance increases the more Health Wolverine has
- Berserker Rage
  - Has a chance to counter any enemy attack
  - This chance increases the less Health Wolverine has
1. Adamantium Claws - Default Counter
- Adamantium
- 2x Bleeds
- Ravaged
2. Berserker Frenzy
- Adamantium
- 4x hits big awesome animation
- Exploits Bleeding
- Deadly Crits
3. Savage Rend
- Adamantium
- Adds Cornered
- Adds Tenderized
4. Feral Ambush
- Adamantium
- Stealthy
- Stun 60%
Brown-And-Tan Suit ONLY
- Passive: The Best There Is
  - Chance to gain an extra turn when Come at Me and Berserker Rage proc

Update: Havok

Passive Cosmic Absorb
- Takes reduces damage from energy attacks
- Generates one Cosmic Energy every turn
- Any energy attack by enemies or allies generates one Cosmic Energy
Cosmic Energy
- Increases Defense
- Gain stam every turn
- Stacks to 5
Punch
- Utility Move
- No Stamina Cost
- Regenerates stamina
- Melee
- Melt Armor
- Removes Buffs
Plasma Wave
- Single Target Finisher
- Low Accuracy
- Consumes all stacks of Cosmic Energy for massive damage
Plasma Spheres (now the 3rd ability)
- AOE
- Catastrophic
- Pressure Points
- Consumes 1 stack of Cosmic Energy
Channel Energy (now the 4th ability)
- Buff
- Quick Action
- Cooldown
- Restores Stamina
- Guaranteed Crit & Hit on next attack

Update: Magneto

Class: Tactician
Passive : Psychic Immunity
- Immune to Psychic attacks
Passive : Master of Magnetism
- Guaranteed to crit Magnetized targets
- Chance to preemptively counter Magnetized targets
- Automatically applies Magnetized to enemies carrying metal
Passive : Flying
1. Electromagnetic Blast
- Electricity Attack
- Single Target
- Magnetized
  - Attacks can not crit
  - Can’t dodge attacks
2. Heavy Metal
- 60% Stun
- 100% chance to stun Magnetized targets
- Long cooldown
3. Graviton Well
- Large damage AOE
- Catastrophic
- Exploits Magnetized
4. Magnetic Shield
- Party buff
- Absorbs some damage
- Grants an extra turn when the shield is removed

PvP Changes

Refreshing your browser during a ranked PVP fight will no longer count as an initiated fight
Your first 5 wins increment a new PvP Daily Bonus counter (located to the left of the “Tournament Fight” button)
- After you win 5 Tournament Fights in one day, you will get a free spin on the new PVP Daily Bonus
- For the rest of the day you can click the new chest icon to bring the loot table back up and spin again as much as you’d like for 5 gold per spin
- The 5 fight counter resets the next day
- Your first 5 wins will now grant +100 XP instead of +50
- This is in addition to the Daily Bonus you already get playing for free every day (a second bonus for everyone!)
Defensive hero/armory bonuses should now display properly
Revenge fights have been removed from the game
Challenge points are no longer available on the gift page or friend maps

New Gifts

New Valentine’s gifts are available
- Hawkeye Valentine
  - Buffs Accuracy + Heal
  - Reads: "Cupid's arrows, straight to the heart."
- Black Widow Valentine
  - Buffs Evasion + Heal
  - Reads: "'Til death do we part."
- Iron Man Valentine
  - Buffs Attack + Heal
  - Reads: "My Arc Reactor glows for you. And you. And that cute blonde over there."
- Thor Valentine
  - Buffs Defense & Heal
  - Reads: "Was Tony talking about me?"

Additional Fixes

Emma Frost
- Reduce the amount of stat bonuses of Cosmic Power and Potential Unleashed
  - 50% -> 30%
- Reduce the proc rate of Cosmic Power
  - 25% -> 20%
- Migraine is only 30% damage reduction
  - 50% -> 30%
- Mental Trauma is only 70% chance to apply Migraine
  - 100% -> 70%
- Potential Unleashed is a Quick Action. Stamina cost significantly increased
  - 250% increase in stamina cost
- AI fix: Emma Frost does not try to cast Mind Tap on targets that already have anguish or scarring in PVP
Cable
- Bodyslide is only 60% chance to apply Distraction
Ghost Rider
- Infernal Contract can only trigger once per round
Psylocke
- Reduce the damage of psychic knives
  - Added pop Status, bringing the damage down ~15%
- Mental Coordination is tagged as a buff
- Kinetic Shield is only a Quick Action if it consumes Psionic Shadow
Phoenix
- Fixed Mind Link AI
- Reduce the damage of Phoenix Fire
  - Reduced about 12%
Human Torch
- Made sure Human Torch vs. Human Torch can hurt each other
- Made sure Nova Blast doesn’t hurt Human Torch himself
- Human Torch no longer gets an immediate tick of health when Rekindle is applied
- Reduce rekindle attack bonus
  - 1.3 -> 1.15
- Nova Blast properly damages opponents
- Made sure Blazing Speed can’t dodge Catastrophic attacks
Modern Dr. Strange
- Bane popup fix
Reduce the % bonus of some effects
- War Frenzy
  - 1.17 -> 1.12
- Sacrificial Strength
  - 1.5 -> 1.3
- The Demon set
  - 1.7 -> 1.4
The Daily Bonus has been changed from a deploy loot table to a boss “spin” loot table
Fixed a display issue with Scroll of Angolob
Third charm duration reduced by 1 round
Conductive charge is a buff
Removed an animation for War Frenzy
Reduce the duration of Mirror Images to 2
Increased the amount healed by the Scroll of Melsalam about 30%
The Quantum Jumper now starts with a 1 round cooldown
Added Facebook timeline images for several villains that were missing them