Marvel Avengers Alliance: Patch Note December 1

Storm

 Storm has received an all-around adjustment to her skills, as well as improvement to her Classic Storm costume.

Storm

• Passive - Flying
  • Immune to Ground attacks
• New Passive - Mistress of the Elements
  • Storm takes 50% less damage from Fire, Lightning, Ice, and Water attacks
• Lightning
  • Static Charge
    • Electricity attacks against nearby targets may cause this target to take additional Electricity damage
  • Arc Lightning
    • If Storm has Elemental Mastery, causes Static Charge on all enemies
  • Electrified
    • Applies Electrified to any allies that have Protective Shroud
    • Deals Electricity damage when attacked
    • This can trigger Static Charge
• Protective Shroud
  • Grants Protective Shroud to all allies
    • Concealment grants a chance to Avoid single-target attacks
    • Unlocks additional defensive benefits on Storm’s attacks
• Blizzard
  • All enemies
  • Grants Elemental Mastery to Storm
    • Increases Storm’s elemental damage
    • Unlocks additional offensive benefits on Storm’s attacks
  • Applies Chilled to enemies
    • Reduces Evasion
    • Deals damage every round
• Tornado
  • High Crits
  • Squall Line
    • If Storm has Elemental Mastery, Tornado exploits Chilled and triggers Static Charge on all enemies
  • Calm Before the Storm
    • Refreshes the duration of Protective Shroud on all allies
  • Wind Wall
    • Grants Wind Wall to allies that have Protective Shroud
    • Absorbs damage on each attack
    • Applies Off-Balance to attackers

Classic Storm Costume

• Weather Witch
  • Allies with Protective Shroud take 50% less Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Water damage
  • While Storm has Elemental Mastery, has a chance to strike attacking enemies with lightning

Black Friday Sale

In celebration of Black Friday our original Spec Op hero, Mockingbird, will be available for 4 days (ends 11/26). She is available for Command Points in the Team Page.

Bug FixesItems

• Girl’s Best Friend will now give Strengthened after every attack
• Blade of Guardians (LE item)
  • Damage increased
  • Removed High Crits
  • Now grants Blessing of Heroes
    • If the wielder has Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, and Agile, grants Blessing of Heroes
    • Refreshes the duration of Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, and Agile
    • All attacks gain a 100% chance to crit
• Fury (LE item)
  • Fury will now correctly cause Burning, Dark Void, Deathfrost, and Poison if the Agent has Dark Void and counter-attacks
  • Fury will no longer cause Burning, Dark Void, Deathfrost, and Poison if the attack is dodged
  • Fury will now constantly reapply Deathfrost if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Deathfrost
  • Fury will now correctly grant an increase to Evasion as soon as the Agent gains Dark Void, and remove the increase if Dark Void is removed
• Hotshot (Daily Spin reward)
  • If the Agent has Poison, the chance to cause Stun on enemies is random per enemy (as opposed to all or none)
  • Will not cause Stun on targets that dodge the original attack
  • Hotshot will now constantly reapply Burning if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Burning
  • Hotshot will now correctly grant an increase to Defense as soon as the Agent gains Poison, and remove the increase if Poison is removed
• Grief (Crafting quest reward)
  • Increased damage
  • Grief will now constantly reapply Dark Void if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Dark Void
  • Grief will now correctly grant an increase to Attack as soon as the Agent gains Burning, and remove the increase if Burning is removed
• Signpost (SO4 Quest Reward)
  • Increased chance to hit
  • Does not crit
  • Now a Subtle effect
  • No longer displays 0 damage
  • The Agent will gain health even if the enemy dies from the attack
  • Signpost will now constantly reapply Poison if it is ever removed
    • Will not be applied if the Agent is somehow immune to Poison
  • Signpost will now correctly grant an increase to Accuracy as soon as the Agent gains Deathfrost, and remove the increase if Deathfrost is removed
• Quantum Jumper
  • Cooldown reduced to 2 rounds
  • The Agent will no longer gain an extra turn after the first time the Quantum Jumper is used

Characters

• Hercules
  • Son of Zeus passive will no longer reduce the effect of healing abilities
• Deadpool
  • No Holds Barred will now correctly create debuffs when Deadpool has Imba
  • No Holds Barred will now correctly remove debuffs in all cases
• Beast
  • Oh, my stars and garters! Beast now uses a new animation when Bleak House procs
• Prisoner (Infiltrator)
  • Drunken Master will no longer avoid attacks with True Strike or similar effects

Misc

• Mental Scarring no longer stacks
• Phased and Astral Form will no longer be removed from any sort of counter-attack
• Deathfrost correctly deals more health and stamina damage when afflicted with Bane
• Deathfrost no longer deals Soulfire damage when afflicted with Bane
• Characters that have Stun, Off-Balance, or Force Cage will no longer be able to perform Coordinated Attack or Cooperative Defense
• Static Charge duration reduced to 3 rounds

Marvel Avengers Alliance: Patch Note (2012/11/20) SPECIAL OPERATION 5: “The Wild Hunt”

SPECIAL OPERATION 5: “The Wild Hunt”Story: Loki is using Iso-8 to seize the minds and souls of the people of New York. Asgard has sent S.H.I.E.L.D. some backup in the form of one of their greatest warriors: Valkyrie.

• Spec Ops 5 is live!
  • New Hero - Valkyrie
  • Earn Valkyrie for completing all 25 tasks in Special Operation 5
  • Passive - Shield Maiden
    • Valkyrie protects party members who are low on health from single-target attacks
    • This may not trigger if the target is protected by Deathwatch or if Valkyrie is low on health
  • Passive - Escort of Souls
    • Valkyrie gains health when an ally falls in combat or when an ally is saved by Deathwatch
  • Geirr
    • Single-target enemy, 2 hits
    • Desperation attack
      • Does more damage depending on how low Valkyrie’s Health is
  • Dragonfang
    • Single-target enemy, 3 hits
    • Deathglow
      • Valkyrie places a mark on the enemy, sensing their impending death
      • When the target with Deathglow falls in combat, Valkyrie gains Blessing of Odin, restoring some health
    • Charged Attack
      • Triggers Static Charge on nearby enemies
  • Sacrifical Blessing
    • All allies, buff, 3 round cooldown
    • Deathwatch
      • The next time a character with Deathwatch would be KO’ed, they are instead healed to 25% Health
      • Valkyrie is guaranteed to gain Deathwatch on herself
      • Other party members also have a chance to gain Deathwatch
  • Flight of Valkyrie
    • All enemies, 1 hit
    • Off-balance
      • Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects

Spec Op 5 Bosses

 The renegade Asgardians have new tricks up their sleeves!

• Enchantress: Now has Jotun bodyguards that need to be KO’ed... unless you can slip by them!
  • Chance to drop the FLASHING EYE
    • Customized
      • Power is set by Agent level when acquired
    • Enchanted
      • The next attack will restore damage instead of causing damage
• Executioner: Now switches attack stances, giving him different strengths and weaknesses
  • Chance to drop the SCREAMER
    • Customized
      • Power is set by Agent level when acquired
    • Berserker Rage
      • Gains extra attacks as HP is reduced
• Loki: … this one you’ll have to discover for yourself!
  • Chance to drop the SWIFT LIAR
    • Customized
      • Power is set by Agent level when acquired
    • Reduced Potential
      • Prevents enemy from using a random set of ability types

New Daily Bonus Rewards

• New Weapon: ROAR OF THE NORTH
  • Customized
    • Power is set by Agent level when acquired
  • Slow Reload
    • Deals extra damage but lose next turn
• Runestone
  • HIGH PVP BONUS
  • Temporarily grants the “Asgardian” status to the team
  • Immune to Burning, Chilled, Poison, and Radiation
• Golden Shield
  • HIGH PVP BONUS
  • Grants ally a damage absorption shield
  • Ally protects your team while shielded

CharactersBlack Widow Grey Suit ImprovedBlack Widow’s Grey Suit has received a refactor, adding two new passives depending on which class uniform you purchase.

• Passive: Double Agent: Tactician
  • Appears on the Infiltrator version of the Grey Suit
  • Single-target attacks against targets with Marked for Revenge grant an extra turn
• Passive: Double Agent: Infiltrator
  • Appears on the Tactician version of the Grey Suit
  • Counters enemy attacks
  • Attacks become Stealthy

Black Widow ImprovedBlack Widow has also received some adjustments, making her fourth move (Revenge Tactics) a passive ability and adding a new support ability for her level 9 move.

• Passive: Revenge Tactics
  • When Black Widow is attacked, she places Marked For Revenge on the attacker
  • Marked for Revenge
    • Takes extra damage
    • Only one enemy can have Marked For Revenge at one time
    • No longer stacks
    • The amount of damage increase has been dramatically improved
• Widowmaker
  • New 9th Level Ability
  • Quick Action
  • Applies Targeted to enemies
    • Guarantees attacks on the target will hit and be critical hits
  • Grants Widowmaker to Black Widow
    • Black Widow’s next attack has a chance to stun

Character Bugs and Adjustments

• Several moves are now considered Catastrophic
  • The following moves moves now have 100% chance to hit and cannot be intercepted by Protect abilities
    • Dr. Strange’s Vapors of Valtorr
    • Storm’s Blizzard
    • Storm’s Tornado
    • Thor’s Summon Thunder
  • The damage and hit chance for these moves have been adjusted accordingly
• Hercules will no longer trigger Likes It Rough when he is at full Stamina
• Ghost Rider will now correctly Recharge in PVP if he runs out of Stamina