Game Update 107: Nature and Solar Amplifier Balance Changes on Test Server!

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DCUO released the Test Server Hotfix - September 3, 2020, announcing several balance changes coming specifically to Nature, Solar Amplifier at Rank 200, and other updates/bug fixes per usual, outlined by Batuba & Mepps all listed below!

Nature

Basic Abilities
Poisons/Pheromones

  • Poisons and Pheromones are no longer shared.

  • Harvest and Roar will not benefit from other player’s poison/pheromone applications.

Supercharges
Wolf Form Changes

  • Cooldown increased to 30 seconds (up from 12 seconds)

  • Supercharge cost increased to 5000 (up from 2500)

  • Temporary buff duration increased to 15 seconds (up from 13 seconds)

  • Healers will no longer get 10% damage increase for DPS role while in wolf form

  • Fixed issue where DPS was getting an additional 10% DPS role buff while in wolf form.

Gorilla Form Changes

  • Healers will no longer get 10% damage increase for DPS role while in gorilla form

  • Fixed issue where DPS was getting an additional 10% DPS role buff while in gorilla form.

  • Reduced temporary buff duration while in gorilla form to 15 seconds (down from 20 seconds)

  • Reduced temporary damage buff from gorilla form to 30% (down from 35%)

  • Fixed issue where countering an enemy was doing excessive damage.

Insectoid Form Changes

  • Cooldown increased to 30 seconds (up from 12 seconds)

  • Supercharge cost increased to 5000 (up from 2500)

  • Temporary buff duration increased to 15 seconds (up from 13 seconds)

  • **NEW** Tactical Mod for Insectoid Form that returns Supercharge back.

Developer Note: For some time now, Nature has been over performing in both of its roles due to some critical bugs associated with the powerset, as well as the low-cost, low-risk, and high-reward gameplay granted by its form changes. The community raised this issue regularly when other game, content, and balance topics have been discussed, so we carefully reviewed the powerset and these changes are the result.

We look forward to your feedback on PC Test and will continue to make any adjustments needed based on testing data.

Solar Amplifier

Fixed issue where AoE explosion from Solar Amplifier was not splitting damage properly. This caused the Amplified Heat Vision explosion to deal much more AoE damage than intended.

The issue reportedly only affected damage splitting at Rank 200.
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Other Updates

Chat

  • Resolved an issue that caused certain text to be translated into the wrong language.

Artifact & Augment

  • Items that can be fortified, such as artifacts and augments, now have a hard cap on their max exp. Players can no longer potentially feed a huge amount of exp right before hitting the item's max rank.

HUD

  • The arrow indicator when the Hard Target Lock is off screen will now be shown on top of other Game UI.

UI

  • Scorecard should now show an Icon for Daily Complete.

Missions
The Will of Darkseid

  • The Will of Darkseid is now available for Cross-Faction play.

Want to access the Test Server to see the upcoming changes? Click below!