New Agni Patch Notes 2/19/2014

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Updates God: Agni

Agni

Skins

VGS

A variety of improvements have been made to various voice taunts in the game -- including some god-specific voice taunts.
The following new commands and emotes have been added to the VGS system. Please note that not all gods have had their voice packs updated yet, and will use the default voice when using these commands:

General

The Arena Escort map has undergone additional artistic changes.

The Conquest map has undergone minor artistic changes.

A new “Player Icon” system has been introduced. This system is still in an early state and additional changes will come in future patches. This system allows you to select an icon for your player that can be seen by your friends on the friends list. The icon in the future will also be used in additional locations and in additional ways..

The team balancing algorithm on Assault matches has changed. If one side is randomly assigned a “healer”, then the other side will also be given a healer. The rest of the team formation is random (we are no longer ensuring that each side has one god from each role/class). The currently configured gods considered “healers” by this algorithm are Aphrodite, Chang’e, Cupid, Guan Yu, Hel and Ra. A couple other gods have some healing but were not included for this purpose..

The FX that play on and around your character when you earn gold have been modified. Among other modifications, there are now separate FX for last-hit minion gold, as well as the gold fury.

The friendly /player icons on the top-left of the in-match HUD now give an indication of when your ally’s ultimate will be available.

A new targeting option has been added. “Highlight & Bracket 2” uses a bracket inside of the game world.

Some tweaks have been made to the kill notifications in the game.

Some fairly major backend changes have been made to the database schema for the game, in order to help support the game’s continued growth. The downtime required for this patch may be a little longer than normal while the database is updated to the new schema.

Fixed an issue in which the mini-map would not show in the Tutorial.

The Out of Match Store in the game’s main menu has undergone artistic changes. Additional changes are planned for the future.

Corrected some HUD scaling issues on resolution resize.

Implemented a variety of modest performance improvements.

Fixed a bug with new player creation in which users would be forced to re-login in if they attempted to create a player with a name too long.

Fix an issue in which melee trails would not scale correctly with faster attack speed. This was a visual issue only: Melee trails would be offset from animation.

Joust now shows the correct icons for the Titans.

A variety of minor chat bug fixes and clean-ups have been implemented.

If a new user tries to leave the Tutorial early, they will now first be prompted with a warning that they will lose out on significant in-game rewards for doing so.

Custom matches no longer require a minimum surrender time. A surrender in those matches can occur from the beginning of the match.

Fixed an issue where the camera's pitch could get locked while stun taunted.

Removed the option to run DirectX 11 on 32-bit operating systems.

Assault and MOTD/Custom matches that use an “All Random” picking algorithm now have a 30 second
launch overriding the 10 second normal launch. This gives more time in the skin selection phase.

Fixed an issue in Assault where players were able to be knocked up onto the Phoenix platforms.

Assault has received minor optimisation adjustments for players running medium and low settings options.

Fixed an issue in which the minimap was not showing in the Tutorial.
Some performance improvements have been made for players using the Map Guides in game.

Fixed a crash condition related to parties.

Free god rotation updated. Agni, Artemis, Loki, Sobek, and Sun Wukong are now on rotation.

Spectator

Clicking on wards will temporarily show their area of influence.

Fixed an issue in which Guan Yu’s horse would sometimes not show up in spectator mode.

Items

Heavenly Agility
Fixed issue where the duration of the provided buff was not matching the intended 6s indicated by the tooltip.
Brawlers Beat Stick
Provides 10/25/40 Physical Power and 5/10/20 Physical Penetration. Cost: 750/1550/2400.
Rank 3 Passive: Enemies hit by your basic attacks have 40% reduced healing and regeneration for 8s.
Divine Ruin

Rank 3 Passive Changed: Enemies hit by your abilities have 40% reduced healing for 8s. Pestilence

Passive Aura increased from 15% healing reduction to 20%. Polynomicon

Passive reduced from +100% to +85% of your magical power added to your next basic attack. Eye of Retaliation

Gauntlet of Thebes

Hydra’s Lament

Rank 3 Passive changed: For 5s after using an ability, your next basic attack will deal +50% of your total physical power as physical damage. The effect can only apply once every 4 seconds. Hand of the Gods / Fist of the Gods

"In addition, we are testing a new kind of item tree, where you can purchase multiple items from it, but cannot own the same item rank twice. The following items have been combined into this test tree. If this test is successful, then additional items will be added in future releases."

Qin’s Sais, Asi, and Executioner combined:

"A number of items have been removed from the game as we work to reposition items in upcoming patches."

They include:
Divine Wrath
Brawlers Cudgel
Hydra’s Demise
All Qin’s Blades (Sais is still an option in new tree above).
Rank 1 and Rank 2 Asi (Per new tree).
Bracer of Replenishment

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Ah Muzen Cab
-Honey

Ao Kuang
Fixed an issue in which some of Ao Kuang’s ability animations would not play if abilities fired in quick succession.

Apollo
-General
Made minor aesthetic changes to his Golden and Legendary skins.

Athena
Updated targeters for Red Star and Winter Olympian skins to use the correct model and spear
Confound
Fixed an issue where the taunt would sometimes not make the victim fire their basic attacks if they were finishing firing another ability when taunted.

Bakasura
-Insatiable Hunger

Fixed buff icon tooltip text to reflect actual buff values
Chronos
-Stop Time

The slow-to-stop effect will no longer be applied to targets that are immune to slows at the time of application.
Geb
-Roll Out

Hercules
-Excavate

Fixed highlighting issues.
Mercury
-Maximum Velocity

Attack speed buff increased from 20/30/40/50/60% to 30/40/50/60/70%.
Nemesis
-General
Updated melee trails and hit impacts for No Mercy skin.
-Scales of Fate

This ability now steals 3% of power from targets hit (stacking up to 3 times). Stolen magical power is converted to physical power for Nemesis at one half the value. Example: Nemesis hits a Mage target with 200 magical power one time with a basic attack. She steals 3% of their magical power (6 total), converting it to 3 physical power for herself.
-Slice and Dice

Cooldown increased from 7s to 10s -Divine Judgement

The movement speed buff and debuff is now 25% (previously 30/35/40/45/50%).
Ne Zha
-Armillary Sash

Width of sash grab increased from 10 to 12.
Loki
-Vanish

Updated tooltip to indicate this ability also removes existing slows when activated
Nu Wa
-Flame Strike

This ability has a new targeter that does a better job of communicating the damage fall off of the ability the further away the enemy is to Nu Wa.
Thanatos
-Hovering Death

Zeus
-General

Basic attack progression of 1/1/.5/.5 has been removed.
I understand this may not look as aesthetically pleasing, but I tried to get it out quickly and somewhat efficiently. Here is a link to the direct document if this is too hard to read.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEuWsubPSQVPinGGBv3ciRwUCD6x0K5a8vuSSmOv4KA/pub

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My very first reaction to hearing about the Agni remodel:

"What about Bastet?"

But other than that, his remodel looks pretty bad ***.

I'm actually really happy about the healer balance in Assault. For the most part, it wasn't a big deal most of the time, but there got to be some pretty horrid random picks in some matches. For example, last night, I went into a match where the other team had a Hel, an Aphrodite, and Guan Yu, and even two self-healers (Bakasura and Zhong), while my team had one self-healer (Vamana). While we actually did pretty good holding them off from winning for almost 30 minutes, it was pretty much inevitable we were destined to lose. However, I mostly just viewed these matches as an unlucky draw. People have complained about it plenty of times, but I never complained much about it. But, it's definitely good to see it'll be a bit more balanced in that sense now.

Polynomicon nerf is interesting, but doesn't bother me much. Should still be useful to use.

Even though it's only minor changes, I'm interested to see aesthetic changes to Apollo's gold skin considering it's the only gold skin I own.

The minor Zeus nerf is definitely nice to see, even if I do enjoy playing Zeus.

All in all, it's a pretty decent patch. Still doesn't fix a few things I'd like to see worked with, but it's been better than plenty of the more recent ones they've come out with.

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I'm not liking the new experimental item tree. Instead of being able to own , , and all at once, you'll be forced to pick just one. This may hurt some of my builds like which uses both qin's sais and executioner as primary choice items, and which uses all 3.

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Not sure how to feel about the Poly nerf, I think some base damage would be useful.

I'm not happy about the ****ed up item tree. This just restricts the items you can use, apparently. Who the hell likes that?

I do find it interesting how now became a power item rather than a bruiser item, which Eye of Retaliation is now the opposite.

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Oh wow. Never actually thought they'd fix the "Healer" problem in ***ualt. I'm surprised.

And Thebes, is that a buff or a nerf? I can't tell.

Eye of retaliation seems useful now. Might be a thing for Loki

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Wait... Did they fix no animation kuang?

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Pizzarugi, you can build all 3. You just can't have the same item at the same time, that is, you can't have 'balanced blades' twice, for example. You are 100% able to build Sais, Asi, and Executioner all at once.

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@All4: Nope. Ao is still incredibly strong, OP if you ask me.

@Raventhor: Ah, that explains it. I guess I have no problems with it now.

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If this is true, then my qualms over this change will be null and void.

Still a little irked that got nerfed. I'll have to do some testing after the patch to see if its still a better waveclear than . Actually, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume it still is a better waveclear. Swarm just can't compete with 11 ticks of damage from honey, even after its upcoming nerf.

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New Agni Patch Notes 2/19/2014

Updates God: Agni

Skins

VGS

General

Spectator

Items

"In addition, we are testing a new kind of item tree, where you can purchase multiple items from it, but cannot own the same item rank twice. The following items have been combined into this test tree. If this test is successful, then additional items will be added in future releases."

"A number of items have been removed from the game as we work to reposition items in upcoming patches."

Gods - Balancing

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