Cactuar Crate - Ronin Edition

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HOT FIXED
This section is for hot-fixed on the day listed.

[04/03] Anthropomancer - Reduce number of charges (e.g. Charged 2 removed from U1, Death Charged 1 replaces Death Charged 2 in U2)
[04/03] Angel of Nourishment - Empathy replaces TL2 in U1, Cleanse replaces Enlightened in U2

NEXT PATCH
This section is for items that are currently planned for the next patch or two.

[03/26] Lightning Elemental - Patch mistake, got Electric Jab on both upgrade lines
[03/26] Magic Beam - 14 DMG still, fix to 12
[03/26] Illuminated - Incorrectly trigger Backlash
[03/28] Backlash - Incorrectly hitting nora refunds
[03/27] Plague - Castable on enemies
[03/30] Charged Fire Bomb, Magic Bomb, Disease Breath, Frost Cone - Charges cost to 6 from 4
[03/30] Charged Flame Fist and Frost Kick - Charges cost to 4 from 3
[03/30] Unleash Memories/Eradicate abilities - Introduce caps
[03/30] Supercharged - Nora to 3/6/9
[03/30] Harvest Organs - Nora to 6 from 4
[03/13] Salaman Rook - Supercharged replaced with Attack Charged 2
[04/05] Spellshift - Charges cost increases with use during the same turn
[04/05] Recharge - Charges cost increases with use during the same turn
[03/06] Stealth abilities - Review costs and possibilities for consolidation
[02/28] Necrosis - Adjusted so it's not everything
[02/28] Erode - AE3, Nora to 30
[04/29] "Free" Meat - A number of summoned units have been nerfed (usually HP and/or SPD)
[02/08] Hero Equips: Changed to Theme equips
[02/25] Re-Integrate Djinn into Hyaenid and Elementals:

• Each Djinn will have a special Hyaenid or Elemental only Grant ability:
  • Ifrit: Berzerker 3 until targets change (AP1, CD2)
  • Marid: Leap 3 until targets change (AP1, CD2)
  • Dao: Reflexes 3 until targets change (AP1, CD2)
  • Dew: Unstoppable and Mountaineer until targets change (AP1, CD2)
• Update Soul Channeling

[04/05] Zombie Plague - Duration?
[04/05] Defensive Attack and Pulverize - Replaced with Power Attack (usually, sometimes with something else)

UNDER CONSIDERATION
This section is for items that are under consideration.


[03/30] Pillage - Description: The first time this champion enters a font deployment zone, you gain 10 nora and this ability is removed. (Nora: 4)

[03/26] Barricades created by Barricade state they have Font Aversion incorrectly

[02/23] Incorporeal - This champion has Immunity - Physical, and takes 50/75% less damage from all non-Magical sources. (This would also come with some adjustments to existing champions who have access to Incorporeal mechanics.)
[03/30] Creep and Crawl - Change to give Mountaineer due to consolidation of Climb/Clear

Empathy buff
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[02/27] SP Bonus - BIG BUG
[03/06] Counterspells - Consolidate Durations > Refute, Snowblind, Scapegoat, Dark Pact; Should these ones have longer duration than the others? is 6 appropriate for the others?
[03/01] Eruption - Lava Traps to Summoned


[02/11] Tranfusion - RNG 8

[02/08] Blizzard Cloak - Improve visual


Molten Cloak - Trimming of the fatz?!
Void Touch - Changed to an activated ability that removes base abilities (think short duration Fading Recollection)

[02/06] ST Font Bonus - 1 AP loss on entry for enemies

Theme Buffs Consolidation - Thread here

[02/25] Stat Buff Consolidation - Thread here

• Boost: X - Global, 4 HP for stated X (Nora: 8)
• Commander - AE5, DAM 2 for all friendlies (Nora: 8)
• Commander: X - AE5, DAM 2 for the stated X (Nora: 5)
• Defender - AE5, DEF 1 for all friendlies (Nora: 5)
• Defender: X - AE5, DEF 1 for the stated X (Nora: 3)
• None of this stacks

LONG-TERM STUFF
This section is for items that are under consideration, but will may take awhile.

[03/03] Race Fixes - Trim down most champs to ONE race and make them make more sense (Vashal is Vashal, not Beast, Paladins are Humans, Barbs are Barbs, etc.)

KF Faction Bonus A

FF: When deployed, friendly champions gain 1 AP for every 2 opposing champions in play (to a maximum of 4). Friendly champions can store an additional 1 AP.

Split Bonus: When deployed, friendly champions gain 1 AP for every 3 opposing champions in play (to a maximum of 4).

Font Bonus: Mobility for 3 turns on deploy, and at the beginning of each turn
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Boon of the Undead - Removal and push some of the power to the themes (Spirits would probably get a CDR racial)
FW Faction Bonus - % Nora and CDR on death of real champs


[03/15] FW runes that key off undead: http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php?threads/fw-spells-that-key-on-undead.12075/

[03/17] Check 2x2 discount status

ON-WATCH
This section is for quick notes on stuff that are being monitored specifically.

[01/28] Dimension Door
[02/06] Superior Tinkering/Build Em Tough and other Buff stacking considerations
[02/06] On-Death Abilities - Recosting
[02/08] Duration added to globally triggered things like Snow Blind and Scapegoat
[02/17] Skeezick Alliance - Not really wanting to nerf it, but its kind of messy the way it is now
[02/19] Soul Feast - Only counting basic attacks?
[02/20] Zedin/Warchief: Stone Clan
[02/27] Shrine Defender - Tone-down/Streamline
[02/28] NKD - Because no one really likes it, even the people who play with it
[03/02] Maxxerek - Rework so he is not dependent on DEP
[03/02] Temple of Brutality - How to make playable in ranked?
[03/02] Fire Volatility/Breaker/Catalyst - Consolidate into one ability (Borghas can keep Fire Vot maybe)
[03/03] Desecration - Investing Spell Resistance on Avatars and bypassing of Spell Resistance
[03/03] Cliffdiving -
[03/19] Iron Will - Should it give Distracted immunity?
[03/23] Training PvP Games - No Avatars?
[03/24] Soul Collection - Rework so it's not perma globe collection (maybe activated?)
[03/24] Feint - Bug
[03/27] Chosen of Osarius - ???
[03/30] March of the Skeezick - AE
[04/05] Crown of Nightbarbs - Remove Pariah, Nora+
[05/01] Defensive Attack - Stupid
[05/01] Impervious - Add Shielded and Impenetrable


DATA REQUESTS
This section is for data that have been requested by players in additional to the regular meta reports. I will get to these as I have time.

[02/11] Rune Upgrade Selections
[02/11] Rune Usage for All Ranks
[02/11] Rune Stats by Faction
[02/11] Runes in Circulation
[03/06] All-Time DOW Leaders

 

Yea, there's a confluence of stuff that makes the Lonx what it is.

Spur actually got a cost increase with the expansion, tho perhaps it could use a tap as well.

 

So I understand why Noraweave is good conceptually. However, the fact is it doesn't actually DO anything in terms of the board - and the effect is entirely up to the enemy player. You pay, upfront, and go in the hole, then the enemy player makes a cost benefit analysis on whether to attack or not.

In the scenario where the enemy makes 3 attacks and you "gain" 5 nora, I'd argue it was a net loss for the casting player unless it actively prevented the enemy from doing something he wanted to do offensively.

 

That could work. My initial thought was that a range reduction would be a "soft cap" but realistically, it shouldn't be allowed to stack more than two times probably.