PL Update | 1/5/17 | PLAT SALE, Everything Trades, Balance Tweaks, Super Elites

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Buckle up folks, because today's update is PURE LOCO!!!

First up, it's time for a PLAT SALE! From now until Monday, January 9th, all platinum is on sale for 25% off. Get it while it is hawt!



As if that was not crazy enough, check this out:

New Super-Elite Items now Available!

Items

+ All items can now be traded or stashed. Yes. All. Items.
+ Reduced the amount of Dodge you get from items and item sets. Across the board, 50%.
+ Reduced the amount Hit% you get from items by 50% across the board (to balance with Dodge nerf).
+ Increased Damage statistics for 2h Elite weapons (specifically: Blaster, Staff, 2h Swords).
+ Small increase in Armor for STR-based shields (to make sense with other shield / weapon combos).

Statistics

+ Reduced the the amount that STR, DEX and INT contribute to Dodge for all Characters.
+ Reduced the amount that STR, DEX and INT contribute to Health Regeneration.
+ Reduced the total maximum amount of armor mitigation by 10%.
+ Reduced the amount of Hit Chance % contributed by STR, DEX and INT by ~30%.
+ Reduced damage output in PvP by ~12%. Reduce PvP healing effectiveness by ~7%.
+ Low-level PvP is not affected by endgame arena multipliers.

Abilities

+ Increased the amount of Armor that Warriors get from Iron Blood. Reduce cooldown timer for Iron Blood as Rank Increases.
+ Reduced the cooldown time for Mana Shield as Skill Rank increases. Cooldown for Rank 9 Mana Shield is now 20sec.
+ Increased Crit% across the board for Archers' Focus skill. Also, slight reduction in cooldown time for Focus.
+ Reduced cooldown time for Paladin Regen ability as Rank increases. Rank 9 Regen cooldown is ~24sec.
+ Reduced cooldown time of Ranger's Fury ability as Rank increases. Rank 9 Fury cooldown is ~20sec.
+ Paladin's Mark of Defense grants 2x dodge per rank and now also grants health regen.
+ Ranger's Break Armor now reduces twice as much armor on impact.
+ Ranger Poison now also reduces Mana Regeneration and Hit Chance.
+ Warrior's Taunt self-buff is now gives more dodge per rank.

New Stuff

+ Craft a new tier of super-Elite items by finding 'The Engineer' - a rare spawn in the Return of the Overlord campaign!
+ INTEX, STRAX and DEREX item recipes require MAGOR, WARAT and ARZAC pieces (among other loot items).
+ You can also farm the Return of the Warlord bosses and the Psycho Shade to loot this new family of super-Elite items!
+ Or... locate the Elite Item Vendor to direct-purchase these items (and more) with Platinum.
+ Improved audio. All sound effects, voice and music have been up-sampled.

We told you 2017 was going to be LOCO!

Cheers,

- g