Game updates

This page is a copy of recent updates published on the official forum. Any undocumented changes will be listed under "Rebirth Wiki Notes".

Rebirth Issue 5, Edition 1 - February 26th, 2023

Full patch notes for this issue are available on the forums.

NEW Synapse Task Force: King's Gambit (Level 15-20)

As territories shift amongst the gangs of Paragon City, an old threat challenges them all. Witness the power of a king on the rise and a violent crusade to end injustice once and for all.

Collect five new badges by stopping the Clockwork King from taking over the city while under the effects of the drug Rage or by avoiding its use entirely. Rage has long plagued the streets of Steel Canyon. As the Tsoo expand their operations into Skyway City, they find new markets for their designer drug. Those that aren't careful may discover...unexpected side effects of exposure to the drug.

• Body is a Temple
• First Time Free
• Just a Slip
• Mighty Incapacitated
• All the Rage

Want to enjoy the original Synapse Task Force? Talk to the Ouroboros crystal and journey back in time to relive the events anytime.

New Pool Power Set: Experimentation

The Experimenation power pool is now available for selection! Experimentation is an origin-themed power pool that is mutually exclusive with other Origin Power Pools.

New Enhancement Sets

Rolling Barrage

Rolling Barrage is an uncommon Targeted AoE set available from level 25 to 50. Rolling Barrage offers new combinations of enhancements within this category, while also expanding the set bonus variety for Targeted AoEs. This set's recipes drop from normal content and can also be obtained at various merit vendors.

Synapse's Agility

The Synapse's Agility Universal Travel set adds new recharge enhancement options in this category and is available from level 10 to 50. This set's recipes can be obtained by successfully completing Task Forces or Strike Forces with Time Limit challenges enabled. Learn more in the Speed Run Challenges section.

Speed Run Challenge Rewards

Upon successfully completing Task Forces or Strike Forces with Speed Run challenges enabled you'll receive a random travel recipe.

Different types of travel recipes appear more or less frequently depending on whether the Speed Run Challenge was set to Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Bronze features the highest chance for Running, Jumping, Flying, and Teleporting recipes Silver features improved chances for Universal Travel recipes Gold features improved chances for exclusive Speed Run Challenge recipes

Task Forces and Strike Forces have new times for challenge settings to make each one more obtainable while still presenting a reasonable challenge.

Synapse's Agility recipes are an exclusive Speed Run Challenge reward.

Travel Pool Powersets Revamp

Running, Jumping, and Flying speed caps have all been raised by 400%!

Speed

Flurry

• Melee (Cone), High DoT(Smash), Self +Def(Melee, Lethal), Special
• Attack type changed from single-target melee to narrow melee cone. It now accepts PbAoE enhancements instead of Melee enhancements.
• Added a short duration +Def(Melee, Lethal) similar to Parry. Flurry now accepts Defense enhancements.
• Increased damage from .143 to .2695 per tick
• Increased endurance cost from 5.46 to 14.01
• Increased recharge time from 3s to 14s
• Removed the chance for stun
• Burnout Special Effect: Flurry instantly recharges for 10s immediately after Burnout is activated

Hasten

• Self +Recharge, +SPD
• Added moderate move speed increase. Hasten now accepts Run and Universal Travel enhancements.
• Increased crash cost from 15 to 25 endurance to bring it in line with other crashes.

Whirlwind

• Toggle: PBAoE, Moderate DMG(Smash/Energy), Foe Attract, Knockback, Stun, (Special)
• Expanded PBAoE radius to 25 and added Attract to pull enemies into the center
• In PBAoE center added Moderate Smashing/Energy damage
• Foes that enter the center will also be Knocked back and be very briefly stunned (~2s)
• Reduced additional endurance cost per foe hit from 1.5 to 1.0
• Whirlwind now automatically shuts off when your endurance reaches 25% or less
• Recharge Time increased to 105s
• Burnout Special Effect: Whirlwind costs no endurance per foe hit for 10s immediately after Burnout is activated
• You may not train this power if you have already trained Blink Blitz, Dive Attack, or Spring Attack

Burnout

• Self +Recharge, +SPD, Res (Slow), +DEF(All), Special
• Added a large move speed and jump increase for 60sec. Burnout now accepts Run and Universal Travel enhancements. The jump height increase is not enhanceable.
• Added 40% resistance to slow effects for 60sec
• Added moderate Defense(All) for 60sec. Burnout now accepts Defense enhancements
• Reduced recharge time from 1800s to 600s
• Added Special effect: Burnout Acceleration. This effect grants brief bonuses to Flurry and Whirlwind for a short time immediately after Burnout is activated.

Leaping

Jump Kick

• Melee, High DMG(Smash), Foe Knockdown, Stun, Self Force Move
• This power can now be used slightly out of melee distance. When activated while out of melee you'll leap toward the target while attacking.
• Range increased from 7 to 30. Leaps to target when distance is further than 7 ft.
• Now has a 20% chance for a Mag 2 Stun
• Increased damage from 1 to 1.64
• Increased endurance cost from 5.46 to 10.66
• Increased recharge time from 2.8s to 8s

Combat Jumping

• Toggle: Self +Jump, +Def(All), Res(Immobilization)
• This power now stacks with other Jump powers. Movement control and friction will suppress when Super Jump is active.
• Increased endurance cost from 0.07/s to 0.16/s
• Effects will suppress while Hovering or Flying

Super Jump

• Toggle: Self Long Jump
• New fast travel switching mechanic: Activating this power automatically switches off Fly and vice versa

Acrobatics

• Toggle: Self +Jump, +DEF(All), +Res(Knockback, Hold)
• Added moderate Defense(All) on par with Weave. Acrobatics now accepts Defense enhancements.
• Added moderate Jump height/speed. Acrobatics now accepts Jump and Universal Travel enhancements.
• Added increased movement control and friction that stack with other jump powers. These effects can be disabled by visiting Null the Gull.
• Increased endurance cost from 0.26/s to 0.33/s.
• Effects will suppress while Aerobatics (Flight) is active.
• Weave will suppress while Acrobatics is active.

Spring Attack

• PBAoE High DMG(Smashing), Foe Knockdown; Self Teleport, +Jump
• Using this power significantly increases Jumping Speed and Jumping Height for 30s.
• Reduced recharge time from 120s to 34s
• Increased endurance cost from 13.52 to 14.352
• You may not train this power if you have already trained Blink Blitz, Dive Attack, or Whirlwind

Flight

Hover

• Toggle: Self Fly, +DEF(All)
• This power now stacks with other Flight powers
• Reduced Fly magnitude from 4 to 2, to offset the ability to stack with other Fly powers
• Decreased endurance cost from 0.19/s to 0.16/s
• While this power is active Combat Jumping will suppress

Air Superiority

• Melee, High DMG(Smash), Foe -Fly
• Increased damage from 1 to 1.64
• Increased endurance cost from 6.5 to 10.66
• Increased recharge time from 4s to 8s

Fly

• Toggle: Self Fly
• New fast travel switching mechanic: Activating this power automatically switches off Super Jump and vice versa

Aerobatics (formerly Group Fly)

• Toggle: Self +FlySpeed, Res(-Fly), +Def(All), +Flight Control
• Aerobatics now occupies the former Group Fly power in the Flight pool.
• The Flight control in Aerobatics can be disabled by talking to Null the Gull
• While Aerobatics is active, Acrobatics and Weave will suppress.

Group Fly

• Obtaining Aerobatics now unlocks Group Fly mode for Fly.
• If you previously had Group Fly you will now have both Aerobatics and Group Fly powers.

Dive Attack (formerly Afterburner)

• PBAoE Superior DMG(Smashing), Foe Knockdown; Self Teleport
• Dive Attack now occupies the former Afterburner power in the Flight pool.
• You may not train this power if you have already trained Blink Blitz, Spring Attack, or Whirlwind.

Afterburner

• Obtaining Dive Attack now unlocks Afterburner for Fly
• Transferred defense to Aerobatics and while not quite as high it can now be used in combat
• Removed Only Affect Self
• Afterburner now applies mag 2 flight protection
• Afterburner toggle now has a 30s duration and 120s cooldown
• If you previously had Afterburner you will now have both Dive Attack and Afterburner powers.

Teleportation

Recall (formerly Recall Friend)

• Teleport Target
• This power has been renamed Recall. It can teleport either an ally or an enemy to you.
• Depending on whether your target is a friend or foe this power will either function as Recall Friend or Teleport Foe.
• Training both Recall and Blink will enable you to teleport NPC foes without any interruption window.
• If you previously had Recall Friend you will now have Recall

Blink (formerly Teleport Foe)

• Ranged, High DMG(Smash), Self Teleport, +DEF(All)
• This power has been replaced with Blink. An extremely quick teleportation power that attacks the foe in the blink of an eye.
• Damage Scale 1
• Endurance Cost 6.5
• Recharge Time 4s
• This power also grants a short-duration Defense(All) buff.
• If you previously had Teleport Foe you will now have Blink

Teleport

• Ranged (Location), Self Teleport
• The stationary hover effect will now be negated if you have any other travel power (or Hover) active
• Added a passive Endurance Discount if you have trained Team Teleport
• Added a passive Range buff if you have trained Long Range Teleport

Blink Blitz (formerly Team Teleport)

• PBAoE High DMG(Smashing); Self Teleport, +DEF(All)
• Blink Blitz now occupies the former Team Teleport power in the Teleportation pool.
• You may not train this power if you have already trained in Dive Attack, Spring Attack, or Whirlwind.

Team Teleport

• Obtaining Blink Blitz now unlocks Team Teleport mode for Teleport.
• This power has become a toggle. While toggled on it turns Teleport into Team Teleport. Enhancing Teleport also enhances the Team Teleport power.
• Team Teleport also provides a passive Endurance Discount to the solo Teleport power mode.
• If you previously had Team Teleport you will now have both Blink Blitz and Team Teleport powers.

Mass Translocate (formerly Long Range Teleport)

• Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Teleport
• Mass Translocate now occupies the former Long Range Teleport power in the Teleportation pool.

Long Range Teleport

• Obtaining Mass Translocate now unlocks Long Range Teleport.
• Long Range Teleport also provides a passive Range buff to the normal teleportation range of Teleport.
• If you previously had Long Range Teleport you will now have both Mass Translocate and Long Range Teleport powers.

Peacebringer

Combat Flight

• Toggle: Self Fly, +DEF(All)
• This power now stacks with other Flight powers, sans Hover
• Reduced Fly magnitude from 4 to 2, to offset the ability to stack with other Fly powers
• Decreased endurance cost from 0.19/s to 0.16/s
• While this power is active Combat Jumping will suppress

Energy Flight

• Toggle: Self Fly
• Reduced endurance cost from 1.0/s to 0.36/s
• New fast travel switching mechanic: Activating this power automatically switches off Super Jump and vice versa

Solar Glide (formerly Group Energy Flight)

• Toggle: Self +FlySpeed, Res(-Fly), +Def(All), +Flight Control
• Solar Glide now occupies the former Group Energy Flight power.
• The Flight control in Solar Glide can be disabled by talking to Null the Gull
• While Solar Glide is active, Acrobatics and Weave will suppress.

Group Energy Flight

• Obtaining Solar Glide now unlocks Group Energy Flight.
• If you previously had Group Energy Flight you will now have both Solar Glide and Group Energy Flight powers.

Starfall (formerly Quantum Acceleration)

• PBAoE Superior DMG(Smashing), Foe Knockdown; Self Teleport
• Starfall now occupies the former Quantum Acceleration power.
• You may not train this power if you have already trained Blink Blitz, Dive Attack, Spring Attack, or Whirlwind.

Quantum Acceleration

• Obtaining Starfall now unlocks Quantum Acceleration
• Transferred Defense to Solar Glide
• Removed Only Affect Self
• Now applies magnitude 2 flight protection
• Afterburner toggle now has a 30s duration and 120s cooldown
• If you previously had Quantum Acceleration you will now have both Starfall and Quantum Acceleration powers.

Warshade

Starless Recall (formerly Shadow Recall)

• Teleport Target
• This power has been renamed Starless Recall. It can teleport either an ally or an enemy to you.
• Depending on whether your target is a friend or foe this power will either function as Shadow Recall or Starless Step.
• Training both Starless Recall and Starless Charge will enable you to teleport NPC foes without any interruption window.
• If you previously had Shadow Recall you will now have Starless Recall

Extinguish Light (formerly Starless Step)

• PBAoE High DMG(Negative); Self Teleport, +DEF(All)
• This power has been replaced with Extinguish Light. An extremely quick teleportation power that launches an AoE attack the blink of an eye.
• You may not train this power if you have already trained Blink Blitz, Dive Attack, Spring Attack, or Whirlwind.
• This power also grants a short-duration Defense(All) buff.
• If you previously had Starless Step you will now have Starless Charge

Shadow Step

• Ranged (Location), Self Teleport
• The stationary hover effect will now be negated if you have any other travel power (or Hover) active
• Added a passive Range buff if you have trained Shadow Slip

Starless Gateway (formerly Shadow Slip)

• Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Teleport
• Starless Gateway now occupies the former Shadow Slip power.

Shadow Slip

• Obtaining Starless Gateway now unlocks Shadow Slip.
• Shadow Slip also provides a passive Range buff to the normal teleportation range of Teleport.
• If you previously had Shadow Slip you will now have both Starless Gateway and Shadow Slip powers.

Force Field Revamp

Force Field is being revamped to let it properly shine in today's game. This update brings a variety of improvements, and particularly gives the set's most underused and lackluster powers effects better suited to supporting the team, while still preserving the original capabilities and feel of this classic heroic support set. Alongside this revamp, Force Field becomes available to corruptors for the first time as well as to Guardians in the new Force Composition power set.

Personal Force Field

• Toggle: Self +Def, Res(All except Toxic)
• Removed the power's OnlyAffectsSelf property, allowing the user to attack and buff normally while it is active, for the first 30 seconds of use. After 30 seconds, the OnlyAffectsSelf status will enable.
• Once PFF has been activated, you will not be able to activate it again for 120 seconds. Recharge time increased to 140 seconds.
• Animation time reduced from 2.03 to 1.03 seconds, and removed endurance cost.

Force Bolt

• Ranged, Moderate DMG(Smash), Foe Knockback, Disorient, -Fly
• This power now does splash knockdown, knocking down up to 3 additional nearby targets (these targets do not take damage or become stunned).
• The power also now inflicts a stackable magnitude 1.5 stun, allowing it to disorient minions with one hit, LTs with two hits, and bosses after three hits.
• Now inflicts -Fly
• Increased damage scale to 1.0. It can benefit from Scourge and Containment for their respective Archetypes.

Barrier Field (formerly Detention Field)

• Ranged, Ally +Absorb OR Foe Capture (Special)
• This power has been renamed to Barrier Field, and now may be used on either enemy or friendly targets.
• When used against a friendly target, it grants that target a very large amount of absorption over time for a short period of time, without hindering their ability to attack.
• When used against an enemy target, it functions as the current Detention Field power does.
• The detention effect of the power has also been increased to magnitude 6 (allowing it to affect standard EBs), and the detention'd target is now also able to be affected by knockback, attract, and repel effects (only) from other Force Field (or Force Composition) powers.

Containment Shell (formerly Repulsion Field)

• Ranged (Location AoE), Foe Attract, Immobilize, -Jump, -Repel, Knockback to Knockdown
• This is a new power that fills Repulsion Field's old slot. Repulsion Field has been moved to being a sub-power granted by owning Force Bubble.
• If you previously owned Repulsion Field, you will now own Containment Shell.
• This is a location-targeted persistent patch power that immobilizes targets and pulls them inwards using the new Attract effect.
• This power also prevents contained targets from being repelled and converts knockback to knockdown on those targets.

Repulsion Bomb

• Ranged (Targeted AoE), Moderate DMG(Smash), Foe Knockdown, Disorient
• Chance to stun minions increased to 75%. Now has a 50% chance to stun LTs.
• Radius increased from 12 to 15 feet for Controllers and Masterminds, to match the radius on the Defender version.
• The power's damage can benefit from Scourge and Containment.

Force Bubble

• Toggle: PBAoE Foe -Speed, -DMG(All), Knockdown, Repel (Special)
• Now inflicts a significant -damage debuff and movement slow on targets hit.
• The repel effect is no longer permanently active - toggling on Repulsion Field while Force Bubble is active enables the repel effect, or leave Repulsion Field off to inflict the slow and -damage effects without any repel.
• Endurance cost reduced to 0.52/sec (0.65 for Masterminds).

Repulsion Field

• Toggle: PBAoE Knockback OR Repel (Special)
• This power is no longer purchased as an independent power, instead it is automatically granted by purchasing Force Bubble.
• If you previously owned Force Bubble, you will now also own Repulsion Field.
• When used on its own, Repulsion Field functions as it currently does.
• When activated while Force Bubble is also active, Repulsion Field has no effects itself, but enables Force Bubble's repel effect.
• In either case, Repulsion Field no longer has an ongoing endurance cost.
• Animation time reduced from 2.03 to 1.03 seconds.

Force Composition

Temp Invulnerability

• Toggle: Self +Res(Smash, Lethal)

Force Bolt

• Ranged, Moderate DMG(Smash), Foe Knockback, Disorient, -Fly

Force Affinity

• Auto: Self +Res(All DMG but Psionics), Endurance Discount

Dispersion Bubble

• Toggle: PBAoE, Team +Res(Hold, Immobilize, Disorient)< +DEF(All), Self +Res(Knockback, Sleep)

Force Barrier

• PBAoE, Team +Absorb

Containment Shell

• Ranged (Location AoE), Foe Attract, Immobilize, -Jump, -Repel, Knockback to Knockdown

Repulsion Bomb

• Ranged (Targeted AoE), Moderate DMG(Smash), Foe Knockdown, Disorient

Force Shielding

• Auto: Self +DEF(All but Psionics), +Res (Debuff DEF)

Suppression Field

• Ranged (Location AoE), Foe -Speed, -Jump, -Fly, Hold, -DMG(All)

Costumes

Issue 5 brings many Quality of Life improvements and fixes to the costume creator.

Costume Presets

Costume presets have been fixed on Rebirth! Use them to kickstart your imagination or to quickly pull up a base template when making a new suit! We've even added a number of Rebirth-specific presets and upgraded some old ones with Rebirth-specific parts on male and female models (huge versions coming later, with the final chapter of the asymmetric torso revamps). Look for the following new presets: Dia de los Muertos, Golden Age, Hippie, Incandescence, Neon, Pilot, Pirate 1, Pirate 2, Prismatic, Radium, Sand, Spectral, Super Spy, Winged 1, and Winged 2.

Extended Natural Skin Tones

We've added 4 new carefully crafted and curated rows of natural skin tones to the character creator. There is now a much better range of golden, olive, and ruddy hues available! All have been tested for in-game performance by our dev team.

Random Color Selection on New Characters

Ever feel creatively blocked by seeing the peach skin tone and black and white tights colors upon making a new character? Us too. So we decided to randomize the initial color selections suggested by the character creator when making a new character. This with the fixed costume presets should make new character creation a breeze!

Surgical Four Color Support

No longer do you need to do the global color workaround to tweak the inside colors of cape-driven costume parts. Pieces that use cape technology but are not cataloged as capes now pull up the 4-color customization options. Now you can easily recolor the Wedding Tux and Cybertech coattails, the cloth details on your Cosmic Corsair, Tech Knight, Gunslinger belts, and Wedding Veil--all with quick, convenient ease!

Rebirth Emblem Pack 3

Get your animals, meta-domino masks, sweet treats, green thumb, and retro gamer on with this latest chest and shield emblem pack! Options include popsicles, popcorn, cupcakes, cacti, koi, squid, elephants, rabbits, single-button joysticks, health vials, and more! Look for them at the bottom of the Symbol sub-category of Chest Details or Shield Emblems, starting with Angel's Food and ending with Unicorns.

Graffiti Emblem Pack

After something a little grittier or with an improvised vibe? Look for the new Graffiti Symbols sub-category on Chest Details or Shield Emblems. Many familiar favorites, including lightning bolts, mystic symbols, and clenched fists have been given the graffiti treatment. Also look for Rebirth-specific graffiti symbols like the twin rats, rabbit, and smiley face here as well! Note that the new crossed-out Arachnos emblem is unlocked via the Spider Smasher badge in-game. If you want to sport that one, you have to earn it!

New Undertights Options

All existing male and female integrated tights options have been updated to include ALL of Issue 4's glowing and animated skins. Want a halter top on your specter? Or a pair of modesty briefs over your plasma being? You can do that now. For easier identification of integrated tights options, the first sub-entry on each integrated tights bundle now shines out with Neon underskin! The remaining glowing skins have been sandwiched between the natural skin options and Bioluminescence. Animated Sand can be found next to Stone. Additionally, all female integrated tights have had the legacy Cryptic female Muscular texture added to their under-tights sub-options. Lastly, a new high-hipped Bikini 2 has been added to female options, fully integrated. This pairs with the High Hipped Leotard texture for a complete bathing suit look or can be mixed and matched with other pant options for a more saucy, youthful vibe!

Classic Cryptic and Paragon Options now integrated

Multiple classic tights options from the Cryptic and Paragon eras have been retrofitted with the full integrated tights library, including glowing underskins! On male chests, look for newly integrated Tank Top, Tanker, and Tee Shirt options. On females, look for integrated chest and hip versions of Angelic Plus, Excess Plus, and Imperial Dynasty. Female chest-only legacy items now integrated include the Leather corset and Tank Top. (Some redundant top-level tattoo options have been consolidated under the new integrated options.)

Diversified Gloves

A majority of diversified gloves, which permit customization of wrist textures and colors independently from gloves, now include all Rebirth Issue 4 glowing and animated skins. Each can be found alphabetically amongst the sub-options on each diversified glove. Gloves supported include Barbarian Ring, Spines, Cloud Bracer, Dragon Bracer, Overguard, Plant with Leaves, Small Flared, Small Padded, Small Pointed, Tai, Tied, and Wristband.

Misc.

The female Gunslinger belt with bustle and cape detail now offers an alternate version without stripes and a solid tintable bib.

Misc and Quality of Life Changes

• Fly and Afterburner Power Customizations (and Energy Flight and Quantum Acceleration)
• Added 4 new power customization poses (Classic, Heroic, Soaring, and Driven) to Fly and Energy Flight
• You can also pick another of the added 4 new power customization poses (Classic, Heroic, Soaring, and Driven) when you activate Afterburner and Quantum Acceleration

Movement Power Stacking:

• Inertial Jump can now stack jump speed and jump height
• Super Reflexes Elude can now stack running speed and jump height
• Widow Elude can now stack running speed and jump height
• Kuji-In Retsu can now stack running speed and jump height

Power Sets

• Ninja Assault and Military Assault proliferated to Dominators.

Stone Armor (Tanker/Brute)

• Toggles (Stone Armor, Brimstone Armor, Crystal Armor, and Minerals) will no longer detoggle when Granite Armor is active. While Granite Armor is active these toggle's effects will suppress and they will grant endurance to offset their toggle costs.

Unrelenting

• This power now has the ability to prevent crashes from other powers. Activate this power before initiating most crash powers in order to prevent their crashes from occurring. The tier 9 powers from Melee Defense sets are automatically negated just by training this power.

Super Reflexes (Tanker/Brute/Scrapper/Stalker)

• Agile, Dodge, and Lucky now accept resistance enhancements.

Mystic Flight and Jetpack

• New fast travel switching mechanic: Activating this power automatically switches off Super Jump and vice versa

Energy Gauntlet

• Increased Damage Scale from 1.160 to 1.64
• Increased Recharge Time from 5s to 8s
• Increased Endurance Cost from 6.032 to 8.528

Turbo Boost

• Turning off Jetpack now causes you to stop flying. Note: the flight speed increase from Turbo Boost will last for 30 seconds regardless of flying or not.

Powers

• Added Attract mechanic to the game. Wait till you see what we have in store for this. 🤯
• Walk now disables set bonuses. Movement set bonuses no longer circumvent Walk.
• Martial Arts and Gun-Fu Crippling Axe Kick can now be enhanced for Defense Debuff
• Ninjitsu and infiltrator training mez protection can now be enhanced for Resist
• Arachnos Soldier Wide-Area Web Grenade can now be enhanced for Slow
• Energy Composition Inertial Siphon can now be enhanced for flight and allows Run, Jump, Fly and Universal Travel sets
• Kinetics Speed Boost can now be enhanced for flight and Fly sets
• Added Attract protection to powers that should negate this effect, such as doors, objects, etc.
• The knockback aura toggles in Sonic Resonance and Kinetics (Sonic Repulsion and Repel) now have no ongoing endurance cost, matching the change to Force Field's Repulsion Field.
• Endurance cost on Martial Manipulation's Inner Will changed from 0.52 to 0.
• Stone Armor's Mud Pots now have a small -fly effect.

Misc.

• Signature Story Arcs now reward Vigilante and Rogue merits to those respective alignments.
• The Hero and Villain Super Pack now has a chance for two new very rare cards: Hero Merit and Villain Merit.
• The Rogue and Vigilante Super Pack now has a chance for two new very rare cards: Rogue Merit and Vigilante Merit.
• Hero, Villain, Rogue, and Vigilante Merits can now be traded.
• Overwhelming Force can now be converted within the set.
• Null the Gull now has the ability to disable the popup power trays for travel power sub-abilities.
• Teleport and Universal Travel IO sets now offer the same range enhancement percentage boost as other travel enhancements (schedule A instead of Schedule B)

Gift of the Ancients: Defense/Increased Run Speed

• Now grants movement speed increase to Jump and Fly as well
• Movement Speed has been increased from 7.5% to 10.5%

Zones/Maps

• Rogue and Vigilante Vendors will now show up on minimaps
• Fort Trident and the Crucible now have icons that allude to their relation to alignments
• Gladiator Merit Vendors for the side you are representing in a PvP zone will now show up on the minimap
• Pocket D bartenders now buy enhancements, recipes, and salvage.

New Slash Commands

• /screenfile "foldername" - allows you to save images to a custom folder

Abbreviated Slash Commands:

• /tge_x - Cycles through visible targetable enemies in near-to-far order
• /tge_p - Cycles through visible targetable enemies in far to near order
• /tge_n - Targets the nearest enemy
• /tge_f - Targets the farthest enemy
• /tgf_n - Targets the nearest friend
• /tgf_f - Targets the farthest friend
• /tgf_x - Cycles through visible targetable friends in near-to-far order
• /tgf_p - Cycles through visible targetable friends in far to near order

Commands that take target params:

• /tgt_n - Targets the nearest match
• /tgt_f - Targets the farthest match
• /tgt_x - Cycles through matching targets in near to far order
• /tgt_p - Cycles through matching targets in far to near order

Abbreviated parameters for the above commands:

• em = enemy - Hostile enemies
• fd = friend - Friendlies (including pets)
• dd = defeated - 0 HP targets
• ae = alive - Living targets
• mp = mypet - Include only your pets
• np = notmypet - Exclude your pets
• bc = base - Include only passive base items
• bn = notbase - Exclude passive base items
• tm = teammate - Include only teammates
• tn = notteammate - Exclude teammates

Power Execute Abbreviated Commands:

• /px_tgon = /powexec_toggleon - Toggles a given power on. If it's already on, does nothing.
• px_tgof = /powexec_toggleoff - Toggles a given power off. If it's already off, does nothing.
• px_at1 = /powexec_altslot - Executes the given power slot from the alternate tray.
• px_at2 = /powexec_altslot - Executes the given power slot from the second alternate tray.
• px_at3 = /powexec_altslot - Executes the given power slot from the thrid alternate tray.
• /px_sv = /powexec_serverslot - Executes the given power slot from the server-controlled tray.
• /px_tr = /powexec_tray - Executes a power in the given slot and tray.
• /px_ab = /powexec_abort - Cancels the auto-attack power and the queued power.
• /px_uq = /powexec_unqueue - Cancels the queued power.
• /px_at = /powexec_auto - Sets the auto-attack power to the given named power (or blank to shut it off, or toggles if it's on already).

Bug Fixes

Enhancements

• Triumphant Insult disorient proc is now mag 2 instead of mag 1 so that it actually functions
• Vampire's Bite A and B pieces now correctly state that they are unique (they always have been unique, the descriptions were just wrong)
• Vampire's Bite B piece (dam/end) will no longer incorrectly transform into dam/rech when being converted to the Superior version

Powers

• Corrected Endurance Cost of Energy Flight which was costing twice as much as Flight
• Scrapper patron pool attacks can now properly crit
• Guardian temporal reaction mez protection no longer incorrectly detoggles when mezzed
• Stalker placate will no longer fail to place the user into hide against foes higher level than the user
• Staff fighting sky splitter's resistance buff is no longer incorrectly affected by enemy level
• Martial Manipulation's Inner Will no longer erroneously applies positive mez magnitude to the user in certain situations.
• Energy Composition Inertial Siphon movement speed buffs will now actually be increased by enhancements
• Fixed incorrect radius on Infiltrator Training Blinding Powder
• Interface Proc fixes:
• Damage DoTs should no longer calculate their initial hit chance twice.
• The End Drain portion of Preemptive's proc should no longer calculate its initial hit chance twice.
• Guardian Gun-fu pistol attacks will no longer incorrectly play redraw animations/sounds even when the pistols are already drawn.
• Guardian Gun-fu pistol attacks will no longer sometimes animate with invisible pistols in certain circumstances.
• Sorcery power pool sound fx now correctly play for the dark customized versions of the powers
• Fixed missing animation on Telekinetic Blow for all Psionic Melee versions and Guardian Psionic Assault (again).
• Arachnos Soldier and Widow mace mastery web envelope can now correctly slot slow and universal debuff set IOs
• Scrapper and stalker ice melee freezing touch can now properly slot hold set IOs
• Mastermind robotics protector bots can now correctly slot accurate tohit debuff, defense, stun, and healing set IOs
• Mastermind leviathan mastery KO blow can no longer incorrectly slot targeted AOE set IOs
• Gadgetry's Nano Net and Force of Will's Weaken Resolve can now correctly slot universal debuff sets.
• Stalker Willpower can now correctly slot rez sets in Resurgence rather than Reconstruction.

Costumes

• Costume Sets gloves and boots are once again showing their intended pieces.
• Female metallic pants texture should now display properly.
• Female Talon and Zombie legs on integrated tights should now display properly.
• Female Small Padded Gloves, the diversified sub-option for Chain wrists should now display properly.
• Fixed ambient occlusion layer of non-striped Gunslinger belt/skirt pieces to better match the original.

Misc.

• Fixed the sg "altinvite" slash command. Names with spaces can now be invited but must be wrapped in " ".
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash while loading the supergroup colors screen
• Fixed a crash that could occur while respecing a Peacebringer or Warshade.
• Fixed double % signs appearing in Power Info details
• Fixed powers desync recharge with the server during cutscenes
• Dark Astoria purple recipe drop rates have been rebalanced to match other zones.
• Clarified the description on Trick Arrow's Flash Arrow to note that it is autohit in PvE but requires an accuracy check in PvP, matching the descriptions of other similar powers.
• Fixed the order of Peacebringer and Warshade primary powers to appear by level unlock. This is a missed leftover from the Kheldian revamp where certain powers' levels changed when they became free with shapeshift forms. This is a visual change only.
• Restored the Cavern of Transcendence trial min team size to 8 so its objectives can be completed.
• Guardians will now receive the Power of Black Scorpion temp power during the Barracuda strike force.
• Dopplegangers of players with Dominator/Controller Water Control will now have appropriate powers.
• Dopplegangers of players with Guardian Mace Assault will now correctly use Arachnos mace attacks instead of crab spider attacks
• Dopplegangers of players with Guardian Stone Composition will now correctly use stone-themed powers instead of having a shield

Rebirth Issue 4, Edition 1 - July 24th, 2022

Full patch notes for this issue are available on the forums.

Kheldian Revamp

• Toggles no longer turn off when shape-shifting into Nova or Dwarf forms. However, their effects suppress and they are granted endurance to offset their endurance cost.
• Nova and Dwarf forms have been expanded allowing them to round out their unique powers, abilities, and play style.
• Travel powers can now be used in any form but activating them while in Nova form or Dwarf form returns Kheldians to their original form.
• Null the Gull can now enable or disable the shapeshift popup tray.
• Other balance changes (see forum patch notes for full details)

Peacebringer

With this revamp, you will no longer need to enhance your Nova or Dwarf powers separately. Instead, for example, when you slot and enhance your human form version of Gleaming Bolt, you will simultaneously be improving the Bright Nova Bolt used while in Nova form. Some powers have new unlock levels because of the new free multi-form powers.

Bright Nova

The following powers become power redirects allowing them to change while in Bright Nova form. Slotting the first power listed below enhances the power in both forms. Note: Existing Peacebringers must respec to obtain this:

• Gleaming Bolt will become Bright Nova Bolt in Bright Nova form
• Gleaming Blast will become Bright Nova Blast in Bright Nova form
• Photon Scatter will become Bright Nova Scatter in Bright Nova form
• Luminous Detonation will become Bright Nova Detonation in Bright Nova form

Bright Nova now comes with two free muti-form powers, Photon Scatter (awarded upon obtaining Bright Nova) and Luminous Detonation (awarded at level 12 or higher after obtaining Bright Nova). Both of these powers are usable in their original form.

Additionally:

• Glinting Eyes can be used in Bright Nova form
• Inner Light can be used in Bright Nova form
• Dawn Strike can be used in Bright Nova form
• Reform Essence can be used in Bright Nova form for sustain.

White Dwarf

The following powers become power redirects allowing them to change while in White Dwarf form. Slotting the first power listed below enhances the power in both forms. Note: Existing Peacebringers must respec to obtain this:

• Radiant Strike will become White Dwarf Strike in White Dwarf form
• Incandescent Strike will become White Dwarf Smite in White Dwarf form
• Solar Flare will become White Dwarf Flare in White Dwarf form
• Reform Essence will become White Dwarf Sublimation in White Dwarf form

White Dwarf now comes with two free form-locked powers, White Dwarf Antagonize and White Dwarf Step, and two free muti-form powers, Solar Flare and Reform Essence. All free powers are awarded upon obtaining White Dwarf and both Solar Flare and Reform Essence powers are usable in original form. Additionally, Reform Essence is usable in Bright Nova for sustainability.

Additionally:

• Gleaming Bolt can be used in White Dwarf form
• Glinting Eye can be used in White Dwarf form
• Inner Light can be used in White Dwarf form
• Pulsar can be used in White Dwarf form
• Essence Boost can be used in White Dwarf form
• Light Form can be used in White Dwarf form

Warshade

With this revamp, you will no longer need to enhance your Nova or Dwarf powers separately. Instead, for example, when you slot and enhance your human form version of Shadow Bolt, you will simultaneously be improving the Dark Nova Bolt used while in Nova form.

Dark Nova

The following powers become power redirects allowing them to change while in Dark Nova form. Slotting the first power listed below enhances the power in both forms. Note: Existing Warshades must respec to obtain this:

• Shadow Bolt will become Dark Nova Bolt in Dark Nova form
• Shadow Blast will become Dark Nova Blast in Dark Nova form
• Gravimetric Emanation will become Dark Nova Emanation in Dark Nova form
• Dark Detonation will become Dark Nova Detonation in Dark Nova form

Dark Nova now comes with two free muti-form powers, Dark Detonation (awarded upon obtaining Dark Nova) and Gravimetric Emanation (awarded at level 12 or higher after obtaining Dark Nova). Both of these powers are usable in their original form.

Additionally:

• Ebon Eye can be used in Dark Nova form
• Sunless Mire can be used in Dark Nova form
• Orbiting Death can be used in Dark Nova form
• Quasar can be used in Dark Nova form
• Essence Drain can be used in Dark Nova form and will become Shadow Essence Drain, a ranged single target attack plus self-heal.

Black Dwarf

The following powers become power redirects allowing them to change while in Black Dwarf form. Slotting the first power listed below * enhances the power in both forms. Note: Existing Warshades must respec to obtain this:

• Gravimetric Snare will become Black Dwarf Strike in Black Dwarf form
• Gravity Well will become Black Dwarf Smite in Black Dwarf form
• Sunless Mire will become Black Dwarf Mire in Black Dwarf form
• Essence Drain will become Black Dwarf Drain in Black Dwarf form

Black Dwarf now comes with one free form-locked power, Black Dwarf Antagonize, and two free muti-form powers, Sunless Mire and Essence Drain. All free powers are awarded upon obtaining Black Dwarf and both Sunless Mire and Essence Drain powers are usable in BOTH human and Nova forms.

Additionally:

• Shadow Bolt can be used in Black Dwarf form
• Ebon Eye can be used in Black Dwarf form
• Orbiting Death can be used in Black Dwarf form
• Inky Aspect can be used in Black Dwarf form
• Stygian Circle can be used in Black Dwarf form
• Eclipse can be used in Black Dwarf form

Black Dwarf Mire and Orbiting Death now also taunt foes when used in Black Dwarf form. The taunt radius of orbiting death is 8ft.

Gadgetry

The Gadgetry power pool is now available for selection! Gadgetry is an origin-themed power pool that is mutually exclusive with Sorcery and Force of Will.

Force of Will

The Force of Will power pool is now available for selection! Force of Will is an origin-themed power pool that is mutually exclusive with Gadgetry and Sorcery.

Inferno Mastery

Inferno Mastery is a new Epic power pool, available for Defenders and Corruptors.

Frost Mastery

Frost Mastery is a new Epic Power Pool, available for Defenders and Corruptors.

Trick Arrow Revamp

• Many Trick Arrow powers were previously weaker than similar powers in other sets, making the set's overall contribution significantly lower than other sets. To fix this, the base stats of many Trick Arrow powers have been improved to bring the set's total contribution up to par with other sets.
• Since all Trick Arrow powers apply to enemy targets only rather than including buff or healing powers like other sets, the set requires a large amount of time to be invested in setting up arrows at the start of each fight. This means that it deploys its support capabilities slower than other sets, and also cuts into the time available for using other powers. Having only enemy-affecting powers is an important part of the set's identity and is not being changed, so instead, this drawback has been addressed by adding synergy effects between powers in the set. Using two or more Trick Arrow powers in a row now can give bonus effects, making them more than the sum of their parts and ensuring that Trick Arrow users are properly compensated for their investment of animation time.

Glowing Skins

Added the following glowing and animated skin suites to the game:

• Fluorescent
• Incandescent
• Incandescent Skin
• Neon (does not accept pattern masks)
• Plasma
• Prismatic
• Prismatic Dephased
• Radium
• Sand (does not accept pattern masks)
• Spectral
• Uncanny Illumination

They have been filed alphabetically in alphabetic menus. In curated menus, Sand is filed adjacent to Stone and the glowing skins are all often AFTER Paragon-era Fire and Ice options.

Note in some cases, certain textures are not supported with certain geometries due to quality or technical issues. For example, Sand is not supported on Folded or Finned Boots and Gloves. Plasma and Spectral are not available on Skirts.

These skins are available on male, female, and huge under the following costume parts:

Heads: All head options where standard faces are available:

• Standard, Hats, Full masks, Hoods, Half Helmets, Special Helmets

Full Helmets:

• Blast Bot, Steel Helm, Retro Tech, Tech Helm, Alien Skull, Elongated Alien Skull, Critix

Hair as sub-options of the following styles: Male & Huge:

• Fury, Combed Back, Parted, Surfer, Spikey, Buzz Cut, Ice, Flat Top, Medium,
• Long, Ponytail, Wild, Tall Spikey, Dreadlocks, Small Afro, Afro Big,
• Mohawk Short, Mohawk Tall, Mohawk Spikey, Top Knot

Female:

• Medium, Flip, Shy, Shag, Long Part, Wedge, Gamine, Long 1, Long 2, Long Layers,
• Glam, Bangs, Straight, Bun, Low Ponytail, High Ponytail, Pigtails, Pigtails Fat,
• Punk, Parted, Styled, Mod, Spikes, Tall Spikes, Wild, Flat Top, Dreadlocks,
• Small Afro, Big Afro, Top Knot, Mohawk Short, Mohawk Tall

Gloves: In the following categories whenever available:

• Smooth/Bare, Folded, Flare, Spiked, Finned, Large, Banded, Monstrous, Zombie, Awakened

Boots: In the following categories whenever available:

• Smooth, Thigh Highs, Talons Tallboot, Stilettos, Platforms, Folded, Flare, Spiked, Finned, Large, Banded, Flat, Zombie, Awakened

Hips and Chest options have been built on top of the Rebirth asym torso code. The following options are now available for female and male models. Huge options are coming with huge asym torsos.

Chests:

• In all categories for the chest itself. Garments such as jackets, robes, and togas are not affected.
• Baggy and Armored have their own unique set of glowing and animated textures.

Hips:

• In Bottoms, Bottoms with Skin, legs on Skirts/Short or Kilts/Shorts, Jodhpurs.
• Tucked In and Armored have their own unique set of glowing and animated textures.

Pants:

• Loose Pants, Tight (from the Pants category), Flared, Bell Bottoms, Baggy

Skirts:

• Flared, Long, Pencil, Mini

Quality of Life Changes

Powers

Electric Armor - Power Surge (Tanker, Scrapper, Stalker, Brute)

• This power no longer has a hard crash.
• Its recharge time was reduced from 1000s to 540s.
• The duration of its effects was reduced from 180s to 90s
• Energy Resistance scale was reduced from 8 to 4.56.
• Negative Energy Resistance scale was reduced from 6 to 3.36.
• All other Resistances scale were reduced from 7 to 4.
• Psionic Resistance was added at scale 3.36 for 90s.

Consume (all versions)

• Duration on minor recovery effect increased from 15s to 30s. Recharge reduced from 180s to 120s (primary/secondary versions) or from 360s to 180s (epic pool versions).

Char & Cinders

• The fire holds Char and Cinders now have a new 'fiery binds' visual customization option. This includes epic pool versions of Char as well.

Savage Melee

• Animations and FX are complete
• Savage Melee powers now have finalized sound effects
• Blood Thirst Recharge reduced from 180s to 90s.

Infiltrator Training

• Intrusion now grants a global endurance discount effect when active.

High Contrast Menus Option

A new option is now available to help make the game interface easier to see. The "High Contrast Interface" option is intended to flatten out some of the buttons and interface elements to make the text clearer. For now the effects can be best seen on the costume and character select screens. This will be an ongoing effort and will be expanded out to other elements in the game as well. There are 2 ways to enable it. In the options menu under the "General" tab is an option that can be enabled per character. The other way is to add the arg "-highContrast" to the game launch params in your launcher of choice. Using the launcher arg will make the effect apply to all characters. (High Contrast option startup arg works but may not apply to already existing chars on log in. You can still turn it on for these characters in the options menu.)

Cel Shading

We have introduced cel shading into the graphic options. To use it simply navigate to Menu, Options, Graphics and Audio, (enable) Experimental Graphics Settings, and (enable) Cel Shader. This is a port of the SCoRE Cel Shader feature.

Global Chat

A new global general chat channel has been made available. This new channel will work like LFG currently does and is automatically accessible without having to manually opt-in. This replaces the old opt-in Rebirth chat channel. You may need to edit your chat tabs to see the new chat.

Costumes

• Added new lowered hood option to face detail 2 for male, female, and huge.
• Unlocked Samurai Menpo and Oni Guard (previously only available on Half Helmets) for
• Standard, Full Mask, Hats, and Hood categories for male, female, and huge.
• Updated tights and sleek tights base textures for male pants, replacing existing Ri3
• placeholder textures. Models affected include loose pants, tight pants, flared, bell bottoms, and baggy.
• Added Technis and Goth face patterns to Full Helmets pattern mask menu.
• Metallic Alien Skull and Metallic Elongated Alien Skull now appear as sub-options below their first entry.
• Cybertech, Cybertech Dreads, Post Apocalyptic Corn Rows, and (female only) Tucked Ear hairstyles' secondary options now all appear as sub-options below their first entry.
• Wake Path Aura added to Path Auras for all genders.

Bug Fixes

Powers

• Martial Assault's Masterful Throw is now correctly typed as a lethal attack rather than negative.
• Masterminds were previously overlooked in the fix to make the resistance buff in Nature Affinity's Wild Growth power not resistible - * this has been corrected.
• Stalker Ice Melee and Radiation Melee: The AoE attacks in these sets now correctly have a chance to critically hit.
• Stalker Radiation Melee, Atom Smasher: The stun effect in this power now actually functions.
• Doppelganger NPCs for player characters with the Ninja Assault, Military Assault, Kinetic Assault, and Infiltrator Training power sets will now have appropriate powers to match the player they are mimicking.
• The bright and dark versions of the FX for Radiation Blast's Neutron Bomb now properly sync with the sped-up animation.
• Trick Arrow's Flash Arrow will no longer erroneously display arrow FX stuck into every target hit.
• The missing fire hit FX for targets caught in a burning oil slick has been restored.
• Fixed an FX bug that switched Power Surge to blue lightning for Brutes and Stalkers.
• Ninja Assault attacks should no longer animate without the katana visible under certain circumstances.
• Fixed several linked bugs that caused the Assault Rifle snipe power to be broken in both its fast and regular versions. The power will no longer erroneously redraw the assault rifle even if it is already drawn, the firing FX now correctly sync with the animation in all cases, the animation length, activation time, and hitframe timing now correctly sync up with each other, and it is no longer possible to activate another power before the snipe finishes animating. These fixes also apply to the Military Assault version.
• Mastermind Heat Mastery, Rise of the Phoenix: Can now properly slot rez sets.
• Mastermind Cold Domination, Infrigidate, Snow Storm, Sleet, and Heat Loss: Can now properly slot universal debuff sets.
• Kinetic Melee's Burst can now correctly slot knockback sets.
• Tanker/brute Arctic Mastery's Chilblain and Block of Ice can now correctly slot slow enhancements and sets.
• Stalker Ice Melee, Build Up: The Assassin's Mark Stalker ATO set proc will now correctly recharge this power.

Costumes

• Sheet Music cape pattern should now display correctly.

Rebirth Issue 3, Edition 1 - April 17th, 2022

Upper Body Details

Arm wings, that classic staple of many a comic book character, have been added to male and female characters! Several styles and multiple coloration schemes.

Additional upper body details include Freakshow inspired regulator tubes, hardboiled shoulder holsters, Anime-tastic midriff spicules, and an entire library of hazard vests.

Asymmetric Chest and Hip Patterns for Males

Standard Male characters will now have access to the entire library of asymmetric chest and hip patterns introduced for Female characters with Issue 3. Over 100 new pattern options, seamlessly woven through the legacy library!

Integrated Tights Added to Males, Female Integrated Tights Options Expanded

Take your costume game to the next level! With Issue 3: Highflyers!, male and female characters can take advantage of newly expanded integrated tights options. This advanced costuming feature allows players unprecedented power to mix and match over tights and under materials. With version 1.5 of this system, players can now layer skin tight garments over a variety of under surfaces including stone, bioluminescence, chitin, and chainmail. And then choose which layer gets patterned!

To get started with integrated tights, seek out any of the following base textures and then dive into the sub options:

• Male Chest: Belly Tee Long or Short, Deep Vee, High Waistline, Modern Angle, Modern Halter, Moden Singlet, Retro Singlet, Reverse Halter
• Male Hips: Biking Shorts, Briefs, Modern Briefs, Retro Briefs
• Female Chest: Bustier, Catsuit, Halter Top, Leotard High Hip, Leotard Turtleneck High Hip, Single Shoulder Halter
• Female Hips: Leotard Briefs, Leotard High Hip, Retro Briefs

Pants Revamp

The pants make the man! Options first introduced with Issue 2 for females are now fully available for male characters. Revisit the 1970’s with flares and bell bottoms. Go full superspy in a leather catsuit. Fly high into the golden age in Aeronaut jodhpurs. Evade your nemesis in High Street Houndstooth. Or just turn up in the shiniest pair of skin tight metallic pants known to mankind!

Asymmetric Pattern Proliferation for Female Skirts

Mod-out with a variety of new skirt and dress looks now with the expansion of Issue 2 asymmetric patterns to female skirts!

Inherent Slots in Health and Stamina Powers

Back in the NC Live days, Paragon devs said, “We hear you! You want more power slots. We’re investigating ways to make this happen.” Though we’ll never know exactly how Paragon may have done this, we’ve expanded upon some stubs in the code to finish one avenue that gives everyone 4 additional slots for their builds in a way that we think makes sense to most every build out there.

At levels 8 and 16, all characters will automatically receive one free slot in their Health power. Stamina gets its free slots at 12 and 22.

Team Transport Power Available for Alignment Merits

Heroes and Villains now can now use their alignment merits & influence to call in a Longbow transport or Arachnos copter for a quick shuttle to their next mission destination. Charges can be purchased at the Hero and Villain alignment vendors.

Quality of Life Changes

• Signature Summons powers available at Hero and Villain Alignment vendors have had their price reduced from 25 to 2.5 million influence.
• A revamped Candy Cane vendor has been added to Pocket D just outside the ski slope entrance allowing players to buy badges, cosmetics, and the Lords of Winter Super Pack any time of year.
• The Architect Entertainment ticket cap has been raised to 99,999 per character, with a mission limit of 2,039 tickets per mission. New bulk purchase buttons added to common salvage.
• Fourth dockable power tray added to the UI with all new commands for macro users.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected oversight on Mastermind Cold Domination not having boostsets. They should now properly take sets.
• Mastermind pets can once again slot Recharge Intensive Pet invention sets.
• Fixed Guardian Spring Attack incorrectly dealing no damage, it now does damage as normal.
• Guardian Hellfire Assault's Lash and Crack Whip now correctly use the melee damage table instead of ranged.
• Controller Darkness Affinity's Fade is no longer affected by power boost effects; this should never have been possible as it leads to a bug with the resistance values.
• Dominator Psionic Mastery's Link Minds can now correctly be affected by power boost effects.
• The resistance buff in Nature Affinity's Wild Growth is no longer resistable. (This bug did not affect the Guardian version.)
• Rain of Arrows should now correctly deal all 3 ticks of damage again instead of 2.
• Fixed missing animation on Telekinetic Blow for all Psionic Melee versions and Guardian Psionic Assault.
• Fixed missing sound in Hellfire Smash for Guardian's Hellfire Assault.
• The Tech Knight mace and staff now have the energy ball correctly positioned at the end of the weapon instead of being stuck to the character's hand.
• The Tech Knight mace and staff now correctly despawn when the character uses a non-weapon power.
• Over 500 grammatical and spelling errors have been fixed.

Rebirth Issue 2, Edition 3 - October 10th, 2021

Issue 2 Edition 3 brings a twist to CoH's Winter Event.

It's the Fright Before Christmas! Get ready for NEW Holiday Horror mobs, NEW Ice Power Customizations, NEW Powerset Proliferation for Ice Melee, Armor and Cold Domination, and MORE!

During this event, Halloween mobs festooned in winter wear burst from presents! All drop both Candy Canes and Halloween salvage, good for Lords of Winter and All Hallow's Eve super packs. There are even two giant monsters, including a rare icy version of a familiar friend.

6 New badges have been added for the event:

	The Fright Before Christmas	Log in during the Fright Before Christmas event
	Bad Santa	Defeat the orange holiday Eochai
	What's This	Defeat the white holiday Eochai
	Stocking Stuffers	Defeat 50 holiday zombies
	Damaged During Delivery	Defeat 33 holiday werewolves
	Back for Blood	Defeat 25 Holiday Vampires

NEW Ice Power Customization Options

Check out the many new animations available to every ice powerset!

Ice Melee powers now have a full set of both sword and non-sword animation and FX options:

• Frozen Fists now uses the shorter single-punch animation
• Frozen Fists now has an alternate ice sword animation (with greater ice sword option)
• Ice Sword now has an alternate overhand swing animation
• Ice Sword now has an alternate non-sword ice fist smash animation (with greater ice sword option)
• Greater Ice Sword animation sped up
• Greater Ice Sword now has an alternate uppercut swing animation (with regular ice sword option)
• Greater Ice Sword now has an alternate non-sword ice fist clobber animation
• Freezing Touch now has an alternate ice sword stab animation (with greater ice sword option)
• Frozen Aura now has an alternate ground punch animation
• All-new Assassin's Icicle power FX for Stalker Ice Melee, with both icicle stab and ice sword variations (with greater ice sword option)

Ice Armor style powers now have four new, less obtrusive power themes so your character no longer has to be covered in ice cubes! This affects Ice Armor's Frozen Armor, Wet Ice, Glacial Armor, and Energy Absorption (only has Frost theme for now), Cold Domination's Ice Shield and Glacial Shield, and all versions of Frozen Armor in ancillary/patron pools.

• Icy Coating theme: A shifting layer of thin icy chips fitting closer to your character's body
• Frost Armor theme: A subtle layer of translucent frost on your character
• Chill Armor theme: A cloud of cold mist around your character
• No Covering theme: A minimal FX style theme with no obscuring graphics

NEW Ice Powerset Updates

• Ice Melee proliferation for Scrappers and Stalkers
• Ice Armor proliferation for Scrappers
• Cold Domination proliferation for Masterminds

Ice Melee power updates

Frozen Fist

• Frozen Fists activation time reduced from 1.33s to 0.83s
• Frozen Fists damage increased from scale 0.84 to 1.0, recharge time increased from 3s to 4s, endurance cost increased from 4.37 to 5.2

Freezing Touch

• Freezing Touch is now balanced as an attack rather than a mez; damage increased from scale 1.68 to scale 2.92, endurance cost increased from 10.19 to 15.184, DoT sped up from 5s to 3s, and 50% of the damage is front-loaded. (Also affects blaster version)

Greater Ice Sword

• Greater Ice Sword activation time reduced from 2.33s to 1.83s

Ice Armor power updates

Frozen Armor

• Frozen Armor defense increased from scale 1.8 to scale 2.0

Wet Ice

• Wet Ice unenhanceable scale 0.1 defense removed
• Wet Ice now has ticking absorb at scale 0.5 every 10s

Permafrost

• Permafrost now has scale 1 S/L/E/N resist

Glacial Armor

• Glacial Armor defense increased from scale 1.8 to scale 2.0

Ice Blast power updates

Bitter Freeze Ray

• Bitter Freeze Ray animation has been sped up from 2.5s to 2.0s

Ice Manipulation power updates

Frozen Aura

• Blaster Frozen Aura now deals damage, like the Ice Melee version

NEW & IMPROVED Super Pack: Lords of Winter!

Now your earn these packs in game with Candy Canes at the Holiday Vendor in the Pocket D Ski Chalet! Flip cards to collect all sorts of prizes from Winter themed enhancement sets, snowy Temporary powers, candy canes, and more!

NEW Enhancement Sets!

2 New Winter Enhancement Sets, each with unique abilities/procs, all attuned and exclusively found in the improved Lords of Winter Super Pack.

Winter Storm (Slow) - Unique Proc: Chance for Cold Damage

The new Winter Storm slow enhancement set brings icy offense effects to slow powers rounding out the current winter damage enhancement sets which brought slows, holds, and other stalling effects to damage powers. Winter Storm features a change for Cold Damage proc along with the following set bonuses:

• (2) Recovery
• (3) Slow
• (4) Accuracy
• (5) Recharge
• (6) Damage

Catalyze Winter Storm into Superior Winter Storm to take these sets and bonuses to the max.

Winter's Gift (Universal Travel) - Unique Proc: Slow Resistance The Lord of Winter Super Pack introduces for the the first time ever the attuned Winter's Gift universal travel enhancements into the game. Now for the first time ever the attuned Winter's Gift enhancements can be catalyzed into Superior Attuned Winter's Gift for stronger set bonuses and proc effects. This is a unique set. No more than 1 of each enhancement of this set may be slotted by a character.

Player Cosmetics

• Tail feathers now available under tails for all genders. Big thanks to Ourodev and Ominousvoice!
• Chain Gun model now unlocked for all Assault Rifle users.
• Spiderweb 2, Torn Mesh, and skin versions of Tribal Teeth and Tribal added to female asym chests.
• Diamond Split added to female asym hips.
• Big Bolt, Freem, Detonation, and Rifts patterns for asym hips and torsos have been refined.
• Chain Mail wrists have been added as a sub option to all diversified gloves.
• Pony tail version of Male Post Apocalyptic cornrows should now display correctly.
• Fixed an issue with FX elements on multiple legacy gloves when used in asymmetrically.
• Fixed an issue with certain gloves that caused a crash to desktop when using the SG costume editor.
• Note: Male Asym Torsos are coming with the next update! Start saving costumes now for conversion to the new system with an updated version of Jagged's Costume Converter tool!

R&V and H&V Super Packs

Super Packs have been rebalanced to feature higher chances of receiving ATOs and lower chances of receiving very rare enhancements Cost of Alignment merits for Heroes & Villains and Rogue and Vigilante Super Packs has been halved from 6 to 3 and 10 to 5 respectively

New Winter Event Rewards

Earn Candy Canes in the Ski Chalet Slopes for beating race time challenges!

• Timed Advance Slope:
  • Gold Medal (0:50) - 4 Canes
  • Silver Medal (1:00) - 3 Canes
  • Bronze Medal (1:10) - 2 Canes
• Expert Slope:
  • Gold Medal (0:25) - 2 Canes
  • Silver Medal (0:35) - 1 Canes
  • Bronze Medal (0:45) - 1 Canes

Miscellaneous QoL:

• The Holiday vendor's items have been reorganized into category tabs
• Reduced cost of the Holiday Respec from 500 candy canes to 50
• Added Absorb monitoring to Combat Attributes
• Added Dual, Dual Team, and Super Inspirations to Combine 3
• Enhancement Catalysts are now tradable
• Added the correct background to the Guardian ATO Super Pack icons and centered the Guardian's Gift icon

Bug Fixes

• The Witchcraft Universal Debuff set was incorrectly not slottable in a variety of powers. This has been fixed.
• Fixed some Witchcraft set descriptions that were misreporting the enhancement percentage
• Fixed enhancement percentages on some Return From The Grave enhancements that were using the wrong values
• Fixed minor enhancement value error on triple aspect enhancements in the superior versions of Halloween and Guardian enhancement sets
• Fixed Day job salvage reward was for the Store/AH accolade IO discount salvage reward
• Fixed Dr. Vahz boot & glove coloration issue. Gloves and boots should no longer be bleached out
• Fixed the description of the Very Rare Recipes rewards choice from Incarnate Trials.
• Fixed missing description on the (Corruptor) Scourging Blast proc Super Pack card

Rebirth Issue 2, Edition 2 - October 10th, 2021

NEW Costumes!

Celebrate the Day of the Dead with our new Dia de los Muertos Costume Pack!

This costume pack brings NEW Sombreros Cordobes to all character models, Rose Crowns for females, a new boney twist on the classic Baron Coat, and thematic face patterns and chest emblems for everyone!

NEW Super Pack: All Hallow's Eve!

Trick or Treating has never been so fun with our NEW All Hallow's Eve Super Pack!

Flip cards to collect all sorts of prizes from new Halloween themed enhancement sets, costume change tokens, aura and cape unlocks, and even permanent NPC costume change powers! But be careful, you just might get a rock!

All Hallow's Eve packs can be won through a successful completion of the Deadly Apocalypse zone event or purchased with Halloween Salvage from the Halloween Vendors found in Croatoa and Nerva Archipelago.

NEW Enhancement Sets!

5 New Halloween Themed Enhancement Sets, each with unique abilities/procs, all attuned and exclusively available from the All Hallow's Eve Super Pack.

• Vampire's Bite (Melee) - Unique Proc: Chance for Self Heal
• Endless Nightmare (Sleep) - Unique Proc: Chance for Fear, Psionic damage if woke early from the nightmare
• The Haunting (Fear) - Unique Proc: Chance to summon Ghosts
• Witchcraft (First-ever: Universal Debuff Set) - Unique Proc: Chance for -Res(all)

Witchcraft, the first Universal Debuff Set, can be slotted into any power that can accept To Hit Debuff, Defense Debuff, Accurate To Hit Debuff, Accurate Defense Debuff, and Slow.

• Return From The Grave (First-ever: Rez IO Set) - Unique 6-slot set bonus, Mass Rising: When the Rez power is used, fallen allies near the caster will receive a basic Rez effect as well.

Return From The Grave brings Rez powers to the front and center. This Attuned Enhancement set can be slotted into any self rez or ally rez power. Its signature Rez Effects enhancement type allows it simultaneously enhance any ability that the rez power it's slotted into has! Additionally, anyone willing to invest in slotting the full 6-piece enhancement set will be granted the special ability, Mass Rising. Mass Rising releases a PbAoE ally rez around the cast whenever they use the rez power that is fully slotted with Return From The Grave.

Revival of the Rez Powers!

Rez powers have received a QoL and update pass to improve some of the more lackluster rezzes and make them more attractive and useful choices.

• Empathy's Resurrection now grants the rezzed target a buff to their Defense, Damage, and Tohit, similar to the set's Fortitude buff.
• Regeneration's Revive now grants the user a significant buff to regeneration and recovery.
• The tohit buff in Willpower's Resurgence is now enhanceable.
• Fiery Aura's Rise of the Phoenix now grants the user a substantial damage buff.
• Dark Armor's Soul Transfer now has a stacking regeneration and recovery buff component.
• Warshade's Stygian Return now stuns foes like the Dark Armor rez it is based on, and now has the same stacking regeneration and recovery buff component.
• Peacebringer's Reform Essence now grants the user a damage, tohit, and recovery buff, and its healing component is now enhanceable.
• The to hit buff in Radiation's Mutation is now enhanceable.
• The tohit buff in Conduit of Pain in Corruptor/Mastermind Pain Domination and Guardian Pain Focusing is now enhanceable.
• Reconstructive Healing's Revive now grants the user a significant regeneration and recovery buff.

Additionally, look forward to collecting all of the new rewards in the All Hallow's Eve Super Pack:

• Account-wide unlock of Costume Slot #7 (still under development)
• Account-wide Back Slot Unlock (aka Capes) (must be level 20 on the character opening this pack for a chance to receive this card.)
• Account-wide Aura Unlock (must be level 30 on the character opening this pack for a chance to receive this card)
• Free Costume Change Token (aka Free Tailor Tokens)
• Character Respec Token
• The Rock (Temporary Power)
• Halloween salvage items (Statesman Halloween Mask, Lord Recluse Halloween Mask, Back Ally Brawler Halloween Gloves, and Hamidon Halloween Costume)

Halloween Event Rewards

• Deadly Apocalypse
• Claim an All Hallow's Eve Super Pack by completing the Deadly Apocalypse Zone Event once every 2 hours.
• Choosing any temporary power also rewards 3 random Halloween salvage.
• Have all the temporary powers or just want Halloween Salvage instead? We have added a reward option for 4 random Halloween salvage only.

Halloween Tip Mission, Malleus Mundi

Now rewards 2 random Halloween salvage the first time you choose a reward that grants a badge Claiming the reward again after the badge has been earned will grant 1 random Halloween salvage

Other Cosmetics

• Butterflies, Fireworks, Microbial, Wealthy, and Wisps auras now available (M/F/H)
• Roaches path aura now available (M/F/H)
• Watcher trench coat now available (M)
• Money Bag and Vanguard Jetpack backpacks now available (M/F/H)
• Pilgrim, Tricorner, Firefighter 1, and Firefighter 2 hats now available (M/F/H)
• Princes hat now available (F)

Bug Fixes

• Female Asym Chests
• Capes and back details will now be associated with correct chest type, i.e. Armored chests once again have armored appropriate collar geometries
• Cybertech base textures for chests placed in correct alphabetical ordering in female Jackets chest library
• Alpha pattern mask placed in correct alphabetical ordering in general patterns female chests mask library
• Athletic pattern mask for female chests should now display correctly
• Energy Melee
• Staggering Burst has been put back in its box, and will no longer invade the Recipes tab (Text errors involving Staggering Burst and Stun fixed)
• Staggering Burst: Fixed erroneous numbers for Stalker, Brute and Scrapper guaranteed stun

Misc

• Characters will no longer feel like kicking eachother whenever they receive a Mystic Fortune.
• The Overpowering Presence Controller ATO set is no longer double the presence
• Fixed Guardian Kinetic Assault not having Resolve
• Guardian ATOs can now correctly be slotted in the attacks in Ninja Assault and Military Assault, and in Shredder Mine and Seeker Drones in Infiltrator Training.
• Various resist powers in the Guardian secondary powersets Atmospheric Composition, Dark Composition, Fiery Composition, Ice Composition, and Reconstructive Healing will no longer have their resistance effects * incorrectly increased by damage buffs on the user.
• Fixed missing cards in Super Packs.
• Emblem menu for male robes, sleeveless robes, and shirts cleaned up
• Minor alphabetization errors in other chest symbol menus cleaned up

QoL

• The maximum number of Rocks has been increased from 10 to 25.
• To avoid confusion, the incomplete origin power pools (Experimentation, Force of Will, Gadgetry, and Utility Belt) are no longer visible when leveling up. These power pools were incomplete as of the original shutdown and are still missing animations, FX, and mechanics; they will return once they have been finished and are usable.