Game Update - December 12th 2016 + Viking Eddie!

[Sparton_LOTB]

Crush the cold weather and your competition with Viking Eddie alongside all of these other adjustments and improvements as we pave the way ever closer to PVP.

New Character: Viking Eddie!

Get ready to slay your enemies with Viking Eddie! He is a buff specialist who focuses on increasing MR with additional crowd control capabilities, such as freeze/stun, taunting, a status effect which cleanses each turn, and more!

Viking Eddie is now available as a 5 star Sentinel in all appropriate souls. Check out more on Viking Eddie in his Character Discussions forum post.

Character Tuning




Other Enhancements

• A short description describing a character’s role in the party now shows up in various screens (the Soul Results screen, My Team screen’s Stats tab, and the Character Info Popup)
• The Help section on status effects has been expanded with more common status effects and the potency of such status effects (when they’re not tuned per skill)

Other Bug Fixes

• Characters should always show up in the combat results screens when reporting XP gains
• Characters should not use the skill shards (or lack thereof) of other characters of the same type and tier
• Fixed an issue where some characters from the campaign worlds used different icon art than what the collectible version of them had
• Players should now be directed to the proper App Store page when they need to update the game
• The timer for when the next Lord of Light dungeon should now display if no dungeon is currently open
• The unavailable Halloween Event node should no longer try to appear for new users which unlock nodes on Hard and Madness difficulty
• If there is an achievement for clearing a specific quest for the first time, you no longer sometimes get the same reward from the quest directly (you’ll get Ironite or high-rarity XP Runes as a first time bonus instead)
• Achievements added after the initial Daily Challenges update which are retroactively completed should properly count towards the “Complete X Achievements” achievement
• And many other fixes and stability improvements for PVP... more details and limited release coming soon!

[Mizrael]

So it's basically just a massive nerf bat swing,sugar coated by 1 new character( which i will never see due to my bad luck with souls)...

[mjmxiii]

Character nerfing finally nerfed the game... game says it needs to upload new updates after new updates are loaded. Please update game over WiFi??

[Kaijester]

Massive Cyborg Eddie nerf with magic scalings...

[Aristo4]

Massive Cyborg Eddie nerf with magic scalings...

Have you never noticed MAG was 0% on him? It was wrong for 4 months, otherwise why did he always had 450 MAG base...
If beam was always physical i would agree with you but it was always true damage.And you know how much I love him.

[The Educated fool]

Have you never noticed MAG was 0% on him? It was wrong for 4 months, otherwise why did he always had 450 MAG base...
If beam was always physical i would agree with you but it was always true damage.And you know how much I love him.

It is impressive how half full you always find your glass to be, my friend.

[RCarter]

Even though I felt like the Assassin GS was going to get nerfed sooner or later, it still sucks.

[Ian]

Even though I felt like the Assassin GS was going to get nerfed sooner or later, it still sucks.

All decent characters will soon be nerfed down to the same level of shit-ness as owl and ox cultists. But then, nobody can complain about not having good toons, because those damn cultists will pop up every single time you cash in some souls

[FlyingV]

All decent characters will soon be nerfed down to the same level of shit-ness as owl and ox cultists. But then, nobody can complain about not having good toons, because those damn cultists will pop up every single time you cash in some souls

Neither Aces or Tailgunner has any business being nerfed, and GS is ridiculous. The whole point of GS is the glass cannon. I hate to have contempt prior to experiencing PVP but we have lost way too much in invested characters, and I am skeptical that the interest/enjoyment of PVP will not meet expectations, particularly with all the neutering that affects the rest of the experience. Hopefully I am wrong, but it seems like if they never bothered neutering characters we'd ALL have access to something powerful in response to the other team.

[abbadon]

Different type of comment/question here:

Why the new permission

"Device ID & Call Information" - Reads phone status and identity

?

The game worked fine before, I'm very wary of granting extra permissions. If this actually needed to enhance the game, or purely data mining?