{"id":237,"date":"2005-08-19T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/08\/and-new-twists-on-test\/"},"modified":"2005-08-19T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T20:57:23","slug":"and-new-twists-on-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/08\/and-new-twists-on-test.html","title":{"rendered":"And new twists on Test &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Number=2092861&#038;page=1&#038;view=collapsed&#038;sb=5&#038;o=&#038;fpart=1#2092861\">Various and sundry changes<\/a>.  The ones that stand out to me:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Banished Pantheon Summoned Husks no longer give experience when defeated. The Death Shaman has been given a slight increase in experience reward to offset this somewhat.  <em>Mentioned only because I sometimes encounter them.  Were folks &#8220;farming&#8221; husks?  Jeez.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pool\/Fitness\/Health: now also grants you some resistance to Sleep.  <em>I&#8217;ve taken to taking this power on a number of alts, so I guess this is helpful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pool\/Phase Shift: Although still a Toggle power, Phase Shift will desctivate if you leave it on for more than 30 seconds. Increased its Recharge Time. <em>Mentioned only because folks are going apeshit over it on the boards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Powers and Inspirations that resurrect will now leave the target protected from XP Debt (duration dependent upon the power).  <em>Now that&#8217;s pretty cool.  You can rez someone and if they get gacked too quickly, they don&#8217;t get double debt.  Nice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All archetypes will now be able to reach their Max Defense sooner (was level 40, now level 20). Tankers now have a higher Defense cap than Scrappers and Kheldians. Scrappers and Kheldians have a higher Defense cap than all other archetypes. <em>I guess that&#8217;s good &#8212; given that Defense has been clobbered so much.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fixed text for Controller\/Illusion\/Group invisibility (regarding Defense suppression). <em>Shudders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reduced Hold Duration of Freeze Ray, Bitter Freeze Ray and Tesla Cage (To bring it into line with other non-controller single targeted Hold powers). <em>You be nerfed, too!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UI<br \/>\nAdd new slash command, \/release_pets, that unsummons all of your pets. <em>Yay!  Later, Fred.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Game<br \/>\nPlayers can push aside a pet, hostage or friendly NPC that blocks their way. <em>Yay again!<\/em><br \/>\nFor the most part, mostly quality of life issues coupled with some minor irks.  For those looking at archery powers, a number of nerfs are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various and sundry changes. The ones that stand out to me: Banished Pantheon Summoned Husks no longer give experience when defeated. The Death Shaman has been given a slight increase in experience reward to offset this somewhat. Mentioned only because I sometimes encounter them. Were folks &#8220;farming&#8221; husks? Jeez. Pool\/Fitness\/Health: now also grants you some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/08\/and-new-twists-on-test.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And new twists on Test &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}