Winter Event
Celebrate the holiday season in Marvel Heroes 2015 by giving the gift of beatdowns to those special supervillains on your list!
- Winter Spirit Buffs - Get into the holiday spirit with buffs that display a snowflake above your hero! These buffs drop anywhere in game - collect 5 snowflake buffs to receive a holiday lootsplosion!
- Cosmic Cheer - Cosmic prestige leveling speed is doubled for the duration of the event! In addition, all XP, SIF and RIF values are boosted server-side by 100%!
- Winter Wonderland - Midtown Manhattan & Industry City Patrols have posted a severe weather warning, but this hasn’t slowed the supervillains down! Be sure to bundle up!
- Stocking Stuffers - Log in each day for special holiday gifts!
The above event bonuses will run until
December 31st! In addition, we’ll be running the following events alongside the holiday bonuses:
- December 18th-24th - A.R.M.O.R. Incursion
- December 25th-31st - Mystic Mayhem
For more details on our event schedule for this holiday season, check out the following forum thread:
http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discu...nt-schedule/p1
New Hero: Iron Fist
The Champion of K’un Lun joins the hero roster of Marvel Heroes 2015!
Raised in the mystical city of K'un-Lun, Danny Rand sought vengeance on the man he blamed for the death of his parents. Driven by vengeance, Danny was tutored by Lei Kung the Thunderer in the ways of martial arts. Excelling at his training, Danny was given the opportunity to take the sacred mantle of "Iron Fist" by fighting the dragon Shou-Lao the Undying and plunging his hands into its molten heart, rendering his hands "like unto iron." Upon finding the man responsible for his parents' death, Danny chose to forgive him and would instead use his skills to help people, eventually putting him on the path to form Heroes for Hire with his new and like-minded friend, Luke Cage.
Iron Fist is a
Physical / Mental based hero that combines some of the best martial prowess in the world with the mystical power of Chi to defeat any opponents foolish enough to challenge him.
Chi is the resource that fuels Iron Fist's attacks; unlike Spirit, Chi does not regenerate when powers are not in use. Activating one of Iron Fist's unique
Stance Openers will instantly restore 100% of Iron Fist's Chi while placing Iron Fist in the corresponding stance:
- Crane Kick (Crane Stance)
- Leopard Claw (Leopard Stance)
- Tiger Scratch (Tiger Stance)
- Dragon Tail (Dragon Stance)
- Serpent Fang (Serpent Stance)
While all of Iron Fist's attacks are usable in any stance, each
Stance Combo power gains a unique effect if used while in the corresponding stance. For example,
Good Fortune Thunder Kick always delivers a fast, powerful flying kick - but if used while in Crane Stance, upon striking the target an additional explosion of Chi will deal damage in an area around the target!
Iron Fist's
Like Unto Iron signature power strikes a single target with such concentrated Chi that a wave crashes through the target, damaging any enemies standing behind your unfortunate foe. This power gains a unique effect from each of the five different stances, allowing you to apply this technique in a variety of ways.
To truly master the martial arts one must be like water - with the
Chi Overload power, you can control the flow of battle by allowing you to maintain two stances at once. Mastering this technique will allow you to employ Stance Combos to devastating effect! Specializations available for this power allow you to further customize your fighting style - attain true mastery over a single stance, seek balance between two stances, or overwhelm your enemies with all five!
New Team-Up: Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck joins the Team-Up roster of Marvel Heroes 2015!
Born on Duckworld, a strange planet in an alternate dimension, Howard the Duck found himself trapped on Earth after arriving through the Nexus of All Realities. Howard has teamed up with many of Earth's superheroes and also run foul of supervillains. Although he possesses no superpowers, Howard the Duck is well versed in the art of Quack Fu and should never be underestimated or counted out.
Howard the Duck can only be unlocked by earning the A.R.M.O.R. Defense achievement during A.R.M.O.R Incursion events. Complete the A.R.M.O.R Defender mission this week to earn progress towards unlocking him for yourself!
Danger Room Changes
Danger Room now grants an equal amount of orbs to those playing solo as those in a party. Previously, orbs were dropping for each party member. We’re looking at completion time across the board, but the group and solo times were very far apart due to this issue.
Other Danger Room changes:
- Reduced Health on certain Destructible mission objective objects.
- Added visible light shafts to the Data Core pick-up so it's easier to spot.
- Restructured Progression Orb payout (amounts and timing) on Bamboo Forest 'Idolized Destruction', AIM Facility ‘Data Hunt’, Marsh ‘Cliffwalker Crash Site’, and Brood Caves ‘Fungal Extermination’.
- Reworked the Bamboo Forest Ominous Readings event to instead complete upon defeating marked Ngarai targets instead of upon a timer.
- Increased the amount of Progression Orbs provided across all single target boss events significantly
- Reduced amount of progression required for completion slightly
- The Contagion enemy affix effect can now only stack up to 2 times.
Hero Changes
Kitty Pryde
- All Lockheed powers have had their damage significantly increased.
- Dragon Breath and Shadow & Flame have had their animations sped up.
- Kitty can now gain spirit on crit from Ogun's Training at half the normal rate while using Lockheed.
- Watch Your Step and Heartbreaker now both grant a Brutal Damage bonus in addition to Critical Damage.
- Quicksand now has a much large area of effect.
- Shadow & Flame no longer exhibits a bug in which the flames do not show up when the player's attack speed is too high.
Loki
- Loki's Spatial Deception will now grant him 8% Damage Reduction for a duration on hit.
Rogue
- Rogue’s hero-specific uniques have been updated with new affixes.
- Rogue’s Recall Overload now restores some spirit while channeling. End explosion damage increased by a large margin.
- Rogue’s Final Form signature powers now each also grant a substantial buff effect to Rogue. Each power now has a 6s cooldown.
- A new power has been added to the Final Form - Angel's Team-Up Signature power, which also has its own powerful buff effect. These changes should make Rogue's Ultimate much more powerful and desirable, both as an offensive and defensive tool.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that would cause Danger Room loading screens to be very long or crash players clients.
War Machine's Purple Hearted damage absorption shield now properly absorbs 100% of incoming damage up to his maximum Health. (It was previously absorbing 20% of incoming damage up to his maximum Health).
Shield of the Silver Savage Deflect Rating tooltip bug fixed.
The Energy version of the Ultron Encephalo-Beam should now properly drop in Age of Ultron mode.
Danger Room Training Manual and Taskmaster's Fighting Guide For Losers can now both be equipped at the same time.
Personal Advanced A.I.M. Robot Dispenser once again summons 3 robots instead of 2.
The Marsh Marauder event in the Danger Room can now roll as expected.
Fixed an issue with Rogue's stolen Surtur power not sticking to targets after they leave the area of effect.
Fixed issue where level 1 characters wouldn’t be able to see items on the Danger Room Vendor.
18/12/2015, 17h05
