Forward

Welcome to another season of Alliance War! This season we’re seeing a new Defence Tactic for all you challengers out there, and a new and improved Path 7 coming in to replace the old Power Control Lane in AVA. Skill Defenders now have a bespoke home they can be seated in! Without further ado, let’s get to what the updates look like!

Timeline

Wednesday, December 7th

• Pre-season 39 begins

Wednesday, January 4th

• Season 39 goes live

Auto-Enlist

Our Engineers have been cooking up tons of Quality of Life updates we’re hoping to roll out over the coming seasons, the first of many being Auto-Enlist. Officers will find a handy new button in the war-room letting them enable an automatic entrance into enlistment! We hope to see more of you than ever battling it out in the battle-realm.

Tactic Updates

We’ve got a brand new Defense Tactic rolling into Challenger maps near you!

Introducing: PLANETARY ENDURANCE!

Planetary Endurance

#Planetary Endurace Defenders are immune to the effects of Nullify and Stagger. Whenever a #Planetary Endurance Defenders Attacks are blocked, they gain an Flourish Buff increasing Power Rate by 15%. Striking the Defenders Block will remove 1 Flourish Buff.

• Attack: Debuff Detox, Sick n Tired, Subdue
  
• Defense: Conduit, Unsteady ground, Planetary Endurance
  

• Attack: Debuff Detox, Sick n Tired, Subdue
  

• Blacklist - Hercules, Human Torch
  
• Whitelist - Kingpin, Doctor Doom
  

• Blacklist - Hercules
  
• Whitelist - Kingpin
  

Node Changes

To help build the AW Map and push it in a more driven RPG direction, we are now proud to say that we have come up with another lane that will replace the aging Power Control lane. We will revisit it in the future, but untill then, we got something crazy cooking on the stove. It’s the new and improved Skill Defender lane with many new nodes to support this vision.

The following buffs were made to support this vision.


Second Wind (Damage Reflection) - 3:
Whenever the Defender Purifies or Cleanses a Debuff, they gain an Damage Reflection Passive for 8 seconds dealing back 50% of the damage dealt by the Attacker.


Second Wind (Unblockable) - 3:
Whenever the Defender Purifies or Cleanses a Debuff, they gain an Unblockable Charge. If the Defender reaches 3 Unblockable Charges, they gain an Unblockable Passive for 8 seconds.


Power Creep - 3:
Each time the Defender Purifies or Cleanses a Debuff, they gain a Charge that permanently increases their Combat Power Rate by 7%. This goes up to a maximum of 20 Charges.


Winded - 3:
Each time the Defender is knocked down, the Defender suffers an Armor Break Debuff, decreasing their Armor Rating by 50 for 7 seconds.


Standing in Fear:
While close to the Defender, the Defender gains a Fatigue Debuff every 3 seconds, reducing their Critical Rating permanently. Staying far away from the Defender causes these Fatigue effects to gradually fall off.

New Nodes