Preview Night Avenger AT
By TrailTurtle @ August 10, 2012 at 7:59pm
Greetings Champions! Crime is on the rise, the grip of evil grows ever tighter around the world — and a new breed of hero rises to fight it! With powerful handheld weapons and gadgets, the Night Avenger brings justice to the streets of Millennium City with brutal claw attacks and precise boomerangs, along with a bevy of other gadgets.
The Night Avenger is a powerful stealth Archetype that makes use of stealth and powerful strikes to dispatch foes quickly and precisely. Once the Night Avenger has struck he can use a powerful arsenal of gadgets and tools, including gas pellets, bolas and even his own personal jet for a strafing run!
The following new powers have been added to Gadgeteering to make way for this powerful new AT.
Boomerang Toss - A new boomerang based energy builder
Ricochet Throw - Throw a boomerang in a precise arc that bounces from foe to foe, dealing heavy damage.
Throwing Blades – Throw a flurry of boomerangs in a cone in front of you, dealing damage to all affected foes.
Grapple Gun Pull – Grab hold of your target with your trusty grappling gun, yanking him towards you.
Gas Pellets – Throw 4 pellets that damage and snare all targets inside their choking clouds.
Bolas – Take careful aim with your bolas and wrap a target in the powerful twine, dealing heavy crushing damage.
Strafing Run – Mark a location on the ground, where a jet will rain a flurry of bullets down, striking all targets.
The following new powers have been added to Martial Arts to make way for this powerful new AT.
Smoke Bomb Lunge - Disappear into a cloud of smoke and reappear near your foe, dealing damage and snaring them.
Night Warrior - This power now replaces sneak. This passive grants bonus damage, charge speed, Dodge and avoidance and causes you to ignore some of your foe's resistance. This power also grants "Sneak" and "Shadow Strike".
Sneak - This toggle now remains on permanently. Taking certain actions cause you to decloak. Some of the new powers have special bonuses while sneaking.
Strike - This power deals extremely heavy damage when used from sneak. This power has a very long cooldown. This power does not benefit from damage strength bonuses.
Sneak Changes
As a part of making this archetype, we felt the need to adjust how sneak works. We weren’t really happy with the niche sneak filled before because we didn't ever feel like it was worth using. Now it provides much better bonuses and is much more user friendly. With it being a persistent toggle that automatically recloaks you it should feel much more fluid and dynamic and let you weigh getting that big spike of damage off or dealing damage consistently during a fight. This power should now fit a much broader set of concepts and playstyles now, and should in general just feel much better to play as.
Good luck and godspeed Champions!
Chris "Gentleman Crush" Meyer
russal12 @ Aug 27th, 2012 4:52AM
i liked it alot thanks for posting the information..
jakeesan @ Aug 24th, 2012 1:19AM
Definitely should have a staff powerset
supersaber1 @ Aug 23rd, 2012 8:04AM
they should have a staff archetype
jakeesan @ Aug 22nd, 2012 9:59PM
You could at least give us a ball park figure for the release date of the powerset! And Dark Champions. And everything else you guys keep talking about!
jakeesan @ Aug 20th, 2012 5:37PM
Cmon, cmon! I want the power set already!
dudespanky @ Aug 20th, 2012 2:03PM
I personally like this character. I like that it's a not-Batman type of archtype. You can make not-Superman and not-X-Men. Is that illegal to use the tools given in a game to create your own character, even if it resembles an already established Marvel/DC character? I think not! I think, personally, that making your own character allows you to live out your fantasies of BEING that X-man or Superman or Batman. I am honestly waiting for a Green Lantern-esque archtype or even a Spiderman-esque archtype. Why can't the speedster archtypes run up walls and tall buildings? THAT would be cool.
sapy1 @ Aug 19th, 2012 9:34AM
lol
seerstars @ Aug 18th, 2012 5:32PM
As close as you can get to an old favorite: Moon Night. Nice addition.
n0vastarone @ Aug 18th, 2012 2:05PM
Oh look PWE and cryptic are ripping off batman...he even has a Jet too. GG....I smell a lawsuit...and I hope one happens.
kirsros
I might as well go easy on you since not alot of people know this, but Nighthawk was one of the original Champions. I'm talking the tabletop version here, not the MMO. If anything you should be angry at Hero games, not Cryptic or PWE.
anonymizer
yeah to be honest no lawsuit will happen, thanks to the fact that the names are different. the thing is that copyright, although it affects published works, provides no protection to ideas or concepts. So lawers can't even touch any of this, HA TAKE THAT LAWERS!
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badassmedic @ Aug 18th, 2012 5:14AM
Is this guy gonna be free?
magemighty1
Like Kirsros says, Nighthawk was one of the champions until 2005 and anyways Cryptic and PWE do have rights to put him in the game because of that
draegony @ Aug 17th, 2012 6:51PM
I hope it is silver
synthektoid2 @ Aug 17th, 2012 4:49PM
is there a cape or any part of a costume which will is or will look like a robe/cape hanging over my shoulders in the front? kind of like batman when his cape covers him. i've been looking around the store but haven't found one.
talzinar @ Aug 17th, 2012 10:01AM
Something I've noticed in the above comments about silver's whining gold gets everything, etc.. I see alot of silver's going gold. Could be that the majority of golds started as silvers then going gold. They do need to do alittle for the silvers here and there for that reason. Keep them coming back, even if its as free, until something comes that lures them into gold. That can work as part of business as well.
catstarsto
Its a buisness, they need paying customers. If they arent able to keep coming up with new ideas to get more "paying customers" then the buisness will go under. They have done more for the free sample table then any other game ive seen sofar, they do deserve credit for being player friendly in that respect, not all buisnesses are that gererous these days!!! I still think people should be more gracious and thankful for what they have, i guess that old saying is true; "something given, has no value." If the things u have arent earned, what respect do u have for it.
anonymizer
true that, i personally got bored with archetypes, but as soon as i saw free form slots... I BOUGHT THREE honestly the only thing ever stopping me from actually becoming a gold member is that i don't have acredit card or paypal
skulldugger1 @ Aug 16th, 2012 7:50PM
Bolas, finally what I wanted for my main foerever but got stuck with arrows instead. Any word on release of this thing yet? Went back to GOLD on 3 per 2 month special to be sure I qualify lol
creamy096 @ Aug 16th, 2012 6:52PM
i would really like this to be silver but ultimately i dont care. ill just buy it
dorinth @ Aug 16th, 2012 4:30PM
Gold? Silver? Who cares. I play either way. If I have a chance to buy this if it goes gold, alright. If it goes silver? Alright. I don't care as long as it can be played at some point.
zenzenarimasen @ Aug 16th, 2012 5:30AM
Missed an opportunity to have the thrown weapon be something with alternate models and to have a block involving that model... It would have been a perfect opportunity to add in physical shield blocking... Oh well...
daphuq @ Aug 16th, 2012 3:59AM
im a gold member and i do not agree with the game going pay to win, silvers should at least be able to create 1 freeform character. perhaps impelement something like they can only use abilities from the champions they own? seeing all these silver players trying so hard breaks my heart. i would always support a game that i like even if it doesn't benefit me in any way but to be honest, i am seriously considering not to support it anymore because it feels like im playing just another pay to win game.
catstarsto
Silvers can make a free form, once they put in the time enough to show they are dedicated to the game (earning questionite for freeform slot) earning questionite is far easier then earning dilithium in star trek online, its a real grind there, in champs u can earn tons of it if u put in the time!!
moobucket @ Aug 16th, 2012 1:11AM
So ... you walk into a store, don't buy anything, loiter for hours eating all the samples, then to top it all off, you demand a larger meal and threaten to leave if your demands aren't met, then don't understand when the employees ignore you and the paying customers want you to shut up and leave. Sounds pretty retarded when you put it in the context of doing this crap in a store, but that's what you're doing here. Be thankful for what you're given for free, be respectful of those who are providing it, and be mindful of those who are paying.
catstarsto
XD "Moobucket for MC Mayor!"
akeshale @ Aug 15th, 2012 8:25PM
i dont care whether or not this at is going to be gold or free. im a silver player and i agree with the gold argument that they get benifits because they support the game to be honest its a good game even without premium content and im thankful to the gold players for helping bring the game this far and so should all of you
arben2 @ Aug 15th, 2012 6:53PM
guys is so time to play this game end have code
dorinth
...huh?
catstarsto
If they wanted to play Jade Dynasty they wouldnt be here! I have a bunch of toons on here over a dozen, one for each mood im in, why would I abandon all the time and trouble I put into leveling them and gearing them up just to start over in a new game :/ , im having to much fun here, besides, holidays here they have awesome giveaways and decore to celebrate (2nd anniversary party was the best!!)
arben2 @ Aug 15th, 2012 6:52PM
so good game i love this game so much
arben2 @ Aug 15th, 2012 6:52PM
is so time
cash15 @ Aug 15th, 2012 2:14PM
not evrey ones rich u no so no wonder evreyone cant get gold
catstarsto
Its all what u put into it...u still have options for questionite, so I wouldnt worry about it, the game does balance out, if u put time into it!
icedemon93xd @ Aug 15th, 2012 6:59AM
Come and play Jade Dynasty with me! In USA-East The Billows, my name is Ellayna. My Inductor ID is 9490856X023005065006215Z3fada1
brandiino2
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dorinth
How about no.
catstarsto
Spammed =@.@=
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