The Nightmare Patch Notes – Warframe

Mostly warframe nerfs.

WARFRAME CHANGES

ASH

• Marking enemies for Bladestorm now gets an increase in energy (+5) the more marks are placed, capped at 50 energy per mark.

ATLAS

• No longer immune to damage on health after using Landslide.
• Bulwarks’ and Rumblers’ health is no longer increased by armor.

BANSHEE

• Sonar is no longer recastable while active.
• Silence stuns enemies only once in its entire duration, this also affects Savage Silence (if enemies enter Silence range more than once, they’re only stunned the first time)
• Soundquake (and Resonating Quake) now only affect enemies in LoS.

CHROMA

• Vex Armor is no longer recastable while active.
• Spectral Scream consumes other active abilities’ duration to deal more damage.
• When cast, Effigy halves active abilities’ duration to halve its energy drain for its entire duration.

EMBER

• Accelerant can no longer be recastable while active and only stuns enemies in LoS.
• World of Fire’s damage increases or decreases, depending on how much energy Ember has.

EQUINOX

• Changing forms also instantly stops the effects on enemies affected by Pacify & Provoke.
• Enemies put to sleep with Pacify can wake up instantly if a non-silenced gun is fired too close to them.
• Day form’s Rage makes Equinox consume 10 energy everytime a buffed ability is cast.
• Day form’s Maim now has a cap at 5000 damage, dealing further damage will only decrease energy drain.

EXCALIBUR

• Exalted Blade’s waves no longer have infinite punch through. Instead they bounce off walls, losing 30% damage for each bounce.

FROST

• Freeze freezes the target solid for 5 seconds instead of forever until a threshold is reached.
• Snow Globe now reduces its own size when it is too big to fit in more closed areas.
• Avalanche only affects enemies in LoS.

GARA

• Splinter Storm can no longer stack its damage when Gara destroys the Mass Vitrity structure while outside it, now it increases pushback radius by 10% instead.
• Gara is no longer immune to damage while channeling Mass Vitrify.

HARROW

• Penance duration cap decreased to 60 seconds.
• Thurible now has a cap on energy per kill, at 10 energy.
• Harrow and allies affected can no longer move, use abilities or weapons during Convenant’s invincibility period.

HYDROID

• No longer has an ability page in the menus.
• Charged Tempest Barrage and Tentacle Swarm now have double the energy cost as before.
• If Hydroid touches a wall while in Tidal Surge, the wave ends automatically, and Hydroid is stunned and given an Impact proc.

INAROS

• Scarab Swarm’s extra armor is now only 100 extra armor.
• Enemies blinded by Desiccation no longer turn back to unalerted after they’re done covering their eyes.
• When Sandstorm damages enemies trapped in Devour, its energy drain is increased by 1 per each enemy.

IVARA

• Can now only have one type of arrows active at once. Firing one arrow limits Quiver to that arrow for the entire mission.
• Enemies asleep no longer turn back to unalerted once they wake up with no alarms on.
• Navigator can no longer be used after a bullet is fired, it must be used before, and now it costs 5 energy.
• Artemis Bow’s arrow spread increased.

Khora

• Khora is now changed back to release state.

LIMBO

• Can no longer carry objects in the rift.
• Cataclysm no longer knockdowns enemies caught by either it spawning or despawning.
• Stasis is back to affecting all allied projectiles.

LOKI

• Radial Disarm only affects enemies in LoS.
• The target you Switch Teleport with is instantly opposed against you, unless you’re invisible, in that case it will be alerted.
• Can no longer switch teleport with his own Decoy.

MAG

• Changed to pre-second rework state.
• Polarize damage capped to 1000.

MESA

• Shooting Gallery no longer works on enemies wielding melee weapons.
• Shattering Shield no longer reflects back bullets.
• Peacemaker’s energy drain is halved, but shooting with the Peacemakers consumes 3 energy per shot.

MIRAGE

• Now only 1 of Mirage’s clones shoots along side her, to fix performance issues.
• Prism can only be cast on the ground.

NEKROS

• Terrify works in LoS and no longer removes armor.
• Desecrate’s energy cost is now a percentage of Nekros’ max energy (health using Despoil), the chance for corpses to drop health orbs is decreased.
• Health drain on Shadows is increased, depending on how distant from the Shadows Nekros is.

NEZHA

• Firewalker is back to being an endless ability and its energy drain increases over time.
• Blazing Chakram’s maximum range decreased to 10 meters. It now returns to Nezha the moment it touches a surface or enemy.
• Divine Spears launches targets in the air, rather than keep them impaled.

NIDUS

• Max stack amount reduced to 50.
• Stack amount required for the passive to kick in increased to 25.
• Nidus is no longer invincible for 5 seconds after the passive kicks in.
• Field of view decrease when the passive kicks in is much stronger.
• Parasitic Link stops automatically when the target is outside Nidus’s LoS.

NOVA

• Null stars no longer give damage reduction to Nova’s Health.
• Antimatter drop’s damage capped to 20’000.
• Wormhole can only be cast while on the ground.
• Molecular Prime now drains energy while the wave expands.

NYX

• The mind controlled target can still damage Nyx and allies.
• Chaos (and Chaos Sphere) now only works in LoS.
• If Absorb’s final damage surpasses 300, Nyx is knockdowned after deactivating.

OBERON

• Smite’s particles no longer deal a percentage of the target’s health, and no longer spawn in greater numbers using Power Strength.
• The Iron Renewal buff can no longer last forever to allies buffed by Renewal.

OCTAVIA

• Damage redirected is now limited to 4000 per second.
• Resonator no longer increases its range when enemies are attracted.
• Up to 2 of metronome’s buffs can stay on at once. When a new one is made, the oldest one is automatically removed and progress to restore it is reset.
• Instead of increasing all weapons’ damage, Amp now increases only the damage of weapons that make noise.

REVENANT

• Can now only cast abilities one the ground.
• Mesmer Skin no longer makes Revenant resistant to lethal damage he can’t avoid, including Self damage.
• Danse Macabre now costs 10’000 Energy per second, and will decrease Revenant’s max energy to 0 for 2 minutes.

RHINO

• Rhino Charge and its combo counter reset automatically after hitting 2 or more enemies in a single charge.
• Iron Skin no longer converts all damage taken for the first 3 seconds into extra health, and doesn’t increase with Armor.
• Roar is now multiplcative instead of additive.

SARYN

• Saryn reverted to her 1.0 kit.
• Miasma no longer deals more damage if built for negative duration.

TITANIA

• Razorwing no longer gives Titania 50% Elusion and no longer has an innate Vacuum.

TRINITY

• Link only links to enemies in LoS.
• Blessing can only be casted on the ground.

VALKYR

• Rip Line can only be used against enemies.
• Warcry no longer buffs armor of allies in range.
• Paralysis prevents her shields from regenerating for 60 seconds after use.
• Valkyr’s claws gain or lose range, depending on how much energy she has.

VAUBAN

• Tesla no longer procs Electricity.
• Landmine: Shred no longer ragdolls, Concuss’ radiation proc is halved, Bounce’s ragdoll strength is quadrupled and tripwire expires after the first use.
• Bastille only works in LoS.
• Vortex has a cap of 10 enemies affected at once. Each enemy caught makes Vortex’s duration expire 5% faster.

VOLT

• Shock no longer procs Electricity.
• Speed loses 2 seconds of duration everytime Volt/affected allies bump into something.
• Electric shield makes the holder lose even more speed and parkour strength.
• Discharge’s wave, and enemies turned into teslas, only work in LoS.

WUKONG

• Iron Jab no longer knocks down the target.
• Defy no longer gives Wukong temporary invincibility when it triggers.
• Wukong can now take damage while in Cloudwalker.
• Primal Fury’s range increase with combo counter now capped at +40%.

ZEPHYR

• All abilities no longer cost less while airborne.
• Air Burst can now be controlled with the cursor, but Zephyr can no longer use weapons while doing so.
• Turbulence no longer protects against hitscan projectiles.
• Tornado’s ragdoll strength increased tenfold.

COMPANION CHANGES

• Sacrifice, Regen, Primed Regen and Fetch mods removed from the game.

• Vacuum can only affect a single drop at once.

• Beasts can no longer be revived.

RIVEN CHANGES

• Riven disposition of every weapon in the game except Ether Daggers, Stug and Veldt reduced to 0.4.

• Riven’s cycling Kuva cost no longer caps.

• Ranked rivens can no longer be transmuted.

WEAPON CHANGES

• Self damage of all weapons that deal it has been increased by ∞%. Being hit with Self damage completely nullifies any active ability.

• Kohm status chance decreased to 5%.

• Condition Overload’s effect decreased to +10% damage per proc

FOCUS CHANGES

• Focus cost of a perk upgrade increased by a percentage equal to the number of times you’ve upgraded a Focus perk, with no cap.

GENERAL CHANGES

• Using a chat link now costs 1000 credits. Those that typed in the link receive 100 credits for every use.
• Mastery Trials have a 1 million credits entering fee, multiplied by the mastery rank you’re trying to achieve, and can only be repeated once per week.
• Warframes and Archwings now take 7 days to build.
• Removed innate 3m vacuum.
• Changed maximum amount of loadout slots to 5.
• Resource Extractors are 10 times weaker.
• Mods that give extra knockdown recovery speed have had their bonus cut in half.
• Pain Threshold removed from the game.
• Rollers can now perform much higher jumps.
• Daily Revives have returned.
• All items’ max level is now 20: to reach 30, you must install the new Orokin Overloader, found in the market for 20p.
• Heavy landings can no longer be avoided by landing on a slide.

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