Tuning Adjustments - March 21

Today, with hotfixes that are all now live, we’ve made the following adjustments to offensive and utility abilities in Plunderstorm:

• Fire Whirl Movement speed bonus reduced to 70% across all ranks (was 140%).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to balance Fire Whirl’s effectiveness relative to the performance of other offensive spells without detracting from the effectiveness of other utility spells.
• Star Bomb cast time reduced to 2 seconds across all ranks (was 2.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: We’d like to improve the effectiveness of this ability.
• Toxic Smackerel cooldown reduced at ranks 1, 2, and 3. Rank 4 unchanged.
  • Developers’ note: This is intended to ensure this ability is more in-line with expected power at early levels.
• Explosive Caltrops trap radius increased by 40%.
  • Developers’ notes: The traps placed by Explosive Caltrops are intended to counter close-range aggression, but this felt a bit inconsistent because the traps were smaller than intended.
• Lightning Bulwark channel time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal here is to extend the potential window for counter play opportunities.

We’ll have all of the above, along with more updates to Plunderstorm in our next hotfixes update.