Overview
- October 7, 2021
The Witching Hour Returns with new Base Items, Feats, and Styles
- All hell has broken loose in the streets of Gotham City and inside The Midnight Masquerade Nightclub.
- Go to the House of Legends and speak to the Phantom Stranger (Heroes) or to Tala (Villains) to receive further instructions.
- To queue for The Midnight Masquerade, go into your On Duty UI and look under the Events Tab.
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Gotham City · Midnight Masquerade Nightclub · House of Legends · Phantom Stranger · TalaNew Race
- Travel to the House of Legends and take flight in the new Multiplayer Aerial Movement Challenge: Flapping in the Night.
- You’ll be transformed into a vampire bat to race around Arkham Asylum.
- Earn new rewards and feats for achieving platinum, gold, and silver tiers.
- There are also new feats and new collections to be found for those brave enough:
- Blinding Speed
- One Fast Bat
- Supersonic Wings
- Flying Rats?
- Authority of the Hunt
- Lair of the Night Creatures
- Each day of the event, also look for The Witching Hour in your Mission Journal to complete and earn Spooky Bites!
- Shop using Teekl’s Halloween bucket for the latest in scare-wear, tricks, treats, and creepy items for your Base.
- You’ll even find a few extra special surprises, like the new Man-Bat inspired style items, the Spooky Bats Chroma Pack, and the Demon Bat Accessory.
- Level Requirement: 10
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House of Legends · Multiplayer Aerial Movement Challenge: Flapping in the Night · Arkham Asylum · The Witching Hour · Spooky Bites · Halloween bucket · Spooky Bats Chroma Pack · Demon Bat AccessoryFall Vault
- The fall vault is back! Everyone can run the vault daily during The Witching Hour event.
- Find the Vault-O'-Lantern in the House of Legends for a special new mission that treats you with access to this themed vault.
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On Duty Menu
- Quickplay buttons will no longer flash between Pressed and Rest state on when using mouse and keyboard, when holding the mouse down near the edge of the button
- Increased the font size for group member names
- Now displays the Deserter Penalty timeout
- Replay Badges are now labeled as such
- Now only shows one role choice when the player has not yet unlocked their second role
Save the Universe
- Loot Locks now specify which boss they are from
- Solitary Riot no longer offers choice of 9 identical gear pieces
House of Legends
- Batsignal mission - Oracle no longer says to go to the Watchtower in her comm
- Last Laugh mission: Calculator no longer says to go to the Hall of Doom in his comm
Bases
- Added vendor categories to the base Dispenser
- Armories now correctly display mannequins in the Manor Lair
- The base item limit for lairs has been increased from 600 to 700
- The Manor Lair's secret door now has additional collision to prevent it being placed outside the map
Accessories
- Runic Hand Accessories are now account bound instead of no trade, keeping them consistent with their Aura variants
Iconic Weapons
- Rogues in the Brothers in Arms operation can now drop iconic weapons
- The following weapons have been added:; Captain Cold's Dual Pistols; Kalibak's Beta-Rod; Two-Face's Tommy Gun; Joker's Golf Club; Captain Boomerang’s Boomerangs
Allies
- Most Allies are no longer attackable by NPCs, to prevent them from being Crowd Controlled on occasion; Flashpoint Wonder Woman remains attackable due to the nature of her combat ability
- Most Allies will now blink closer to the most recent hate target of the player if they deem themselves too far away.
- Known Issue: Ally ability descriptions have not been updated and will be in an upcoming hotfix.
Calculator Bot
- Passive 01 buff heal buffed to 6/8/10% hp back
HoL-Bot
- Power Thief (passive) will now have a 30 second cooldown at all Ally Levels
Emperor Aquaman
- Hear My Call; Upon the player taking damage, increases baseline DPS for all currently summoned Pets, excluding Allies and Combat Turret Trinket pets; At max affinity level pets do 10% more damage. This lasts for 20 seconds and has a 30 second cooldown.; Rank 6: Pets do 5% more damage; Rank 7: Pets do 6% more damage; Rank 8: Pets do 7% more damage; Rank 9: Pets do 8% more damage; Rank 10: Pets do 10% more damage; Known Issue – pets summoned after the proc has triggered, within that proc window, do not get the DPS buff. This will be corrected in a future hotfix.
Flashpoint Batman
- Sole Detective will now apply while solo at 100% potency and in groups at 33% potency (instead of only applying while solo)
- Sole Detective (passive) will now begin its defense buff at 3% at Level 4, up to 15% at Level 10
- Added more aggressive hooks to Sole Detective so that it does not fall off or apply inappropriately
- Changed Combat Suture's percent-of-precision heal to a simpler flat percentage of your health heal:; Rank 6 = 5% hp; Rank 7 = 6% hp; Rank 8 = 7% hp; Rank 9 = 8% hp; Rank 10 = 10% hp
- Changed Combat Suture's cooldown:; Rank 6 = 30 seconds; Rank 7 = 26 seconds; Rank 8 = 22 seconds; Rank 9 = 18 seconds; Rank 10 = 12 seconds
Queen Diana
- Take That will apply to all targets and will refresh its duration on targets that you have re-pulled before the debuff wears off
- Take That will now hit all pulled targets (instead of just one)
Zoom
- Disabled his passive from activating while in a race
Pets
- Combat Trinket Pets and Turrets no longer apply their Tier 2 and Tier 3 damage bonuses to other pets