Ensure that when players are prompted to use a synergy, they can always use it

Players should always know where a synergy is; working to improve visual effects to support this

Group mates shouldn’t have to fight each other to use a synergy

When players use a synergy, it should fire immediately with no delay

Synergies are the way to help groups be stronger than solo players, damage and resource sustain should always be better while in a group

Review and standardize balance for synergy abilities; Ultimate synergies should be stronger than regular abilities

Add a stun to interrupts – if a player gets interrupted, they get stunned (and therefore get CC immunity when they break it)

Add a short cooldown to an interrupted ability to add interesting gameplay to interrupts

Add interrupt telegraphs to cast time abilities when players are not CC immune

Adjust the block calculations so that cost reduction happens first (might have to reduce the block cost slightly as a result)

Investigate adding something to Champion passives, or an item set to increase the block cost

Test the following changes, with the end goal to have Off Balance be more useful for everyone: Effect is only consumed if the target is knocked down from a Heavy Attack Attacking an Off Balance enemy with a Heavy Attack restores 2x resources After Off Balance ends, the target is immune for a period of time

Test making the following changes to make Heavy Attacks feel better: Shorten the Heavy Attack cooldown to approximately 300ms from 700ms Shorten the global cast speed penalty of Heavy Attacks to 50% from 75%



We’d like to begin giving you a bit more insight as to what the combat team is currently working on, save for any new features or systems that we simply aren’t ready to discuss yet. The plan is to make a new post similar to this each month. In order for this to work, though, everyone must understand that this is all work in development and has a high probability to change. As long as discussions stay civil, we’ll continue posting these updates.With that said, below are a few things (not everything!) the combat team is currently working on for Update 17.You may notice we haven’t listed any class balance changes in this list. This doesn’t mean there won’t be any adjustments; we’re just still looking at what needs to be tweaked.