Season 2

## Season of the Warp Surge

"*It is time, Inquisitors, to prepare for the upcoming Warp Surge… the Inferno has now been reduced to cinders and ashes thanks to your effort, but soon enough you will face a new, darker challenge arising from the void - the Warp Surge is upon us!"*

## Season mechanics

Warp Anomalies appear during missions, each providing a different bonus that you can benefit from. The warp is treacherous and the price of toying with such power may be high.

These anomalies will pop up as you progress through the missions. Most of them have combined effects on the player, meaning that you can gain an advantage if you interact with them, but they will also have negative effects on the side, such as damage or other, more mysterious effects.

### List of anomalies

**Zone of Malevolence**File:Manifestation 1.gif
Standing in this vortex will give you a +100% damage bonus, but beware: it slowly eats away your health.

**Warp Nova**File:Warpnova 1 .gif
Interacting with this anomaly will stun nearby enemies around the player. Use it to defeat your foes quickly!

**Corpus Warp Fleck** File:Fleck 1.gif
This anomaly charges your health and your armor skill resources to full. (Psyker Warp Heat resets to zero.) However, your melee damage reduction will be reduced 15% for the duration.

**Elemental Warp Fleck**File:Fleck 2.gif
A similar anomaly, this one will fill your utility and suppression bars up along with recharging your Inoculator. The trade-off is a 15% penalty to ranged damage reduction.

**Veil of Carnage**File:Veil 1.gif
An unique Warp creation, this anomaly will follow you after interacting with it. It will grant 400% damage bonus and 50% movement speed, turning you into a blood-crazed, furious entity of the Warp. However, it will take away some of your Inoculator Charges and your slain enemies will have a slight chance to come back from the dead as Demons!

**Warp Pillar**File:Pillar 1.gif
A volatile power surge, the Warp Pillar will randomly follow enemies or players alike, dealing periodic damage to everyone in its wake.

**Zone of Manifestation**File:Malevolence 1.gif
When you slay your foes in the Zone of Manifestation, beware: they can respawn as Demons from the Warp - or Warp Flecks

might emerge from their slain corpses!

## Further Season Mechanics and Itemization

Besides the Warp Anomalies, our goal was to create an array of Seasonal Items that draw power and utility from Warp Anomalies while staying useful outside of Warp environments. With this vision, we created 15 new Seasonal Items with unique enchants, and along with them, 6 new Relic Enchants independent from items, meaning they can be rolled on any freshly obtained Seasonal items.

### Seasonal Weapons

**Storms of Judgement**File:S2 Item Storms of Judgement.png
*Heavy Bolter*
Picking up a Corpus Fleck grants you [Suppression Damage \* 0.1]% Lifesteal for 10 seconds; Picking up an Elemental Fleck grants you 40-60% Suppression Damage for 10 seconds

**Hell's Gullet**File:S2 Item Hell's Gullet.png
*Chainsword or Eviscerator*
30-40% Chance on kill to gain an Inoculator charge

**Siren's Storm**File:S2 Item Siren's Storm.png
*Death Cult Blade*
Using the Phasing Assault skill has a 50% chance to trigger a Shock Nova on arrival

**The Dark Maw**File:S2 Item The Dark Maw.png
*Warp Rod*
15-35% [Based on ilvl] chance to apply Slow, [Enchant/2 %] chance to apply Stun on Warp damage hits

**Omicron's Enigma**File:S2 Item Omicron's Enigma.png
*Omnissian Axe*
+2.5% All Resist for each active Construct

**Desperation's Futility**File:S2 Item Desperation's Futility.png
*Signum*
10-20% Reduced Warp Damage taken

**Celtor's Flux**File:S2 Item - Celtor's Flux.png
*Rosarius Force Field*
Killing an enemy extends the duration of the Rosarius field by 0.5 seconds

**Warpsmith's Fury**File:S2 Item Warpsmith's Fury.png
*Personal Teleporter*
Using the Personal Teleporter gives you a 200% damage bonus for 2 seconds.

**Vortex of Rapidity**File:S2 Item Vortex of Rapidity.png
*Digital Weapons*
Picking up Warp Flecks you +25% movement speed for 10 seconds [stacks up to 100%]

**Refugee's Wail**File:S2 Item Refugee's Wail.png
*Inoculator*
40-60% to gain a personal Void Shield [ilvl \* 35 amount] upon using the Inoculator

**The Bleak Coil**File:S2 Item The Bleak Coil.png
*Neural Implant*
Killing an enemy increases XP gained by 2% for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 20 times.

**Heart of Darkness**File:S2 Item Heart of Darkness.png
*Main Implant*
10% Chance on Hit taken to cause Blind around the player and to gain 1 berserk token

### Seasonal Enchantments

Besides the Warp Anomalies, our goal was to create an array of Seasonal Items that draw power and utility from Warp Anomalies while staying useful outside of Warp environments. With this vision, we created 15 new Seasonal Items with unique enchants, and along with them, 6 new Relic Enchants independent from items, meaning they can be rolled on any freshly obtained Seasonal items.

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on weapons dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* 50% of All Damage is Converted to Warp Damage
* 5-10% chance on hit : All strikes are guaranteed critical strikes for the next 3 seconds [8 seconds internal cooldown]

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on armor dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Interacting with Warp Anomalies increases Loot Rarity from Monsters by 5% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
* Getting a Massacre Bonus grants an Inoculator charge (this applies to Killstreak and Massacre)

The following Relic Enchants can be rolled on any items dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Picking up Warp Flecks also increases your movement speed by 15% for 35 seconds
* 20-30% chance (scaling to 40-50% on level 100) to Spawn a Warp Fleck on killing a Champion enemy

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on Melee Weapons dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Interacting with a Warp Circle creates a Gravity Well, pulling up to 5 nearby enemies to melee range

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on weapons dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* 50% of All Damage is Converted to Warp Damage
* 5-10% chance on hit : All strikes are guaranteed critical strikes for the next 3 seconds [8 seconds internal cooldown]

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on armor dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Interacting with Warp Anomalies increases Loot Rarity from Monsters by 5% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
* Getting a Massacre Bonus grants an Inoculator charge (this applies to Killstreak and Massacre)

The following Relic Enchants can be rolled on any items dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Picking up Warp Flecks also increases your movement speed by 15% for 35 seconds
* 20-30% chance (scaling to 40-50% on level 100) to Spawn a Warp Fleck on killing a Champion enemy

The following Relic Enchants can only be rolled on Melee Weapons dropped during the Season of the Warpsurge:

* Interacting with a Warp Circle creates a Gravity Well, pulling up to 5 nearby enemies to melee range

### Seasonal Journey

The Seasonal Journey was altered a bit as well, based on player feedback as we tweaked around the more tedious tasks and added some new, Warp themed ones to fit the bill of the new Season. (Full listing to be uploaded shortly.)

### Warp-tainted Missions

A completely fresh addition to the new Season will be an unique mission type, named Warp-tainted Missions. These missions can spawn if the player uses Intels, which now have a 33% chance to spawn Warp-tainted missions, now indicated in their tooltip as well. These missions will have unique terrain elements and effects to them, and of course the rewards for completing such missions will not be scarce.

Within these missions, unique Warp Gate anomalies can occur where the player will encounter new enemies from the Void.

### Warp Chests

Loot chests will appear randomly during Warp-tainted missions, and players will have to scramble to find them before they disappear into the Warp - only to reappear again somewhere else on that map! These chests have a 30 second timer, which is also displayed above them.

### Warp Shrines

Just like in the previous season, Shrines across all missions will have a 35% chance to transform into Warp Shrines, granting players the Veil of Carnage bonus for 30 seconds.

### Unlock unique rewards

Unlock 4 unique portrait frames, and bolster your Trophy Desk with swirling Empyrean Rifts as rewards for your Seasonal Journey. These will be visible to other players as well so they will know you have done a great service for the Emperor.

File:S2 Trophies.png