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Release Notes February / 22 / 2008
GENERAL
- Wyvern flying mount quest is now available
- Griffon mount quest is now active
- There are now no fly zones around certain areas of content.
- Helmets are now visible
- Riftways have been revamped
- Veteran Rewards are now available for those who have been around for 6 months or longer.
- All adventuring consumables now share three cooldown timers. Each consumable either has a 2 minute shared cooldown (for all health, energy, and endurance renewal consumables), a 5 minute shared cooldown (for all 'burst' buffs) or a 15 minute shared cooldown (for all long duration buffs).
- All 30 minute long duration buffs have had their duration reduced to 15 minutes.
- Anevka's Renewal now shares a cooldown with low cooldown crafted consumables.
- Named NPC items have had their item power increased.
- All named drop items are now BOP
- All named drop items are no longer deconnable
- All named now spawn more often
- PVP - All fears should now stun in pvp. They will all be set to half the duration of your normal fear, with 30% diminishing returns and have a 25% chance to break on damage.
- Recasting mez on a target will no longer strip the previous mez. This is also true if the mez attempt is resisted.
- Refresh timers will now count down while offline.
- Fix for a pet ability exploit.
- You can now right-click on a player name link in the chat window to get a context menu for that player, which allows you to do various things like send them a tell, ignore them, add them to friends list, and more. You can also right-click on a player in the game world to get a context menu for them that has the additional options that require you to be close to them, such as inspect, invite to brotherhood, caravan, etc
- Holding down shift and left clicking on an item in your inventory when the market/broker window is open will paste the name of the item into the item search field of the broker window, unless you are currently typing in the chat window, in which case it will paste an item link into the chat window as normal.
- Right-clicking on one of your friends in the friends list of the Social window now brings up a context menu for that friend, allowing you to send them a tell, invite them to a group, and more.
- NPC's that are rare spawns/bosses will display their names in all capitals so they can be distinguished from other NPC's.
- Added display option for showing the dot strength of NPC's in the 3D view (called show NPC difficulty).
- Added display option for player cloak. Now it can be hidden if desired.
- Added option to hide player helmets.
ADVENTURING
- Bard - Lightning Kisses the Ground - Lowered the duration of the critical vulnerability to 10 seconds, but removed the # of hits portion of the duration.
- Bard - Aria of Calm Thoughts - Now increases spell accuracy and damage by 3% and spell crit chance by 2%. It no longer reduces energy costs.
- Bard - Chorale of Calm Thoughts - The name of this ability has been changed to Aria of Calm Thoughts and it is now a lyric component. Its cost has been lowered to 4 energy per sec., down from 10.
- Bard - Hazoc's Harmony of Haste - The name of this ability has been changed to Hazoc's Hymn of Haste and it is now a chorus component. Its cost has been increased to 5 energy per sec. to match other choruses.
- Bard - Fox Overtakes the Hare - The third version of this attack now has the proper critical hit bonus.
- Bard - Asilam's Disenchanting Cry now has a 25m range.
- Blood Mage - Scarring Pact no longer stacks with itself. Blood Pact no longer stacks with itself.
- Cleric - Fixed a bug causing Strike Down not to stack with Speed of Ghalnn.
- Cleric - Speed of Ghalnn no longer incurs global recovery
- Cleric - It should no longer be possible to retain access to path specific abilities if you abandon that path and choose another.
- Cleric - Turning Attempts will now regenerate one at a time rather than all at once (similar to Druid Phenomena Points).
- Disciple - Added Enfeebling Shuriken, a new ability line at level 12.
- Disciple - You now receive Celestial Tiger and Immortal Jade Dragon combat forms at level 10.
- Disciple - The damage on Cyclone Kick has been increased to be a 300% weapon attack plus damage
- Disciple - Lowered the Jin cost of Cyclone Kick to 2
- Disciple - The damage on Blooming Ridge Hand has been increased to be a 150% weapon attack plus damage
- Disciple - Increase the damage of Knife Hand
- Disciple - Increased the duration of Clarity from 4 to 5 seconds.
- Disciple - Lowered the Jin cost of Clarity to 1.
- Dread Knight - Apothic Shield now has a refresh of 10 minutes.
- Druid - Soothe I is now available at level. You will start with this ability.
- Druid - Rampant Roots now costs 3 PP.
- Druid - Treeshape can now be cancelled.
- Druid - Increased damage on Star Mantle.
- Druid - Added new ability Wolfshape to trainers at level 8. This ability gives you the appearance of a wolf.
- Druid - Added new finishing ability, Summon Magma Elemental at level 26. It upgrades every 10 levels. This elemental will take an available elemental slot, but will be much stronger than the Earth Elemental.
- Druid - Hierophant's Boon now has a refresh of 15 minutes.
- Druid - Hierophant's Boon has been moved to level 10.
- Druid - Stormcaller's Fury now procs off of spell casts as well as melee attacks.
- Druid - Increased the energy cost of Piercing Roots
- Druid - Increased the hit points, damage and hit rating of your summoned earth elementals
- Druid - Taproot now stops the player from moving while it is active. If you are moving while casting, it will root you in place, but will not break.
- Druid - Taproot no longer breaks when you cast spells.
- Druid - Roseberries have had their heal increased in power.
- Druid - Seer's Intensity now increases run speed by 60%
- Druid - Seer's Intensity no longer shape shifts you into a wolf.
- Druid - Seer's Intensity now increases intelligence and spell haste
- Druid - Renamed Wolfshape to Seer's Intensity
- Druid - Earthquake now costs 12 phenomena points
- Druid - Life Stream now costs 15 phenomena points
- Druid - Tranquility now costs 10 phenomena points
- Druid - The Brilliant Aurora ability line now has a 10 minute refresh timer.
- Druid - The Brilliant Aurora ability line now costs 15 phenomena points to cast.
- Druid - Summon Ancient Colossus is now Nature's Tempest. Nature's Tempest is a 15 second buff that lowers all spell costs to 0 and increases damage by 15%. It also summons 2 elementals to fight for you for 3 minutes.
- Druid - Therianthropy lowers the energy and endurance cost of all abilities for all defensive targets within 25m for 10 seconds.
- Druid - Renamed Wolf Pack to Therianthropy.
- Druid - Removed Wolf Pack II
- Druid - Added new spell line Antshape to trainers at level 14.
- Druid - Quelling Winds no longer causes NPCs who aren't in combat to aggro.
- Druid - Quelling Winds is no longer focused and pulsing.
- Druid - Quelling Winds is now a targeted AE with a 25m range.
- Druid - Added new spell line Ire to trainers at level 4. This spell upgrades every 8 levels.
- Druid - Nature's Wrath no longer has a resistance debuff component.
- Druid - Updated your Earth Elemental display models. They now look like golems instead of rock turtles.
- Druid - Added new spell line Wither to trainers at level 24. This spell upgrades every 8 levels.
- Druid - Summon Earth Elemental now has a 3.5 second cast time.
- Druid - You now gain the passive ability Earth Mastery at level 6. This ability explains how many elementals you can summon at each level.
- Druid - A summoned earth elemental now lasts for 3 minutes
- Druid - Summon Earth elemental now summons pets that can be commanded.
- Druid - Deadly Swarm now deals less damage in PVP.
- Druid - Deadly Swarm now has a 2 minute refresh
- Druid - Deadly Swarm now costs 7 Phenomena Points.
- Druid - The duration between ticks on Deadly Swarm has been lowered to 2 seconds, down from 4. This makes the spell a shorter duration with the same damage.
- Druid - Starfall has had its damage increased.
- Druid - Starfall now costs 10 Phenomena Points
- Druid - Starfall now has a 2 minutes refresh
- Druid - All berries are now soulbound
- Druid - Added new ability line Bountiful Harvest to trainers at level 50.
- Druid - Mottleberries, Sageberries and Roseberries are now on a 1 minute shared refresh timer.
- Druid - All versions of Sageberries now have 10 charges.
- Druid - The damage over time portion of Venomous Thorns now lasts 8 seconds instead of 16. The damage was not adjusted.
- Druid - Call Lightning now has a 25% base chance to crit.
- Druid - Call Lightning now costs 1 phenomena point
- Druid - Lowered the casting time of Call Lightning to 1.5 seconds
- Druid - Soothe is now instant cast
- Druid - The heal over time portion of Soothe has been increased.
- Druid - The heal over time portion of Soothe has been
- Druid - Soothe now has a 6 second refresh timer
- Druid - Soothe now costs 5 phenomena points and no longer costs energy
- Druid - You now have 20 phenomena points at level 1. Your pool size will increase by 5 every 5 levels until level 30. These will regenerate at a rate of 1 per minute.
- Druid - Phenomena are now available at level 1.
- Druid - Stormcaller's Fury no longer deals damage through invulnerability.
- Monk - It should no longer be possible to retain access to path specific abilities if you abandon that path and choose another.
- Necromancer - Lich - Added new ability line Necrotic Clutch. This ability is available at level 30 and upgrades every 10 levels.
- Necromancer - Wraith - Added new spell line Ghastly Revenge. This ability is available at level 30 and upgrades every 3 levels afterwards.
- Necromancer - Wraith Acolytes now function
- Necromancer - Lich acolytes heal at a rate of once every 4 seconds instead of once every 10 seconds.
- Necromancer - Destroyer minions now attack at range with bows!
- Necromancer - Destroyer minions look differently
- Necromancer - Zealot minions now appear differently.
- Necromancer - Increased the chance that the Zealot minion will hit its target.
- Necromancer - Skin of the Xakrin now functions differently. It will apply its buff when equipping the skin graft on your abomination. Also, this skin appears as a humanoid jackal on your abomination.
- Necromancer - Wraith necromancers now look different. You cannot mount while in Wraith form.
- Necromancer - Spectre's Touch has been adjusted. The following changes have been made: now has a 2 second cast timer, 15 second refresh timer, costs health to cast, lowered energy cost, increased damage and removed the portion that drained energy.
- Necromancer - Death Touch will now deal a large amount of damage to your target if they are immune to the Killing Blow portion of the ability.
- Necromancer - Enshroud now has a casting animation.
- Necromancer - Enshroud is now group targeted.
- Necromancer - Ritual of Necropotence now has a 3 second cast time and no refresh time.
- Necromancer - Ritual of Necropotence now grants a damage buff instead of granting free spells.
- Necromancer - Carrion of Corruption and Carrion of Depravation now despawn after 1 minute, up from 30 seconds.
- Necromancer - Carrion of Corruption has been renamed to Orb of Corruption. The spell now appears as a flaming orb over the NPC corpse.
- Necromancer - Lowered the cast timer of Necropsy to 1 second.
- Necromancer - Added a line of text to the description of Despoiling Blight to indicate that the ability can only be active on one target at a time. This restriction has always been there, but it was never indicated.
- Paladin - Champion's Might is a passive buff that is active whenever you have a shield equiped. It is a 15% damage increase to melee attacks.
- Paladin - Virtue will now regenerate at a rate of one point every two minutes.
- Paladin - Increased the damage of Aegis Strike slightly.
- Paladin - Increased the damage of Guardian's Assault.
- Paladin - A 12 second refresh has been placed on your combat forms. This means that once you enter a form you will be unable to switch out of that form for 12 seconds.
- Paladin - Righteous Supplication has been added to trainers at level 12. This ability will restore all virtue points and can be used every 20 minutes.
- Paladin - Blessing of Life, a new Gift of Virtue (group heal over time), has been added to trainers at level 30.
- Paladin - The damage caused by Sunburst has increased slightly.
- Paladin - Sunburst now only affects one target, costs one virtue and adds an amount of hatred in addition to the damage that it does.
- Paladin - Dictum of Valus now has a 10 second refresh and no longer incurs global cooldown.
- Paladin - Final stand now has a 10 minute refresh timer and requires a shield to use.
- Paladin - Lay on Hands now has a 2 minutes and 30 second refresh timer, down from 5 minutes.
- Paladin - Succor's refresh timer has been lowered to 5 minutes.
- Paladin - Paragon now costs 6 virtue, lasts for 2 minutes and has a 4 minute refresh time.
- Paladin - Fury of Valus now costs 6 virtue, has a 5 minute refresh and no longer incurs global recovery.
- Paladin - Zeal is now trainable at level 12.
- Paladin - Zeal now costs 3 virtue, has a 2 minute refresh, lasts for 30 seconds and no longer incurs global recovery.
- Paladin - Increased the damage of Judgment of the Bloodthirsty.
- Paladin - Increased the damage of Judgment of the Impure.
- Paladin - Increased the range of Smite to 45 meters and lowered the refresh time to 6 seconds.
- Paladin - Increased the damage added by Blood Oath and lengthened its max duration to 5 minutes, up from 60sec. The description has changed to better explain the duration.
- Paladin - Shield of Resolve now returns endurance to the whole group. The values returned have increased and particles have been added to make it more apparent when the effect goes off.
- Paladin - Shield of Solace now heals the group (but not the paladin) when the paladin is struck by an attack. The base value of this heal is now displayed in the ability text as well and particles have been added to help identify when it is working.
- Paladin - Stroke of Conviction and Stroke Fervor both function correctly with shield consecrations.
- Paladin - Stroke of Fervor now deals 350% weapon damage, up from 200%.
- Paladin - Stroke of Conviction now deals 300% weapon damage, up from 200%.
- Paladin - Strike of Gloriann now increases block ability ty 14% in addition to its previous effects.
- Paladin - Both Hammer and Might of Valus now deal 400% weapon damage.
- Paladin - Aura of Divine Power now grants a 6 to 12 percent increase in accuracy as levels are gained.
- Paladin - Courage has changed. A new version has been added at level 48 and previous ranks have had their levels changed to make a more gradual curve. This changes the values of the armor class portion of the buff in the mid levels. The Courage I and Superior Courage both retain their original values for armor class increase. The hit point portion of the ability have been slightly increased and will now stack with all other buffs. The new rank of Courage is available at trainers.
- Paladin - Aura of Replenishment has changed. It now increases the power of heals by 30%, lowers energy costs by 4% and reduces casting times by 8%. These bonuses only affect the paladin. The frequency of the regeneration pulses has increased to 10 seconds, up from 5. Because of this, the amount returned has increased.
- Paladin - Healing Touch has had its cast time lowered to 2.5 seconds and refresh time removed. Energy cost has increased by 2% and healing amount has been lowered by 6%.
- Paladin - Retribution - Added a new counter attack, available at level 12.
- Paladin - Rescues - It is no longer possible to gain virtue points by using rescues.
- Paladin - Contrition - Is now a shield attack that adds a small amount of hate over time to the attacker of your defensive target. It no longer has a force target component and so it does not add the force target immunity.
- Paladin - Virtue Points will now regenerate one at a time rather than all at once (similar to Druid Phenomena Points).
- Ranger - Arrow/ Bolt recipes should no longer show up 10 levels before you can forage the components to make them.
- Ranger - Blade of the Equinox is now marked as a Finishing Attack instead of just a Melee Attack.
- Rogue - Drub now costs 8 endurance
- Shaman - level 15+ - Your Patrons have been removed. Please visit a trainer in Khal, Dark Horse Tracks, Halgarad, House of Fallen Leaves or Martok to do a quest and choose your new patron. (Note: All of your patron abilities will be removed when you login and will remain that way until you complete the new patron quest.)
- Shaman - There is a new Patron choosing quest available that includes the option to respec - the first respec is free. Please visit a shaman trainer in one of the following areas: Dark Horse Track, Khal, Halgarad, House of Fallen Leaves or Martok.
- Sorcerer - Forget is now % based and has a 30 second refresh.
- Sorcerer - Nulling Ward is now a atargeted AE instead of a point blank AE.
- Warrior - Bastion of Steel now has a 10 minute refresh time, down from 15.
CRAFTING
- Added an "Assemble All" feature to the crafting assembly window. Once enabled it will continue assembling the recipe you selected until you run out of one or more of the ingredients necessary for the recipe, or until you toggle it back off.
- All Gawrut Kern NPCs have been moved closer to the crafting area.
- Korma Rett at the Tawar Galan crafting area now offers recipe training.
- Kenta at the Tawar Galan crafting area now sells crafting equipment as well as utilities.
- Harvesting nodes have common names now
- Harvesting nodes yield and loot tables have been cleaned up and will now drop resonance and focusing dusts. The types of dusts they will drop are based on their material.
DIPLOMACY
- Diplomacy Masks are now available! Give the facets earned by doing writs to lapidarians in New Targonor, Ahgram, and Tanvu. You can then use the near-by diplomacy assembly tables to attach gems to the masks. Base masks for gem socketing and the glyptic dust needed to carve the gems are both sold by the lapidarians. See them for more details!
- Mask gems and finished masks are no longer soulbound. Mask gems are tradeable and the finished masks are now bound when equipped.
- All diplomacy containers have had their total capacity increased.
- Smelly Cat's cards can now be obtained off of civic parleys. The cat will still drop diplomacy equipment when defeated.
- Mixmaster Macken's parleys now require Academic presence.
- "Missing In Action" parleys in the Ancient Port Warehouse should now give the proper amount of prestige faction.
- Civic diplomacy now has a chance to drop additional rewards upon successful completion of a parley. The rewards included are from all three spheres.
WORLD POPULATION
- Ancient Port Warehouse - It is no longer possible to summon a boat within the port of Innovus.
- Ancient Port Warehouse - Spawnable bosses in APW now drop Hoptonian Ore.
- Ancient Port Warehouse - The Core Processor will now mitigate spell damage as it was intended to do.
- Ancient Port Warehouse - The Core Processor will now recognize when the Assault Module/Defense Matrix have returned to battle and will once again take advantage of their presence.
- Ancient Port Warehouse - Akym's Dagger is now displaying as a heroic instead of legendary weapon. In addition the damage and delay have both been increased slightly. Otherwise the stats remain relatively unchanged.
- Ceros Island - All ceros island quest rewards have been moved to Sloggerosh except for the mask rewards which are now drops of Pharaoh Harakhan in Nusibe Necropolis.
- Hegnerian - Some changes were made to Hegnerian and the three guards before him to help prevent bottlenecking. All loot has been removed from their tables and will now be obtainable through repeatable quests. These quests can be obtained in the Spore Chamber on a new npc, Fon Cogswin. Find her, and she may make you an offer you can't refuse.
- Hegnerian - Hegnerian now respawns every 30 minutes. As a result, a 6 hour lockout timer has been added to him. Players will be locked out of Hegnerian, Euralon, Myrdicos & Raea.
- Hegnerian - Fixed an issue with the Tomes resetting too early.
- Hegnerian - The Core of Ezigoth will now drop from Hegnerian as multi-loot for those in the group that need it.
- Nusibe Necropolis - Pharaoh Harakhan the outcast can now be challenged by those brave enough to reassemble his body in Nusibe Necropolis.
- Old Targonor - The Knights of the Old Blood have returned with a single order from the lich king Sartok to protect the denizens of Old Targonor, for something special will be happening soon.
- Tanvu - Kau Isa now sells horses in Tanvu.
- Shandrel's relics now drop off of the world loot table. These are non useable rare items that can be deconned. These items have their own table so will drop separately from the any other world loot.
ITEMS
- Hunter's League Weapon - Due to recent changes to the Paladin, the Tanwen's Greatsword of Protection has been changed to a 1 handed blunt, Tanwen's Mace of Protection.
- Cloak of the Pantheon is now unique.
- Resolved an issue with the world loot tables that was causing some items to drop much less often then desired.
- Cirel's Sanguine Mandolin now has Vitality and Hit Points instead of Health and Endurance regeneration.
- Ariezel's Horn of Rage now has additional strength and hit points instead of endurance regeneration.
- Sell value of equipable gear has been increased slightly.
CODING
- Reactions are no longer draggable.
- Rescues/sympathetic do not show up as available unless there is a valid defensive target.
- Reaction time remaining only appears as a green bar if the reaction is actually available. Otherwise it is color-coded to allow the player to easily identify why it is unavailable.
Color Hierarchy:
1. Target out of range: light brown
2. Not enough resources: crimson
3. Refresh time remaining: dark gray
4. Usable: bright green
- Getting a new crit or a new block/parry, while the reaction time remaining is counting down from a previous crit or block/parry, resets the corresponding reaction time remaining to full. However, if the player is on the 2nd or later step of a chain, that one remains at the previous time remaining, but all of the other chains now become available with a full reaction time remaining bar.
- Fixed bug where some classes (i.e. warrior) would have their chains cancel with a little over two seconds remaining on the reaction timer.
- Fixed bug where reactions were not being updated correctly in ability book and on hotkey bar. They now only show up as available when they are available in the reaction window.
- Changing targets or killing a target now cancels all chains and counters.
- Fixed bug where chains would sometimes not immediately reset to the opener (i.e. when missing on a later step in the chain or killing the target on a later step in the chain). They should now always reset to the opener.
- Fixed counterspells so that they now show up in the ability and hotkey bar as available immediately. Previously, they didn't become available in those places until they became available for the first time in the reaction window.
- Fixed bug where changing combat forms made chains become unavailable. Active chains now remain available when a player changes combat forms
- Implemented /reactionchain, /reactioncounter, and /reactionrescue. These calls are followed by an integer that specifies which chain, counter, or rescue slot to activate. So "/reactionchain 2" activates whichever reaction happens to be in chain slot 2. All of the possible slots have corresponding Key Bindings as well (reactionchain[01-10], /reactioncounter[01-05], and /reactionrescue[01-05]), which are associated with Aliases[114] through Aliases[133] , with no default binding, allowing the player to easily set up hotkeys for any chain, counter, or rescue slot that they want.
- Fixed various issues with /reactionautochain (‘G', /reactionautocounter (‘Y', and /reactionautorescue (‘V'. /reactionautochain uses the chain with the most steps that is available. /reactionautocounter and /reactionautorescue use the highest level available counter/rescue.
- The /claim window is now sorted by number available, starting with those items that are unlimited.
- Change to ability book so that it now wraps around (pushing back on the first page goes to the last page and pushing next on the last page goes to the first page).
- Fixed some client crashes.
- Fixed some long-standing crashes related to alt-tabbing out of the game.
- Implemented functionality for "/consent group" and "/consent raid".
I'm very happy about "There are now no fly zones around certain areas of content".
Comments
Hm, starting VG just now I dont see any update notes or any update happen. ?__?
And once more we see ENDLESS lines of "skill X does not Y dmg instead of Z" and "attack A is now level B instead of C", crap. As if THAT would be be biggest problem! Why waste ressources on such trivialities! I have played Pally up to 30, and all those changes on Pally, to take this example and nice and well, but I really would have a LONG list of many other much more pressing matters beside those arbitrary things.
They just dont get the message.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
These are the GU4 update notes from the test server. I believe it was next week that this is going live or maybe it was the week after.
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Ethion
Awesome, i cant wait, looks good, i am happy I gave vanguard another go , its been awhile since i have felt immersed in a game, and if anyone is wondering what the hell is going on in the game do the diplomacy that lays out the story of the surrounding areas and such.
playing eq2 and two worlds