8/31 Test Update Notes

[Bunji]

<p>8/31 TEST Update Notes:</p><p>USER INTERFACEThe mini-map zone name will now display correctly after using /loadui.Fixed a bug where using /loadui while banking would keep you from using the banker until you zoned or logged out.Parts of the achievement interface and all of the paperdoll windows that were red will now be blue when loading the “Default Blue” skin.The background color of the paperdoll is now exposed to the UI files via the PaperdollBackgroundColor property.</p><p>WELCOME WINDOWThe Sentinel’s Fate Daily Mission now appears on the Welcome screen.</p><p>COMBATFlurry and AE autoattack can now happen with off hand weapons as well as with ranged weapons.</p><p> ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Brawlers</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p><p><em>Guardian</em>Guardian Sphere should now work correctly.Last Man Standing no longer has a casting or recovery time. It is now a stoneskin instead of damage reduction.Enhance: Plant now increases duration and radius.Enhance: Plant has been moved to where Enhance: Rescue was.The original location for Enhance: Plant is now Enhance: Armored and increases block chance when in defensive stance.Enhance: Shout and Enhance: Provoke have been combined into Enhance: Taunts.Enhance: Rescue has been moved to where Enhance: Provoke was.</p><p>QUESTSThe statue of Razorwing Steeldown within "Ascent of the Awakened" will now grant a replacement "Totem of Aaryonar" to anyone who has lost it and completed the quest "The Riddle of Razorwing."The "Totem of Aaryonar" is no longer removed upon completion of the quest "Feeding the Flames.”  It is now removed upon completion of the quest "A Final Froglok Word."</p><p>UNDERFOOT DEPTHSZaalax, Xaalax, Saalax and Yaalax : Seismic shock should strike the correct targets named by Zaalax.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>USER INTERFACE<p>Fixed a bug where using /loadui while banking would keep you from using the banker until you zoned or logged out.Parts of the achievement interface and all of the paperdoll windows that were red will now be blue when loading the “Default Blue” skin.The background color of the paperdoll is now exposed to the UI files via the PaperdollBackgroundColor property.</p><p>WELCOME WINDOWThe Sentinel’s Fate Daily Mission now appears on the Welcome screen.</p><p>COMBATFlurry and AE autoattack can now happen with off hand weapons as well as with ranged weapons.</p></blockquote><p>Thumbs up to these changes.</p>

[Cyliena]

<p>Glad to see that the paperdoll window will now show blue. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Thanks for posting the notes!</p>

[Brildean]

<p>Thanks Bunji</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p>Researcher's wont research on test now<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Luthorian]

<p>No fix for the Sul Deity questline. First quest in the series is broken, Can not pick up scroll in gorowynn. The wiki WP has it under the floor.</p>

[Bunji]

<p><cite>Cloudrat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Researcher's wont research on test now<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>We're looking into this now, thanks for pointing it out!</p>

[Luthorian]

<p>Thanks much for the high speed reply, my SK is very sad to have no one to provide him with miracles.</p>

[BChizzle]

<p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p>

[Corydonn]

<p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>[Removed for Content] straight!</p>

[Bunji]

<p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p>

[Megavolt]

<p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>COMBATFlurry and AE autoattack can now happen with off hand weapons as well as with ranged weapons.</p></blockquote><p>So when is the empty off-hand requirement coming off the rogue tree?</p>

[stayx]

<p>Why you dont post the update notes in the test update note forum?</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/show.m?forum_id=746" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/....m?forum_id=746</a></p><p>Its confusing!</p>

[thog_zork]

<p>whats with swarm pet fix ?</p><p>whats with summoner offensive stance fix ?</p>

[Exelance]

<p>What Summoner fixes?</p>

[thog_zork]

<p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/preList.m?topic_id=480332&post_id=5356853" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...post_id=5356853</a></p><p>offensive stance not helping casting pet : firflyte stated  that he spoke with xelgad and the will "fix" it .. however 8 weeks passed  with no fix and no news</p>

[CrazyHandsMatt]

<p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p>

[lollipop]

<p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p></blockquote><p>No please dont take the proc away for more aoe auto. The proc is fine and helps dps on single target. Read up on it get pot.</p>

[Gungo]

<p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p></blockquote><p>The proc is better then 20% aoe auto atk and if it gets removed so you could get the remaining 20% aoe auto atk you just screwed over a bunch of brawlers.</p>

[Bunji]

<p><cite>stayx wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Why you dont post the update notes in the test update note forum?</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/show.m?forum_id=746" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/....m?forum_id=746</a></p><p>Its confusing!</p></blockquote><p>I post them in this forum for feedback purposes.  I'll see if community can get them added to the Test note section as well.</p>

[CrazyHandsMatt]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p></blockquote><p>The proc is better then 20% aoe auto atk and if it gets removed so you could get the remaining 20% aoe auto atk you just screwed over a bunch of brawlers.</p></blockquote><p>It is nice on single target mobs, and cerainly not asking to get rid of it, it would be ashame, but it is no way near as good as the missing 20% chance to aoe autoattack especially considering the upcoming changes to 2 handers and to off handed aoe auto attack chance, the fact that you are comparing a 20% chance to hit with an aoe for for about 3-6k with a 20% autoattack hit for about 20k to 30k with top end 2 hander seems insane, if they wanted to make it equal they should increase the chance for aoe autoattack to hit to say 30% or al ittle higher and keep the proc or increase the dmg on the proc or increase its hit chance, basically if you look at the changes they making, brawlers are still get screwed over somewhat, in aoe fights other fighters will still have the advantage when they dual weilding or using 2-handers, do the math it is not hard.</p><p>All I am asking is given the changes things work out equal for all fighters when comparing top end weapons etc, after the changes go in they will definitely not be.</p>

[Gungo]

<p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p></blockquote><p>The proc is better then 20% aoe auto atk and if it gets removed so you could get the remaining 20% aoe auto atk you just screwed over a bunch of brawlers.</p></blockquote><p>It is nice on single target mobs, and cerainly not asking to get rid of it, it would be ashame, but it is no way near as good as the missing 20% chance to aoe autoattack especially considering the upcoming changes to 2 handers and to off handed aoe auto attack chance, the fact that you are comparing a 20% chance to hit with an aoe for for about 3-6k with a 20% autoattack hit for about 20k to 30k with top end 2 hander seems insane, if they wanted to make it equal they should increase the chance for aoe autoattack to hit to say 30% or al ittle higher and keep the proc or increase the dmg on the proc or increase its hit chance, basically if you look at the changes they making, brawlers are still get screwed over somewhat, in aoe fights other fighters will still have the advantage when they dual weilding or using 2-handers, do the math it is not hard.</p><p>All I am asking is given the changes things work out equal for all fighters when comparing top end weapons etc, after the changes go in they will definitely not be.</p></blockquote><p>I dont think you understand how this ability works or why it is one of the FEW procs in game that makes it so much better then it looks.</p><p>As a proc it helps both single target and aoe dps. As a true non encounter 360 degree AOE proc it hits every npc in combat. (no frontal 4 target limit)Since it does that on AOE auto atks it will proc MULTIPLE times. Thus lets say you are in a fight with 4 npcs.Lets say you aoe auto, and lets say you proc crane twirl on EACH npc. This means each npc you are fighting can be hit up to 4x with the crane twirl proc in each auto atk or up to 16 procs in total on a single auto atk. </p><p>The fact that offhand will now aoe auto atk will only make CRANE TWIRL damage proc BETTER. If you have access in proc increases OR if you are in proper group setsups that a take advantage of proc increasers and potency. Will make crane twirl BY FAR the second highest dps on your parse.</p><p>FURTRHERMORE we alreayd have access to craneflock on a 24 sec duration and ~1min45sec reuse (1 min reuse cap). By increasing aoe auto atk to 40% and removing the proc to make it EQUAL to other fighters we loose alot more then we gain.  </p>

[Anastasie]

<p>Regarding the Fan Faire fixes.</p><p>The new Fury AA "Pure Serenity" that adds stifle immunity to Serenity was asked about and we were told you were aware of the bug that you cannot break a stifle with 8 points into the ability. Is this fix going to go in with the Fan Faire fixes?</p>

[Brildean]

<p>since there is no dev post anywhere is there a reason why or mechanic change in how + mitigation items work.. currently on test there is a 3500 to 4000 mitigation decrease depending on gear makeup.</p>

[Onorem]

<p><cite>Brildean wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>since there is no dev post anywhere is there a reason why or mechanic change in how + mitigation items work.. currently on test there is a 3500 to 4000 mitigation decrease depending on gear makeup.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=486130" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=486130</a> - <span >Mitigation Increase Bug thread started not too long ago. Looks like it is intentional...but they're expecting some tweaking will be needed.</span></p>

[stayx]

<p>I have seen that we need only one token now for the battleground gear merchant, its nice to see that you hear our words but whats with the old ones?</p><p>I have some of the ganak trophy, smugglers den and Kla'kanon cogs, can we change it on a exchange guy?</p><p>Its a nice idea to change it to one token!</p>

[Onorem]

<p><cite>stayx wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have seen that we need only one token now for the battleground gear merchant, its nice to see that you hear our words but whats with the old ones?</p><p>I have some of the ganak trophy, smugglers den and Kla'kanon cogs, can we change it on a exchange guy?</p><p>Its a nice idea to change it to one token!</p></blockquote><p>Can't say I'm a big fan of this change. I hope the different scenarios won't have the same reward from a token quantity standpoint. The repetition was bad enough when there was 3 scenarios to grind through...I'm guessing it will only get worse when the time/reward numbers are figured out...and one map will be the only way to go unless you feel like sitting in a queue for an hour.</p>

[stayx]

<p><cite>Onorem wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>stayx wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have seen that we need only one token now for the battleground gear merchant, its nice to see that you hear our words but whats with the old ones?</p><p>I have some of the ganak trophy, smugglers den and Kla'kanon cogs, can we change it on a exchange guy?</p><p>Its a nice idea to change it to one token!</p></blockquote><p>Can't say I'm a big fan of this change. I hope the different scenarios won't have the same reward from a token quantity standpoint. The repetition was bad enough when there was 3 scenarios to grind through...I'm guessing it will only get worse when the time/reward numbers are figured out...and one map will be the only way to go unless you feel like sitting in a queue for an hour.</p></blockquote><p>Come and play on a german server and you love this changes <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>We dont have enough players to get the x2 or x4 szenario and we dont receive enough tokens to get the armor, its a good change really i think it makes the bg gear more usefull now to players on low population servers!</p><p>Thanks for this changes!</p>

[thog_zork]

<p>where is the swarm pet fix ?</p><p>nearly 50% of the classes are affected to various degree by that ... should that not have a high priority ?</p>

[CrazyHandsMatt]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Snowsong@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bunji wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT<em>Bruiser</em>Crane Twirl now also adds 20% AE Auto-Attack chance.</p></blockquote><p>No monk?</p></blockquote><p>Oops, fixed! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>How come 20% and not 40% like other fighters get? Yes I see that it is both the proc and the ae autoattack, but the proc does not make up for the loss of the 20% other fighters get imo. I do not see how you can't give the same 40%. The proc is lame at best, if it went off 50% of the time it might make up the difference.</p></blockquote><p>The proc is better then 20% aoe auto atk and if it gets removed so you could get the remaining 20% aoe auto atk you just screwed over a bunch of brawlers.</p></blockquote><p>It is nice on single target mobs, and cerainly not asking to get rid of it, it would be ashame, but it is no way near as good as the missing 20% chance to aoe autoattack especially considering the upcoming changes to 2 handers and to off handed aoe auto attack chance, the fact that you are comparing a 20% chance to hit with an aoe for for about 3-6k with a 20% autoattack hit for about 20k to 30k with top end 2 hander seems insane, if they wanted to make it equal they should increase the chance for aoe autoattack to hit to say 30% or al ittle higher and keep the proc or increase the dmg on the proc or increase its hit chance, basically if you look at the changes they making, brawlers are still get screwed over somewhat, in aoe fights other fighters will still have the advantage when they dual weilding or using 2-handers, do the math it is not hard.</p><p>All I am asking is given the changes things work out equal for all fighters when comparing top end weapons etc, after the changes go in they will definitely not be.</p></blockquote><p>I dont think you understand how this ability works or why it is one of the FEW procs in game that makes it so much better then it looks.</p><p>As a proc it helps both single target and aoe dps. As a true non encounter 360 degree AOE proc it hits every npc in combat. (no frontal 4 target limit)Since it does that on AOE auto atks it will proc MULTIPLE times. Thus lets say you are in a fight with 4 npcs.Lets say you aoe auto, and lets say you proc crane twirl on EACH npc. This means each npc you are fighting can be hit up to 4x with the crane twirl proc in each auto atk or up to 16 procs in total on a single auto atk. </p><p>The fact that offhand will now aoe auto atk will only make CRANE TWIRL damage proc BETTER. If you have access in proc increases OR if you are in proper group setsups that a take advantage of proc increasers and potency. Will make crane twirl BY FAR the second highest dps on your parse.</p><p>FURTRHERMORE we alreayd have access to craneflock on a 24 sec duration and ~1min45sec reuse (1 min reuse cap). By increasing aoe auto atk to 40% and removing the proc to make it EQUAL to other fighters we loose alot more then we gain.  </p></blockquote><p>Nobody is asking for proc to be removed, that would be bad, and I hope given the fact that the proc can proc of the other hits of an aoe attack will make up for it, yes it more than does when crane flock is up, but I am not sure it does when it is not, cause it is only a 20% chance to aoe auto attack, guess we shall see. Guess it is time to play on test with my bruiser and dirge, find a load of heroic mobs and see how well it does <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Does anybody know if they going to change crane flock at all? the DA part is a bit redundant now, most brawlers will have at least or very near 100% DA anyway, can that part of it be lucked at? could we have flurry or maybe proc increase chance?</p><p>Also does anybody know if off hand hits will trigger procs after the changes, so far not seen anything to suggest that they can, only flurry and aoe auotattacks have been allowed to proc.</p>

[stayx]

<p>Is there an exchange guy on the test server to change the old tokens in new ones?</p>