Test Update Notes: Thursday, March 3, 2011 [Archive]

Amnerys

03-04-2011, 12:25 AM

GENERAL<ul><li>Fixed a crash bug.</li></ul>USER INTERFACE<ul><li>Fixed an issue with NPC casting bars sometimes getting cleared before the spell completed.</li><li>Fixed an alignment problem with some NPC names in the Target and Implied target window.</li></ul>ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION<ul><li>Fixed a crash in the Tombs of Night.</li><li>Fixed a bug that could cause Butcherblock to crash.</li></ul>Great Divide<ul><li>Trokk Curseslinger: Trokk’s splash of poison AE will inflict much less damage.</li><li>The Pirate Garb rewarded from Dort Lumrick should all now be heirloom.</li><li>Portals to switch between different instances of Great Divide have been added to Fina’s Retreat, Thurgadin Docks, and the Ringwar Battlefield.</li><li>Fleshrender will indicate which player she’s aiming her Screech ability at.</li><li>Zone sweeper abilities that target a random player on their hatelist will no longer attempt to target dead players.</li></ul>Eastern Wastes<ul><li>Portals to switch between different instances of Eastern Wastes have been added to the Howling Pass and Nipik’s Haven.</li><li>Zone sweeper abilities that target a random player on their hatelist will no longer attempt to target dead players.</li></ul>Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)<ul><li>VhalSera should no longer run through walls when pathing around his room. </li><li>VhalSera’s Reflections can no longer be charmed. </li><li>VhalSera should no longer hit players with Freezing Spike if he is within range of the spike when it goes off. </li><li>VhalSera should no longer summon copies of himself below 1/3rd of his health. </li><li>Defeating Tserrina for the quest “Freeing the Dain” should now correctly update.</li><li>Fixed an issue with the final boss loot drops.</li></ul>Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor<ul><li>Adds spawned from the shadow doors in the Tserrina encounter should hit for slightly less and no longer reflect spells.</li></ul> Kraytoc’s Fortress (Challenge Raid)<ul><li>Brendegor Bitelimb in the Challenge Mode Kraytoc’s Fortress should now drop loot when the encounter is completed.</li><li>Taltak the Mighty has stopped sharing his loot table with Eirreen the Broken. He now has his own loot for you to plunder.</li></ul>ITEMS<ul><li>Experience Potions<ul><li>All Experience Potions now increase Adventure, Alternate Advancement and Tradeskill experience. </li><li>You can no longer cast an experience buff on yourself if you have one active. </li><li>Promotional and Veteran Rewards now grant more of one type of experience potion rather than two separate potions. </li><li>You can cancel any experience potion except potions sold on the Station Marketplace. </li></ul></li><li>T4 Sentinel’s Fate hats can once again accept class focus adornments.</li><li>Shady Swashbuckler items: Heritage quest rewards that the Shady Swashbuckler will reimburse should no longer be transmutable.</li><li>Nipik's Cane can now be bought from Shady Swashbuckler in Nektulos Forest, by players who have completed the quest "A New Calling".</li><li>Nipik's Cane is now no-transmute and no-sacrifice.</li><li>Fixed an issue with the coldain rings where their stats were changing incorrectly at certain tiers.</li></ul> TRADESKIILS<ul><li>Ruffin should now offer “Badger of Success” to anybody who has completed “It’s A Long Way Down”.</li></ul> LIVE EVENTS<ul><li>The Erollisi Day title “The Prurient” was previously a suffix has been changed back to a prefix title, as was intended.</li></ul> QUESTSPublic Quests<ul><li>Players who spam-clicked the chest at the end could lose their reward. This has been fixed.</li><li>Fixed an issue that caused the dwarven siege soldiers and gnomish supply runners at Storm Gorge to stand around at their spawn points instead of running into battle.</li><li>Public quest adornment drops should now offer a selection of adornments based on the archetypes they are meant for.</li><li>Public quest adornments should now offer a red and yellow adornment option.</li><li>Public quest adornments are now flagged as no trade which is consistent with other rewards from public quests.</li></ul> Great Divide<ul><li>“Power From the Tower” should be able to be completed properly. </li><li>Altered the way Nipik talks to players on the signature quest line.</li><li>Echoes of the Past: The ptarmigan birds should no longer lock their encounter while attacking the albino toads.</li></ul>Eastern Wastes<ul><li>The suspicious barrels that must be destroyed for the quest "Contagion Elimination" respawn much faster now.</li><li>The Duhjalm attackers that are spawned for the quest "Swog's Salutary Salve" have had their difficulty lowered.</li></ul>Kael Drakkel<ul><li>POI or Sign quests within Kael Drakkel contested are now repeatable once every 18 hours. Additionally they now reward faction for the City of Thurgadin and Clan Ry’Gorr.</li><li>Those who have completed the quest, Triumph in the Temple, should now have access to a teleport that takes you directly to the Hypogeum from the zone-in.</li></ul>Thurgadin<ul><li>Captain Icecleaver should now respond properly to players on the quest, “Ominous Hints”.</li></ul>Tower of Frozen Shadow<ul><li>The mirror quests within the Tower of Frozen Shadow should now be repeatable once per day.</li></ul> Embalmer’s Skinning Knife Heritage Quest<ul><li>It should no longer be possible to spawn multiple Large Undead Gnolls back-to-back, and the frequency that you can spawn a forlorn shadowbeast while working on this quest has been reduced.</li><li>The disruptive students will now be triggered by speaking to the head cataloger.</li><li>All triggered NPCs for this quest have had their difficulty reduced.</li></ul>10th Ring Heritage Quest<ul><li>The triggered Kromrif spirits in the 6th ring quest and the triggered Rime ambushers in the 7th ring quest have had their difficulty reduced. </li></ul>Forgotten Pools<ul><li>The quest “The Immortal Pest” should no longer be on a timer. However, players will still need to complete the timed event at the end of Forgotten Pools to get the final update.</li></ul>