(Kiara) Test Update Notes: Thursday, November 5, 2009

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GENERAL

• The Nightsong Opera House in Neriak is proud to present their production of “Hate Gives Rise To Another Superior Race!”
• Grave Elemental’s Affliction no longer displays error messages when triggering.
• The Jum Jum Thief in Enchanted Lands should now correctly award AA experience.
• The mobs in 2nd floor of Poet’s Place should no longer spawn and fall to the 1st floor.
• Fixed the pathing issue for “stone hive sentinel” mobs in Drafling Tower.
• The “Char’Gin fishermen” will no longer fish beneath the water from their boat.
• Kelethin coins can now be collected within Greater Faydark.
• The Freeport Militia in The Ruins should no longer attack and kill players who have charmed NPCs within the zone.
• Corrected a grammar issue on Guard Tellik.
• Corrected a grammar issue on Pulnil the Haggler.
• Fixed a grammar error in the dialog of the Chronomagi Tasker.
• All References to “Hollow Hedge” should now be “Hedge Hollow” for consistency.
• When changing faction from Kelethin to Qeynos multiple times you should no longer be gated from completing your access to Qeynos.
• The unlucky adventurers in The Shattered Vale no longer turn toward players, despite having been slain.
• The Eternal Gorge: Death Marrow and Zarvonn's creation have both had their loot adjusted to the appropriate level.
• Nektropos Castle: Master Eldrin Necrosis no longer repeats himself.
• The Scale Yard: Malachi Sleetspear has learned the common language!
• The Graveyard: Zaddar no longer cares what city you are a citizen of.
• The Boarfiend Refuse Shovel will no longer poke through walls in homes and guild halls.
• Shu Fan Qi will no longer address herself when speaking about you.
• A steelslave toiler will no longer grant AA experience when slain.
• You will now face in the correct direction when entering The Poets Palace: Return raid zone.
• Chests in the zone “Invasion of the Vale” will no longer be unreachable behind the swirling leaves.
• Unstable Void Tunnel should no longer spend a charge if engaged in PVP combat.
• The Tombs of Night: Retribution - Dvith N'Zur has moved a bit east from his previous spawn point and can now be attacked using melee attacks.
• Most TSO raid creatures no longer use hostile class specific spells that have a duration longer than 1 sec. This will make curing these encounters somewhat less complicated.
• Captain Ista will now properly insult you when hailed.
• A new server title for former residents of Venekor has been added.
• Sandfury elders are no longer granting AA experience.
• There is no longer a stack of books floating off of the bookshelves in the Office of the Overlord.
• Qunard Ashenclaw and the Hive wasps associated with his encounter should reset much more reliably now and not occasionally become stuck in a state that prevented the ring event from progressing
• Grash, Timant, and Tival should now grant AA if players have already defeated Oranti the Risen
• Rath'Adran is now more resilient and should no longer occasionally allow players to gate The Crossing of the Fanged Sea by one-shotting him
• Bi’lithu of the Old Ways should no longer occasionally kill himself with Unholy Feast, nor sometimes complete-heal himself
• Undertow’s lifetap no longer complete-heals himself when casting Siphoning Suckers
• Sergeant-at-Arms Ironcast will now offer writs to players who are either mentored or chronolocked
• Et'sipe Ymeresh should once again spawn at the end of his ring event
• Should players have the misfortune of dying at The Eternal Wellspring, they are no longer forced to choose a different respawn location
• NPCs in Deathfist Citadel should no longer be prone to freezing in place when entering the elevators. Vertigo is apparently prominent among orcs
• Anashti Sul should now be wearing the items that were intended for her in all instances.
• You can now destroy an item from your overflow slot.
• /hide will now execute the illusion hide instead of the achievement hide.
• Ranged auto attack will not stop when using a melee combat art and vice versa.
• Fixed a bug where players could lose the ability to converse with NPCs after speaking with a respec merchant.
• Captured specimens in Klak’anon should be much less likely to agro players through their cages
• The Far Pelican Wheelman will no longer turn to face players…taking the ship’s wheel with him
• Players should no longer be facing the door when entering Castle Mistmoore from the Mistmoore Catacombs
• Banish devices in the Anchor of Bazzul now have consistent verb messages.
• Corrected facing for Fountain of Life respawn locs. Additionally, evac should no longer teleport players from the Fountain of Life to Stormhold.
• The portal to exit the Obelisk of Ahkzul is now much larger and easier to find.
• Leaving then returning to the Maiden’s Chamber after defeating Drusella’s Handmaidens will no longer cause the door to Drusella’s chambers to close and no longer open.
• Players who spawn Cookie’s Monster cannot do so again for 6 minutes.
• Evac in Kurn’s Tower and Kurn’s Tower: The Invasion should now only take players to the entrance, never to the earned respawn.

ITEMS

• Now Erollisi's Lost Longbow, the Longbow of Valor, the Buckler of the Broken Heart and the Tower of Love can each be turned into a trophy item to be placed within your house.
• The Behavioral Modificatinator Stereopticon now has a small chance to reduce hate position.
• The Robe of Radiant Hues is slightly more radiant.
• The Ceremonial Armor of the Brethren is now heirloom attuneable.
• Basilisks in Butcherblock, Drakes in Darklight Wood and Seedlings in The Peat Bog now drop corpse items.
• Plant fertilizer/bone/water and faction loot items now stack to 200.
• A spelling error in the house item book “Rise of the Orcs – The Deadtime” on page 9 was fixed.
• Anemone Arms are no longer No Value.
• The Mechanized Platinum Repository of Reconstruction no longer displays charges, as it does not have charges.
• The item “Blanket of Fog” should not lose its icon when placing it if placed more than once.
• The 5-piece setbonus on the Atramentous Shadowplate set now applies its mitigation bonus independent of the Bloodletter buff.
• Kingdom of Sky Relic patterns are now Heirloom.
• Items that have an item level above the max level in game will now show when doing a default broker search.
• Hair of the Dog will now suspend mounts while the effect is active.

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[Illuminator]

Since old world fixes are in vogue, let's see how much of a mess Icy Digs is still in.

[Perm]

TSO RAIDING GENERAL

Most TSO raid creatures no longer use hostile class specific spells that have a duration longer than 1 sec. This will make curing these encounters somewhat less complicated.

This is my favorite and I wonder what it actually means for the encounters.

[the_mo]

Qunard Ashenclaw and the Hive wasps associated with his encounter should reset much more reliably now and not occasionally become stuck in a state that prevented the ring event from progressing

uhm... has anyone seen this happen? oO

[Cloakntuna]

Originally Posted by the_mo

uhm... has anyone seen this happen? oO

Yes, it happened to us back in RoK. Somebody decided to speak up about needing an update for some F&F person after we had pulled it so we reset it, lost the whole instance after that + Trak because the GMs wouldn't do anything about it.

[Pinski]

Originally Posted by Perm

TSO RAIDING GENERAL

Most TSO raid creatures no longer use hostile class specific spells that have a duration longer than 1 sec. This will make curing these encounters somewhat less complicated.

This is my favorite and I wonder what it actually means for the encounters.

It means they won't be using any class specific spells/abilities that are dots now. That being, it won't change anything because most mobs don't use abilities very often as it is.

Originally Posted by Patch Notes

BEFALLEN

Locksmith Jarl in Befallen is now a 20 minute spawn and will now grant Alternate Advancement experience when defeated.

When did Stormhold become Befallen?

[Cecelia]

Originally Posted by Pinski

When did Stormhold become Befallen?

Someone read some very very old beta notes....

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by Cloakntuna

Yes, it happened to us back in RoK. Somebody decided to speak up about needing an update for some F&F person after we had pulled it so we reset it, lost the whole instance after that + Trak because the GMs wouldn't do anything about it.

same happened with us once. raid leader made a ticket to CS. a shitface replied the encounter works as intended. then entire guild started to spam CS with tickets. then they did reset the mob in 30 mins.

[Ratface]

The GM told us the encounter was broken for every server.
He made it sound like he had just broken it then.

I think it was Hightower. Anyway, he was useless.

[Crabbok]

Originally Posted by Pinski

When did Stormhold become Befallen?

They meant stormhold, but only fixed it on the Befallen server.