(Grimwell) Test Update Notes: Friday May 4th, 2007

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{Kirstie normally takes care of these, sorry that they are a little behind. She's on a well deserved break!}

Tradeskills

• Players can speak with Kelryne V'Ziath in Neriak to learn a recipe for Chocolate Cookies of Seething Malice.
• Players using the metalworking skill will now see sparks fly when their hammer hits the tongs (on most graphics settings).

Housing
It is now much easier to move houses!

• Just go to the new house and purchase it. Your old house will be relinquished automatically and all of your items will move to your new house.
• When you enter your house for the first time, you will notice a moving crate on the floor. You can move it around and retrieve items from it, but it cannot be picked up or destroyed.
• Items in the moving crate count towards your total item count in your house, but do not provide status cost reduction and are not useable.
• Items cannot be put into the moving crate.
• The moving crate will disappear when all items are removed from it.

Zones

• Players can now reside in the city of Neriak
• New adventures await low level characters in Darklight Woods.
• You should now be able to find Askadian in the Emerald Halls.
• Creatures that add to assist Mayong in Castle Mistmoore can no longer be stolen by another raid group by using aggro.

Skills & Abilities

• The minimum skill required to use Longshadow Evidence has been lowered to 2.
• Hate Position abilities are now more reliable than they previously were at causing an enemy to change targets to account for the change in hate positions.
• The /target command will no longer work unless you can see the mob in question.

Spells

• The Mystic spell 'Shadowy Attendant' will now summon the correct pet.
• The Wizard spell 'Accord' will not apply hate increase to non-fighters
• The Warlock spell 'Boon of the dark' will not apply hate increase to non-fighters. Its triggered effect will also work on members not inside the Warlock's group.
• An issue causing arrows to not be consumed if Quick Shot was triggered has been fixed.

Achievements

• The triggered effect for a Druid's 'Infusion' now only works while in combat.
• The reuse timer for a Mystic's 'Glacial Strike' is now correctly shared by 'Cold Flame.'

PvP

• Reduced the pvp stun duration for the crown of enlightenment.

Quests

• The 'Tie That Binds' quests have been removed from the game. All new players will receive the 'Set Recall Point' ability at the same time that they receive their 'Call of???' ability. Players currently on these quests will find them auto-completed. Existing characters who have not started these quests will be granted the 'Set Recall Point' ability instantly.
• Changed text of dialog in the mage writ class to correctly refer to Krulkiel Trackers instead of Krulkiel Marauders.
• Objects clicked to give Legend & Lore quest books will no longer become inactive for a brief time before allowing the next player to use them.
• Players can now kill the Adherants, Hellhounds, and Vampires wherever they find them for credit toward "The Stiletto's Thirst' quest in the Bloodline Chronicles.
• Some quests that were not evaluating prerequisites correctly in all zones will now do so.
• You will no longer be able to obtain the next quest in a quest chain by sharing prior to completing the prerequisite quest for certain quest chains.
• Ineligibility for quest sharing will no longer repeat the same reasons

Items

• New merchants have arrived in all major cities offering musical instruments for your fun and entertainment.
• Kithicor's Nighthunter Hood now has a hood appearance.
• Symmetry III now properly adds +15 damage in addition to healing.
• Wu's Intercession will now trigger properly from the Gloves of Whispered Echoes.
• The Crescent Moon Skullcap will no longer vanish after zoning.
• The chance for a chest to drop 2 of the same item has been lowered substantially.
• Low level weapon damage adornments should now do damage when applied to faster weapons.
• Poisoned seeds of the Tender should once again work properly

Pets

• Riding a griffon, cloud or carpet will no longer cause /pet hide to cancel.
• You will no longer appear mounted after dismissing your mount.
• Fixed an issue with diety pets that caused them to become controllable.
• Fixed an issue with diety pets conflicting with the summoner pets.

Interface

• Custom UI's that change the quest journal should not longer crash when looking at group members' quests.
• The LFG window has received new functionality to help adventurers pool their resources and face the challenges of Norrath. Click the LFG button on your group window or use the /lfg command to open the LFG window.
• The interface for creating a guild has been improved.
• Custom Options file names are now limited to 50 characters.
• Since the world has seen the addition of multiple cities now, chat channels will now reflect that by using a good and evil naming convention.
• The client will now load the target ring textures from the ui/images folder allowing users to customize target rings

More...

[Ever]

And no Sword of Destiny again..

[Morara]

Johnathon fucked up /target!

[Diceeno]

would like a bind abilty like the one in eq1, where several classes can bind you everywhere outdoor afair.

[LFG]

Originally Posted by Ever

And no Sword of Destiny again..

July.

[Ever]

Originally Posted by LFG

July.

And still a poor quest.. Seriously, just delete whats ingame and forget about it.

[Pinski]

Originally Posted by LFG

July.

JULY?

Considering based on usual updates, the next update will go live on may 23rd. The update afterwards will probably go live on june 20th, so we're going to be waiting until july 18th. Wow, fucking hell.

[Snark]

boy do i feel stupid for getting all those idols on the first day.

thanks soe.

[Illuminator]

Originally Posted by Ever

And still a poor quest.. Seriously, just delete whats ingame and forget about it.

You want to forfeit the reward, that's your business I suppose.

[Pinski]

Originally Posted by Illuminator

You want to forfeit the reward, that's your business I suppose.

The reward is waiting 3 months for what? Something that has to be better than the Avatar loot I will get between now and then? If it's a weapon, I won't use it because unless it's better than the Staff of Light it's crap. If it's a secondary, it has to be better than the Dark of the Mind, otherwise it's crap. I guess a ring or wrist could be nice, but my left side is full up on gear already, which leaves very little except a ring and wrist that I have no idea what I'm going to put.