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

[Official Forums]

{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 deity pets that caused them to become controllable.
• Fixed an issue with deity 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

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[Johnathon]

Originally Posted by Official Forums

The client will now load the target ring textures from the ui/images folder allowing users to customize target rings

NOW thats HAWT... gonna make Things FUN!

[Niber]

That is nice, I can't believe I didnt notice it the first time he posted the patch notes.

You should now be able to find Askadian in the Emerald Halls.

Mmm, what is that.. NPC? Raid mob?

[Illuminator]

I'm curious why I would want to customize my target ring. That's kinda like customizing a car's brake pedal.

[Niber]

Originally Posted by Illuminator

I'm curious why I would want to customize my target ring. That's kinda like customizing a car's brake pedal.

You've never played a scout class.

[Illuminator]

Apparently not.

[Argyuile]

Originally Posted by Illuminator

Apparently not.

I'm suprised your not pissed about the change to accord.

[Illuminator]

Accord isn't useful to me for the power regen unless I put it on someone that expects to take hits and take hits often. That's normally only the MT or MA, both of whom are usually fighters. And 4% hate transfer isn't dramatically useful, whereas an ~8% gap is enough to notice. But I only get that when putting the hate transfer on the guy who is expected by the raid leader to have the highest hate (MT). Or when dealing with adds, the MA.

Also, I am one of only two sorcerors in my guild. There are at least 2 fighters for us to spread our hate across.