(Kirstie) Re:Test Update Notes: Friday, July 20th 2007

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SPELLS

• Both Adept I and Master I versions of Conjurer's Signet and Conjuror's Mark now have a chance to drop.
• Offering of Armament can be cast on a raid ally.
• Modified effectiveness on certain hate increase/reduction/transfer abilities on scout classes and coercers. This makes all achievements that modify hate more worthwhile, and places slightly more responsibility on predators/rogues in controlling their aggro generation.
  • Assassin - Shadows: Reduced percentage
  • Ranger - Reconnoiter: Reduced percentage
  • Swashbuckler - Swarthy Distraction: Reduced percentage
  • Brigand - Confound Adversaries: Increased trigger percentage. Doubled hate reduction amount, but removed hate position decrease.
  • Dirge - Hyran's Angry Sonata: Lower level bonuses are higher than before, but its highest level upgrade bonuses are slightly reduced.
  • Troubador - Alin's Serene Serenade: Its highest level upgrade bonuses are reduced by 3%.
  • Coercer - Smirking Demeanor: Reduced hate increase component, but added a hate transfer component. This allows it provide additional hate transfer bonuses, even when the hate increase percentage cap is reached.

Monk

• Increased the reuse speed of Dragonbreath from 90 to 75 seconds and increased the damage slightly.

Necromancers

• Revivication is now affected by spell scroll quality.

Paladin

• Castigate now also deals some damage if there aren't any hostile effects dispelled.

Warden

• Tranquility now heals if there aren't any hostile effects dispelled. The heal amount was increased.

TRADESKILLS

• Crafted deity altars are no longer flagged "Lore".
• Wuoshi's Molted Scale, Bark of Growth, and Seed of Growth are no longer flagged Lore.
• Imbue type harvests are now known simply as "material" instead of four separate types ("flower", "stone", "tooth", "scale", simplifying bank space usage logistics. Existing flowers, teeth, and scales will not be renamed but can still be used.
• Crafters now gain tradeskill experience from completing tradeskill writs.
• Crafters who have respec'ed their crafting class and wish to exchange their crafting tool from the Village of Shin quests can now speak to Rai Faela Nurwin near the Village of Shin brokers.
• The following tinker-made items are now tradable: gnomish flotation device, spring-loaded gnomish stilts, goggles of the bats, gnomish diving goggles, gnomish shades, full spectrum goggles, gnomish anti camo goggles.
• The Dark Bargainers have noticed a business opportunity and moved to fill it! Neriak now has its own tradeskill faction and faction merchant.
• Carpenters have removed the following recipes from their recipe books, as they are identical in appearance to other existing items: Maple Gnome Chair, Gnome thinking chair, Gukta ironwood shelf, Ornate bedside table, Burlap painting, Elegant bone chair, Fir trophy box, Ruckas rug, Bone shelf.
• Tradeskill writs now award Dark Bargainer faction to Neriak citizens.
• Tradeskill faction merchants will now sell in-home crafting stations to crafters whose efforts have sufficiently impressed them.
• Kindling merchants not working inside the tradeskill societies are now stocking a wider inventory of recipe ingredients including cream cheese, cocoa, and sugar.
• The Norrathian Carpenters' Guild has quietly retired the recipe for the Twisted Oak Table due to lack of demand (existing twisted oak tables will be unaffected).
• The horned leather backpack recipe is now level 63.
• Grandmaster's Elixir of Second Sight will no longer be removed when you zone.
• The recipe for the teak oval table is now correctly named.
• An intrepid band of single-minded interior decorators has ventured deep into what remains of the Misty Thicket, and returned bringing yet more furnishing ideas to the cities of Norrath.
• Carpenters have discovered Steamfont hot springs heating technology! The carpenter-crafted moonstone pools now look slightly more desirable than the quested versions with similar appearance...
• Jewelers across Norrath have discovered how to make pristine quality handcrafted and mastercrafted rings accept adornments!

PVP

• You can no longer evac charmed players.
• Regenerative wards will no longer refresh until you fight back in PvP.
• Food and drink should not force you into PvP combat.
• Fixed an issue allowing players to be attacked in Kelethin.
• Deity charms can now have a greater chance of being resisted by players.
• Evil Players who die in the Witches' Cove will now have respawn options.

UI

• You can now re-purchase your 10 most recently sold items at the same price.
  • No time limit!
  • Even after logging out or zoning!
• The drop-down box to select players in leader-only loot is now smart about LORE items and items that start or update quests. Only eligible players will appear in the drop-down box.
• Tooltips that would otherwise be empty will now show any item description text.
• Paperdoll screenshots (created with Shift-Printscreen by default) should once again contain an image of your paperdoll.
• The intro movie will only play once when the game is installed. There is a new ‘View Intro' button at the character select screen to allow viewing of the intro movie.
• Examine windows that previously showed text under the icon should no longer do so.

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