Vanguard Build 1772 Patch Notes 3/02/2007
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ADVENTURING NOTES
-Necromancer
- Reduced the conversion rate for Life Draught I and II.
CRAFTING NOTES
- Decreased orb and sphere requirements for Artificer bow recipes.
- Adjusted skill requirements for quantity actions.
- Many advanced work order items have had their descriptions and icons updated.
- The Tanvu outfitter tutorial now has you turn in the assembled needle as intended instead of doing the work order over again.
- You can no longer deconstruct Infinium items
- Increased drop rate of pure magic orbs by 20% on deconstruction.
- The quest “Dear Sister” has had its experience reward increased.
- The members of the Imperial Trade Organization are now more talkative about their jobs and the I.T.O. in general.
- Item requirements for the “preview quest” of each crafting organization have been adjusted.
- Crafted items that are made with only an attuning enhancer have had their attributes adjusted. Attribute values should now be consistent regardless of whether a resonating enhancer was used or not.
- Items crafted with only an attuning enhancer that adds STR, CON or DEX now have a health bonus.
- Items crafted with only an attuning enhancer that adds INT, VIT or WIS now have an energy bonus.
- Some additional modifications to stat allocations are underway to compensate for expensive bonuses not showing up on low level items.
HARVESTING NOTES
- The Harvester Pyrite Axe now requires harvesting skill to use.
QUEST NOTES
- Southwatch
- “Task for Southwatch: Red Sparrow Bandit Camps” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- “Task for Southwatch: Wild Griffons” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- “Task for Southwatch: Creatures in the Hills” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- “Task for Southwatch: Harry the Undead” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- “Task for Southwatch: Eradicate the Plague Vermin” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- “Task for Southwatch: Timber of the Dead” has had its requirement to complete increased.
- Marsh of Peril
- The weapon upgrades in Marsh of Peril now require 300 motes of ancient power.
- The warrior belt ritual was incorrectly requiring the mid-tier catalyst despite the fact that it should require the lowest tier. This has been fixed.
- Celestine Ward
- Thorian Glowban will now offer a quest for classes that cannot use the ancient orb of moon and stars, and yet chose it as their quest reward. This quest will allow you to exchange the orb for a different reward.
- Khegor’s End
- The quest ‘Tome of Stone’ is now able to be completed.
- Coastal Graveyard
- The quest ‘It All Hinges on You’ is now able to be completed. You will have to abandon and retake the quest if it is already in your journal.
DIPLOMACY NOTES
- Problems with the quest “Increasing Fares” have been resolved.
- Diplomacy clothing has been standardized. Weights should now be more consistent and logical across the board. Bad display models and attachment points have been fixed and icons have been standardized.
WORLD POPULATION NOTES
- Adventurers, be on the lookout! Additional overland rare/unique NPCs have been added to the Tursh/Rindol, Trengal Keep and Coastal Graveyard area. These creatures vary from two-dot solo to six-dot difficulty.
- The Var Efreet of Afrit now like all races a whole lot less though none are KOS. Orcs, Goblins, Vulmane, Kurashasa, and Dark Elves rejoice as you for once, are liked more than other races.
- Marsh of Peril - Faction rewards from killing NPCs in the dungeons Vol Tuniel and Thelaseen have been increased by one point per NPC to further reward players who dungeon delve. NPCs that already granted multiple points of faction have also been increased by one to five points.
- Sultan Rahz Djal of the great city Rahz Inkur cordially informs you that his minions are no longer susceptible to many of your mortal tricks
- Lost Temple of Vol Tuniel - Relsom Serile has moved into the Recondite Threshold and will now happily offer his services as a ranged weapon vendor.
- Celestine Ward - Llyn Serile has moved into the Celestine Ward and will now happily offer her services as a ranged weapon vendor.
- The Vault of the Hidden in Jathred’s Twist has received an itemization and population pass.
CODING NOTES
- fixed a problem where sometimes an ability would have an effect that kills you, and in a duel since you don't die, it would end the duel but keep processing other effects that would actually kill you.
ITEM NOTES
- Thousands of Adventuring Armor, Jewelry and Weapons have had their statistics increased/fixed/adjusted. This will result in any item in question being better; in some cases, a few hitpoints or energy were removed to increase DPS or a single attribute but, as stated, the items will ALWAYS be better in those situations.
- All Maces, Clubs, Daggers, Wands/Rods, Greatstaves and Greatmauls have had their appearances updated and retiered with the new models in mind. This change in “tiering” will result in item models changing, some to a “better” model and some to a “not so better” model. The weapon’s appearance and tiering is based upon the level and the rarity of the item. In the future, when higher tier models are patched in, that addition will result in the shuffling of some of the current higher tiered models to lower tiered models, making them available at earlier levels and more common rarities. The remaining weapon types are also currently being retiered and should be updated in the patch(es) to come.