Vanguard Build 1774 Patch Notes 3/06/2007
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GAMEPLAY NOTES
- Food items no longer display two icons. The effect has not changed.
- Fix for faction wars. Some NPC abilities were causing NPCs to generate a small amount of hate with nearby allied NPCs, which resulted in those NPCs fighting each other once their primary target was dead or had escaped. This hate is no longer generated, preventing these wars from breaking out.
- PvP
- Enabled the option to release spirit and spawn at altar or bind point on PVP death. Releasing to altar drops a corpse, releasing to bind does not. All other aspects of the rulesets remain the same.
ADVENTURING NOTES
-Blood Mage
- Your forms will no longer refresh every time you gain a blood union point.
- Cleric
- The rune portion of Spiritual Guardian now lasts 5 seconds or 1 hit, whichever comes first.
- Paladin
- Aura of Shielding now actually gives you 40% increases hate instead of a fraction of that.
- Strike of Gloriann now costs 10 endurance
- Vothdar’s Mighty Stoke now costs 10 endurance.
- Stroke of Conviction now costs 10 endurance
- The effects of Vothdar’s Mighty Strike now lasts for 5 minutes, up from 40 seconds.
- The effects of Strike of Gloriann now lasts for 5 minutes, up from 40 seconds.
- Guardian’s Assault now deals direct damage instead of a percentage of weapon damage. Lowered the endurance cost.
- Fixed an issue with Guardian’s assault not applying all of the hate it was supposed to.
- Guardian’s assault now progresses differently to provide a more smooth damage and hate progression. New levels are: 14, 22, 30, 38 and 46. Visit your trainer to learn the latest version.
- Holy Strike now progresses differently to provide a more smooth damage progression. New levels are: 1, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 48. Visit your trainer to learn the latest version.
- Vanquish now deals much more damage and is usable on opponents who are below 15% life.
- Vanquish now costs 10 endurance.
- Psionicist
- Concentrations no longer incur global recovery when activated.
- Concentrations now have a 2 second shared refresh timer.
-Sorcerer
- Elemental Mantle’s energy cost has been reduced. It has been changed to affect only your defensive target.
- Decreased the energy cost of Arcane Mantle significantly.
- Warrior
- The Defensive Stance tool tip erroneously stated that it increased block chance by 15%. It was actually 5% and not working correctly. Changed the tooltip and fixed the ability.
CRAFTING NOTES
- The crafting factions in New Targonor and Ahgram now begin offering membership at an earlier level.
- The rewards for the crafting faction quests have been adjusted.
- Some quest recipes were giving experience for a process completion when they shouldn’t have been. This has been fixed.
- The preview quest for each crafting faction has been changed. Please check your logs if you are on this quest.
- The advanced work order recipes for the Black Diamond Mercenaries have more action points now.
- An issue with the quest “Experimental Equipment” not advancing has been fixed.
- Fixed an error preventing quest progression with the quests “Resource Research” and “Skullduggery.”
- The Custom Experimental Apron was incorrectly set to only blacksmiths. It is now usable by everyone as intended.
- The quests “New Inventions”, “Royal Order”, and “Fresh Victims” now have coin rewards in addition to the item reward for completion.
- The Qalian and Thestran caravel recipes can now be successfully completed.
HARVESTING NOTES
- Harvestable mobs should now produce resources consistent with the level of the mob.
DIPLOMACY NOTES
- Further text has been added to the quest summary to clear up confusion about the location of the Spectral Scholars in “A History of the Raki.”
- Measures have been taken to ensure that Mesmerized Takuni no longer follows you when you are finished with “Bring Him Home.”
- Diplomacy quests now work similarly to adventuring quests in that there will be red shields above the heads of NPC’s with quests you do not quite qualify for. Quest levels will also now be displayed on the quests.
- Writs have been deactivated in Bordinar’s Cleft while we work on newer, better Writs.
- Stack size for all Information is now 500.
- Hido Kani Dawnstar is now no longer on Lomshir faction, and should no longer flip out like a Rai’jin whenever he sees, er, gnomes.
- Many Diplomacy items have had increased Presence rewards placed on them, especially Chest items.
QUEST NOTES
- Mapping the Mine - Fixed a big in the quest line where location 2 would not update.
- By Night – Despawn timer on the Large Stalking Wolf has been lowered, so players should be less likely to run into a mob they cannot hit.
- Added several quests to the Zaraj Arena.
- Thorian Glowban now offers a shield as a reward for completing the quest ‘Ancient Weapons of Leth Vareal’.
GUI NOTES
- All of your group members will now appear on the map instead of only the first person to join.
- Group member positions will no longer stop updating on the map after the member dies.
- Changed the group member map indicators to purple so they match group member names.
- Added a new "friend" parameter to /who, e.g. "/who all friend" will return a list of all your online friends without having to open the Social window.
- Percentage-based item mods will now correctly show a % sign after the mod in the item tooltip.
ITEM NOTES
- Bounty Hunter’s Cuirass and Greaves has had it’s AC reduced and funneled into other statistics on the items.
- Higher level effects on wands and staves have had their names adjusted, which should clarify their power in relation to the lower level effects.
- Llyn's Drakerune Belt is now bindable instead of soulbound
CODING NOTES
- Major improvements to NPCs teleporting to you when you are levitated and fleeing or in the water and fleeing have been made. However, continuing to cast on/attack an NPC in the situation where it doesn't think it can path to you will cause it to port to you.
ART NOTES
- Rejoice! The main theme for Leth Nurae will now play when you enter the main part of the city. It has been absent until now.