Vanguard Build 01697 Patch Notes 1/20/2007

[Kethra]

GAMEPLAY

- Movement speed/root, stun/mez, and silence type effects now all have a chance to break on hit in PvP combat. This does not affect the PvE effects of the abilities.
- When using group drain abilities such as "Life Draught" the level 38 Necromancer spell your group members are now notified with appropriate chat text that they have been healed.
- Dexterity bonus to melee evasion and spell evasion has been re-centered. The new maximum with 18 points per level is 17%.
- Dexterity no longer grants a bonus to mitigation, it still grants a bonus to evasion. That part of mitigation has been shifted into block, dodge and parry.
- Block, dodge and parry now have different chances with max skill for your level against an even con NPC. Light Fighters: 8% dodge chance, 8% parry chance, and 4% block chance. Heavy Fighters: 10% block chance, 4% dodge chance, and 4% % parry chance. Healers: 6% dodge chance and 4% parry chance. Casters: 6% dodge chance. The disciple has an 8% chance to dodge instead of the normal 6% given to healers.
- Cost over time abilities and item regeneration are now functioning as intended. Many of these were not properly deducting costs or adding regeneration.
- The vitality bonus to heals has been re-centered. Heal abilities were currently requiring a higher attribute value than intended to start getting a bonus.
- Mounts now require a min level to be used
- You can no longer move while summoning your mount

ADVENTURING

- Ranger, Druid – Your run speed buffs now increase mount speed by 5%.
- Bard – Tynen’s Melody of Acceleration does not stack with mount speed, but other minor components will.
- Bard - Gamael's Blade of Conflagration is now available at level 43
- Bard - Gamael's Blade of the Blizzard is now available at level 47
- Bard - Gamael's Blade of the Viper is now available at level 50
- Bard – The fact that bard weapon proc songs are at 10% proc rate has been made clearer. These are working as intended.
- Bard – Embellishments have all been increased in individual power. Each will do more than it did before.
- Bard – Additional embellishments have been added at various levels:
- Naman's Grand Mystical Counterpoint
- Naman's Grand Chilly Counterpoint
- Naman's Grand Fiery Counterpoint
- Naman's Grand Temporal Counterpoint
- Naman's Grand Empyreal Counterpoint
- Irion's Substitution of the Infinite
- Irion's Substitution of Warding
- Illestine's Epic Substitution
- Bard – Illestine’s compositions are now best played with a percussion instrument
- Bard – Emboldening Embellishment is now best played with a strong voice.
- Bard - Briel's Aria of the Clouds is now available at 18
- Bard - Asilam's Disenchanting Strain has been made into a Shout, and will now remove enchantments (buffs) from offensive targets.
- Bard – Lyrics have all been increased in individual power. Each will do more than it did before.
- Bard – Additional components have been added
- Briel's Segue of the Sky (Bridge)
- Asilam's Dirge of the Mariner (Verse)
- Blood Mage - Added the ability to exploit weaknesses to several abilities
- Cleric - Added the ability to exploit weaknesses to several abilities
- Disciple - Added the ability to exploit weaknesses to several abilities
- Dread Knight – Shadowy Veil will no longer decrease your run speed.
- Dread Knight – Incite and Inflame now correctly cost 10 each.
- Monk – Aum Liat no longer stacks with mounts or sprint
- Paladin- Reduced the energy granted by Cry of Illumination
- Psionicist – Acceleration will no longer stack with mounts or sprint.
- Ranger – The name of Arrow of the Moon has been changed to Dusk Arrow
- Ranger – The name of Arrow of the Sun has been changed to Dawn Arrow
- Ranger – Increased the damage of Critical Shot
- Ranger – Added new ability line Arrow of the Sun (just like the old one, but different levels and a different spot)
- Ranger – Blade of Storms has been moved to level 26 and upgraded from there.
- Ranger – Added new ability line Blade of the Solstice at level 30. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Added new ability lone Blade of the Equinox at level 14. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Moved Critical Shot to level 10. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Removed Dawn Arrow VI
- Ranger – Moved Dawn Arrow to level 14. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Moved Debilitating Shot to level 34. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Moved Dusk Arrow to level 34. Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Added new ability line Hurricane at level 42/ Upgrades from there.
- Ranger – Fixed problem with an ability always giving you Whisper of the Wind, even when you did not use it in the correct orde
- Shaman – Your run speed buffs no longer completely stack with mounts or sprint. Instead, having Spirit of Rakurr will increase mount speed by 5% and Speed of Rakurr will increase it by 10%

CRAFTING

- Thestran Sabatons recipe now shows two sheets as the ingredient instead of one ingot.
- Modified the attribute combination options of all attuning dusts
- Endurance attuning dust has been changed to Heal and Nuke Focus Attuning dust
- Added wood focus recipes to Artificer instructors.
- Added stone focus recipes to Artificer instructors.
- Added stone support recipes to Artificer instructors.
- Added additional “dusting” options to Artificer board and block recipes.

DIPLOMACY

- Civic Diplomacy trainers are now available in all major cities – Yes, the people have cried out to the gods and heard only silence, looks like it’s up to the diplomats to answer the call of the people. Some brave civic diplomat trainers have arrived in towns across Telon and are willing to teach you just how to work with the people of Telon for a greater goal. Look for the trainer next to the City Status pillar in the town nearest you. Talk to them, don’t be shy, they won’t bite.
- Diplomacy Bug Fix: Diplomacy clothing items with presence mods that put you into a different presence tier are now considered when influencing the city in Civic Diplomacy parley wins.
- Market Diplomacy modifiers are now hooked up. These modifiers will show up as favor values in the market window and will reduce commission and deposit values. These modifies will be gained through diplomacy.
- Presence requirements, skill levels, and rewards have all been upped on the Wayward Husband quest line in Khal.
- Varanthari and Kurashasa horse delivery quests will now connect to the horse acquire quest with Rochara (so long as the diplomat is also a 10 level adventurer/crafter). Those who have already completed the horse delivery will need to do it again (and you will be able to redo it.)

WORLD POPULATION

- The residents of the Sea Hag Grotto have, whether realistically or not, aged about a decade in difficulty. The dungeon still has not been hand-tuned, which means it is even more difficult than it was before (teehee!) so be warned. Rewards have been quickly updated to reflect the change in dificulty/level but they will be adjusted even more when the dungeon gets tuned. Have fun!
- The following areas have received a faction pass – it is now possible to gain and lose various factions in these areas – default KOS status has not yet been set
- Tanvu, surrounding areas, dungeons, etc
- Entire Wood Elf Island
- Ulvari infested areas
- Martok Island and accompanying dungeons
- Marsh of Peril has received several tweaks
- Qa Riverbank, Ksaravi Gulch, surrounding mini dungeons and camps
- Skawlra Rock and surrounding areas
- Several faction fixes in Khal itself
- Mekalia and surrounding camps / mini dungeon
- General Dungeon and associated minions
- Kalendra’s Coven and surrounding content
- Imanjal Sanct and surrounding content
- Pantheon of the Ancients (Making sure you don’t loose event factions!)
- Silverlake: Braelok Togusor will now drop loot.
- Temple of Dailuk: Wyvern Hill was renamed to Vyper’s Abode
- Temple of Dailuk: Nerksawl shouldn’t have the shakes anymore and will start fighting again.

GUI

- Clicking anywhere outside of an editbox will now clear focus from the edit box.
- Added a "Show My Reticle" option which toggles whether to show a reticle when you are your own defensive target.
- Fixed tooltips on Combat Forms.

CODING

- Dragging to create macros will now work correctly for bard songs with spaces in them.
- /stuck has been replaced with /rope. Use this command to throw stuck adventurers (within 10 meters of you) a line which will allow you to pull them out.
- Fix to crash related to leveling.
- When using AE abilities all targets should now display numbers and report their health correctly.

[LordOfLA]

Hmmm still no mention of praefect victory being fixed...