Vanguard Build 1792 Patch Notes 3/29/2007

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Game Updates March 29,2007
Vanguard Build 1792 Patch Notes 3/29/2007

Announcement: All Servers – The teleportation bug has been corrected during the daily restarts. Parachutes are no longer necessary.

NEW: Ever wondered what kinds of things the developers of Vanguard have in store for the game? Wonder no more! With the new In the Works webpage, we will be giving a quick glimpse of the projects we’re currently working on. The page will show both short term and long term goals, as well as provide a top 10 bug list. You can find the page here.

GAMEPLAY NOTES

• - Flesh Golems are now considered undead

ADVENTURING NOTES

• - Cleric – Spirit Ward is now single target only.
• - Psionicist – Temporal Shift now displays the correct damage in the tool tip and debuff icon
• - Psionicist – The display for Psychic Schism has been updated to note that it lowers target’s spell damage by 5% instead of 0.
• - Psionicist – The display for Thought Surge has been updated to note that it deals 10% of your health in damage to you.

CRAFTING NOTES

• - Tier 4 horseshoe recipe now uses Sphere of Pure Matter for enchanting
• - Tier 5 horseshoe recipe now uses Shimmering Sphere of Pure Matter
• - Tier 5 horseshoe recipe now uses true silver instead of adamantine
• - Some typos in the descriptions of the Ahgram crafting organization work order recipes that were causing confusion about what tools to use have been fixed.
• - The crafting outpost in the Deebs now provides Kojani Artisan faction in addition to the other faction types it offers.
• - All outpost taskmasters now wander randomly around their areas.
• - Taskmasters in general move around more.
• - Tier 4 and 5 Horseshoes have had their speeds increased to compensate for their lack of added dash ability
• - Refined crafting jewels have had there names updated.
• - Thrown/Ammo recipes have had their result amounts increased

D 40

C 75

B 150

A 300

A+ 600

DIPLOMACY NOTES

• - Prestigious Baubles and Shiny Prestigious Baubles now can be sold to vendors.
• - Prestigious Baubles and Shiny Prestigious Baubles now have a stack limit of 200.
• - Loot tables for Entertain Civic Diplomacy Parleys on skill 101 and above opponents now contain 10 Crafting recipes for unique Diplomacy clothing. These recipes are a rare drop from these parleys. These recipes are for Outfitters, Artificers, and Blacksmiths. All clothing in this group are Tier 2, and contain special abilities in addition to Presence.
• - Loot tables for Entertain Civic Diplomacy have been altered. There is now a greater overall chance of getting higher value loot. Also, there is a better chance of getting multiple loot items to sell.
• - Entertain Civic parleys with Domestics in Mekalia no longer grants Leth Nurae Prestige Faction – it provides Khal Prestige Faction now.
• - Consult the Wise will no longer spam a message that you have injured yourself while crafting.
• - Qarouk Telourshed will now give you a Temporene Orb if you are a Varanthari who has lost your orb during the newbie line. You must have completed the quest “The Gifts of the Desert” and NOT have completed “Time to Kill.”
• - Prestigious Baubles now work in Leth Nurae (the city proper).
• - Prestigious Baubles now work in New Targonor (the greater city area).
• - All Diplomacy Ring items are now enabled for deconstruction.
• - All Diplomacy Earring items are now enabled for deconstruction.
• - All Diplomacy Neck items are now enabled for deconstruction.
• - Qur’xa Diplomacy newbie line – You can now only get the quest to learn rebuttals from either Aresha Al’Nafir or Ragan Fulgar, not both of them. This fixes a problem where players believed they could complete the two different quests when they were intended to only choose one or the other based on whether they did the normal newbie progression or the dark elf soldier camp.
• - Corrected issue with Thestran, Kojani, and Qalian Prestige altar to allow it to grant appropriate rewards.
• - Corrected issue with Sultan Omid Mahdavi-Kia, Vizier Djuruhat Haimurem, and Administrator Dallaraz not granting appropriate Prestige title.
• - A new Gossip civic parley has been added to some Domestic dialogue tables with hints on the location of Prestigious Altars.
• - The Prophet of Vaelion is now present in Ahgram. Diplomats with 150 skill or greater who discover his riddle will receive a new Statement for their trouble.
• - Writs are now available with the Petitioners of Leth Nurae for diplomats of at least 150 skill and 500 prestige faction with the city of Leth Nurae. Look in the Throne Room in Florendyl Palace to find them milling about with the other nobles.
• - Thestran Tier 2 horse quest has been corrected to have a choice between a light brown horse, a dark brown horse, and a grey horse.

WORLD POPULATION NOTES

• - Celestine Ward – The sorcerer armor now has generic a generic damage focus in place of specialized bonuses on all pieces of armor that offered all three types. This results in an overall marginal increase in the total amount of bonus focus
• - Cragwind Ridge – The Archaic Beast encounter no longer respawns instantly.
• - Imanjal – The fragmented malevolent soul no longer drops within the halls of Imanjal.
• - Nusibe Necropolis – The Necropolis Defenders have had their difficulty lowered.
• - Quests- The quest ‘Investigate the Broken Fang Slave Camp’ will now complete in the normal fashion rather than requiring players to hail the completion NPC.
• - Rahz Inkur – Night of the Zull - Blazing Zull essences must now be collected from Zull spirit orbs that appear upon the death of a powerful Zull.

Items

• - Some level 30+ staves and wands with attached abilities have been updated; this should result in those staves being more powerful than their lower level counterparts.
• - The Shadepelt Drape is now a charged item.

~The Vanguard Team