Vanguard Test Server Build 1924 Patch Notes 11/29/2007

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Vanguard Build 1924 Patch Notes 11/29/2007 – TEST SERVER November / 29 / 2007
GAMEPLAY
GENERAL
- The amount of experience needed to gain a refund point has been reduced for adventuring
- Some housing plots have been moved or adjusted to eliminate graphical problems. This includes issues such as grass poking through the floor or floating steps. This should not affect any furniture or other items you have placed in the house.
- Flying mount rentals have been reduced to 10 silver and time has been increased to 10 minutes

ADVENTURING
- All Classes - Ranged attacks (except "Ranged Attack" and "Warden's Ranged Attack") now cost energy instead of endurance.
- Bard - Briel's Segue of the Sky is now Briel's Trill of the Clouds, It is now available at level 20.
- Bard - Briel's Aria of the Clouds has been removed from the game.
- Bard - it is no longer possible to make songs with levitate components. The two levitate components currently in the game have been replaced with one. This new levitate ability works just like the old song components. You and your group mates within 40m will be levitated. This effect will persist until the ability is toggled off or until you ally gets too far from you.
- Blood Mage - Accelerated Regeneration now states the increments at which it regenerates health.
- Blood Mage - Inspirit now has a 25 meter range.
- Monk - Canceling Aum Liat will now remove the runspeed portion of the buff.
- Psionicist - Temporal Shift is now increased by Phrenic Rage.
- Psionicist - Compression Sphere VIII now works with Thought Thief
- Psionicist - Suggestion III no longer has diminishing returns.
- Ranger - Increases ranged attack damage by 20%
- Ranger - Smockleaf now lowers energy costs by 10%
- Rogue - Flee now has a 10 minute refresh time
- Rogue - Smoke Trick now has a 25m range.
- Warrior - Reduced the hate bonus on your defensive for to 20%. This is being done to compensate for the dmg increase that has been given toe defensive form.
- Warrior - Coercion no longer incurs global recovery

CRAFTING
- Special crafting recipes are now taught by masterwork crafters in the major cities of each continent. Be warned they want something in return.
- You can now train the amateur tier ammo case at a standard trainer
- Resonance dusts of Agony shoudl now drop correctly from decons
- Majordomo Djarn, High Lord Obsiderru, and Karujin Gulgrethor have all found some time to take up crafting. I wonder what new goodies they might drop.
- All non enhanced elemental bows now add energy and constitution on top of their standard mods.
- There is now a chance to fail during deconstruction. This will result in a failure item that can be sold regain some lost value.
- Resonance items that add abilities have had their descriptions modified to better explain what effect is being added.

DIPLOMACY
- Higher level entertain parleys for Civic Diplomacy now have a very slight chance to give Stone Focus Upgrade recipes.

ITEMS
- Items will now display their Item Level when appropriate.
- Sniper's Delight now adds to all accuracy instead of just ranged, adds 75 energy, and adds to all damage instead of just ranged.
- All ammo cases should now accept thrown weapons as ammo
- Sniper's pleasure now adds to all accuracy instead of just ranged and adds 50 energy.
- Sniper's Perfection now adds to all accuracy and damage instead of just ranged and adds 100 energy.
- Sniper's Joy now adds 25 energy.
- Fixed bug with ammo case effects making endurance based abilities use only 2% of their cost
- All crafted ammo cases now have a level requirement.
- The following items have had thier right click effect refresh timers increased to 15 minutes.
- Skull Plated Breastplate
- Palladium Breastplate
- Flare Totem Tunic
- Swamp Shaman Tunic
- Fireweave Robe

WORLD POPULATION
- Kipcel at the Port of Innvous, in the southwestern swamps of Thestra, is seeking adventurers for assistance in an urgent matter regarding the fate of Telon. It is rumored that Kipcel holds that last remaining key to the doors of the Ancient Port Warehouse.

CODING
GENERAL
- Ships will now despawn after 24 hours if no one is on them and their owner isn't in the chunk.
- You can now filter out adventuring, crafting, or diplomacy quests in the quest tracker using three new options. These new options can be found with the other quest tracker options by opening the quest log/journal and clicking the "Auto-Track" button.
- Increased the number of quests you can have from 20 to 50.
- Items you receive will now prefer to go into any specialized equipped containers that they fit in, provided there are empty slots. So, if you buy crafting utilities they will go into your utility bag, arrows will go into your quiver, and things you harvest will go into special harvesting packs, etc... Note that tools are excepted from this, and they will just go into your general inventory as normal due to BOE issues that would arise if they automatically went into your toolbelts.
- Fixed a bug that was causing shadows to draw in multiple passes. This was causing a substantial performance hit in high quality mode.
- Sped up detailed shadows by not redrawing their texture when the shadow-casting character isn't viewable. Instead, the shadows will remain in the shape of the last-animated character's position.
- Added a new optimization setting "Character Occlusion". Enabling Character Occlusion will speed up scenes where there are many characters around the player, but few are visible (such as if there is a wall between your view and a group of characters). If no part of a character draws on your screen, it will stop animating, it will stop updating its shadows, and it will stop rendering.
- The length of the guild description / recruitment notes has been doubled due to popular request.
- Using a Mez may no longer result in a proc.
- Diplomacy and Crafting quests now show "(Diplomacy)" or "(Crafting)" after the name of the quest to distinguish them from adventuring quests. Longer term we would like to do this with different icons, but this was a quick way to help players see the difference in the short term.
- Stun effects on NPC's now set ability recovery timer as though it was a successful cast

CLIENT
- The travel journal location tracking indicator on the compass now blinks when you select a new location.