Test Update 09/10/14

*** Highlights ***

- Implemented several requests from SOE Live! These items are marked with an asterisk in the notes below.
- Players now have the ability to sell all of the items within a container in the merchant window. See details in the UI section. *
- The forges of Rallos Zek have been issuing new helms to the minions in Plane of War. There are also rumors that the Grandmaster has been given a special helm. (New Hero's Forge helms are available in Plane of War)


*** Items ***

- The forges of Rallos Zek have been issuing new helms to the minions in Plane of War. There are also rumors that the Grandmaster has been given a special helm. (New Hero's Forge helms are available in Plane of War). *
- Reduced the drop rate of the more common types of Hero's Forge ornaments.
- Gauntlets of Fiery Might from the Hardcore Heritage event now have Endurance.
- Tier 2 raid combines for alternate bracers will now work correctly.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Burn Out - Mission and Raid - Fixed an error that could cause the phoenix to warp around.
- Breaching the Barrier - Players will no longer get a client crash if they pull multiple mobs near the Temple of Sholoth area in this mission.
- A Simple Task - Fixed an issue that caused some of the rotcap feeders in Hills of Shade to not give task credit for killing them. *
- Preaching to the Choir - This Windsong Sanctuary task will update correctly again. *
- Flat Lute - This Windsong Sanctuary task will again update correctly. *
- The Wurmslayer quest givers, Sir Hobble and Squire Fuzzmin, can again be found, rarely, in Firiona Vie. *


*** Spells ***

- DOT damage done by procs from pets will now show up for parsing. *
- Beastlord - Increased hit points for all focus levels of Scream at the Moon and Yell at the Moon.
- Magician - Increased hit points for all focus levels of Ruthless Servant and Relentless Servant. Increased agility, dodge, and riposte skills slightly.
- Necromancer - Increased hit points for all focus levels of Call Skeleton Host and Call Skeleton Throng.


*** NPC ***

- A new unit of currency, the Noble, is now circulating in Norrath! You can use it to transfer very large amounts of currency at once. You can buy them from "Noble Exchange" merchants found near banks in starting cities, certain camps of transients, the Plane of Knowledge, and the Bazaar. *
- Merchant Rehema in Crescent Reach is now findable. *
- The Apexus Enforcer in Convorteum will no longer cast his Earth Shake AE infinite times if left aggro too long and will correctly cast Earth Shake less often the longer the fight lasts.
- The kobold and gnoll combatants in Brell's Rest have given up the endless chase and now attack each other.


*** AA ***

- Paladin - Beacon of the Righteous - Adjusted resists so this will land more reliably.
- Paladin - Force of Disruption - Reduced cast time significantly.
- Shadowknight - Moved effect of T`Vyl's Resolve to slot 6 to resolve some stacking issues. Also reduced its effectiveness to 30% because it now stacks with things it didn't previously.
- Warrior - Dual Wield Proficiency - Fixed a bug with this causing increased damage instead of reduced.
- Warrior - Defensive Proficiency - Changed block effect to Shield Block Chance. Reduced values to intended effectiveness.
- Warrior - Blast of Anger - Increased effective range to 80 feet.
- Warrior - Gut Punch - Removed all damage from this ability per request.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Talisman of Kolos' Unity and Blood of Klar spell research recipes now produce the correct item rather than their lower level counterparts.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Changed housing plot eviction so that plots only get packed up after their escrow has expired for 90 days. Guild plots will still evict earlier if the required membership requirements are not met. You will be now be evicted from your plot if your escrow expires after 90 days.
- Owners and Co-Owners of plots will now receive an e-mail when their plot's escrow has expired.
- Greatly increased the maximum distance which you can do an achievements compare. *
- Fixed a bug in which some players would lose their ability to recreate a deleted heroic character.
- Fixed a bug in Kael Drakkel which would occasionally cause a zone crash.


*** UI ***

- To sell contents within a container, simply select the container and press the sell button. Two different confirmations have been added, one for selling all of the sell-able contents, and the other for selling the container itself. These confirmation windows can be toggled on/off individually in the general options menu. Note: The text will change for whether you are selling your container or the contents within it.
- Changed the guild bank default permissions for stacks of items. Items placed in the guild bank will now go to public, public if usable, view only in that order if a pre-existing stack exists or view only if not. *
- Added an option to the general options menu to disable your active tribute upon logging off. *
- Fixed an issue with "Invite All to Raid" option in the guild window. It will no longer attempt to invite players who are already in the raid or emit the "That person is already in your raid." text.
- Split the death text filters into "My death", "Other PC death", and "NPC death".
- Updated the text in the Marketplace window to clarify the monthly SC claim status.
- Fixed a bug where the text on the cancel camp button could incorrectly show "Add Card" after using the marketplace.
- Opening the marketplace while the "No payment sources" prompt is visible will no longer automatically take players to the "Add credit card" screen.
- When closing the Marketplace window with the add credit card page open, you will now be returned to the marketplace home screen upon reloading the marketplace.


- Changed -
EQUI_DragItems.xml
EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml
EQUI_OptionsWindow.xml
EQUI_RealEstatePurchaseWnd.xml

*insert Jaws music*

The suspense

Grabbing my ankles.

Any update info yet or is it delayed?

Always teasing us!

Are we there yet?

close. 142mb patch inc

*edit* moved notes to first post

did you change any UI's at all or was all this done on your end? I just wanted to know if i needed to update my UI and what files..

Thanks.

This has to be the best patch I have ever seen.

Added the missing UI file change section

Nooooooooooooo

What? Why do we need yet another currency?

Default staying as it is now?

ANy change coming for being able to take stuff from deposits?

Previously it didnt allow you to sell all of your bag contents at once. The new bag sell will work by default, but will prompt you until you disable the bag sell contents confirmation.

Wow, a patch with all good news, hurray for the Devs!

Am I correct in assuming the purpose of the nobles being the bazaar pricing issues?

Not seeing the reasoning here, personally. NPC sells them for 110,249pp...but only buys them back for 100,000. Who is going to want to take a 10k loss PER Noble? If this is intended to be a type of fix for the bazaar price cap, the sellback price needs to be the same as the buy price from the vendor. Otherwise, its a waste of time (a resource that seems to be wasted quite a lot).

Any chance we could get previews of some or all of these Hero's Forge helms?

I imagine a noble will be like 100k.
Its a good move since more and more things are selling for 500k to 5 million, and the interface is rather clunky when dealing with those amounts of pp.

edit: saw they sell at a 10% loss - that doesn't seem right. It should be the same kind of conversion, otherwise they are useless. No one will pay 10% of their money just to use a different coin.

Wait, the disparity between plat to noble and going back is that bad? No one is going to use these like that, they will still prefer to WTS/WTB in general.

Quick checking seems like traders can't accept Nobles or price things in Nobles (unless I missed something), but you can for buyers