Test Update 02/12/15

Discussion in 'Test Update Notes and Bug Roundup' started by Hludwolf, Feb 10, 2015.

  1. Hludwolf Developer

    *** Highlights ***

    - EverQuest's 16th anniversary is approaching soon! Look for new and old celebration events appearing in the Plane of Knowledge starting on March 16th! As always, the Mechanical Fortune Teller can direct you to events that are available.
    - By popular request, a new item has been added to the marketplace: Hero's Forge Armor Crate! Combine a full matching suit of Hero's Forge Armor (Helm, Chest, Arms, Wrist, Hands, Legs, Feet) in the Hero's Forge Armor Crate to receive a single, stackable item. The Hero's Forge Armor Crate can only be used once.
    - The Bottle of Adventure IV is now available in the Marketplace.
    - Tricorne hats are now available for participation in The Darkened Sea beta. The hat can be converted into an ornament if you have Hero's Forge.


    *** Advanced Loot System ***

    - For information and posting bugs/comments specifically about the advanced loot system, please use this thread- The new loot system is not slated for a Live release in February and we need as much feedback as possible on Test.
    - The Advanced Loot System is now enabled by default on Test.
    - Fixed an issue that was causing this system to crash players with custom UIs.
    - Added new channels for random roll chat messages.
    - Fixed several missing string errors related to activating or deactivating the Advanced Looting System.

    *** Items ***

    - By popular request, a new item has been added to the marketplace: Hero's Forge Armor Crate! Combine a full matching suit of Hero's Forge Armor (Helm, Chest, Arms, Wrist, Hands, Legs, Feet) in the Hero's Forge Armor Crate to receive a single, stackable item. The Hero's Forge Armor Crate can only be used once.
    - The Bottle of Adventure IV is now available in the Marketplace.
    - Bayle Marks can now be traded.
    - August Bounder armor now has a required level of 101 and a recommended level of 105.
    - Tricorne hats are now available for participation in The Darkened Sea beta. The hat can be converted into an ornament if you have Hero's Forge.
    - Greatly increased the drop rates of Briny Essences from rare NPCs and mission chests.
    - Greatly increased the drop rates of Castaway, Tideworn, and Highwater armor pieces.
    - Made the following modifications to the Decorative Dummies sold by Brent Harnak in Sunrise Hills:
    - - The Combat Dummies can now be placed inside personal housing in addition to guildhalls.
    - - The Combat Dummies can now have their level, armor class and body type modified.
    - - Three new ranks of Combat Dummies that coincide with the most recent difficulty types of NPCs (Rena, Sana, Taza) are now for sale.
    - - All ranks of Combat Dummies now have lore text that should better describe their intended level of power.
    - Replaced all Call of the Forsaken gemstone drops with Rain of Fear gemstones in the Heart of Fear zone.
    - Corrected an error that prevented Bags of Doubloons from being opened.


    *** Tradeskills ***

    - August Bounder armor now has a required level of 101 and a recommended level of 105.
    - AC on The Darkened Sea cloth cultural armor and seals is now more consistent.


    *** Quests & Events ***

    - Captain Tita's Ghost (Raid) - Fixed a bug that was causing the Phasmia Ledalus to do considerably more melee damage than was intended.
    - Captain Tita's Ghost (Raid) - Adjusted Tita's melee damage increase to occur more quickly only if the majority of her reinforcements are "Annoyed" rather than just "Bored."
    - Captain Tita's Ghost (Raid) - Adjusted the Phasmia Vitali so that their use of Pillar of Claws more closely matches their behavior in raid 1.
    - Defense of the City (Raid) - This raid will no longer drop spell essences other than Minor Essence of the Citadel.
    - Principal Vicarium Noma (Raid) - Fixed a problem that could cause this event to reset if it was successfully beaten very close to the hard reset timer (45 minutes).
    - All progression raids in Arx Mentis now drop four to eight Essences of the Citadel.
    - A Cunning Plan (Raid) - Mephit minions in this Lichen Creep raid now send their target a message when using their Clawed Swipe ability from afar.
    - Corrected an issue with the achievement 'The Tavern at the End of Norrath (Raid).' It now correctly checks for the completion of 'Field of Scale - Confrontation.'
    - Those seeking the elusive sphinx Isilisinisusurpa should inquire with Noble Sivrn as to her whereabouts.


    *** Spells ***

    - Added an additional restriction to all Twincast effects that allows specific spells to be fully damage focused but not Twincast. Existing abilities were not changed except where noted below.
    - Druid - Winter's Wildflame Frostbite and Burn can now be fully focused, but excluded them from being Twincast individually. The base spell can still be Twincast.
    - Ranger - Summer's Cyclone Burn and Splash can now be focused fully but will not be Twincast individually (Summer's Cyclone can still be Twincast).
    - Ranger - Flusterbolt and Blusterbolt now scale their resistance modifiers as you level. High level mobs should no longer resist these abilities as often.
    - Shaman - Renamed the version of Mammoth's Force and Preeminent Foresight given by all ranks of Unity of the Doomscale to Mammoth's Force III and Preeminent Foresight III to signify that the buffs given by all three ranks are equivalent and at maximum effectiveness.
    - Wizard - Modified Wildflash Barrage subcomponents so that only the base spell will use Twincast counters.


    *** NPC ***

    - Researcher Orbiana will now sell all Essences of the Citadel if you have completed the raids they drop from.
    - Vendors around Norrath have agreed to accept less profit when selling Nobles to adventurers. You can now purchase them for a closer amount to their selling price than before.
    - A Priest of Discord has taken residence in the northwestern section of the Guild Lobby. All Priests of Discord have readopted their old habit of destroying items that are handed to them.
    - The Animated Tomes in the Dreadspire library will now respawn much more quickly.
    - Corrected the appearance of Raveners in Kaesora.


    *** AA ***

    - Modified Bestial Alignment to change Wood Elf characters into Treants instead of wolves.


    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Extra mercenary slots can now be purchased on Progression servers.


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - If a player picks up a lore ground spawn item they already own, they can now again see the item without requiring that the player change zones or log out and back in.
    - Fixed a building in Nedaria's Landing which has missing geometry.
    - Fixed various links inside the help and petition system to point to daybreakgamecompany instead of SOE.
    - Changed some of the references to Sony Online Entertainment to Daybreak Game Company and from SOE to DBG.


    *** UI ***

    - Fixed an issue with popup windows where the text on buttons and window heading text was sometimes displaying old data.
    - Fixed a grammatical issue in the race change window from "and your bind location to be changed" to "and your bind location will be changed".
    - The dynamic zone and guild management window minimum sizes can now be changed in the xml files.
    - Fixed an issue with list windows when clicking column headers when not scrolled to the top of the list.
    - Fixed a bug where some text could overlap in the item window.

    - Changed -

    - EQUI_DynamicZoneWnd.xml
    - EQUI_GuildManagementWnd.xml
    - EQUI_RaceChangeWnd.xml

    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Key binding (default F11) will now properly toggle the network bar again.
    - Fixed an issue where some NPC models were showing up as default humans instead of their intended appearance.



    - The EverQuest Team
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  2. Harris Augur

  3. Garanle Elder

    Wow how is this acceptable, post the partial list and amend to it.
  4. Silv Augur

    They posted the details guys... there aren't any. Geez. Read the news!
  5. guado Augur

    I think he posted this then the layoffs happened. Probably some turmoil. Give em an extra business day or 2.
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  6. Lisandra Augur

    Hopefully Hludwolf & Jchan didn't get laid off, otherwise we'll never get another patch again! :eek:
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  7. Hludwolf Developer

    Sorry for the delay in posting this. The patch has been moved to today and will be happening shortly.

    Thank you for your patience.
  8. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    Thanks for the update, good to see your still here. :)
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  9. Lisandra Augur

    Thanks for the update & I'm glad you are still around as well.
  10. Rhymez Thebard Elder

    16th anniversary quests (no new veteran aa though), loot system, and beta rewards is great news.

    Layoffs not so great.
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  11. Elricvonclief Augur

    Looks great!

    Increased spell drops will be really nice. (even if it means I have more work to do, handling spells on raids....) :eek:
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  12. fortuneteller Augur

    Could you change so the ALS is disabled by default ?

    I am one of those that will not going to use it, and hate having to disable it for all my chars :(
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  13. Melanippe Augur

    - Greatly increased the drop rates of Briny Essences from rare NPCs and mission chests.
    - Greatly increased the drop rates of Castaway, Tideworn, and Highwater armor pieces.

    Excellent!

    - Made the following modifications to the Decorative Dummies sold by Brent Harnak in Sunrise Hills:
    - - The Combat Dummies can now be placed inside personal housing in addition to guildhalls.
    - - The Combat Dummies can now have their level, armor class and body type modified.
    - - Three new ranks of Combat Dummies that coincide with the most recent difficulty types of NPCs (Rena, Sana, Taza) are now for sale.
    - - All ranks of Combat Dummies now have lore text that should better describe their intended level of power.

    Very helpful.

    - Shaman - Renamed the version of Mammoth's Force and Preeminent Foresight given by all ranks of Unity of the Doomscale to Mammoth's Force III and Preeminent Foresight III to signify that the buffs given by all three ranks are equivalent and at maximum effectiveness.

    Hurray !!!

    - Modified Bestial Alignment to change Wood Elf characters into Treants instead of wolves.

    Appropriate !

    - The Advanced Loot System is now enabled by default on Test.

    May want to rethink making this enabled by default. I can just imagine the headaches, petitions and calls to Customer Service if it goes live as default; that is unless a concerted effort is made to inform the player base both on the forums AND with messages in-game (via the MOTD and the Welcome Window and the login screen) starting NOW. :) I am sure you are well aware the the number of players who read the forums is miniscule and this will affect the entire player community when it goes into effect.
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  14. Silv Augur

    Wow... it only took 3 months to make TDS like it should have been! This is an awesome patch. Very excited for the changes.

    However....- Defense of the City (Raid) - This raid will no longer drop spell essences other than Minor Essence of the Citadel.

    Um, why? At 4 - 8 essences why isn't this at least giving a small chance at lesser's as well, BUT I won't really complain about it because it's all just amazing.

    Oh, one exception though, Geomantra and Enchanter spellshield still share the same SPA 161 slot. Please move one of the slots to your FIVE other choices for that particular spell to fix stacking. Thanks.

    The Mana Overburn AA that was "fixed" in beta is still not live. It is not reducing the cast time of single target Enchanter flares by 10 seconds. Thanks.
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  15. Rainbowdash Augur

    - Those seeking the elusive sphinx Isilisinisusurpa should inquire with Noble Sivrn as to her whereabouts.

    Hmmm was this meant to have a separate reward or just finally putting her in-game?

    Was fun, if not brief, either way :p
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  16. Rapfu New Member

    We're missing most of the tradeskill vendors in the Plane of Knowledge at the moment. :)
    All but maybe 3 in the Western Tradeskill building and, from what I hear, a good many from the Eastern building as well.
  17. Rapfu New Member

    NVM apparently you have consolidated the vendors. More layoffs! :(
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  18. Pwnography Augur

    Are there any plans to add new level dummies on test in the Arena? We're desperately in need of 105 and 108. Also, I think everyone's wish list includes being able to hp/mana lock and spawn raid-level dummies.

    Don't get me wrong, I love the dummy changes in houses and customization. I'm just wondering if we could flow that over to test - I mean, its a test server. Some modern era test dummies equal to a TDS trash mob would help us test. Raid would be icing on the cake, but at minimum, can you just duplicate an Arx trash mob so we can do some higher DI parses? :x
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  19. Draco Journeyman

    Curious as to the Beta Reward. How many Beta Tokens were required in order to receive the reward and how would you go about receiving the reward? I looked in claim and I see nothing.
  20. Iila Augur

    Thanks, Aristo(?)
    Thristo