Test Update 06/13/17 - Patch Notes and Discussion

Discussion in 'Test Update Notes and Bug Roundup' started by EQ Dev, Jun 13, 2017.

  1. EQ Dev Developer

    June 13, 2017
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    *** Items ***

    - Serisaria's Pearl Stud: Fixed the unprintable character in the lore text.
    - Added cleave to Darkened Sebilite Scale Vambraces and ferocity to Darkened Dark Scale Greaves and Darkened Sebilite Scale Leggings.
    - Darkened Ebon Mace and Darkened Sword of the Morning now have increased damage.
    - The spell on Darkened Breath of Harmony should no longer break Melody
    - Runed Helm of Strategy now has 41% haste.
    - Collection items for Medal from the Living will now drop from humanoid undead in Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay instead of NPCs in Arx Mentis and Plane of Sky.
    - The following items now have a shared recast timer for their click effect: Darkened Cobalt Bracer, Darkened Blood Ember Bracer, Darkened Jaundiced Bone Bracer, Darkened Tolan's Darkwood Vambraces, Darkened Deepwater Vambraces, Darkened Mrylokar's Helm, Darkened Donal's Bracer of Mourning, and Darkened Elder Spiritist's Helm.


    *** Quests And Events ***

    - There are now Hunter and Raid achievements for Scars of Velious, Shadows of Luclin, Legacy of Ykesha, and Planes of Power.
    - Newbies of Brekt will now be granted by the Guild's Tutorial quest.
    - Access to Asylum of Anguish - A Cunning Dragorn no longer has a placeholder and is now guaranteed to spawn in all three versions of the Sewers of Dranik instances. He now carries six signets but will not respawn.
    - Access to Asylum of Anguish - The Insidious Dragorn no longer has a placeholder and is now guaranteed to spawn in all three versions of the Dranik Catacombs instances. He now carries six signets but will not respawn.
    - Taskmistress Krisz (Raid) - Taskmistress Krisz no longer waits for 30 minutes between each leg of her journey around Riwwi.
    - Taskmistress Krisz (Raid) - The dialogues on Pixtt Uxnikk and Pixtt Kekken now indicate that you need one group to spawn Taskmistress Krisz, not three.


    *** Spells ***

    - Tendon slice now has block as a trigger skill.
    - Song: Saryrn's Scream of Pain is now available on Minstrel Silnon when Planes of Power unlocks.
    - Berserker - Reduced the effectiveness of Disconcerting Discipline so that it better fits its intended role as an enhancement for sustained damage rather than being the best discipline to use all the time for everything.


    *** AA ***

    - Shadowknight - Fixed a bug that caused ranks 4, 6, 13, and 26 of Leech Touch to deal rank 1 damage rather than the intended amount of damage.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Considering an NPC will now indicate if that NPC is 'Rare'.
    - NPC names are now automatically capitalized at the beginning of sentences. This applies to consider messages, aggro, death, and victory texts, all combat messages, and more.
    - Efreeti Lord Djarn in Nagafen's Lair has returned to his fire appearance. The fire djinn look is so hot right now.
    - Fixed a bug that was preventing some Kod`Taz NPCs from summoning as they should.
    - Corrected an issue where some NPCs in Old Commonlands and Crypt of Sul appeared as default humans.
    - Rare and boss NPCs in Charasis can no longer be charmed.


    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Alerts for Hot Zones will not display until The Serpent's Spine has unlocked.
    - Phylactery Will Get You Nowhere (Quest) - The Ghoul of Takish-Hiz is now restricted to the unlock of Lost Dungeons of Norrath.
    - Many quest items used for quests that aren't available until the Planes of Power will no longer drop until the Planes of Power has unlocked on the server.
    - Raster of Guk is no longer restricted to the unlocking of Kunark.


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - Non members will now see the list of membership required servers but will still not be able to access them.
    - Achievements that require you to have certain items will now properly check items stored in keyrings.
    - Many Gates of Discord zones now have load balancing enabled.
    - The allowable distance for targeted emotes has been increased dramatically. Now you can /point at that aviak on the horizon like you've always wanted!
    - Speculative fix for a crash that could occur while the computer is locked with the client running.
    - Removed unprintable characters from some Neighborhood names. These changes will only be visible if these names were chosen by your server.


    *** UI ***

    - The advanced loot window has a new setting, 'Show on new items only', off by default, that will prevent the advanced loot window from popping up if the item is already marked always need/always greed/never loot or has been manually checked need/greed/no.
    - - The window will always show if something is in your personal loot list.
    - - For master looter, the window will still pop up unless you have already marked all of the items in the list as auto ask/roll.
    - The reminders for claim items and veteran rewards displayed when logging in will now only display once per week and only for level 5 or higher characters.
    - - Note: The ability to claim items and veteran rewards remains unchanged. These changes only impact the messages displayed when logging in.
    - Fixed a bug that prevented the player name left-click context menu from working correctly if chat timestamps were enabled.
    - Added the option 'missingSpells' to the /outputfile command.
    - - Running this command will output a list of any spells usable by your class up to your current level that you haven't yet scribed in your spellbook.


    - Changed -
    EQUI_LootSettingsWnd.xml


    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Classic monsters across Norrath, celebrate! In classic zones (Lost Dungeons of Norrath and earlier), many creatures have reverted to their classic appearance. This change affects the following models: werewolf, beetle, and gnoll.
    - Fixed a potential zone crash in Skyshrine and Icewell Keep.
    - Dirt Criminal Vakov will now count for the Hunter of The Temple of Droga achievement.
    - Wandering low level NPCs in the western section of Everfrost will respawn much more quickly.
    - Low level spawns have returned near the entrance to Neriak in Nektulos Forest.
    - Fixed an issue that caused voting time-locked servers to start a vote to unlock Legacy of Ykesha instead of immediately unlocking it once Planes of Power's vote was successful.
    - The population of Kithicor Forest will again transition between relatively high level undead at night and relatively low level non-undead during the day.
    - Kithicor NPCs should swap states between the night and day versions more reliably.
    - The Reinforced Lair of Trakanon (Raid) - The debuff Ennui of the Dead has been temporarily replaced.
    - The Reinforced Lair of Trakanon (Raid) - Fixed a bug that caused the chest at the end of the raid to not contain loot.
    - Fixed a bug where the hotzone experience bonus would not work with global experience bonuses.
    - Hardcore Heritage - Load balanced versions of Hardcore Heritage zones should change to or from the Hardcore version correctly when the Hardcore Heritage event activates or deactivates.
    - Hardcore Heritage - The exits from Sebilis will now work correctly in the zone's Hardcore Heritage version.
    - Hardcore Heritage - Trakanon will no longer spawn in the base Hardcore Heritage version of Sebilis.
    - Hardcore Heritage - The Trakanon raid chest will be a bit easier to see and find and will no longer face away from the raid.
    - Hardcore Heritage - The Trakanon raid success lockout has been reduced from 4.5 days to 2.5 days.
    - Hardcore Heritage - The Trakanon raid should now clean up completely on success or failure.


    - The EverQuest Team
  2. Vindicate Elder

    Would it be possible to get the HH Seb event or at least the Trakanon raid extended for at least a week in order for the players on Test to be able to experience this content in a working fashion? While we where able to zone into the raid, it was critically broken for us on Test. With this fix coming out today, we basically have just a few hours to experience the working content, which isn't exactly feasible on such short notice.
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  3. Zaviere Augur

    Holy crap, something NICE done for BARDS for once?! Am I still playing the same game here???
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  4. Bobbybick Only Banned Twice

    This is a cool change and makes getting these much less of a hassle for full groups, I am curious however why "a Shrewd Dragorn" from Dranik's Hollows instances which drops the Two-Toned signet was not also given the same treatment. Either way a nice change.
  5. Orbital101 Augur

    Shadow of Luclin as Hunter of Jaggedpine Forest again which is also in Old world Everquest Hunter. Plz save us from this nightmare!
  6. Orbital101 Augur

    Legacy of Ykesha have Hunter of the Cavern of Exile which was also in Kunark.
  7. Orbital101 Augur

    Though, i'm seeing some achievement with(New Monsters) but still lots of the same so im guessing its intended. Im going through the list while I label these monsters down!
  8. GoldenFrog Augur

    Do we know if the bugged Hunters from previous were addressed? Timorous Deep, WW, and Veeshan's Peak? Don't wanna spend time testing something not addressed.
  9. Soju Elder

    Any chance to get some sort of filter added to this like maybe /outputfile missingSpells All, /outputfile missingSpells rk1, /outputfile missingSpells rk2, /outputfile missingSpells rk3

    It is a very nice feature, but its flooded with spells that you have, just not the same rank.

    Anyway, just a request, not a huge deal. I can always rip it into excel or something to filter it if not.

    ~Soju
  10. Poyzen Frawg Augur

    1. There is still no DPS belt upgrade in EOK even after you said it would be re-coded.
    2. Several EOK Charms are a downgrade to TBS charms. Another re-code that never happened.
    3. For at least a year now, Shamen and Enchanter DPS is still higher than Most Mele DPS. Re-balance was discussed and no action taken.
  11. GoldenFrog Augur

    For SK - it's including spells which I do not believe are in the game at all:

    72Shroud of the Nightborn Rk. III
    72Blood of the Blacktalon Rk. III
    73Drink of Decomposition Rk. III
    73Dark Bargain Rk. III
    74Cloak of Corruption Rk. III
    75Remorseless Demeanor Rk. III

    Additionally it is including effects of spells such as the following, which are - of course - not missing. (And I have the spells in question so that's not the issue, either)

    (some samples):
    91Korum's Bite Recourse
    96Bond of Ralstok Recourse
    101NA Bond of Bonemaw Recourse III
    101Bonemaw's Bite Recourse
  12. Orbital101 Augur

    So after doing the progression to be able to do the Artisan's Prize I see that nothing is check in Planes of Power raid targets. We expecting to run this again or will there be some type of back logs? I even did some of the target on Xeg to /test today and it doesnt see them but does when doing it on test.?
  13. Silentchaos Augur

    My guess is whoever made these changes didn't know there were 3 instanced ones.
  14. svann Augur

    Any chance that fix could be applied to other instant click items that interrupt melody?
  15. GoldenFrog Augur

    This requires code and database flags that save the fact that you made the kills. These releases don't just add the check-boxes, but also the fact that it remembers you MADE the kill.

    There is no data to pull from to show you killed Vaniki and Grummus 1.0.

    Not until this release goes live.
  16. kizant Augur

    More like 1.5-2 unless your monks, rangers, rogues, etc are just huge slackers. Plus they've been slowly eating away at zerkers for a while now so it seems like they're trying to address things. No reason to complain too much. Plus I don't know enough to understand how big of a change this is but I haven't seen anyone joking about it like last one?
  17. Lerilon Lorekeeper

    Please, please also change the proc on the Darkened Faydark Blade Catcher. Nobody wants an AE proc these days. If you have more than one in camp, all but one are most likely mezzed, especially in the group game. And if you do have only one in camp, the 800 HP proc is quite a bit less than the 2000 HP procs on T1 EoK weapons. The ratio difference is so minor it almost makes the weapon a house wall decoration.
  18. segap Augur


    I can't recall the last time I used mez while using a real tank (and, yes, the tank I use is 100% group geared with no eok rares). It's nice to actually have weapons with choices. If you don't want an ae proc, there are several other choices. Why take away something that's different and allows people situational options?
  19. Quatreh Elder

    Live Disconserting:

    Increase your chance to critically hit with two-handed melee skills and frenzy by 221% and adds 53% damage bonus to all of your melee attacks for 0:03:00. (reuse 0:03:00.)

    Test Disconserting:

    Increase your chance to critically hit with two-handed melee skills and frenzy by 55% and adds 12% damage bonus to all of your melee attacks for 0:01:36. (reuse 0:03:00.)

    75% nerf of the disc ... gratz to become an old TBM zerker
  20. warbeast New Member

    Are
    Are we expecting some type of reward for completing all of these Hunter achievements? Many did thinking there would be but now not many want to go through the 2 weeks nightmare we had to go through to spawn some of these rares..

    How about an aug that increase in power as you gain achievements that max out as the first aug been better then a piece of gear!
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