Test Update 09/11/2018 - Patch Notes and Discussions

Discussion in 'Test Update Notes and Bug Roundup' started by EQ Dev, Sep 11, 2018.

  1. EQ Dev Developer

    September 11, 2018
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    *** Items ***

    - It is no longer possible to use the Fellowship Registration Insignia while invulnerable.
    - Fixed the text in the lore tab for Erased Research Log.
    - Changed the icon of the Metamorph Totem: Summer Murkglider.
    - Corrected the spelling of Rustic Chandelier.
    - Changed the icon for several blue diamond items to help differentiate them from regular diamonds.
    - Enchanter 1.5 Epic Quest: Fixed a typo in the book to say "...oil of a dragon" instead of "...oil ofa dragon."
    - Lore items can now be recovered again as long as you do not have an item of the same lore group in your inventory and you have not received an item from the same lore group since deleting the item.
    - Bow staffs and Bow strings: Updated to reflect the correct terminology, which is "Bowstaves" and "Bowstrings".


    *** Quests And Events ***

    - The Sathir Line - Reduced the health of Rile Sathir and Venril Sathir.
    - Tirranun - Made the following changes to this event:
    - - Fixed a bug that completed the raid early when the first stage of Tirranun was defeated.
    - - Tirranun now switches from stage 1 to stage 2 when his health is lowered below 5% instead of when the stage 1 version has been slain.
    - - Fixed a bug that was preventing the correct types of adds from spawning.
    - - All text now uses the Event Messages color and filter.
    - Queen Velazul Di`Zok - Made the following changes to this event:
    - - Fixed a bug that could cause random NPCs in the zone to enrage instead of Queen Velazul Di`Zok.
    - - Fixed a bug that was causing some of the Queen's enrage mechanics to occur early.
    - The Captured Portal - Killing the Guardian of the Sword will again increase Astire, the Lunar Eclipse's slashing damage mitigation.
    - Moved Talendor's Trophy from Talendor to a hero's satchel.
    - Talendor should leave a corpse when he dies.
    - Silverwing and Xygoz - Veeshan's Peak - PC corpses will now be gathered and a message will be given if the event resets.


    *** Spells ***

    - Made a number of improvements to the way spells are processed in an effort to reduce zone processing load.
    - All - Made data changes to all rain spells and updated their descriptions to be more accurate. The spells should behave the same way they did before, but the spell data will look different.
    - Cleric - Changed the level 6 spell Sanctuary to be a free target spell.
    - Enchanter - Changed the level 5 spell Sentinel to be a free target spell.
    - Magician and Shaman - The Malaise line of debuffs now has a greater resist modifier so it will land more often.
    - Paladin - The Challenge for Honor line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds.
    - Paladin and Shadowknight - The Withstand line of combat abilities will now absorb spell damage in addition to melee damage at an increased cost in endurance.
    - Shadowknight - The Challenge for Power line of spells now has a base cast time of .5 seconds and a base recast time of 3.5 seconds.
    - Shaman - Corrected an error Roar of the Lion that caused it to cast itself on the group for every group member it landed on.


    *** AA ***

    - All - Enhanced Reformation now increases your current endurance regeneration in addition to the maximum amount of endurance regeneration available from items.
    - Multiple - Ingenuity and Empowered Ingenuity now affect damage-over-time spells in addition to direct damage spells.
    - Multiple - Added ranks 6-10 of Innate Enlightenment for intelligence casters.
    - Multiple - Passive abilities that add damage to each melee hit have been changed to scale the per-hit damage based on weapon delay. This impacts Berserker's Juggernaut's Weapon Mastery and Juggernaut's Mastery of Throwing, Monk's Disciple of the Tonfa and Disciple of the Katori, Paladin's Valiant Blade, Ranger's Close Combat Mastery and Bow Mastery, Rogue's Weighted Strikes, Shadowknight's Bloodthirsty Blade, and Warrior's Merciless Grip.
    - Multiple - Changed buff stacking for spells and abilities that restore mana or endurance when they land to not conflict with other buffs that do the same.
    - - Ex: Swift Tail's Chant and Killing Spree will now coexist.
    - Bard - Fixed a bug that prevented Glyph of Arcane Secrets from functioning for bards.
    - Cleric - Consolidated Unfailing Divinity, Reaching Divine Intervention, and Hastened Divine Intervention into a single line, Improved Divine Intervention.
    - Cleric - Consolidated Enhanced Forgetfulness and Hastened Atonement into a single line, Improved Atonement.
    - Druid - Quickened Blessing of Ro has been replaced with a new ability line, Wildtender's Survival, which will trigger the highest rank spell you have scribed from the Survival of the Fittest line.
    - Druid - Reduced the base cast time of ranks 4+ of Blessing of Ro and all ranks of Vortex of Ro from 1.5s to 0.75s to match the quickening previously offered by Quickened Blessing of Ro.
    - Druid - Rank 2 of Flight of Eagles can now be activated on your own group without a target.
    - Druid - Removed the mana and cast time restrictions from Wrath of the Forest Walker.
    - Magician - Added a haste component to ranks 7-9 of Theft of Essence.
    - Necromancer - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace.
    - Necromancer - Increased the chance for lifetap spells to trigger Reluctant Benevolence from 25 to 30% and added a 15% chance for damage-over-time spells to trigger this ability.
    - Ranger - Fixed a bug where the damage-over-time component on all ranks of Flaming Arrows and Poison Arrows was dealing less damage than was intended and flagged Flames, Frost, and Poison of Kesh`yk to not twincast.
    - Ranger - Fixed the descriptions on all ranks of Scout's Mastery of the Elements.
    - Rogue - Increased the base damage modifier of ranks 5-7 of Improved Onslaught by 10%.
    - Shadowknight - Consolidated Willful Death to be ranks of Death Peace.
    - Shadowknight - Removed the 5 hit limit from Cascading Theft of Defense.
    - Shadowknight - Changed Presence of Fear into a toggled-passive ability, replaced the mesmerization and fear components with an intimidation effect, and reduced the proc chance.
    - Shaman - Activating Soothsayer's Intervention will no longer cause any memorized version of spells in the Ancestral Intervention spell line to inherit a recast timer.
    - Shaman - Ranks 3 and 4 of Lupine Spirit can now be activated on your group without a target.
    - Shaman - Fixed a bug where ranks 8-12 of Spirit Guardian were healing less than was intended and rank 7 had a lower reuse time than intended.
    - Shaman - Changed the illusion component of Pact of the Wolf to prevent it from landing on NPCs and corrected a bug that caused it to overwrite other illusion spells.
    - Wizard - Removed the mana and cast time restrictions from all ranks of Sorcerer's Vengeance.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Tunare will play female sounds instead of male.


    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Culturist Devari, a cultural smithing historian, a cultural tailoring historian, a cultural tinkering historian, and scribe Zikett will spawn when Dragons of Norrath unlocks.
    - The Shadows of Luclin gate potions can now be created once Luclin unlocks.
    - Quartermaster Grik will once again be available before Gates of Discord is open. He will not be a tribute master until Gates of Discord.


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - The slash command /targetgroupbuff and its alias /tgb have been removed and its behavior is now implicitly enabled.
    - Fixed a bug with auto-hide afk that could cause some models to display as a default human instead of rendering them invisible.
    - Adjusted various UI sounds (like bag opening and looting coin) to be more in line with the rest of the game's sound levels.
    - Adjusted how re-leveling after death is processed in an effort to reduce zone processing load.
    - Fixed an error where you could not unpack your crate of eviction following server transfers.


    *** UI ***
    - The slash commands /alt buy and /alt buyall now use the same 'AA ability Group ID' that the command /alt act uses, rather than an AA ability's individual ID.
    - Corrected an issue where loot messages displayed the quantity remaining on the corpse instead of the amount looted.
    - Corrected an issue where hotbuttons that toggle between two states would not change their name.
    - When loading into instanced zones, the correct zone name should now be displayed.


    *** Previously Updated ***

    - Planes of Power Progression - Fixed a bug with Grand Librarian Maelin's "lore" dialogue.


    - The EverQuest Team
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  2. kizant Augur

    This works fine now for spells like Cloudburst and our bream with 0 seconds cast time. But it's not working with procs. I guess there's a level limit of some kind? It's an OK change but won't be very noticeable if it's just for our one instant nuke timer. We're talking like 500 DPS or something for a long event or something pretty low.
  3. Sancus Augur

    Just looking at the AA data I feel like the removal of those restrictions should allow it to work on procs? Unless they added in a level limit. This is what it is right now:

    1: Increase Spell Damage by 2000 (After Crit)
    2: Limit Type: Detrimental
    3: Limit Min Casting Time: 0.001s
    4: Limit Min Mana Cost: 10
    5: Limit Max Duration: 0s
  4. kizant Augur

    That's what I thought too but it doesn't and I'm not sure where to get the data on AAs. I tried cloudburst, beam, dicho, and a focusable proc on test a few minutes ago and all worked but the proc. AA nukes don't get it either. The description says spells and abilities but we don't really have any other abilities. Maybe arcane fusion is getting the benefit? I'll test that one day when I get around to it but it wouldn't matter enough.
  5. Rubiota Journeyman

    Grimling forest is still the older version of the zone active making Beastlord epic 1.0 and 2.0 impossible to complete.

    Are we supposed to be testing something from the older version or can we have this reverted?
  6. CatsPaws No response to your post cause your on ignore

    This is not a bug but wanted to report that whatever changes you made on test appears to have fixed the sound on live servers. :confused:I logged in on live (I do not play test) and that beautiful EQ music started as game started just like before, sounds at merchants and in baz like used to be. Instead of it popping in here and there is appears to be working right. I logged in second account and music works correctly on it also.

    About half of us never had the problem with volume control on bags and spells - we just had broken music all over lol.

    THANKS!
  7. klanderso Developer

    If that's the case (nothing at all was pushed to live) then it was most likely something unrelated that changed and "fixed" it (my #1 suspect is a windows update or something).
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  8. Feznik Elder


    He might be patching Test and Live to the same EQ folder directory. This would probably cause some of the test files to be overwriting the Live files if they are named the same and relatively the same file size?
  9. Gyurika Godofwar Augur

    What is the purpose of the "test poll"? Just curious.
  10. CatsPaws No response to your post cause your on ignore

    I found that there was a live backend EQ server upgrade this morning before I logged on and will be another in a few hours. This is most likely what caused the sound to get fixed. Usually we, the players, see no sign of this happening but there were some live server burps that resolved very quickly.
  11. Prathun Developer

    Yeah, we can set it back to the modern version on Test in the soon(tm) future.
    Thanks to everyone who tested the original zone out and reported their findings.
  12. Mr. Froo Developer

    The backend of poll data was cleaned up to be less server intensive and cleaner. It has no real player facing impact, but figured it would be safer to have it simulated in a large player environment instead of just the dev team answering the same questions over and over again.
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  13. klanderso Developer

    That wouldn't have anything to do with sounds, nor was anything pushed to live (server or client) today. It's most likely a "perfect storm" of various little things (random windows updates, a fresh reboot, plugging your devices in a slightly different way, etc.) that caused the change you're hearing.
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  14. Angahran Augur

    Any chance of an example for this because I think I'm miss8ng something.
  15. Jondalar Augur

    Sounds are still broken.
  16. Angahran Augur

    I'm seeing messages "x is healed by an ancient alliance" in two different windows (and in two different colors). Is this message somehow on two different filters ?

    Also getting spammed to death with "You feel replenished by a chorus of voices."




    Well that's gonna suck :(
    There are times when people need to be able to cast group spells on their own group while having someone else outside of their group targeted.

    Any chance of having this just default to on but retain ability to turn it off ?
  17. Daedly Augur

    You should create a thread in the Veteran section about it. I am willing to be you will get a lot of opinions. ;)
  18. kizant Augur

    Looks like it has a limit of 254 so bleh. We could have used a small bump from it working on procs too... Although, considering they haven't replied to me I'm thinking they might be adding some new ability next expansion that it will work with.
  19. Venau Augur

    Really? No reply means they will address it in some way via the release of the next expansion? That's awsum and I hope you're right! A certain class has not heard a reply about a promised DoT revamp for quite some time!

    /fingers crossed you're right on this theory:D
  20. Elskidor Augur

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