Test Update 01/08/2019 - Patch Notes and Discussions

Discussion in 'Test Update Notes and Bug Roundup' started by EQ Dev, Jan 7, 2019.

  1. EQ Dev Developer

    January 08, 2019
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    *** Items ***

    - Duende Hero's Forge Ornaments will drop in The Burning Lands zones.
    - Altered the HP/mana-endurance values of Secret Dawn Gem of Vigor and Secret Dawn Gem of Brilliance.
    - Corrected the proc and casting proc on Ascending Sun Bodkin to the one-handed version.
    - Fixed an issue where Secret Dawn Compound Bow, Secret Dawn Longbow, Ascending Sun Compound Bow, and Ascending Sun Longbow were not granting the passive AA ability Prismatic Ward.
    - - Added the appropriate Disease/Corrupt damage focus to Secret Dawn Longbow and Ascending Sun Longbow.
    - Crystallized Luck is available on the NPCs that sell nobles.
    - The Torn Efreeti Boots and Tattered White Satin Gloves line will change worn looks to plate and chain as they turn more class specific. They both start with the leather/cloth look.
    - Increased the drop rate of Dark Elf and Bixie Hero's Forge Ornaments. Bixie Ornaments can now drop from the bixies in Bixie Warfront.
    - Fixed the icon and appearance of Fiery Quill of Rumination.
    - The Burning Lands items now have appropriate tribute values.
    - Removed the tradeskill flag from Primordial Pod of Water.
    - Fixed an issue where several ranks of the item effect 'Strike of the Archer' were not dealing archery damage.
    - Dark Water's Lifeblood, Flask of Evening Fog, and Essential Relentless Flames no longer look like bags.
    - Altered the hate done by some Breastplate click spells from recent expansions. This specifically affects Unleashed Fury, Demon Crusher, and Nature's Fury.
    - Corrected typos in the name of Lemon Breaded Primordial Filets and Purified Plasma Shot.


    *** Tradeskills ***

    - Updated the recipe for Secret Dawn Mace Muhbis to properly use Oval Cut Elder Mist Diamond and Trillion Cut Elder Mist Diamond.
    - Change The Burning Lands Purified Coal to Primordial Coal to differentiate it from the other Purified Coal.

    *** Quests And Events ***

    - Reduced the chance to get Mortal Corporeal Type 5 augments from NPCs and Chests. The primary source for these is the vendor.
    - Trials of Smoke / Plane of Smoke: The fling pad from the water room in the arena should land you in a safer location.
    - Task Sneaky Sarnak: Step 15th should spawn Lcea if she is not already up.
    - Fight Fire - Fixed a typo in a pop-up message.
    - Crypt Robbers - Corrected several NPCs that were errantly on the Damsel of Decay faction.
    - Crypt Robbers - Fixed a bug that could prevent the event from completing successfully when making an accusation.
    - Contract of war now requires that you loot the Writ of Access - King in Esianti item before the king will spawn. The guardian mephits will spawn outside of the room so they do not open the door for you.
    - Prince Ralaifin: Raid and Mission. Prince Ralaifin's Enfeeblement and Prince Ralaifin's Softening now explode from the target instead of the boss when they go off. The raid versions of these spells increased in effectiveness.
    - Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - Increased the power of enemies in this mission.
    - Trial of the Wending Ways: This trial will no longer give the Appointments Required achievement if the trial is done out of order.
    - Prince Ralaifin Raid: The message about the Ralaifins filling with holly light will no longer display the 00 in the text.


    *** Spells ***

    - Fixed an issue that could cause progressive spells to fail to grant you their necessary component spells.
    - - Ex: Scribing 'Dissident Companion' could fail to grant 'Dissident Companion 1-5'.
    - Whispering Midnight Warding Fire, Whispering Midnight Warding Magic, Blazing Euphoria Warding Fire, and Blazing Euphoria Warding Magic show which damage type they protect in their spell description.


    *** AA ***

    - Poison Mastery AA's now state that they effect Make Poison instead of Tinkering.
    - Bard - Fixed a bug where ranks 9-10 of Domination Mastery were not extending the duration of single target mesmerization songs.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Sagacious Great Jade no longer sells Runic Sortilege Sheets or Fine Runic Sortilege Sheets


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - Fixed a typo with the messages displayed when successfully picking a lock or sensing a trap.
    - Fixed an issue where some items in the Marketplace Window could not be inspected.
    - Fixed a bug that could cause the 'Add Funds' button in the marketplace purchase window to fail to work under certain conditions.
    - The game will now launch all external web pages in your default browser.
    - The default name of text files created when using the /outputfile command will now include a server name. Ex: Soandso_Test-Inventory.txt.
    - Added a hidecorpse alwaysnpc command, which hides current and future NPC corpses, but leaves player corpses intact.
    - - Corrected an issue where hidecorpse always would leave a phantom version of your corpse after being resurrected.
    - Entering a load balanced zone from character select will now send you to the least populated instance of the zone.
    - Added scheduled updated events to the calendar for the first half of 2019.


    *** UI ***

    - Charms will now display the correct luck for items when inspected.
    - Fixed an issue where you could not open the last two bags if you had 40 slot bags in every slot and had each of them open.
    - The Faction Window now allows you to sort entries by Reaction or Standing in addition to Faction Name.
    - Spell and combat ability resist messages will now include the name of the target (if you are the caster) or the name of the caster (if you are the target.) Additionally, the name of the spell will now function as a link to the spell description.
    - - Ex: 'You resist the Skunk Spray spell!' is now 'You resist a large skunk's Skunk Spray!'
    - - Ex: 'Your target resisted the Fireball spell.' is now 'A large skunk resisted your Fireball!'
    - Corrected an issue where pet damage wouldn't report at a large distance if you turned on other's hits.
    - Specifying an optional filename for /outputfile now automatically appends '.txt' to the end of the filename if it is not already specified.
    - Made the following adjustments to the Alternate Currency tab of the Inventory Window:
    - - Moved the 'maximum items in a stack' label and the 'Show currencies that you don't have' button down so that it doesn't overlap the currency list.
    - - Changed the Reclaim button to automatically reclaim the currency type on your cursor rather than requiring you to first select an entry in the currency list to reclaim to.
    - - Added a 'Reclaim All' button that reclaims all currency items in your inventory.
    - - Adjusting the column widths of the currency list will now save per character.
    - The speed of your target's name flash is no longer dependent on FPS settings. Added a slider in options to adjust the flash speed.

    - Changed -
    EQUI_AdvancedDisplayOptionsWnd.xml
    EQUI_Inventory.xml


    - The EverQuest Team
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  2. Frogmancer Augur

    No adjustment to the outrageous damage from all mobs in TBL zones, then? Casual players should just take their toys and go back to farming Bi'faak for the third year in a row?
    Spellfire and millaa like this.
  3. Tucoh Augur

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  4. Vinjin Lorekeeper

    "Prince Ralaifin (Mission) - Increased the power of enemies in this mission."

    This was already one of the harder missions in TBL with level 117 boss mobs and constantly spawning trash spiders, and you're increasing their power even more? For T1 loot no less??

    Totally not worth doing this mission again.
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  5. Cadira Augur

    - Added a hidecorpse alwaysnpc command, which hides current and future NPC corpses, but leaves player corpses intact

    I ...I can't even...I don't....OMG thank you so much! Clerics rejoice!
    doah, Risiko, Thrillho and 2 others like this.
  6. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    No fix for the Fight Fire achievments? These were reported on day 1 of release.

    No fix for the loot lockouts on all chars on an account?
  7. Akirrah Journeyman

    No fix for druid remote nukes and the heal portion not landing on pets?

    It's been months now getting rather frustrating.
  8. Forcallen Augur

    Lol at no Scent of Terris fixes or compromises.
  9. Cstoner187 Elder

    Will the 4 chase items in TBL still share xp? Feelsbadman....

    No mention of the 1 ground spawn not in game (Flowing Blue Ribbon) - Palace Aides in Esianti?

    #priorities
  10. Cadira Augur

    I DO think they overdid it on the HP of the mobs, but in all honesty, they were hitting like chumps. I don't know exact numbers but I could probably heal a lvl 107, eok group geared auto grant aa'd Paladin in my sleep through it's entirety.

    If I'm reading the note about them making the ae's explode from the player instead of the boss right, it sounds like mana should not be a problem on the last guy anymore if players are paying attention so that makes it a bit easier.
  11. Orbital101 Augur

    Nothing about type 19 augs dropping more frequently ;(
    Nothing about a fix on broken achievements ;(
    Nothing about a fix on the missing collection ;(
    Nothing about Evo items gaining the same amount of XP ;(
    <- Sad panda
  12. Jhenna_BB Proudly Prestigious Pointed Purveyor of Pincusions

    They don't include a lot things in test patches that have been fixed prior. With the laundry list of TBL fixes in need of happening, good chance this is one of those types of patches. *crosses fingers*
  13. mmats Augur

    Please change Bite of Tashani back to instant cast, or revert it completely.
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  14. Thrillho Augur

    Can this be reconsidered? Having a hate generating item is useful. Ideally adjusting already-existing hate-reducing abilities (monk: Silent Strikes) to be more useful against hate-generating items would be ideal. Then we have the option.
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  15. p2aa Augur

    Tanks thank you for this.
  16. Monkman Augur

    Have to agree with Thrillhouse, bp was great for saving a group when the tank went down and someone needed to step up and hold aggro while the priest could get a battle res in.
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  17. Risiko Augur

    This is awesome! Love it!
  18. doah Augur

    Search box for the Achievement window would be super nice.
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  19. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    Heh. All the reports I got (and a gut a bunch, not JUST one report) is that the Prince Ralaifin (Mission) is trivially easy.
    This type of feedback is what I based my changes on.
    I'm not sure about lack of notes (we sometimes make so many changes that we miss when a note isn;t there) but these should both be changed.
    In the end, there is always going to be differences of opinion on these type of changes.
    We are going with the general... the point of these items/effects is DPS not aggro production.
  20. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    my ticket was missing the "Jan 2019 patch" label. My fault:
    "Increased the drop rate of Fate's Accumulator and Blazing Euphoria augments."
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