Test Update Notes: Friday September 4, 2020

ABILITIES

• Balanced Synergy will now grant 15 Ability Double Attack and 30 Fervor once you are level 120, without requiring the completion of the Vanquishing the Chaos Descending achievement.

FREE TRADE SERVERS

• Updated the bonus scripts so that they should be less prone to conflicting with special events. Weekend double loot, and permanent Ethereals should once again be enabled on Isle of Refuge and Rivervale.

ITEMS

• Updated several turquoise item set adornments to match the minimum level on the granting item.
• Reignite the Flames items have been updated to the equivalent of fully infused and leveled Blood of Luclin items.
• Quest and collection rewards from Runneyeye Advanced have been brought into progression.

LIVE EVENTS

• Tradeskill journal text now specifies where to find solidified ethereal filaments.
• Gathering solidified ethereal filaments now has a corresponding chat message.
• Solidified ethereal filaments stack up to 800 now.
• Solidified ethereal filaments are now gathered three at a time.
• The Not So Nice Yet Accurate Prophecies of Beckah Stormsong – The thrashing spirits found in the overlands after quest completion will now properly clear their temp values and allow you to fight one after another.
• G.L.E.E.S.H. Marks now have a chance to drop in chests from the thrashing spirits.
• Al'Kabor's Ring of Fused Ore was removed from the event merchant, as there is no use for it during this event.
• The price of the Arcanist's Hover Platform has been reduced.

QUESTS

• Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice - The holy armor found in the Ossuary of Malevolence now says, "Inspect Armor".
• Feeling of the Fauna - Vashazdar Manoisti will now complete this quest, even if the player is also on "Hand of War - Eye of Fear".

TRADESKILLS

• Added a weapon damage conversion recipe book to several tradeskill book sellers throughout Norrath that may be used to craft damage conversion items that, when applied to a weapon, permanently convert that weapon to deal the applied damage type. These recipes may be crafted with bundles of any harvestable, a single rare or uncommon harvest, as well as a specific fuel that is sold by most general tradeskill fuel sellers.

ZONES AND POPULATION

• Solusek's Eye: The Calling [Heroic]
  • Unyielding Onslaught II, cast by tier 2 bosses, should inflict less damage over time.
  • Increments of Pyreduke Surtaug's Volcanic Armor may be reduced by means other than death.
  • Mortal Coil no longer displays effects that not of the caster's tier.
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 5 days to 3 days.
• Solusek's Eye: The Calling [Raid]
  • Bosses will now state who they are targeting their barrages at.
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 6.5 days to 5 days.
• Wracklands: Diaku Corral [Solo]
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 18 hours to 90 minutes.
• Wracklands: Diaku Corral [Heroic]
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 5 days to 18 hours.
• Wracklands: Showdown at High Noon [Challenge]
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 5 days to 18 hours.
• The Fabled Plane of War [Raid]
  • Minimum duration has been reduced from 6.5 days to 5 days.
  • Corrected an issue in previously saved zones that caused base population to not be attackable.
• Greater Faydark
  • Brodo Gillywump no longer spawns below the floor in the Cloister of Growth.
• Antonica
  • Using the World Bell to enter Antonica no longer has a the chance of placing you inside the Gigglegibber game vendor barrel.