Test Update Notes: Wednesday, January 23, 2013

This update should occur around 2pm PST.


GENERAL
Bag Sorting:

• Baubles will no longer consider themselves as equipment and vice versa when using the bag sorting function.
• All and Skip have been altered for the sorting options and should now function a lot smoother.
• Adornment removers will now filter themselves to the same place as adornments instead of Misc.
• A "Sort" button has been added to the character window and a bag options button has been added to the bag window.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Wurmbone Crag
Greatly reduced the HP on Errlik the Bludgeoner’s gnorgers. His gnorger that casts the Doom Tooth fear is now labeled as “a dooming gnorger” for priority killing.


ITEMS
Items in a merchant list will no longer show tooltips from previously examined instances of the same item if it had any adornments or experimentations.
End line Chains of Eternity collection quest rewards have had their quality improved to match the effort of attaining them. They are now Ethereal.
Fixed stats on Empowered Chestwrap of the Silver Reaper to be in line with other rare drop breastplates from Drinal. Adornments will pop off of this breastplate, and reforges will be reset with reforge tokens.
Rings, Earrings, and Wrist slot Imperial PVP gear now have set bonuses that activate when in PVP combat.
A set bonus has been added to Imperial PVP armor.
Blue adornment slots have been added to several Imperial PVP gear equipment slots. Check out the adornment merchant in Champion’s Respite for new PVP adornments!
Toughness and Lethality have been readjusted to give more of a bonus at lower levels.
Toughness and Lethality now have a much higher cap.
Imperial 2handed weapons now have 3 white slots and 2 blue slots. Any adornments that were already applied to these weapons will be automatically refunded.


TRADESKILLS
Fixed issue with several recipes.


ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
Assassin
Enhance: Jugular Slice now adds percent duration per rank instead of flat duration per rank.
Enhance: Paralyzing Strike now adds percent duration per rank instead of flat duration per rank.
Caustic Weaponry damage has been reduced in PVP combat.
Carnage damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Beastlord
Feral Primal damage has been reduced in PVP combat.
The on primal use damage portions of Primal Assault, Feral Intensity, and Feral Whirl have been reduced in PVP combat.
The proc damage amount of Truespirit Energy has been reduced in PVP combat.
Feral Intensity's upfront damage has been reduced in PVP combat.
Spinechiller Blood's damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Sharpened Claws upfront damage has been increased in PVP combat.
U'lla's Spinning Bite damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Quick Swipe damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Elnakii's Swipe damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Blindside's damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Bonechiller Venom damage has been increased in PVP combat.

Berserker
Insolent Gibe now only taunts the attacker instead of the target's group in PVP combat.
Rampager's bonus damage to Partisan Cleave has been reduced in PVP combat.
Enhance: Body Check now adds percent duration per rank instead of flat duration per rank.

Brigand
Highwayman's Advance damage has been reduced in PVP combat.
Poisoned Blades damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Conjuror
Planar Wrack damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Crusader
Divine Aura damage threshold for blocking hits has been reduced from 50% max HP to 35% max HP while in PVP combat.

Guardian
Overall Combat Art damage in PVP has been increased.
Hunker down now grants the Guardian a incoming heal received bonus in PVP combat.
Ruin damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Sever damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Overpower damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Taunting Assault damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Taunting Blow damage has been increased in PVP combat.

Necromancer
Grave Rot damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Ranger
Blazing Weaponry damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Shadowknight
Chaotic Blade damage and heal amounts have been reduced in PVP combat.

Sorcerer
Sanguine Sacrifice should apply reliably.

Swashbuckler
Pirate's Spin damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Warlock
Noxious Influx damage has been reduced in PVP combat.

Warrior
Dragoon Spin damage has been increased in PVP combat.
Executioner's Wrath damage has been increased in PVP combat.

Wizard
Incineration damage has been reduced in PVP combat.


DUNGEON FINDER
Added Elements of War, Sleepers: Awakening, and Skyshrine Instances to Dungeon Finder.