Game Updates/08192008

Player Character

• The Catacombs in Tarantia Nobel district offers a host of new quests and encounters to challenge you in this group instance.

Classes

Mage (General)

• Dark Meditation will now properly expire.
• Dark Meditation should now be removed from the spell list after untraining feats.
• The deception for the general feat Purge no longer refers to multiple targets.
• The feat "Purge" has been renamed to "Spell - Purge".
• Mirrored Iron's proc, Seat's Shield, now hits using the correct damage type based on the Magic Rating buff running.
• Mirrored Iron's proc, Seat's Shield, has had its damage readjusted to the proper amount.

Rogue (General)

• Ambush ability will no longer increase the damage of the next strike.
• Mountaineer feat's decrease to the duration of the Bruised Body debuff has been changed from 50%/100% to 45%/90% per respective rank.
• Mountaineer feat's decrease to the duration of the Broken Bones debuff has been changed from 25%/50% to 30%/60% per respective rank.
• Quick Dismount will not go on cooldown unless you are mounted.
• Cheat the Reaper will now work 25%/50% of the time per respective feat point spent.
• Cheat the Reaper can now only activate once every 5 minutes.

Soldier (General)

• Brutal Enraging Wound and Engaging Wound will now always tick 3 times.
• Brutal Enraging Wound now displays the proper damage over time value in the combo tool tip.
• Spell damage will now properly tiger Cunning Deflection.

Assassin

• Grim Corruption I's debuff will now stack with the other Grim Corruption debuffs.
• Grim Corruption will now debuff Unholy and Poison Invulnerabilities by 5% at each rank.

Barbarian

• All the Savage Rage combos now use the same animation as Savage Rage IV.
• Impale's cooldown has been increased to 40 seconds.
• Impale's bonus damage will now scale consistently with feat points invested.

Bear Shaman

• Aspects - Blood Fever, Skulk, and Untamed Regeneration will no longer be removed after zoning.
• Claws of Life will no longer be removed after zoning.
• Spirits of the Debased proc buff now uses the proper icon in the buff GUI.
• Spirit Totem: Profane will now always give Unholy Invulnerabilities with each rank of Spirits of the Debased trained.

Conqueror

• Conquest's bonus to One-Handed weapon damage has been increased across all ranks.
• Deep Wounds will now stack properly.
• Deep Wounds' proc rate has been slightly increased.
• Deep Wounds now displays a stack count in the target's debuff GUI.
• Deep Wounds' DPS has been increased slightly.
• Feint Attack I will no longer scale past Feint Attack II at any level.
• Frostbite will now debuff magical damage in addition to melee damage.
• Frostbite will now have an additional larger debuff component versus PvP targets on top of the normal debuff.
• Frostbite's chance to apply off of a Hoarfrost proc has been doubled.
• Hail of Furious Strikes II will no longer scale past Hail of Furious Strikes III at any level.
• Lacerate will now proc off all non-unarmed melee attacks.
• Lacerate's proc rate has been slightly increased.
• Lacerate now displays a stack count in the target's debuff GUI.
• Lacerate's DPS has been increased slightly.
• Lingering Wrath's damage has been slightly reduced.
• Lingering Wrath will now always tick 5 times.
• Offhand Precision's bonus has been doubled at all ranks. It will now increase Offhand Chance by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10% per respective rank.
• Rend Flesh's duration has been increased to 15 seconds. The cooldown has also been increased to 1 minute.
• Rend Flesh's damage over time effect will now last 5 seconds.
• Rend Flesh now displays a stack count in the target's debudff GUI.
• Rend Flesh's damage over time effect will now scale better with more feat points invested.
• Improved Rend's direct damage hit will now scale better with more feat points invested.
• Two-Handed Master's bonus to Two-Handed weapon damage will now scale more consistently.
• Renamed Auras & Battle Crys, and included level up info in descriptions.

Dark Templar

• The name of the feat "Spell - Dooming Presence" has been changed to "Combo - Dooming Presence", since it actually does grant a combo and not a spell.
• Pact of Malacodor should now be removed from the spellbook after untraining feats.
• Reaper of Malacodor should now be removed from the spellbook after untraining feats.
• Covenant of Arms will no longer be removed after zoning if you have the appropriate feat.

Demonologist

• Chaotic Blast's damage component can now perform critical hits.
• Demonic War will no longer be removed when zoning.

Guardian

• Guard I will no longer scale past Guard II at any level.
• Lowered the damage of Stagger I slightly.
• Increased the damage of Stagger II slightly.

Herald of Xotli

• Undying Glory of Xotli should no longer be removed when zoning.
• Fixed a tool tip issue causing the wrong information to be displayed in the Burning Words feat.

Necromancer

• Despoil the Soul will now show the proper duration when viewing the tool tip of the spell.
• Despoil the Soul duration has been increased to 1 hour.
• Spellweaving buff 'Death God' duration has been reduced to 20 seconds.
• The cabal debuff will now use the proper icon in the target's debuff window.

Priest of Mitra

• Armor of Faith will no longer be removed by Hand of Mitra.

Ranger

• Incapacitating Stabs I will never scale past Incapacitating Stabs II at all levels.
• Marked Target will now stack properly when 2 points are invested in the feat.
• Piercing Stance, Shattering Stance, Sniper Stance, and Fire Stance will no longer be removed when zoning if the appropriate feat is trained.
• Shattering Shots will now properly remove the directional shielding in the target GUI.
• Immolation should work more consistently.

Tempest of Set

• Lightning Cast will now properly put Lightning Strike on a 5 second cooldown.
• A book in your offhand will no longer spin during attack animations.

Combat

• The attack at the end of a charge can no longer be aborted.
• Transitions between 2H-attacks for male & female characters should feel smoother.
• The male UP-attack animation for staves should now work correctly.
• Charge, Ursine Rush, Impale (Guardian), Stunning Charge, and Hellstep can no longer be used while Hidden.
• Melee pets will now do splash damage.
• Knockback should have a proper animation again.
• Using an ability while charging (such as Cunning Deflection) should no longer lock up your movement.
• You should no longer be able to damage or heal dead targets with spells or combos.
• Fixed a cause of sliding during combat.
• Initiating chat with an NPC while performing attacks will now stop your attack animation as intended.
• You can no longer de-apprentice while in combat.

Massive PvP

• If the attacking guild takes over a battlekeep, any city guards that are left will now despawn.
• Players can now only spawn a ballista while the city is vulnerable to attack.
• Catapult progress bar no longer shows Trebuchet Blast.
• Once the siege battle is finished, the siege weapons and siege camps will now be properly disposed of.
• Ballista siege weapons will no longer cycle between all targets they have. They will use the last target instead, making them more useful in combat.
• If you get teleported out of a battle you will now end up in the nearest NPC village of the connecting resource and building playfield, instead of ending up in the nearest city.
• The siege camp in Burnheim which previously spawned at the wrong location will now spawn at the proper location.
• It's now possible to get a replaced siege targeting module if you lost one. Simply target the weapon and press the use button to get a replacement.
• Only the defending guild can talk to the ballista builder NPCs.
• The siege camps will now give a message when they are used when the city isn't vulnerable.
• Player city guards are now friendly to the guild that owns the city.
• Siege Weapons should no longer fail to initialize properly.
• Ballista NPCs should always spawn when the city becomes vulnerable.
• Vendors should no longer spawn if the vulnerability window opens when the building has just finished being built.
• Members of the attacking guild should no longer get teleported out of the instance when zoning into a siege that is already in progress.
• Siege Weapons should no longer report that the target is out of range when it's not out of range. A different error message will appear if the siege weapon was unable to fire at the target for some reason.
• Massive PvP city NPCs should only be usable by the owners of the city.
• Defending players in a siege will no longer get points for character kills.
• Time left in the siege battle before it ends will now display correctly in Score window.
• If no guild applies for a battle queue before the 24h prior to the siege are over, that battle queue will be locked and no guild will be assigned the Attacker role.
• Mammoth Sweep and Rhino Sweep damage increased and changed to Siege damage to properly damage buildings.

Player Cities/Guilds

• The Barracks in Player Cities will now spawn the correct amount of guards after being upgraded.
• Only the guild that owns the city will be able to use the NPCs inside their city.
• Renamed some player city feats to be in line with the names of the buildings.
• Barracks should now always show up in the guild feats window after being built.

Voice Acting

Additional Voiceacting for the following quests:

• Conallllage:
• Every Strong Arm
• Clans at War
• Conall's Valley:
• An Impending Attack
• Chaos in the Fortress
• Mayhem in the Fortress
• Decimate the Warhost
• Old Tarantia:
• The Wrong Kind of Message
• The Woman Who Never Died
• Wild Lands of Zelata:
• Tearing the Veil
• Immortal Acheron
• Khemi:
• The Raided Tomb
• The Satiated Serpent
• Khopshef Province:
• A Plea for Prophecy
• Sneaking Suspicions
• Lord Atum-Kheket
• Emerald Eyes
• Eiglophian Mountains:
• A Broken Bloodline
• The Blood-Furred Best
• Elina's Father
• A Daughter's Revenge
• White Hand Officers
• Field of the Dead:
• Death to the Vanir
• The Ymirish Bearlock
• Lieutenant Rhor
• Lieutenant Haken, Karras & Vorr
• Tabbot and the Scounts
• The Wolf Dream
• The Curse of the Werewolves
• Den of Wolves
• A Curious Encounter
• Atzel's Approach:
• The Giant Killings
• Against the Giant Chief
• Hard Evidence
• Trail to the Dragon's Lair
• The Stygian Diary
• Kheshatta:
• Lift the Curse of Constantius
• Master of the Silver Peacock
• Ibis, Master of Hidden Secrets
• Master of Gargoyles
• Thunder River:
• A Steep Cliff
• Heads of the Fallen
• Turning Point
• Absolute War

Quests

• Atzel's Fortress: Kidnapping & Torture - Any leftover Flasks of Oily Pitch will be removed when you complete this quest.
• Atzel's Approach: Revenge of the Ape God - This is now a group quest.
• Atzel's Approach: Power Behind the Throne - Item "Orders with the Mark of Set" no longer tells the player to right click on it to get a quest.
• Conarch Village: The Downtrodden - Croiss will no longer confuse a sword with an axe.
• Khemi: The Guardian statue will no longer send you into a dialog loop.
• Kheshatta: The Grim Grey God - You will now reset to the location where you zoned in if you log out in the instance.
• Kheshatta: The Grim Grey God - Sarcophagi and pedestals will have a progress bar when they’re being used.
• Kheshatta: Heady Kaphil Liquor - The flowers to be collected now have visual effects to help identify them.
• Kheshatta: Hunting the Waste - Weapons for this quest will now have a visual effect.
• Old Tarantia: The Aquilonian ******* - Fixed the dialogue so that the quest resolves if and only if the player has actually told Varinia about her husband's infidelity.
• Pyramid of the Ancients - The teleport altar behind Lord Atum-Keket will now be visible at all times.
• Pyramid of the Ancients - Solving the quest "Emerald Eyes" will actually give emerald eyes to the Guardian Statue.
• Tarantia Sewers: The Orphans in the Hovel - Quest now updates for the entire party after talking to Galeria.
• Thunder River: The Kitten - The cat now correctly patrols and eventually despawns.
• Wild Lands: Old Secrets - The password has been corrected in the quest journal.
• Kheshatta: Wanted , The Blasphemer - Ashka should now spawn correctly.
• Khopshef Province: The Slave Rebellion - The cage key will now drop correctly.
• Khopshef Province: Blessed Caves - Anata's Key should no longer remain in the player's quest inventory.
• Khopshef Province: Trapped by Lions - We have added a few new, interesting encounters. In addition, Lisimba now moves a bit quicker. The quest is now level 21 to reflect the surrounding mobs.
• Tortage Underhalls: Players will now be able to re-enter Raboz's Cell after finishing the quest Gone with the Wine, but before starting on the quest Ruins and Demise.

NPCs/Mobs

• Due to popular demand, we've forced some of our female Derketo followers to burn their bras.
• Tavern patrons in the Armsmans Tavern should no longer play strange animations.
• Deli in the Pyramid of the Ancients now looks poor, and possibly insane.
• Spiders will no longer jump back several feet when getting hit.
• Travel NPCs should offer correct dialog options for travel.
• New and updated loot has been placed in the Catacombs!
• Acheronian Ruins - The Pict Bat Shrieker will now patrol with pets. If attacked, he will keep spawning pets so that he always has 3 pets with him. If he leaves combat, he and his pets will resume patrolling.
• Acheronian Ruins - - All picts now have a specified class, and fitting weapon to this class. Added more mobs.
• Conarch Village - Removed a loop from Rhiderch, and Ryarm's dialog.
• Commander Zoria's costume and weapons have been revamped.
• Kalanthes will no longer stand on chairs in his house.
• Kyllikki's Crypt - The White Hand Priests will now use their healing and damage abilities.
• Lacheish Plains - Screamer Wolf, Wailer Wolf, Baying Wolf, and Whimpering Wolf NPCs now have the proper death and attack animations.
• Oasis of Zaara - Lions are no longer easy to defeat.
• Pyramid of the Ancients - The Master Torturer will no longer spawn multiple times in a row.
• Tarantia Noble District - Lady Verde's Bodyguard now looks the same both when seen on the outside and the inside of the villa.
• Tarantia Sewers/Catacombs - Putharjath should now have more interresting abilities.
• Treasury of the Ancients - Corrected a typo in Thuthmekri's dialog.
• White Sands Isle - Asapon will now correctly spawn at all times outside the Atlantean Cave.
• Khopshef Province: Hamadi should now patrol correctly at all times.
• Khopshef Province: Hidden Bandits will now dual wield.
• Khopshef Province: "Fine Potions" Merchant Nekhbet is now easier to interact with.
• Some bosses were using combos they weren't supposed to. This has been fixed.
• Traders in Conarch Village and elsewhere should always be available for use.

Items

• Sunsteel Half-plate Vambraces now have the proper full-plate requirement to wear, and can no longer be worn by everybody.
• Basic and Advanced Riding Training items will properly be comsumed on use.
• Pyramid of the Ancients: The essence trap can now only be used within the pyramid.

Mounts

• Rhino Charge should no longer go on cooldown unless successfully activated.

Tradeskills

• If you go linkdead while in the middle of a random encounter at a resource node, you will now be able to log back in with time to prepare before your next random encounter.
• Fixed a small typo that occured in an onscreen message when harvesting is interrupted.
• Vendor bought resources have been reduced in price.
• Added and adjusted drop rates of leather resources to animals residing in the Resource & Building playfields.
• Droprate for all Wild Lands of Zelata animals have increased.
• Droprate of Wild Dagga has been slightly increased in the world.

World Design

• Several collision fixes in Massive PvP Battlekeep playfields.
• Corrected a few areas where players could previously get stuck in the Tarantia Noble District.
• Conalls Valley night time environment has been altered to brighten the playfield slightly.

GUI

• Descriptions for Bandaging, Fast Healing, Mana Attractor, and Fast Recovery have been tweaked to be more consistent with actual function.
• Added descriptions to a few of the more obscure potions in Hyboria.
• The Combo Sequence Indicator should no longer get stuck when failing to complete a combo.
• Hide my helmet/cloak options should work again.
• Improved GUI Modifications to support the new PvP Consequence System.
• Corrected the names of some chat channels to be more accurate. Added a few new chat channels.
• The PVP XP bar can be toggled on and off. (Interface -> HUD)
• Floating healing numbers over the character's head are back.
• Fixed weird messages when teleporting in the massive PvP playfields.
• The optional GUI component Combat Rose will now react to every keypress in a fight instead of just the first one.
• Players can now use /<channelname> to talk to different channels.
• Items will no longer show +0.0 to any stats.
• A cause of flickering icons has been corrected.
• Fixed an issue with building model requirements failing when the models were stacked in your inventory.
• Crafted items will now display the "created by" name. (NOTE : This is a work in progress)

General

• Removed the Miss Chance from Shield of the Risen.
• You will no longer be zoned after speaking to a Feat Fixer.
• Several combat related animation issues - such as sheathing and unsheathing spears, holding swords - have been tweaked.
• Added a male animation for the dance_sexy_f emote, and renamed it to dance_sexy.
• Many typos corrected in quests and dialog.
• Fixed a case when the game stopped running after restoring from minimized state.
• Some assertion failure, memory leak, and crash causes were addressed.
• Black Castle: Player zoning rotation from Khopshef Province has been fixed.
• Voiceovers should no longer continue to play when you zone into another playfield.
• Shield of the Risen no longer displays its particle effects on hidden players (unless they're on your team)
• Typing /channelname followed by a space and no other text in chat will no longer crash the client.
• You will not be charged for resetting your skills unless the skill value is >= 150
• Zoning from Black Castle to Khopshef Province will now show the Epic Mode selection box.
• Fixed an issue where single player playfields would not reset.
• The'Out Of Disk Space' error should be fixed.
• Falling very large distances will no longer make you end up standing in mid-air.
• Tortage: Fixed lighting in the Thirsty Dog Inn.