May 25, 2011

Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher):

• House of Thule Tier 4 group armor AC was a bit lower than it should have been. It has been raised to the proper level.
• Circle spells such as Guardian Circle I will now only land on players, their pets, and mercenaries.
• The Vicious Rabbit will no longer benefit from AAs that affect swarm pets.
• Changed the focus effect on Recondite Rageblade Gauntlets, Ambiguous Rageblade Gauntlets, and Lucid Rageblade Gauntlets to Bubbling Rage. They were incorrectly using the raid focus effect.
• Items that increase skills now have a cap on how much skill they can increase. For existing items, this cap has been set to be equal to its current effect at maximum level.

• The First Creation - Corrected a problem with the raid that could cause some players to crash and prevent the First Creation from leaving a corpse.

• Bard - Decreased the damage added by Lyrin's Psalm of Potency slightly but added the ability to affect both fire and magic DoT spells.
• Beastlord - Lowered each rank of Focus of Emiq by one HP so it will no longer overwrite Exigent Focusing.
• Beastlord - The positive and negative effects of Nevir's Aggression and Nevir's Protection have been increased.
• Berserker - Shared Bloodlust and Shared Brutality now share a timer.
• Magician - Spear of Magma has been increased in damage but will be less efficient.
• Monk - Drunken Monkey Style should no longer interfere with other combat abilities.
• Necromancer - Moved Ninavero's Swift Lifedraw to its own timer.
• Rogue - Increased the backstab damage done by Battery.
• Shaman - Idols of Malos are now less intrusive.

• Translocator Narrik should now have better aim if you ask him for assistance in travelling to Butcherblock Mountains.
• Bindral Argaff in Plane of Knowledge will now accept the Madness of Stomple item.
• Mooto in Al'Kabor's Nightmare should now be less elusive.

• The Summoned Tribute Master is now available to veterans of at least 13 years.
• Removed the illusion component of many AA based form changing abilities/buffs. The stat/effect bonus is unchanged. The illusions are planned to be added as separate triggered spells in an upcoming update. The affected abilities are:
• Beastlord - Bestial Alignment
• Beastlord - Pact of the Wurine
• Necromancer - Gift of the Grave
• Ranger - Guardian of the Forest
• Ranger - Group Guardian of the Forest
• Shaman - Group Pact of the Wolf
• Shaman - Rabid Bear
• Shadowknight - Visage of Death
• Beastlord - Bestial Bloodrage and Divine Companion Aura no longer have a timer conflict.
• Beastlord - Reduced the reuse timer on Diminutive Companion to 1 second.
• Cleric - Purify Soul no longer shares the timer with Group Purify Soul.
• Druid - Fixed a bug with Nature's Fury that was allowing druids to remove the detrimental aspect of the ability.
• Enchanter - Mental Contortion should now (correctly) debuff all weapon skills instead of just 1hb.
• Enchanter - Phantasmic Reflex should no longer conflict with Cleric's Vie line or Shining Rampart. The damage absorbed has also been increased slightly.
• Enchanter - Beguiler's Banishment and Directed Banishment root effects should no longer conflict with Ranger's Flusterbolt line.
• Enchanter - Edict of Command's new ranks are now available for purchase.
• Magician - Increased the min/max damage bonus for Fire Core starting with Rank 2 scaling up to Rank 5.
• Necromancer - Embalmer's Carapace and Dead Man Floating will no longer have conflicting refresh timers.
• Rogue - Precision has been restructured to actually function the way it was intended now, noticeably increasing backstab accuracy. You may begin rejoicing!
• Wizard - Cryomantic Snare will no longer bypass run speed immunities.
• Wizard - Acute Focus of Arcanum should now correctly focus spells up to level 90.
• Wizard - Third Spire of Arcanum Rk 3 should now correctly focus spells up to level 90.

• Iksar-only equipment will not drop in the Plane of Hate on Progression servers until Kunark is available.
• Opal H'Rugla in Neriak is now available on Progression servers.
• The Bloodsaber Defiler's head will now drop on Progression servers.

• Fixed a server time out issue with certain container items.
• Tweaked server code to better handle load.
• Fixed a problem that occurred when transferring a plot to someone already on the access list for the plot (the new owner would be locked out).
• Fixed an animation issue when certain mounts were in full gallop.
• Fixed an issue where some data was not properly appearing on the Welcome Screen.
• The "My Plot" search will now only show what you actually own instead of everyone with a similar name as you.
• Fixed an issue that caused some textures that had been down-sampled to never be up-sampled again even when they came within the up-sampling distance.
• Fixed a problem related to texture time-outs always using the far time timeout value, causing them to timeout much faster than they should have.
• Fixed a grouping issue with players changing their names.

• The Marketplace now has a preview tab so you can instantly preview the items.
• Fixed some crash issues when using a custom UI that doesn't have the "MKPW_Subwindows" element in the Marketplace window.
• Fixed a bug that was causing certain windows to not properly resize when inside tab windows.
• Fixed a bunch of display issues regarding lighting, scaling, and camera angles with the preview window.
• Fixed a bug where the item window wasn't properly displaying the skill mod stat for blunt weapons.
• Fixed a resizing bug where if a window was resized to smaller than its min size during a single cursor move (or to larger than its max size), then no resizing would be done, rather than it being resized to the min/max size. It will now be resized to the min/max size in that situation.

• Changed -

EQUI_Animations.xml EQUI_MarketplaceWnd.xml EQUI_Templates.xml

• The EverQuest Team