May 25, 2011 ------------------------------ Here are the patch notes from this morning's game update (taken from the patcher): *** Items *** - 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. *** Quests & Events *** - 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. *** Spells *** - 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. *** NPC *** - 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. *** Progression Servers *** - 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. *** Miscellaneous *** - 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. *** UI *** - 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