Patch message Wednesday 10th March

[Niellya]

Ford Motor Co. has recalled more than 1.3 million Taurus and Sable sedans in two separate actions to fix a faulty brake light and replace an air filter that can catch fire, the automaker said in letters to safety authorities released Wednesday.


Sedans are so irrelevant now I'm amazed they even bothered. A sedan would be such a MPH downgrade for me from the expensive sports car my cool rich friends and I are driving now, they should just do away with sedans completely.

[Hibashira]

LOL Niellya, that's a good one!

[Itzena]

SK epic - arguably the second hardest epic to do in game.
A random (relatively) cheap Bazaar-bought sword

Plus the SK epic is dedicated to the wrong deity.

[Remi]

I'm still holding out hope that they did fix CE's to be mixed in another container with the new UI, but we just haven't discovered it yet! And, even if not, at least we can still make them in the M&P for the time being. I am a bit disappointed though if CE's haven't been fixed along with the other stuff, but hopeful.

As far as epics, I'm a 65 druid, flagged for the elemental planes. I have the Blade of Tempest from MM. However, I still use my epic, not as a blade, but for the manaless dot, when farming, when soloing, and even occassionally on elemental plane raids when caught by a mana reducing AE dot. Just because one person considers them irrelevant, doesn't mean s/he is right, except for themselves.

[Koru]

Depends a lot on your class doesn't it? Cleric, druid, mage, and yes, even enchanters get pretty decent epics in terms of effects and stats. My paladin won't do his epic though since I need the DPS from more up-to-date weapons and those book halves are a bigger pain in the neck than I'm prepared to do for that reward. I know the weapon is nice to other paladins who do the quest out of stubborn pride or because they don't/can't afford to buy the better weapons. Meanwhile try finding a 65th lvl cleric who doesn't either have their epic or is working on it. Not all epics are created equal.

[kiztent]

Originally posted by Lilosh
There, I fixed it for you.


You'll get my Epic after you give me a Blade of Tempest to replace it.

That's not a fix. I spent more time getting one class their epic and it's not shadowknights. I've listened to more bitching from that same class, and I've seen more member of that class ditch guilds that still bothered with epics for guilds that progressed after getting their epics. Removing the SK epic would not increase my happiness at all.

[Thorvari]

/Derail off

Now that we are back on the topic of the Patch message and its changes, this patch has introduced a bug with respect to spell based melee haste for pets.

Currently Pet Haste spells will NOT work properly unless the pet ALSO has a worn haste item such as Muzzle of Mardu. It is assumed that the changes to the Haste code to account for the change in display manner cause it to not properly parse haste with a worn haste value of 0.

SOE is aware of the problem, and the fix appears to be on Test, but did not make the file push last night.

[Talbot]

Tribute
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A few items have had their tribute value adjusted.

Does anyone know if they lowered the BD Cultural armor tribute values?

[Niami DenMother]

They have broken the Vale Sewing kit. It no long will combine dire wolf tufts. Says get a different kit!! This was the only kit that could make these.. WTH???

Calm down, young grasshopper {grins} , and be 100% absitively posilutely sure that a) you are a halfling, b) your Vale kit was in your inventory, not in your bank, and it was, truly your Vale kit that you were using, not one of the many other kits out there, c) you had three UNstacked tufts of dire wolf fur AND an embroidering needle in the kit (easy to get things jumbled when working with tufts, and patches and such).

I just risked the tell nightmare that is brought about by logging Niami on during a patch day, and happily combined tufts, then patches, with no problems.

[Woodeckt]

BIG HOBBIT HUGGLES DenMother.

[Dumpty]

The magician epic certainly is not irrelevant.

one of the major hassle epics vs. PoP pet is superior and almost no one equips it for stats = it is to me

[Kytelae]

All the dire wolf fur combines worked fine for me tonight.

I love my leafblower and will never give it up. It means too much to me.

CEs are still experimental combine in the M&P

That is all!

[Samoht]

Looks like the Solstice Earring market will take a dive after the implementation of scaled based effects. I wonder how many people will get this for their twink now.

[Mileron]

Originally posted by Samoht
Looks like the Solstice Earring market will take a dive after the implementation of scaled based effects. I wonder how many people will get this for their twink now.

Wha?

Solstice earring always had a rec level 51. (maybe not always, but for a very very long time)
And no matter what, the +1 mana regen will work, since it can't scale from zero.

[Elfdruidess]

I just used a lvl 1 char to check the links of both the Solstice Earring and the Medallion of the Arcane Scientist. Both items are recommended lvl 51. Solstice Earring is still Mana Regen +1. Arcane Scientist is +1 (out of +3). So Mileron is correct. It cannot scale from zero and a +1 will be +1 even on a lvl 1.