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  • April 19, 2006 Patch Message (good ts stuffs =)

    April 19th, 2006
    _____________________



    *** Headlines ***

    - Thank you for participating in the 7th Anniversary events. We hope you enjoyed them!
    - Applications for the Itemization Designer position are now closed. Thank you to all who submitted an application!
    - A new Monster Mission has been added to the Prophecy of Ro expansion.
    - The reuse time on all the veteran rewards has been reduced by 4 hours.
    - The stacking issues related to Gift of Mana and Abundant Healing have been resolved.
    - We are refunding the Spell Casting Deftness AA to Enchanters.
    - Loading to character select should be much faster than it has been.
    - You will no longer take damage when you have an aura on you and are moving fast while mounted.


    *** Quests

    - Added an item reward at the end of the Corruption story arc in Elddar. Turn in the Chalice of Life to Shalowen the Pure when you have finished the arc.
    - Changed the second kill element in Bill Whistletop's trade skill armor pattern book quest to include all Stillmoon stone drakes (instead of just the Stillmoon stone casters).
    - Fixed a bug with the Become the Vessel quest that would fail to give credit for kills when a pet got the kill shot.
    - Further adjustments to some of the tradeskill trophy tasks, especially Fletching, were made. In some cases this was to clarify and fix a bug, in others it was to ease some of the rare items needed by changing the element to another item.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Widdlethorpe in Stoneroot Falls will now give you Magical Corathus Coral if you wish to continue your practice even if you have already completed the Learning the Power mission. Just tell him you would like to practice.
    - It seems that the shipments of wolf blood were missing. You will now find Measure of Wolf Blood on the appropriate merchants.
    - Shards of Ro will no longer drop. Instead Powder of Ro will drop at a much greater rate than Shards did.
    - The gnomework bankers in Corathus Creep will no longer get involved in any fighting; they just want peace and a bouquet of bolts and gears.


    *** Events

    - Brazlin the High Priest of Ro has summoned his enforcer to help bring the difficulty of the Corruption of Ro raid more in line with the reward.
    - Upped the drop rate of Deathknell key pieces dropping from the Porthio event.
    - A new Monster Mission has been added to the Prophecy of Ro expansion. Speak with Oathmir in Devastation for more information.
    - The key to Tunare’s Shrine from the Corruption of Ro mission arch will now be placed on your key ring the next time you use it.
    - The Guardian of the High Priest in the Corruption of Ro mission will now have a chance to drop a Last Blood augment to bring the reward more in line with the difficulty of the event.


    *** Tradeskills ***

    - Added a Brewing Barrel to the Bazaar.
    - Rejoice, the master tradesmen of New Tannan have found a way to concentrate Celestial Solvent. This concentrated solution will work with three of the same magically imbued items as before in order to make three doses of celestial essence at a time.
    - Rock salt can now be ground to fine salt in batches of five or ten.
    - Fixed the tradeskill flag on Favor of Druzzil.
    - Raised the trivial on Druzzil's Steel Bowstring.
    - Adjusted the trivial on the highest end bows from Prophecies of Ro.
    - Reduced the yield of Composite Treant Laminating Adhesive to 2.
    - The poison Freezing Feedback has had the effect changed to Freezing Feedback (instead of Anemone Feedback).
    - Changed the research recipe for Blood of Saryrn to use Saryrn's ink additive instead of Bertoxxulous'.
    - Changed the research recipe for Legacy of Bracken to remove the use Ink of the Tribunal.



    *** Zones ***

    - Changed the teleporters within the bazaar. When going to a "Hall" from the base location, you are no longer facing the teleporter. When teleporting down from the hall, the location has been changed so that you are on the other side of the teleporter with it to your back. This should prevent lag from making you go in a loop.
    - There is now an augmentation sealer at the Wayfarer camp in Lavastorm.
    - The fungus farm in Kaladim has been re-cultivated.


    *** Player Characters ***

    - The AC cap and the returns over the cap for rangers and berserkers has been slightly increased.


    *** AAs ***

    - Refunded Spell Casting Deftness AA to Enchanters. SCD was being overwritten by Quick Buff (a similar AA with superior benefits).
    - Reduced the reuse time on all the veteran rewards by 4 hours.
    - The stacking issues related to Gift of Mana and Abundant Healing have been resolved. Abundant Healing is once again available to purchase for healing classes and should now work properly if you also have Gift of Mana. You cannot proc both of them with one spell, but should see both of them procing now.


    *** Items ***

    - Fazzle’s Map of East Wastes will no longer disappear from your inventory if you log out.
    - Altered many of the PoR Jewelry. This change was to fix No Drop Items that should have been Attunable, and to fix some statistics inconsistencies. Also, the HP/MANA gained were balanced with some recommended and required levels if the gain is 50 or greater. In some cases this resulted in greater restrictions, in others it actually reduced the restrictions.
    - Modified the Tribute and Guild Tribute values of several items that were either Attunable or NoDrop.
    - Changed the Tradeskill flag on a few more items.
    - The Fabled Baton of Flame now is now 27 damage, and +1 damage to fire, 18 delay.
    - The Fabled Flute of the Sacred Glade now has a 3.2 modifier to wind instruments.
    - The Fabled Shawl of Perception now has spell shielding and dot shielding instead of combat effects and accuracy.
    - Certain Fabled items have their AC increased.
    - Changed the Tanned Hides that were brought to my attention that had an abnormally high merchant greed setting to a more reasonable merchant greed setting.
    - Reduced the drop rate of the Sister’s Opulent Backstabber.
    - Increased the drop rate of the Spiroc Wingblade in Plane of Sky.
    - Modified the drop rate of plate, chain, leather, and silk on Rikkukin and Kessdona to better reflect the number of classes that can use the items.
    - Caerlyna will now trade an Ethereal Satchel of Gathering for an Ethereal Satchel of Gathering Token and vise versa.
    - Fixed many bag tokens that were stating the incorrect size for their appropriate bag.


    *** Spells ***

    - Several Prophecy of Ro NPC spells have been modified to be somewhat less annoying, like Resonating Screech, Howling, Grappling Roots, Thorny Vines, Sage’s Curse, and Shimmering Silence Dust.
    - Fixed an exploit with the buff blocking feature.


    *** Line of Sight ***

    - Line of Sight issues that were introduced with the last update should now be resolved.


    *** Guilds ***

    - Newly formed guilds will now be able to get into their guild halls.




    -- The EverQuest Team
    Last edited by Xulan; 04-19-2006, 01:03 PM.

    Master Artisan Xulan Du'Traix
    Dark Elven Scourge Knight
    Sanctus Arcanum
    Drinal
    My Tradeskill Services

  • #2
    Originally posted by Xulan
    April 19th, 2006
    _____________________


    - The fungus farm in Kaladim has been re-cultivated.


    -- The EverQuest Team
    The OC part of me is really relieved about this.

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    • #3
      - Reduced the yield of Composite Treant Laminating Adhesive to 2.

      Didn't this just get increased to 10?


      - Raised the trivial on Druzzil's Steel Bowstring.
      - Adjusted the trivial on the highest end bows from Prophecies of Ro.

      Very interested in the trivial changes on the bows, this (assuming increases in triv) in combination with the decrease in adhesives, should limit the number of new bows now flooding the market. I hope I do not see the trivials going down on a few of the recipes that filled the gap to 300.


      - Rock salt can now be ground to fine salt in batches of five or ten.

      Thank you.


      - Added a Brewing Barrel to the Bazaar.

      Thank you.
      Sunburnt Dmize - 80 Druid - D-Ro
      300 - Tailor +15%, Smith +12%, Fletcher +12%, Brewer +12%, JC +12%, Potter +12%, Baker +12%

      Phrump Eatsogres - 32 Gnome - D-Ro
      300 - Tinker +15%
      300 - Researcher +12%
      300 - Tailor +12%

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Xulan
        April 19th, 2006
        *** Quests

        - Changed the second kill element in Bill Whistletop's trade skill armor pattern book quest to include all Stillmoon stone drakes (instead of just the Stillmoon stone casters).
        Rejoice halflings who haven't done this yet as it was a ROYAL PITA and took forever!!!

        I'm also looking forward to harvesting more shrooms as I could never stop adding up the extra number of combines I could do if the patch was evenly distributed

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        • #5
          Wonderful changes, thanks Ngreth (and the other Devs too!)
          Master Artisan Maevenniia the Springy Sprocket Stockpiler of the really long name
          Silky Moderator Lady
          Beneath the silk, lies a will of steel.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by filobeto
            - Reduced the yield of Composite Treant Laminating Adhesive to 2.

            Didn't this just get increased to 10?
            You are perhaps thinking of Treant Laminate Adhesive, which should still be 10. The Composite Adhesive did have a yield of 6.

            Master Artisan Xulan Du'Traix
            Dark Elven Scourge Knight
            Sanctus Arcanum
            Drinal
            My Tradeskill Services

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            • #7
              Originally posted by filobeto
              - Reduced the yield of Composite Treant Laminating Adhesive to 2.

              Didn't this just get increased to 10?
              It was 6.
              The tradeskill gods smiled on me this time, a reseller bought all my bows last night, so I got around to making glue from the 5 hooves and skins I had stockpiled.

              - Raised the trivial on Druzzil's Steel Bowstring.
              - Adjusted the trivial on the highest end bows from Prophecies of Ro.

              Very interested in the trivial changes on the bows, this (assuming increases in triv) in combination with the decrease in adhesives, should limit the number of new bows now flooding the market. I hope I do not see the trivials going down on a few of the recipes that filled the gap to 300.
              The composite bows (regular and druzzil) are now 300+. Doesn't really have any real change in production levels, since they are still 95% to anyone 282+ with a trophy. It does give make the bows more practical for skill ups though. The adhesive change otoh should really slow production.

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              • #8
                Yeah for rock salt change!
                Clicking that single item combine 40 times per batch of solutions was so annoying. . .

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                • #9
                  Ah yes, it was 6.

                  Overall, awesome changes....as previously stated,

                  Thank you!
                  Sunburnt Dmize - 80 Druid - D-Ro
                  300 - Tailor +15%, Smith +12%, Fletcher +12%, Brewer +12%, JC +12%, Potter +12%, Baker +12%

                  Phrump Eatsogres - 32 Gnome - D-Ro
                  300 - Tinker +15%
                  300 - Researcher +12%
                  300 - Tailor +12%

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                  • #10
                    -Added a Brewing Barrel to the Bazaar.
                    - There is now an augmentation sealer at the Wayfarer camp in Lavastorm.

                    These two things make me happy beyond words. Thank you Devs!

                    -Ikken
                    Ikken Susceptor of the Truthbringer75th Paladin of Sheep
                    Luclin Server
                    Journeyman Artisan
                    253 Smithing250 Tailoring250 Fletching
                    252 Baking250 Brewing
                    250 Jewelcraft256 Pottery

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                    • #11
                      Not in the patch message, but Gnomish Heat Source now stacks to 25 instead of 20.
                      Sir KyrosKrane Sylvanblade
                      Master Artisan (300 + GM Trophy in all) of Luclin (Veeshan)
                      Master Fisherman (200) and possibly Drunk (2xx + 20%), not sober enough to tell!
                      Lightbringer, Redeemer, and Valiant servant of Erollisi Marr

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                      • #12
                        As an aside, is there a solvent salesperson near the new birdbath?
                        Andyhre playing Guiscard, 78th-level Ranger, E`ci (Tunare)
                        Master Artisan (2100 Club), Wielder of the Fully Functional Artisan's Charm, Proud carrier of the 8th shawl


                        with occasion to call upon Gnomedeguerre, 16th-level Wizard, Master Tinker, E`ci (Tunare)


                        and in shouting range of Vassl Ofguiscard, 73rd-level Enchanter, GM Jewelcrafter, E`ci (Tunare)

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by KyrosKrane
                          Not in the patch message, but Gnomish Heat Source now stacks to 25 instead of 20.
                          Good news ... although, while any help there is appreciated, 40 woulda been better. Just for a lesser annoyance-factor more than anything else.



                          And (not TS-related, but still) ....

                          - Several Prophecy of Ro NPC spells have been modified to be somewhat less annoying, like Resonating Screech, Howling, Grappling Roots, Thorny Vines, Sage’s Curse, and Shimmering Silence Dust.


                          Bout time ... that's been almost intolerable the way mobs chain-cast those ridiculous spells. Especially the roots.
                          Last edited by Wymp; 04-19-2006, 07:54 PM.



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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by andyhre
                            As an aside, is there a solvent salesperson near the new birdbath?
                            Yea it is in Arcstone where there is no Birdbath (still)
                            Exarch Teledriel Miharu
                            The Relentless, Cazic-Thule

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                            • #15
                              Been farming the mushrooms in Kaladim and I can tell what changed exactly. On the south row, the furthest east spawn has been changed from underfoor to strange dark fungus, making the count 8/9 per cycle. Also another strange dark fungus was added to the north row next to the east most mushroom, raising the farming count to 9/9 per cycle. The time savings is defiantly noticeable when farming a fixed number of pairs. Instead of spending a litle over an hour to collect 90 pairs with the old system, you now only spend one hour even, saving 12 minutes total give or take. For anyone working on brewing trophy, this saves over 2 hours worth of farming to get about 1,000 pairs.

                              I'd kiss Ngreth for getting this through but I have a thing about kissing an agre. /lol

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