Patch Message: The important stuff

[Cendorly]

Silicorrosive Grease is now tradable and stackable.

OMG YES! It's about time they fixed this!! Now some of the stuff from PoI can be made! This was such a nightmare with the grease being no drop. Not only from the point of needing the diamond, but also making glaze, etc.

WTG on fixing this!

[Asharad]

Nervously waits to see how this affects the already dismal drop rate for mugs of sea foam from Seafury Cyclops....

Dismal? On Quellious you can't give the stuff away. I've encountered it on vendors in Halas. Can there really be that much of a difference between servers on the drop rates?

I want to know if they will fix the Somber Origins recipe.

On Xev I'd bet one only drops off every 10th seafury...

[Elmarr Armoursmythe]

Also In Today's Patch Message...

Also in today's patch message:

- Noirin Khalen now gives out the proper jewelry book.

Hmmm... this is the PoK Jewelcrafting lady... Anyone check this out yet?
Regards,

[EnfinitiStarr8]

I posted this over in the Alchemy Forum but adding it here so people can know stats on some of the new potions:

From Magelo;

Potion of Assailing
Class: NONE
Mana: 0
Skill: Abjuration
Effects:
Increase Attack speed by 30% (L1) to 51% (L65)
Increase Strenght (STR) by 15 (L1) to 79 (L65)
Increase Agility (AGI) by 15 (L1) to 79 (L65)
Target: Self
Duration: 20 ticks (2 minutes)
Casting Time: 0 second
Recovery Time: 0 second
Recasting Time: 0 second
Resistance Check: None
Message when someone cast on you: Adrenaline surges through your body.
Message when someone cast on other: Aradune becomes violent.
Message when spell fades: Your adrenaline fades.

and

Troll`s Essence
Class: NONE
Mana: 0
Skill: Abjuration
Effects:
Increase Hit Points (HP) by 3 per tick over 30 ticks
Increase Strenght (STR) by 10
Target: Self
Duration: 30 ticks (3 minutes)
Casting Time: 0 second
Recovery Time: 0 second
Recasting Time: 0 second
Resistance Check: None
Message when someone cast on you: You feel a rush of adrenaline.
Message when someone cast on other: Aradune begins to rage.
Message when spell fades: Your adrenaline fades.

That's all I could find. Now, the servers have been up for half a day and someone has not made the Alchemy GM Trophie yet! Come one people! Anyways, I hope this is just the begining to much more and better things for Alchemy.

[Cigarskunk]

I wonder if they gave the shammy GM trophy a lower trivial? If not, then it's going to be more of a punishment then a reward.

[Shaman Arriana]

Nobody seems to have hit on the combine yet...when the original tradeskill trophies were released, where did the recipe information come from? I tried talking to Jolum, but he had nothing to say.

Maybe the same source has information on the alchemy trophy.

[Sylphan]

then there's the followup to the patch message, posted by Alan. This is a huge nerf to PoP pottery recipes, and also a huge nerf to enchanters and other debuffers.

"Update to the Patch Message for 2-4-03
With the patch on February 4th we fixed a bug with Affliction foci, but we failed to mention it in the patch message. We corrected a bug that was allowing these foci to work for too many spell types, including things like snares and slow. Affliction foci now only work on damage over time spells.
...
We understand that this change has an effect on some players. But these foci have always been intended to work exclusively on DoT spells, and we do not plan to undo the bug fix."

but my favorite part, which nobody should believe for a second:
'We apologize for not mentioning this fix in the patch message. ... We certainly wouldn't have left this information out on purpose. "