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Old 04-30-2008, 01:25 PM   #1
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GAMEPLAY

The time limit between repeatable faction quests in Sinking Sands has been removed.
Damage that can not be resisted or mitigated will now be referred to as "focus" damage instead of crush/pierce/slash/poison/heat/cold/etc in combat chat messages.
Corpses of powerful creatures will now stay locked for twenty minutes.
Respawning near Jarsath Wastes in the Kylong Plains is slightly less dangerous.
Mounts should now suspend while feigning death or riding on a griffon, sokokar or cloud.

QUESTS

Grinash the Vicious and his pack will now trigger in the Steppes for players on "Vicious Assault". Previously he would only trigger while on "The Cove of Decay - Kraughl's Request".
Squire Kivan in Antonica will now give out the quest "Getting the Axe" to characters that he previously thought were too advanced for his quest.
The No-Trade flag has been removed from a large number of book pages that were dropped from mobs or harvested from page spawns. Check your inventories!
Clay golem hearts for "The Heart of Fear" quest in Cazic-Thule now drop as corpse loot instead of chest loot. They also will only drop while you are on the quest now.
Multiple players should now be able to receive an update from killing Pawbuster when on that portion of the Conjuror Epic quest.
Both the dropped and tradeskilled pristine fashioned nacre earring will now update the quest "Dukaris, Hero of the People".

ITEMS

The Nox Noctis Sword will no longer fit in the primary weapon slot.
Deathfist Citadel crafted armor stats have been improved. Existing armor will automatically receive the upgrade.
Duplicates of numerous books in the game that currently count toward one's total house items are now available on Navarius Orvalis and Indis Surion for purchase if you fulfill the original requirements for having received the book (ie, if you completed the quest it was a reward on).

SPELLS

The Karana deity pet and the sokokar pet should now stack together.
Swindler's Gift should now overwrite itself properly rather than giving an error about having a more powerful spell already.

Coercer
Possession has been renamed to Possess Essence. It now takes control of your target's essence and makes them into a pet that you can control.
Thoughtstones are no longer required as components for spells.
The Despotic Mind line will now trigger off player based spell attacks. In addition there is a new level 80 version called Tyrranous Mind The other reactive lines have changed to be based on taking damage from when a spell hits the NPC.
Puppetmaster has received an additional puppet.
The Harmonious link line now reduces hate position when the player takes a melee hit.

Conjuror
Golem pets have now mastered the skill of walking silently.

Crusader
The Paladin and Shadowknight squires should no longer look differently after zoning.

Enchanter
The stun and stifle lines will now do damage rather than drain power.
Enchanters will now also receive Call Servant and Shrink Servant at level 10.

Illusionists
The Personae line of pets should now nuke instead of attempting to power drain just like their owners do.

Mystic
The Ancient Balm line will now grant short duration immunities to any control effects it cures.

Necromancer
The Siphoning of Souls (Master II) will now also grant Master II abilities when it triggers on the death of an NPC.
Essences of Anguish are no longer given out nor required as components for spells.

Priests
Cure Noxious, Elemental, Trauma and Arcane have been consolidated into one spell called Cure.

Shadowknight
Despoiling Mist line should once again apply the same number of mitigation buffs as members of the encounter.

Warden
Tranquility will now last 1 minute and attempt to cure impairments on the target several times.

Warlock
Nil Crystals are no longer required as components for spells.
The Abhorrent Shroud line now has a power cost to replace the nil crystal requirement.

Wizard
The Surging Tempest line should now work as a dot with a triggered knockdown. This will make the spell work with Freehand Sorcery and Harmonization.

ACHIEVEMENTS

You can now gain Achievement Experience from gray con quests that are level 10 or higher.

Enchanter
Volatile Magic will now be a 15% boost that is always on.

Coercer
Tashania will now debuff all magical resistances but slightly less than before.

Coercive Healing will now give additional bonuses to reactive heal amount, beneficial casting time and beneficial reuse time.
Manaward now acts as a true ward with a ratio of 1 health to 1.5 power.
BROKER

You can now search the broker for items which give double attack, critical chance and damage additions.

PVP RULESET

Executioner's Fury should no longer put you into combat when it triggers.

BANK

On all servers:
Banks how have four extra slots for a total of twelve bank slots per character.
Shared banks now have four extra slots for a total of eight shared bank slots per account.
Shared banks now allow you to share coin between characters on the same account.

Exiled characters continue to be unable to use shared banks with other characters on the same account.

On PVE servers:
Shared banks are now shared between good and evil characters on the same account.
If you have all four slots filled in both good and evil shared banks currently, they will be combined into a new eight slot shared bank.
Both coin and items can be shared with characters on the same account regardless of alignment.


On PVP servers:
Shared banks are still alignment based. However we have added four extra slots to each alignment's shared bank (for a total of eight shared bank slots per alignment) and the ability to share coin between characters of the same alignment on one account.

TRAVEL

If you have a Sokokar, flight posts in Chardok will now allow you to fly to any post that a group member has access.
The "mysterious portal' in Gorowyn now allows level 65+ tradeskillers to pass through, as well as level 65+ adventurers.

TRADESKILLS

Weaponsmiths and woodworkers have learned to create recipes for new, more desirable crafted weapons with a choice of new effect.
Geomancy arts should now appear in the crafting window in an order consistent with the other tradeskill reaction arts.
You should no longer get less status for doing a level 70 tradeskill writ than you would for doing a level 69 writ.
Ferrite throwing daggers are now correctly described as handcrafted.
Advanced Artisan volume One is now available from tradeskill recipe book vendors around Norrath.
Crafted shurikens can now be made at lower level ranges. Weaponsmiths have also rediscovered where they left their recipe books for throwing ammo.


UI

You can now choose to show quest-giver icons for quests you have out leveled.
Under Options -> User Interface -> Name and Chat Bubble -> NPC Overhead Quest Icons for Outleveled Quests
The command "/inventory unequip all" will unequip all of your gear except food, drink and appearance items.
Setting the option to now show third party damage combat bubbles will now also apply to third party heals
Detailed arrows on implied target window are no longer cut off.
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Old 04-30-2008, 01:27 PM   #2
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I'm ... um ... {giibber}

{howls with glee} My brain is still spinning with the bank stuff. I'll poke at the weapon stuff later, but I need to stop drooling first. {grin} Oh, that will be so lovely for the packrats!
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Old 04-30-2008, 02:31 PM   #3
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Old 04-30-2008, 03:33 PM   #4
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Oh my...

EIGHT more bank slots (well 4 really, but I'm counting the opposite-alignment shared since I only really play Qeynos-side...). WOW. It'll probably take me like a whole day or something to fill all THAT space up (that's not sarcastic, that's saying how much of a pack-rat I am teehee).

The change to make it just one "Cure" spell intrigues me, especially since I wonder how it affects certain AAs (namely the Warden's bonus resistance AAs). If the bonus resistances still trigger individually then good, but if they're all stacked on one then I am UPSET. It was common practice for me to throw up say cure arcane and cure noxious to help offset early AEs but if they confilict with each other and with cure trauma or elemental, then like I said that's not cool, since it'll all poof when the player takes regular damage.

The change to tranquility sounds welcome, and needed TBH (as it was before, the casting and recast was far too long for it to be truly useful, imho).

Oh... Volume 2's of old books!!!!!!!!!!!!!111one!1!. I'm sooooo glad about this, I have probably >100 old books that I can't place since they take up space, I just hope they remembered some of the quest ones (ie like the set of scrolls from the shimmering citadel).
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Old 04-30-2008, 03:33 PM   #5
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Break out the bubbly! FINALLY they returned us to the EQ1 goodness of shared banking and shared COIN!
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Old 04-30-2008, 04:19 PM   #6
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My diabolical time machine has worked...finally...2 things that I couldn't believe they didn't have at launch are finally here!

Praise the Gods...rubs hands greedily together and begins to plan who is going to put what where, but kinda feels bad for all those poor Norrathian postal workers who might be out of a job come LU 45.
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Old 04-30-2008, 10:01 PM   #7
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HOLY CATS... I'll need more BOXES!!

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Old 04-30-2008, 10:28 PM   #8
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{dazed smile} roots and woods in this box, hides and ore in that one, rares in that one, gems and soft metals in another, imbue gunk and other special stuff in that one, glowies in another one, items to mule in another, resources above 2 full stacks into the personal banks of specific crafters ... what? Oh, I was supposed to be testing, wasn't I? Well, how was I to test with everything all jumbled around?

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Old 05-01-2008, 12:22 AM   #9
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Those bank changes don't really need testing, do they? They can go live now, kplzthx. I've never sold strongboxes before, but maybe it's time to slap together a few hundred in anticipation of the update...

A bit bummed that only enchanters are getting replacements for their (now-useless) power drains... I'm levelling a two-box troubador, and he could use some similar help.
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Old 05-01-2008, 09:11 AM   #10
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Let's see now. 10 toons. That means 40 more boxes for me before I sell any surplus. Crap... the 100 redwood boxes I made last night will hardly make a dent in the demand. Time to load up all my alts with strongboxes. I think there'll be a run on them when this goes live.
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Old 05-01-2008, 10:56 AM   #11
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

More space, more space ... I can't stop giggling over it! Now to make all the extra boxes for, let's see ... my twelve toons, my husband's ten toons, my chum's seven toons, then ones for sale, and need to make space on the broker for my bag stand ... oy, time to go a foraging and sorting ::laughing::

I am also curious how they're handling the AAs for wardens and the cures ... better make a post-it of where I spent my points so I can redo it if they reset it.

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I am also curious how they're handling the AAs for wardens and the cures ... better make a post-it of where I spent my points so I can redo it if they reset it.
That's been asked, in several places, but I've yet to hear an answer.

Meanwhile, while I'm nowhere near ready to release a full crafting preview for this update yet, we've got pics of incoming quested ... silverware! (among other things)

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Old 05-02-2008, 01:03 AM   #13
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/happy dance!! Silverware.. more bag space... /runs off gigglin' to find more stuff!
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Wow! I saw the extra bank slots and loved it. It is just more space to be a pack-rat. Now to look into the weapon stuff.
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That's been asked, in several places, but I've yet to hear an answer.

Meanwhile, while I'm nowhere near ready to release a full crafting preview for this update yet, we've got pics of incoming quested ... silverware! (among other things)

~Mum the giddy
Woohoo, Yay *jumps around* Cheers! *does cartwheels* *jumps off of Kelethin* (oops, forgot I wasn't a fae) *screams with delight*...

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Old 05-02-2008, 10:01 AM   #16
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The only thing that could make this better...... being able to make the Crafting Epic items for my alts...

Well off to make boxes!

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Old 05-02-2008, 10:31 AM   #17
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Looks like it's time for new weapon charts. I'll be on the changes as soon as they go in, and hope to have new tables up within a week of it going live. I hope we get sword-chucks!
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Old 05-02-2008, 11:11 AM   #18
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As an FYI, I'm polishing up the preview now, and will have it published in the next hour or so, barring any major distractions.
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Running around now and linking this in different spots, but here's a linkie for all of you:

GU45 Crafting Preview
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