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luribeauty

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Some interface goodies and more!


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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.89c Release Notes
User Interface and Encounter Changes
May 3, 2007

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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES

- (Pendragon Only) Some Trials of Atlantis encounters, adjusted in the previous patch, have been further reduced in difficulty based on testing feedback.

- The Trials of Atlantis zones have been clustered.

CLASS CHANGES AND FIXES

General

- All spells with less than 1000 range in the Minstrel’s Instruments spec, Bard’s Music spec and Skald’s Battlesongs spec have been increased to 1000 range.

- A new line of group waterbreathing buffs have been added to the Minstrel’s Instruments spec, Bard’s Music spec and Skald’s Battlesongs spec.


Bards

- A new level 50 Direct Damage (DD) shout has been added to the Bard’s Music spec line.


Bonedancers

- The Bonedancer Suppression spec commander (level 40 spell) now has the keyword [suppress] in their dialog. This keyword will allow the caster to set them to cast a spirit debuff/dd instead of a lifetap. They keyword [drain] can be used to switch this back to the lifetap.


Healers

- The run speed line of buff chants in the Healer’s Augmentation spec line has been moved to their Pacification baseline.


Skalds

- The recast of the Skald’s “Compel Defeat” line of instant snares in the Battlesongs spec has been reduced to 20 seconds.


Spiritmasters

- The Spiritmaster’s line of resist debuffs in the Darkness spec line have had their durations reduced. Body and energy debuffs are now 15 seconds to match similar debuffs in other realms. The Spirit resist debuff is now 8 seconds, to match other castable resist debuffs that allow a class to debuff its own damage.

USER INTERFACE CHANGES

New Icons

- Many of the new icons have been adjusted to tone down the brightness and increase the clarity of the icon images.

- Icon borders are now thicker in order to help distinguish spell/ability level or type.

- Widgets have been adjusted to be more visible for style icons.

- Fixed an issue where the following icons were missing: Metal Guard, Release (pet command), Dirty Tricks, Flurry, and Triple Wield.

- The icons for Taunting Shout, Bolstering Roar, Climbing Spikes, Rampage and Fury will now gray out after being used.

- Many missing widget bugs with both spells and styles have been fixed.

- As of this patch we have completed full integration of the new icons and we welcome any bug reports for icon issues.


Key Bindings

- The MMO (MM) default key binding has been changed. The key bindings for this default are now more representative of the default settings of most other RPG MMOs.

- Please note that the change to the default key binding will not affect the any key bindings already set.

CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES

General

- Fixed an issue where one of the water planes in Avalon Marsh did not quite reach the shore causing a gap in swamp graphics.


Items

- The Brimstone Shields of Chaos can now be dyed with enamels.

- The Staff of the Adept guild gift has had its Quickness bonus changed to Constitution bonus to match the other staves in that line.


Monsters

- All white werewolf models have received an art update.

- The Scaled Varg models have received an art update.

Note: Catacombs client and above.


SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES

Dungeons

- Fixed a visible seam in the floor in Iarnvidur.

- New pathing has been loaded for Iarnvidur.

TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES

Reports are now coming in that many monsters previously slain for valuable loot seem to have been robbed! The best armor, weapons, jewelry can no longer be found on the vast majority of beasts that previously carried them. The only major exception seems to be Celestius whose powerful denizens have kept a more wary eye on their belongings.

Worse yet, strange elementals and powerful djinn calling themselves Afrit are springing up everywhere across the planes of Atlantis. Those adventurers who have done battle with both claim that these seem to be the culprits for the mass larceny. These new Afrits seem immune to the ancient laws that affect the djinn and are only interested in treasure. Scholars who have been studying the phenomena have come to the conclusion that because the Afrit could not be bound, the Atlanteans must have banished them to the far corners of the planes long ago. With the waning of Atlantean magic, their prison has broken with disastrous consequences for all of the planes' other denizens.


Encounters - General

- All Named loot has been transferred from the Master Level and artifact encounters that previously carried them to new encounters involving the Afritti. This does not include Celestius.

- The new encounters come in three tiers designed for different numbers of players: solo/duo, small group, and full group. Each tier drops loot from Master Level and artifact encounters that previously required a similar number of players to complete. The first two tiers also present opportunities to gain better loot if the player is really good or bring more friends than necessary for the main encounter.

- The first tier of encounters, designed for solo players or duos (depending on class), are the elementals:

Ooze Elemental - Made of earth and water, breaks apart into smaller oozes as it is damaged.
Dust Elemental - Made of earth and air, casts a powerful Debuff that causes both Nearsight and a chance to fumble.
Magma Elemental - Made of earth and fire, moves slowly, but pummels its opponents with both melee and fire spells.
Storm Elemental - Made of water and air, pulses a dangerous electrical storm around it.
Steam Elemental - Made of water and fire, those who approach will find themselves burned.
Smoke Elemental - Made of fire and air, shy but dangerous, its hazardous fumes make breathing difficult.

- Kill the weakened Afritti that made up the elemental for the possibility of additional rewards.

- The second tier, designed for small groups (3-6 players), is made up of the basic Afrit. Though he worked hard to steal his precious loot, he's not afraid to use it as a weapon if threatened, albeit not necessarily in the way players might expect.

- Kill the confused Afrit that is accidentally pulled into the battle for the possibility of additional rewards.

- The third tier, designed for full groups, is the Master Afrit. He waits safely outside the trial planes, using his bound servants to fight and steal for him. Those who kill his servants must face his wrath.

- Each of the new encounters can be found scattered across the outdoor zones of Atlantis. Note that camping the same spot one is found in isn't generally the best idea, as they may not always show themselves in the same place.


Stygia Encounters

- Master Level 4.2

The boss monster, 'Seti the Pharaoh', has been adjusted in level and hit points.

Seti's minions, 'Setian Chaos Priests' and 'Setian Thunder Troopers' have had their levels and spawn rates decreased.

Seti will no longer call for assistance from his courtyard minions.

If the main fortress is attacked directly without taking out the camps and forts, the number of reinforcements sent to aid the main fortress has been cut dramatically and the time between reinforcement waves has been increased.


Item Notes

- The Guard of Valor items will no longer cause an archer's arrow damage type buffs to become finite. This fixes an issue where if an archer class used one of the arrow damage type buffs while wearing the Guard of Valor, the buff would be given a 43 minute timer, instead of lasting until changed by the archer.

DARKNESS RISING WORLD NOTES

- (Partisan Politics) - All Blodfelag Partisan mobs in west svealand will now count properly for the goals of this quest.

PVP SERVER

- Fixed the interior postern door on the central keeps so that it operates properly on the PVP ruleset.
 

haarewin

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is that really a reason for a bard to spec 50 in music? thats barely a required change. fuck you, ea-mythic. i've not played for over a year and this still angers me.
even still, arent most bards sojourners, thus stuck with a breathing buff anyway?
 

Septima

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Was this music classes love/changes patch? :eek2:


ps: i know still early on patch etc, etc...
 

olco

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fucking cnuts. give me my aug speed back

I think you misread those notes.

luribeauty said:
The run speed line of buff chants in the Healer’s Augmentation spec line has been moved to their Pacification baseline.

In other words, your speed is now *baseline*, so you'll probably have a higher version of it with this change.
 

Basic_X

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dang! i was SOO looking forward to have a 30 second spirit debuff and a spirit nuke. now im going to start hitting things in rage.......right about now.......soon............almost there...............gahbleh. guess i cant bother...im still angry tho!!
 

Manisch Depressiv

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"- The Trials of Atlantis zones have been clustered."

Bad.

Moving the artifact and ML loot to some new encounters is bad also.

Someone at Mythic loves Mids too much too.
 

Gahn

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Level 50 dd in music line xD
Where are the Animist fixes? Where is a little nerf to Theurgs? Where's an uniterruptable version of songs for Bards? What's that shit about Djinns?
Wtf?!?
 

Takhasis

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Level 50 dd in music line xD
Where are the Animist fixes? Where is a little nerf to Theurgs? Where's an uniterruptable version of songs for Bards? What's that shit about Djinns?
Wtf?!?

Where's the fix to the 30%+ miss rates for archer classes when using bow?
 

SkarIronfist

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Well at least some new PVE to do ... So maybe a couple of nights of that instead of RVR on quiet nights.
 

Aiteal

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What's that shit about Djinns?
Wtf?!?

Tried them on Pend last night
Alot were bugged and couldn't be targetted

Found an ooze elemental outside oceanus haven, looked like Steve mcQueen's nemesis
Hit it a few times and it spawned mini blobs (green con) killed the main blob and got 3 crappy 95% qual rogs

Attacked a djinn in stygia that kited me whilst dropping chests (which you have to jump over) chest's opened after a few seconds and "summoned artifacts" which were basically floating malice axes, traitors daggers etc attacked me along with the djinn.

Djinn dropped 3 99% qual armour rogs (poor stats for a ToA server and one/two cap increase/toa bonuses)

Both the mobs were orange con and easy kills, so I didn't expect much from them, heard people say in the pendragon /gu that small groups were killing higher level elementals in volcanus etc and getting pretty reasonable drops.
 

WiZe^

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So the bd sup line is going to be the new Fotm spec now ?
 

megadave

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Where's the fix to the 30%+ miss rates for archer classes when using bow?
Hopefully they'll wait for all the fotms to fuck off before fixing that. As it as at the moment the ridiculous miss rates are the only thing preventing anyone being insta fragged by the fgs of archers ;d
 

Gahn

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Tried them on Pend last night
Alot were bugged and couldn't be targetted

Found an ooze elemental outside oceanus haven, looked like Steve mcQueen's nemesis
Hit it a few times and it spawned mini blobs (green con) killed the main blob and got 3 crappy 95% qual rogs

Attacked a djinn in stygia that kited me whilst dropping chests (which you have to jump over) chest's opened after a few seconds and "summoned artifacts" which were basically floating malice axes, traitors daggers etc attacked me along with the djinn.

Djinn dropped 3 99% qual armour rogs (poor stats for a ToA server and one/two cap increase/toa bonuses)

Both the mobs were orange con and easy kills, so I didn't expect much from them, heard people say in the pendragon /gu that small groups were killing higher level elementals in volcanus etc and getting pretty reasonable drops.

So basically this "floating" (i reckon it means they haven't a fixed spawn spot, and this will help camping but will be a pain on the other hand i guess) Djinns are the only mobs dropping anything from Items Loot to Artifacts in all Toa now?
 

Aiteal

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So basically this "floating" (i reckon it means they haven't a fixed spawn spot, and this will help camping but will be a pain on the other hand i guess) Djinns are the only mobs dropping anything from Items Loot to Artifacts in all Toa now?

Haven't tried out any artifact encounters yet
Just tried Pend for 15mins before I went to bed last night

killed a few regular mobs and they still drop items as normal

i'll try some of the easier arti encounters later like traitors dagger/golm etc and let you know

EDIT

quote from VN

I killed 3 Red con Atlantean followers, but didnt notice what loot dropped. Then a few minutes later I looked in my pack and saw 6 pieces of ML8 loot.....
 

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What I dont understand is :

They give Suppression line a baseline Spirit nuke so the SM now can debufff for himself and the other casters, thus lowering the duration on his set of debuffs which is fine.

However the Alb Sorc set and the Hib Eld set of resists still remains at 30 sec on all 3. Yes I know they cant debuff for themselves, but its still unbalanced tbh.
 

Basic_X

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Jarahl said:
However the Alb Sorc set and the Hib Eld set of resists still remains at 30 sec on all 3. Yes I know they cant debuff for themselves, but its still unbalanced tbh.

They havnt changed the runemaster debuff now have they?
 

Flimgoblin

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according to m8's on US and critshot forums, thats with 50 bow...

:twak: silly Flim ;)

it should be 15% miss rate on a same level target with a level 50 bow shot...(same as spells)...

Gifv link to logs, all I could see from browsing was a couple of screenshots, but I might have missed the thread. If it's bugged it needs to be reported and sorted.
 

Takhasis

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the main archer TL has raised it already quite a while ago (HuntsTL on critshot), think loads of logs etc have been sent to him by the main critshot peeps...

Its scary how many old long-term archers are cancelling coz of 1.88 tho :(
 

Flimgoblin

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fair enough :)

I'd hope they try 1.88 first at least... quitting because your bored is quite common though people usually find a scape goat (e.g. a patch)
 

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