Patch Notes 090608

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Funcom said:
General
By popular demand we have added a new "Level up" sound effect.
Player Building tooltip displays correct predecessor information now.
Fixed some randomness in when you would see the tutorial popup flags.
Trading with another player will no longer cause traded items to appear in the incorrect inventory tab.
Removed the commandline to setting hotkeys since it was only intended to debug hotkeys before the GUI was there
The "usable items only" checkbox with traders should now work as intended.
The facemarking 'Freckles' should now work for new characters.
Minor issue with tradeposts and setting up items for auction has been resolved.
Corrected several animations for mobs as well as NPCs during cut scenes.
Increased the xp gained from group normal mobs and group bosses.
Players will now be able to experience the destiny event in the Field of Chiefs.
New voice over for some of the events in the Capture The Skull minigame.
More client and server crashes resolved.

Combat
Evadebonuses are now applied when you are being attacked from behind.
Players with Shield of the Risen will not be affected by secondary effects from combos.

Chat
If you drag a chat window with only one tab in it over the tab-bar of another chat window it will now be added as a tab to that window (inserted before the tab that the mouse is over in the "target" window).
When pressing enter the input focus will by default go to the last active chat tab rather than the selected "default tab". The previous behaviour can be achieved by checking the "Default Window" menu entry for one of the tabs.
Tweaked the areas you click to resize the chat window to make them easier to use.

GUI
Guild Feats: It should now show a scrollbar.
Buff icons no longer get stuck on after teleporting or talking to an npc.
Resolved a GUI related crash when clicking on the bank (broker).
Fixed an issue causing buffs placed outside the currently visible area of shortcut bars to still flash when ending cooldown.
Whisper replies now always go to the chat tab you sent the original message from, in addition to the tab that is subscribed to the "Tell" channel.
Added some missing class icons used by the team/raid GUI.
Raid leaders now have an orange name in the raid GUI.
Removed an unused hotkey (Show chat config).

Items
The weapons should now always appear sheathed in the character selection screen.
Potions: Fixed an issue with the stamina potion 'Old Redrouse', it will now get consumed when used.
The 'Nemedian War Flail' has been renamed to 'Nemedian Mace'.
The Rending Strike and Rupturing Strike proc from some equipment will no longer linger on the target indefinitely.

Tradeskills
Gemmed items should now work (giving bonuses) and viewing them should no longer crash the client.
Becoming a Woodcutter should no longer erroneously tell you that you've learned the 'Evading Roll' combo.
Harvesting: Script now keeps track of the persons that are using a resource node. This prevents the user from trying to use it twice and thus not harvesting anything at all.

NPC
Monsters 4 levels or higher will now correctly have increased evade and immunity chance.
Resource gathering npcs will now display the '?' over their heads when you have the goal and items to return to them.
Princess Akivasha now attacks back when attacked in Sanctum of the Burning Souls.
The encounters in the Armsman's Arena should be less chaotic.
Demonic Pict will no longer try to cast spells at players without being able to do so.
The Quest NPC's for the Frost Swamp, Imerian Ravine and Oasis of Zaara have been shuffled around in the Resource and Building playfields to make it easier for players to spot them amongst all the other tradeskill NPC's

Pets
Movement speed of pets have been increased both in and out of combat.

Playfields
The Armsman's Arena is now a private instance.

Archetypes

Mage
Contract of Protection, Protection of Set, and Runed Flesh now have 1 hour cooldown. While any of the three is active, the player will temporarily receive a 'Weakened Protection' debuff indicating if the maximum amount of absorbed damage has been expended until the shield refreshes.
The maximum damage Protection of Set and Runed Flesh can absorb before failing has been increased by 50%
The Archmage feat has been moved to the 2nd tier of the Mage general tree

Player Characters

Demonologist
The base splash damage inflicted by Fires of Gehenna has been increased from 10% to 30%
The base splash damage inflicted by Shockstrike has been increased from 15% to 20%
The base column radius of Hellfire Stream has been increased by 1 meter
Hellfire Stream and Shock have received a minor damage increase
Inferno of Amher and Shockblast have had their cooldown reduced by 0.5 seconds
The splash damage bonus of Discharge Shockstrike has been increased to 100%
Swift Shockstrike now additionally increases the damage of Shockstrike by 1/2/3/4/5%
Shock now has 35% splash damage, up to 3 targets and 3 meters from the primary target
Shockstrike and Shock have had their base chance to crit increased
The scaling of the Shock spell has been corrected, leading to a damage increase at most levels
The bonus of the Lingering Flames feat on the Incinerate effect has been increased from 30% to 250% at maximum rank
The casting time of Detonation has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds
Living Thunderstorm and Living Firestorm now correctly use a percentage-based manacost
Living Thunderstorm should now correctly appear in the hostile spells tab
The casting time of Infernal Knowledge, Diabolic Insight, Mark of Dagon, Shield of Infernal Flames, Abaddoron Warrior, Mystic Suppression, Cursed by Hell, and Cursed by the Heavens have been reduced by 50%
The beneficial effect of the Pact of Earth Walking spell has been increased from 200% to 400%
Pact of Earth Walking is now instant cast

Necromancer
Fixed a bug causing the available pet point indicator in the pet list GUI to sometimes show 0 points available rather than the actual number.
Spellweaving can be cast and cancelled normally now.

Dark Templar
'Mystical Bane' combo: The damage dealt by the Incinerate Ether component of Mystical Bane combos will now correctly deal 50% of the mana burned to be consistent with other power burn effects.

Priest of Mitra
Revivication Feat: The healing effect granted by the Revivication feat will no longer fail to trigger if the Priest is level 65.
Condemnation now receives a partial cooldown if the spell does not complete channelling.
Purification procs will no longer incorrectly apply a cooldown to Condemnation.

Barbarian
Barbarian's should no longer be unable to attack or move directly after performing any rank of their 'Savage Rage' combo.
'No Escape' combo should now always give you a cooldown when used and you will always get disarmed.

Herald of Xotli
'Fire Lance' combo now only needs 3 attacksteps to execute so it can be triggered faster. The combo now also hits targets a bit further away than before making it more effective.

Conqueror
Combo 'Throat Slash' has been corrected to be a spear attack instead of a ranged attack.

Tempest of Set
Mark of Set now has the correct casting animation and effect for all ranks.

Quest
Updated quest journals of "Phoenix of the East" to reflect new position of NCP General Tatius.
Fixed animation problem where Arias could not decide to sit or stand during conversation.
Ninus and Si-Khu will reliably spawn when logging out near the Temple of Mitra.
The access quest for the Armsman's Arena revamped.
The Phoenix of the North: Resolved an issue with Mithrelle not standing up if not viewing the small cutscene.
Resolved an issue that forces quests to not update on zoning.
Wagon Wreck: Revamped with a new quest goal.
The Poisoned Cup: Revamped with more interaction with the objects in the quest.
The Curse of the Werewolves: Slight enhancement on quest targets.
Wolf Hunt: Slight enhancement on quest targets.
Greater Prey: Slight enhancement on quest targets.
Death to the Vanir: Slight enhancement on quest completion.
Finding Safe Passage: Revamped with a new quest goal.
Captives of the White Hand: Revamped with a new quest goal.
The Cheiftains Vengeance: Revamped with a new quest goal.
Wolves at our Throats: Revamped with a new quest goal.
Bartholomo's Wife will respawn more often, if you happen to kill her before required to by the quest 'The Awakening III'
It should be easier to deal with Renton's Corrupt Friends when doing the quest Awakening II
Sanctum of the Burning Souls: The boss drop 'Bloodtainted Hoop' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
Field of the Dead: 'Fur of Bloodclaw' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
Tarantia Noble: Improved these quests: Bloodroot, Concealing the Chinks, Purging the Fallen, Source of Contagion.
The Lurking Horror: The Area marker is now set on the map
Pool of Black Blood: Quest now updates when you kill the Lesser Black Ones as well.
The Slave Rebellion: Replaced radius with a fixed waypoint for one of the goals.
Fetching Fungi: A waypoint will now lead the way to Sanctum, and to the mushrooms inside.
Lifting the Curse: Waypoint will now lead you to the Sanctum of Burning Souls.
The Sinister Sepulcher: Orb is now destructible, and all the Undead Thralls in the area will update the quest.
The Black Skulls: Corrected some wrong waypoints.
Fleet of Mouth: Cycaelus has upped the difficulty. You now need to beat his record on half the time you needed before

Ohhh yes.

BUTTTTT....

Please note this change to the update notes:

Tradeskills

* Gemmed items should now work (giving bonuses) and viewing them should no longer crash the client. ==> UPDATE: This issue has not been fixed with the latest Patch. We will provide you with more information about this asap..
 

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On a personal note as a HoX:

Mage
Contract of Protection, Protection of Set, and Runed Flesh now have 1 hour cooldown.

Hell yes, the number of times I've died as I forgot to refresh this every few minutes is annoying. It's hard to solo 1 same level mob without it :p

Herald of Xotli
'Fire Lance' combo now only needs 3 attacksteps to execute so it can be triggered faster. The combo now also hits targets a bit further away than before making it more effective

Err, so my most powerful attack has been made more powerful - I like
 

old.Tohtori

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Still no ambrosia or necklace shown on female chars! I quit! This game is crap beyond crap! Only reason i played is to get ambrosia and get drunk while crafting an inflatable dildo!
 

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Err, so my most powerful attack has been made more powerful - I like

Gah, apparently it does fag all damage now according to the forums :) Ho Hum.
 

Aada

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Guardians been nerfed too stealth nerfs ftl tbh.
 

Talivar

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what magical nerf did Guardians get? Mine seems exactly same as yesterday
 

Sparda

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funcom never ever show the full patch notes. Theres always stealth fixes that they never put in the notes. :(
 

Talivar

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ah well, i hardly even used the combo and see it more of a fix than a nerf tbh
 

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xp for each level has been slightly reduced ( at least at 50's)
 

dee777

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Still no ambrosia or necklace shown on female chars! I quit! This game is crap beyond crap! Only reason i played is to get ambrosia and get drunk while crafting an inflatable dildo!

Buahahahahaha!
:cheers:
 

dee777

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xp for each level has been slightly reduced ( at least at 50's)

Interesting change. Can you be a bit more precise? Is it like 2% or rather 20%?

Increased the xp gained from group normal mobs and group bosses.

Can anyone explain what that means? I suppose that grouped mobs give you an XP bonus over single ones, but does that mean mobs that have minions? Or mobs that bring-a-friend, when pulled? Or just any mob as long as you engage several?
:confused:

First I thoght they implemented bonus XP for being in a group. Now that would ve been a nice addition.
 

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yesterday i needed 410,000 to ding 57, today i need 389,000 to ding 58
 

taB

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Well thank YOU for being so almighty! :m00:

Not a problem :)

I have yet to see a constructive post from Aada and it's narking me something rotten.

Play the game, don't play the game but please stop the negativity bollocks.
 

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Just another thing they hyped up so much but never actually brought into the game ;)

Maybe you hyped it.

They said that in current state it's not likey they would like to have it and that it will be in game when it's done.

I welcome this philosphy, or we would end up having you whining about even more broken things. For now you can just QQ about what's missing :p.
 

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wish they'd remove morons like aada.

nice patch. never felt my demo was lacking like the thousands of whiners on the official forums, but the buff changes were VERY welcome and the damage feels a lot more meaty now so i am very happy. just 18 bubbles to go for 80, woowoo!
 

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Just another thing they hyped up so much but never actually brought into the game ;)


If you actually sought the information regarding this feature you would know it was scrapped same time as the formation business some odd 5 months ago.
 

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If you actually sought the information regarding this feature you would know it was scrapped same time as the formation business some odd 5 months ago.

And i did.. which is why i said they hyped it up to hell at the time then left it out.

Numpty.


TaB you want something constructive?

Nice Patch and lets hope they continue like this :)
 

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It was a good patch though fixed a few annoying things ok it wasn't big but if they are doing 2 patches a week then they won't be i guess but little steps :)
 

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It was a good patch though fixed a few annoying things ok it wasn't big but if they are doing 2 patches a week then they won't be i guess but little steps :)

It's a good step, if they can keep the momentum up for Thursday and so on it will appease a lot of people I think. What is it now, 10 days left of the bought box before they need people to resub?

I certainly don't disagree that there are still major pains to be dealt with. The most noticable being instancing and crafting. So long as it doesn't take forever..

:drink:
 

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well i got my sorry arse handed to me by a silver plate by Funcom. i honestly didnt expect then to pull such a massive update.

especially not from looking at the previous updates that took longer to install.

just wish they would have added the necro fixes aswell when they did the demonologist.

heres hoping for thursday!
 

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well i got my sorry arse handed to me by a silver plate by Funcom. i honestly didnt expect then to pull such a massive update.

especially not from looking at the previous updates that took longer to install.

just wish they would have added the necro fixes aswell when they did the demonologist.

heres hoping for thursday!

Like i think itodl you on another place, the fixes don't happen in the 4 hours of downtime, they work 8-12 hours/day every day almost to fix things :clap:
 

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There nerds!( like they gonna get any punani anyways! muahaha) they should work harder imo!
 

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xp for each level has been slightly reduced ( at least at 50's)

regarding lack of contain and quests and the boring grinding, funcom chose to turn their back to the problem.
they actually reduced xp much more, like -200k from 1.2m for lvl69
so , shall we wait for another xp gain boost or even free lvl every now and then?
 

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