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Test Update January / 20 / 2010
NEKTROPOS CASTLE: LOVE’S ERRAND
The treasure loot within the zone now scales.
You should no longer be ported into a jail cell by the "torturous jailer".
The number of traps (falling blocks and spikes) have been cut in half.
The Basement within the zone is no longer accessible.
The "voices of treachery" clue within the quest “What's Love Got to Do With It?" has been made stronger, and the sign is no longer written in Thexian.
Upon completion of the quest "What's Love Got to Do With It?" the "curious scroll" is now removed from your inventory.
The "Erollisi Day title status" signs now specify that they are reporting your annual title awards. They do not take into account previous title accomplishments.
Innothule’s Brokenskull Pirates are now dropping their own love note!
The "Flirtatious Moves" now have accurate descriptions.
The quest “The Fleshbound Tome Speaks Again” is no longer offered.
Completing the quest, “What's Love Got to Do With It?” will no longer interfere with Priest Aaronolis Swornlove’s quests (for those that did not complete them last year).
Test Update December / 04 / 2009
GENERAL
Mountain giants should now drop mastery items.
GREATER FAYDARK
There should not be any random spawn points now incorrectly located at loc 0, 0, 0 in Greater Faydark.
STREAMING CLIENT
Slower connections will now see NPCs show up faster when running.
Fixed some minor sky rendering issues with the streaming client.
Test Update December / 02 / 2009
GENERAL
The Frozen Corrival in the Icy Keep should no longer one-shot low level players when he splits into multiple characters.
Arasai and Sarnak should now be able to properly zone to a starting area when they start in the Freeport tutorial island.
Fae can now start in Qeynos.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Two new achievements have been added. Players will now receive one upon completion of their fortieth Lore & Legends quest. Also, crafters may begin working towards a new achievement for the creation of seventy-five thousand pristine items.
ITEMS
Cure potions should now have different icons making finding them on a hotbar much easier.
Two-Handed Ice Axe of Illuminating Hues should now deal cold damage as opposed to slashing.
Fermented pomegranates, fresh pomegranates, fresh-cut roses and Erollisi coin now stack to 200.
The Royal Scoll of Assistance should now be a Royal Scroll of Assistance.
Frozen Tokens of E'ci now stack up to 200.
PRELUDE EVENT
The Qeynos and Freeport quest lines both give one moderate status award and one coin reward.
Several typos, broken dialog responses, error messages and quest icons were fixed.
An issue that caused NPC flavor texts to play twice in a row should be fixed.
The quest "Deadly Words" will no longer break when a player loots the Guard Orders early.
Difficulty has been lowered for the sewer fight in "Deadly Words."
The Royal Hunting Camp fight should no longer devastate players who have mentored down.
The void-chains crystal is larger and easier to click on.
Antonia Bayle should be hailable with a left-click now.
General Sydwen's guards should no longer look like clones.
Dialogs and quest texts referring to Tallen Yevix now use the correct gender.
Waypoints should now display for the translocation signatures in "Traces of Teleportation."
The triggered mobs for "Deadly Words" should no longer crowd the entrance to the Down Below, ambushing unsuspecting players.
The books for the Qeynos quest line are now added to inventory, not just hinted at in the quest text.
Low level players who need to sneak into Qeynos for "Tinmizer's Magnificent Messenger" now have a shortcut to get in and out safely.
QUESTS
The deity quest “Coin Job” should now correctly update when zoning into the Gigglegibber Hideout.
Butcherblock Mountains quests: "Silent Beckon", "A Dim Light", "For the Dogs", "A Mind Of My Own", "Sarnak Sympathizer: Part 2", "Dark Tides", "Picking up the Pieces", "Ain't No Monkey Business", "Simple Grunt Work", "When You Mess With An Angry Dwarf" and "Solid Foundation" have all had their quest category set as Butcherblock Mountains, and will now count towards the Butcherblock Bloodhound achievement.
Test Update November / 19 / 2009
GENERAL
The Spires event is no longer active. The merchants remain, and will continue selling items for tokens.
Strange events are afoot in Qeynos and Freeport! Intrepid adventurers should seek out Royal Librarian Brinn in Qeynos Harbor and Sir Tallen Yevix in West Freeport.
The festive bone trophy is now spelled correctly.
The "Sturdy Fruitcake" tooltip and examine description now has appropriate text!
The Crate of Explosive Materials in The McScroogle Corp. HQ now gives 12 explosives at once, instead of one at a time!
Vampires now only drop one size of incisor, which should make stacking them easier. However, any old-version incisors will remain until they're used up.
Brundun Cogspinner and Ellnie Shrewsprock have received a shipment of rare accessories they are happy to award to highly efficient hunters.
ITEMS
Hrath's Journal can now be turned into a proper book file that can be placed in a player’s house. Once you complete the quest “Hadden's Earring”, examine the item to turn it into a book.
Erollisi Day candies and Nights of the Dead treats now stack to 200.
QUESTS
The quest “Crates on the Nerves” will now properly show, and not show, the locations of the crates as you progress through the quest.
Lord Bowsprite now updates the quest “Unlocking the Elfin Lord”, even after completing it twice.
The quest, “Lore and Legend: Vampire” can now be obtained from body drops, just like the other creature mastery quests.
Defeating McScroogle’s encounter in the quest “Saving Frostfell” does not award AA, as such the star by his name has been removed.
The rusty rubble and useful gizmo parts that you must clean up for the quest “Gnopp's One Stop Shop” in Gnip Gnopp's Gizmo Shop now respawns.
The goblin that pops out of the "Bag 'O Goblin" you are given while on the quest, “Making Coins” no longer can be used in instances or guildhalls.
Gardy Ex-Giftgiver no longer acts as if he is going to offer you his quest “The Giftgiver's Dilemma”, after you have completed it.
NEKTULOS
The previous density of the harvesting nodes was low. The number has been increased. These include only land based harvesting nodes and each spawn point has the potential to spawn any node.
YKESHA’S INNER SANCTUM
Ykeshan footsoldiers should no longer attack banished players.
Test Update November / 6 / 2009
GENERAL
The Nightsong Opera House in Neriak is proud to present their production of “Hate Gives Rise To Another Superior Race!”
Most TSO raid creatures no longer use hostile class specific spells that have a duration longer than 1 sec. This will make curing these encounters somewhat less complicated.
You can now destroy an item from your overflow slot.
Ranged auto attack will not stop when using a melee combat art and vice versa.
The Jum Jum Thief in Enchanted Lands should now correctly award AA experience.
The mobs on the 2nd floor of Poet’s Place should no longer spawn and fall to the 1st floor.
Fixed the pathing issue for “stone hive sentinel” mobs in Drafling Tower.
The “Char’Gin fishermen” will no longer fish beneath the water from their boat.
Kelethin coins can now be collected within Greater Faydark.
The Freeport Militia in The Ruins should no longer attack and kill players who have charmed NPCs within the zone.
Corrected a grammar issue on Guard Tellik.
Corrected a grammar issue on Pulnil the Haggler.
Fixed a grammar error in the dialog of the Chronomagi Tasker.
All References to “Hollow Hedge” should now be “Hedge Hollow” for consistency.
When changing faction from Kelethin to Qeynos multiple times you should no longer be gated from completing your access to Qeynos.
The unlucky adventurers in The Shattered Vale no longer turn toward players, despite having been slain.
The Eternal Gorge: Death Marrow and Zarvonn's creation have both had their loot adjusted to the appropriate level.
Nektropos Castle: Master Eldrin Necrosis no longer repeats himself.
The Scale Yard: Malachi Sleetspear has learned the common language!
The Graveyard: Zaddar no longer cares what city you are a citizen of.
The Boarfiend Refuse Shovel will no longer poke through walls in homes and guild halls.
Shu Fan Qi will no longer address herself when speaking about you.
A steelslave toiler will no longer grant AA experience when slain.
You will now face in the correct direction when entering The Poets Palace: Return raid zone.
Chests in the zone “Invasion of the Vale” will no longer be unreachable behind the swirling leaves.
Unstable Void Tunnel should no longer spend a charge if engaged in PVP combat.
The Tombs of Night: Retribution - Dvith N'Zur has moved a bit east from his previous spawn point and can now be attacked using melee attacks.
Captain Ista will now properly insult you when hailed.
A new server title for former residents of Venekor has been added.
Sandfury elders are no longer granting AA experience.
There is no longer a stack of books floating off of the bookshelves in the Office of the Overlord.
Qunard Ashenclaw and the Hive wasps associated with his encounter should reset much more reliably now and not occasionally become stuck in a state that prevented the ring event from progressing
Grash, Timant, and Tival should now grant AA if players have already defeated Oranti the Risen
Rath'Adran is now more resilient and should no longer occasionally allow players to gate The Crossing of the Fanged Sea by one-shotting him
Bi’lithu of the Old Ways should no longer occasionally kill himself with Unholy Feast, nor sometimes complete-heal himself
Undertow’s lifetap no longer complete-heals himself when casting Siphoning Suckers
Sergeant-at-Arms Ironcast will now offer writs to players who are either mentored or chronolocked
Et'sipe Ymeresh should once again spawn at the end of his ring event
Should players have the misfortune of dying at The Eternal Wellspring, they are no longer forced to choose a different respawn location
NPCs in Deathfist Citadel should no longer be prone to freezing in place when entering the elevators. Vertigo is apparently prominent among orcs
Anashti Sul should now be wearing the items that were intended for her in all instances.
/hide will now execute the illusion hide instead of the achievement hide.
Fixed a bug where players could lose the ability to converse with NPCs after speaking with a respec merchant.
Captured specimens in Klak’anon should be much less likely to aggro players through their cages
The Far Pelican Wheelman will no longer turn to face players…taking the ship’s wheel with him
Players should no longer be facing the door when entering Castle Mistmoore from the Mistmoore Catacombs
Banish devices in the Anchor of Bazzul now have consistent verb messages.
Corrected facing for Fountain of Life respawn locs. Additionally, evac should no longer teleport players from the Fountain of Life to Stormhold.
The portal to exit the Obelisk of Ahkzul is now much larger and easier to find.
Leaving then returning to the Maiden’s Chamber after defeating Drusella’s Handmaidens will no longer cause the door to Drusella’s chambers to close and no longer open.
Players who spawn Cookie’s Monster cannot do so again for 6 minutes.
Evac in Kurn’s Tower and Kurn’s Tower: The Invasion should now only take players to the entrance, never to the earned respawn.
ITEMS
Now Erollisi's Lost Longbow, the Longbow of Valor, the Buckler of the Broken Heart and the Tower of Love can each be turned into a trophy item to be placed within your house.
The Behavioral Modificatinator Stereopticon now has a small chance to reduce hate position.
The Robe of Radiant Hues is slightly more radiant.
The Ceremonial Armor of the Brethren is now heirloom attuneable.
Basilisks in Butcherblock, Drakes in Darklight Wood and Seedlings in The Peat Bog now drop corpse items.
Plant fertilizer/bone/water and faction loot items now stack to 200.
A spelling error in the house item book “Rise of the Orcs – The Deadtime” on page 9 was fixed.
Anemone Arms are no longer No Value.
The Mechanized Platinum Repository of Reconstruction no longer displays charges, as it does not have charges.
The item “Blanket of Fog” should not lose its icon when placing it if placed more than once.
The 5-piece setbonus on the Atramentous Shadowplate set now applies its mitigation bonus independent of the Bloodletter buff.