• Update Notes: Tuesday, March 16, 2010(0)

GENERAL

• Most of the guards in Freeport, Qeynos and Kelethin have had their levels reduced to what they had previously. Exceptions to this include palace guards and patrolling knights.

ITEMS

• All jewelry from the Vigilant: Final Destruction has had resists added.
• Summoning the mount from the Ykeshan Warbear whistle will now work if you are level 80 in either adventuring or tradeskilling.
• The valuable, Onayan Staff of the Waves, should now be on the Vasty Deep collection tables.

QUESTS

• The Footsteps of Dartain: Observation - The projected erudite will no longer disappear during conversation.
• In Search of Lucan – Fyr’remd Lorak should no longer disappear during conversation.
• "Confronting the Godslayer"requires the raid lichform version of Perah'Celsis in order to update. The prose is now more specific about this.
• Delinah now properly updates"The Footsteps of Dartain: Emergence."
• Players who delete or decline the various"Footsteps of Dartain"signature quests can now re-obtain them.
• Stage 3 of"Whispers from the Past"now correctly mentions Silent City instead of Living Tombs.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Kendis and Penda United now have lower maximum health.
• The 3 sages in challenge mode now synchronize their use of prismatic sphere with their exchange of stones (tank switching).

SUNDERED FRONTIER

• Neophyte Sairal in the Hall of Necromancy seeks adventurers 80 and higher for a special task. 

VASTY DEEP: THE ABANDONED LABS

• Adds on the Kadara'Mola fight in Vasty Deep: The Abandoned Labs should now de-spawn should she reset or the encounter breaks.

• Update Notes: Thursday, March 11, 2010(0)

GENERAL

• Wild Swings will now persist through death.
• The switches that open and close doors and barriers on the Vigilant: Final Destruction should now function on PvP servers.
• Killing several Dreadnaught guards in South Freeport will now cause them to learn some respect. The same applies to Thexians in North Freeport.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Effects that can only be obtained on PVP Servers will no longer work in Battlegrounds.

ITEMS

• All raid dropped armor now has red adornment slots.
• Critical Mitigation on many raid dropped armor pieces have been changed to be more in line with TSO numbers.
• Many of the high tier armor sets have been renamed to reduce confusion.
• Brellium resist jewelry items have been improved.
• All raid dropped jewelry now has resists.
• Many raid drop weapons and jewelry items have had additional effects added.
• Some of Waansu’s items have had class restrictions added.

QUESTS

• The quest “Swiping Scrolls” can once again be successfully completed.
• The quest “Shroom Prune” now updates off of killing Coercer Pittles and Shroombis the Coerced.

PERAH’CELSIS ABONIMABLE LABORATORY

• Waansu should no longer appear inside a test tube if he has spawned as an encounter.

• Update Notes: Tuesday, March 9, 2010(0)

GENERAL

• It should be more difficult to get out of PvP combat after engaging someone in PvP combat.
• You can no longer break PvP encounters by using /yell.
• All raid mobs have had their damage and melee reduced by 10-20%

BATTLEGROUNDS

• You will now only get a death credit in a battleground if you actually die.
• Ungrouped members on the same team should be autogrouped after a few seconds.
• The old group icons are back. So custom UI group icons should work normally now.
• Russian names now display properly in the battleground leaderboard window.
• Healing from wards will now count as healing given and healing received in the battleground leaderboard.

ITEMS

• The descriptions for Clarissa's Content Countenance and Criggle's Chaotic Characteristics have been updated to resolve some confusion issues.
• The following items have been changed from heirloom/lore-equip to no trade/lore:
  • exquisite woven boots
  • exquisite woven pants
  • exquisite woven shoulder pads
  • exquisite woven tunic
  • female tradesman boots
  • female tradesman gloves
  • female tradesman pants
  • female tradesman tunic
  • male tradesman boots
  • male tradesman gloves
  • male tradesman pants
  • male tradesman tunic
  • striking woven boots
  • striking woven pants
  • striking woven shoulder pads
  • striking woven tunic
  • dragon fastened robe
  • exquisitely stitched robe
  • female gold blouse
  • female gold skirt
  • formal wear female ensemble
  • formal wear male ensemble

QUESTS

• Rewards from the ‘Shadows of the Betrayed’ signature quest are now correctly flagged as one-hand weapons.

TRADESKILLS

• Tradeskilled adornments would not work on a large number of low-level items. This has been fixed.
• The Hua Mein daily crafting missions now include only 1 mission that requires harvesting, equivalent to the Kerra and Quel’ule factions.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

• Toxxulia should do less damage with her spells and melee.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Maalus Shadowfyre will now cast his AOE spells at least 12 seconds apart from one another, rather than 8 seconds, giving players more time to recover after the previous AOE spell ticks.

PERAH CELSIS ABONIMABLE LABORATORY

• Perah Celsis should do slightly less damage with his spells.  

• Update Notes: Wednesday, March 3, 2010(0)

ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

• Fixed a bug which caused achievement mirrors to not work correctly in some instances on a PvP server.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• You can no longer join a battlegrounds match while possessing a creature.
• Fixed a bug which allowed group leaders to kick people from group in battlegrounds.
• We’ve implemented an AFK voting system into battlegrounds in order to report teammates that have gone AFK in a match. A player can only be voted AFK if they haven’t had any recent activity. If they receive 3 unique votes for AFK’ing during a match they will be removed from the match and will not receive a reward. Players removed this way will also receive the truancy debuff.

QUESTS

• Bonemire - The quest"Go back to Vegli"now correctly identifies the name of the gnome you need to return to.  It has been renamed"Go Back to Vegnit".
• Players who are searching for the remains of the ritual tablets for the quest"The Footsteps of Dartain: Enlightenment"must now find six separate tablet shards.
• Players who have completed the quest,"The Footsteps of Dartain: Emergence"but have not yet accepted the quest,"The Footsteps of Dartain: Observation", may now hail Pleni Mas'arc and receive her second quest.
• The following quests should now update for all group members who are on the correct stage:
  • Erudin Research Halls:
    • Gear Gathering
    • Coded Messages
  • Royal Palace of Erudin:
    • Expropriation
    • Collecting Seals
  • Demetrik’s Bastion:
    • Poisons
  • The Vigilant: Incursion:
    • Sash of Courage
    • A Little Zap Will Do
    • Swiping Scrolls
  • The Vigilant: Infiltration:
    • Collecting Cargo
    • Weapon Seizure
    • Metaphysical Matters
    • Nowhere To Be Found
  • The Vigilant: Rescue:
    • Pets of Zek
    • The Crook Cook
    • The Captain's Implements
    • Secrets of the Tallonites
  • Vasty Deep: The Conservatory:
    • Void Botany
  • Vast Deep: The Abandoned Labs:
    • Tissue Issues
  • Vasty Deep: The Vestigial Cella:
    • Ca'Na Medallions

• Update Notes: Tuesday, March 2, 2010(0)

GENERAL

• Lavapoint is now a little more agile.
• Battle Prowess should now properly apply its potency to all Combat Arts.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• The pre-game timers have been increased by 30s to give teams and players more time to buff and be ready for the carnage!

ITEMS

• The legendary, enervated and mythical epic weapons are now No Transmute.
• Cloak of Unrest and Cloak of Justice will now accept compatible white slot adornments.
• "Leatherfoot Tales: The Houndslayer"parts 1 - 3 and"Leatherfoot Tales: The Last of the Teir'Dal"parts 1 - 3 can now be bought from the city sages in Freeport and Qeynos for those that completed the corresponding quests of the same names.

TRADESKILLS

• Tinkered environmental shields are now also useable by scouts.
• It is now possible to harvest in the area of the Sundered Frontier known as Kejaan’s Rill; however, be cautious, as not all the inhabitants of that area are pleased by this change.

QUESTS

• Tenebrous Tangle -"In the Name of Marr"stage1, part2 has 3 randomly chosen branches.  Each of these branches had to be adjusted due to the removal of placeholder NPCs.
• Tenebrous Tangle - If you already have any of Archaeologian Tydis's quests he will no longer continue to offer them to you.
• Tenebrous Tangle - The number Draconic Bones that can be found for the quest"Expedition for Draconic Bones"has been increased.
• Barren Sky - The"suspicious dirt"piles on Cloudmist Isle respawn faster now for those on the quest “A Misty Missing Key”.
• Bonemire - Players that find the second dig site for the quest"Quick Retrieval"will now get credit for their work.
• Bonemire - The quest"Fetid Harvest"now only requires you to harvest 10 Fetidthorn Spores, instead of 16.
• Butcherblock Mountains - The journal entry for the quest"Silent Beckon"now accurately reflects Talvrae T'Zyth's new location.
• Butcherblock Mountains - Trozusk Ripscar now grants adventurers the"Horn of Challenge"when they accept his quest"A New Challenger."
• Players on the quest"Building Fawn's Garden"have a higher chance of finding a"pinch of diatomaceous sand"on the sand covered crabs in Antonica, no matter what level they are.

ANTONICA

• Anguis, the level 22 named drake, has had its tier lowered to Heroic.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

• The staff of calling should now operate properly during the Toxxulia fight.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Players who have defeated Iilsaad’s Barrier can now respawn on the 4th floor, near Maalus.

 

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