[Test] Test Update Notes: Monday, March 9, 2011(0)

[Offical Forums]

USER INTERFACE

• Target Next/Previous command will no longer clear your existing target if there are no targets in range or in line of sight.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

• Exploring the flight pads in Great Divide and Eastern Wastes should now always give you access to that destination. Updated locations include Scar Bridge, Ry’Gorr Keep, Caverns of Living Stone, and the entrance to Kael Drakkel.
• Charmed Brontotherium Bulls can no longer do percentage-based damage to heroic & epic targets. Several other creatures with the same problem have also been fixed.

Eastern Wastes

• Brakerouk in Eastern Wastes will now display the correct broker search when hailed.

Thurgadin

• The bartenders in Thurgadin now offer alcoholic drinks in celebration of Brew Day! Thurgadin rejoices!

Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire

• Abelbrow the Bookie and Quanth Coldblade should no longer drop loot when the encounter resets.
• Dockmaster Jit’coel should once again use his special tactics to defeat players.
• Bouont Crushingfist has had his health and heal rate lowered.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

• Witchdoctor Vuh’Duh’s death beam is now less erratic.
• Players should no longer be stuck with the Icy Demeanor buff after wiping to Witchdoctor Vuh’Duh.

Tower of Frozen Shadow

• Players can no longer use the Mirror of the Shadows to gain entrance into the TOFS zones without having someone that has correct access to those zones.

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

• Players must now progress the quest in order to obtain the raid debuff needed for Challenge Mode encounters.
• When a zombie is killed in the Vethilot the Corpsemonger encounter players will now have 5 seconds to destroy the corpse before Vethilot start gaining in strength. He will still instantly gain strength from player’s corpses.
• Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• Narmek Berreka should now remember which pieces of his armor have been removed after his encounter resets.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• Xalgoti should be able to focus on one target for a more significant amount of time.
• The blades summoned by Tserrina in the Tome of Ages Past encounter should no longer do quite as much damage.
• When a zombie is killed in the Vethilot the Corpsemonger encounter players will now have 5 seconds to destroy the corpse before Vethilot start gaining in strength. He will still instantly gain strength from player’s corpses.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

Icy Fingers

• Beware! Undead in the Icy Fingers are now more aware of players attempting to sneak by them.

Tombs of Night

• Fixed a bug where Rhayn Tdax in the Tombs of Night would become so enraged when attacked that he would crash the zone.

TRADESKILLS

• The names of the recipes for the simple commonlands and antonican style tapestries have been corrected, and now match the names of the tapestries they create.
• Alchemist level 24 tradeskill writs no longer request Smoldering Fists II as one of the spell options.

LIVE EVENTS

Brewday

• Tetda Rockstein has a little bit more fight in her and is no longer charmable.
• The Boarfiend Snout Stout now correctly grants the user the illusion of a boarfiend.

QUESTS

Public Quests

• A chest option for brawlers is now available from Public Quests
• Narandi the Enraged now has an appropriate number of hitpoints, so that he can survive more than a minute versus multiple raids. This should make it easier for large numbers of players to get into the fight before it's over.
• Another issue that could get the Storm Gorge dwarves stuck has been fixed.
• Tinkered heals & buffs for the Storm Gorge dwarves can no longer be resisted.
• Public quest chests now scale up in size when higher difficulties are cleared, to make them easier to click.
• The anti-slacker threshold has been raised on all PQ's.
• Greater Transmuter's Stones no longer drop. The contents of Transmuter's Caches and Hoards have been increased to compensate.

Gorowyn

• Gorowyn city writs should have a proper category.

Great Divide

• It should no longer be possible to break the encounter with Captain Frozenshard and then kill his pet to update the quest “Greatslasher Ghost Removal.”
• The magical focus for the quest “Power From the Tower” has been moved outside. This is to make the quest more easily soloable, and bring this quest in line with the other Deepwater Circle quests.
• Drammind Gul will now only offer his quests to those vampires who possess the Cloud of Bats ability.
• The Thunderbeard quests in Great Divide are no longer sharable.

Eastern Wastes

• The Duhjalm attackers that are spawned for the quest "Swog's Salutary Salve" will no longer linger within Ry’Gorr Keep forever.
• The Duhjalm attacker that is spawned for the quest "Of Mice and Menhir" has had its difficulty lowered.

Thurgadin

• The quest “Scrying on Thurgadin” is now able to be completed by a solo character.

Kael Drakkel

• The quest “The Ragebourne Network: Noble’s District” should refer to the correct NPC when the first stage is completed.
• Added sparkle effect to the Kromzek plans within Kael Drakkel necessary for the quest “The Fallen Swords: Here, There Be Giants”, so they are easier to locate.

Iceshard Keep

• Mairi Hendry should no longer offer a repeat quest.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• The quests "Tserrina's Strife" and "A Ruinous Bath" can now be completed more than once.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

• Quest update crystals for Hold of Rime: The Ascent – Growing Alarm no longer disappear even at short distances.

Heritage

• The turtle spirits encountered in the Essence of a Prophet quest are now at the proper difficulty.
• Kalus Frostreaver will be visible in the Ring War camp if players have completed “Casting a Long Shadow.”
• Removing the quest “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” will now delete any related sub-quests from your journal or quest items from your inventory.

Village of Shin

• The salt crystals required by the alchemist quest “Spark’s Aflame” can now be gathered along the waterline of the Village of Shin.

ABILITIES

• Targeted and group buffs with a base avoidance component should now properly apply the avoidance component.

Illusionist

• Theorems now deals damage based on the level of the spell, not the level of the caster.

ITEMS

• The Plate versions of the Woe and Resolve sets of armor have had their appearance corrected
• The Barrier of Voltaic Destruction now has a new appearance!
• Fixed a few items that had deflection instead of defense.
• The Fleshwound and Seafury armor crates are now correctly flagged heirloom instead of no trade.
• The Stormfeather Brood Guardian mount can now be converted to a house item.
• Reduced the crit mit values for some items to their intended levels.
• The 7th and 8th Coldain rings should now proc correctly.
• The Embalmers Skinning Knife should now proc correctly.
• All leather armor helmets from Public Quests should now have an appropriate appearance.
• A few armor patterns have had their rewards corrected.
• The Rhino Hide Voodoo Doll is now mage only.
• NPC Crit Bonus/Avoidance Buffs should now be visible on all heroic and epic content.
• The following War Runes will now trigger on both spell and melee attacks:
  • Bane of the Kromzek
  • Dain’s Legacy
  • Draft of Velium
  • Elemental Detonation
  • Eye of Rallos
  • Harrowing Winds
  • Profane Madness
  • Rime Strike
  • Steadfast Defiance
  • Steadfast Resolve
  • Unleashed

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