[Test] Test Update Notes: Wednesday, December 2, 2009(0)

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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.

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