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Default [Test] Test Update Notes: Friday, July 20th 2007(2)

HIGHLIGHTS
  • You can now sell items on the broker with more than one character.
  • Emerald Halls is now a persistent instance raid zone! See below for details.
  • Merchant Buyback: You can now buy back items most recently sold to NPC merchants!
  • Items that offer or are needed by quests will now display that information.
  • Achievement points spent are no longer locked to a single tree. When you respec, you are able to spend them in either tree.
GENERAL
  • Nektulos Forest content has been touched up to be more playable.
  • Harvesting and Adornment application will be immediately interrupted by taking any damage.
  • Antonica content has been touched up to be more playable.
  • Combat music should now terminate properly when fighting and zoning.
  • Tinkered pets should no longer be useable against players in PvP or while dueling.
  • Brigand Thugs will now more consistently attack their target
  • You may only buy language books if you don?t already know the language.
  • Casting skill debuffs will have improved results against NPC targets.
  • Human males who visit their local barber will discover that hairstyles once reserved for alternate appearances are now available!
  • Rumors regarding a series of attacks on both ships belonging to the cities of Qeynos and Freeport have residents in Qeynos Harbor and East Freeport abuzz with excitement. Numerous sailors and other individuals have gathered around to exchange stories and speculations about these events.
  • The residents of the Scale Yard are all astir with the news of Iksar ships being sighted. Speak with the residents there to find out what they believe.
BROKER
  • You can now sell items on the broker with more than one character!
  • All characters on an account can list items for sale at the same time.
  • Items remain listed as long as you log in with any of your characters at least once every 7 days.
ITEMS
  • The 7 piece Troubador?s Fascination set bonus will now add aggression.
  • The Staff of Light, Lucanic Staff and Soulfire Staff now have a one-handed appearance.
  • The Lucanic Longsword and Soulfire Longsword now have a two-handed appearance.
  • Djinn Bracelet of the Sky: Carpet of the Djinn Master will no longer deactivate once the ward has been depleted.
  • The effectiveness of Burning Deathfist Arrows has been reduced.
  • Stat/Resist bonuses from equipping an item will be removed when the item is in a disarmed state.

TRAVEL
  • Griffon travel services are now being offered in the Butcherblock Mountains. Mount stations can be found near the docks, Greater Faydark and Lesser Faydark.
  • Horse rentals are now available in the Greater Faydark to reduce your travel time. Hitching posts can be found near the Old Kelethin Acorn lift, Crushbone Keep and the Butcherblock Mountains.
  • Citizens of Neriak may now use the power of the Sea Gate to travel to the Nektulos Forest and Thundering Steppes docks. Check it out at the Neriak docks.

ZONES

Emerald Halls
  • Your raid force can now clear part of The Emerald Halls, leave, and then come back later to pick up where you left off.
    • There is no longer a ?failure? timer. You will be locked to an instance for 5 days once you kill any mob. You can reset your timer after 5 days and enter a different instance, or you can choose to continue in the same instance for up to 10 days total.
    • The ?Zone Reuse Window? now has two tabs:
    • ?Lockout? for zones with traditional lockout timers.
    • ?Persistent? for persistent zones like The Emerald Halls.
Thundering Steppes
  • The industrious Gigglegibber Gamblin' Game vendors have taken up real estate closer to the end of the docks in the Thundering Steppes for your convenience.
Darklight Wood
  • The Gigglegibbers have finally made it into Darklight Wood. They have set up shop in the Wanderlust Fair.
West Freeport
  • Broker Mallium in West Freeport now fences items from Neriak.
QUESTS
  • Explorers in the Feerrott have found some dark and fearful creatures, and are looking for your help.
  • Alchemist Janicia in the Fools Gold in Rivervale is in need of assistance from a very high level alchemist ...
  • More quests in Antonica, Nektulos, and The Bloodline Chronicles now grant Achievement Experience.
  • The Stormhammer epic quest has been modified in places that were adding frustration more than challenge.
  • Items now show in their tooltip and examine windows if they offer or update a quest
  • Items that offer a quest are implicitly LORE, NO-TRADE, NO-VALUE, NO-SACRIFICE and NO-TRANSMUTE
  • The first time you complete a repeatable quest it will now grant achievement experience.
  • Quests that come from an item will be removed if that item is destroyed.
  • Quest Rewards that have not yet been accepted (and have no item selection to choose) will be automatically accepted upon zoning or logging in.
  • Language quests are slightly different to help clean up unwanted ?garbage? loot and excess inventory litter.
    • The items that start language quests will only drop as loot if you?re not already on the quest.
    • The items that update language quests will only drop as loot if you need them for the language quest.
    • You no longer need to examine the dropped items to get the updates for the quest. It happens automatically when you loot the item.
    • ?Studied? versions of the language objects will no longer appear in game. If you have any you may sell them to NPC vendors.
  • The behavior of Fix The Broken Item quests have improved in usability:
    • Broken Items will no longer drop from NPCs if you already have the item or are already on the quest.
    • The popup tooltip on the quest starter now shows that the item gives a quest.
    • You no longer have to examine the item after each step.
    • Due to the changes, if you were already on one of these quests, the quest will reset to the beginning.
  • "History of the Runnyeye Goblins, Vol. I": This quest no longer requires brewers, lackeys, and servants, and now instead requires: any runnyeye goblin, Gorehorn pitmasters, and clay remnants.
  • ?History of the Runnyeye Goblins, Vol. II" The portion of this quest that used to require "a Runnyeye apprentice" now requires any Runnyeye goblin.
  • Quests in the Claymore and Infiltrating lines in the Sanctum of the Scaleborn as well as Barren Skies and Palace of the Awakened that targeted rare named mobs have been modified to also update on their place holders. A couple quests have been modified to target new mobs in the same rooms to accommodate these changes.
  • The Bowels of the Bonemire quest, in the Claymore quest line, been modified to update on the new place holder mobs as well as the original named mobs that were required for the quest.
  • ?Breaking of the Pact?: The portions of this quest that once asked for "a drowned footsoldier" will now accept drowned soldiers of any type.
  • ?Winter Comes?: The portions of this quest that once asked for "a Sabertooth tracker" will now also accept "a Sabertooth scout" and "a Sabertooth hunter."
  • ?The Three Keys - The Second:? The portions of this quest that once asked for "a young timber badger" will now accept any badger. The portions of this quest that once asked for "a weald wolf" will now accept any wolf. The portions of this quest that once asked for "a young antelope" will now accept any antelope.
  • ?The Three Keys - The Third?: The portions of this quest that once asked for "an undead worker" will now also accept "an undead farmer," "an undead caretaker," and "an undead settler." The portions of this quest that asked for "a flesh scavenger" will now also accept "a corpse feeder" and "a carrion gorger." The portions of this quest that asked for "a roaming dead" will now update on killing lions.
The following quests have had a number of their targets changed to mobs or mob-types that are more readily available:

Permafrost:
"The Age of Cataclysms"
"The Age of Destiny"
"The Age of Monuments"
"The Age of Scale"
"The Age of Turmoil"
"Ship's Log - Bountiful Mane"
"Bronsin"
"The Chilling Terror"
"Destroyer's Folly"
"The Felling of the Ice Wyrm"
"Greshvoule"
"The Ice Queen"
"The Kromise"
"The Lady and the Scamp"
"Lost Treasures of the North"
"Preacher Story - Thex'Ka V"
"Preacher Story - Thex'Ka IV"
"Preacher Story - Thex'Ka III"
"Watcher of the Mauls Theriig"
"The Words of Freedom"

Rivervale
"Adventures of Jorbo and Mappy"
"Words to Remember - by Mother Deasie"
"Leatherfoot Brigade Field Training Guide"

Varsoon
"The Varsoon Collection, Volume 1 - Varsoon and the Combine Era"
"The Varsoon Collection, Volume 2 - The Quest for Immortality"
"The Varsoon Collection, Volume 3 - The Gift of Immortality"
"The Varsoon Collection, Volume 4 - The House of Varsoon"
"The Varsoon Collection, Volume 5 - The War of Plagues"

Obelisk of Lost Souls
"The Shadows of Lonesome Hollow"
"Remembrances - Prime"
"Remembrances - Norrath"
"Termble Clankerbang Findings Vol. 98"
"Remembrances - DyzAz"
"Remembrances - Tel'riia'mil'an'ane'ie"
"Remembrances - Nyalla-Phon"
"Remembrances - Berrox"

Blackburrow:
The Sabertooth Miner's Guide, Part One
The Sabertooth Miner's Guide, Part Two
The Great Flood

The Temple of Cazic-Thule:
"How to Serve Mortals - Slow Thoughts"
"How to Serve Mortals - Flowing Thoughts"
"The Amygamalion - The Dulling"
"The Amygamalion - The Form"
"The Amygamalion - The Four That Are We"
"The Pirate Queen and the Nightmare Creature"
"The Pirate Queen and the Heart"
"The Pirate Queen and the Map"
"The Pirate Queen and the Seafury Buccaneers"
"The Pirate Queen and the Temple"


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