[Test] Test Update Notes: Monday, May 10, 2010(0)

[Offical Forums]

GENERAL

• Good aligned brokers should now include items posted within New Halas!

SHADER 3.0

• Many weapons have been fixed and will now render correctly with shader 3.0.

ITEMS

• Grobb furniture items should now render correctly when using both shader 1.0 and shader 3.0.

QUESTS

• All Halas quests should now appear under the same category in your quest journal.
• Stonebrunt Frontier: Sundered Simulacrum and Visual Obfuscation should now function correctly.
• The Willow Wood: Ayr'Dals who don the illusionary form of other races can no longer fool Daelyn Twinstar! He’s on to you!
• It is now possible to do both the tradeskill and the adventuring versions of the sokokar quest lines (from Borbin Happens and Assistant Jones at the dock in Kylong Plains).
• Logging out will no longer cause conflict with players that had completed the quest "Ry'Gorr Mining Operations." The Velium wall securing the Velinoid Catacombs should not reappear for you
• It should now be possible for multiple players to trigger the ambushing Ry'Gorr orcs while on the quest "Flame On!"
• Arrin Clelland's quest "Manta Slay" is no longer repeatable.
• Before players are offered the quest "Roaming Charges" Yasha Redblade now points players to Trainer Ragnhild Stonefist through a dialog choice.

FROSTFANG SEA

• Warden Bjerne, the Halas housing merchant, is now stocking more Halas furnishings and fewer Qeynos ones.
• Velinoids in the caves near New Halas should no longer be more difficult than other mobs in the zone.
• Sloppy fish gut bucket is now no-value.
• New Halas now has flavor NPCs wandering, fighting, conversing, and spell casting throughout the city, Ravens' Roost and the Erollis dock.
• New Halas now has harvestable shrubs and wood.
• The Warlock, Illusionist, Conjuror, Wizard Trainers have been moved to the new "Mages' Study."
• Gruu Fairbairn, the Cronomage NPCs, and Research Assistant have been moved to the new "The Arcanitorium.”
• The newly added buildings of New Halas ("Spears' Rest", "Hammers' Rest" & "Erronson's Furs and Leathers") now have signs.
• Nohr Flamel, an Alchemy Merchant, is now located within Ravens' Roost area of New Halas.

THE HOLE

• The following mobs will no longer attack you if you have faction point equal to or above -39999 points with them. The faction point requirement should now be consistent with other standard mobs under the same faction.
  • “an animated watcher”
  • “a disheveled refugee”
  • The “Caetaxian dominator” located on the fallen pillar bridge in the Old Paineel section of the zone.
• Killing “disheveled refugees” should now have an effect on your faction status with “Caertaxian Legion” as well as factions that are against them.

THE PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• The fires that spawn on the corner platforms during Roehn Theer’s encounter are no longer targetable to help prevent occasional issues with tab-targeting during the battle.
• Sage Encounter – The AOE spells for the sages have had their radius reduced. You now have 10 seconds rather than 5 to complete the HO to remove their prismatic spheres. Sages will now wait 80 secs from the time their prismatic spheres are removed before recasting the next one. In challenge-mode the 3 sages now have lower maximum health.

THE TEMPLE OF CAZIC-THULE

• The Acidic Slime should once again drop loot appropriate for its level.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION AND THE UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

• Lockout timers: The Icy Keep now has a 3 day 20 hour minimum and a 9 day maximum and the Underfoot Depths now has a 4 day 20 hour minimum and a 9 day maximum.

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