[Test] Test Update Notes: Tuesday, April 5, 2011(0)

[Offical Forums]

GENERAL

• Improved client performance.
• The "Time Traveler" title is a suffix again, like it's supposed to be.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

• NPCs should no longer dance around players when engaged in melee.
• The chronoportal event merchants in Commonlands and Antonica have returned for a limited time only to accept your remaining ancient platinum coins.

Crystalline Breaks

• Geonids in Crystalline Breaks will now be correctly classified as living.

Kael Drakkel

• Tychron the Exsulator should hate shuffle less.
• Skarl’s Pegged now gives you 5 seconds to run from posts, when you are pegged for slaughter.

Kael Drakkel: Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic

• Lowered collision radius on Idol of Rallos Zek and Idols of Rallos Zek [Challenge].

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• Lowered health totals for many named throughout the zone.
• Narmek should no longer be quite as difficult.
• Encounters designed to spawn adds when a specific creature dies should no longer spawn multiple copies of adds.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Tserrina should no longer be able to be respawned once killed

ABILITIES

Swashbuckler

• Swashbuckler "Reach" should once again increase melee range.

QUESTS

Eastern Wastes

• Finding Phenocryst's last missing part for Gritstone's quest, "Head First", no longer requires the player to be in third person view to obtain update.

Frostfang Sea

• The Frostfang Sea storyline is now completable!

ITEMS

• Added multi attack to Eye of the Shadow Beast.
• Added multi attack to raid fighter wrists.
• Added multi attack to the Torque of Crushing Onslaught.
• Adjusted the Necretia Bow of Webs damage rating.
• Added crit bonus to Looming Sadness Gorget.
• The Gore-Imbued Bands pattern should now properly unpack.
• Elemental Detonation will now stack if cast by different players.
• The amount of Velium Shards required for Shard Armor has been reduced.
• Several Yellow, Red, and War Rune adornment procs will now trigger on both spell and melee hits.

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