[Test] Test Update Notes: Friday, June 10, 2011(0)

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GENERAL

• Fixed an issue preventing players from climbing certain climbable walls.

CALENDAR

• Guild events will now correctly add to the calendar.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

• Fixed a bug where merchants and bankers would show as broken or overmatched encounters.

Great Divide

• Cliff striders and living glaciers in Storm Gorge are no longer quite so difficult to kill.
• Halldor Brewbeard, Thurgadin Harbor's Bartender, now recognizes the "Stein of the Alesmith" and “Stein of Recollection” allowing owners to now bind themselves at his bar.

Elddar Grove

• Guard Kaladenth no longer attacks his fellow guardsman, Tolar.

Sullon’s Spire and Tallon’s Stronghold

• Drunder normal mode x4 raid zones do not require players to have quite as much critical mitigation or critical chance.
• Tallon and Sullon Zek will now begin fighting when players hail them, rather than approach them (Normal and Challenge versions).

Sullon’s Spire

• Gregor Haldane in Sullons Spire x4 raid zone does not teleport as frequently during his fight.
• Adds in the normal mode Sullon Spire x4 raid final encounter have had their health reduced.

Spire of Rage

• Updated Crit Bonus / Avoidance: 120% Critical Bonus [90 additional +30 innate] and 110% Critical Avoidance.

Strategist’s Stronghold

• Updated Crit Bonus / Avoidance: 130% Critical Bonus [100 additional +30 innate] and 120% Critical Avoidance.

Tower of Tactics

• Updated Crit Bonus / Avoidance: 140% Critical Bonus [110 additional +30 innate] and 130% Critical Avoidance.

Citadel of V’uul

• Updated Crit Bonus / Avoidance:
  • Boss 1 and Boss 2 - 140% Critical Bonus [110 additional + 30 innate] and 120% Critical Avoidance.
  • Boss 3 and Boss 4 - 150% Critical Bonus [120 additional + 30 innate] and 130% Critical Avoidance.
  • Boss 5 and Boss 6 - 160% Critical Bonus [130 additional + 30 innate] and 140% Critical Avoidance.

Kael Drakkel

• The teleporters in Kael Drakkel that players can gain access to by doing the Ragebourne quests will now teleport the entire group instead of just the player in the group that can access them.
• In Kael Drakkel, clicking on the entrance door “Eye of Zek” will now zone the whole group inside Temple of Rallos Zek instead of just the person in the group that have access to the door. This will work the same when exiting out of the temple.
• Praefectus Ptor’s adds will now despawn when he is defeated.
• Marked as an Enemy now has 8 seconds to be cured. Marked as an Enemy will now show up in the detrimental spell effects window.
• Marked as an Enemy should now be cast much less by Kromzek who use it.
• Dominus Gandrrig will now award AA experience to the group every time he is killed just like the other Kael Drakkel contested bosses.

Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic

• Damage on the Challenge mode Idols of Rallos Zek has been reduced to be more in line with the other encounters within the zone.

The Ruins of Guk

• The Troll Idol in the Ruins of Guk is now movable.

Kraytoc's Fortress of Rime and Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone

• Adds in the x4 raid challenge mode Kraytoc, and Supreme Imperium Valdemar encounter now have less health.

Kraytocs Fortress of Rime challenge mode

• Frigid energy nodules in the Eireen the Broken fight now have less health.

Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends challenge mode

• Curses should be more predictable and spaced further apart in the arch Magistor Modrfrost fight. Kromzek Stormtroopers and strikemages now have less health in the Imperator Kolskeggr fight.

Tower of Tactics

• Lord Kefzaanin should no longer stay invulnerable when failing the chrono-maiden trial.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

• The Achievements “Mauling Maulhammer” and of “Sense of Urgency: Mauling Maulhammer” should now update correctly.

TRADESKILLS

• Level 71 carpenter writs now correctly update with deklium weighing scales. A bug causing the level 75 woodworker timed writ to not update occasionally has also been corrected.
• The items that Livi in Eastern Wastes asks you to make have had their required progress adjusted. The Gardener’s Rake, Gardener’s Shovel, Weakened Axe, and Wyrm Stunner now take less progress to create.
• "Candy Corn" is no longer marked as currency, in order to accommodate tradeskill recipes.

ITEMS

• Temporary adornments should once again remove correctly.

EVENTS

Dragon Ring reconstruction event

• The Dragon Ring area now has a new revive location located closer to the event
• A new quest is available to further assist the coldain construction crew. This quest can be obtained from the construction foreman.

Wizard Spire reconstruction event

• A new quest is available to further assist the researchers. This quest can be obtained from Researcher Lekravanus within the wizard spire area.

Tinkerfest

• The Tinkerfest in-game mail now has a proper subject line.
• Blantswort’s quest "If They Only Had a Brain" now updates correctly when a "Tinkered Clockwork Brain" is crafted.
• Nell now recognizes when you are on the quest "The Legend of the Geargobbler", even if you have completed it in previous years.
• Tinkerer's Mechanized Framework is no longer marked as currency.
• Jon Jeffas location in Steamfont’s Gnomeland Security is now marked on the map for the quest "Friendly Competition".
• Didyma, in Steamfont no longer tries to offer her quest "The Legend of the Geargobbler" if you are already on it.
• The large gear behind Didyma in Steamfont’s Gnomeland Security now has collision.
• The Powered Carbonite Cloak recipe now creates the "Powered Carbonite Cloak" as intended.
• The Powered Ruthenium Cloak recipe now creates the "Powered Ruthenium Cloak" as intended.
• The "Shiny Tinkerfest Cog" is no longer marked as currency, in order to accommodate tradeskill recipes.

QUESTS

Public Quests

• A bug that could prevent some active participants from getting rewards has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused encounters in the Storm Gorge to reset while fighting.

Heritage

• The Snowchipper quest line has had the following changes:
• Status will now be given out properly upon completion of the quest.
• The quest now awards a house version of the Snowchipper. If you have completed the quest, the mountable version of the weapon will be available from the Shady Swashbuckler.
• The quest is now flagged as Heroic.

Sullon’s Spire

• One “Insulated Gloves of the Boarsmith” will now drop for each member of the group on the quest.

The Emerald Halls: Wuoshi's Fate

• Anyone grouped with someone on the necessary step of the Heritage quest "Tangled Roots of Growth" can now accompany them into the zone.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Fixed a bug where players could all stack up on the same spot when zoning to the Champion's Respite from another server.

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