Vanguard Build 1780 Patch Notes 3/22/2007

GAMEPLAY NOTES
- Disenchant – All abilities that remove Enchantments from opponents (including – Strip Enchantment, Asilam’s Disenchanting Cry, Despoil and Disenchant) now have a tool tip description that states their effectiveness levels.

ADVENTURING NOTES
- All Classes – You can no longer train two auto attacks. If you do not have an auto attack on your hotkeys, you should be able to find one on the general tab of your ability book. If there isn’t one there, please visit a trainer.
- Bard - Asilam’s Beguiling Call is now available at level 32.
- Disciple - Baiting Strike is now a melee ability. Accordingly, it now uses endurance instead of energy, can only be used from melee range, and is now instant. Additionally, the tooltip and combat text associated with Baiting Strike should be more revealing. Baiting Strike should now animate correctly, as well.
- Dread Knight – Tier 3 of Dreadful Countenance (Fell Aura) now applies the actual third tier effect rather than reapplying the tier two effect.
- Necromancer - Added Drain Life V to trainers.
- Necromancer – Diseased Claw no longer heals your opponent.
- Paladin – Fury of Valus has been added to trainers at level 50
- Paladin – Cry of Prowess has been added to trainers at level 48
- Paladin – Increased the healing power of Lay on Hands
- Paladin – Protector’s Fury will no longer generate as much combat spam as it once did.
- Paladin – Added Judgment of the Unforgiving to trainers at level 46
- Paladin – Added Deny Life to trainers at level 36
- Paladin – Added Forbiddance to trainers at level 48
- Ranger – Blade of Storms now has a particle effect for the AE portion of the ability.
- Ranger – Offensive form now only increases melee damage. It also increases accuracy and lowers parry and dodge. Tool tips have been added.
- Ranger – Evasive Form now increases dodge and parry, but lowers damage. Tool tips have been added.
- Ranger – Precision Form now increases ranged damage and accuracy as well as dexterity.
- Rogue - Lacerate V was doing less damage than intended. This has been corrected.
- Shaman – Boon of Hayatet now only procs on melee attacks.
- Shaman - Added the ‘Thrown’ skill.
- Shaman - Added Ranged Attack to shaman trainers.
- Sorcerer – Your rings are now soul bound so they will not drop when you die.

CRAFTING NOTES
- Some complications have had their descriptions updated.
- The crafting organizations in New Targonor and Ahgram now give reduced continental and city crafting faction for successful completion for their work orders.
- Crafted bows have had their proc chances increased slightly
- Crafted bows stats have been updated where they were found to be lacking
- Crafted bows have had their effects attached properly and the effects have received some visual lovin’
- Fixed the problem preventing certain players from starting some of the ship quests even though they met the requirements.
- Corrected a problem with the turn-in of the Thestran Caravel Mast Mount quest.
- Corrected several items that were not being accepted in the deconstruction recipes.
- Corrected several outfitter recipes that were incorrectly asking for Bales instead of Bolts.  This was only a display error.
- The quest for the Medium Kojani Sail is no longer repeatable.
- The display name of Mithril Yellow Barding has been corrected.
- Corrected the tier display information on certain resonating dusts.
- Gwartak Clan recipes now have a required grade line.
- A bug with the Decoration assembly in one of the Merchant’s Guild quests has been fixed.
- Most Kojan outfitter trainers will now let you train apprentice bags.
- The wood staff for the Qalian style quest now properly displays that it requires two boards.
- A spelling error in the Qalian journeyman tier quests has been fixed.
- Gwartak Shortsword has been brought in line with the other Gwartak items.
- Linne Owit’s “Dull Knives” advanced work order should now be given to artificers, not blacksmiths.
- Another instance of quest-only items coming out of supply packs has been fixed.
- Amateur Tier Quest Thestran cotton shoe recipe now actually states it will be making foot patterns, not hand patterns, in the action family.
- Fixed a bug in the recipes for the Fiend Hunter quest line that was resulting in grade-A destroyed material.
- Additional hail dialogues have been added to special quest NPCs to help players determine the necessary prerequisites.
- Fixed a bug in the Rewrought Infineum Light Armor recipe that was resulting in a failure item, regardless of grade.
- Artificer - Martial Staffs have had their levels increased
- Blacksmith - Crafted claws can now be equipped by disciples
- Outfitter - Crafted cloaks that missed the last item update have been updated
- Found a way to make crafted item names longer
- All rare and heroic special crafting tools are soulbound.
- Corrected an issue with the prime panel recipe.
- Many quest recipes have been updated to display their required grade.
- The Seer’s Amulet recipe now displays its required grade.
- Added Qalian and Kojani stone hammer recipes to Artificer instructors.
- Seer’s Amulet now boosts your reasoning as well as problem solving for crafting skills.
- Many advanced work orders have had their rewards updated.

Havesting
- Corrected the name of Gnarled Timber.

DIPLOMACY NOTES
- All tier 3 Informants have had their loot tables standardized by rarity and percentages. No longer will you receive one bauble for Evidence and four for Hearsay!
- Petitioner Goldsmith will no longer give out the quest “Dwarven Lagniappe for the Elven Queen.”
- Corrected loot table issues with Informants across Telon.
- Corrected some grammar issues with Informants across Telon.
- Diplomacy Held items now offer Presence in a minimum of two categories.
- Grammar and spelling fixes on Diplomacy Held items.
- Luminary Calliria now has a diplomacy skill level and is Clergy.
- Tomb of Raiders in Nusibe Necropolis now has Civic Diplomacy. Requirements are 250 Diplomacy skill and 450 Outsider Presence. One lever is active – Traps of Nusibe.

WORLD POPULATION NOTES
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The “Meet Your Instructor” quests for each class originating out of Rille’s Encampment now become available after completing  “Remove the Head, and the Body Dies”
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NPC “Kargor Iceblade” has been deactivated.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NPC “Guard Derbran Koboldbane” no longer blocks the Thestran Exchange Broker.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NPC “Sten Ironbrow” no longer falls off the bridge. It was sad times for him there for a while!
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NPC “Acolyte Jula Frozensword” no longer clips through walls.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – “Lena Blackfire” no longer clips through walls.
- Cliffs of Ghelgad – Nimat Sekamqu will continue to speak and offer his wares, even when it is night.
- Cragwind Ridge - The quest Death From Above can now be completed.
- Cragwind Ridge - In addition to fixes to Death From Above, a new quest line has been added to Cragwind Ridge.
- Dahknarg - Minor updates to Travel Journal Entries: Fixed some directions to trainers, general goods venders and the banks.
- Gorgalok – The rare spawned NPC “Greshlok” is no longer invulnerable.
- Halgarad - Minor updates to Travel Journal Entries: Fixed some directions to trainers, general goods venders and the banks.
- Marsh of Peril - Players should now be able to collect the correct number of troll knuckles for the quest “Tolls for Trolls” in the Marsh of Peril.
- Martok - The travel journal entry for the Test of Will in the Rothrak Ogre Mound now correctly shows the location of the test chamber.
- Martok – The quest “Scavenger of Bone” now provides updates for Gloomscrys when slain.
- Martok – The quest “At the Root” now requires players to slay Yukionna within the Gardens of Xia’Liu.
- Mekalia – The experience gained while using the Ventilation Grates in Mekalia has been removed.
- Misthaven – The NPC “Grento Gartrus” will now pause once being hailed.
- Nusibe Necropolis - A curse will no longer be applied to you if you already have that same curse currently on you.
- Nusibe Necropolis – Curse traps no longer trigger on Clerics and Paladins.
- Nusibe Necropolis - The delay on the damage traps have been increased a bit.
- Nusibe Necropolis - Clerics and Paladins may find their backpacks a little heavier as they enter the Necropolis. Check your bags; there might be something new there.
- Nusibe Necropolis – Long ago, a small band of treasure hunters ventured to the City of the Dead. All but one fled out of fear. The sole adventurer, brave and without fear, entered alone. This adventurer fought long and hard into the necropolis, but his life came to an end before he could reach the Halls of the Warrior. Seek his remains.
- Nusibe Necropolis – Caress of the Dead will no longer linger at 1 second.
- Pantheon of the Ancients – The Trial of Death should now reset more quickly due to inactivity.
- Rahz Inkur - Zull Palace Scarabs have had their immunities reduced and can now be crowd controlled and stunned.
- Rahz Inkur - Majordomo Nerox in Afrit has promised vast riches and rewards to those adventurers brave enough to step foot inside Rahz Inkur and face head on the might of the Zull.
- Renton Keep - Zihurr Invasion – Fixed a bug that could prevent players from receiving credit for killing the Ant Queen.
- Renton Keep - Zihurr Invasion – Increased the availability of the Ant Queen to reduce the bottleneck on the quest.
- Renton Keep - Badger Aggression – You must now kill 8 badgers to complete this missive.
- Renton Keep – The quest “An Embarrassing Loss” has been fixed and is now completable. Some quest text has been modified slightly.
- Renton Keep – The quest “The Wisps Must Pay” has been changed to “The Rekk Must Pay” and now chains after “An Embarrassing Loss” has been completed.
- Rindol Field – Guard Ryebridge will now be willing to give directions to those who ask.  
- Shrine of the Flame – The quest “Silver’s Delivery” (Part 1) has had a journal location added to it and the summary text modified for clarity.
- Shrine of the Flame – The quest “Silver’s Delivery” (Part 2) has had a journal location added to it and the summary text modified for clarity as well as removing the text suggesting to a following quest.
- Shrine of the Flame – The quest line “A Fairy’s Scorn” has been deactivated.
- Skrilien Point – The quest “Enter the Ra’Hazi” now states that it will reward coin and not items for completion.
- Southwatch – The quest “Lover’s Quarrel” now points to “Lookout Point” rather than Silvertalon Pride Roost.
- Three Rivers – The Quest “Tome of Stone” has had its summary text slightly modified to provide a more clear objective.
- Three Rivers – The “Unsorted Books” required to interact with in order to complete “Tome of Stone” now instantly respawns.
- Zaraj Arena – A mailbox has been added to the arena.
- Zaraj Arena - Trakan should have far less hitpoints now, and should also do more damage.

Items
- Some items from particularly regular NPCs in the Sands of Sorrow have had their rarity adjusted to “Common” and their item level adjusted to the region’s lowest level NPC because, well, the items were common.  The NPCs that rewarded those items are currently restocked with items of their previous rarity and are now rewarding those items at the intended regularity.


~The Vanguard Team