ame Updates March 22,2007
Vanguard Build 1780 atch Notes 3/22/2007
MLY NOTS
- Disenchant – ll abilities that remove nchantments from opponents (including – Strip nchantment, silam’s Disenchanting Cry, Despoil and Disenchant) now have a tool tip description that states their effectiveness levels.
DVNTURIN NOTS
- ll 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 - silam’s Beguiling Call is now available at level 32.
- Disciple - Baiting Strike is now a melee ability. ccordingly, it now uses endurance instead of energy, can only be used from melee range, and is now instant. dditionally, 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 ura) now applies the actual third tier effect rather than reapplying the tier two effect.
- Necromancer - dded Drain Life V to trainers.
- Necromancer – Diseased Claw no longer heals your opponent.
- aladin – Fury of Valus has been added to trainers at level 50
- aladin – Cry of rowess has been added to trainers at level 48
- aladin – Increased the healing power of Lay on Hands
- aladin – rotector’s Fury will no longer generate as much combat spam as it once did.
- aladin – dded Judgment of the Unforgiving to trainers at level 46
- aladin – dded Deny Life to trainers at level 36
- aladin – dded Forbiddance to trainers at level 48
- Ranger – Blade of Storms now has a particle effect for the 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 – vasive Form now increases dodge and parry, but lowers damage. Tool tips have been added.
- Ranger – recision 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 - dded the ‘Thrown’ skill.
- Shaman - dded Ranged ttack to shaman trainers.
- Sorcerer – Your rings are now soul bound so they will not drop when you die.
CRFTIN NOTS
- Some complications have had their descriptions updated.
- The crafting organizations in New Targonor and hgram 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.
- wartak Clan recipes now have a required grade line.
- bug with the Decoration assembly in one of the Merchant’s uild 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.
- spelling error in the Qalian journeyman tier quests has been fixed.
- wartak Shortsword has been brought in line with the other wartak items.
- Linne Owit’s “Dull Knives” advanced work order should now be given to artificers, not blacksmiths.
- nother instance of quest-only items coming out of supply packs has been fixed.
- mateur 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- destroyed material.
- dditional hail dialogues have been added to special quest NCs to help players determine the necessary prerequisites.
- Fixed a bug in the Rewrought Infineum Light rmor recipe that was resulting in a failure item, regardless of grade.
- rtificer - 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
- ll 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 mulet recipe now displays its required grade.
- dded Qalian and Kojani stone hammer recipes to rtificer instructors.
- Seer’s mulet 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 narled Timber.
DILOMCY NOTS
- ll tier 3 Informants have had their loot tables standardized by rarity and percentages. No longer will you receive one bauble for vidence and four for Hearsay!
- etitioner oldsmith will no longer give out the quest “Dwarven Lagniappe for the lven Queen.”
- Corrected loot table issues with Informants across Telon.
- Corrected some grammar issues with Informants across Telon.
- Diplomacy Held items now offer resence in a minimum of two categories.
- rammar 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 resence. One lever is active – Traps of Nusibe.
WORLD OULTION NOTS
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The “Meet Your Instructor” quests for each class originating out of Rille’s ncampment now become available after completing “Remove the Head, and the Body Dies”
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NC “Kargor Iceblade” has been deactivated.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NC “uard Derbran Koboldbane” no longer blocks the Thestran xchange Broker.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NC “Sten Ironbrow” no longer falls off the bridge. It was sad times for him there for a while!
- Bordinar’s Cleft – The NC “colyte Jula Frozensword” no longer clips through walls.
- Bordinar’s Cleft – “Lena Blackfire” no longer clips through walls.
- Cliffs of helgad – Nimat Sekamqu will continue to speak and offer his wares, even when it is night.
- Cragwind Ridge - The quest Death From bove can now be completed.
- Cragwind Ridge - In addition to fixes to Death From bove, a new quest line has been added to Cragwind Ridge.
- Dahknarg - Minor updates to Travel Journal ntries: Fixed some directions to trainers, general goods venders and the banks.
- orgalok – The rare spawned NC “reshlok” is no longer invulnerable.
- Halgarad - Minor updates to Travel Journal ntries: Fixed some directions to trainers, general goods venders and the banks.
- Marsh of eril - layers should now be able to collect the correct number of troll knuckles for the quest “Tolls for Trolls” in the Marsh of eril.
- 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 loomscrys when slain.
- Martok – The quest “t the Root” now requires players to slay Yukionna within the ardens of Xia’Liu.
- Mekalia – The experience gained while using the Ventilation rates in Mekalia has been removed.
- Misthaven – The NC “rento artrus” will now pause once being hailed.
- Nusibe Necropolis - 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 aladins.
- Nusibe Necropolis - The delay on the damage traps have been increased a bit.
- Nusibe Necropolis - Clerics and aladins 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. ll 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.
- antheon of the ncients – The Trial of Death should now reset more quickly due to inactivity.
- Rahz Inkur - Zull alace Scarabs have had their immunities reduced and can now be crowd controlled and stunned.
- Rahz Inkur - Majordomo Nerox in frit 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 nt Queen.
- Renton Keep - Zihurr Invasion – Increased the availability of the nt Queen to reduce the bottleneck on the quest.
- Renton Keep - Badger ggression – You must now kill 8 badgers to complete this missive.
- Renton Keep – The quest “n mbarrassing Loss” has been fixed and is now completable. Some quest text has been modified slightly.
- Renton Keep – The quest “The Wisps Must ay” has been changed to “The Rekk Must ay” and now chains after “n mbarrassing Loss” has been completed.
- Rindol Field – uard Ryebridge will now be willing to give directions to those who ask.
- Shrine of the Flame – The quest “Silver’s Delivery” (art 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” (art 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 “ Fairy’s Scorn” has been deactivated.
- Skrilien oint – The quest “nter 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 oint” rather than Silvertalon ride 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 rena – mailbox has been added to the arena.
- Zaraj rena - Trakan should have far less hitpoints now, and should also do more damage.
Items
- Some items from particularly regular NCs in the Sands of Sorrow have had their rarity adjusted to “Common” and their item level adjusted to the region’s lowest level NC because, well, the items were common. The NCs 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
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