[Test] Test Update Notes: Tuesday, March 29, 2011(0)

[Offical Forums]

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.
• Doors and bridges should correctly save based on named encounters defeated if players leave the zone and come back.

Forgotten Pools

• Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Kael Drakkel (Heroic Instances)

• Critical Mitigation requirements have come down by 10%. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.
• Hit points have been slightly reduced on overall population. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.

Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends (Challenge)

• The Imperator Koskeggr fight has been adjusted, the strikemages now spawn much closer to the center of the room.

TRADESKILLS

• Tradeskill group dungeon rewards now include a chance at two new recipe books, allowing tradeskillers to craft armor from primal velium shards at a reduced cost.

LIVE EVENTS

EQ Anniversary Event

• The “Remnants of the Feerrott” painting from the chronoportal merchant was using an incorrect appearance, and has now been corrected.

Bristlebane’s Day

• The "Totem of the Grand Prankster" no longer has a description fitting Erollisi's Charm when examined.

QUESTS

Public Quests

• Improved server performance during public quests.
• Storm Gorge has been extensively restructured to improve performance and playability.

Great Divide

• The ROI’s for the quest, “Complex Rime” should be more accurate now.

Kael Drakkel

• The Throne Room teleporter should now stay activated after completing stage 1, part 1 of the quest, “Triumph in the Temple”.
• For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, the part of the quest where you click to turn on the teleporter should now update the quest for all members in the group.
• For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, if player lagged out or zoned out before getting the quest update by witnessing all orc slaves escape through the portal, he or she can return to click on the teleporter again to re-initiate the event.

Heritage

• Cara Omica’s spirit for the quest Beauty’s Only Skin Deep should reliably spawn upon Cara’s death.

ITEMS

• Dungeon dropped loot has had its power increased.
• Dungeon shard armor has had its power increased.
• Raid items have had their power increased.
• The gap in power between easy and challenge mode raid items has been increased.
• The power of a few War Runes has been increased.

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