[Test] Test Update Notes: Wednesday, March 23, 2011(0)

[Offical Forums]

LIVE EVENTS

• Chronoportals have opened in multiple locations across Norrath! They are said to lead to an ancient time. These phenomena are being researched by Chronomancers who will reward adventurers brave enough to venture inside.
• Event Start Times:
  • US Servers: 10 AM PST
  • International Servers: 9 PM PST
• Known issues (to be fixed on 3/24):
  • Allizewsaur does not have his sounds fully implemented.
  • Quillmane has a stutter in its wings when it is descending.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

• Fixed Zone crashes associated with some RAID NPC curses.

Kael Drakkel

• Base Population in the contested dungeon now has legendary and fabled drops.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• The Armored Presence should respawn more reliably when his encounter is broken.
• Alvik the Cold will now warn players slightly before he begins to heal himself.
• Spectral Librarian Emiida should say something when casting “Gather Knowledge” and “Project Knowledge” that is more appropriate to what players need to do to avoid the spells.

Forgotten Pools

• The red/blue room buffs from Forgotten Pools will no longer function outside of the zone.

LIVE EVENTS

Bristlebane’s Day

• The “Horse of a different Color” is much more magical, and can now be turned into a house item!

QUESTS

Public Quests

• The Storm Gorge cavalry updates for Velium Coldain Insignia Ring are now granted all at once when the cavalry wave is cleared, instead of one at a time.
• Ring War will never drop optimal loot for players who only take on the final stage, as intended.
• Players at public quests who stand around AFK and only participate at the end will get worse loot than before, in general.

Great Divide

• Drammind Gul should no longer be in two places at once.
• The book necessary for “Flight Reading” should now have a sparkle effect on it.
• The Freeblood “Cloud of Bats” ability should now give better directions on how to acquire the flight power.
• ROI’s have been added to Drammind’s quest series.
• Freeblood summoning their bat swarm will no longer be knocked off their feet.

10th Ring Heritage Quests

• It’s no longer possible to equip more than one coldain insignia ring from the heritage quest line.

Iceshard Keep

• “A Prince Among Kromzek”: Quest text has been updated to better clarify what is expected of the players. Additionally, players will now be able to spot Halkon from much further away.
• “Rage Against the War Machine”: Adventurers should now have a better idea where they must position themselves to spy on the Kromzek conversation.

ABILITIES

• Wards can no longer block Power Drains.
• You can no longer stack ability mod bonus on your pet.

TRADESKILLS

• Fixed tooltip on tradeskill progress on the character window.

ITEMS

• Djinn Bracelet of the Sky can now be moved back and forth from your mount tab by examining it. The bracelet is now No Trade instead of Heirloom.
• Cloud of Bats now properly suspends the bat illusion when the Freeblood is in combat.
• Rebalanced some of the quest reward, non shard, and PQ armor items to be more inline with their challenge level.
• Mount whistles with a limited number of charges will no longer remove the mount buff when the last charge is consumed.
• An unpack-confirmation dialog window has been added to Armor Patterns and War Runes.
• Monk Runes that gave Focus: Inner Calm VII now give Focus: Inner Focus.

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