[Test] Test Update Notes: Thursday, March 3, 2011(0)

[Offical Forums]

GENERAL

• Fixed a crash bug.

USER INTERFACE

• Fixed an issue with NPC casting bars sometimes getting cleared before the spell completed.
• Fixed an alignment problem with some NPC names in the Target and Implied target window.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

• Fixed a crash in the Tombs of Night.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Butcherblock to crash.

Great Divide

• Trokk Curseslinger: Trokk’s splash of poison AE will inflict much less damage.
• The Pirate Garb rewarded from Dort Lumrick should all now be heirloom.
• Portals to switch between different instances of Great Divide have been added to Fina’s Retreat, Thurgadin Docks, and the Ringwar Battlefield.
• Fleshrender will indicate which player she’s aiming her Screech ability at.
• Zone sweeper abilities that target a random player on their hatelist will no longer attempt to target dead players.

Eastern Wastes

• Portals to switch between different instances of Eastern Wastes have been added to the Howling Pass and Nipik’s Haven.
• Zone sweeper abilities that target a random player on their hatelist will no longer attempt to target dead players.

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

• VhalSera should no longer run through walls when pathing around his room.
• VhalSera’s Reflections can no longer be charmed.
• VhalSera should no longer hit players with Freezing Spike if he is within range of the spike when it goes off.
• VhalSera should no longer summon copies of himself below 1/3rd of his health.
• Defeating Tserrina for the quest “Freeing the Dain” should now correctly update.
• Fixed an issue with the final boss loot drops.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Adds spawned from the shadow doors in the Tserrina encounter should hit for slightly less and no longer reflect spells.

Kraytoc’s Fortress (Challenge Raid)

• Brendegor Bitelimb in the Challenge Mode Kraytoc’s Fortress should now drop loot when the encounter is completed.
• Taltak the Mighty has stopped sharing his loot table with Eirreen the Broken. He now has his own loot for you to plunder.

ITEMS

• Experience Potions
  • All Experience Potions now increase Adventure, Alternate Advancement and Tradeskill experience.
  • You can no longer cast an experience buff on yourself if you have one active.
  • Promotional and Veteran Rewards now grant more of one type of experience potion rather than two separate potions.
  • You can cancel any experience potion except potions sold on the Station Marketplace.
• T4 Sentinel’s Fate hats can once again accept class focus adornments.
• Shady Swashbuckler items: Heritage quest rewards that the Shady Swashbuckler will reimburse should no longer be transmutable.
• Nipik's Cane can now be bought from Shady Swashbuckler in Nektulos Forest, by players who have completed the quest "A New Calling".
• Nipik's Cane is now no-transmute and no-sacrifice.
• Fixed an issue with the coldain rings where their stats were changing incorrectly at certain tiers.

TRADESKIILS

• Ruffin should now offer “Badger of Success” to anybody who has completed “It’s A Long Way Down”.

LIVE EVENTS

• The Erollisi Day title “The Prurient” was previously a suffix has been changed back to a prefix title, as was intended.

QUESTS
Public Quests

• Players who spam-clicked the chest at the end could lose their reward. This has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused the dwarven siege soldiers and gnomish supply runners at Storm Gorge to stand around at their spawn points instead of running into battle.
• Public quest adornment drops should now offer a selection of adornments based on the archetypes they are meant for.
• Public quest adornments should now offer a red and yellow adornment option.
• Public quest adornments are now flagged as no trade which is consistent with other rewards from public quests.

Great Divide

• “Power From the Tower” should be able to be completed properly.
• Altered the way Nipik talks to players on the signature quest line.
• Echoes of the Past: The ptarmigan birds should no longer lock their encounter while attacking the albino toads.

Eastern Wastes

• The suspicious barrels that must be destroyed for the quest "Contagion Elimination" respawn much faster now.
• The Duhjalm attackers that are spawned for the quest "Swog's Salutary Salve" have had their difficulty lowered.

Kael Drakkel

• POI or Sign quests within Kael Drakkel contested are now repeatable once every 18 hours. Additionally they now reward faction for the City of Thurgadin and Clan Ry’Gorr.
• Those who have completed the quest, Triumph in the Temple, should now have access to a teleport that takes you directly to the Hypogeum from the zone-in.

Thurgadin

• Captain Icecleaver should now respond properly to players on the quest, “Ominous Hints”.

Tower of Frozen Shadow

• The mirror quests within the Tower of Frozen Shadow should now be repeatable once per day.

Embalmer’s Skinning Knife Heritage Quest

• It should no longer be possible to spawn multiple Large Undead Gnolls back-to-back, and the frequency that you can spawn a forlorn shadowbeast while working on this quest has been reduced.
• The disruptive students will now be triggered by speaking to the head cataloger.
• All triggered NPCs for this quest have had their difficulty reduced.

10th Ring Heritage Quest

• The triggered Kromrif spirits in the 6th ring quest and the triggered Rime ambushers in the 7th ring quest have had their difficulty reduced.

Forgotten Pools

• The quest “The Immortal Pest” should no longer be on a timer. However, players will still need to complete the timed event at the end of Forgotten Pools to get the final update.

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