Change Log: March 6th, 2014

[Volgathras]

Typos:

- Some typos fixed in the human racial quest line. (Thanks Miskhan)

- Multiple typos in helpfiles fixed (Thanks to everyone who brought it to our attention)

Bug fixes:

- Spy no longer shows when a character is in an Immortal only area.
- Being able to plant multiple items onto a werebeast while transformed fixed.
- Traps hitting players when player not in the room (ie, pet springs trap) has been fixed and can no longer happen.
- Fear causing warmaster loss of skills fixed.
- Magic Strike firing before lag moves fixed. It now fires after the fact.
- Some parsing in the code fixed to display long descriptions correctly.
- Journeyman bug squashed.
- Thieves can no longer steal owner only items.
- some mob programs fixed to work correctly (gate golem, necromancer in sewers)

 

Class:

- Deaths by thirst/hunger via dysentery now count as a player death - not a mob death. (and the shaman gets credit)

- Deaths by insect swarm now count as a player death - not a mob death. (ranger gets credit)
- Haymaker can't be completely stopped by a shield anymore.
- Rage now ignores slow. However, slow does not ignore haste. (A raged, hasted AND slowed zerker is not hasted).
- Portal now has a recall lag if you are bloody.
- Charging minotaurs now lag randomly between 2-3 rounds.
- Some key vampire changes to thrust. (not to be discussed)
- Path of Fury Berserkers have a chance at "breaking" a burn-proofed shield or weapon.

 

Race:
- Half-Elves can be clerics, invokers, and battlemages now.
- Werebeast "weapon value" now takes form of the weapon they're wielding prior to transformation.
- Werebeasts have 4 new beasts that are only available through application.

  - Jaguar, Vulture, Badger, Boar
- You can now set a "beast description" (see HELP BEASTDESC)

 

EQ:
- Owner only items will now 'go to' you when you die.
- The drop rate of the Archdemon Greathelm has been fixed.
- Some items have had their weights adjusted.
- Some non-rare sockets have been added.

Quests:
- The Bard guildmaster in Val Miran now gives guild quests (in line with other guildmasters).

- The beginning of the human racial quest line has been moved to a more obvious place.

- Various other adjustments made to the human quest line (player suggested).

Cabals:
- "bulletin" added for merchants.
- "sale" added as a list for merchants. HELP SALE.
- You can now offer Barters TO Merchants, that is, if you're in a cabal too.
- Warmasters can challenge each other again (even if at inductee).
- Ram only lags when you can actually ram a door and have a chance at it being successful.

Areas:
- <REDACTED>

- The Bazaar and it's creator, the Astral Conclave, have been discovered in Aabahran.

  (look for the starbridges near the city gates of each city-state)

Other:

- Spell types now listed when typing help <spell>
- You can now edit your notes/applications in an editor, like the desc editor.
- Journal entries added. (journal edit)
- History check added.
- RP point additions.
- Diplomacy for those other than Heralds now has a timer.
- Pet names can now be set for cabal pets.
- You can now restring your items with enough RP points.
- Edges introduced.
- RP items introduced.

- Edges, Discuss, and Restring commands introduced for RP points.

Immortal Commands:
 HAH! You wish.

Forum / Wiki / Website:
- PK log section updated to allow anonymous PK log posting.
- You can no longer use the search function to see who posted last in PK log forum, or Shoutouts forum.

[Volgathras]

Additions and changes will be made to RP point rewards in the Bazaar over time. Please make sure to carefully consider your purchases before you make them - there are no refunds!

 

Edit Reminder: If your RP points fall beneath the required threshhold for your cabal rank or qrace, you will be in danger of losing your spot/race!

[Streetfighter]

Great work. I am very impressed by all the work that went into all of this. Big thumbs us. 

[mya]

- Rage now ignores slow. However, slow does not ignore haste. (A raged, hasted AND slowed zerker is not hasted).

 

What???

The only class with Slow are battlemages. And a pretty obvious Battlemage bane is the Berserker class.

As a Battlemage your worst fear is a dispel. Because even your defenses are 'affects type' spells.

Berserkers of any path completely destroy your spells with Haymaker because you don't have access to shield block skill.

Haymaker can only be stoped reliability by holding a shield and having shield block proficiency. As a zerker your counter to this is being Anger path.

So now, you can't even prevent him from raging with slow, something that the Berserker can easily counter by having Maledictive saves.

 

What was the point of this change?

To have slowed Ogre Zerkers regen 600 HP in a single tic while being able to rage ?

To further penalize Battlemages vs their bane class ?

 

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Edges

What are edges ???

[Erelei]

They can still rage while slowed. This has nothing to do with success rates of any other skill while slowed. Most skills in the berserker arsenal are centered around how fast you are. Unfortunately, you won't be landing many haymakers while slowed, even while raged.

[mya]

They can now. Zerks couldn't rage while under the effect of slow (and not hasted) in the past.

And being slowed in the past had no effect on haymaker. If it has now, it's great.

 

If anything Battlemages should have manalock prevent Haymaker.

It's such glaring vuln, that all a Zerk has to do is spam Haymaker in the fight to own it.

[The Forsaken]

How do you rename cabal pets?

[Erelei]

It's an Immortal command right now - I don't see we can't make it a player command for RP points though.

[Ayroduth]

Great work!

[ledgerbay]

Is it available now? 

[miskahn]

- Some items have had their weights adjusted

Can we see what is been adjusted?

[Demiterracotta]

- You can now set a "beast description" (see HELP BEASTDESC)

 

 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Serinkane]

Change logs are m y monthly highlights!

[f0xx]

Charging minotaurs now lag randomly between 2-3 rounds.

 

This change made me chuckle.

 

Ghrundor, next time you try to lie in order to defend the combos you are good with, be careful, you might actually give an idea to the IMMs

 

Minotaur charge was already changed into giving the minotaur 2-3 rounds of lag upon using the charge. The 3 rounds of lag is random, but does happen fairly often. As well, there are many ways around the charge.

Untrue. Yes, lag was changed, but it never was increased to 3 rounds for the charger.

[EtsoShex]

I have to give kudos. I've spent more time getting into character (working on bio, history, expressions, etc.) than I have ever done before. I feel like when all's said and done, folks will be creating more concrete and believable characters, allowing for references to otherwise nonexistent parts of a character's life. Super pleased.

[Cephirus]

I had a question regarding the pets: Will they participate in combat or are they just a mount or aesthetic only pet? Also, if they are usable as a mount, will any issues with character size (like being a giant) or other qrace/class issues make purchasing certain mounts unusable? And if so, is there a way those could be identified, I would hate to spend 60 RP points for a pet I cannot use.

[Volgathras]

Menagerie pets are asthetic only. There may be other pets/mounts later.

[P_body]

What really??!! That seems like a pretty big detail to not make explicit until now. All other pets/followers engage in pk (even a pet Dragon does SOMETHING). And since there are level and steep price differences I figured there had to be something different between the pets than just a name change.

Wow...major bummer.

Edited March 13, 2014 by P_body

[Serinkane]

Honestly adding pk pets seems like an imba combo maker

[Volgathras]

Fair point. I'll make a note at the best master and refund anyone the points for their pets if they'd like them returned.

[P_body]

@ Serinkane: I'm not arguing that point. I just expected that the for 60 RP points the pet would do..."something" right? Like a dragon has a flame strike or an icicle etc. The higher level pets would do...something cool or have some perk or benefit that would fire off occasionally, or they would be kind of like a weaker version of a demon hunter/drake/other pet from Watcher etc. Again, a weaker version, not something incredibly powerful, just something that made you say, "Oh, well that's cool."

 

Now, as a aesthetic piece, I think that adds something cool to the persona, especially the spider for Lloth followers, so I'm not bashing that. It just isn't what I thought it was. And, considering the cost for an edge starts at 50, and the cost for some of the spells is 30, teaching is 25, learning the locate spell is 40(?) having the pet be 60 RP points, in my mind, means that the pet is worth more than any of those. Even the re-naming of eq is half the cost of a pet at only 30 RP Points. *shrug* 

 

Sure, you're entitled to buy whatever you want and not buy what you don't want.  I just don't see pets as being a very attractive offer at that price point considering the host of other things you can buy at a cheaper price.

 

/opinion

Edited March 13, 2014 by P_body

[ledgerbay]

Fair point. I'll make a note at the best master and refund anyone the points for their pets if they'd like them returned.

 

I was a little disappointed with the lure, untill I started to use it in RP and it really does add a little snaz, but I am still not sure it was worth RP points.

[Serinkane]

They are a little pricey but nice for extra RP projects.  Pet commands can offer a lot of spice to your character.  Volgathras, I was also wonder, are the necklaces owner only or nosac?

[mya]

The pets should have no PK bonus.

They are a RP tool and should remain so.

But I agree that perhaps they could be made more special. Perhaps just like the Knight Vanguard pet that does all sort funny stuff.

But more IC. No silly stuff.

[P_body]

No reason the pets shouldn't have a PK bonus. Zero. There is every reason why the pets should have some kind of involvement in battle. Doesn't mean they will, and having them as only an RP tool is fine, but the cost seems incredibly high for a "bling-only" item.