Blight Update 260

[AmonGwareth]

Blight Delta 260 has been applied to the Blight Testing Shard and includes the following additions, changes, and fixes. Please use this thread to post bugs only. Do not use it for discussion of changes. Non-relevant posts will be moved and/or deleted.

Use this thread to discuss this update: http://community.istaria.com/forum/showthread.php?29004-Blight-Update-259-260-Discussion

Adventure

• Allowed Power buffs will now stack with other Power boosts.
• Weapon Tech Kit: Virulent Venom technique can now be properly applied to weapons and scales.
• Blight Poison debuff no longer will no longer conflict with other dot_blight effects, but will instead conflict with other poisons (using the poison keyword).
• Group Instant Heal now recycles every 180 seconds (down from 300).
• Group Instant Transfer now recycles every 180 seconds (down from 300).
• Superior Heal now recycles every 180 seconds (down from 300).
• Blighted Armor, Dragon Scales, Jewelry, and Weapons no longer have any limitation on how the number of times an individual piece of equipment can be recharged. Blighted Equipment is now set to "Attune on Equip".
• Dragon's Gift buff now remains active on players even after logging out and back (like other Gift buffs).
• Barbed Bolt no longer requires a stance.
• Dragon's Determination buff is now known as Determined
• Fortify buff is now known as Fortified.
• Demon Blood Battle Axe, Demonskin Staff, Demon Flurry have had a facelift. They now use unique models.

Crafting

• Corrected the minimum skill rating for Dim Essence Construction Source and Sandstone Construction Keystones on the Grand Guild House.
• Journeyman Armor Dye Kit is now sold on the Feladan Alchemist trainer.
• Craft: Miner's Blessing now requires 33 bars.

Quests

• Corrected the descriptions for some Town Marshall quests.
• Quest "Rare Foods: Dinner? Impossible!" now requires you to be a level 95 Confectioner to begin it.
• Title: Expert Crystalshaper ability now properly points at the Crystalshaper school, not the NPC version of the school.
• Fixed a bug with quest The Town Marshalls of Istaria where it would automatically completed.
• Earn Title: Expert Crystalshaper quest is no longer repeatable.
• Town Marhsall: Haunted Ruins quest now tracks all the higher level mobs in the western deadlands, not just Kwellen, Shadow Tarantulas and Wraiths.
• Quest "Kerian's Quest: Learn how to socket a chest scale!" now properly refers to Ectoplasm, not Vapor.

Monsters

• Skeletal Warlords will now have stats at all levels in which they spawn.
• Indestructible Fyakki are now known as Ul'zilgat Flayers or Defilers.
• Split the two large spawn regions of Fyakki in the Eastern Deadlands into four (thereby increasing the quantity of spawns). They should no longer spawn inside walls or trees.
• Brittle Fyakki are now known as Bloodletter Savages.
• Cenotaph Guardians now have combat abilities, no spells, improved stats and resistances, and carry a weapon.
• Elite Bone Vindicator now fight as Rangers.
• Storm's Shadow now fights as an Undead Dragon.
• Guardian of Faces now fights as a Lava Golem.
• Ornate Chest in the Lesser Aradoth Deadlands now properly gives the "Strange Aura" effect. This Aura also has a description and is no longer dispellable.
• Fiery Dire Wolves are now known as Crimson Shredders and Ravagers.
• Adjusted the Zal'kuk spawns in the Fortress of Fire.
• A Tier 4 Chest will now properly spawn in the Fortress of Fire (instead of more Adepts).
• Adjusted the Fire Beetle spawns in Char.
• Forest Skulk Hunt-Master no longer gets a damage boost.

Other

• Loyalty Vaults now cost 6 Tokens each instead of 8 and up.
• The "Spring Festival Tent" has been renamed "Tavern tent" and is available during the summer festival also for this year to match the newly created lair chamber.
• The Food Merchant for the Summer Festival now sells the Tavernkeeper Hiring Permit needed for both the tent and tavern lair chamber.
• The spring event has ended and the NPC's have been moved on again, but the summer event has returned.
• Player built houses, shops, and storage structures are all now marked as "medium" in size so that they will not be able to be built on the Memorial Island plots. This should not cause any change to regular plots, which should all be classified as medium or larger in size.
• Resized and/or removed small plots from the following communities: Sandstone Bluffs, Guild: Amon, Guild: Immons, Guild: Sem, Guild: South Balzar. With the exception of three plots which are currently owned, this should remove the last of the plots which are under 1600 in size.
• Pets now have descriptions which should aid players in determining which pet is best for their needs.

[AmonGwareth]

Additional notes that are now part of this update.

Tutorials

• Many of the Tutorial files have been updated with this patch.
  
• A new "Biped Information Center" exists on Spirit Island now. This information center has information unique to biped characters.
  
• The "Dragon Information Center" on Skalkaar has been updated to include information unique to Dragons.
  
• The Encyclopedia on Floating Island once again works. It includes different information than either the Spirit Island or Skalkaar Information Centers.
  
• Many of the Tutorial files can be found by opening the Tutorial window from the "blue gem" Launch Button in game.
  
• Skalkaar Island has been updated so that the quests are now part of the various NPC's "Quest Book". This means that the NPC's will show the "I have a quest for you" indicator rather than making players have to wonder.
  
• All dragons now begin life right from the start as a level 1 Dragon Adventurer and level 1 Dragon Crafter.
  

Please take note that many of these changes are "works in progress" and will be updated further in future updates. Suggestions for other topics, reports of issues with the files, mistakes in information, etc, can be reported in a special thread on the forums.

Other Changes

• Abilities which did not have descriptions on them now will show as having descriptions.
• Quest for the Master Builder now uses "or" constraints so players may have the new Title ability or the old emblem and will be offered the quest.
• Exterminator has been changed from a title to an honorific.
• Drain Bolt I: Primal Secrets, Fiendish Pride now will give players a copy of the basic Tempest 1 spell.
• Title: Kion Militia Emblem will now read Private [insert character name here] of the Kion Militia
• Journeyman Round Shield now has the proper requirements for scribing.

Server Updates

• Stackable items can now be deconstructed
• Dead monsters that are also resource nodes (e.g. Golems, Wisps, etc) now properly respect assigned resource quantities. This means that different sizes of monster will be treated as different sizes of nodes.
• Improved network message optimization by removing name and description of objects (instead using local lookup file).
• Limit max overburden speed reduction to 75%
• Allow new characters to automatically join a school (per design spec)
• Feedback messages more clear for trading error conditions

Game Client

• Fixed problems with stackable items that are techniqued.
• Fix to allow the 3D renderer to use multi-threaded code paths in shaders.
• Fix to allow stackable items to be deconstructed during construction.
• Fixed the Dragon Scale Forge map element so that it properly shows up.
• Consolidated start up parameters so that ClientPrefs_Launch.def is only used
• Updated the game client UI to have the new quest last completed date
• Added feedback to item customize window when item can not be inscribed.
• Fix for possible conditions leading to orphaned lair chambers
• Allow free form lair building, and then validate connectivity at end of process
• Fix for items with more than 5 techniques cause crash
• Increase number of possible rendered particles on screen
• Adjust inventory icon quantity to read 10k, 11k, etc.
• Merge legacy systems for item load distance. Now use near, normal and always (depending on object)
• Cleanup map files / regenerate map files
• Optimizations for item loading
• Chat Tabs do not flash if opacity is at 100%
• Sawhorse icon
• Gorgeous night and less transparent day sky

[Guaran]

Liking the whole world high detail map. I've noticed some islands are missing though, such as Peak of Storms. On purpose,or just unfinished/overlooked?
Any chance players can build those same type maps like we did before with topomap?

[Cegaiel]

•Journeyman Armor Dye Kit is now sold on the Feladan Alchemist trainer.

Not seeing the Jman Armor Dye Kit on Morrigan in the satyr camp in Feladan. Can you tell me what the price of the form is, in meantime, please?

Glad to see the Jman form will now finally being sold

[AmonGwareth]

•Journeyman Armor Dye Kit is now sold on the Feladan Alchemist trainer.

Not seeing the Jman Armor Dye Kit on Morrigan in the satyr camp in Feladan. Can you tell me what the price of the form is, in meantime, please?

Glad to see the Jman form will now finally being sold

Double-chcked, its definitely on Morrigan.

[Krinharth]

Can not describe full condition, but saw following glitch (or bug?) blight putch on bkight - looks ok, regular putch on living - ok; blight putch on living shad (order) - objects lair entrans and shrines appears jast when come very close.
hope, this not happens again, when putch will become regular, but this may be umportsnt point to check

[Steelclaw]

objects lair entrans and shrines appears jast when come very close.

That's an unintended side effect of a client optimization that changed the load distance for some objects. I submitted a fix yesterday, so it might be a few days before the client gets built and pushed out to Blight.

[Marynah]

Double-chcked, its definitely on Morrigan.

I just looked for myself (because I wanted to snag a copy) and did not see it there either.
There are 10 available items in the list and it doesn't show up.

[Cegaiel]

I can see Peak of Storms just fine. The entire map is showing for me. However, the naming of many folders got changed. So that I didn't have duplicate folders, I did delete my entire /resources/interface/maps folder before patching though. I was wondering if some leftovers or duplicates might be messing something up. But the map.def file should prevent that. Hmm.

[Guaran]

Ok, weird, because I did delete my override maps folder as well. Plus took out the edits to the clientprefs_common.def and resourcemeta.def removing the references to maps and the override folder. I removed the whole override and now its working. Must have missed something.

Any chance players can make maps like these new ones?

Also noticing the water is missing on the new maps, but in general it looks much better, since it now shows rocks, structures, etc.

Found a bug: Getting a message "Inscription disabled because item is stackable" on scales, even on scales in my inventory that I have already inscribed. The pre-existing inscription is still there.
DEV: This has been fixed - 2014.07.27

After a bit more testing, it seems to do this only to pre-inscribed scales. I was able to properly scribe a scale that had not yet been inscribed, then that scale also gave the above message. So, no big deal, just slightly misleading error.

[Cegaiel]

Not officially a blight thing, but its been a while since I've used the game without map pack and noticing this. May I suggest a minor tweak to /resources/interface/themes/default/defs/UIMiniMapWindow.def ?

Change line Line 163: float BottomParentOffset = 50.0 (currently 56.0) so that the bottom button isn't trunicated.

DEV: This has been fixed - 2014.07.27

[Cegaiel]

Per the Blight 259 notes (Changes, Fixes and Additions) it says:

Quest "Attunement to Island of Ice Expedition Camp" now properly attunes players to the correct pad.

This might work for a brand new player who was never attuned before (I dont know). But for an existing player (me) that has always been attuned (for years), even throughout all the recent blight patches and even re-attuned to previous blight patches -258), I can NOT port to this destination : "Island of Ice: Expedition Camp" while on Blight Server (its ok on Chaos/Order). The only portal (Bristugo) shows "Unavailable". Even though I have attuned on more than one occassion to the NPC at the "Expedition Camp", yet the portal (Bristugo) still shows "Unavailable". No npc's at Expedition Camp offers me to attune furthur...

Note I have TWO entries in my completed Quest Log:
Attunement to Island of Ice Expedition Camp
Attunement to Island of Ice Expedition Camp


Again, the portal from Bristugo still shows Unavailable, but I have attuned twice: pre-Blight 258 (years ago) and during Blight 258 (reattuned again recently).

I'm thinking if I can't port to Expedition Camp during current Blight patch (260), I won't be able to next delta patch either

To recap: I can NOT port nor attune futhur (already attuned twice) anymore while on Blight server (but Chaos/Order is still working OK) to the Isle of Ice Expedition Camp.

On Blight, I currently have to take portal Trandalar: Island of Fire and Ice (from Bristugo) (the small island mid point between Fire and Ice Isle) and fly very far to reach Expedition Camp. It's the only way possible currently to reach this site, on Blight (at least for me). If I play my biped I would be extremely sad (no flight)!

[Velea]

Items which have been reported and are in progress:

• Cellardus gives bad feedback message after completing the "Tiny Grass Beetles" quest.
  
  • EDIT: Unable to confirm or replicate this bug.
  
  
• Completed quests show as "0" times completed
  
  • EDIT: Reported to tech team for them to work on; verified that newly completed quests are registering in the database, so this looks to be some sort of display error only
  
  
• Gather step in "Collect 35 Uncut Garnet" quest appears to not be registering
  
  • EDIT: Unable to confirm or replicate this bug. Gathering the uncut garnet seems to register just fine.
  
  
• Blacksmith Quest 1: Quest says gather 75, but tutorial box says 55.
• Gravus's quest's give bad tutorial box feedback when you reach the Table Saw and Stone Cutter during the appropriate quests.
• New Encyclopedia on Spirit Island is floating in the air slightly.

[Marynah]

Re-did Cellardus' quest, it worked fine although I did notice when getting the protectorate ability, the tutorial said it was something I could cast on myself to intercept damage, when in fact it is meant to be cast on a friend.

Deleted and restarted the garnet collection step, and it all worked fine.

EDIT: Fixed the tutorial.

[Cegaiel]

Thanks for checking Amon, but something is amiss. It's just not showing up on my end. I also rescanned files just to make sure and I am definitely on the blight server.

[Guaran]

Still CTD on blight soon as you try to list something on the Bristugo consigner.

[Guaran]

Still CTD on blight soon as you try to list something on the Bristugo consigner (Elisanna).

Has anyone else been able to confirm this bug?

[Cegaiel]

Not an issue with Blight, but figured it would be good to fix this before it goes live, since its getting near that time.

There doesn't seem to be a binding shrine on New Koraelia. Oddly there is the blue ray in the sky at 45966, 17711 (dirt patch beside petting zoo) which normally would show above where a shrine exists. But no actual shrine there to click on. I cleared cache again. Still no shrine, but the blue ray in the sky is still there. Didn't see a shrine on map pack either, I did a quick scout of the isle to make sure there wasn't one elsewhere, but didn't find one. Confirm please.

[Guaran]

..Quest "Attunement to Island of Ice Expedition Camp" now properly attunes players to the correct pad.)!

Just checking, but did you try both of the bristugo teleporters that have had ice island ports in the past? Try both the back corner, and the one right next to it. I'm at work but will try to duplicate your issue after work. I am also already attuned to the old ice island pad.

[Guaran]

I just did the attunement quest and the pad works for me. Maybe since you had tried the quest when it was bugged?