blight patch 3-21-05

[cauri_order]

The following additions, changes and fixes were applied to the Blight shard on 21 March 2005. Note: as you will read, there are multiple additions/changes/fixes to several different schools and races, for clarity these notes are grouped by school or race, followed by general notes. Monk and Disciples · Numbing Cold is now associated with the Ice skill and will cause a 50% delay in enemy attacks, instead of the previous 10% delay. · Aura of Fire I damage has been increased from 1 ? 8 to 16 ? 18 which brings it into line with Cloak of Thorns IV. · Description of Monk ability, Special Attack Expert, fixed. · Spirit Form adjusted so that it no longer conflicts with Earthen Crust. Also, it now buffs Evasion by 1000 instead of Armor, preventing you from being hit rather than preventing you from being damaged which is more consistent with the ability description. · Updated description and effectiveness of Iron Body. Will now provide a 1000 point boost to Armor, but with a slightly longer recycle of 15 minutes. · Burning Fist damage increased to 56 ? 78 per tick to be more in-line with other flame attacks of similar level and fixed the damage keyword. · Spirit of the Monkey is no longer masterable. · Spirit Body is no longer on a shared timer with Smash and Cleave. · Raised the per tick damage of Firestorm from 25 ? 50 to 84 ? 101 to be more in-line with other flame Damage Over Time casts of similar level; also fixed the damage keyword. · Group Ice Armor is no longer masterable. Elemental Archers · Elemental Archers receive 10 Bow skill per level. · Elemental Archers receive 10 Armor Use skill per level. · Elemental Arrows (Flame Arrow, Ice Arrow, etc.) now have a 1 second delay. · Flame Arrows now convert damage to flame. · Ice Arrows now convert damage to ice. · Lightning Arrows now convert damage to nature. · Spirit Arrows now convert damage to spirit (note this does not make it ethereal). · Spirit Arrows now heal 100% of damage rather than 50% (chance to occur remains the same) Dragons · Dragon Breath of Fire has been changed to 30-second recycle time. The Area Effect was removed and will be replaced by a more powerful Area Effect Breath of Flame Burst (to be added at the next patch.) · Dragon scales now offer some basic armor protection. These values are by tier, with Tier 1 scales offering 5 points of inherent armor protection, Tier 2 10 points, Tier 3 15 points, Tier 4 20 points, and Tier 5 25 points. This change affects new and existing dragon scales. · Refreshing Breeze has been altered so that it will now overwrite all three spells of the Breeze line (Breeze, Rejuvenating Breeze and Quickening Breeze) of the same tier. · Adventure: Primal and Dragon Breath can both now be applied to Dragon Claws. · Statistic: Dexterity, Focus, Health, Power, Strength and Toughening can now be applied to Dragon Claws. · Marble Power Tail Scale level requirement adjusted to 90 from 80. · Various school and level updates for Dragon NPCs in and around Chiconis. · Base armor gain per level for Dragon Adventurers has been increased from 4 to 8. Tinkerers · Updated Gangaf?s Quest for Bronze Hinges & Gears to properly count both. · Updated Gangaf?s Quest for a Meat Pie to have better descriptions for each step. · Updated Gangaf's quest series which would not let you continue past the Iron Spanner quest. Races · Enhanced Bow now applies to base. · Enhanced Ice Magic now applies to base. · Enhanced Life Magic now applies to base. · Enhanced Magic Defense now applies to base. · Path of the Helian now applies Ice Resistance, Spirit Resistance and Primal to base instead of current. · Path of the Lunus now applies Flame Resistance and Tooth & Claw to base instead of current. · Updated Half-Giant Brawn to use the default augmentation icon General · Town Marshall?s Quests have been extended to 60-80 level ranges. · Uncommon and Rare Treasure Tables have been added to all monsters. · The Coin values of Backpacks adjusted, as previously they were inconsistent or missing. · Corrected Journeyman Two-Handed Sword Formula Requirements ? T3 Sword required 460 skill instead of 450. T4 required 660 skill instead of 650. · Respawn rate of Shining Wisps in the swamp increased. · Corrected Lord Oakwood to speak about the Tower of Nature instead of the Druid Tower · Quest: Defeat Gravier the Granite Golem corrected to direct you east instead of west · Elven Leadership will now stack with the Paladin's Aura of command. · Recycle time on the Guardian ability Wrack reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes. · Spun Sugar is again stackable. However, it will now consume itself when used. · Icon for Uncut Jasper corrected. · Expert Bolster Dexterity Potion and Expert Bolster Strength Potion corrected to ask for Ground Fire Opals rather than regular Fire Opals. · Bolster Strength V potion corrected to buff strength by 75 instead of 60. · Damage Shields will now properly apply damage for all hits resulting from multistrike or other multiple-style attacks. · Spirit Disciple dialog corrected to remove obsolete quests · Removed incorrect technique listings from Sandstone and Bronze Golem Fragments and from Flame Beetle Carapaces. · Named Golems and Massive Treants will now become rich resource nodes upon their death. · Gheniem the Peridot Golem will now appear as Peridot. · Expert Bolster Health Potion corrected to call for Shining Tensile Suspension instead of Shining Kinetic Suspension. · Tier 5 Blighted Items have been adjusted to be more desirable than before. Techniques · The Cleanse technique can no longer be added to a spell more than once.Previously, due to a bug, this technique could be added to spells multiple times. This change restricts ?Cleanse? to a single application on available spells.To clarify any possible misinterpretations, this change does not affect existing spells that already carry multiple Cleanses. · Description of Vital Defiance updated to better reflect what the technique does. · Technique Armor V now takes 2 Bloodfin Skulks instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes. · Technique Smelting V now takes 2 Nahguk Ogre Jawbones instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes. · Technique Foraging V now takes 2 Forest Oastic Sacs instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes. · Technique Dragon Breath V now takes 2 Fiery Dire Wolf Fang instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes.

[Pharcellus]

Here's the sanitized version:

The following additions, changes and fixes were applied to the Blight shard on 21 March 2005.



Note: as you will read, there are multiple additions/changes/fixes to several different schools and races, for clarity these notes are grouped by school or race, followed by general notes.



Monk and Disciples

· Numbing Cold is now associated with the Ice skill and will cause a 50% delay in enemy attacks, instead of the previous 10% delay.

· Aura of Fire I damage has been increased from 1 ? 8 to 16 ? 18 which brings it into line with Cloak of Thorns IV.

· Description of Monk ability, Special Attack Expert, fixed.

· Spirit Form adjusted so that it no longer conflicts with Earthen Crust. Also, it now buffs Evasion by 1000 instead of Armor, preventing you from being hit rather than preventing you from being damaged which is more consistent with the ability description.

· Updated description and effectiveness of Iron Body. Will now provide a 1000 point boost to Armor, but with a slightly longer recycle of 15 minutes.

· Burning Fist damage increased to 56 ? 78 per tick to be more in-line with other flame attacks of similar level and fixed the damage keyword.

· Spirit of the Monkey is no longer masterable.

· Spirit Body is no longer on a shared timer with Smash and Cleave.

· Raised the per tick damage of Firestorm from 25 ? 50 to 84 ? 101 to be more in-line with other flame Damage Over Time casts of similar level; also fixed the damage keyword.

· Group Ice Armor is no longer masterable.



Elemental Archers

· Elemental Archers receive 10 Bow skill per level.

· Elemental Archers receive 10 Armor Use skill per level.

· Elemental Arrows (Flame Arrow, Ice Arrow, etc.) now have a 1 second delay.

· Flame Arrows now convert damage to flame.

· Ice Arrows now convert damage to ice.

· Lightning Arrows now convert damage to nature.

· Spirit Arrows now convert damage to spirit (note this does not make it ethereal).

· Spirit Arrows now heal 100% of damage rather than 50% (chance to occur remains the same)



Dragons

· Dragon Breath of Fire has been changed to 30-second recycle time. The Area Effect was removed and will be replaced by a more powerful Area Effect Breath of Flame Burst (to be added at the next patch.)

· Dragon scales now offer some basic armor protection. These values are by tier, with Tier 1 scales offering 5 points of inherent armor protection, Tier 2 10 points, Tier 3 15 points, Tier 4 20 points, and Tier 5 25 points. This change affects new and existing dragon scales.

· Refreshing Breeze has been altered so that it will now overwrite all three spells of the Breeze line (Breeze, Rejuvenating Breeze and Quickening Breeze) of the same tier.

· Adventure: Primal and Dragon Breath can both now be applied to Dragon Claws.

· Statistic: Dexterity, Focus, Health, Power, Strength and Toughening can now be applied to Dragon Claws.

· Marble Power Tail Scale level requirement adjusted to 90 from 80.

· Various school and level updates for Dragon NPCs in and around Chiconis.

· Base armor gain per level for Dragon Adventurers has been increased from 4 to 8.



Tinkerers

· Updated Gangaf?s Quest for Bronze Hinges & Gears to properly count both.

· Updated Gangaf?s Quest for a Meat Pie to have better descriptions for each step.

· Updated Gangaf's quest series which would not let you continue past the Iron Spanner quest.



Races

· Enhanced Bow now applies to base.

· Enhanced Ice Magic now applies to base.

· Enhanced Life Magic now applies to base.

· Enhanced Magic Defense now applies to base.

· Path of the Helian now applies Ice Resistance, Spirit Resistance and Primal to base instead of current.

· Path of the Lunus now applies Flame Resistance and Tooth & Claw to base instead of current.

· Updated Half-Giant Brawn to use the default augmentation icon



General

· Town Marshall?s Quests have been extended to 60-80 level ranges.

· Uncommon and Rare Treasure Tables have been added to all monsters.

· The Coin values of Backpacks adjusted, as previously they were inconsistent or missing.

· Corrected Journeyman Two-Handed Sword Formula Requirements ? T3 Sword required 460 skill instead of 450. T4 required 660 skill instead of 650.

· Respawn rate of Shining Wisps in the swamp increased.

· Corrected Lord Oakwood to speak about the Tower of Nature instead of the Druid Tower

· Quest: Defeat Gravier the Granite Golem corrected to direct you east instead of west

· Elven Leadership will now stack with the Paladin's Aura of command.

· Recycle time on the Guardian ability Wrack reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.

· Spun Sugar is again stackable. However, it will now consume itself when used.

· Icon for Uncut Jasper corrected.

· Expert Bolster Dexterity Potion and Expert Bolster Strength Potion corrected to ask for Ground Fire Opals rather than regular Fire Opals.

· Bolster Strength V potion corrected to buff strength by 75 instead of 60.

· Damage Shields will now properly apply damage for all hits resulting from multistrike or other multiple-style attacks.

· Spirit Disciple dialog corrected to remove obsolete quests

· Removed incorrect technique listings from Sandstone and Bronze Golem Fragments and from Flame Beetle Carapaces.

· Named Golems and Massive Treants will now become rich resource nodes upon their death.

· Gheniem the Peridot Golem will now appear as Peridot.

· Expert Bolster Health Potion corrected to call for Shining Tensile Suspension instead of Shining Kinetic Suspension.

· Tier 5 Blighted Items have been adjusted to be more desirable than before.



Techniques

· The Cleanse technique can no longer be added to a spell more than once. Previously, due to a bug, this technique could be added to spells multiple times. This change restricts ?Cleanse? to a single application on available spells. To clarify any possible misinterpretations, this change does not affect existing spells that already carry multiple Cleanses.

· Description of Vital Defiance updated to better reflect what the technique does.

· Technique Armor V now takes 2 Bloodfin Skulks instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes.

· Technique Smelting V now takes 2 Nahguk Ogre Jawbones instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes.

· Technique Foraging V now takes 2 Forest Oastic Sacs instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes.

· Technique Dragon Breath V now takes 2 Fiery Dire Wolf Fang instead of 2 Frost Hellhounds Manes.

[cauri_order]

if you didnt' like mine, just say so :)

[Jaraiden]

Thanks cauri

The following additions, changes and fixes were applied to the Blight shard on 21 March 2005.

Techniques>>

· The Cleanse technique can no longer be added to a spell more than once. Previously, due to a bug, this technique could be added to spells multiple times. This change restricts ?Cleanse? to a single application on available spells. To clarify any possible misinterpretations, this change does not affect existing spells that already carry multiple Cleanses.

I don't understand this. If itis not intended to double or triple techa spell with Cleanse then why not strip the spells? Player should have seen the inconsistency and submitted support tickets andapplied techniques to spells as they are normally done.

Is it an exploit to cast a spell that has 2x or 3x the chance to remove an ill effect or not?

Are you rewarding the players that did (and will before Tuesday) craft such spells?

This really is not something to "grandfather" in as players should have seen the inconsistencies and respected the game and this flaw in game mechanics.

[PJ]

I agree with Jaraiden. If it was something minor I could see it as not being a problem, but just about everybody, who is able, has a multiple cleanse teched spell. And there will be people muleing huge quantities of multi cleanse teched spells before the change goes live.

On other matters, nice to see timer on Wrack going down, although I'd have preferred it morphing into something which deserved the timer.

And the technique changes regarding manes is nice, but it'd have been nice to get them all, or at least some of the ones needing myloc brains also.

[evilkarl]

Nice monk fixes for flame and iced as well as iron body. I have my reservations about the spirit form change it is indeed inline with the description but i doubt it will be as...good of an "oh crap" button now. And spirit punch timer no longer linked to smash.

Also glad to see the introduction of rare and ultra rare loot as well as the removal of dependancy on a tech comp that can't be looted (one of them at least)

Change to wrack is well overdue 5mins is much more reasonable than 15.

In general it looks good can't wait to see it tested and on live

[gopher65]

Perhaps the fix that stops multiple applications of cleanse could be put live right away? I see no problem with people havingcreated a spell before reading this, but as you say, we will now see players with 9999 of this spell in a silo (if they can manage to get the resources;)) and that is not right:(

[Khoal]

[Y] and [:D] and [B] are all I have to say about this patch.

[Kulamata]

Yup; Very nice cleaning up of a lot of loose ends.

I'll email the patch notes to my old hunting companion who left the game at ElAr 94 or so out of frustration. This is the sort of thingthatwill bring players back I hope.

[oluviel]

awesome i have a feeling they pushed this to blight today so they can make it live tommorow :) "crosses his fingers"

[Kaze]

· Various school and level updates for Dragon NPCs in and around Chiconis.

Does this mean there are new quests or just the fact the dragon NPC's are being leved up, ie from say lv10 dragon to lv50 for example?

[Deth]

[img]/Web/Themes/Generic/images/icon-quote.gif[/img]Pharcellus wrote:
· Various school and level updates for Dragon NPCs in and around Chiconis.

Does this mean there are new quests or just the fact the dragon NPC's are being leved up, ie from say lv10 dragon to lv50 for example?

Just increasing the Adventure and Crafter levels of the Dragon NPC's. So they have the "amount of skill" in what they are training. It's basicly falls under Lore and Eye Candy, nothing new for players.

[Stranyr]

Hot Diggity ********!!!

Nice to see some love being spread around :)

[Snowdonia Honeythorn]

Touching on the subject of multiples of a single tech on an item... Is Primal Vengance (pretty sure this was the tech) meant to be able to be teched onto an item an unlimited amount of times? I've seen scales with Primal Vengance teched onto them 3 times.. That just doesn't seem right to me.

[HratLi]

Good Lady Istaria above... ::faints::

Monk/Disc changes... Enchanter Purified orb price fixed... elar fixes... All we need is a worthwhile ARoP and it may be the end of Istaria as I knew it.... [:O]

BTW, As mentioned above, Spirit Body -> should read Spirit Punch.

My only concern is that the boost of 1000 Evasion MIGHT be worse than the few thousand armour we get now. There are a LOT of attacks that bump to hit or that are automatic hit (hence the original problem with forsight changes), Unfortunately these special attacks are also the ones that hurt the most. ::fingers crossed::

RE Auto hit attacks :
Crit strikes / Heart seekers / and Spirit Punch I know are auto hits.
The mobs seem to have a number more that seem to break through my foresight, grouped Forest Mist, and parry with alarming regularity. (Though I suspect it may also be an odd timing issue, where the feedback for Foresight has appeared on myscreen, but the calculation for the special attack may have already been calculated but has not 'appeared' on my queue yet.)

-HratLi

[evilkarl]

I think spirit form will be less effective as well. Might be good if it added the same to magic evasion and magic evasion worked aswell

[evilkarl]

lol kumu

At most I have 1500 armour in sprd (essence leather+armourV,mith health+armour V, enhance armour V, gift of armour V) +1000 is 2500 still take fair amount of damage with that much armour (can and have temp buffed that high in cleric) so I guess it will be a bit of an "oh crap" button but we will see.

[Vahrokh]

First of all, there's no mention on the fact that cleanse would be meant to be applied (and Manga iirc told this in IRc) on heals, i.e. castable every X seconds. Instead, we (I have been asked many times) have it applied 3 times on 5 seconds only recycling spells, so the stackability you lose is pretty much "conserved" by being able to cast it almost continuously.

Touching on the subject of multiples of a single tech on an item... Is Primal Vengance (pretty sure this was the tech) meant to be able to be teched onto an item an unlimited amount of times? I've seen scales with Primal Vengance teched onto them 3 times.. That just doesn't seem right to me.

Again, Manga (about 2 or 3 weeks ago, while discussing exactly about it and cleanse and other "odd" techs) stated that there's a definate difference being able to triple tech a 65% probability spell tech (cleanse) over a 5 seconds recycling spell that most can cast VS teching a 5% probability tech over a restricted to one class scale.

And in any case, the number of "survivors" able to craft such stuff is so low that is not even fun (read: the only dragons techs ever made are almost on the verge of being lost in my shard).

Last but not least, it's some weeks that I have disturbingly similar multiple reports of primal vengeange triple teched scales proccing 5% and not about 14% (not 15%) any more, but I had not the time to test the reports I got since I have less and less time to play. If anyone could check andreply or PMI'd be glad.

[evilkarl]

spirit form was +2000 armour not +1000.

So a useless ability was beefed up (much appreciated)
A great ability has been altered for what may or may not be the better (appreciation pending)

[Vahrokh]

I don't recall the exact math involved but some times some dudes posted the formulas and they gave like 14.26% or the like.