Blight Delta 141

The following features, changes, and fixes were applied to Blight as part of Delta 141:

• FEATURE: Add customer service support for plot purchase history.

• CHANGE: Drain Strike no longer uses the Primal skill. Other changes to the ability line:
  
  • Now has a post-delay, a damage multiplier, does maximum damage on hit
  • The amount of life drained by the hit is lower and scales based on the level of the ability
  • Drain Strike now costs hoard to use
  • Drain Strike now has associated animation and particle effect

• FIX: We believe that the majority of the regions which had monsters that disappeared before they could be looted, or would disappear while engaged in combat, have been fixed. If you continue to experience this bug, please submit a support ticket with the location you were fighting in and what you were fighting at the time you experienced it so we can look into that area.
  
  • FIX: Players will find a different hunting experience in some of the following areas due to this change: Lesser Aradoth (some spawns); Selen Forest; Spiritous Swamp; Eastern Deadlands; Western Deadlands; Satyr Islands; Bitter Pickle; around most Blight Anchors; as well as Fire and Flame Wolves.
• FIX: Adjusted spawn and treasure for Selen Forest Dire Wolves.
• FIX: Fillet will no longer offer the "Iron Confectioner" quest to players who become confectioners after completing that quest series, but will give those players the "Iron Confectioner" emblem they missed out on.
• FIX: Gift of Velocity II - V will properly buff flyspeed, not bleed r.esistance.
• FIX: Primal Health is now castable by dragons.
• FIX: Gift of Velocity and Primal Health are now scribable by Dragons.
• FIX: Urgat the Wicked will now really for sure spawn deep inside the New Trismus Deadlands now.

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Originally Posted by AmonGwareth

The following features, changes, and fixes were applied to Blight as part of Delta 141:

• FEATURE: Add customer service support for plot purchase history.

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what is that exactly ?

Means we now know who owned a plot and when. Or rather, from this point forward.

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Originally Posted by AmonGwareth

The following features, changes, and fixes were applied to Blight as part of Delta 141:

• CHANGE: Drain Strike no longer uses the Primal skill. Other changes to the ability line:
  
  • Now has a post-delay, a damage multiplier, does maximum damage on hit
  • The amount of life drained by the hit is lower and scales based on the level of the ability
  • Drain Strike now costs hoard to use
  • Drain Strike now has associated animation and particle effect

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Can you give any info on how the damage multiplier, hoard use, and amount drained scale per tier? Does the Drain Strike VII change all (different multiplier, different hoard coast, etc)?

You can find them on blight.

Can't say as I'm thrilled to see another hoard-using ability. I hope that is one heckuva wallop or heal it provides.

Now that leaves us with Firebreath and tailwhip as short-cycling combat abilities. The rest (iir, at work currently) are all pretty long cool-down or use hoard. I'm already close to burning more hoard than I gain as it is to keep fighting at a decent pace. Otherwise I have to take breaks to let my abilities cycle back up, usually waiting longer for them than health.

I dropped a topic about this in suggestions a bit ago. :)


Anywho keep up the good fight!

Dain strike does much more damage now, I do 300-350 damage with it, but it only heals me for 8 health >.> does that work as intended ?

Edit : it heald me for 157 health once. I dunno what changed

Urgat is spawning now on an almost instant respawn. I did complete the Valor and Vigilance part but see at least one issue. The blighted key is required to advance the quest but it is a random drop. As a 153 rating ranger, killing him over and over for the drop was no problem (1 shot kill), but it might be a lot tougher for a group of lvl 10-15s. The key should either be a quest generated drop, ie everyone gets one when they loot, or it shouldn't be required to advance the quest.

As a one shot "defeat this guy and save the town" it blows any sense of immersion to have to kill him over and over and over just to satisfy a loot mechanic limited aspect of the quest.

After receiving the xp and silver reward I re-greeted Pratt. He then acknowledged the key and said to hold on to it. Re-greeting him again listed the V and V Followup quest, but the link does not function. It may just be a placeholder, though.

Drev

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Originally Posted by AmonGwareth

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  • Drain Strike now costs hoard to use

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Hm lol? It always costed hoard, just checked on order, costs 200 hoard to activate it =P

Um, I htink you looked at the wrong ability Takora. :) I just checked all 7 Drain strikes on order, no hoard cost. :p

Hm no sir but i got the last ability, the ancient one (drain stike 8) that you get in the rift that one costs hoard but for you I have a pic :D

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6190/drainmz9.jpg

*kiss* ;)

I think he thought you meant the first 7 cost which they do not, just the 8th Ancient only ability does.

Old drain VIII was.....200% increase ...100% absorption rate.

Not sure which is higher will check tomorrow or later this eve/early morning.

Damage is about 100 points up with the newer version, but the healed amount is slightly lower.

The hoard cost is more than double :( I don't think 100 extra damage is worth the additional 290 hoard (Drain VIII was 590 hoard on blight)

I've come to a similar conclusion and would like to expand upon that line of thinking.

for 590 HV I get upwards of 400 damage. +50 attack (chance to hit)
I heal about 200


The old one I do over 250 and heal the same.

I don't really care about the healing. But...

for 640 (Gold rage 7) I get bare minimum of 700 damage ( weak rage) per hit of three.

50 more hoard for lots more damage over 590 for like 400ish damage.

The healing either needs a boost...maybe more hit-% chance? for that cost.

Or make it a wee bit cheaper. Eitehr way...I like the new drain strike better. Just needs tweaked. I will say however...Drain strike 8 (old version) does a better job of draining than the new one...which...does more damage. (Its my beleife that damage is better...) however, if you are aiming for *drain* the old version is still better.

something tells me huntin in the selen forest will be a blast, even better than playin loot the wolfies

I'm very curious to see what the other tier damage mod and % drained is. Being a 100 lvl dragon, I can't see how the ability progresses through the tiers.

Can we get that info posted? I don't really want to level a dragon from 1 - 70 to see the difference :)

Drain strike VII
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7...nstrikeqk2.png

Lore in the description - cool. :)

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Originally Posted by rizo/nawkia

something tells me huntin in the selen forest will be a blast, even better than playin loot the wolfies

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I've been hunting in Selen Forest, and it seems that the spawn is allot less. The loot is quite balanced now. But the Alphas still seem to hit quite alot.

Also a few spawns more wouldnt be bad, the wolves dont seem to attack very fast even if nearby.

Nice, now I wonder how much healing the primal health spell does.

I recall Amon saying elsewhere that it's a direct copy of the "health" line, just with the skill changed from Life to Primal, and the various race / class requirements altered appropriately.

Hello, Amon

I don't know if you recall the ancient days (pre-Tulga...) when we'd have IRC chats.

I think it was with you (or the other dev with "A" beginning nickname) that I chatted for a long time about some wrong dragon spells coefficients and NULL values (i.e. instant heal and gold rage) in the database.

Now, I still have my dragon on queue (to be copied on Blight) so I can't check.

Did you make the spell tech-able? The biped version comes with nice techs, including cleanse. Will we get anything similar? Is it fully turned into "primal" version including the healing bonuses deriving from primal (just to make sure to avoid the ancient bugs)? What about the recycle tech?

Another thing, while you are reviewing us.

Dragons, expecially "casters" specialized ones, use several point blank AoE spells and basically have a bunch of mobs hitting on them the whole time.
It comes as counter-intuitive, then, that spiked scales have such a long cooldown.

Other classes bring "ever lasting" and more powerful damage shields that moreover can be applied on other players while us, the point blank AoE class have to stay half the time without it?

Vahrokh, was either me or Amadan.

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I think it was with you (or the other dev with "A" beginning nickname) that I chatted for a long time about some wrong dragon spells coefficients and NULL values (i.e. instant heal and gold rage) in the database.

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Not sure what you mean by coefficients.

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id you make the spell tech-able? The biped version comes with nice techs, including cleanse. Will we get anything similar? Is it fully turned into "primal" version including the healing bonuses deriving from primal (just to make sure to avoid the ancient bugs)? What about the recycle tech?

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They are techable. Healing bonuses derived from techs are not tied to a skill.

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Dragons, expecially "casters" specialized ones, use several point blank AoE spells and basically have a bunch of mobs hitting on them the whole time.
It comes as counter-intuitive, then, that spiked scales have such a long cooldown.

Other classes bring "ever lasting" and more powerful damage shields that moreover can be applied on other players while us, the point blank AoE class have to stay half the time without it?

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Lower the recycle of Spiked Scales? Um, no, I don't think so. Sorry.

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Originally Posted by Vahrokh

Other classes bring "ever lasting" and more powerful damage shields that moreover can be applied on other players while us, the point blank AoE class have to stay half the time without it?

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When you say, "other classes" are you refering specifically to Druids and Rangers with Cloak of Thorns?

The Mage Spell for damage shield is self only and has to be in Mage school. The spell only lasts a few hits and I believe has a 15 minute recycle.

The Flame Disciple ability is self only and not masterable. I'm not sure of the damage, length of effect, or recycle on it.

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Originally Posted by AmonGwareth

Lower the recycle of Spiked Scales? Um, no, I don't think so. Sorry.

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Understandable. :) Spiked Scales is pretty powerful. 200ish damage per hit for a Primal/TnC/Power hybrid around levels 65-70.

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Originally Posted by Drevar

Urgat is spawning now on an almost instant respawn.

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He should respawn after about 3 minutes. If it is faster than that, please let me know.

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Originally Posted by Drevar

I did complete the Valor and Vigilance part but see at least one issue. The blighted key is required to advance the quest but it is a random drop. As a 153 rating ranger, killing him over and over for the drop was no problem (1 shot kill), but it might be a lot tougher for a group of lvl 10-15s. The key should either be a quest generated drop, ie everyone gets one when they loot, or it shouldn't be required to advance the quest.

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It should have been part of the quest, you're right. But I set things up wrong. Fixed now.

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Originally Posted by Drevar

After receiving the xp and silver reward I re-greeted Pratt. He then acknowledged the key and said to hold on to it. Re-greeting him again listed the V and V Followup quest, but the link does not function. It may just be a placeholder, though.

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This is because you're a ranger. There are only final rewards for the basic schools. I'll add text, though, that indicates that.

Velea, when you got spare time, could you please give a look to the dragon trainers?

They correctly tell you to come back later when you are "stronger" / grown / whatever if you are an hatchie in the middle of levelling up, but they still tell you the same once you are ancient and have done all the quests. Other NPCs, correctly (the late / post Artifact Entertrainment times ones I believe) tell you that you already know everything and they can't help you.

Finally, is it just me, or dragon ingenuity still got the placeholder "snowflake" icon?

Not trying to be an ***, just telling what I find around after I "rediscover" the game after coming back, feel free to put it below "dead frog" priority.

Are these just the ones on NT, or all dragon trainers everywhere?

All trainers everywhere, in Dralk, Chicho and Tazzon.

"Until you can snatch the gnome from my claw, you are not ready..."

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Originally Posted by Velea

He should respawn after about 3 minutes. If it is faster than that, please let me know.

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When I was last on, either thursday or friday of last week, Urgat was instant respawn.

As of the timestamp on this post, just finished the Valor and Vigilence quest a few minutes ago.

Urgat is definately on instant repawn. I tried counting 3 seconds, but he respawned before even 3 seconds.

Completed the quest as Warrior 100 (was Warrior when I started the quest).
Both Pratt and Serena offer the Follow Up quest, but neither link works. I thought that Serena might be the one to give the blighted key to, but she doesn't offer any new text other than the non-functioning Follow Up quest.

Switched to Scout level 1 and regreated both. The link still does not function.

Disregard post.....

Since the quest is being offered by both Pratt and Serena, does the quest require you to be within range of Pratt AND Serena instead of Pratt OR Serena?

No, it's broken on Blight.

In fact, you can just delete that "Follow up" quest. I figured out a better way to give the final reward.

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Originally Posted by Justa Mirage

"Until you can snatch the gnome from my claw, you are not ready..."

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*snatches Justa up*

Is this what you had in mind?

Because, if all you have is a test of physical prowess, as a Helian I am insulted that you won't permit a thinking dragon's solution.

:p :p :p

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Originally Posted by Velea

No, it's broken on Blight.

In fact, you can just delete that "Follow up" quest. I figured out a better way to give the final reward.

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Can't really delete it since you can't click the link and obtain the quest. Currently, after speaking with Pratt and getting your reward, the Valor and Vigilence quest is complete with no additional or follow up quests in the Active Quests.

ALSO:
Forgot to mention this yesterday, but you may need to check the coding for events at Urgat's death. When I killed him, I saw a message about getting his head, but not a Blighted Key. I killed him two more times and obtained a message about finding a blighted key. Upon searching my inventory, I found that I have TWO blighted keys. It may be that we are getting a blighted key when killing Urgat, but no message and no flag that we received it. Then, for some reason, killing him a couple more times (or maybe the time delay) I get a message and a key in my inventory.

Anyway, you should be able to tell more by looking at the code. I'm not really sure when I got the first key, but I do end up with 2 keys in inventory and don't get the message about finding key at the time of his first death.

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This 'better way' to give the final reward, will it require us to do the quest again? or can we complete it from present point having killed Urgat, completed quest, and in possession of the blighted key?