This announcement is to let you know about an upcoming change to some Tier 3 techniques. Flame, Ice and Energy Bone Splinters are being removed from the general loot tables of T3 skeletons as they were originally intended to be Event technique components only.
This change will affect a number of techniques and invalidate players? stocks of these two components, so we wanted to give you a heads up in advance so that you could use the components that you have now and begin preparing for the change. This will likely hit the live shards in 2 or 3 weeks.
These three splinters are being replaced with four components (one of which did not drop previously, one which did but wasn?t used, andtwo brand new ones):
Greater Skeleton Skull
- Craft: Quarrying III
- Defense: Energy Resistance III
- Spell: Flame Damage III
- Spell: Stun III
Wraith Master Ectoplasm
- Adventure: 2-H Crush III
- Craft: Clothworking III
- Craft: Sculpting III
- Defense: Flame Resistance III
- Spell: Burning Damage III
- Spell: Combust III
- Spell: Derange III
- Spell: Spirit Damage III
- Statistic: Speed III
Greater Ghost Vapor
- Adventure: Dragon Breath III
- Adventure: Ice III
- Defense: Block III
- Defense: Flame Ward III
- Spell: Chill III
- Spell: Flame Range III
- Spell: Spirit Range III
Redbacked Spider Breeder Eye
- Adventure: Dragon Breath III
- Ability: Power Strike III
- Adventure: Crossbow III
- Craft: Essence Shaping III
- Craft: Mining III
- Craft: Scalecraft III
- Craft: Woodworking III
- Defense: Energy Ward III
- Spell: Cleanse III
- Spell: Energy Damage III
- Spell: Energy Range III
- Spell: Taint III
- Statistic: Focus III
A few other changes:
- Defense: Ice Resistance III will require Winter Gruok Knuckles
- Adventure: 1-H Crush III will require Redbacked Spider Eye
- Adventure: Tooth & Claw III will require Imbued Armor Splinter
Other Changes of Note:
All three Dragon Breath quests have been updated so that you will still get splinters as loot drops when you are on the quests and killing the skeletons in the western deadlands.
Banners and Dragon event techs are being looked at.