Blight Delta 254

[Velea]

Blight Delta 254 was applied to the Blight Testing Shard today 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.

• Fixed some bugs in the Spirit Isle tutorial files.
• Fixed some bugs in the Dragon Information Center tutorial file.
• Extended the Summon Ice Elements abilities to create II (gives 12 elements) and III (gives 16 elements). Summon Ice Elements (all tiers) now recycle every 180 seconds (down from 900).
• Infix Fury now uses any size of Flame Elements.
• Glaring Quills now uses any size of Ice Elements.
• Dancing Rapier now uses any size of Ice Elements.
• Phoenix Shield now uses any size of Flame Elements.
• Ice Barrier now uses any size of Ice Elements.
• Created a new Ceremonial Scale that can be techniqued like the Ceremonial Shield.
• Created a new quest that Frig at the Imperial Outpost offers to trade in old Ceremonial Scales.
• Updated the quest Frig offers to turn in the Ceremonial Shield to have proper constraints.
• Modified the quest ARoP15 to give Ruby Focus Stones if players don't have them when they start the quest, as normally they are obtained in the previous quest and have no way to "reobtain" them if they had to restart that quest.
• Drain Bolt damage increased significantly.
• Fire Materia is now stackable.
• Agh'kuk Ogre Bludgeoner is now known as an Agh'kuk Warrior Bludgeoner
• Quest "Go Bag 5 Agh'kuk Pygmy Beatsticks" is now known as "Go Bag 5 Agh'kuk Beatsticks"
• Quest "Go Bag 5 Agh'kuk Ogre Bludgeoners" now refers to Warriors instead of Ogres.
• Energy, Flame, Ice and Nature Resistance spell formulas are now sold by Scholar and Spellcraft Trainers (and therefore no longer drop as loot).
• Quest "Warrior's Quest: Find the Lost Patrol" now refers to Torrek as Commander, not Lieutenant. It also reminds players that they may need friends before engaging Torrek.
• The community of Sylkar will now show up on the map.
• Aubadrine will no longer show up as a settlement on the map.
• Pangai is now known on the map as "Guild: Pangai" and is labelled as a community.
• Kir'drakul will now show up on the map as a community.
• Guild: Kir'ignat pad is now known as "Kir'ignat pad".
• The Purple Ornament Vendor has been moved into his proper place with the other vendors for Gnomekindle.
• Quest "Friend or Foe" has been fixed so that chat links now work properly.
• Quest "Kalas: Haunt in the Attic" has been fixed so that chat links now work properly.

[Guaran]

Ceremonial Chest scale didn't get the same changes made to the Ceremonial Shield. 308 Armor up from 300, (remove the 90% base evasion debuff), 308 Ethereal Armor (added).

Imperial Outpost NPC's (Checked them all, including the quartermaster) not giving the quest to exchange the Ceremonial Scale, so I can't tell if after the swap, the scale would have the above upgrades.

Right now the NPC's wont because all quests that require you to have an item are bugged.

[Terao]

The quests Quartermaster: Ceremonial Scale/Shield Replacement could only be done once, the old scale/shield was tradeable so some characters have more then one Ceremonial Chest/Shield, at least the players that have dragon(s) and biped(s) as the Imperial Army quest gives the shield AND scale to anyone completing it. The old shield/scale where attuned once equipped, the new ones are always attuned, maybe you should consider changing this back like the old scale/shield was.

The Ceremonial Tower Shield (both old and new one!) got changed with, plus the new version holds up to two techs:
+10 Block Bonus
+308 Armor
+308 Ethereal Armor
+300 Blight Resistance
and the effect:Holy Armament of Istara IV (incoming attacks only does 87% of normal damage, duration 5:00)

The new and old Ceremonial Scale didn't got changed and still show the old bonuses:
+50 Tooth and Claw
+300 Armor
90% base Evasion
+300 Blight Resistance

Should be like the shield:
+50 Tooth and Claw
+308 Armor
+308 Ethereal Armor
+300 Blight Resistance

[Guaran]

Yeah, the ceremonial scales can now be exchanged for one with 2 tech slots. However the stats haven't be fixed just yet, as Terao pointed out.

The Holy Armament Effect can be version I (incoming melee does 96% of normal damage) all the way to version VIII (incoming melee does 75% of normal damage). Also possible to get Mystical Ward of Istaria I thru VIII, same percentage decreases on incoming magical damage. (my percentages are from memory might be off a tiny bit). Both effects can land on the player as well as on group members.

I tested the scale exchange just the other night, but didn't try the scale to make sure these effects are still in place.