All servers are up
April / 3 / 2009
General
New hairstyles are available now.
UI
The UI for the character sheet has been updated for new resistances. The background for the sheet isn’t updated yet, but will be soon.
Pantheon
Fixed typos in initial access quest
Tweaked leash lengths of mobs outside of pantheon
Upped drop rate of sparks from Xerklin
Added new world loot items that are more appropriate for mobs above 50
Reduced the assist radius on all the mobs in Akearis
Vanguard Build 2299. 0 Patch Notes February / 2 / 2009
The winter solstice has come and passed. The inhabitants of Telon are welcoming the return of the sun and longer days. In the wake of Gloriann’s Festival, strange things are happening in New Targonor. First came the horrific nightmares. Then children began going missing. Despite the best efforts of the Thestran Watch and the Sages Arcane to find any evidence, little to no light has been shed on either occurrence. Though warmer days are ahead for Telon, how dark will they be?
Those curious about the recent events should seek out Edric Nichols amongst New Targonor’s courtyards and perhaps have a look for themselves.
3 New quests from strange beings belonging to the ‘Winter Court’.
o Help the Winter Court acquire Dreams, Reflections, and Memories from the lands and waters of Telon.
o Rewards include a unique enhancement item, a new fishing pole, and a new pet – Snuggles, the winter wolf.
Wakliki Nogswort and Finch’s Finks have a limited time offer as well. Those wanting to do battle in the Arena will want to check out his latest deal.
For long standing veterans, a new /claim item – “The Visionary’s Signet of Promise” – how will you choose to build your future?
SOD
All NPCs on SOD should now give a small faction bonus when killed.
All SOD non boss NPCs hit points have been reduced significantly.
A set of global rares have been added to the entire island. These are new legendary items that can drop of any NPC in the area.
Fixed display on rucksack that said it was a drop from tier 2 bags when it is in fact a recipe drop from tier 4 bags.
Content
Changed Guar's display model to hopefully resolve some of the lag issues.
Queen Vixx's hit points have been fixed.
The waters around the towers of BOD are now shark infested. Beware those who like to skinny dipping.
The rare elementals in BOD are much more available now and always drop loot. They also have a chance to drop weapon parts.
Fixed an issue where some mobs were casting Pantheon abilities.
Guar’s loot table now drops a paladin range slot item.
IOG Raid encounters can now drop a paladin range slot item.
The apprentices in BOD have a new stones on them. These stones are used for summoning a new raid boss that will be coming soon and aimed at APW capable guilds. The raid target is NOT live with this patch, but you can start gathering the stones to summon him now.
Appearance Slots
New appearance slots can now be accessed from the character screen. These slots allow you to display the look of a different item while retaining the mods of your gear.
All non stat clothing that was on merchants has been converted to adventuring slots for use with appearance slots.
General goods vendors now sell some basic equipment that has no visual display for that slot. This allows you to turn off the visual of certain slots by placing that item in an appearance slot.
General Appearance Bugs Fixed
Previewing an item with an attachment when the equipped item for that slot did not have an attachment caused the preview item to remain on the character's appearance. It now correctly disappears.
Previewing a bow when there is no bow equipped, but an item equipped that covered the players back, previously did not show the bow on the character, it now does.
Mousing over an item that cannot be equipped will no longer show an item compare with a previously equipped item that is now unequipped. Items that cannot be equipped will now never incorrectly compare with other items.
Mousing over a two-handed sword will show a comparison against both the primary and secondary weapons, rather than simply the primary one. Also, the first compare window will always be filled before the second ever is. Previously the second window would sometimes pop up without the first (if a one-handed weapon was moused over, and the primary-hand slot was empty, but the secondary-hand slot was full).
Various bugs fixed that caused items to visually disappear off of your character until you relogged.
Enchantments
Fixed a bug where the stats from enchantments would not show up on your character sheet after you chunked.
Fixed a bug where enchantments would disappear off of the items they were attached to.
Bonus AC enchantments should now display their mods correctly
Abilities / Classes
Bloodmage blood pact will nolonger work with focus or siphon blood. It does not pact when the damage is done by the player losing life. Any ability cast by a player on themself causing their hp to go down should nolonger work with bloodpact.
Soaring leap and xennu boots no longer work when in water
Paladins can now equip short bows
Fix for ability learning/research. You should be able to learn these abilities now without issue.
Ability re-use no-longer appears to tick down on the client while you are dead. They were not ticking on the server previously, and this was causing the client/server to be out of sync for those abilities.
The dot portion of cleave now stacks.
The damage of cleave has been tuned down.
Cleave no longer modifies the incoming critical chance for everyone for 3 seconds it now increases the warriors ability to crit for 10 seconds
General
All flying mounts should be using a standard cast time of 6 seconds. This does not affect special case mounts like the griffon used in the Sano event
Fixed an issue with npcs who had a leash range was set greater than 200. This will fix an issue with Summoner Physik.
HP, Energy, and Endurance now update much more often on the client. Previously it would update every .5 seconds, now it updates every server tick.
Changed the way NPCs handle their spells being countered. Previously they would re-cast the spell after 6 seconds. Now they will wait for the full refresh of that spell before casting it again.
Energized Hammer proc is back in and working properly.
_defensive_target_ no longer shows on the menu obtained by right-clicking on the defensive target .
Heal Effectiveness is fixed and no-longer doing 100x what it said it was.
Fix for animation related crashes.
Fix for large memory leak.
Various region server crash fixes.
Fixed the social server crash.
Fix for players getting infamy/loot from fights like shylosia, physik, etc.
Fix to defensive target getting bugged out when a player dies. It now is correctly cleared.
Fix for some DoT tooltips.
Fix to bards being able to damage people they shouldn’t be able to.
Fix to display and updating issues with infamy.
IO Interaction is now canceled when an NPC or Player tries to attack you.
Vanguard Build 2194 Patch Notes October / 21 / 2008
o GENERAL
Shores of Darkness
The KDQ wants you. An elite group within the organization known as Kamelott Inc. has discovered an artifact believed to belong to an ancient race. The organization is now recruiting all adventurers to assist them in collecting information on the artifact and recover some property they lost on the way.
The KDQ is offering all adventurers a spot within their ranks and this spot comes with a full benefits package. So if you are brave enough, join the KDQ at Kamelott’s Landing in the Shores of Darkness.
Help the KDQ investigate the strange artifact discovered on the forgotten battlefield.
Become an agent of the KDQ rising up the ranks as you gain faction and accomplish tasks unlocking new reward potential along the way.
A new camp where players can meet, group up, craft, browse the market, or store items in their bank.
Repeat the quests daily gaining faction and more chances at rewards.
Over 700 new equip-able items are available for those who help the KDQ.
A variety of new expendable potions.
A diplomacy slot item similar to the isle of dawn bracelet.
A new never released mount.
Some other rare and unique items.
New recipes.
The introduction of new item mods.
Healing Effectiveness
Healing Crit Chance
Healing Crit Amount
Flurry Resistance
Rage Resistance
Another chapter in the story of the Xennumet.
Raids
Lost Canyon
- Karax Woefather awaits any adventurers who want wish to challenge him. Be wary when travelling in the Lost Canyon.
Ruin Falls
- Another one of Torkald’s brothers, Varking the Accursed has risen up challenging any who are brave enough to find him in Ruin Falls.
Zossyr Hakrel
- The Jharru of Zossyr Hakrel need help stopping the force known as Guar the Earthen Destroyer
Blighted Lands
- Si'Imr-Li the Harbinger stands at the gate of the nexus guarding the door to the ulvari homeland. Can you defeat him and find out more about this strange threat to Telon?
Fengrot Reitemized
- Fengrot’s loot table has been revamped. His old loot has been moved to a bonus loot table split between him and Varking. A variety of all new items have been added to a separate table. These new items should better match the difficulty of the encounter.
APW
- The Core Processor will drop the dungeon specific loot like the Exalted (ores, gems, molds, dusts, etc.), plus he has his own unique loot now.
- Much to the dismay of the Thestran Watch, some happy haunts have assembled a small party outside of New Targonor to celebrate the Festival of the Grim Harvest, despite Sartok’s recent activities in Telon. Interested parties should hurry, as there’s no telling how long they’ll be gathered.
ADVENTURING
- Some NPCs will now be able to land critical hits. To maintain balance, this has been restricted to new content and certain high-end encounters.
- Fixed the riftway map, not displaying after clicking on the riftway.
- Fixed a bug for when dead NPCs were not being removed from your antigroup list
- Fixed a bug for when dead NPCs were sometimes not being put into a death state
- Changed messages for critical heals
- Group leader will now see invited characters in group when the leader was previously in a disbanded raid subgroup higher than 1
CRAFTING
- Kavos the Dyer, an exotic crafting goods merchant, has set up shop in New Targono
- The crafter's rented horse should now properly grant the rented-mount effec
- The quests to learn other crafting styles can now not be taken at the same time. This should prevent any issues with taking two quests at the same time, turning one in, and making one quest uncompletable until it is abandoned and re-taken.
- Fixed the icon for the item, Batch of Stiff Axe Grips
- Fixed the tool tip for item, Set of Cotton Cloth Dolls
- Fixed the quest, Learning of Caia. You should now be able to accept the quest
- Fixed the level description for item, Plain Ratty Saddlebags
- Fixed the 'Required Level' and 'Item Level' description on recipe, Stiff Leather Weapon Upgrade Recipe
- Fixed the flagging on the item, Tall Sealed Vielthread Kojani Basket. Item was incorrectly flagged as 'Journeyman Artificer' instead of 'Journeyman Outfitter'
- The outfitter recipe for the quest, "Artifact Lost" is now properly removed when the quest is finished
DIPLOMACY
- Fixed a bug with Afrit, Sand Runner
- Fixed the proper buff to Parley, Foreign Interest
- Fixed quest, Absolutely Painless. You should be able to accept it properly now
- Fixed the quest, Deliveries for Haftan where you could sometimes get locked in parley
- Fixed NPC Gray Knight Commander (he wasn't responding to your 'Hail' and was gating the quest)
- Fixed the preconditions to the Diplomacy Web Quests
- Fixed the icon on the item, Sinful Cocoa
- The item "Card of the Eyelord" now displays the correct statistics
- The item "Tanvu Poet Boots" should now show the correct graphic
- Fixed the tooltip for the item, Card of Cost and Result. It should now contain the activated ability in the tooltip
- Fixed the deconstruction state on the item, Phylactery of Mard Jeddah
QUESTS
- Fixed the quest, By Night where it was not deleting the quest item upon abandoning the quest
- Fixed a broken node on the quest, Tranquil Thought
- Fixed a bug where you received improper flagging on the quest, Strength Defined. Should work properly now
ITEMS
- Fixed a stacking issue with Brown Laigone Kojani Caravel Hull
- Fixed the description on Exquisite Handwear of Ingenuity. It cannot be upgraded
- Fixed the description on Exquisite Sandals of Ingenuity. It cannot be upgraded
- Fixed the description on Exquisite Smock of Ingenuity. It cannot be upgraded
- Fixed the description on Exquisite Smock of Reasoning. It cannot be upgraded
- Fixed a stacking issue with Jade Green Stalwart Kojani Caravel Hull
- Fixed a stacking issue with Kojani Caravel Helm
- Fixed a stacking issue with Light Blue Laigone Kojani Caravel Hull
- Fixed a stacking issue with Light Brown Brega Qalian Caravel Hull
- Fixed a stacking issue with Practice Qalian Caravel Mast
- Fixed a stacking issue with Practice Qalian Caravel Nyi Figurehead
- Fixed a stacking issue with Qalian Caravel Mast
- Fixed a stacking issue with Thestran Caravel Rudder
- You should now be able to equip Kormstu's Jeweled Warhammer
- Fixed the graphics on Masterwork Vagabond's Preserving Stone Hammer of Retribution (previously no appearance was visible)
- Fixed the icon for Archmage Robe
- Fixed the icon for Skinned Ulvari Robe
- Fixed the icon for Talitis' Lost Robe
- Fixed the icon for Xylian's Hand Wraps
- Fixed the icon for Plagued Tunic
Vanguard Build 2121 Patch Notes – TEST SERVER August / 18 / 2008
o GAME UPDATE 6
Isle of Dawn
The Isle of Dawn was separated from the continent of Kojan during the cataclysm. A village of battle hardened humans and a band of zealot hobgoblins have warred against each other for centuries on the Isle. Their mutual hatred for one another runs deep and even now they are locked in an ongoing struggle. Recently though, increasing numbers of ulvari have begun to surface on the island – much to the dismay of both the humans and the hobgoblins.
Weakened by their perpetual war, the humans aren't able to capably defend themselves. Even now, their villages burn as they frantically seek aid. The isle is in desperate need of heroes.
- The Isle of Dawn is now available for new characters!
- When creating a new character, you will now be presented with two options for your starting location. The Isle of Dawn will be one option, and the other option will be your selected Race's standard starting area.
- PVP, Exchange Brokers, Death experience and tombstones are turned off on the Isle of Dawn.
Player levels have been capped at 10 on the Isle.
Character Model Revamp
Player character models in Vanguard have undergone a bit of a revamp. Not only have they been optimized for better performance but they have been given a new, updated look. The revamped models are now capable of looking much more heroic and contain a lot more personality. Worry not though, for those players who don’t necessarily want the heroic look, no customization options have gone away. In fact, we are reintroducing lots of facial customization as well.
Bug Fixes
In an effort to make the launch of the Isle of Dawn go as smoothly as possible, the Vanguard development team set aside a good portion of time this update to fix as many existing bugs as possible. We are pleased to announce that well over a thousand fixes are included with this patch. While many of them may not be immediately noticeable, we’ve included a more detailed list of those that are below.
Patch Notes
Vanguard Build 2121 Patch Notes 8/18/2008
GENERAL
- "The Good" title should now be a post title.
- A spelling error in the item "Vothdar Priest Shoulder Satchel" has been fixed.
- A text error in one of To Re the Spiritseer's parleys has been fixed.
- A text error in Shui Redwine's ambient dialogue has been fixed.
- A text error in the parley for "A New Wife for Omid" has been fixed.
- A text error in the quest "Earth Den Investigation" has been fixed.
- A typo in a parley for the quest "Reclaimer" has been fixed.
- A typo in one of the actions for the Granite Carving recipe has been fixed.
- A typo in one of the Soldier civic parleys on the Isle of Dawn has been fixed.
- A typo in Shui Redwine's dialogue has been fixed.
- A typo in the "Outpost Work" quest has been fixed.
- A typo in the description for the item "Rented Merchant's House" has been fixed.
- A typo in the quest "History of Elani" has been fixed.
- Admiral Chrykalis Primed bearing stance should now appear in the buff window.
- Agent of Kronos should have proper body graphics now.
- Avlour Sheenj should have the proper body now.
- Azeeta Shaheen should no longer sell riftway shards.
- Azimet Mehurr should now correctly spell his name.
- All boss dropped recipes (outside of APW) should no longer be soulbound.
- Bastage the Arrogant should now have the proper mouseover icon.
- Bog Python stuck issue has been resolved.
- Boiling Blood should no longer break stealth.
- Borinn Darkshank should no longer show a sword icon when moused over.
- Brock the Biomancer has finally settled on a gender.
- Celestine Ward riftway is now labelled as 30 – 40
- Charbrook village should be labelled properly now.
- Dordug should path correctly now.
- Dreadbone Rider should no longer breath when dead.
- Eastpoint housing chunk should now be labeled properly as an outpost.
- Eidolon of Time should have a proper body graphic now.
- Erthagon Drudge's name has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue with the display of College of Infineum Studies and Research - Hall of Records.
- Fixed animation issue with the quest "Solid Stone".
- Fixed issue with Infineum mines where Yuni's Steps was displayed.
- Fixed issue with Jen Lo's display.
- Fixed issue with Kai Tak's display.
- Fixed issue with Miner Quartzbard's appearance.
- Fixed issue with stuck crows in Bordinar's Cleft.
- Fixed pathing issue with Rhantik Surelock
- Fixed placement of Turim Bucks in Bordinar's Cleft.
- Gnome racial ability Miner's Wit has been fixed to properly give 10 finesse and has been changed to Miner's Style.
- Gregan Blacque has had his dialogue updated and should now work correctly.
- Guard Jellis should be spending less time under the world now.
- Guard Torran should have the proper mouseover now.
- Gwartak Clan Club should now have the proper icon.
- Half Elf crafting racial should now properly increase problem solving.
- Harisotef Suikqo has had his name changed to Harisotef Quikqo.
- Karrusian Aegis' name should now display correctly above his head.
- Karrusian Claw should now display his name correctly.
- Lin Jing the cleric instructor has finally arrived in House of Fallen Leaves.
- Martok Okami Handler should now have the correct mouseover.
- Mature velok pathing should be better.
- Milo Summerpeddle should be a little more talkative now.
- Miner Forgeroar, Miner Hammerpike, Miner Brokengem, Miner Stonebreak, Miner Darkvein should now all display properly.
- Mitachi Waterstone should now only have valid dialogue options.
- More creatures in the Seawatch Coast area are now able to be skinned.
- Morig Ironbender should now sell weapons properly.
- Mutated Dragonfly should be doing less underwater flying.
- Freezing Touch: The description and the tooltip of the buff now match.
- Orcs should start with the proper equipment now.
- Pachugy Coast now has all the normal player housing facilities.
- Particle display for the 3rd Talon griffon buff has been fixed.
- Priori Larihnos should no longer be a floating head.
- Priori Nykmaga should no longer be a floating head.
- Private Narssis should have the proper mouseover now.
- Raikil Windflower's hail text should read much better now.
- Razorbeak should now animate when attacking. He has also lost some of his feathers in the process.
- Reaper's Finesse should display the proper level now.
- Rhyzopor should have less replication problems.
- Ridge Prowlers in Bordinar's Cleft should no longer get stuck in rocks.
- Rough Basilisk Claw should now have the proper icon.
- Sekamqa Haqiqat should no longer sit on an invisible chair.
- Shidreth trading company has been renamed to Shidreth Mining Company as it was always meant to be.
- Some higher level harvesting resources have been removed from Southwatch.
- Sorion Arachnids should do less tree climbing now.
- Spirit of Entrapment should attack properly now.
- Spirit of Iggiri has found the rest of his body.
- Surveyor Bereth should now have a proper body.
- The effect "Blessing of Might" now has a description.
- Trainee Slatebeard should no longer pop into the ground.
- Tuatiren Hunters should now award faction.
- Vesmo should now have the proper mouseover icon
- Watlun Uebatix should display correctly now.
- Weaver Jekaqie should now properly respond to questions about clergy belts.
- Wood Elf bard starting sets have been fixed.
- Pets are now able to start combat with a special attack.
- Player summoning spells are now working outside of 30m.
- Fix for Recall to House: Camping out immediately no longer resets the refresh timer for the Ability Recall to House.
ADVENTURING
- Bard - Altered the range display on the descriptions of several abilities to clarify the 40m max range of bard songs.
- Bard - Hinder I - Fixed a display issue that made it seem as though the first version of this ability was vastly better than the rest of the line.
- Blood Mage - Cleansing Leech - The effects of this symbiote will no longer be stripped by the Monk's meditation ability.
- Disciple - Touch of Woe now has damage values in its tool tip.
- Disciple - Increased the damage on all versions of Touch of Woe
- Disciple - Fleeting Feet now makes you immune to movement debuffs for its duration
- Disciple - Fleeting Feet now has a 45 second refresh.
- Disciple - Fleeting Feet now costs 15 endurance
- Disciple - Paralyzing Touch and Paralyzing Sweep now change the appearance of those affected
- Disciple - Paralyzing Sweep now adds a 100% chance on hit to stun your attacker for 15 seconds or 1 hit. This effect lasts for 10 seconds.
- Disciple - Increased the damage dealt by Kiss of Torment
- Disciple - Awakening now has a 3 second cast time.
- Disciple - Ra'Jin Flare now costs 3 Jin
- Disciple - Ra'Jin Flare is no longer a spell, it is a ranged attack that requires shuriken
- Disciple - Removed the refresh timer on Ra'Jin Flare
- Disciple - Endowment of Balance now lasts 10 minutes
- Disciple - Introduced new ability line at level 18 called Meditate
- Disciple - Introduced new ability line at level 10 called Inner Light. Inner Light contains components from all previous Harmonious Bonds.
- Disciple - Removed the Gift of Anguish, Gift of Vitae and Sage's Endowment ability lines.
- Disciple - Reworked Endowment of Balance to have Jin regeneration instead of a damage shield
- Disciple - Removed the Jin regeneration from the Immortal Jade Dragon Form
- Disciple - Removed the spell mitigation portion of the Immortal Jade Dragon combat form
- Disciple - Added a new passive ability called Transcendence at level 10. Transcendence grants 15% spell mitigation.
- Disciple - Endowment of Mastery now lasts 10 minutes
- Disciple - Immortal Jade Dragon now has an added bonus. Whenever you are in this stance Kiss of Heaven and Blessed Wind will have an instant healing effect added.
- Disciple - Added a 6 second refresh to Blessed Wind
- Disciple - Kiss of Heaven is now defensive targeted.
- Disciple - The healing portion of Kiss of Heaven has been upgraded in effectiveness
- Disciple - Kiss of Heaven now lasts 32 seconds
- Disciple - Kiss of Heaven is no longer a Harmonious Bond
- Disciple - Kiss of Heaven now costs 4 Jin
- Disciple - Purity now lasts for 2 minutes and has a refresh of 90 seconds.
- Disciple - Purity now costs 5 Jin
- Disciple - Purity now increases healing on your target by 300.
- Disciple - Purity now has a range of 25m.
- Disciple - Falling Petal and White Lotus Strike are now caster group targeted.
- Disciple - Inner Focus now can be cast on multiple targets, is no longer a bond and lasts for 5 minutes.
- Necromancer - Life Draught: Ability now heals player character when not in a group.
- Paladin - Blade of Vol Anari I - This attack will no do the correct amount of damage.
- Paladin - Champion's Might - The strength buff portion of this ability will once again stack with Maul of the Gods.
- Paladin - Devout Foeman - Fixed a bug that caused the use of one rank of this ability to not cause the remainder of the line to refresh. Now, using any rank of this ability will cause the entire line to refresh.
- Paladin - Strike of Gloriann - Shield of Gloriann will now display a correct cast message.
- Paladin - Strike of Gloriann - This ability's description now details the correct amount of armor increase.
- Paladin - Sunburst - This ability now correctly affects Fiendish targets.
- Rogue - Cleared up some ability activation text issues.
- Rogue - Fixed some inconsistencies with level requirement display on Poison and Scroll passive abilities
- Rogue - Stalking - Consuming Druid berries will no longer break your stealth.
- Sorcerer - Quartz focus will now strip previous focus buffs.
- Warrior - All warriors should now start with two weapons.
- Warrior - Grim Determination - The description for this ability has been altered to make it more clear that if you use the ability and then change forms the ability will stop working.
- Warrior - Ironfoe - This ability will now protect against Palpenipe's Oblivion Shot ability. This ability should now say that it is instant activate.
- Warrior - Mountainous Barrier - Should now say that it is instant activate.
- Warrior - Pommel Smash II - This ability now deals the correct amount of damage and adds the correct amount of hate.
- Warrior - Warden's Bulwark - This ability will now animate correctly.
CRAFTING
- Anvils should now have a more appropriate icon.
- Architect's Apron should no longer drop from blacksmith work orders.
- Bordinar's Cleft miner's should be wielding the proper tools now.
- Cliffstrider Troll should drop the proper tier harvestable now.
- Crafted resource bags should now show up under harvesting container on the exchange.
- Carvings of Alacrity will no longer decrease spell haste by 95%. They will instead increase spell haste by 5% as intended.
- Healthy Necklaces of Countering have had their stats adjusted so that they actually have Countering bonuses.
- Items with the Blessing of Might buff will now correctly give Wisdom when the proc is successful.
- Items with the effect Blessing of Might have had more information added to their Equipped Effect's description.
- Items with the Gift of Might equipped effect have had the description updated to the correct duration on the ability. It was always 30 seconds, but the description said it only lasted for 20 seconds. Now these match at 30 seconds.
- Kojani style Flawless Warding Robes should now display as Robes rather than Tunics.
- Dranin Silverbeard should properly display assembly recipes now.
- Fixed placement of assembly table in Bordinar's Cleft.
- Orc crafting racial should properly give finesse now.
- The blacksmith forge in the Tentree's Farmstead has shifted position and should no longer be floating.
- The chandelier work order item has had its icon updated.
- The harvesting instructor on the Isle of Dawn should no longer offer an invalid training option.
DIPLOMACY
- Head Informants for the Lamplighters have arrived in New Targonor, Ahgram, and Tawar Galan. They offer an array of rewards in exchange for unequalled information.
- Diplomats at levels 10, 30, and 50 can pick Signature Statements to further customize their decks. Visit your local Diplomacy Instructor for more details.
- Diplomacy Instructors should now offer a selection of basic statements for sale.
- Traders are now looking for diplomats who want to make some extra coin! They need talented negotiators to move goods. See Renny in New Targonor, Lura in Ahgram, or Nakiro in Tawar Galan for details.
- Basic starting Statements for diplomats have been updated. Characters now start with a basic set of universal Statements as well as one unique racial Statement and one unique class Statement.
- Collecting taxes is now more profitable.
- Presence requirement values have been lowered for most parleys. This should help eliminate the problems with players getting stuck on basic quest lines due to not having enough of the correct type of presence.
- Many NPCs available for Civic Diplomacy now have updated decks. They have a Strategy progression identical to players, giving them more cards to access in a parley. This change gives the NPCs more variety in their parleys and will make them harder to predict.
- Civic Diplomacy parley experience has been increased.
- Topaz Blade will now correctly fit in to diplomacy containers.
WORLD POPULATION
- Afrit: Fixed an issue with a Var Guardian floating in the air.
- Afrit: Gatrik Qoj is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Hajir Thoun is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Krovax Threxva is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Oloq Foulqoth is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Rezo Xylorn is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Tharuz Draxen is no longer a floating head.
- Afrit: Vazayen Zexthal is no longer a floating head.
- Ahgram: Fixed a grammar issue wtih Irri Al-Doleh's hail text.
- Ahgram: Fixed a grammatical error in Shakan Rebandars dialogue.
- Ahgram: Hushang Kordiyeh is no longer standing on top of his tent.
- Ahgram: Ju Mai is no longer just a floating head.
- Ahgram: Prophet of Vaelion will once again kill you if you fail his puzzle.
- Ahgram: Kedjeh Devari is no longer a floating head.
- Ancient Port Warehouse: Many of the "living" population are no longer immune to Soul Blight. Cast away happy necros!
- Bordinar's Cleft: Fixed a pathing issue with a Pygmy Cave Bat.
- Bordinar's Cleft: Removed a Gwartak Scavenger from inside a rock.
- Bordinar’s Cleft: Adjusted the pathing for Lieutenant Garrith Goldforge
- CIS: Alakrus Dei is no longer a floating head.
- CIS: Fixed a typo in Recruiter Trevorak's dialogue.
- CIS: Fixed a typo in Scholar Donovan's title.
- CIS: Infineum Soul Shard's are now attackable.
- CIS: Fixed a typo in Smith Of'Barba's title.
- Cliffs of Ghelgad: All 'Ksaravi Scorpiontamer' NPC's are now known as 'Ksaravi Scorpion Tamer'.
- Cliffs of Ghelgad: Subjugated Mekalian Citizens are no longer just floating heads.
- Connor’s Retreat: A housing escrow merchant, banker, and Exchange Broker have all been added to Conner's Retreat.
- Cragwind Ridge: Removed some Kranoxian Slammers from inside a rock.
- Dahknarg: Removed a lion from inside a rock.
- Falgarholm: Removed a Rockhide Runt from inside a rock.
- Fon Cogswin's dialogue should respond faster.
- Forest's Heart: Removed a bear from inside a tree.
- Frostshard Lake: Frostwing Claws will now 'fly' in the air instead of 'walk'.
- Frostshard Lake: Jargar, Servant of Torkald is no longer a floating head.
- Gawrut Ker: Planted a sign that was floating in the air.
- Grimsea Watch: Removed a Mud Croaker from inside a rock.
- Hathor Zhi: Anuub Karu is no longer a floating head.
- Hathor Zhi: Fixed a few pathing issues with some Voracious Sandcrawlers.
- Hathor Zhi: Priori Drathar is no longer a floating head.
- Ichtakhta: Hulking Abhorrent's Destroying Hit will no longer reduce AC by 100% and will now reduce AC by 20% as intended.
- Infineum Plateaus: The crafting outpost now gives rest exp.
- Khal: Beggar Jaineen is no longer a floating head.
- Khal: Beggar Jorkaye is no longer a floating head.
- Khal: Beggar Karmala is no longer a floating head.
- Khal: Fixed an issue with Guard Tarra's hail text.
- Khal: Karibeth Mishra now responds to hails.
- Khal: Nora Sabiri is no longer a floating head.
- Khal: The 'Bank of Khal' sign has been re-placed properly.
- Khal: Verihn Stonecaller is no longer a floating head.
- Ksaravi Gulch: The Reef Sharks are now swimming instead of crawling halfway in the bottom floor of the ocean.
- Leth Nurae: A horse was missing it's tail and he grew a new one!
- Leth Nurae: Fixed a typo in Guardian Draenas' dialogue.
- Leth Nurae: Removed a Bilescale Cockatrice from inside a rock.
- Lomshir Plain: Engath Varnan is no longer a floating head.
- Lomshir Plain: The Haekemish Sentries no longer appear as floating heads.
- Lomshir: As'trida Kanoj is no longer standing on a fence.
- Lomshir: Basi Fulan is no longer a floating head.
- Lomshir: Basi Fulan's appearance has been fixed.
- Lomshir: Horsethief Raiders no longer appear as floating heads.
- Lomshir: Prince Hazzan is no longer a floating head.
- Lomshir: Quojor Wulner is no longer a floating head.
- Lomshir: Sara Kordin is no longer a floating head.
- Lomshir: Wulg Lakniv is no longer a floating head.
- Martok: Warseer Fezzik's questionaire is working again.
- Mekalia: Agent Odapep is no longer a floating head.
- Mekalia: Constable Janicht should no longer get stuck in the floor.
- Mekalia: Dijok Hokon is no longer a floating head.
- Mekalia: Fixed an issue where you could not target Apprentice Xadalen using the mouse only.
- Misthaven Crossing: Fixed an error in a signpost that was pointing to New Targonor. It now points to Silverlake as intended.
- Misthaven Crossing: Vulshar Soilpurge now has a pickaxe in her hands as intended.
- Monk: Flying Kick III: Fixed a typo in the tooltip.
- New Targonor- Fay will no longer randomly appear as a pair of yellow eyes.
- New Targonor: Crafty Carla and the forge she stood by have been moved to rear of a nearby tent.
- New Targonor: General Goods Vendor, Harney Goodman, will now offer to repair your gear.
- New Targonor: Guard Taylor will now use her crossbow properly when she wields it.
- New Targonor: Mornir Singello no longer has a distorted figure.
- New Targonor: Valentina Ryan is no longer sitting on an invisible chair.
- New Targonor: Reeve Gromwell no longer paths the room he is in.
- NPCs: Guardians of the Muse (Kall'Raa, the Dark Muse) will no longer continually spawn once Kall'Raa is dead.
- Old Targonor: Fixed an error in Spirit of Thorlin's dialogue tree.
- Pankor Zhi: The Guardians of Pankor decided to stretch their wings and fly.
- Plains of Anguish: Fixed some pathing issues with a few Lesser Cartheon Soldiers.
- Qa Riverbank: Fixed some typos in Constable Xyxell's dialogue.
- Rahz Inkur - Oracle Event: When picking up an essence, it will no longer disappear if you cancel the action.
- Razad: Belinii Neulstoz is no longer a floating head.
- Razad: Huldhar Shihebi is no longer standing on his tent.
- Razad: The scorpions at the bottom of the lake have evolved into angry fish.
- Renton Keep: Fixed a grammatical error in Guard Watts' hail text.
- Renton Keep: Raldien Culmadier is no longer attackable.
- Renton Keep: Removed a Rekk Excavator from within a rock.
- River Valley: Dhelas is no longer running at the speed of sound.
- Ruins of Trengal Keep - Karujin Gulgrethor's event is working again.
- Ruins of Trengal Keep - Several NPCs with bad pathing have been corrected.
- Sacrificial Brancers is now known as Sacrificial Bracers.
- Shrine of the Flame: A Grasslands Bear was removed from within some rocks. Hurray!
- Shrine of the Flame: Ashendreg Hunters now hold and use their bows properly.
- Southwatch: Fixed a grammatical error in Protector Gallad's hail text.
- Southwatch: Trenna Kashers has been rooted in place.
- Strand of the Ancients: Fixed several pathing issues with Pyremaw Lioness'.
- Stranglewater Shore: One of the Xenn Chaotics should no longer be stuck.
- Tanvu: Imperial Scout Pin Sho will now use his crossbow as a ranged weapon instead of a melee weapon.
- Tanvu: Ko Fan Bladesong's path has been slightly adjusted.
- Tanvu: Orimaki Kaniu is no longer a floating head.
- Tanvu: Several of the Lao'Jin Warriors should not get stuck in walls anymore.
- Tanvu: Added a shaman trainer to Tanvu.
- Tar Janashir: Telqo Sanedidjeh is no longer a floating head.
- Tar Janashir: Ovadaco Modisu's face should no longer be distorted.
- Tawar Galan: Fixed an issue with Sailor Janeth's pathing.
- Tawar Galan: Kobo Ironclub is no longer floating in the air.
- Tawar Galan: Warden Allegran is no longer floating.
- Three Rivers: Removed a Living Stoneflux from within a rock.
- Tomb of Lord Tsang: The bindstone has been restored and moved near Lotus Hold.
- Trickster's Haven: Fixed a typo in Nayib Al'Kalee's dialogue.
- Tursh: Fixed a typo in Volotin's Workshop and Foundry sign.
- Varryn Dunes: Tahreen will no longer wander the camp.
- Vault of Heroes: Fixed an issue with a Rockgazer pathing through rocks.
- Vault of Heroes: Thane of Torsheim is no longer a floating head.
- Vault of Heroes: A griffon chick was removed from inside some rocks.
- Veskal's Exchange: Geenback Spiders are now known as Greenback Spiders
- Veskal's Exchange: The dungeon Jade Depths has been rebalanced as a solo or two person group dungeon. Drop rates on rare items have been increased. Some items have received extra attention.
- Veskal's Exchange: The dungeon Achlatan Spider Caves has been rebalanced for groups of four to five. Drop rates on rare items have been increased. Some items have received extra attention.
- Veskal's Exchange: The difficulty of bosses in the Achlatan Spider Caves has been increased. Groups of four should have a reasonable challenge.
- Veskal's Exchange: The Cleric and Druid trainers are now easier to locate.
- Veskal's Exchange: The Telon Global Exchange and a Thestran Banker are now available.
ITEMS
- Apostle's Bladestaff has had its stats adjusted.
- Bow of the hero should now work correctly with ranged attacks.
- Brainfreeze is now properly labelled as a focus item.
- Carmellia Seeds should now be flagged as quest.
- Cloaks of perfection should have the proper stats now.
- Coarse fistwraps should now have the proper icon.
- Crude Reinforced Weighted Piercing Shuriken should now properly be labeled as Crude - Reinforced Light Piercing Shuriken.
- Crusader's Sword has had its stats adjusted.
- Darkblade should now look like a sword.
- Darkwood Bow should have the proper classes listed on it now.
- Griffon Watch Insignia should no longer cancel the Harmonious Body Stance buff when equipped.
- Branch of Mint now stacks up to 20 at a time.
- Drape of Coalition should now correctly add damage to all appropriate attacks.
- Earthstar Greatmaul appropriately looks like a two-hander now.
- Fevered Pauldrons of Ambition has been renamed to Fevered Reinforcements of Ambition. The item has always been a Reinforcement.
- Fother's Ancient Port now explains what it will do in the item description.
- Fresh Fish now regenerates a proper amount of health and energy.
- Hassan's Focal Sword has changed. The proc now triggers for the next attack only.
- Hyper-Cloth Cap's description has been changed to reflect the cloak's existing power.
- Kormstu's Jeweled Warhammer now looks like a Warhammer instead of a Staff.
- Mara's Kiss will now proc appropriately, granting group members within 25 meters the appropriate bonuses.
- Meteoric Blade of Rending will now have a red colored name. Previously it was showing up as gray or white.
- Numerous items that increased Endurance have had that stat removed. If you find an item that does not require at least level 48 with Endurance on the item, please report it.
- Ring of Inhibition's activated ability now works at the same level that is required to equip the item.
- Several "Pantaloons" from Ancient Port Warehouse have been renamed to "Kilts" to fit the look of the armor.
- The attached effects on Bulky Heart of Fire and Bulky Heart of Regeneration have had their names swapped. The effects have remained the same, but the names have been corrected to match the name of the item that they are on.
- The Butcher's Blade can now be equipped with the /wear command.
- The Gnomish crystal "Prism of Retaliation" will now buff your party members as was originally intended.
- Warbow of Ancient Evil should once again proc at any normal range. The proc will now also generate a message indicating how much life was drained.
- Xenocite Cloaking Bracelet has had its cooldown added to the item description. The cooldown on the item has been reduced from 25 minutes to 20 minutes.
- Anhak's Right Wing has had its reuse timer lowered from 15 minutes to 2 minutes. The item claimed to enable your next spell as instant cast, but it never did. The description is updated to read that it lowers your next spell's cast time by 30%.
- Tiny Roseberries have had a refresh timer added to their description. There was already a 60 second refresh, but now the description says so.
- Siren's Kiss darts should only have one description now.
- Priest's Knuckle now has stats.
- Tattered Mystic Robe should now have the proper icon.
- The description for the item "Zewg's Shield" is now fixed.
- The item "Ancient Glory" should no longer be equippable as a cloak.
- The item "Blessed Lumber" had a typo in its description fixed.
- The item "Card of the Skawlra" has had a typo fixed in its name.
- The item "Channeler Robe" now has the correct icon.
- The item "Crossbow of the Redcaps" now has a sell price.
- The item "Fae Dust Robe" now has the correct icon.
- The item "Precision Throwing Hammer" should now have its name spelled correctly.
- The item "Robe of Desert Suns" now has the correct icon.
QUESTS
- Abandoning the quest "Outpost Work" will now take the quest materials away.
- Practice Thestran Caravel Rudders will now stack up to 5 at a time.
- Heart of Clay: Fixed a grammatical error in the reward text.
- Ancient Weapons of Leth Verael - The location for Thorian Glowban has been corrected."
- Assist the Spiritragers- You must now complete Spiritblossom Harvest, Specialized Training and The Broken fang Threat before this quest becomes available.
- By Night: Investigating the source behind Tremean Farm for Grelrin Tremean will now work at night as it was intended.
- Divide and Conquer - Now offers Heirloom Blessed Mace as a reward.
- Faith in Jin - This quest will be offered my Master Garu again if you accidently closed the window before accepting.
- Fly the Friend Skies - This quest was removed from certain creature handlers in cities with multiple races. Each city will now offer the quest from one creature handler. If you belong to a city with multiple races, see the following NPC for the quest:
Ca'ial Brael - Moonlite Starwatcher
Halgarad - Ogrin Ghuu
Khal - Casemin Rafdul
Lomshir - Xyrix Mangvir
Martok - Mardirk Hogdumfar
Tanvu - Xous Comir"
- Hillshadow - Svartr Rugtvedt will offer the quest properly again.
- Martok's Past - You can fill your mug of ale properly again.
- Missive: TASK: Jump the Knights - Knights of Kaon will now update the quest properly.
- Protecting Misthaven: Zihurr Legionnaires - The kill requirement has been reduced to 20. Also, the summary text now reminds you to return to Timon Mooren when done.
- Pulling Teeth - This quest is now properly flagged as a group quest instead of solo.
- Put Farmer John to Rest - This quest now has potion rewards.
- Rakshasa Citadel: Closing the Portal - Fixed a typo in the summary.
- Relic of Courage - The drop for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system.
- Relic of Honor - The drop for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system.
- Relic of Wisdom - The drop for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system."
- Return a Borrowed Weapon: A location for Ryldrak Kiltlar has been added.
- Rising In Ranks - Light Fighters are now required to complete Moving On Up before this quest becomes available to them.
- Seeds of Power - Changed the word 'Come' to 'Came'.
- Test of Will: The event to test your will is working again.
- The Time Has Come: Fixed the issue where if you abandoned Part 2 of the quest, you could not re-accept it. Also, added a trigger to Bujeju Stylcra to resummon the Khelium Firespine Hatchling so you do not have to abandon the quest and re-accept it to get it back.
- The quest "Bad Timing" has had its parleys fixed.
- The quest "Civic Diplomacy Tutorial: Levers" should now be working on Kev Wematmani.
- The quest "Earth Den Investigation" now has travel journal entries.
- The quest "Engran's Errand" now has a travel journal entry.
- The quest "Horsebane Tick Infestation" should tell you to return to the proper NPC now.
- The quest "Pig Part Portents" should now work correctly.
- The quest "The Hobgoblin Threat" now offers a travel journal entry for the Tentree's Farmstead.
- The quest item "Ornate Qalian Chain" should now fit into diplomacy containers.
- There have been spelling fixes in "The Diplomat" quest.
- Yoshin Stormvalley should now correctly confirm you are giving him "two" wooden grips instead of "three" for the quest "More Items for Yoshin"
- Soup for Veskal: The Main Ingredient: The frogs required for this quest have had their level increased.
- Dark Roots: Weapon rewards for this quest have been upgraded to Rare quality. A Dread Knight and Monk/Disciple weapon have been added.
CODING
Broker Changes
- Broker time limit on items added. Initial time will be 14 days changeable by design.
- All Markets combined into one.
- Market cap increased to 50 items.
- Markets will be reset on patch day or when code gets patched for internal servers.
- Time left on a market item will be displayed in short time format on the broker window.
- Items that expire will still show up in your item list saying expired. You will have 7 days to relist the item. After that it will be returned through game mail.
Settings
- A number of options have been removed to help simplify and consolidate the settings interface. The reason for the change was to remove the clutter and to remove settings that were not totally functional or where the settings could hurt the players performance. Most if not all of these settings can still be manually modified in the VGClient.ini but we strongly recommend not changing them.
- It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that players reset their settings by clicking on the defaults option when they first login and then customize them from there.
- Added a new Character tab to the settings window that contains character related settings.
- Targets target will now always be on by default
- Group target symbols will now always be on by default.
- Hitting cancel will no longer cause your video device to reset.
- The audio distance slider will now save properly.
- The setting for Clip Plane now shows in meters instead of centimeters.
- Added Offensive Target Windows options.
- Fixed numerous incorrect or missing tooltips to the windows settings.
Shaders
- The patcher will now patch down pre-compiled shaders. The client will no longer attempt to compile your shaders at start up.
Engine
- Additional memory leak fixes at the DirectX level.
- Fixed a significant memory leak from Alt+Tabbing
- More general memory leak fixes.
- The majority of objects will now fade in when they become viewable instead of popping in.
Misc
- Chat bubbles: When a player switches from 1st person to 3rd person view, their last spoken chat bubble will no longer pop up and display even if they said it minutes ago. Chat bubble timing will now start when the bubble is created, rather than upon first render of the bubble.
- Fixed an issue where the min. range on some abilities would show negative numbers on the tooltip.
- Fixed an issue where some NPC dialogs would have <PlayerName> text in them. They should now properly show the players name.
- Fixed an issue where the character sheet was showing the wrong tooltip for the primary harvesting skill.
- Unique items can once again be removed from the bank.
- Tutorial popups no longer popup in the middle of the screen. They are now displayed as a list of exclamation points.
- Fixed an issue with the Pickpocket tooltip not displaying.
- Ships will now properly despawn when you sail into a no boat area. This is mainly in the Skawlra Rock area.
- The character sheet no longer has a place for your character portrait. The inventory slots have been centered in the UI window. You can still drop items anywhere on the character sheet and have it auto-equip them.
- Selling an item to a merchant that is for a quest will no properly update the quest window.
- The description for Harvesting Packs has been fixed to show the correct bag type and container size.
- Fixed an issue at character select where if you deleted all of your characters, the first slot sometimes would have a phantom character in it.
- Unique Items like the Body Bag created through assembly now check to see if the player already has that item before finishing the recipe.
- Having multiple stacks of an item will no longer prevent that item from being assembled or resulting in the wrong item being assembled.
- Fixed an issue where players were able to get their flying mount in an un-flyable state.
- Fixed an issue where players could fall to their deaths when crossing a chunk line.
- Player torches now turn off when returning to character select.
- Fixed an issue with the required level on ammo cases being displayed wrong.
- When using an ability that takes ammo, it will now always come from the container before looking in the range slot.
- Fixed an issue where players would sink into the ground when they die on a mount.
- Fixed an issue where a player would no longer levitate after crossing a chunk line.
- Fixed an issue with the NPC Frazik not properly completing his script.
- Merchant prices are now displayed on all items without going to a merchant.
- Shadow Step: You can now open combat with this ability.
- Fixed an exploit where you could AE unattackable NPCs.
- Fixed an issue where casting Necropsy on an already looted harvestable NPC resulted in a level 1 loot.
- Ability hotkeys will now automatically be upgraded when you train a higher level version of the ability.
- Fixed an issue where hotkeys would not always appear on your main bar when training a new ability (if there was room).
- Fix for an issue where training a new ability would sometimes replace a hotkey that had already been deleted erroneously.
- Raise the death penalty level to 11.
- Added "This item cannot be deconstructed" to all items that cannot be deconstructed.
- There will no longer be a 3 sec delay before a corpse with no items becomes harvestable.
- Fixed an issue where when harvesting in a group and someone killed an NPC, harvesting would end.
Character Customizations
- Character customizations have been re-added.
- All male characters now have the options of being bald.
- Character models can no longer have their textures set to lowest setting.
- Added Head and Body buttons which changes the camera angle when customizing a character.
- Fixed an issue where customization settings were not properly saving if they were set to the far left.
Vanguard Build 2072 Patch Notes July / 11 / 2008
Isle of Dawn
The Isle of Dawn was separated from the continent of Kojan during the cataclysm. A village of battle hardened humans and a band of zealot hobgoblins have warred against each other for centuries on the Isle. Their mutual hatred for one another runs deep and even now they are locked in an ongoing struggle. Recently though, increasing numbers of ulvari have begun to surface on the island – much to the dismay of both the humans and the hobgoblins.
Weakened by their perpetual war, the humans aren't able to capably defend themselves. Even now, their villages burn as they frantically seek aid. The isle is in desperate need of heroes.
o The Isle of Dawn is now available for new characters!
o When creating a new character, you will now be presented with two options for your starting location. The Isle of Dawn will be one option, and the other option will be your selected Race's standard starting area.
o PVP, Exchange Brokers, Death experience and tombstones are turned off on the Isle of Dawn.
o Player levels have been capped at 10 on the Isle.
General Population
o APW - Many of the "living" population are no longer immune to Soul Blight. Cast away happy necros!
o Combat Balance – Fixed a bug that caused flat damage buffs to be applied to some abilities multiple times.
o Pets are now able to start combat with a special attack.
o Player summoning spells are now working outside of 30m.
o Fix for Recall to House: Camping out immediately no longer resets the refresh timer for the Ability Recall to House.
Broker Changes
o Broker time limit on items added. Initial time will be 14 days changeable by design.
o All Markets combined into one.
o Market cap increased to 50 items.
o Markets will be reset on patch day or when code gets patched for internal servers.
o Time left on a market item will be displayed in short time format on the broker window.
o Items that expire will still show up in your item list saying expired. You will have 7 days to relist the item. After that it will be returned through game mail.
Class Updates
Necromancer - Life Draught: Ability now heals player character when not in a group.
Sorcerer - Quartz focus will now strip previous focus buffs.
Disciple - Inner Focus now can be cast on multiple targets, is no longer a bond and lasts for 5 minutes.
Paladin - Devout Foeman - Fixed a bug that caused the use of one rank of this ability to not cause the remainder of the line to refresh. Now, using any rank of this ability will cause the entire line to refresh.
Disciple - Touch of Woe now has damage values in its tool tip.
Disciple - Increased the damage on all versions of Touch of Woe
Disciple - Fleeting Feet now makes you immune to movement debuffs for its duration
Disciple - Fleeting Feet now has a 45 second refresh.
Disciple - Fleeting Feet now costs 15 endurance
Disciple - Paralyzing Touch and Paralyzing Sweep now change the appearance of those affected
Disciple - Paralyzing Sweep now adds a 100% chance on hit to stun your attacker for 15 seconds or 1 hit. This effect lasts for 10 seconds.
Disciple - Increased the damage dealt by Kiss of Torment
Disciple - Awakening now has a 3 second cast time.
Disciple - Ra'Jin Flare now costs 3 Jin
Disciple - Ra'Jin Flare is no longer a spell, it is a ranged attack that requires shuriken
Disciple - Removed the refresh timer on Ra'Jin Flare
Disciple - Endowment of Balance now lasts 10 minutes
Disciple - Introduced new ability line at level 18 called Meditate
Disciple - Introduced new ability line at level 10 called Inner Light. Inner Light contains components from all previous Harmonious Bonds.
Disciple - Removed the Gift of Anguish, Gift of Vitae and Sage's Endowment ability lines.
Disciple - Reworked Endowment of Balance to have Jin regeneration instead of a damage shield
Disciple - Removed the Jin regeneration from the Immortal Jade Dragon Form
Disciple - Removed the spell mitigation portion of the Immortal Jade Dragon combat form
Disciple - Added a new passive ability called Transcendence at level 10. Transcendence grants 15% spell mitigation.
Disciple - Endowment of Mastery now lasts 10 minutes
Disciple - Immortal Jade Dragon now has an added bonus. Whenever you are in this stance Kiss of Heaven and Blessed Wind will have an instant healing effect added.
Disciple - Added a 6 second refresh to Blessed Wind
Disciple - Kiss of Heaven is now defensive targeted.
Disciple - The healing portion of Kiss of Heaven has been upgraded in effectiveness
Disciple - Kiss of Heaven now lasts 32 seconds
Disciple - Kiss of Heaven is no longer a Harmonious Bond
Disciple - Kiss of Heaven now costs 4 Jin
Disciple - Purity now lasts for 2 minutes and has a refresh of 90 seconds.
Disciple - Purity now costs 5 Jin
Disciple - Purity now increases healing on your target by 300.
Disciple - Purity now has a range of 25m.
Disciple - Falling Petal and White Lotus Strike are now caster group targeted.
Diplomacy
o Head Informants for the Lamplighters have arrived in New Targonor, Ahgram, and Tawar Galan. They offer an array of rewards in exchange for unequalled information.
o Diplomats at levels 10, 30, and 50 can pick Signature Statements to further customize their decks. Visit your local Diplomacy Instructor for more details.
o Diplomacy Instructors should now offer a selection of basic statements for sale.
o Traders are now looking for diplomats who want to make some extra coin! They need talented negotiators to move goods. See Renny in New Targonor, Lura in Ahgram, or Nakiro in Tawar Galan for details.
o Basic starting Statements for diplomats have been updated. Characters now start with a basic set of universal Statements as well as one unique racial Statement and one unique class Statement.
o Collecting taxes is now more profitable.
o Presence requirement values have been lowered for most parleys. This should help eliminate the problems with players getting stuck on basic quest lines due to not having enough of the correct type of presence.
o Many NPCs available for Civic Diplomacy now have updated decks. They have a Strategy progression identical to players, giving them more cards to access in a parley. This change gives the NPCs more variety in their parleys and will make them harder to predict.
o Civic Diplomacy parley experience has been increased.
Veskal’s Exchange Changes
o Veskal’s Exchange: Geenback Spiders are now known as Greenback Spiders
o Veskal’s Exchange: The dungeon Jade Depths has been rebalanced as a solo or two person group dungeon. Drop rates on rare items have been increased. Some items have received extra attention.
o Veskal’s Exchange: The dungeon Achlatan Spider Caves has been rebalanced for groups of four to five. Drop rates on rare items have been increased. Some items have received extra attention.
o Veskal’s Exchange: The difficulty of bosses in the Achlatan Spider Caves has been increased. Groups of four should have a reasonable challenge.
o Veskal’s Exchange: The Cleric and Druid trainers are now easier to locate.
o Veskal’s Exchange: The Telon Global Exchange and a Thestran Banker are now available.
Quests
o Soup for Veskal: The Main Ingredient: The frogs required for this quest have had their level increased.
o Dark Roots: Weapon rewards for this quest have been upgraded to Rare quality. A Dread Knight and Monk/Disciple weapon have been added.
Code
o Fix for holding down the scroll bar and closing your quest journal that would cause it o go blank.
o Fix for the chat window click-through selector to show the proper state.
o Fix for map zooming in and out not always centering on the click location.
o Added particle effects to some IOs (intractable objects) in game.
o Shaders change: The “Generate Resources” delay is no longer necessary to optimize vanguards performance. Vanguard will now patch down updated, optimized files, that won’t need any generation prior to play.
o UI window fix: The default tab will now function properly
o UI window fix: Clicking Cancel will properly revert settings now