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Storm King's Thunder Preview Patch Notes: NW.65.20160705a.3
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Patch notes coming at a later date, but our first Preview build is up, running, and ready to play!
For the short term, check out some of our features in Developer Blog: Storm King's Thunder Features!
As always, given that this is a Preview build, please keep in mind that there may be unfinished or placeholder art and functionality in places. Still feel free to give feedback - The best place for that is in an Official Feedback Thread for the given feature, so it's worth checking out the Feedback / General Discussion Forum before posting here.
Items and Equipment
Official Feedback Thread: Bryn Shander
Official Feedback Thread: Maze Engine Changes
For the short term, check out some of our features in Developer Blog: Storm King's Thunder Features!
As always, given that this is a Preview build, please keep in mind that there may be unfinished or placeholder art and functionality in places. Still feel free to give feedback - The best place for that is in an Official Feedback Thread for the given feature, so it's worth checking out the Feedback / General Discussion Forum before posting here.
Items and Equipment
- Invocation now gives a Rough AD bonus instead of granting Rough AD directly. The bonus Rough AD awarded is moderately larger than what was previously granted as straight Rough AD. General Invoking while playing other Rough AD generating activities will see a reasonable increase in AD earned, while Invoking only will see a drastic decrease.
- Adamant Rejuvenation Surcoat: A new healing focused Devoted Cleric Masterwork Chest.
- Armor Kits and Jewels: Text added to Armor Kits and Jewels that show the Item Level increase they add to armor. This is a visual change, no function changes have occurred.
- Champion's Battle Horn: No longer puts player in a combat stance when out of combat.
- Companions
- Companions with Combat Advantage active companion bonuses (Blink Dog, Staldorf, Intellect Devourer) have had these powers changed to combine additively rather than multiplicatively. As such, players using these may notice slight reductions in the combat advantage bonus provided by these powers.
- Fixes to several companions with Rank 30 abilites that weren't triggering such as the Priestess of Sehanine, Acolyte of Kelemvore and the Repentant Cultist.
- Harper Bard: Now works as intended, as a Leader companion.
- Renegade Illusionist: Now works as intended, as a Striker companion.
- Sergeant Knox: Now works as intended, as a Defender companion.
- Wandering Scarecrow: Now works as intended, as a Striker companion.
- Companions with Combat Advantage active companion bonuses (Blink Dog, Staldorf, Intellect Devourer) have had these powers changed to combine additively rather than multiplicatively. As such, players using these may notice slight reductions in the combat advantage bonus provided by these powers.
- Controller's Celestial Cowl: This item from the Control Wizard Class Pack no longer has a class requirment.
- Demonic Ichor: The weekly cap for Demonic Ichor has been removed.
- Drain Overload Enchantments: Drastically reduced the power of the 4 Stronghold PvP AP and Stamina Drain Overload Enchantments. (The corresponding 4 wards and 2 boons are scaled proportionally.)
- Enchantments: Slightly increased the stats you get from the three-stat enchantments (Black Ice, Demonic, and Draconic) to make them competitive with the one and two stat enchantments.
- Fireburst, Frostburn, Thunderhead, and Bloodtheft armor enchantments from Lesser to Transcendent have had all their internal cooldowns reduced.
- Frostburn Enchantments: In addition to its other properties, all ranks of the Frostburn Enchantment now slow the attacker (players and NPCs) by 30% as part of the effect.
- Illusionist's Mask: A new legendary rank has been added to the Illusionist's Mask as part of the next Masquerade of Liars event. The epic rank of the artifact can now take basic refinement and Masquerade refinement to be upgraded, and the mask acquires an activated power when it is upgraded to legendary.
- Insignia Bonuses
- Five new bonus powers have been added to the game!
- Assassin's Covenant: This new bonus requires a Regal, and two Enlightened insignia. You lose 10% of Defense, Deflection and Life Steal and gain the combination lost as Power.
- Barbarian's Revelry/Delight: Updated the tooltip to list that the effect can only occur once every 2s. This is just a tooltip update.
- Berserker's Rage: This new bonus requires a Barbed and two Illuminated insignia. While you have full Action Points, you gain 10% of your Armor Penetration as Power.
- Combatant's Maneuver: This new bonus requires an Illuminated and two Regal insignia. Whenever you control an enemy, you gain 5% combat Advantage damage for 10 seconds.
- Slayer's Redemption: This new bonus requires an enlightened and two crescent insignia. Whenever you kill a target, you are healed for 10% of your maximum Hit Points over 5 seconds.
- Victim's Preservation: This new bonus requires a Crescent and two Barbed insignia. Whenever you take more than 35% of your maximum Hit Points before any mitigation in a single attack, you are healed for 10% of your maximum Hit Points over 5 seconds. This cannot occur once every 10 seconds.
- Five new bonus powers have been added to the game!
- Lightning Enchantments: In addition to its other properties, all ranks of the Lightning Enchantment now reduce all cooldowns by 2% for the first lightning strike, plus an additional 1% for each chain.
- Profession Asset Pack: This item has been reworked and updated. When opening the pack you may now choose which profession you wish to receive rewards for, excluding Leadership. The rewards have also been improved, the packs now contain 2 Grandmaster Craftsmen, 2 Mithral Tools, 4 Master Craftsmen and 12 Steel Tools. The specific tools and craftsmen granted are specified in the Zen Market and upon choosing which profession to open the pack for. Any existing Profession Asset Packs will be updated to reflect these changes.
- PvP Equipment
- Grim equipment is no longer available for purchase at the Trade of Blades.
- Seals of Triumph have been removed from the cost of Lionsmane armor.
- The cost of Burning equipment has been reduced.
- The number of Fallen Banners required to purchase Lionsmane armor pieces has been halved.
- Rings of Ambush, Sieging, and Charging Bull: The wording has been changed to state "When you have been running" instead of When you have been moving."This means that moving very slowly (such as when you are running into a wall) will cause the effects to stop, and the effects will no longer apply while you are mounted. Note that most Slow will not cause you to move slowly enough on their own to prevent these effects from firing.
- Grim equipment is no longer available for purchase at the Trade of Blades.
- Salvage values for Neverwinter have not been very consistent. Now that we're adding a new tier of gear, we really want to streamline what items gave. Going forward, all items of level 130+ that are salvageable will have their salvage value determined by rarity and size (Small/Medium/Large) only. (Small = Neck, Waist, Ring, Shirt, Pants; Medium = Arms, Feet, Head, Offhand; Large = Body, Mainhand) In practice, the biggest effect of these changes is that some rings have gone down in value and some Elemental/Protector seal gear has gone up.
- Seals of Triumph
- The amount of Seals of Triumph awarded for winning a daily domination match has been increased from 1 to 60.
- The amount of Seals of Triumph in the cost of items has been adjusted based on therelated changes.
- The cap for Seals of Triumph has been increased from 500 seals to 1200.
- Star Metal Gauntlet and Adamantine Gauntlet tooltips now accurately display the rewards they can retrieve.
- The amount of Seals of Triumph awarded for winning a daily domination match has been increased from 1 to 60.
- Tradebar Store
- Dusk equipment has been moved from the "current" tab in the Trade Bar store's equipment section to the "legacy" tab.
- Goat Companion is now available in the Trade Bar Store!
- Grim equipment is now available for purchase in the Trade Bar store.
- Shard of Shadowclad Enchantment is now available at the Seal Vendor.
- Dusk equipment has been moved from the "current" tab in the Trade Bar store's equipment section to the "legacy" tab.
- Worn Gauntlets: For players who have misplaced their Worn Guantlets, they are now available in the profession vendors. They are only visible for those that need them.
- Resolved several client crashes that could occur when transferring maps.
- Collections: The Trade Bar store collection page has been updated.
- Coupons: Resolved an issue where coupons could be consumed even when reclaiming a free product such as a mount.
- Guild Alliances: Leaders now have the option to set visits to alliances by invites only if desired.
- Queues
- Players who logout and log back in will now be properly be put back into the queue and party instead of being a Schrodinger's party member both in and out of the party depending on perspective.
- There is now a Vote Abandon feature that allows a player to initiate a vote with all active players in the map. If the vote succeeds all players will be notified that the map is shutting down and no leaver penalty will be applied. This option is only available in PvE content.
- There is now a tooltip when trying to join a queue you are still in an instance for to notify of this case.
- When an event that expires is required by a queue all players waiting in that queue will be kicked out of it instead of remaining and being led to believe it may still start. This affects Demogorgon, Tiamat and many weekly event queues.
- When looking at the details of a queue an average wait time will be displayed when available.
- While in a queued instance if the event that is required to be running to queue for that instance ends the 'Looking for group reinforcements' will no longer display to show no more help is coming instead of misleading players.
- Players who logout and log back in will now be properly be put back into the queue and party instead of being a Schrodinger's party member both in and out of the party depending on perspective.
- Zen Market: Resolved a case where visiting the Zen Market with a coupon in the inventory could show an incorrect price for some item as if the coupon would provide a discount but does not.
Official Feedback Thread: Bryn Shander
Official Feedback Thread: Maze Engine Changes
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1. make a toon, pick any class you like
2. unlock all boons including SH boons of your choice
3. dress your toon in BiS PVP gear, slot the r12 enchants you consider to be the best
4. pick the best mounts and equip all insignias
5. come to PTR and show us how are we supposed to kill each other in PVP
@terramak
Were there any CW tweaks made at all? No class Balance ??
The renegade capstone (armor pen bonus) has been broken for like forever this does not help class balance when everyone else gets fixes and we dont ...also every high level CW power and their feats are never used for PVE or PvP
what does that say about power balance when there is no choice of encounter to use except for disintegrate
this is not balance either there are no good level 70 powers or feats to chose from on a cw with imprisonment arguably one the least useful powers in the game with 30 second cool down lol come on it does nothing at all
Also there are no single target lightning CW encounters which I feel are missing and could replace one of the less useful powers
there are at wills and aoe but no single target lightning cw powers for spellstorm CW
Content and Environment
Screenshot from M10 preview:
Neverwinter Census 2017
All posts pending disapproval by Cecilia
Currently on live the quests given by the boon buildings in the Stronghold go on a 20 hour cooldown when they are turned in. Could these daily quests please be changed to act like every other daily quest in the game and reset at with the server reset at 3am? There is no reason that i can see that having these being on a 20h cooldown is helpful to the players in any way (if there is I would love to hear it).
In the same way I am pretty sure the 10 heroic shards that can be earned for completing an epic Heroic Encounter in the Stronghold are also on a 20 hour long cooldown. This is incredibly annoying since i don't play at a set time each day and If i go through the effort of doing an Epic HE i want to be properly rewarded for doing it if i qualify.
We are searching for slave labor, will pay with food from our farm!
You'll never guess which rings when down in value...
If you arms and head are bigger than your legs, you need to stop skipping leg day.
TBH, I thought the salvage values were already pretty fair.
I think thats like the third time you've quit this week
So is this mostly referring to the gear that drops in the stronghold (like some of the offhands worth 8k)? Because nothing should really drop below 3k. As in consistently 2nd/3rd tier DPS in a meta with no need for control since mod 6 : \
Welcome to mod 10.
plz explain.
Dead🔪Now what would really be nice would be if we could enter those areas without a contract and as such be completely unable to get flagged for PvP.
Blood Magic (RELEASED) - NW-DUU2P7HCO
Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
Buried Under Blacklake (WIP) - NW-DEDV2PAEP
The Redcap Rebels (WIP) - NW-DO23AFHFH
My Foundry playthrough channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ruskaga/featured
Small T1: down from 3000 to 2000
Medium T1: down from 4000 to 2500
Large T1: down from 5000 to 3000
Small T2: up from 3000 to 4000
Medium T2: up from 4000 to 5000
Large T2: up from 5000 to 6000
+1,+2 rings: down from 3000 to 2000
+3,+4 rings: down from 6000 to 4000
Guild armor stays at 1000 per piece.
Seems to be a good idea to salvage all blue equipment and Underdark rings before
module 10 goes live - unless they'll do a double AD event after module 10 will have
gone live (how likely will this be?).
Without a doubt it's a good idea to keep all T2 equipment to salvage later.
But with that, might I suggest you look at perhaps buffing the T2 (and possibly T3, whatever that is) salvage rewards to match the challenge, instead of reducing the rewards of other content. With that, the easier dungeons are still a great source of rAD for lower iLevel players, and so it's these people who are going to be impacted the most. Which is unfortunate because it's the new players or the fresh level 70's that need the most help when it comes to ramping up the rAD earning machine.
I'll say this, I don't like the update, but in reality, I don't even know what the real impact is so it may end up minor, I'm not sure. Maybe it makes little to no difference in the end, still simply don't like it.
Epic Grey Wolf..1 piece of armor from chest..waste of time..
Epic Temple of Spiders..same
Epic Eragmire Crypts ..same
Worthless..for a dungeon renamed to "master" doesnt looks to me like that..
Please add on loot table artifact like it is in elol-vt-mc to this dungeons..a greater mark of potency..something to make them desirable for us to play them..