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The Heart of Fire Preview Patch Notes: NW.105.20181022a.12

terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
Highlights

Professions
Artisans
  • Artisan icons now show their faces instead of the profession's icon.
  • It is no longer possible to hire duplicate Rare Artificers via Artisan applications and the Artisan Recruitment purchase from the Zen Market.
Workshop and Quest Flow
  • A Clean Start: This quest no longer becomes stuck if the player leaves the workshop immediately before they return the quest.
  • Facilities Upgrade: This quest no longer becomes stuck if the player leaves the workshop immediately before they return the quest.
  • Lady Begum, Tress Greenrun, and Bolden Corsca no longer appear as duplicates in the workshop when a player declines to speak to them at the end of "The Grand Upgrade," then complete the quest "Second Chances."
  • The Grand Upgrade: During this quest, there is no longer a chance for Lady Begum not to appear, which would block progress.
  • The workshop retainer, Callum, no longer displays an incorrect dialog to male characters after completing the professions tutorial, which would prevent characters from exchanging deprecated materials and assets.
Crafted Items
  • Crafted capes and belts now have appropriate level requirements to equip.
  • Masterwork artifact weapons in "Stronghold Set II" no longer have higher than expected item levels at ranks below Legendary.
  • Masterwork artifact weapons "Brightsilver Holy Symbol" and "Brightsilver Longbow" have had their item levels increased to the expected values at Legendary rank.
  • The following items no longer have an equip level above 70, which prevented them from being equipped: "Manticore Raid Armlets," "Feathered Raid Isongos," "Manticore Assault Gloves +1," and "Manticore Assault Armlets +1."
Exchange
  • The following deprecated materials can now be exchanged for credit in the Material Exchange:
    • Arcane Crystal
    • Arcane Shard
    • Brightleaf
    • Dark Clover
    • Desert Rose
    • Eldritch Crystal
    • Fundamental Earth, Fire, Ice, and Lightning
    • Symbol of Moradin, Symbol of Tempus
    • Witchwood
    • Mark of Gratitude
  • Quicksilver has been removed from the South Sea Trading Company commission list, and may once again be sold to normal vendors.
  • The specific alchemy items that may be exchanged as commission at the South Sea Trading Company have been adjusted.
    • The recipe level of alchemy items that may be donated at a given level range more closely match that of other professions.
    • Exchange values for alchemy recipes now consistently grant the same credit values at each level bracket. (Note: Alchemy recipes which create more than 1 item have exchange rates that reflect this.)
    • There are no longer alchemy recipes which are exchangeable at multiple level brackets.


Release Notes

Content and Environment
Acquisitions Incorporated
  • Ralvortix is now consistently named Ralvortix.
  • Retrieval Operation and Convention Infiltration no longer tend to get stuck if party members or nearby players interact with ladders on certain quest steps.
General
  • Illusionist's Gambit can once again be chosen for private queues.

Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance
  • All characters created before The Heart of Fire released now have a free retraining available in the Powers UI.
  • Devoted Cleric: Terrifying Insight now gives a 30% damage increase to the cleric at maximum rank, and gives a 10% damage increase to allies when the cleric damages an enemy.

Items and Economy
General
  • A version of Tidespan Potion has been restored, and no longer creates a persistent hole in the inventory.
  • Black Ice equipment upgrades at the Black Ice Forge in Caer-Konig no longer require deprecated resources.
  • "Cleansed Black Ice Chunk" can now properly be made at the Black Ice Forge.
  • Daily Astral Diamond rewards for Random Queues are once again given once per account, rather than once per character.
  • Intern Reclaim Pack can once again be claimed, and can properly only be claimed once per account.
    • Known issue: If a player redeems a promotion that makes this pack available, the pack may not show up until the player logs out and back in.
  • It is now possible to donate High-Quality materials to the Stronghold for Professions Supplies credit. However, High-Quality materials don't provide a bonus for this donation.
  • There is no longer a weird, icon-less entry for Astral Diamonds in the Stronghold chest.

User Interface
Auction House
  • Professions materials now properly appear under the Professions category of the Auction House.
  • Sorting by Buyout Price and Bid Price now works properly.

Art, Animation, Effects, and Audio
Visual Effects
  • The artifact, Bruenor's Helm, now properly plays its visual effects when used.




Remaining Known Issues
  • Acquisitions Incorporated repeatable quests are only repeatable weekly, preventing the player from reaching the campaign currency cap on the first week.
  • After opening any Artisan pack, no more reward windows will appear in the UI. This includes lockbox rewards, invocation rewards, boxes, etc.
    • This will persist until you close and reopen the game.
    • This is also the cause of the "Open the Profession Starter Kit" tutorial tip staying active.
  • Certain non-quest-critical NPCs can sometimes be missing from the Workshop.
  • Cotton Petasos don't hide a character's hair, leading to egregious clipping.
  • Crafted capes and mantles currently do not change the character's appearance when equipped.
  • Crashing while accepting your first Artisans can cause the Professions tutorial to become stuck.
  • Neverdeath Graveyard: The quest Doomguide's Duty cannot be completed.
  • Under certain circumstances, players can end up in other players' Workshops.

Comments

  • morbidredstarmorbidredstar Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    The game is broken. I have 11 quests that I cant finish because of what ever someone did to the reward box loot at the end of quests in separate instances. What about fixing that huh?
  • astroraiken#3327 astroraiken Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    I got a bug in Workshop quest. I had 7 Artisans before I started the tutorial from free chest, and the quest says Accept Applications 1/1. So I went to masters desk, and im at max artisans. So I tried to dismiss some and it says complete tutorial first to unlock feature, so I cant complete the first part of tutorial. I try to accept artisan but it says Complete tutorial to unlock feature. I cant do this because I am at max artisans and I cant dismiss of accept any. Is it ok if someone can fix this bug for me?
    Thanks everyone, @bob#4333 [Real Makos] :) Also, cant abandon quest. I tried shutting game, and logging back in multiple times, nothing changed.
    Real Makos, Member of Greycloaks Guild.

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  • dragonsbloodsdragonsbloods Member Posts: 124 Arc User

    The game is broken. I have 11 quests that I cant finish because of what ever someone did to the reward box loot at the end of quests in separate instances. What about fixing that huh?

    its even more expansive than just 'quests', dragon campaign cannot be progressed due to ghost stories bugged, also arcane reservoir weekly chest was bugged for my new character, but existing characters could run the weekly to open the chest and collect AD. Frustrating, is putting it mildly ... (failed attempt at sarcasm) but at least this forum allows us to share this information ... hoping next week brings more patching
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