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Elemental Evil Preview Patch Notes NW.45.20150128ba.3

panderuspanderus Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,007 Cryptic Developer
edited February 2015 in NeverwinterPreview - Announcements/Release Notes
New Features
Oathbound Paladin
The Oathbound Paladin is now ready for playtesting!

Please send your feedback here

Campaign Reworks
The campaigns have been updated to scale to your current level to provide an alternate leveling path for those who have not completed their campaign tasks or just want to go back and get items they may have missed! They still require at least level 60 to start.

Rewards are not yet finalized.

Patch Notes
Classes and Balance
  • Devoted Cleric
    • Gift of Haste: Resolved an issue wherein the Devoted Cleric feat "Gift of Haste" was granting significantly more AP than intended.
  • Great Weapon Fighter
    • Countless Scars: Fixed stacking issue with the power. Should stack up to 15 times on the highest rank now.
  • Guardian Fighter
    • Class Feature: Bloodied Survival: Name changed and effect updated.
    • Crushing Shield fixed to work properly with Shield Slam and Tide of Iron.
    • Jagged Blades: Rank ups should improve feat's damage now.
    • Rousing Speech: This feat now properly applies to allies.
  • Hunter Rangers now have thier new feats!
  • Scourge Warlock
    • All-Consuming Curse: Description text fixed.
    • Dark Revelry text no longer pops up for every single Life Steal event.
    • Dark Revelry: This feat now gives the proper Run Speed bonus.
    • Helltouched: This effect can be applied properly to enemies.
  • Trickster Rogue
    • Back Alley Tactics: The damage buff now diminishes as you gain AP, instead of going away completely.
    • Final Moments: Resolved an issues with its duration and magnitude. Also added a buff icon when the power is activated.
    • Grinning Steel: Tooltip text corrected.

Content and Environment
  • Drowned Shore: Fixed various quest bugs such as more clear quest objectives, golden paths and interact cooldowns.

Items and Economy
  • Companion Fortification Kit: This item has been renamed to to Dated Companion Fortification Kit.
  • Switched the names of Greater and Major Injury kits to follow D&D nomenclature. "minor->lesser->normal->greater->major"
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  • effectensteineffectenstein Member Posts: 1,031 Bounty Hunter
    edited February 2015
    Hiddend Daggers on a GWF ? seriously? is this for serious? so instead of takin and fixin what you have you are adding hidden dragger? i cannot even express right now.. do you guys want us to enjoy the animations so much ? :-ss
    so why hidden daggers and not make a use of the powers we already have?
  • geeq5geeq5 Member Posts: 223 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Is there a problem with preview? I have tried about 6 times now to log in and I always crash at the loading screen.

    And I cant test things.
    Anyone else experiencing this?
  • zacazuzacazu Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,934 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    ok, iam still in lvl 60. i dont know if this new dagger is a bug, or if have some bug in general damage, but... I LOVE IT!!!!!

    is so cool and exotic!!!
  • foxxy#4211 foxxy
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    edited February 2015
    Hi, for some reason my gear "accursed diabolist" shows different stats from the normal T2 epic gear, even with the pieces of AD set showed in collection are higher than my current stats.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    So campaign scaling?

    I assume this means that means a player can enter Icewind Dale or Well of Dragons at level 65 or 70 and not face stomp the area, or easily solo the epic HE's? Does this include the dungeons as well like Malabogs, Kessel's Retreat, Lair of Lostmauth, and Tiamat?

    If so is the scaling forgiving enough that there is no perception that people under level 70 arn't bringing down the team? So to speak
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  • foxxy#4211 foxxy
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    edited February 2015
    yes it is dyed. whats weird is that stats showed for accursed diabolist set in collection are higher than my accursed set lol. and not only with that the sets in my cleric are weird too.
  • arpemarpem Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    New Features
    Oathbound Paladin
    The Oathbound Paladin is now ready for playtesting!

    Are you sure about this, just got done updating my Preview Server files and unable to select the Paladin as a playable class. Icon still says "Coming Soon"???
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    arpem wrote: »
    Are you sure about this, just got done updating my Preview Server files and unable to select the Paladin as a playable class. Icon still says "Coming Soon"???

    Restart the client, for some reason you have to restart the client and try again before it lets you. It's odd.
  • arpemarpem Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    charononus wrote: »
    Restart the client, for some reason you have to restart the client and try again before it lets you. It's odd.

    Weird, but thanks, that worked. Paladin now selectable.

    Wonder what the "Coming Soon" class is going to be?
  • dragonikingdragoniking Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 18
    edited February 2015
    About creating Palladin. When i delete previous character for a free slot to make Palladin, ill choose new, but i cant find new proffesion Palladin, so i relog and it appears then i create the paladyn to view start feats and others so then i delete them and again when i tried to create new character palladin i didint saw this proffesion. It happens when you delete character and try to meak new one. Only helps relog to see the new class. In relog i mean relog from client cos relog in game (log out) does not work.
  • cibilscibils Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Why "New Character" option doesnt appear for me?

    I have one free char slot in Live server.
  • elvenaarelvenaar Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 81 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    So I patch my preview to the latest patch and try to log in, but after I select my character the game crashes on the loadscreen, never loads me in... How can I test then?

    EDIT: Still impossible to login, keeps crashing when I want to load my character into the game. Don't know if it has to do w/ the fact that the character was in Well of Dragons when I copid it over or what, but it still crashes when I get about half loaded up. Oh and it's a fresh character copy which works on live server, well as much as it can, it will crash over there too after a few hours, but still not immediately.
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  • katbozejziemikatbozejziemi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    Campaign Reworks
    The campaigns have been updated to scale to your current level to provide an alternate leveling path for those who have not completed their campaign tasks or just want to go back and get items they may have missed!

    Rewards are not yet finalized.
    If this is supposed to be included in this update, then it's not working at all. I don't have any of the quests that start the campaigns available, and the campaign windows say "You must be level 60".
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    cibils wrote: »
    Why "New Character" option doesnt appear for me?

    I have one free char slot in Live server.

    You don't have a free slot on Preview. Preview insists you have fewer than two character slots used in order to permit you to make a new one.
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  • mantera47mantera47 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 70 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    cibils wrote: »
    Why "New Character" option doesnt appear for me?

    I have one free char slot in Live server.

    You need to have < 2 characters on the Preview server for the New Character to be available.
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    elvenaar wrote: »
    So I patch my preview to the latest patch and try to log in, but after I select my character the game crashes on the loadscreen, never loads me in... How can I test then?

    EDIT: Still impossible to login, keeps crashing when I want to load my character into the game. Don't know if it has to do w/ the fact that the character was in Well of Dragons when I copid it over or what, but it still crashes when I get about half loaded up. Oh and it's a fresh character copy which works on live server, well as much as it can, it will crash over there too after a few hours, but still not immediately.

    Move your character to PE and import again. I assume the old campaign areas are largely turned off, so it crashes when it tries to load somewhere inaccessible.
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  • mantera47mantera47 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 70 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    New Features

    Campaign Reworks
    The campaigns have been updated to scale to your current level to provide an alternate leveling path for those who have not completed their campaign tasks or just want to go back and get items they may have missed!

    Rewards are not yet finalized.

    Please clarify what this means regarding the level scaling. Does this mean scaling from level 1 or a pre-60? or only between levels 60-70 for all of the campaigns that are currently level 60 only?
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    mantera47 wrote: »
    Please clarify what this means regarding the level scaling. Does this mean scaling from level 1 or a pre-60? or only between levels 60-70 for all of the campaigns that are currently level 60 only?

    The parts of ToD that were not locked out before the most recent outage actually scaled you down in level to match the area (fighting at level 40ish in Icespire, for example).
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  • khimera906khimera906 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 898 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    So, if we can't delete characters, how are we supposed to make a Paladin?
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  • panderuspanderus Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,007 Cryptic Developer
    edited February 2015
    katbozejziemi wrote: »
    If this is supposed to be included in this update, then it's not working at all. I don't have any of the quests that start the campaigns available, and the campaign windows say "You must be level 60".

    My mistake, they still require level 60, but can be used for leveling beyond that. I have updated the patch notes.
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    My mistake, they still require level 60, but can be used for leveling beyond that. I have updated the patch notes.

    Tyranny of Dragons did appear to be a special case though, since it starts pre-60. From what I was able to see, player characters are scaled down to a level appropriate to each ToD area, and the lair component of Common Cause may only be available to level-capped characters again (level 71 foes therein).
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  • yperkeimenosyperkeimenos Member Posts: 334 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    For some reason the game crashes while loading,after selecting my character. Before crashing it briefly hangs in the loading screen, while the music plays in a loop. After that Cryptics Crash report comes up and i slelect send.Please fix it.


    Update : The game crashes even after selecting "Safe Mode" from launcher options. Also for some reason i managed to load the game normanly when i selected an old character i had transfered on preview a few months ago but the game crashed while lowering the video settings. If i select a newly transfered character the game crashes anyway.
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  • katbozejziemikatbozejziemi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    My mistake, they still require level 60, but can be used for leveling beyond that. I have updated the patch notes.
    Oh. That is quite a bit more underwhelming than what I expected.
  • blackjackwidowblackjackwidow Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 424 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    panderus wrote: »
    New Features

    Items and Economy
    • Companion Fortification Kit: This item has been renamed to to Dated Companion Fortification Kit.

    Does this mean that the items in the Companion Fortification Kit will not work to upgrade companions to legendary (or whatever the new highest level of companion is called)?

    "Dated" usually means "old" - so does that mean you can't use these to upgrade "old" companions beyond their current limits? :confused:
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    On live, I have two kinds of companion kits in my shared stash, same name but don't stack. The older kit can drop an assortment of rank 6 runes, but the one I got from a gamble pack in the most recent siege didn't have that in the random loot when I was comparing them to see why they wouldn't stack. I'd have to look at the tooltips again, but I'd just assume that going forward they're taking into account that blue runes are less than useful.
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  • karakla1karakla1 Member Posts: 1,355 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Please Panderus give us more buyable space for passive companions
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  • unknown6472unknown6472 Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    maybe I will get flamed for this but the "foes" or what ever you want to term them are pretty weak in the drowned shore.

    I am level 60 but by no means am I top tier at current live but I am almost 1 shotting everything with atwills and they hit like limp noodles.

    not that I am complaining( much) but this is a new 60+ zone/ or at the least I am sure I read it say these zones should scale to our level that is a bit disappointing that I can walk in and not have to worry about actually doing anything to survive or kill.

    not saying to increase it 100 fold or anything but that needs some work.

    just some feed back is all
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Go fight the level 63 foes (crabs on the beach) and you might find you feel differently. Also, once you do hit level 61, you'll feel weaker due to the change in stat curves, which are still being developed.
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  • leni2991leni2991 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2015
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    cool!
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