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Highlights
New Trial: Cradle of the Death God
Explore the hidden depths of a previously-hidden extension of the Tomb of the Nine Gods. This ten-player Trial pits players against a fearsome creation of Acererak, and if the adventurers succeed, they could get rid of the death curse once and for all.
Update: It's open! Check out the Preview tab in the Wondrous Bazaar (Diamond icon on the top bar of the HUD) for an item that grants access: Bane of the Jungle.
Known Issues
Release Notes
Content and Environment
Omu
Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance
Items and Economy
Masterwork Profession Recipe Changes
User Interface
Change Instance
New Trial: Cradle of the Death God
Explore the hidden depths of a previously-hidden extension of the Tomb of the Nine Gods. This ten-player Trial pits players against a fearsome creation of Acererak, and if the adventurers succeed, they could get rid of the death curse once and for all.
Update: It's open! Check out the Preview tab in the Wondrous Bazaar (Diamond icon on the top bar of the HUD) for an item that grants access: Bane of the Jungle.
Known Issues
- If a player skips the cutscene immediately after the "Gather Your Party" circle at the start of the instance in the first few seconds, they will be killed immediately after exiting the cutscene.
- This problem can be avoided by letting the cutscene play for at least a few seconds.
- If all players skip the cutscene too quickly and are killed, when respawning at the entrance, the "Gather Your Party" circle will be broken. (This will not happen if at least one player allows a few seconds to pass before skipping, or watches the cutscene to completion.)
- If this happens, please exit and re-queue for the trial to resolve the issue.
Release Notes
Content and Environment
Omu
- Necromancers in Heroic Encounters no longer teleport nearly as frequently.
- Campaign Key tasks now properly have a cooldown of 1,200 minutes instead of 12,000.
Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance
- Control Wizard: Storm Spell's Crit chance should now match the player's on certain powers, such as Icy Terrain.
- The following adjustments and bugfixes have been made to the companion "Savage Allosaur."
- The allosaur will now use overbite, its primary melee attack, significantly more often.
- The hitbox on overbite has been increased such that this attack will land significantly more often.
- The allosaur's AI has been adjusted such that it will move into an ideal position more quickly and frequently.
- The allosaur will no longer leap away from its target as frequently.
- The allosaur will no longer use tailwhip and overbite when no targets are within range.
- The allosaur's turn rate has been increased and it is now capable of backing up.
- The allosaur will now use overbite, its primary melee attack, significantly more often.
- The Tyrant's breath attack has changed to properly deal necrotic damage over time, rather than lightning.
- The Tyrant's breath attack no longer paralyzes players.
- The Tyrant's breath attack now properly has readable output in the combat log.
- The Tyrant no longer has a chance to menacingly walk back and forth while players beat it up.
Items and Economy
Masterwork Profession Recipe Changes
- The following adjustments have been made to the recipe for the Brightsilver Symbol:
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- The number of brightsilver ingots needed has been reduced from 5 to 3.
- The number of rubellites needed has been increased from 1 to 3.
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- The following adjustments have been made to the recipe for Fartouched Pact Blade:
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- The amount of manticore felt needed has been reduced from 2 to 1.
- The requirement of 2 titansteel ingots has been adjusted to 2 brightsilver ingots.
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- The following adjustments have been made to the recipe for Fartouched Orb:
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- The amount of scintillant glass needed has been reduced from 4 to 2.
- The amount of fartouched residuum needed has been reduced from 5 to 1.
- In accordance with these changes, the number and type of items returned in the case of a failure for these recipes has been adjusted.
- A number of masterwork recipes in volumes IV and V have had their recipes significantly altered, as the adjustments are too extensive for patch notes and these recipes have only ever been released on preview, please see individual recipes for details.
- A new item "Living Varnish" has been added to alchemy's masterwork recipe book volume IV.
- The relative chance of obtaining a Tear of Ubtao, Mote of Soulfire and Lichstone from bosses in Tomb of the Nine Gods has been adjusted. (The overall chance of obtaining any has gone up, and the chance of obtaining a mote of soulfire has gone down relative to the other two materials due to the number of recipes that use each of the three items.)
- A number of recipes that had placeholder icons have been updated with final icons.
- A new tab has been added to the Wondrous Bazaar when on preview: "Masterwork III," this new tab contains a variety of materials to be used in the testing of new masterwork recipes.
- Experience Boost tooltips have been adjusted to match their new values.
- For testing, Fashion Bag slots are now available for 0 Zen in the Zen Market on Preview.
- An error in the tooltip of Musshussu's Talon has been addressed. (It no longer states that it can be used for a 1-star hunt.)
User Interface
Change Instance
- The Change Instance timer no longer displays an incorrect wait time.
- Protected items can no longer be consumed as part of a Transmute action.
- Slotting a Protected item into another item now automatically flags that other item as Protected.
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Still no info if the weapon damage part from shatter strike capstone proc from control powers only or from all powers( still proc from all powers).
Cordon of Arrow is still broken.
Live Cordon of Arrow:
- Encounter is cast, there is 0.5s or so delay before the cordon hits the ground.
- Once the cordon drops, mobs inside get damaged and pulled to the middle
at the same exact moment.
- This version is effective and reliable.
Preview Cordon of Arrow:
- Encounter is cast, the cordon hits the ground instantaneously.
- Only one mob inside the cordon is damaged and pulled to the middle.
- Sometimes it hits two but no control effect.
- Sometimes nothing happens and there's a 0.5s-1.0s before the cordon activates
even though the mob is clearly inside the circle.
- This version is unpredictable and ineffective for dps/control. There is no point in slotting this.
If one is to ever use this Preview version CoA, might as well use Thorn Ward or Split the Sky instead.
Both are superior in every aspect of dps or dps/cc.
The original point of CoA is burst damage + crowd control. The current preview version does neither.
Tia
It is a bit disappointing to see an entirely new tier of weapons introduced - 5 new sets and not a single one of them is suitable for us, or gives us a reason to upgrade from the MW II set.
thanks
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My main character has 5 loadout slots on live, but now only 3 of those work - two of them (AC and Group-DPS) cannot be selected. I just copied her over again (as Tanya 40) and there all 5 loadouts work as intended.
This seems to have happened after I started setting up different sets of mounts and companions for the different loadout - for example the Group-DPS loadout is supposed to use a Sapphire Bulette with the Assassin's bonus, while the Solo loadout uses the Siegebreaker Griffon with the Wanderer's Fortune bonus.
Now those loadouts are just broken.
When I unslotted all insignia on the loadout that is still working, I was able to load the broken loadout again.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Thanks.
Interestingly enough, the third key in the ToD campaign, the Arcane Dragon Key seems to be following the new 10s to make 20 hour cooldown timers.
It doesn't make that much of a difference since you're still waiting 20 hours between keys, just weird how some are still the old way. The other thing I noticed is the keys auto-collect once the task is completed - is this intended?