Dragonslayer Patch Notes: NW.137.20220425a.5

terramak

These patch notes are relative to NW.137.20220425a.3, released onto the public test shards 2022-05-05. The full list of changes for this module is not yet compiled.


Dragon Hunts
Combat

• Dragons no longer Daze players for as long or as frequently.
  • The circumstances under which dragons use their dazing attacks have been tweaked.
    
  • The daze duration has been lowered to 6 seconds.
    
  • The daze now only affects player powers.
    
  • Young dragons no longer use dazing attacks.
• Smerdiuk now deals more damage in the initial hunt.

Modifiers

• Hunt modifiers are now sorted primarily by difficulty, then by name.

Rewards

• Dragon’s Ridges and Dragon’s Scales should now enter the inventory automatically upon defeating a dragon.
  
• Dragon’s Ridges and Dragon’s Scales should no longer prompt a need or greed roll.
  
• Hunts can no longer incorrectly drop Rank 6 Enchanting Stones (as they no longer function).
  
• Several other rewards no longer incorrectly drop.

Strands

• Each Strand type now has a cap of 20,000.
  
• Elemental Strands from Dragons now drop directly into character inventories.
  
• Some high-end items now cost 1,250 Strands, up from 1,000.
  
• The following content now drops Strands:
  • Lair of the Mad Mage
    
  • Castle Never
    
  • Spellplague Caverns
    
  • Throne of the Dwarven Gods
    
  • Manycoins Bank Heist
    
  • Merchant Prince's Folly
    
  • Prophecy of Madness
• The Strand Box now properly gives Strands.

Dragonslayer Campaign

• Dragon parts are now properly capped at 1000.

Combat and Powers
Companions

• The Icosahedron Ioun Stone companion now grants up to 7.5% Movement Speed at Mythic Quality, instead of the now-obsolete XP bonus.

Enemies and Encounters
Rise of Tiamat

• The 10-player Trial, Rise of Tiamat, is now available for public testing. It requires an item level of 30,000.
  
• The 10-player Trial, Rise of Tiamat (Master), is now available for public testing. It requires an item level of 70,000.
  
• There have been a couple tweaks to readability of powers and a few bug fixes since closed alpha testing on this Trial.

Items and Economy
Reward Update

• The new dyes mentioned in Lassor's Systems Stuff stream can now drop from end-of-queue chests.

General

• Eternal Armor - Head, Body, Arms, and Feet should now provide the correct items to Barbarians, Clerics, Rangers, and Wizards.

mparcher

Wait, please. Can you give the Icosahedron another bonus? The proposed 7.5% movement speed in utility is the exact bonus the Archmage's Apprentice give. 2 suggestions.

1. If keeping at 7.5% movement speed allow the Ico to be slotted in Defense/Utility

2. We have 7.5% for nearly every stat except accuracy. 7.5% accuracy would give us more flexibility in build making.