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Maze Engine Preview Patch Notes NW.60.20160410a.4

terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
edited April 2016 in NeverwinterPreview - Announcements/Release Notes
Highlights


Skill Nodes Update
Refinement items are being removed from Skill Nodes, and Insignias can drop more often as a result. Bound, uncommon Insignias will also now drop from most enemies in-game. For more information, see the news post, Upcoming Changes to Skill Nodes.

Events
  • A Double Refinement weekend is now scheduled to start at the end of maintenance, and end on Monday, May 2, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC -7).
  • A Double Seals weekend on May 19 has been swapped with the Double Guild Marks weekend on May 26.

Release Notes


Content and Environment
Elemental Evil Campaign
  • If players had managed to complete quests later in an Elemental Evil zone without completing the earlier quests, the Campaign now properly catches up.
Strongholds
  • Items can once again properly be purchased when they require Stronghold structures of a certain rank. (Was hotfixed 2016-04-21)
  • The Jubilee Trader has been disabled. Any remaining resources on this trader will no longer be claimable.
  • The North Terrace Vendor is still active, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. The Waterdhavian Trader now properly allows Salvage actions nearby.
General
  • Crypts of Kelemvor: Enemies no longer unexpectedly teleport or disappear in this instance.
  • Dancing on the Ceiling: A typo has been fixed in this achievement's description.
  • Fiery Pit: A terrain transition in the northeast corner has been smoothed out.
  • Mantol-Derith: Players no longer stand a chance of spawning under the docks when leaving certain quests.
  • Pirate King's Retreat: A ghostly door in this dungeon has been made corporeal again.
  • Pirate King's Retreat: The achievement is once again properly granted when completing the dungeon.
  • Reclamation Rock: Some ghostly doors in this zone have been made corporeal.
  • Scoundrel's Retreat: Captain Kayliss can no longer be knocked off ledges in the boss arena.
  • Stronghold Siege Tutorial: Players can now consistently turn in Dragon Hoard Gold.

Items and Economy
General
  • The Antiquities Scholar now removes Enchantments and Jewels from any Lostmauth gear exchanged, free of charge. These Enchantments and Jewels are returned to the player's inventory.
Skill Node Update
  • Bound Uncommon (Green) Insignias now have a slight chance of dropping from most enemies in the world.
  • Most enemies in the world now have an increased chance to drop an Enchantment or Runestone. However, the relative chances of dropping one or the other have been changed, with a lower chance of dropping Runestones, and an increased chance of dropping Enchantments.
  • Skill Nodes no longer drop any Refinement items. Instead, they now have an increased chance to drop Insignias.

User Interface
Queues
  • While a queue group is waiting to be matched with other players, individual players cannot leave the queue group.

Performance and Stability
  • A client crash has been addressed in the visual effects / particle system.
  • Server-side stability for the queue system has been improved.
  • Stability for certain cases in the User Interface has been improved.

Localization
Voice-over
  • Much of the localized voice-over audio for the refreshed Elemental Evil content has been updated.


EDIT: Preview shard now updated.
Clarified "Leave Queue Group" change.
Post edited by terramak on

Comments

  • lazaroth666lazaroth666 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,332 Arc User
    I can't discard 'High Forest Bear' mount, please fix that. :tired_face:
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  • alexithymia#0864 alexithymia
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    WTF? are you serious? not in calander ? and just pop an rp in?
  • soullesslordssoullesslords Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 54 Arc User
    ** Players may no longer leave a Queue Group while actively participating in queued content.**

    please say this is only for open queue groups, because we run as a guild mostly private and some times people have emergencies and need to be substituted real world life does get in the way and forcing the group to wipe and start over is wrong please leave this in for private runs as this actually help game play not hurt it.
  • almondumalmondum Member Posts: 313 Arc User
    Finally double RP. I'm so glad I did not used my aquamarines and higher level stuff to level up my belt and neck ^^

    Thank you!
  • terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2016
    soullesslords said:

    ** Players may no longer leave a Queue Group while actively participating in queued content.**

    please say this is only for open queue groups, because we run as a guild mostly private and some times people have emergencies and need to be substituted real world life does get in the way and forcing the group to wipe and start over is wrong please leave this in for private runs as this actually help game play not hurt it.

    Thanks! I'd asked about this change when I saw it, but missed updating the note when I posted it.

    This specifically refers to the "Leave Queue Group" button in the Queue UI. Leaving the queue group normally should work the same.

    I've updated the patch notes above. Feel free to let me know if the in-game functionality doesn't match your expectations from the updated notes.
  • sorce#8115 sorce
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    terramak said:

    soullesslords said:

    ** Players may no longer leave a Queue Group while actively participating in queued content.**

    please say this is only for open queue groups, because we run as a guild mostly private and some times people have emergencies and need to be substituted real world life does get in the way and forcing the group to wipe and start over is wrong please leave this in for private runs as this actually help game play not hurt it.

    Thanks! I'd asked about this change when I saw it, but missed updating the note when I posted it.

    This specifically refers to the "Leave Queue Group" button in the Queue UI. Leaving the queue group normally should work the same.

    I've updated the patch notes above. Feel free to let me know if the in-game functionality doesn't match your expectations from the updated notes.
    Wait, why is this changed needed? If I'm in a queue group and something comes up, I'd want to be able to leave so my guild can back fill the spot. If I cant leave the queue group, can they kick me? How do they manage to back fill the spot?

    This really sounds like someone making a change here that is not actually required.
  • terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
    confusedpoof said:

    If I'm in a queue group and something comes up, I'd want to be able to leave so my guild can back fill the spot.

    Cleared this up a bit further with testing and the person involved in making the change. The actual for reals patch note here is:
    While a queue group is waiting to be matched with other players, individual players cannot leave the queue group.

    Making the change above. Sorry for the confusion.
  • sorce#8115 sorce
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    Thanks Terramak! We'll blame the confusion on @strumslinger - his fault for being away :tongue:
  • foxxy#4211 foxxy
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         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 563 Arc User
    Can we please be able to discard mounts we dont want...remove them from store or stable
  • terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
    Re: mounts that can't be discarded: We definitely hear you on this one. Thanks for the feedback.
  • scathiasscathias Member Posts: 1,174 Arc User
    terramak said:

    Re: mounts that can't be discarded: We definitely hear you on this one. Thanks for the feedback.

    Make sure you add a way for your Customer Service to delete mounts from the stable as well. Currently they say they can't give me a refund on a zen store mount (after the Warlord's Inspiration change completely negated any possible reason i would want this mount) because i have it claimed on 5 characters and it is "impossible" for them to remove from my stable.
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  • scathiasscathias Member Posts: 1,174 Arc User
    @terramak, I just checked out my CW, she had completed spinward rise back at the start of mod 6 and had obtained the elemental fire main hand. However, she still has nothing completed in the EE campaign for spinward rise.
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  • ftrydaftryda Member Posts: 187 Arc User
    @terramak can you tell us when we will see some notes on the next round of class power changes?
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