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Underdark Preview Patch Notes NW.55.20151123a.3
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Release Notes: NW.55.20151123a.3
Classes and Balance
Boons
Items and Economy
Strongholds
Alteration (Character Appearance)
Classes and Balance
Boons
- Burning Guidance: This boon now triggers once per second at its fastest.
- Hunter Ranger: Grasping Roots' duration now properly matches its tooltip.
- Oathbound Paladin: Prism can now affect a maximum of 5 targets.
- Oathbound Paladin: Sacred Weapon no longer triggers from Bond of Virtue heals.
- Oathbound Paladin: Shield of Faith can now affect a maximum of 10 targets.
- Grazilaxx now properly wields a standard Illithid staff rather than a Warlock pact blade.
- Balors that aren't wielding a whip will no longer perform whip attacks.
- Demogorgon: In Phase 1 and 3, Demogorgon has a new ranged attack: Insanity Gaze.
- This attack targets Demogorgon's main aggro target and places one stack of Insanity on that target.
- Demogorgon will not use this power if the main aggro target is in melee range.
- This attack targets Demogorgon's main aggro target and places one stack of Insanity on that target.
- The debuff caused by the Spore Tower now has tooltip text.
- A new Double Refinement event has been added for this weekend.
- Audio timing and voice-over quality has been improved and updated in various cutscenes.
- Gift of Tymora: The description of this event has received minor updates.
- Icewind Dale: The quests Needless Distractions and Safekeeping can no longer get into a state where they cannot be completed.
- Prophecy of Madness: New Abyssal Tears no longer respawn early if all party members are killed before killing the demons they summoned.
- Prophecy of Madness and Throne of the Dwarven Gods now have updated background art for their queue entries.
- Prophecy of Madness and Throne of the Dwarven Gods now state in their queue text that the extra rewards are earned via a Legendary Dragon Key rather than an Epic Dungeon Chest Key.
- Protector's Enclave: Many mounts from lockboxes old and new now show up on the mount vendor's podium.
- Sergeant Knox now directs players to Sergeant Belgold if they are eligible to begin the featured quest series, "The Dwarven King."
- The battle master in the Trade of Blades now has level 60-69 and level 70 queue options.
- The Dwarven King, Chapter 2: Players now respawn at a closer campfire when defeated by the final boss.
- The Dwarven King, Chapter 8: Enemies no longer appear to spawn in and immediately disappear after completing a certain stage of this quest.
- The following Heroic Encounters now have a 25 minute cooldown: Cornered by Crabs, Feeding the Fire, Slaad Invasion.
- Simril Festival event NPCs and decorations no longer show up in Protector's Enclave or the Stronghold while the event is inactive.
Items and Economy
Strongholds
- Explorer's Charts are now available for purchase from the Stronghold Marketplace.
- Explorer's Charts are now available at Stronghold Marketplace rank 6 and up and no longer require an Explorer's Guild rank 6 and up.
- Explorer's Charts now cost 3000 guild marks, up from 2000 guild marks.
- The Explorer's Guild utility boon "Gold Bonus" has been changed to "Treasure Hunter."
- In addition to existing bonuses earning gold, "Treasure Hunter" granted by an Explorer's Guild rank 6 and up now doubles the amount of items granted from explorer's charts.
- New items are available in the Trade Bar Store: Elemental Dowsing Rods. These rods increase the drop rate of Elemental Motes for a limited time, allowing players to boost their progress toward the Elemental Artifact Weapons.
- Drop rates of Motes of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water have been increased from Heroic Encounters in Spinward Rise, Reclamation Rock, Fiery Pit, and Drowned Shore respectively.
- Epic Demogorgon now properly drops Twisted Ichor from the final chest when players earn Silver or higher ranking. This chest is openable by Legendary Dragon Keys or Greater Demonic Keys.
- For those with the proper promo codes, the Death Slaad is now available from the Reward Claims Agent.
- Storm Front: This skirmish now awards 375 Astral Diamonds, up from 300.
- Stronghold Guild Mask items no longer remove facial hair.
- Stronghold Shield: This item is now held right-side-up by Paladins who wield it.
- Superior Elemental Longsword now properly shows up as a Weaponsmithing profession rare task.
- Valindra's Tower: This dungeon now awards 750 Astral Diamonds, down from 900.
- When receiving a bonus reward after reaching the daily bonus cap, such as Astral Diamonds from the end of dungeons, the bonus no longer collects in the inventory.
Alteration (Character Appearance)
- "Purchase" now allows the player to purchase a Change Appearance Token even if they have made no changes.
- Minor adjustments have been made to the text.
- When a player with a posted item on the Auction House deletes the character who posted it, outstanding bids are now refunded and the item is now removed.
- Sharandar now shows its proper completion percentage, rather than being locked at 67%.
- The requirements to unlock the Underdark campaign are now more instructive.
- Minor improvements have been made to the layout.
- Raid Chat now properly works for instances with multiple teams.
- Dusk Armor boots now correctly state that they're available from the Zen Market.
- Grazilaxx now appears in the Companions section of Collections.
- Captain Belgold's name no longer appears to intersect his body.
- Clicking the button to empty the Overflow Bag now properly empties all it can, even if the destination bag is full.
- Leaderboards for the Underdark module are now running and viewable.
- When the Demogorgon queue is filled, it no longer states that no more players will be sent to reinforce the team.
- In Throne of the Dwarven Gods, Prophecy of Madness, and the Demogorgon encounter, the scoreboard now allows the player to review the usual scoreboard values in addition to the team's overall performance.
- The Tend button for Stronghold production structures now properly updates when space frees up in the Coffer.
- The Purchase menu now defaults to selecting the best applicable coupon for a purchase, rather than defaulting to no coupon.
- NOTE: Not visible on NeverwinterPreview! - The Zen Market reorganization is now in effect! Check out the Zen Market's new categories; it should be intuitive to find the items and services you care about.
- Visual effects in the Demogorgon encounter have been optimized, which may result in performance improvements.
- Certain combinations of weapons with visual effects, slotted with Enhancements with visual effects, no longer cause client locks or crashes.
- German locale: Companion tooltips now properly display the companion's list of powers.
- Various improvements have been made to the Underdark text and voice-over audio for the French, German, Italian, and Russian locales.
- Various improvements have been made to text throughout the game for the French and German locales.
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I do wish that you'd go back to using BBCode on this forum.. it used to be so easy to copy and paste the patech notes to my guild's forum, but now I have to format them... took 15 minutes today!
"...I grab my wiener and charge!" - ironzerg79
Thanks, and thank you for the report streuner10000 - I know you're not the only person asking about this. The Dusk set bonus report is on our radar.
But no notes about the Air weapon bonus from Spinward not activating at all for SW sprint (and GWF sprint?)
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Glad you guys finally fixed the insane market advantage from explorers guild after millions of AD were made on it. Ah well. I'm just glad we can get our drow weapons now! Not sure a mod can be released and the main fight of it not reward loot, but hey!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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Great!! Including Lionsmane?? All though a cosmetic 'issue', was super annoying, jaja.
On the other hand, it's a bunch of good changes -a really good patch- will we soon see a fix for double and triple kills in GG?? When you fix the PvP status tab may be? Not the leaderboard, I mean, the player own records.
Thanks for the improvements people!
Also kind of dumb that the skirmishes don't let us use epic dungeon keys. It's not like the rewards actually justify using anything else.
At the current exchange rate a dragon key costs ~20665 AD and the rewards in the chest are worth usually around 4000-7000 AD.
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In Throne of the Dwarven Gods, Prophecy of Madness, and the Demogorgon encounter, the scoreboard now allows the player to review the usual scoreboard values in addition to the team's overall performance."
So the dps contest is back now additively? That disappointing and that setback btw that next step to rename the game to "GWFwinter".
Could you make sure that these two artifacts are on your radar?
- Mythic Sigil of the Hunter: when activating, the brambles damage enemies, but the arrows do not (the DoT effect)
- Mythic Aurora's Catalogue: upgrading it to mythic doesn't unlock any new potions (e.g. Distilled Superior Healing). There is little point to upgrading it as it stands.
Blood Magic (RELEASED) - NW-DUU2P7HCO
Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
Buried Under Blacklake (WIP) - NW-DEDV2PAEP
The Redcap Rebels (WIP) - NW-DO23AFHFH
My Foundry playthrough channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ruskaga/featured
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/comment/12757176
Sopi SW Youtube channel pvp brickabrack
I took my GWF to Drowned Shore on preview. Crabs and Merchant in Distress were up. I was only interested in looking at drop rates for not-Crabs, so I cleared the minor HE. Incidentally, Drowned Shore's Merchants in Distress *still* gives no HE reward at all (bug from possibly as long as this HE has been possible to complete), and may not be eligible for mote drops for that reason.
Anyway, new HEs didn't spawn until Crabs had timed out. Subterranean Surge and Aquatic Elf Abduction popped, so I did both those. Merchants came up again, then No Room at the Inn, Elves again, Merchant again, etc. There was never more than one minor HE active on the map at a time, like a new HE could only spawn as the prior one was cleared. I obtained one mote from Subterranean Surge, and none from the minor HEs (small sample though, less than ten, and many of them the Merchants). When Crabs came up again, I hadn't seen any of the medium-sized HEs come up since the initial Surge.
I visited the other adventure zones a few times to see if they had the same thing going on, and discovered that there are fixed patterns to HE spawns when a new instance is generated, since I was the only person nosing around tonight, apparently. Reclamation Rock spawns the same 5 HEs immediately. Firey Pit starts empty, gets a Rocks Fall after a minute or so, then Emberclaw after that's cleared. Not up for Emberclaw solo (died trying to get it under the geyser), but after hanging around on the map for a while, more Rocks Fall spawned while Emberclaw was still running*. Spinward Rise starts with Elemental Assault, then gets a different Elemental Assault, then fully populates the map with HEs. Eventually, each instance would look quite different based on different times of generation and what has and hasn't been cleared.
I'd expect Drowned Shore to behave more like Spinward or Reclamation Rock, where multiple HEs can be spawned concurrently, but from one Crab spawn to the next, they only came up sequentially. This seems a bit broken.
*I almost got to see if Feeding the Fire comes up immediately following Emberclaw, but the server went down.
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And yeah, the NeverwinterPreview shard is having a couple technical difficulties, it's going to be down for a bit while we investigate. At the moment, it doesn't appear to be related to this update.
Thanks again for the feedback, everyone!
We are searching for slave labor, will pay with food from our farm!
I did not have that issue before the new patch. Or is it related towards something else?
I am using the new Radeon Crimson Driver, maybe that could cause it?(although the game was running fine for the last week)