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Shroud of Souls Preview Patch Notes: NW.80.20170417a.7 (Updated 5/4)
terramak
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Changes from NW.80.20170417a.5 to NW.80.20170417a.7 are in light blue text.
Release Notes
Content and Environment
River District
Combat and Powers
Insignias
Items and Economy
Masterwork Professions
User Interface
Loadouts
Performance and Stability
General
On Our Radar
We're continuing to look into the following issues:
Release Notes
Content and Environment
River District
- Another potential cause of extended dig site lockouts has been addressed, though there still may be lingering issues.
- Fewer enemies should spawn per wave during the Stronghold Marauders event.
Combat and Powers
Insignias
- In order to alleviate server performance issues, as well as to adhere more closely to the standard behavior of proc effects in Neverwinter, the following insignia bonuses will no longer be able to proc off of themselves and will instead only proc off of at-will, encounter and daily powers:
- Barbarian's Delight
- Barbarian's Revelry
- Magistrate's Restraint
- Magistrate's Patience
- Vampire's Thirst
- Vampire's Craving
- Barbarian's Delight
- The tooltip for the insignia bonuses "Magistrate's Restraint" and "Magistrate's Patience" no longer incorrectly implies that the effect stacks.
- The tooltip previously erroneously stated "your target will gain a stack of Magistrate's Consideration." It has been updated to indicate "your target will gain Magistrate's Consideration."
- The functionality remains unchanged. When the effect is reapplied before it has ended, the duration will be refreshed.
- The tooltip previously erroneously stated "your target will gain a stack of Magistrate's Consideration." It has been updated to indicate "your target will gain Magistrate's Consideration."
Items and Economy
Masterwork Professions
- The new Masterwork Rings no longer require Titansteel Rings, and now require 4 of their highest component, reduced from 5.
- Polished Dragon Turtle Scale: This item's description now properly states that it is crafted by a Master Mailsmith, rather than a Platesmith.
- The Epic quality of the new Masterwork Artifact Weapons now properly retain their Weapon Enhancement slot.
- Titansteel Shield and Kite Shield now have correct icons for their profession tasks.
- Artificing: The task to create oak lumber no longer requires oak lumber, which requires oak lumber, which…
- This task now properly requires oak
lumberlogs.
- This task now properly requires oak
- Weaponsmithing: Steel Battleaxe Display: This task now requires two Oak Lumber instead of Lacquered Ebony.
- General: Various new tasks, introduced in Shroud of Souls, have been adjusted so they appear properly in order of difficulty (in relation to other tasks at the same rank).
User Interface
Loadouts
- A Loadout with a free available respec can now be copied into a different slot. (The respec remains in its original slot.)
- When copying a Loadout onto a slot with a free available respec, the respec remains available in that slot.
Performance and Stability
General
- A high-frequency crash has been addressed.
- An issue with terrain textures has been addressed. As a result, large maps like Strongholds and the Storm King's Thunder trio should have improved framerate on most machines.
- One potential cause of "Device Removed" crashes has been addressed.
On Our Radar
We're continuing to look into the following issues:
- Stronghold Marauders: Latency issues have been reported while engaging in this content.
- We are investigating ways to reduce this latency, and have some minor improvements in the works, but are still investigating whether we can make more significant improvements.
- Update 2017-05-04: The reduction in enemy spawns and changes to insignia powers should help a little, but we'll keep an eye on server performance.
- We are investigating ways to reduce this latency, and have some minor improvements in the works, but are still investigating whether we can make more significant improvements.
- "Device Removed" and "Out of Memory" crashes have been reported.
- These are being investigated.
- Update 2017-05-04: A fix to at least one cause of these has been made. We'll keep an eye on crash counts.
- These are being investigated.
- Explorer's Boon: Inconsistent behavior has been reported.
- This is still under investigation.
- Profession Vendors: Profession items cannot be purchased in bulk.
- A fix for this is in internal testing.
- Update 2017-05-04: This should be resolved with the .7 build.
- A fix for this is in internal testing.
- Chat and Character History: Certain strings are incorrectly being replaced by )#$!
- A fix for this is in internal testing.
- Update 2017-05-04: This should be *($pletely resolved with the .7 build.
- A fix for this is in internal testing.
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I really hope this fixes the issue
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Why are the DC and CW MW III weapons more costly than other classes? It was the exact same thing last time around.
fartouched residuum seems to have a lower droprate or something and looks to be the cause.
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There is an issue with collecting masterwork materials from maps, at least for me → I don't get double drop, and can't figure out why; My guild has explorers guild r7, and I have active "Treasure Hunter" boon
While switching lodouts, SH boons do not change - all the rest is working fine but the SH boons stay the same regardless of the choosen lodout.
@terramak
A proud member of "mythical horde of DPS GFs"
1). Is SW more dps or tank based?
2). Yes. I am panzer!
3). Get ACT if you want to celebrate your epeen.
4). Horniness will not stand between me and what I believe - "MM"
If we have a great feature, it's just a matter to tweak it to make it work as it was designed - thanks.
A proud member of "mythical horde of DPS GFs"
1). Is SW more dps or tank based?
2). Yes. I am panzer!
3). Get ACT if you want to celebrate your epeen.
4). Horniness will not stand between me and what I believe - "MM"
@rayne468 - Is this an accurate summary of the issue you're reporting?
"Transcendent Holy Weapon enchantment: The visual effect of this enchantment has unexpectedly changed to flickering and tinting the weapon red."
@swoods74 - The Auction House crash was the one that should have been fixed with this build, is it still happening on the live shard once you've patched to NW.80.20170417a.5?
@razor4lpha - Profession bulk buy is in internal testing, can't say whether it's fixed until it's on Preview. For Marauders rewards, we've heard the feedback but have not yet discussed it thoroughly enough for me to relay whether any action will take place in the short term.
@marieti84#8867 - Happy birthday!
@enoch - Could you please elaborate on the time zone issues you're asking about? I think I've responded to questions in the past about the reasoning for our maintenance time windows, but if there's a bug in game about time zones please let me know what it is (Preferred format: "When playing in
Neverwinter Census 2017
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The main post has been updated. A .7 build has been pushed to the Preview shard, and I aim to get it live on the International (North America and Europe) shard tomorrow morning if at all possible. This build cleared in time for the Russian live shard to get it first (in just 30 minutes).
Neverwinter Census 2017
All posts pending disapproval by Cecilia
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If you check out the NeverwinterPreview shard right now, we have a prospective fix up that should cover some of those crash cases. If you're still crashing on Preview tonight (assuming you check it of course) or on the live shard tomorrow morning, could you please send me a forum mail with the character@handle (e.g. "CharacterName@bitt3rnightmar3" if your in-game chat handle is the same as your forum handle) and maybe a paste of your dxdiag output?
Edit: Update.
I tried the build on preview. Things were going pretty okay until I tried to do a heroic encounter in the stronghold. Weird asynchronous frames were popping up. How to explain this. It seemed like the visual effects of the normally static gaming UI were 'stuttering'. Menus, power descriptions and pretty much any text box looked like they would warp and grow in size and then shrink back to normal. It's like for a brief second the text was huge and then it got regular size. It was enough for it to be noticeable repeatedly. Same thing happened with static objects like Trees and the ground in some places was both there and not there at the same time. I've pretty much become familiar with the terrain in the SH and there were huge extra completely hollow hills- similar graphic effect happens to me when I'm running dragon heralds in a full instance in well of dragons only I was the only person on the instance of the stronghold I'm in on preview.
When my game crashed I got the following now different message I hadn't got before. I couldn't catch a screen shot of it because by the time the game had finished crashing it was gone. I copied this from the event viewer,
I hope this helps. I sent you the info you requested in a mail @terramak
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I'll never retrace my steps.
Some of my best friends are Imaginary.
One big design issue that I hope is on your plate: The voucher rewards for Marauders is widely perceived as not being remotely worth the time (though the event itself is loads of fun). White vouchers, whether from this event or occasionally dropped in SH HE's, are hardly worth even picking up as the dent they make in SH progress is almost meaningless. I'm looking forward to seeing how much this helps. Since launch, I've had to adjust my graphic settings down quite a bit only for the SH map. I see what you did there
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