Tomb of Annihilation Rolling Patch Notes

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• terramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  July 2017

  Release Notes
  
  Content and Environment
  General

  • Lair of Lostmauth: There is no longer an occluding plane causing visuals to go wonky in the entrance to the boss room.
    
  • Mount Hotenow Domination: It should now be more difficult to escape the gameplay space.
    
  • Protector's Enclave: The carpets spanning either side of the Hall of Justice fountain have been improved, as has the water in the fountain.
    
  • River District: Music now begins when spawning into the zone, rather than when crossing into the Riverfront.
    
  • Strongholds: The Milling Yard no longer incorrectly claims to boost Stone production; it now properly states that it boosts Wood production.
    
  • Various typos in a variety of content and lore have been addressed.
    
  • When players log out in the open world, they should now less frequently spawn across collision or an object.

  
  Combat and Powers
  Boons

  • The fifth boon task of the Underdark campaign can no longer be claimed without completing the fourth.

  Classes and Balance

  • Another attempt to address the respec loop has been made; player characters who have recently respecced should no longer be asked to respec again upon opening the Powers UI.
    
  • Oathbound Paladin: Divine Protector now properly prevents 60% of incoming damage, rather than only 40%.

  Piercing Damage

  • Certain Piercing attacks that deal damage based on another attack no longer "double-dip" damage resistance against higher-level enemies.
    • Example: The Hunter Ranger feat, Piercing Blades, deals an extra 50% piercing damage to an enemy.
      
    • If an attack would normally deal 200 damage, but is reduced to 150 by an enemy's level difference, then Piercing Blades now deals 75 damage (50% of the damage dealt).
      
    • Prior to this fix, Piercing Blades would deal around 56 damage (50% of the damage dealt, then reduced again by the level difference).
  • Piercing damage powers now work as described in (most of) their tooltips: "Piercing Damage cannot be deflected and ignores armor." This means:
    • Piercing damage will no longer penetrate defenses that are not armor (such as Tenacity-based defenses).
      
    • Piercing damage will now be able to benefit from damage vulnerability debuffs on the target (such as the Lantern of Revelation debuff).
      
    • The net effect should be to make these powers less overwhelming (but still potentially very strong) in PvP, and much more useful in PvE.

  Companions

  • Armor Penetration now properly has an effect when used by Companions.
    
  • Certain Companions no longer incorrectly gradually gain stats over time.
    
  • Crab: This companion now properly plays a "near death" animation when its health is reduced to 0.
    
  • Legendary companions now give 16% stat bonus (up from 15%).
    • Each additional active Legendary companion now gives a stat bonus half the size of the previous one. Examples below.
      
    • Two active Legendary companions: 16 + 8 = 24%
      
    • Five active Legendary companions (Max): 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 31%
  • The Active Companion Bonus for Archons now properly counts the number of Archons a player has active.

  
  Items and Economy
  Artifacts and Artifact Weapons

  • Sigil of the Great Weapon: This artifact's buff icon now properly lasts the duration of the buff, rather than a steady 10 seconds regardless of debuff time.

  Enchantments, Enhancements, and Runestones

  • A particular rank of the Eldritch Runestone no longer incorrectly affects the player with an extra share of a companion's Resilience and Movement.
    
  • Bilethorn, Lifedrinker and Plaguefire Weapon Enhancement Shards can now be purchased from the appropriate vendors with Seals.
    
  • Bronzewood Enchantment: Ranks 11 and 12 now work as described in the tooltip.
    
  • Transcendent Flaming Enchantment: The tooltip now properly states that the Fiery Attack pops when dealing damage to an enemy who already has three stacks, rather than on application of the third stack.

  Professions

  • Characters who were stuck mid-level in Alchemy should now be fixed.

  Zen Market

  • A new, smaller pack of Companion tokens at a lower price point is now available in the Zen Market.
    
  • Campaign boost tokens can now be traded when purchased from the Zen Market.
    
  • Elite Shadow Wolf is now consistently named Elite Shadow Wolf in the Zen Market.
    
  • New campaign boosts can now be purchased on the Zen Market!
    • Prices have been updated for all boosts.
      
    • The available campaigns are: Elemental Evil, The Maze Engine, and Storm King's Thunder.
      
    • The Elemental Evil campaign boost can be purchased in two varieties: One with an XP boost that brings a character to level 70 from any level 60 or above, and one without.
  • The "50 Enchanted Keys & 1 Month VIP Bundle" purchase now states that it does not increase the player's VIP rank, and its benefits are based on the player's current VIP rank.

  General

  • Illusionist's Gambit Skirmish: The drop rates for Companion rings have been adjusted for Silver and Gold tier rewards.
    
  • Seals of the Elements no longer drop from dungeons. Seals of the Protector now drop in dungeons instead.
    
  • Seals of the Elements can now be exchanged for Seals of the Protector in the Miscellaneous tab of the Seal vendor.
    
  • Various typos in a variety of items and powers have been addressed.

  

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• terramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  User Interface
  Auction

  • Having too many items in the Overflow Bag no longer prevents players from posting auctions.

  Bank

  • Both the Personal and Shared Banks now have Sort functionality.
    
  • The Guild Bank now properly has a sort button.

  General

  • When players have quests in a location that requires teleportation, the Quest Path now more consistently points to the portals or other object that moves the player character.
    
  • Warning prompts when attempting to destroy enchantments are now much more prominent.

  Guild

  • The Alliance Roster now consistently displays all players in the selected guild, even if the player's own guild has fewer members.

  HUD

  • A new damage floater icon now appears next to damage that cannot be avoided (e.g. by dodge rolling).
    
  • CTRL + "]" now opens the most recently viewed Campaign this session.
    
  • Players may now zoom the camera in and out by scrolling the mouse wheel up and down.

  Inventory

  • A new bag slot has been added. Players may now equip up to 7 bags, increased from 6.
    
  • The "Unlock Other Item" context menu selection for Enchanted Keys no longer appears, as it's no longer reasonably usable now that keys are in the Useful Items tab.

  Journal

  • The "Out of Character" text style now looks better in this UI.

  Options

  • Dropdown menus are now properly clickable when their options are outside the bounds of their parent window.
    • This allows players to always show their health bar in Interface -> HUD, for example.
  • The Boons window can now be bound to a key in the Options menu.

  Zen Market

  • Empty categories no longer show up if the player manages to get a coupon for them.
    
  • The framerate no longer significantly drops in the Zen Market while the player is holding a coupon.
    
  • The Zen Market category list now consistently shows all banners if, for example, an entry is new, featured, and on sale all at the same time.

  
  Art and Effects
  Animation

  • The Lion companion no longer tilts and jitters in strange ways in certain locations.

  Character Art

  • Certain NPC-named entries available in character creation have been renamed to "Face Long" and "Face Bulky."
    
  • Ponytail hair styles are less likely to jitter off characters' heads when running or riding quickly up and down stairs.
    
  • The standard horse tails have been improved on existing horse mounts.

  
  Graphics, Performance, and Stability
  General

  • An animation-related crash has been addressed.
    
  • A cap on the number of VFX objects with client-side physics has been introduced. This should improve general performance when certain powers are used.
    
  • A physics-related type of crash has been neutralized.
    
  • Various UI crashes have been updated.

  
  Preview-only notes
  General

  • A large number of player powers received a fix to a minor setup issue. This should not result in any significant player-facing changes or bug fixes.
    
  • A variety of unused objects have been removed from the game files. While this should not result in any player-facing changes, any bugs in this process could result in vanished objects throughout the game.
    
  • An outdated system identifier that affected combat AI was removed from various enemy encounters. This should have no noticeable player-facing effect.
    • The most likely places for unexpected changes to appear are in older content, such as the Spellplague story arc, Blackdagger Ruins, or Ebon Downs.
  • The Animation system has had some various backend changes. There should be few, if any, significant noticeable differences.
    • If you see animation issues in Chult, they're unlikely to be caused by this change.
      
    • If you see animation issues in previously-established content, that may be related to this change.
  • In previous builds on Preview, we had enabled the ability to use, while jumping, certain powers that had lunge components.
    • However, this resulted in some moon-jumping behavior, so this change has been reverted for the time being.
      
    • For the time being, abilities like Marauder's Escape will continue to fail to move the player while they are in the air.

  

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