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Dragonslayer Patch Notes: NW.137.20220509a.2

terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 991 Cryptic Developer
These patch notes are relative to NW.137.20220425a.5, released onto the public test shards 2022-05-06. The full list of changes for this module is not yet compiled.


Dragon Hunts
Combat
  • Enrage can now cause dragons to use major attacks and abilities more often.
  • Tasha’s Caustic Brew now faces the target when charging.
  • Vitriolic Sphere now drops three spheres over time.
Other Gameplay
  • Smerdiuk should no longer have a chance to be in two places at once.
  • Various art has been added, such as the campaign background and a boss bar variant for enrage mechanics.
Environment
  • Red Dragon Lair should have fewer floating rocks and fewer objects to trip folks up in the combat areas.
  • Various parts of the minimap now properly display.
Hunt Modifiers
  • The “Done” button has been removed and an X has been added to the top-right corner.
  • The following Hunt Modifiers are now the starting offering, once unlocked:
    • Tier 1 Pointless
    • Tier 1 Hindered Recovery
    • Tier 1 Ferocity
Rewards
  • Dragon’s Scales are no longer incorrectly split between party members.
  • Some gear that was missing visuals has been updated with new looks.
  • Visual rune positions on certain pieces of armor have been adjusted.
Strands
  • Strands can no longer be exchanged for themselves.
  • Trials now drop a pack of Elemental Strands at the end of the encounter.

Content and Environment
General
  • Elemental Evil: Hard to Reach Places
    • The air cultist now spawns in at the start of the relevant cutscene.
    • The initial cutscene now properly shows mouth movements on the dialogue.
    • There is now camera shake when taking the fire seed.
    • There should no longer be a chance for the quest to get into a weird state where it progresses before all the Air Seed encounters are defeated.

Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance: Bard
  • Bonus damage from Ballad of the Hero, Ballad of the Witch, and Aurora Fantasia will now crit when the power that triggers them deals a critical strike.
  • Critical heals should no longer be affected by Critical Avoidance. There may still be a few remaining cases, but Sheltering Etude and Starstruck should be solid.
  • Healing from the Starstruck class feature should now be able to crit.

Enemies and Encounters
Rise of Tiamat
(Note: The trial is currently closed on Preview; we’re hoping to re-enable it sometime next week for an additional round of feedback.)
  • Collision has been tweaked so that players should not be able to stand under a platform.
  • Balance changes
    • Increased damage of Fire Wall.
    • Added damage over time to Fire Wall.
    • Added an additional Fire Wall.
    • Removed Cache of the Dragon Queen reward from Tiamat match details.
    • Fixed a bug where Chain Lightning from Blue Head breath was doing less damage than intended.
    • Reduced damage of Blue Head breath.
    • Slightly reduced damage of Green Head and White Head breath.
    • Half of the group's Dragon Souls will now be shattered (Removed) for the final phase
    • Ensured that Tiamat always starts the final phase with Frightening Presence
    • All dragon breaths will do the appropriate elemental damage now
    • Fixed an issue where the Poison and Ice breaths were hitting twice as frequently as expected
    • Changed the breath attacks from Heads in Phase 4 to target random players as opposed to exclusively the aggro target
    • Tuned down dragon breath damage across the board
    • Fixed an issue where Chain Lightning from Lightning Breath was doing far less damage than intended
    • Fixed an issue where Suffocating Gas was doing far less damage than intended
  • The Tiamat artifact has been added to Collections.
  • Tiamat’s black dragon head’s attacks should no longer have a chance not to display.
  • Tiamat’s white dragon head’s abilities should have a less-opaque screen effect.

Items and Economy
Zen Market
  • VIP: Travel Signpost now unlocks at Rank 1.

User Interface
Campaigns
  • Dragonbone Vale: Faction reputation icons now consistently display.
  • Redeemed Citadel: This campaign no longer incorrectly shows up in the main campaign list.
Inventory
  • Items unbound via unbind tokens will no longer display various warning messages when equipping or refining.
  • Titles now have a new look when received through rewards, quest offers, etc.
Scoreboard
  • The scoreboard now tracks shields consumed separately from Temp HP applied. This change is potentially subject to further tweaks.
Zen Market
  • The search text entry field now becomes focused upon opening the window, which should allow typing without an extra click.

Localization
General
  • The first pass of text for the Dragonslayer module has been localized in French, German, Italian, and Russian.
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Comments

  • hastati96hastati96 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    This patch seems to have reverted some recent Bard changes. Bard songs can be applied to NPCs again since this patch.
    Nero - Palacetamol - Essence of Aggression
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