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NW.10.20131029a.5 Shadowmantle Preview Patch Notes
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Major Known Issue: Friends List and Chat Channels Reset (Preview Only)
Highlights
Release Notes
Quests and Environment
Protector's Enclave
Blackdagger Ruins
Pirates' Skyhold
Dread Ring
Combat
Guardian Fighter
Foundry
Items and Economy
Artifacts
User Interface (UI)
Campaign: Dread Ring
Graphics and Stability
- All players' Friends lists and chat channels are temporarily reset, and cross-communication between Preview and the live Neverwinter shard (and other Cryptic games) is not possible.
- This will not happen when this build goes to the live shard; it's an issue unique to Preview's interaction with the cross-game chat server.
- This will be addressed in the next Preview build push. Friends lists and chat channels will be switched back to the state they're in on the live shard.
Highlights
- Astral Diamonds are no longer required to upgrade items.
- Players using Windows XP or earlier can once again run the game.
Release Notes
Quests and Environment
Protector's Enclave
- Laris the Reader (in the Sage Shop) now has more optional dialogs that explain artifacts.
- Several typos have been fixed in Aralynn the Pious' dialogues.
- The quest, "A Powerful Gift," has been removed for the time being.
Blackdagger Ruins
- Artifact Recovery: A couple more platforms have been added to this quest. (Known issue: Enemy encounters to be added in a later build.)
Pirates' Skyhold
- The Scalefather's heal power now has a longer cooldown.
- The Scalefather's heal power now heals for less.
Dread Ring
- Loading screens now fit the zone.
- Many visual updates have been made to the zone, the intro, its instanced maps, and the enemies within. More to come in the following weeks!
- The ambient audio in the zone should be closer to final.
- Death Forge: Jawbone's aggro range has been increased.
- Dread Legion: Summoning portals are now more difficult to destroy in 5-person content.
- Dread Legion: This skirmish now has extra portals in the third wave.
- Dread Spire: The Knight Commander now properly aggros when the player leaves the stairs of the arena.
- Valindra's Tower: Valindra's PBAoE no longer hits players outside the target area.
Combat
Guardian Fighter
- Brawling Warrior: This power now properly adds extra threat.
- Crescendo now plays sound FX if the power misses.
- Commanding Shot: The sound on this power has been improved.
- Hawk Shot: The sound on hit has been improved.
- Oakskin: This power now correctly ignores other allies' companions.
- Thorn Strike: The sound on this power's activation no longer incorrectly plays twice.
- Thorn Ward: The sound on this power's activation has been improved.
- Thorn Ward: This power no longer damages targets at twice the expected range.
Trickster Rogue - Disheartening Strike: The damage from this power now occurs when the hit happens in the animation.
- Feat: Seething Knives: This power no longer incorrectly gives Razor Knives a 100% chance of applying a DoT.
- Feat: Seething Knives: Damage from this feat is no longer incorrectly influenced by an unrelated feat.
Foundry
- Several new Room pieces have been added to the authoring tools.
Items and Economy
Artifacts
- Artifacts can no longer crit, be enhanced by the player's stats, or be affected by cooldown reduction or armor penetration.
- Artifacts may now be equipped at Level 1.
- Artifacts now have their final icons.
- Blood Crystal Raven Skull: This artifact's power now grants 10% of the player's maximum health as temp health in addition to the previous 30 / 50 / 70 / 90% of the player's missing health.
- Multiples of the same artifact can no longer be equipped at the same time. (Known issue: Different qualities of the same artifact can currently still be equipped at the same time.)
- Shard of Valindra's Crown: The AoE radius has been increased by 5 feet, but damage has been reduced by 66%.
- Shard of Valindra's Crown: The player is now invulnerable while channeling this artifact.
- Shard of Valindra's Crown: This artifact's power now hits twice.
Misc. - Coal now properly has the "Alchemy" tag, allowing it to be found on the Auction House.
- Gear Score should no longer rarely go into the negative.
- Many Dread Ring items now properly have a placeholder icon instead of a white square.
- Plague Fire Enchantment: This enchantment is once again properly found in the Enchantment category of the Auction House. Existing auctions will not change.
- Several mounts and companion idle animations have been adjusted so that their antics should occur much less frequently.
- The maximum number of Idle Companion slots purchasable from the Zen Market is now 192, up from 96.
User Interface (UI)
Campaign: Dread Ring
- The arrow connectors now properly point directly to their tasks.
- The quest prerequisites now properly display in the Campaign UI.
- The Research tasks are now sized proportionally to the amount of progress they account for.
- The Boon tasks are now positioned proportionally to the amount of progress required to unlock them.
- If a player gets a higher-quality version of an artifact without getting a lower-quality one, the lower-quality version will also show collection credit.
- Older versions of the Guardian Fighter Unicorn set pieces now properly grant collection credit.
- The Artifacts category now can be sorted by Location.
Inventory - The Sort button no longer incorrectly stacks enchantments that have RP with enchantments that don't.
- Mail sent from the Auction House will now be automatically deleted after five days, but only after the items in the mail are removed.
Queues - Players no longer have a chance of becoming added to an instance that they cannot "de-queue from" for several minutes.
- Astral Diamonds are no longer required to upgrade items.
- Artifacts now require additional catalysts to upgrade.
- Enchantments slotted into an item now properly show their RP.
- Equipped artifacts no longer show up in the Fill Refinement Slots list.
- If a player tries to consume an item with more than 5% RP toward its next level, a warning (and confirmation prompt) is now displayed.
- "Match" has been changed to "Bonus" when receiving bonuses. This text now also shows the extra RP multiplier awarded by the item slotted.
- Players may now destroy runestones committed to their companions.
- Players may now refine runestones committed to their companions.
- The look and feel of the Refinement UI has been updated.
- When upgrading an item, the list of catalysts consumed is now shown.
- It should now be more noticeable when an artifact comes off cooldown.
- Right-clicking an artifact in the Power Tray now brings up the context menu.
- The Artifact slot has been moved down to the left of the potion icons.
- There is now an Active Companion Bonus icon on the player portrait. Hovering the mouse over it brings up a tooltip showing the current bonuses from the active companions.
Graphics and Stability
- Foundry Authoring: When duplicating a map that would place the author over budget, the client no longer crashes.
- Players using Windows XP or earlier can once again run the game.
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This is good one. I'd like to see difficulty rebalancing on Artifact recovery quest. Now, even at lvl 60, I had problems when was trying to complete it on low geared characters. As a 11.5k GS TR it was hard enough too, the only way I dealt with it was perma stealth. But as a CW I just AoE'd all areas within a few seconds. There must be more difficult enemies like shocktroop devil, but less those 3-bars-hp's - it's too easy for characters with a lot of AoE and kinda too hard for those who ain't got it.
Its Sunburst heals itself and nearby allies for 9.6k hitpoints in average with criticals up to 13k healing
The issue has been resolved. The NeverwinterPreview server is up!
If I ever seen anyone posting about how you guys don't listen to the players, I'm going to crit them in the junk for like a million damage.
Course, can't connect to login server yet. But one step at a time, I know, I know.
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Very Awesome!
If this is the case then is it safe to assume that the high cost to remove slotted enchantments will be returning? other than that nice solid patch .
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Dammit , I totally missed that ahaha .
oh nine hellz yeah!
Yeah. Doubt it since the catalyst requirements are still there. It's a nice change but I'm definitely going to fuse as many enchantments as I can now with the current system before Module 2 goes live.
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According to the descriptions of the marks in the refinement UI
Minor Mark (white - These items are found in the level 15 adventurer's Reward and can be found on the Wondrous Bazaar
Lesser Mark (green) - These items can be found in Skill Nodes and can be found on the Wonderous Bazaar
Mark (blue) - These items can be found from Epic Dungeon Skill Nodes and Bosses, and can be found on the Wonderous Bazaar
Greater Mark (purple) - These items can be found from Epic Dungeon Bosses, and can be found on the Wonderous Bazaar.
The "And can be found on the wonderous bazaar" part only applies to Marks of Potency. Marks of Power, Union, and Stability, which are all used only for artifact upgrades, are currently only world drops from the sources. Though the purple ones come out of the lairs in the Dread Ring if you run a certain lair on the a certain day. Tuesdays run Dread Spire and get a greater mark of power. Wednesdays it is Death Forge and stability with Thursday requiring you to run Phantasmal Fortress if you want the greater mark of union.
Prices in the bazaar are 25 AD for the minor mark, 500 for the lesser, 25k for the normal mark of potency, and finally 100k for the greater mark of potency.
No mention of leadership chests/barrels.
As for wards, they function exactly the same as they did before, though preservation wards protect you from losing the catalysts on a failed refining as opposed to one of the enchantments under the old system.
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?521791-Cryptic-OFFICIAL-Feedback-Thread-Refinement-System-Pt-2
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Pretty sure that has something to do with this.
Ah, that wasn't up there when I originally read the patch notes.
addition of the space for artifacts on the "character sheet" now increase the size of a Non-Adjustable window.
for me and a few others i've heard in zone chat on preview...this means i must rearrange the hud to change out dailys, then rearrange it back to play, and then repeat...ad nauseam. (switching back and forth from dps/heal mode on a cleric for example).
*Sidenote* it would be nice to have an additional tab in the "character sheet" that had different "roles" with slots for encounters, dailys, class feats and at-wills and the ability change roles from the character screen tab as long as ur not in combat or some such thing....ofc this is just kind of a wishlist and not something that's easily coded or something i expect to see in the game anytime soon, if at all...but would be nice....
anyways...diggin' the work on shadowmantle so far...and the game in general...kudos
Wow... Took you Dev fellas only 3 weeks...
I've seen it already comming this f*close-epic fail gets live and I could get 3*8GB discspace free instant with almost no chance of return.
But hey, let's exchange an issue keeping many people out of the game with anotherone like blocking chats - another one I don't see a reason.
May take it a bit ironic, but I'm kinda * to be blocked off a game suddenly due a patch (and yes, I've bought some Zens, spend some real money to NW, so I feel free to mimi a bit.)
It only took a week. They found the issue, fixed it, and put it into the next patch.
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