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- Many audio updates for additional processing and tweaks for Dread Ring Voice Overs and sounds.
- Valindra has received an audio pass on her powers for Voice Overs and polish.
Classes and Balance
- Hunter Ranger powers have received a pass to balance the amount of Action Points gained per enemies hit. Most now generate based on if an enemy was hit, not how many were hit. Thorn Strike gains AP for up to 3 enemies hit.
- Hunter Ranger: Clear the Ground now properly generates Action Points.
- Hunter Ranger: Oak Skin now shows the amount it heals in the tooltip.
- Hunter Ranger: Seismic Shot no longer unintentionally goes through walls.
- Hunter Ranger: Split Shot will now charge to at least 20% instead of allowing it to silently fail if released too quickly.
- Swordmaster: Weapon Master's Strike can no longer be prematurely cancelled to strike faster than intended.
Collections
- Sharandar Category: The Sharandar Artifacts collection now has a more appropriate image.
Content and Environment
- Ambient horses in the Dread Ring are no longer attempting to juggle unsuccessfully.
- Heart of Dread will now behave like other lair quests and more reliably give you the proper rewards.
- Many Dread Ring NPCs have received ambience updates such as animations.
- More accurate quest completion rewards are presented when accepting the Daily Lair Quests in the Dread Ring.
- Protector's Enclave Shandakul Stables are now showing off new mounts and companions.
- The Dark Fey enclave will again not put players into combat near the entrance and quest NPCs.
- The Sphere of Annihilation has received an FX pass to look better and be more obvious it is interactable.
- The item refinement tutorial quest has received some minor updates for clarification.
- The Dread Ring Campaign tasks now have Gold and AD costs
- Terrain and propping updates for Dread Ring maps.
- Wages of War now handles edge cases better and will always complete when its requirements are met.
- The Dread Ring Campaign tasks now have Gold and AD costs
- Terrain and propping updates for Dread Ring maps.
Enemies
- Jawbone's Swarm of Flies no longer penetrates a Great Weapon Fighter's Unstoppable's CC immunities.
- Thatan Servitors and Knights have received updated costumes.
- Valindra has received a costume FX update to make it easier to target enemies near her.
- Valindra's Wraith Drain FX now displays on low end graphical settings.
- Valindra: She no longer uses her Phantom Claw attack on players close to her.
- Valindra: Soul Caskets can now be interacted with from slightly farther away.
- Zulkir in the Dread Leigion Skirmish has a more visible costume.
Gateway
- Many updates to the standard and mobile versions of Sword Coast Adventures for layout and compatibility.
Items and Economy
- Many Dread Ring armors have received updated costumes.
- Many older sets such as the Fomorian set now have icons for Hunter Ranger versions of the items.
- May new items introduced in the Dread Ring now have proper icons.
Localization
- Custom chat channels now better support the use of accented characters.
- Powers that could sometimes show as untranslated will now more reliably show their translated strings.
Performance and Graphics
- The Dread Ring has received a large update for the performance on low end graphics settings.
User Interface
- Campaign Window for the Dread Ring has received minor layout and art adjustments.
- Collections has received some scoring updates on the items.
- Collections Window has received minor layout and art adjustments.
- If the Artifact primary slot is unbound to a key, there will be a tutorial pop up to encourage binding it to a key.
- In the Change Appearance Window, all dyes held in bags will now display no matter what bag or how many different dyes you have.
- It is now possible to bind a companion to you if your Active Companion Slots are full and you already have a companion of that type.
- Item Refinement Window has received minor layout and art adjustments.
- Item Refinement message "will lose reagents" has changed to " required reagents will be consumed" for better clarity when attempting to increase the quality of an item.
- Items that do no bind use much less empty space in the tooltips now.
- The Power context menu to swap powers has received an updated layout to make it look more like you can press a key to bind that power.
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Also of note we have an internal update to the Coffer of Wondrous Augmentation as outlined in the other thread about that. It just wasn't ready in time for this build. Next week!
UPDATE 11/27/13: These are the omitted patch notes I did not include in these that users helped me identify
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
When I did some testing of this, it seemed that the Half Elf racial wasn't adding an attribute point for any class, not just HR.
oh then it must be broken on preview then also Cold steel hurricane dose not do alot of dmg it needs to be bumped up a bit. And constricting shot is missing its melee version.
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Hoping to log in and find Dread Legion armor and Fallen Dragon weapon sets for DCs miraculously updated with useful stats as well
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?528721-DC-Dread-Legion-Equipment-Suggestion-to-Rework-Stats
Since it wasn't specifically mentioned, I'm guessing that the actual stats have not been adjusted. Please consider reviewing these sets, because most DCs (at least those who understand how the stats work in actual play) are far from excited about yet another Armor Pen + Life Steal set.
Otherwise looks like a great patch with a lot of potential fixes, so thank you for that.
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NIGHTSWATCH
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?516621-Cryptic-OFFICIAL-Feedback-Thread-Control-Wizard-Master-of-Flame-Paragon-Path&p=6573161&viewfull=1#post6573161
I do not object to the change itself - both for aesthetics and for excessive damage - since a specific change to compensate for this nerf that goes beyond what is proposed. the reason explained here:http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?516701-Cryptic-OFFICIAL-Feedback-Thread-Great-Weapon-Fighter-Iron-Vanguard-Paragon-Path/page13
good, I was so happy with the changes in the class and the release date of the module 2 that I recorded the following video (It's silly, but it amused me ... heheh): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn6BLFZM6DU
please give me reasons to record others, and not to spend whatever how many months more complaining about the class.
Does it give any clue as to whether the Christmas event will be on a dedicated map similar to midsummer .
What modifications gonna be made for the coffers?
This makes me sooooo happy. Will there be light-hearted snowball PvP? Will there be seasonally appropriate fashion gear and dyepacks? Maybe a polar bear companion? I'm looking forward to this one.
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
Their replies about it:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=6574111&viewfull=1#post6574111
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=6580511&viewfull=1#post6580511
First Page of the Thread:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?532641-Cryptic-OFFICIAL-Feedback-Thread-The-Coffers-of-Wondrous-Augmentation
Have fun reading.
Comparing (the only) a spammable At-will with debuffing paragon talents, wide arc aoe, animation cancelling, the best aoe damaging ability of the class to a slow animation gap closer with low damage and situational.
Way to go.
On pts, same gear, was hitting WMS between 1700 and 2500 while debuffing, wicked strike between 2100 and 6500, threatening rush between 700 and 900 while applying weak mark. Did I mention WMS was benifiting from anim cancelling too ?
It's not only not comparable in damage, utility, role nor efficiency.
For pvp, yeah, I reckon, TR could be a nice little gap closer, to free an encounter slot from any gapcloser you had there...
We can also have the new enounter from the GF that makes you hold a shiny shield while you're dual wielding because, well because the animations of the imaginatively traded powers are not adapted to the other class.
:x
GF ap from frontline got put in line because of the switch also you guys get a buff compared to what we get with the ****ty swordmaster path you guys got one of our best at wills encounters and Daily power along with 2 of our best class feats.
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Haha thank god i dont play PVE anymore xD
Obsidian Oath - Warlock
A whole lot of other Obsidian toons as well.
also is there chance gwf can get bit more dps now this is fixed the amount dps gained in patch is not that much
also can you plz look giving gwf tank abilitys more threat its still to low.
as a full tank gear tank spec
you would think full tank toon end game gear could hold agro of any one in same gear level and add a taunt effect to darling shout or something not like its going break the game a tank build toon having taunt is not game breaking
*sniff*
*walks away dejectedly, muttering "We are Author...you will be assimilated"*
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Wrong patch notes. These patch notes should be locked.
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This does not apply to the destroyer. gwf / destroyer not only lose dps, as will be the weakest path.
He earns bonus critical damage - shareable with other ways - but it's the only one who does not receive any increase in critical chance. And with worsened wms, will be difficult to accumulate stacks quickly "weapon master".
the class is completely reversed now. And hope you do not give any "secret bonus" that can be drawn between a patch and another.
ps: I do not know why, but I have the impression that "Live"'m taking MUCH less critical than I should.
Please stop trasmuting this game only for hardcore players
Only the ones from the coffers will be BtA and only ones that come out of post-mod 2 coffers.
I was actually wondering the same thing, i know its not something big but kinda odd.
Made me very sad to play through it. I had fond memories of looking around in the old one. It took a little while but it was not THAT long a quest. Changed it from a 20 minute run to a 5 minute run.
I also found the adding of the artifact at key-bind 3 to be bad. Its something you are not going to be given until level 21 and you are making it key-bind 3? When you get a mount its added at 6, the artifact should really have been added at 7.
Guess when I make my ranger I'll blow through the first couple of quests and try not to think about them. All sense of atmosphere is gone from them. You might as well have just given us a hall with a room at the end for all the interest they generate now.
It was also a nice touch being honored for being a hero of the bridge battle. Now we get sent to look at the city instead.
I don't understand the need to remove one short quest just to add another.