Tuesday, March 1 Update Notes

It’s one week since the launch of Destiny of Velious and there are always bugs and issues that make it through from the Beta. Today’s update tackles many of them. With today’s update, many of these issues are fixed.

Tradeskillers can now equip their Boreal or Frost Gryphon as a flying mount at level 85 tradeskill. Freebloods who have completed their Cloud of Bats quests can now use it. And the Collector’s Edition (still available as a $25 upgrade today until 10am PST [18:00 GMT] ) Stormfeather Brood Guardian is now usable by 85 tradeskill and 85 adventurer.

The Coldain Ring War and Storm Gorge Public Quests were a lot of fun this weekend, however several issues plagued both, making it difficult or impossible, even with a full raid of 24 players, to reach difficulty #4 or #5 to get the better rewards (including Legendary armor with yellow adornment slots). The Ring War PQ kept scaling down to solo difficulty, and the Storm Gorge PQ seemed to start at maximum difficulty, steamrolling everyone present, rather than ramping up.

We also see bug fixes in various quests, including both the group and raid versions of the Tower of Frozen Shadow.

Thanks to EQ2 ZAM for their formatted version of the Update Notes forMarch 1, 2011:

GENERAL

• In Extreme Performance settings the paperdoll would render its black silhouette to the screen sometimes. This is now fixed.
• The Destiny of Velious expansion will not show by default at the character select marketplace if your account already has the Destiny of Velious expansion.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Kael Drakkel

• Legatus Skarl’s adds should now have considerably less health.

Thurgadin

• Thurgadin Dock fires will no longer kill on contact, but singe on contact with severe burns to follow…
• Momo’s merchant list has been adjusted so he will no longer display dual entries of his wares.

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

• Ghostly Students should not be quite as difficult.
• The Darkened Reflections summoned by VhalSera should no longer despawn leaving players unable to get rid of the reflection they cause. This may cause multiple players to get reflective if the reflections are not destroyed in a timely manner.
• VhalSera’s Reflection should not persist through encounter reset.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• VhalSera should no longer heal for quite such large amounts during the final stages of his encounter.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Tserrina Syl’Tor should be more aware of Advisor Svartmane’s actions if he is somehow resurrected when he should not be!

Forgotten Pools

• Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar should now be more in line with the intended difficulty.

Iceshard keep

• Vilmen Riggandr’s Ice Cage spell should do significantly less damage.

QUESTS

• Freebloods who have completed caring for their bat colony should be able to hail the bat and be granted flight properly.  Alternately, you may hail Drammind Gul in the Great Divide if you have completed the five quests for your colony, and still are not granted the ability to fly.

Public Quest: The Battle of Storm Gorge

• The dwarves of Icemaul’s Siege would stop respawning after players cleared the event. This has been fixed.
• Difficulty increases more easily now, allowing better access to heroic and epic modes.

Public Quest: Echoes of the Ring War

• Fixed a bug that caused the event to reset or stop progressing when Corbin Blackwell was slain.
• The four large groups of combatants now spawn in the central area, instead of being spread across the nearby slopes.
• The event will no longer reset & drop its difficulty every couple minutes.
• Kromrif recruits would sometimes fail to spawn on the first stage. This has been fixed.
• Narandi the Wretched now attacks promptly once all of the kromrif have been wiped out.
• The kromrif giants are more giant-sized.

Great Divide

• Throwing the bone for the quest “A Game of Fetch” or “Playing Fetch” no longer causes other pet griffawns in the zone to disappear, just your own.
• While on the quest “Bethra’s Crystal Desires”, the fighting crystalline predator will no longer give the option to “Gather Focus Crystal”.
• Jelgith Heartwood should now update the quest “Power From the Tower” properly.
• “Crystalline Crevasse Captive” should now have a proper ROI, and be set to update for anyone in a group.
• The Speaker of Lodizal should now offer an update response to any player on the proper stage of the quest, “Reasons and Rime”, regardless of where they are in the Speaker’s quest chains.
• “The Fallen Swords: Reason and Rime” required players to clear a public quest at raid difficulty for an update. This part now updates at any difficulty, including solo.

Kael Drakkel

• The Ragebourne Network: New Kael should now give a little better direction for scouting out the position needed.

Thurgadin

• Captain Icecleaver should now respond properly to players on the quest, “Ominous Hints”.

ABILITIES

• The heroic Alternate Advancements now show the level 85 requirement on their tooltips.

Brawler

• The Brawler Advancement “Hostility” can now be cast while moving and persists through death.

Guardian

• Focus: Shield Bash is now Focus: Bash.

Predator

• Exploit Weakness now shows the reason behind the increased damage of the second hit.

Shaman

• The Shaman “Spirit Companion” now attacks slower. The power of the attacks has been increased proportionately to the delay increase. The Spirit Companion’s procs are normalized and will still trigger the same amount per minute.

Summoner

• Soulburn now shows the damage ratio.

ITEMS

• Certain effects similar to “Unearthly Forces” no longer increase the damage of certain spells by far more than the listed amount.
• “Nipik’s Cane” can once again be changed into a trophy for your house.
• The following Foci can now only adorn Sentinel’s Fate items:
  • Focus: Monk Stances
  • Focus: Hostage VI
  • Focus: Bruiser Stances
  • Focus: Divine Favor

TRADESKILLS

• Capru now just tells you to come back “later” rather than “tomorrow”; he really means in 23 earth hours.
• The Stormfeather Brood Guardian from the digital collectors edition is now usable by high level tradeskillers as well as adventurers (once they have unlocked it by completing either the tradeskill or adventure gryphon quests).
• More Velious harvests should now be placeable in harvest depots and harvesting bags.
• The trap site markers for Mira’s “Trap Trip” quest should now be more visible under water.
• The driftwood required by the Forgemasters faction mission is now larger and less inclined to levitate in places.
• The plants required for “Herbal Cure” and “Ritual Gathering” should now be more clickable and less likely to grow at ground level.
• Tradeskillers must now have the Earring of the Solstice either in their inventory, on their person, or in their bank to collect tradeskill collections.
• The Frost Gryphon and Boreal Gryphon tradeskill flying mounts are now usable by tradeskillers level 85 and higher.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Cloud of Bats can no longer be used in battlegrounds.