April 20 2010 Hotfix Notes: Research Assistants

Today’s Hotfix grants Research Assistants the ability to research for all of your characters at once, instead of just one per account. Also included are tweaks to the UsabilityOnPlayer macro command, some adjustments to the Labs SF raid zone, and a change to the Focus: Death March adornment so that its effects are different between PvP and PvE.

We’ve been advised that some Database maintenance will be performed at the same time, so the Hotfix and associated downtime may exceed 1 hour.

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where possessing a creature would sometimes make your attackable target not attackable until you changed targets.

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

• You may now have all characters on your account researching at the same time.

MACROS (USEABILITYONPLAYER command)

• The useabilityonplayer command now supports group and raid slot numbers in place of the player’s name.
• For example, to cast Enduring Breath on the 12th person in the raid:
  • /useabilityonplayer r12 Enduring Breath
• To cast Enduring Breath on the 3rd person in your group:
  • /useabilityonplayer g3 Enduring Breath

ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENTS (Adornment?)

• Focus: Death March now adds 10% damage reduction to On the March in PVE Combat and 5% damage reduction in PVP Combat.

QUESTS

• The Flames That Cannot Die Quest has been altered. It was not intended that you have to go through the library several times for that update and as such the quest has been updated. Those who have completed at least one part of that stage should petition to have it updated.

ITEMS

• Leather Breastplate of Divine Equilibrium and Vest of Divine Equilibrium now have Critical Vigor as an effect.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

• Arkatanthis’ benthic freeze curse now has a max duration of 60 secs, rather than lasting indefinately.
• Arkatanthis’ curse of destruction now lasts 20 secs, giving players more time to remove it.  The benthic warlord and defiler adds associated with Arkatanthis now have significantly lower max health.
• Arkatanthis will no longer cast curse of destruction or benthic freeze on players actively fighting the benthic warlord adds.  Players with curse of destruction on them will no longer be chosen to fight the benthic warlord adds.

YKESHA’S INNER STRONGHOLD

• Ykeshan Footsoldiers should now drop Ykeshan warbeads in both the Field General Uktap and Ykesha encounters.