March 17 Patch Notes

Zatozia has posted our update notes for Thursday, March 17, 2011. They include numerous tweaks and fixes to Velious instances and Public Quests.

USER INTERFACE

• Fixed a display issue with debt percent at level 90.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Kael Drakkel

• Base Population in the contested dungeon now has legendary and fabled drops.

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

• Fixed an issue related to Tserrina’s “Curse of the Tower” spell which was causing extreme zone lag and crash issues.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

• Vethilot the Cropsemonger has been adjusted in difficulty.
• Shadowed Tome of Ages Past has been adjusted in difficulty.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• VhalSera has been adjusted in difficulty.
• High Priest Mohnt has been adjusted in difficulty.
• Dizzina the Lulled has been adjusted in difficulty.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Fixed an issue related to Tserrina’s “Curse of the Tower” spell which was causing extreme zone lag and crash issues.

Forgotten Pools

• Corrected an issue where Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar would become more powerful than intended.
• An object has been added to the entrance of Forgotten Pools that will allow players to enter the zone without climbing down the ladder if they so choose. This object will also allow players to pull group members into the instance from anywhere within the Great Divide.
• An object has been added to the exit of Forgotten Pools that will allow players to exit the zone without climbing up the ladder if they so choose.

Kraytoc’s Fortress

• The fire in the dragon room now correctly vanishes.

QUESTS

Public Quests

• To improve performance, AE Autoattack has been removed from all non-bosses.
• Players who fight a little and then go AFK for long periods are now less likely to earn any loot.
• The Rime cavalry attacking Storm Gorge now enrage when knocked off their mounts.
• The mounts themselves no longer join the battle as pets, except in the case of the four named Riders.
• A rare issue that could cause chests to vanish has been fixed.
• Orbs of Advacements now give chat feedback when they’re autoconsumed.
• Some problems that could arise when players switched instances or went linkdead have been fixed.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• The quest “Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls – Mirrored Gargoyles & Golem Ushers” is now able to be completed in the Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls.

10^th ring heritage Quests

• It will no longer be possible to advance the 10^th ring quests without turning in the ring reward from the previous quest.

Embalmer’s Skinning Knife Heritage Quests

• The head cataloger’s dialogue that spawns the disruptive student NPCs will now update the quest for everyone in the group.

ITEMS

• The Hand Wraps of Woe now have haste on them.
• The Sledge of the Propugnator no longer thinks it’s a sword.