Feldon Today’s update includes tweaks across the board of grouping, raiding, and itemization.
Chronoportal vendors are back until April 10th. They have several paintings, furniture, and replicas of the enemies fought in the 12th anniversary EverQuest event.
After the jump, your Update Notes for April 5, 2011.
GENERAL
- Improved client performance.
- The “Time Traveler” title is a suffix again, like it’s supposed to be.
ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION
- NPCs should no longer dance around players when engaged in melee.
- The chronoportal event merchants in Commonlands and Antonica have returned for a limited time only to accept your remaining ancient platinum coins.
Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls
- Deception has lost its ability to become immune to damage.
- VhalSera should no longer heal below a specific threshold.
Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor
- Tserrina’s damage output has been slightly lowered.
Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire
- The Barracks doors within The Fortress Spire should open more reliably when returning to the instance.
- The Abelbrow the Bookie should once again accept bets if returning to the zone.
- Bouont Crushingfist should no longer attack members of his own encounter.
- Rime Illusion items found around the docks have been made 1 charge. If you lose the illusion and need it again at any time you can return to the docks to get a new one.
- Doors and bridges should correctly save based on named encounters defeated if players leave the zone and come back.
ABILITIES
Swashbuckler
- Swashbuckler “Reach” should once again increase melee range.
TRADESKILLS
- Tradeskill group dungeon rewards now include a chance at two new recipe books, allowing tradeskillers to craft armor from primal velium shards at a reduced cost.
- The tradeskill component Void Warped Wood is now known as Battle Warped Wood. This wood will now also drop from Velious raid bosses, in addition to the locations it was previously found.
QUESTS
Eastern Wastes
- Finding Phenocryst’s last missing part for Gritstone’s quest, “Head First”, no longer requires the player to be in third person view to obtain update.
Frostfang Sea
- The Frostfang Sea storyline is now completable!
ITEMS
- Elemental Detonation can no longer critically hit.
- Added multi attack to Eye of the Shadow Beast.
- Added multi attack to raid fighter wrists.
- Added multi attack to the Torque of Crushing Onslaught.
- Adjusted the Necretia Bow of Webs damage rating.
- Added crit bonus to Looming Sadness Gorget.
- The Gore-Imbued Bands pattern should now properly unpack.
- Elemental Detonation will now stack if cast by different players.