Update Notes: Tuesday August 22, 2017

From the EQ2 Forums:

PROVING GROUNDS

• Scourge Keep Duo Arena is now on the Unranked Matches accessor and may be run solo or with a partner.
• Tower of Frozen Shadow has been added to the Proving Grounds match rotation.
  • Game Type: Race to Completion
  • Players: 6 v Environment
  • Confront the threats within the Tower of Frozen Shadow, defeating each of the mystical threat in any order, though choose carefully as they are known to appropriate the abilities of the fallen.
• The Battle for Felwithe and Battle upon the High Seas have been removed from the Proving Grounds rotation until they can be converted into single group heroic matches.
• The Underdepths lockout has been increased to 3 hours.
• New rewards have been added to the Proving Grounds Proven Merchant.
• All Proving Grounds merchants have been moved out of the Proving Grounds and onto the home servers.
• Proving Grounds champions will now receive a Mark of the Champion: Season 1 currency upon zoning into the Proving Grounds.
• Corrected a bug that would prevent players that had a number appended to the end of their name from receiving their Proving Grounds champion flagging. This fix is not retroactive for previous rounds.

FAMILIARS

• Familiars Season two has been added to the character sheet! These new familiars will begin appearing in Norrath and on the marketplace in the upcoming days.

ITEMS

• Dispatch Mastery will now properly display the amount of increased Fervor.
• Pulsing Gem of the Feerrott can now be used directly from inventory.
• Contested Venekor now drops overall higher level items.
• Ghastbane was not intended to be converted into a house item, and no longer mistakenly pops up a dialog window offering to do so.
• Corrected a bug that prevented Prismatic Shard from triggering off of spell hits.
• Dispatch Mastery will now properly display the amount of increased Fervor.
• Murderous Flurry will now correctly modify Spinning Flurry as well as Flurry of Blades.
• Fragments of Planar Energy are now Heirloom.
• The Days of Summer Promotion merchant Yun Zi now sells the Hammers of Warslik, a throwing weapon.
• Several Kunark Ascending items that displayed a trigger of “on hostile spell cast” which also triggered from combat arts have been moved to a new trigger effect called “on hostile ability cast”. Hostile abilities include both spell and combat art attacks.

ABILITIES
Swashbuckler

• Swarthy Expertise will grant an ability doublecast component to Ruthless Cunning, Perfect Finesse, Inspired Daring for swashbucklers of level 100.
• Murderous Flurry will now correctly modify Spinning Flurry as well as Flurry of Blades.
• Dispatch Mastery will now properly display the amount of increased Fervor.

Bard

• Minstrel’s Aria grants Potency to Song of Magic and crit bonus overcap to Songster’s Luck.

Dirge

• Battle Cry now has the chance to trigger an effect that causes all abilities to strike for maximum damage while applied.
• Skad’s Striking grants an effect that increases the base auto-attack multiplier of group members to Fortissimo.

Coercer

• Enhance Minds Eye will now add Crit Bonus Overcap and Fervor Overcap.
• Increased Velocity grants an effect that increases the base auto-attack multiplier of group members to Velocity.

Outgoing profession ability damage has been adjusted by the following amounts on non-TLE servers.

• Assassin: 20%
• Berserker: 3%
• Brigand: 9%
• Bruiser: 3%
• Channeler: 3%
• Coercer: 3%
• Dirge: 4%
• Fury: 1%
• Guardian: 3%
• Illusionist: 1%
• Inquisitor: 3%
• Monk: 3%
• Necromancer: 5%
• Paladin: 5%
• Shadowknight: 6%
• Swashbuckler: 9%
• Templar: 2%
• Troubador: 5%
• Warden: 6%
• Warlock: 18%
• Wizard: 16%

Outgoing profession ability damage has been adjusted by the following amounts on TLE servers.

• Assassin: 15%
• Brigand: 6%
• Channeler: 5%
• Coercer: 3%
• Dirge: 3%
• Illusionist: 3%
• Inquisitor: 3%
• Ranger: 12%
• Swashbuckler: 6%
• Troubador: 3%
• Warlock: 9%
• Wizard: 8%

ZONES

• Lost City of Torsis: Ashiirian Court [Expert-Raid] is now avaliable via the Expert Dungeons Portal summoner.
• Ruins of Kaesora: Ancient Xalgozian Temple [Expert-Raid] is now avaliable via the Expert Dungeons Portal summoner.

QUESTS

• Save the Reets – The “Reet Marching Orders” no longer requires to be equipped for use.
• Save the Reets – Deletion of the quest now removes the “Sebilis Cell Keys” from your inventory.
• “The Greater Good” timed quest can no longer be started in Lost City of Torsis: Reaver’s Remnants [Challenge Heroic], as it could never have been completed there.
• The Dire Wolf Whisperer – The Dire Wolf Muzzle no longer requires to be equipped for use.

FREE TRADE SERVER

• Character transfer tokens make now be purchased on the Isle of Refuge server. Newly created characters or characters who transferred onto a Free Trade server must wait 30 days to consume a character transfer token and transfer off.
• The portion of status that is contributed to guild leveling has been permanently multiplied by 5 on the Isle of Refuge server.