Update Notes: Tuesday, January 28, 2014

From the EQ2 Forums:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Temple of Veeshan: Guardian’s Edifice

• Corrected an issue that would occasionally prevent Tavekalem’s buff, Relentless, from decrementing to zero and wearing off.
• Added messaging explaining the bloodlust ability for Harin, Merig, and Gerid.
• Harin, Merig, and Gerid should give slightly longer time to react to their bloodlust ability.
• In the Harin, Merig, and Gerid encounter “Bloodlust” has been made more damaging.
• In the Harin, Merig, and Gerid encounter “Advanced Tactics” should no longer be quite as damaging.
• Orbs of Lethality in the Harin, Merig, and Gerid encounter should no longer require as much critical chance to get normal hit rates.
• Add corpses in the Harin, Merig, and Gerid encounter should disappear after they have been killed.
• Members of the Commanders Ring Event encounter should no longer lose their encounter targeting rings.
• Kigara and Kelana should no longer keep trying to apply their damage shield once one of the dragons has been slain.
• Kigara and Kelana adds should continue to summon the correct adds once one of the dragons have been slain.

Fabled Laboratory of Lord Vyemm

• The “Spiny Protection” buff from the Corsolander should now correctly apply ae auto-attack avoidance.
• The Corsolander should no longer attempt to engage already defeated players.
• Lord Vyemm and Alzid Prime are now part of the same encounter instead of two separate encounters.
• An achievement and guild achievement are now available for defeating Lord Vyemm and Alzid Prime.

The Fabled Mutagenic Outcast

• An achievement and a guild achievement are now available for defeating the Mutagenic Outcast encounter.
• Mutagenic bodyswarmers have had their health adjusted and should spawn slightly less often.
• The sludge that spawns in the Mutagenic Outcast encounter show now show up well before it starts damaging players.

The Fabled Three Princes

• An achievement and a guild achievement are now available for defeating the Three Princes encounter.

Fabled Heroic Dungeons

• An achievement is now available for defeating each of the last bosses of the fabled heroic dungeons.
• Population in the Fabled Vaults of El’Arad have had their health adjusted.

GENERAL

• Veteran time now goes off of base account age.

ITEMS

• Fabled Class hats now correctly refer to the sparkling gemstone that is used to upgrade them.
• Fixed a bug causing Riftblade and Riftblade II to gain the effects from primary attribute.
• Fixed a bug causing Aspect of the Dragon and Aspect of the Dragon II to gain the effects from primary attribute.
• Fixed a bug causing Virulent Wrath and Virulent Wrath II to gain the effects from primary attribute.
• Fixed a bug causing Cerebral Destruction and Cerebral Destruction II to gain the effects from primary attribute.
• Fixed a bug causing The Reaper’s damage effect to gain the effects from primary attribute.
• Eye of Bertoxxulous now drains the caster’s health at a slower rate.
• Sontalak’s Unstable Horn now only lasts for 90 seconds instead of 180 seconds.
• Jalkhir’s Orb of Power’s effects have been doubled and penalties halved. The duration has been doubled.
• Keplin’s Hardened Earstud’s penalty has been reduced to 400 mitigation per increment and the bonus has been increased to 2% Crit Bonus per increment. It can now only trigger once every 6 seconds, allowing more time for a tank swap.

QUESTS

• Killing Bloogly in High Keep: The Pickclaw Depths [Advanced Solo] will no longer also grant credit for killing Zorin for the quest, Delving Into the Depths.
• Down the Drain: Buying a Superb Noxious Remedy will now update the quest, no matter what zone you are currently in.
• Once in Life as Well in Undeath: Speaking with Rodcet Nife properly updates the quest, once again.
• Infiltrating the Sanctum: The Escape can once again be updated in Sanctum of the Scaleborn.
• To Speak as a Dragon: Examining the “Tablet of Draconic Runes” updates the quest, no matter what zone you are in, once again.

PVP UPDATES
General

• Critical Chance in PvP combat now works on a new curve. PvP critical chance is capped at 50% until your pve crit chance is above 400, and caps at 100% in PvP at 450 critical chance. This change should be on the currently available Beta build.

Items

• Procs and activatable effects have been disabled in PvP combat.
• The Sisters of War now have accessories with pvp stats available.
• Dreadnaught armor merchant now sells an armor cannibalizer which can convert any 1 gem Dreadnaught armor into a Dreadnaught’s Warrant. This will not return a Red Carnage Gemstone.

Spells and Abilities
Fighter
Draconic Shout’s heal component has been reduced to 10% in PvP combat.

Brawler
Brawler’s Tenacity – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Tag Team – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Crusader
Crusader’s Faith – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Divine Aura – Damage threshold has been reduced to 15% in PvP combat.

Bruiser
Ignore Pain – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Monk
Mend – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Meditative Mending – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Berseker
Adrenaline – Heal has been reduced to 20% of incoming damage in PvP combat.
Persevere – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Blood Rage – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Battle Frenzy – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Paladin
Arch Heal – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Devout Sacrament – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Prayer of Healing – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Lay on Hands – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Shadowknight
Reaver – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Grim Harbinger – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Tap Veins – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Unholy Blessing – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Unholy Hunger – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Siphon Strike – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Painbringer – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Chaotic Blade – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.

Channeler
TruespiritDefiance- Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.
Channeled Transference – Heal has been reduced in PvP combat.