Publish Notes from 2004-07-13

Publish Notes from 2004-07-13

We will be publishing the Catskills shard with the Publish 25 code today, July 12th, 2004 at approximately 12:30PM PST. Publish 25 contains the following changes:

General Summary:

• Bug fixes
• PvP balance changes
• Archery fixes

Contents:

• House demolition, and character transfer will now be disabled while the housing and character transfer server is down
• Faster casting cap of 2 (if not using the protection spell)
• Faster casting cap of 0 (if using the protection spell)
• Paladin spells are subject to a faster casting cap of 4
• Paladins with magery of 70.0 or above are subject to a faster casting cap of 2
• PvP spell damage increase cap of 15% from an item’s magic property – spell damage increase is also derived from intelligence and inscription
• Added caps for: Lower Mana Cost = 40%, Hit Chance Increase = 45%, Defense Chance Increase = 45%, Damage Increase = 100%.
• Maximum swing rate capped at one swing per second
• Added runic crafting tools to test center bank boxes
• Added all artifacts to test center bank boxes
• Added ethereal mounts to test center bank boxes
• Added a kills/deaths tracking and leader board on test centers
• Poisonstrike takes 1/2 second less to cast, 2 points higher minimum and maximum damage
• Cleanse by fire is now difficulty based
• Damage required to interrupt bandaging reduced from 26 to 19 for PvP only
• Lesser and normal healing potions have smaller delays to use than greater healing potions
• Lowered cure spell chance of success
• Enhanced cure potions now correctly cure lower poisons
• Archcure doesn't cure aggressors or victims
• Archcure is now 1/4 second faster
• Infectious strike special move now uses poisoning skill to help determine potency
• Using a special move within 3 seconds of the previous special move costs double mana
• Parried special moves have no mana cost
• Dexterity below 80 reduces the chance to parry
• Reveal uses magery and detect hidden vs. hide and stealth
• Reveal always reveals vs. invisibility spell
• Tracking players uses tracking and detect hidden and random (1 to 20) vs. hiding and stealth
• Ghosts can no longer be tracked
• Necromancy forms affect tracking difficulty
• Archers can now move immediately after firing
• Archers must hold still for a minimum of 1/2 second before firing
• Fixed Dryad bow and added it to the Doom boss loot
• Fix for enemy of one issues
• Fix for divine fury issues (stat penalties, faction points, etc)
• Two handed weapons can now be disarmed
• Can no longer immediately rearm disarmed mage weapons
• Faction traps now decay after one day
• Swamp dragons no longer reduce PvP damage
• Spell casting creatures no longer try to cast old buffs (reactive armor, protection, magic reflection) resulting in more challenging monsters
• Fixed low level gain for weapon skills
• Fixed low level gain for Parry
• Sake is now called "sake" instead of "water" on Japanese shards
• Added jewelry slots in 2D client
• Added "object handles" in 2D client

Misc. "behind the scenes" changes:

• Improved internal debugging tools
• More logging for "IGR time limit" error

If there are no show stopping issues we will deploy Publish 25 to the remaining servers tomorrow, July 13th, 2004.