Publish Notes from 2004-08-17

Publish 26

UO Team August 17, 2004

Changes and Enhancements

• Various adjustments to monster loot such as gold and magic item intensity adjustments across the board.
• Tweaks to Luck calculations.
• Increased cap of Luck beyond 1200.
• Changed gargoyle gems from 4 to 1d4 per player feedback.
• Increased loot dropped by Betrayer.
• Modified Elemental loot.
• Slightly reduced red & black Solen Warrior and Infiltrator loot and increased Solen Queen loot.
• Adjusted Dungeon Chest loot.
• Added metal chests to spawn on plague beasts after they're well fed.
• Ant Lions now have a chance to spawn an adventurer's skeleton (rogue, mage, or bard).
• Bumped up minimum intensities for treasure hunter loot to be more in line with current loot changes.
• Tweaked loot for fishing, dungeon, and treasure hunter chest loot.
• Reduced loot for nobles, rat shamans, and serpentine dragons.
• Adjusted ogre lord loot to be consistent with arctic ogre lord loot.
• Modified earth elementals to drop 1-4 fertile dirt instead of 1.
• Removed non-magical jewelry from ancient wyrms, shadow wyrms, rikktor, ice serpents, efreeti, and skeletal dragons. Added 5 random jewels to ancient wyrms.
• Doubled chance to receive a super slayer weapon or instrument.
• Added tribal, deer, bear, bandannas, and Orc masks as magic loot.
• Turned on the Serpent Pillars for Test Centers only to test stability.
• Fixed Tracking issue where player characters with 0 hiding could not be tracked.
• Players will no longer appear in monster and animal tracking gumps.
• Made improvements to the firehorn.
• Added firehorn to test center bank box (should appear in same bag as spellbooks and reagents).
• Added 10 message in a bottles to test center bank box.
• Made the following creatures Bardable.
  • Orc Brute
  • Golem (monster version)
  • Gargoyle Destroyer
  • Exodus Overseer
  • Exodus Minion
  • Juka Lord
  • Meer Warrior
  • Betrayer
  • Juggernaut
  • Meer Captain
  • Meer Eternal
  • Chaos Dragoon Lord
  • Bog Thing
  • Vorpal Bunny
  • Whipping Vine
• Vampire formed players can now mount horses.
• Fixed instant resurrection bugs with horrific beast, wraithform, and vampiric embrace.
• Fixed necromancer forms bug when changing from one form into another.
• Made changes to prevent camping in dungeons.
• Added 80.0 poisoning skill for dread spiders.
• Added succubus and Semidar to daemon slayer group.