Publish Notes from 2016-03-02

Publish Notes from 2016-03-02

First TC1 Release – 02/10/2016

Second TC1 Release – 2/18/2016

Origin & Izumo Release – 2/23/2016

World Wide Release – 3/2/2016

The Valley of One Quest

• A Myrmidex invasion has besieged the Valley of Eodon. Beware of sudden ambushes from Myrmidex burrowing from beneath the surface!
• Visit Hawkwind in Castle Blackthorn to accept the “Valley of One” quest chain.
• Upon completing the quest chain several rewards are available,
  • Lava Rock Display
  • Tiger Rug House addon, available in orange (common), black (uncommon) and white (rare)
  • Banana Hoard house addon, can be placed as small, medium, or large
  • Dragon Turtle Fountain house addon
  • Reward Title Deed: Dinosaur Hunter
  • Pet tiger cub statuette, upon use grants the user a pet tiger cub

Housing Updates

• Players can no longer customize their houses while the warehouse is down which will prevent lost housing changes due to server maintenance.
• OSI Houses will no longer refresh when previous house owner reactivates their account.
• Players are no longer able to place multiple houses using the resize region and multiple characters.

Vendor Search Updates

• Players can now search for Antique/Non Antique Items. Known Issue: EC requires client patch, this patch will be released in a future update.
• Corrected issue where if an an item still shows up in search results but does not exist it would not be removed from the database after a few minutes.

Miscellaneous Updates

• Auction Safe bidders will now receive a map (function like vendor search maps) when placing a successful bid. These maps only allow teleportation to the auction safe and will expire 3 days after the auction.
• Mob AI re-targeting will no longer deal damage when target is selected.
• Added Fey Slayer to imbuing. Known Issue Fey Wings text missing from ingredients, this will be resolved in a future client patch.
• Harpsichord rolls no longer spawn in a player’s backpack and will now spawn inside corpses.
• Trial Accounts can no login join VvV and will be removed on login.
• North and West facings of the Fancy Loveseat and the Fancy Couch have been added to carpentry crafting under “Misc. Addons”

Combat Balance Update

• Based on feedback we have reverted the following change : Ninjitsu, Chivalry, and Bushido spells that are beneficial with a default cast time less than or equal to 1 second will reset swing timer.
• After reevaluating which spammable spells have a greater impact on damage output the following spells with now reset swing timer on use Animal Form, Cleanse By Fire, Confidence, and Evasion.
• Previously special move Riding Swipe debuff would require the effected target to be at full health when attempting to remount/fly. The Riding Swipe debuff now is removed once the affected target is at full health.
• Bushido Mastery Warcry cooldown has been reduced to 20 minutes from 1 hour.
• Enchanted Apples will now always remove curses on use and no longer have a chance to fail. Cooldown for Apples will range from 30 seconds to 45 seconds based on the number of curses being removed and their strength.

Shadowguard Update

• The Fountain Encounter water elemental spawns are now capped at 30. While 30 water elementals exist the next elemental wave will have a chance to spawn a hurricane elemental.

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The following changes have been made between TC1-Release 2 and Origin & Izumo.

• Fixed issue with the spawn of Sir Geoffrey’s camp in the Valley of Eodon.
• Fixed issue where partial hueing was not properly applied to the runebook. Runebooks should now properly partially hue.
• Fixed issue where players could teleport onto the Great Ape’s banana hoard and the Great Ape could not attack them.
• Fixed issue where flamestrike effects were not getting cleaned up in the Caldera encounter.
• Fixed issue where in some cases trappers could spawn in an unreachable location during the Kurak portion of the Valley of One quest chain.
• Fixed issue with density of tiger spawn south of the Kurak village.
• Trappers spawned during the Kurak portion of the Valley of One quest chain now have a ten minute lifespan.
• Pets and summons will now be able to attack the Great Ape and Tyrannosaurus Rex mobs so long as the owner is on the correct Valley of One quest step.
• Reduced the intelligence of tiger cub mobs.
• Adjusted the hue of the Valley of One Quest Item for the Urali tribe to match the Urali tribe’s native hue.
• Tiger cubs can now be healed via magic and veterinary.
• Reduced the hit points of the Tyrannosaurus Rex mob.
• Leashed the Tyrannosaurus Rex mob to its spawn location.
• The Tyrannosaurus Rex is now amphibious and can walk across the streams in Eodon.
• Optimized the AIs on the Tyrannosaurus Rex mob.