Publish 68.3

Deployment History

November 4, 2010 - Update 2 applied to all shards
October 29, 2010 - Update 1 applied to all shards
October 28, 1010 - Published to all remaining shards.
October 26, 2010 - Additional notes added and published to Origin shard.
October 22, 2010 - Announced and published to Test Center shard.

Notes

These are just the few notes for Test Center, next week with the Origin notes we will be adding Anniversary Items, Halloween Quest, Next step in the live Arc, and MIB’s.

Halloween Event

A mysterious merchant has appeared near the Umbra moongate selling treats for hellhounds. Little is known of his motive, but know that giving treats to hellhounds this time of year is not for the faint of heart!

Enjoy trick or treating with the town NPCs! There are 4 new items that you may get. Be sure your begging skills are up to the challenge!

Live Event

There is a new quest giver in Trammel Britain by the moongate. Visit him to find out how you can get a replica of the Book of Truth.

Those who are loyal to the Bane Chosen can visit Trammel Magincia and seek out Miegen for a quest. You will need 7500 loyalty with the Bane Chosen to get his quest.Loyalty cap for the Bane Chosen, the Meer, and the Ophidians has been raised to 10,000.

13th Year Anniversary Rewards

This year there are various items to pick :

White Leather Dye Tub
Railed Display Cases (dbl click the case to remove it and replace it)
3 Styles of Grandfather Clocks (chime on the hour)
4 New Cermanic Pots

Message in a Bottle Revamp

New Items to Fish Up:

Fish Heads
Oars
Unfinished table legs
Unfinished Chest of Drawers

New Message in a Bottle Chest items:

Loot at higher levels improved
Gold 10K per level of chest
Grape Vines
Large Fishing Nets
Bronzed Armor of the Valkyrie (female leather Bustier)
Antique Wedding Dress
Runed Driftwood Bow
Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings
Treasure Map (Random Level)

Runed Driftwood Bow:
- 40% Hit Lighting
- 40% Hit Lower Defense
- 30% Swing Speed Increase
- 50% Damage Increase
- 15% Lower Ammo Cost

Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings:
- Casting Focus 4%
- HP +5
- Mana +8
- Spell Damage Increase 8%
- Lower Reagent Cost 15
- Mana Regeneration 2
- Physical: 5
- Fire: 13
- Cold: 12
- Poison: 8
- Energy: 14

Bronzed Armor of the Valkyrie:
- HP +5
- STR + 5
- DEX + 5
- Stam + 5
- LMC 10%
- Stam Regen + 3
- Physical 11%
- Fire 14%
- Cold 8%
- Poison 11%
- Energy 8%

Small chance to pull up a ship StrongBox instead of a MIB Chest

Strong Box Contains:
- 10Kgold per difficulty level
- Regular Gems 20 per level
- Big Gems (Difficulty *5 + random 0-4)
- Gold or Copper Ingots

Saltpeter is now a mineable resource – Need High Seas Entitlement

Can be mined in dungeons and on a boat
Players will occasionally uncover niter deposits when mining for ore
Frequency of discovery and size of deposits depends on mining skill and luck
Mine the niter deposit to obtain saltpeter
Niter deposits will decay over time if not mined

New Rare Crab and Lobster Trophy’s

Enchanted and Legendary Crabs and Lobsters can now be turned into trophy’s via the Taxidermy Kit.

Bug Fixes

Made a channel in the sea market so boats can get in and out a little easier. This will be marked by bouys.
Fixed an issue with not being able to access cargo holds while the boat is moving
You will no longer be able to cast field spells on stairs
Players will no longer be able to scuttle a ship in Trammel
If you are a ghost on a scuttled ship you can now debark your ship to your last valid terrain location by using the mooring lines.
Cannon ammunitition will no longer lose its price or reset the price of a container on server maintenance on your vendor.
Players now have a 100% chance to get sand when mining for this resource.
~~Purchasing items while from vendors using funds in a player's bank will now be taken from check form if gold coins are not present in a players bank.~~ -Removed
Pirate boats will no longer continue to fire their cannons after the captain and crew are dead
Players will no longer be able to kill captured Pirates from other players boats
All fishing will now act like every other resource gathering in the game. If an area is fished out you will get a message stating so with an exception to Lobsters. Lobster and Crabs are considered as different resources and are taken from a different resource table.
Swing speed for Throwing weapons has been corrected you will now be able to reach 1.25s.
Saltpeter is now traded as a commodity, with unlimited availability but subject to price adjustment
Shopkeepers will now buy back commodities at 75% of their asking price, instead of never offering more than the base price
Commodity deeds may now be filled from a boat hold
Commodity deeds may be redeemed in a boat hold, if the contents of the deed will fit in the hold
Guards can no longer be called on Pirates
Players will now insta log at the Winds Tavern at the sea market
An issue was fixed that caused the lobster traps to be destroyed faster than they should have been.
Fixed an issue with guild/non-guild ship access
Sails will no longer cause ownership issues with your ships
Fishmonger quests require the exactly amount being asked for put in the crates. You can no longer remove the crate from the hold, if you quit the quest the fish will automatically be placed in your pack or in your hold.

Updates

Update 1

The following feature of the publish was removed on October 29, 2010:

Purchasing items while from vendors using funds in a player's bank will now be taken from check form if gold coins are not present in a players bank.

Update 2

The following bug fixes were made on November 4, 2010:

White Leather Dye Tubs can no longer be sold to an NPC. The tubs original white leather tubs have been reverted back from cloth tubs to leather.
Hellhound Treats will no longer stack with ribs. *warning: please be careful BBQ’ing with these treats in your backpack*