Publish 40
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 40 on May 18, 2006.
Features
- Buff Bar (Server-side support to enable feature)
- Targeting System (Target Hostile cycle macro support)
- Humility Cloak Quest
- New Buddy Reward selections
- Added a book "The Shattering" into bank boxes
PvP
- It is no longer possible to cast Explosion or use an explosion scroll if another explosion spell or scroll is already in progress
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to temporarily be over the Skill Cap
- Balanced weapon speeds. Weapon speed is now displayed in seconds.
- Backstab, Focus Attack, Ki Attack, and Momentum Strike now do less damage against players
- The bonus to damage from Evil Omen has been reduced against players
- Damage bonus from Perfection and Honor will no longer affect players
- Honorable Execution no longer works against players
- Poison Strike. Casting time has been increased slightly from 6 to 7, and the minimum base damage has been decreased from 36 to 32
- Death Strike now clears its stalking bonus correctly. This fix also effects Backstab and Surprise Attack
- Capped Stealthing Bonus based on stalker's Tracking Skill. Stalking bonus is now capped at 10 + 1/10 skill
- Players who use a Wand to cast a spell are now frozen for a few seconds while the targeting cursor comes up
- Changed the way wands work so players cannot use them while casting other spells
- Ki attack no longer works with archery
- Dog and cat Animal Forms now regain hit points at a faster rate
- Mana Vampire and Paralyze now flag as criminal
- Fixed a flagging issue that involved attacking another player while in animal form
- Damage from Blood Oath and Reflect Physical Damage armor will no longer stack
- Fixed an issue where auto-defend would override a player's current target
- Actively attacking a target while in peace mode will now put you into war mode
- Hit-area weapon effects now check for line of sight
- Re-applying a stat altering spell now resets the duration of the spell correctly
- Improved the behavior when two stat altering spells that affect the same stat in the opposite direction are applied to a player.
- Fixed an issue with the PVM damage cap not working correctly in certain cases involving slayer weapons
Other Changes
- Lowered the amount of points it takes to increase tiers at the Zoo CommunityCollection
- Lowered the number of points for a buckler in the Library Collection from 16 down to 9
- Placing an Arcane Focus stone into a Sacrificial Altar will now destroy it immediately
- Fixed an issue where The True Harrower did not appear sometimes after the Harrower was killed
- Summoned bonded pets (for example Paroxysmus' Swamp Dragon) can no longer be dispelled by creatures such as Dull Copper Elementals
- Added a fix for some pets (ferrets/squirrels) to prevent them from having their hit points lowered under certain conditions
- It is no longer possible to engrave pets
- Creatures with spellcasting with a range of 9 tiles will now be able to reach 10 tiles
- Players who have over 200 points of skill who try to use an Advanced Character Token now get a message telling them why their action failed
- Fixed an issue where some books were appearing as "A Buggy Book"
- Repair Contracts no longer decay quickly when left on the ground
- Gypsy bankers no longer give the appearance that they can train skills
- Parrots can now mimic Japanese text
- Fixed the width of the "yes" and "no" text fields on the murder reporting gump, so they wouldn't be truncated in Japanese
- Moved the exit in the Blighted Grove peerless encounter area
- Bloodwood Talisman now gives a bonus to Necromancy as intended
Updates
Update 1
On May 26, 2006, the following was published:
- Fixed an issue with Mirror Image that was causing a mirror image to not divert damage done to a player
- Fixed an issue with buff persistence after logout
- You must now have a wand equipped in order to use it
- Increased the size of the Advanced Character token gump to fit a long error message displayed in Japanese
- Corrected a server performance issue