OCTOBER 13, 2004

Headlines:

• Summoned pets no longer vanish when their owner turns invisible.
• Froglok animations are now fixed, seriously, no really we mean it this time.
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Warrior Epic:

• Modified the way Decaying Lord Galuk Drek is spawned in Veksar. He should now be more approachable and less of a bottleneck for those warriors at this step.
• Lowered the respawn time of the Dragorn Champion in Wall of Slaughter significantly. We have also lowered his aggro and help radius.

Bard Epic:

• Corrected an issue in the Dragons Necropolis that caused more NPCs to be present than was planned for.
• The Kithicor Forest encounter should now reset properly.

Ranger Epic:

• Rangers triggering the Senvial, Grinbik and Uisima events for their Epic quest will need to have the trigger item on their person.
• It should no longer be possible for a ranger with Senvial's Blessing to get the reward for the Senvial event.

Druid Epic:

• Corrected an issue with the Coven spawn in South Karana.
• The Blackened Dryad event in Kithicor should now respawn correctly after a failed attempt.
• Only the druid who initiates the Goblin Hide and Seek event will be allowed to the loot the bag upon completion.
• More than one Druid can now summon and talk to the Compelled Spirit.
• We have increased the drop rate of the carved Prexus totem.

Magician Epic:

• The Path for finding the air essence should last a bit longer.
• Magicians will now receive a message when the air essence is not available.

Gates of Discord:

There's a new NPC in Natimbi that will make traveling to Qvic much easier. Speak with her for a small teleport.

Tradeskills:

• Alchemists can now create Amber Resin.
• The Feran Glove and Boot recipes will now combine and return their intended items.
• The recipe for the 56th level Necromancer spell, Servant of Bones, should now combine correctly.
• The Dagger Blade Mold, used in Gates smithing recipes, has been renamed to a Knife Blade Mold.

Items:

• Seething Fists of Slaughter - Previously this item had no equipped slots. This now has primary and secondary equippable slots.
• Fangs of the Serpent - Previously this item had no equipped slots. This now has primary and secondary equippable slots.
• Bone Plated Sledge - This item now has 36% haste instead of +36 atk.
• Boots of Shifting Time - Previously these boots had a worn leather graphic. They are now a worn plate graphic instead.
• Zulaqua's Cloak - Added 30 AC to this item.
• Crystal Dagger - This item now has a +12% backstab mod.
• Tome of New Beginnings - Berserkers now can equip this item.
• Lambent Stone of Focus - This item is now a type 7 and type 8 augmentation.
• Crystal Mail Sleeves - This item now has berserkers as usable classes. We have removed Beastlords from this items usable classes.

AAs:

Altered Spell Casting Reinforcement and Spell Casting Reinforcement Mastery so they will no longer increase the duration of the following spells.

• Flame of Redemption
• Hawk Strike
• Fateseer's Boon
• Protection of the Eye
• Savage Wildcaller's Blessing
• Flames of the Valiant
• Falcon Strike
• Prophet's Gift of the Ruchu
• Aegis of Abstraction
• Might of the Wild Spirits

Altered Healing Adept, Advanced Healing Adept, and Healing Adept Mastery so they will no longer increase the healing of the following spells.

• Harmonic Balance
• Divine Balance

Misc:

• Added a new option to turn off the loading screen when zoning. You will still see the progress bar.
• Added a new shadow command to allow you to turn off the shadows in your text bar. The command is /shadow.
• Changed the Dynamic Zone window to show player status in the member list. Online players are yellow, Link Dead players are red, Offline players are blue.
• Hide / Sneak will now remain active across zone lines.
• All NPCs in Omens of War expedition zones are now KOS. Beware!
• Summoned pets will no longer vanish when their owner uses invisibility! Rejoice!
• Vallon Zek should no longer assist Tallon Zek.

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