PATCH: Mar. 7 – Strangelands Updates, New Ultra Rare Cloth, Appearance Unlocking, Magic Item Recycler and much much more!

03 / 08 / 2020

Patch Notes

Strangelands

  • Fixed an issue that unintentionally allowed players to participate in two Strangelands events during the same day
  • Players who attempt to enter Strangelands while mounted will automatically have their Mount stashed (similar to entering a dungeon)
  • Players who have Followers (non-Mounted) in the game world will be reminded via system message when using a Strangelands Gate that they must first Stable those followers before they can enter Strangelands
  • Players entering Strangelands will automatically leave any Parties they are in
  • Players will not be allowed to join Parties while in Strangelands
  • Any Supply Containers that spawn in inaccessable areas will respawn elsewhere after a short duration
  • Player damage to Supply Containers have been increased moderately

Strangelands Trophies

  • When a Creature is killed in Strangelands or any Supply Container is broken open, any players within 12 tiles of it who dealt damage to it will have a chance (based on damage % dealt amonst those players within 12 tiles) for the creature/container’s trophy to appear in their backpack and they will be treated as the “owner” of it
  • If no players who dealt damage to the creature/container are within 12 tiles of it upon death/breaking open, its trophy will appear on its corpse (or ground in the case of Supply Container) and the first player to loot it will be treated as it’s owner
  • As before, any player turning in a trophy that they don’t own (i.e. they looted or traded from another player) will be only worth 50% points

Strangelands Achievements and Rankings

  • Players who were (unintentionally) able to log in for 2 sessions of Strangelands last Sunday have had their Strangelands Achievements, Strangelands “Minutes Alive” stat, and Strangelands Reward Points fixed to reflect playing only 1 session
  • The Strangelands achievements for individual Templates now require 500 Points scored in a session (i.e. “Earn a score of 500 pts or higher with a Ranger”)

Strangelands Grouphunters

 

  • Strangeland killer plants which are drawn to large groupings of players now have population-based scaling spawn rates
  • Strangeland killer plant spawn groups will now feature 4 Strangehell Vines and either a Strangehell Plant or a Strangehell Spikebush (new)
  • Strangeland killer plants have had their stats and skills increased

Omni System

  • Tomes of Heroism will now grant 4 Mastery Chain Links upon completion (previously was 3 links)
  • Omni Bosses now have 4 million hit points (previously was 5 million) and will now grant 8 Mastery Chain Links total, distributed at 500,000 damage increments (previously was 5 links total)
  • Omni Bosses now have the equivalant loot of 3 Bosses
  • Lowered the Damage on Omni Bosses moderately
  • Storm Daemon’s Shock effect is now a randomized duration between 1-2 seconds (previously was flat 3 seconds)

Lore Book System

  • Lore Bosses now have the equivalent loot of 1 Boss
  • Mastery Chain Links resulting from the Lore Book System and Lore Bosses will either be of Bronze or Silver level (but not Gold)
  • Research Material drop rates have been lowered somewhat

Magic Item Recycler

 

  • A new Magic Item Recycler container has been added to the Prevalia Market Merchant under the “Misc” category
  • Players place items into the container (must be Identified first if they are magical) and then select from a series of filters to determine which items will be recycled
  • Players can click the “Dump Container” button to dump items from a container in the players backpack into the Magic Item Recycler
  • Despite it’s name, players can recycle non-Magical items and have the option to filter between Regular and Exceptional quality items
  • Players must select between Weapons, Armor, Spellbooks, and Instruments and only items of that type will be recycled when clicking the “Begin Recycle” button

 

Appearance Features Unlocking

 

  • When players change their appearance at the Prevalia Stylist, any Skin Colors, Hair Styles, Hair Colors, Facial Hair Styles, and Facial Hair Color they purchase will now added to their “Unlocked” features list for their character
  • Players will be able to repurchase any “Unlocked” features they previously purchased at the Prevalia Stylist for free
  • When players use a Hair Dye, Facial Hair Dye, or Backpack Dye that appearance feature will be added to their “Unlocked” feature list for them as well
  • Players can freely change between any “Unlocked” feature with the new “Wig Stand” craftable item
  • At the time of this patch, a player’s current Hair Style, Hair Color, Facial Hair Style, Facial Hair Hue, and Backpack Color are automatically added to their “Unlocked” feature list

Wig Stands

 

  • Players can now craft “Wig Stands” with Tailoring which allows a player to change their appearance based on all “Unlocked” appearance options they have unlocked via the Prevalia Stylist or from any Hair Dyes, Facial Hair Dyes, or Backpack Dyes
  • Wig Stands must be locked down in a house to be used

Disguise Kits

  • Disguise Kits now have 3 visual styles depending on the quality of the item: Regular, Exceptional, and Mastercrafted

Town Struggles

  • Murderers will never be guardwhacked for being in a town where a Town Struggle is underway or until 15 minutes after the event has concluded
  • Fixed an issue where players committing a “Criminal” act in a Town Struggle Faction Base (such as doing a beneficial act on a red in the base) were sometimes being guardwhacked when spawning in town due to be “Criminal” in this manner

Castle Sieges

  • Murderers will never be guardwhacked for being in a town where a Castle Siege is underway or until 15 minutes after the event has concluded
  • Players who participated in Castle Sieges now have a 15 minute post-event window where they will flag as grey to each other if in opposing guilds (if they don’t already flag as Green or Orange to each other for other reasons) and Murderers will not receive any Region Aggresssion Restrictions if killed in the area during this window

Dungeon Flashpoints

  • The entire Dungeon (not just level 1) is now considered part of the “Zone” of Dungeon Flashpoints now for flagging purposes
  • Players who participated in Dungeon Flashpoints now have a 15 minute post-event window where they will flag as grey to each other if in opposing guilds (if they don’t already flag as Green or Orange to each other for other reasons) and Murderers will not receive any Region Aggresssion Restrictions if killed in the area during this window
  • Fixed an issue where Dungeon Flashpoint damage tracking (for event results) for some players may have been tracking incorrectly

Ships

  • Players who are on board a ship that sinks will be killed and teleported (along with any nearby pets) to a random location in Prevalia (if blue) or Corpse Creek (if Red)
  • Ghosts on board ships will now be properly teleported to town (with nearby pets) if a ship sinks
  • Using any command on a Ship, via the Ship Menu or Ship Hotbar, will now reveal a player

Telekinesis

  • The Telekinesis spell will now only work on containers within a player’s own backpack (will still work on Corpses however)

Looting Rights

 

  • Parties will now be treated as “group” entities for determining looting rights on creatures, using damage thresholds similar to Guilds (i.e. if a Party does 15% of the total damage to a boss, all members of the party gain looting rights to it)

Tamed Creatures

  • Fixed an issue with Barbed Prowlers sometimes not using their Fangs trait for increasing Bleed damage
  • Fixed an issue where tamed creature backpacks acquired via the Mule trait would sometimes act as Pack Horse/Llama sized pack capacities

Aspect Distillation Kits

  • Aspect Distillation Kits now have 15 Charges (and any existing kits have had their remaining charges increased by 10)

Harpoons

  • Harpoons in PvP between players on the same ship now have a 50% damage penalty (players were sometimes able to “instant-kill” another player with 1-2 harpoon hits)

[Coord [Coords [Coordinates

 

  • Players can now use the [Coord or [Coords or [Coordinates command to receive a system message showing their current X,Y,Z coordinate and Lat/Long coordinate

House Item Survey

 

  • When players use the Item Survey mechanic in houses to locate non-locked down and non-secured chests, they will also receive a system message list of all resulting items and their coordinates

Mastery Chains

  • Fixed an issue where Poison Damage Bonus mastery chain links werent adding their damage bonus to Poison correctly

Wax Book Seal Stamp

  • Fixed an issue that was causing Wax Book Seal Stamps to not delete after hitting 0 charges

Creature Abilities

  • Fixed an issue with Anubites potentially stacking Disease multiple times on the same player on a single ability usage
  • Reduced the Bleed damage amount of Sanguineous’ Blood Hands ability somewhat
  • Creature AoE abilities now require a LOS to hit any players in houses (similar to players casting AoE spells at players in houses)

Ship Crewmembers

  • Fixed an issue where Ship Crewmembers spawning in towns would all be male and not configured correctly

Aspect Weapon/Spellbook Specials

  • Players can now at most trigger one Aspect Weapon/Spellbook special every 5 seconds (also fixed an issue causing cascading triggers to get “stuck”)
  • Fixed a display issue in the [Stats page showing the wrong bonus amount for “Post-Backstab” Aspect Special chances
  • Fixed an issue where Lyric Aspect Weapon/Spellbook specials were only refreshing either Boss Barding effects or Discordance effects, but not both simultaneously (will now correctly refresh all barding-related effects)

Lottery

 

  • Added support for players to purchase 10 Tickets and 100 Tickets as once (both require double-click confirmation)

Evening Gloves and Hooks

  • Evening Gloves and Hooks are now treated as Exceptional and should display as such

Ultra Rare Cloth

  • Four new Ultra Rare Cloth drops have been introduced: Powder Lemon (Hue 1382), Powder Iris (Hue 2173), Powder Spring (Hue 1381), and Powder Azure (Hue 1384)

Powder Lemon (Hue 1382)

Powder Iris (Hue 2173)

Powder Spring (Hue 1381)

Powder Azure (Hue 1384)

Aegis Keep

  • Fixed and issue that was causing Aegis Keep “Strange” creatures from respawning correctly

Prevalia Market Gilded Containers

  • Fixed an issue with the recently introduced Gilded Containers on the Prevalia Market not functioning as intended for locking down/securing items (staff will be manually fixing in game the ones purchased up to this point)

Packet Throttling

  • Reintroducted an automated packet throttling system that kicks players who are found to be sending thousands of packet requests to the server every second (these players were causing server lag for all players)

Crash Fix

  • Fixed another crash issue related to Orc Reavers and other “weapon throwing” ocean NPCs
  • Fixed a crash related to Kelpies (Drowned Dragon minion)