PATCH: Mouseover Tooltips, Transcribers and Many More QoL Updates

Storage Shelves

• The Storage Shelf menu now has a dedicated Loadouts section for players to manage Storage Shelf Loadouts
• Players can now give individual Loadouts a name with the Rename button

• Players can switch Loadouts by using the Loadout Up/Down Arrow buttons or by selecting a specific Loadout from the Dropdown Menu

Bone Shields

• Fixed an issue non-colored material Bone Shields would not properly store in Storage Shelves

Tooltips

• Mouse Rollover Tooltips have been added to most “Info” buttons in game, including those in the Prevalia Merchant, Reward Systems, Codexes, Ship Menus, etc
• Players can still continue to click the “Info” button itself to see a system message of the info text in the bottom left corner of the screen

Aspect Item Tomes

• Aspect Item Tomes can now store Chromatic Cores and Chromatic Distillations
• Retrieval of Chromatic Cores and Chromatic Distillations are handled by dedicated buttons at the top of the Aspect Item Tome menu

Codexes

• Deleting a selected Loadout for any Codex will now select the next remaining Loadout, rather than jumping to and selecting their first Loadout in the list (making it easier to delete multiple Loadouts in a row)

Special Effects

• Fixed an issue that was causing Bleed, Disease, and Poison ticks from creatures (non-tamed) that were recently killed to not continue ticking against their target

Town Struggles

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t cast Field Spells while participating in Town Struggles

Dungeon Flashpoints

• Murderers with an active Blackmark can now Recall / Hike to level 1 of a dungeon that has a Dungeon Flashpoint in progress (the player must be in a guild and set to participate in PvP events to do so, however)

Magic Item Vault

• Fixed an issue where the contents of the Magic Item Vault would sometimes not refresh correctly when using vaults at two different houses in a short timespan

Magic Item Recycler

• Fixed an issue where the shift-click Context Menu buttons for Magic Item Recyclers wouldn’t properly resolve settings and often result in no items being processed

Weight Capacity

• A player’s Weight Capacity displayed in their Status Bar should now properly refresh whenever impacted by changes to Mastery Chain Links or Redline Upgrades

Black Goods

• Fixed several issues that were impacting the rarity scaling of Black Goods appearing from stealing actions against creatures

Aspects

• Fixed an issue that was causing Aspect Crystals to sometimes not be consumed

Ships

• Fixed an issue where the Ability Cooldowns for player-ship Crewmembers (such as Carpenters, Medics, etc) would sometimes reset preemptively
• The [Reload command for ships should now work again, similar to [ReloadCannons

Provocation

• The Maximum Range for maintaining Provocation between creatures is now 40 Tiles (this replaces the old “Tether” mechanic which had variable distances)

Crafting

• Fixed an issue where crafting using Reagents was not properly contributing towards Achievements (Scientist) or Artisan Aspect Experience gains

Houses

• Ghosts inside of Houses will now always be visible to Friends, Co-Owners, and Owners of that house

House Battle Trainer

• House Battle Trainer NPCs now have a “Mute Hit Sounds” button in their settings that when toggled, will mute nearly all sounds generated by players attacking the NPC (swing sounds, hit sounds, ability sounds, special effects, etc)

Runebook and Runetome Transcribers

• Players can now acquire Runebook Transcribers and Runetome Transcribers that allow a player to copy the contents of a Runebook or Runetome into an empty Runebook or Runetome (both the filled and empty items must be in the player’s backpack)
• Transcribers are stackable and each usage will consume one item

• Runebook Transcribers and Runetome Transcribers are available as a Gold-Only purchase on the Prevalia Market under the Misc category

Using Transcribers

• Runebook Transcribers can only be used to copy the contents of Runebooks
• Rune Tome Transcribers can only be used to copy the contents of Rune Tomes

• To use a Transcriber, double-click the item and then target the filled Runebook/Rune Tome you wish to copy from (must be in backpack)

• The player will then be asked to target an empty Runebook/Rune Tome to fill (cannot have any entries) inside the player’s backpack

• Upon completion, the Transcriber item will be consumed and the empty runebook / rune tome will now match the entries of the original item, including the same “Default Rune” setting and “Name” for the item

Stablemaster Sales Notifications

• Players will now receive Stablemaster Sales Notification popups when one or more of their stabled creatures marked for sale is purchased by another player
• Players will receive a Notification popup when they have newly sold creatures and either Log In or access the Stablemaster menu

• Clicking the “View Sales” button on the Notification Popup will launch a Sales Summary Menu showing all unviewed sales activity

Viewed Activity

• Once a player has either clicked the “Dismiss” button from the Notification popup, or closes the Sales Summary Activity menu, all creature sales for that player up to that are now considered “Viewed” and will not show up in future notifications/summaries

Public Display Case

• Players can now purchase Classic Public Display Cases and Velvet Public Display Cases from the Prevalia Market under the Furniture category
• Display Cases are containers that allow any player (even if not Friends of the house) to open and view the contents of the container
• Lifting and/or Using items from the container will follow normal access settings set for the container

• Velvet Public Display Cases have a unique container graphic and can be dyed with Furniture Dye

• Players can rotate Velvet Public Display Cases between different visual styles

• Classic Public Display Cases have a unique container graphic (but cannot be dyed)

• Players can rotate Classic Public Display Cases between different visual styles

Furniture

Furniture Dye Remover

• Players can now purchase Furniture Dye Removers from the Prevalia Market under the Misc Items category
• Furniture Dye Remover can be used to remove the dyed hue from any Furniture item or Addon Deed in the player’s backpack

Curio Dyes

• Curio Dyes should now work on Furniture Add-on Deeds that are marked as Dyeable (such as Immaculate Large Bar)

Arena Headstone

• Arena Headstones now have a 5 minute cooldown between usages

Factions

Faction Participation

• Players can no longer change their setting for Faction Participation (enable / disable) if they have been in PvP within the last 5 minutes (previously was 60 seconds)

Faction Rewards

• Players can now purchase “Flag Poles” from the Faction Rewards menu

Creature Abilities

Overheat Text

• A large number of Follower abilities that have overhead text (such as *regens* for the Regeneration ability) will now only be visible to the creature’s controller

Burrow

• The Burrow ability is now a Passive ability
• The Burrow ability now has the following description: “Has a 15% chance on melee attack to inflict (DamageMax * 2.0) bleed damage over 15 seconds. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Choke

• The Choke ability is now a Passive ability
• The Choke ability now has the following description: “Has a (5% + (Control Slots * 5%)) chance on melee hit to entangle creature for 4 seconds and inflict (DamageMax * 1.5) which ignores half of target’s armor and also applies a (DamageMax * 1.0) Pressure effect with 15 second duration. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Constrict

• The Constrict ability is now a Passive ability
• The Constrict ability now has the following description: “Has a (5% + (Control Slots * 5%)) chance on melee hit to entangle creature for 4 seconds and inflict (DamageMax * 2.0) which ignores half of target’s armor. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Crush

• The Crush ability is now a Passive ability
• The Crush ability now has the following description: “Has a 15% chance on melee attack to apply a pierce effect of (10 * Control Slots) for 15 seconds. If successful, has a (10% * Control Slot) chance to Hinder creatures for 3 seconds or Hamstring players for 2 seconds. Chances are reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Discharge

• The Discharge ability is now a Passive ability
• The Discharge ability now has the following description: “Melee attacks have a 10% chance to restore 5% Health and to inflict an additional (DamageMax * 1.5) damage which ignores half of target’s armor. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Firebite

• The Firebite ability is now a Passive ability
• The Firebite ability now has the following description: “Has a 15% chance on melee attack against a poisoned target (greater poison or higher) to inflict (DamageMax * 2.5) damage over 5 seconds that ignores half of target’s armor. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Mirror

• The Mirror ability is now a Passive ability
• The Mirror ability now has the following description: “Spells cast onto the creature have a 15% chance to be reflected back onto the caster. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Primal Rage

• The Primal Rage ability has been removed
• Creatures that previously had Primal Rage (Savage Primordial) will now have both the Frenzy and Enrage abilities

Spellvenom

• The Spellvenom ability is now a Passive ability
• The Spellvenom ability now has the following description: “Has a 10% chance on spellcast to apply Greater Poison. Inflicts (DamageMax * 0.5) damage if target already has greater poison or above. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Weakening Web

• The Weakenening Web ability is now a Passive ability
• The Weakening Web ability now has the following description: “Has a (5 + (Control Slots * 5%)) chance on melee attack to hinder creatures for 3 seconds or hamstring players for 2 seconds, and also apply a weaken effect of (Control Slots * 4%) for 15 seconds. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Web

• The Web ability is now a Passive ability
• The Web ability now has the following description: “Has a (5 + (Control Slots * 5%)) chance on melee attack to hinder creatures for 3 seconds or hamstring players for 2 seconds. Chance is reduced to 33% of normal if creature has previously triggered this ability within last 15 seconds”

Venom Barrage

• Fixed an issue where the Venom Barrage ability of Spitting Viper-type followers wouldn’t fully utilize their full Attack Range (12 for PvM and 8 for PvP)

TEST SHARD

Player Editor Statue

• The purple Player Editor statue on the TEST SHARD has a number of new features

Drop Down List Hue Selectors

• Hue selections for Items, Clothing, Creatures can now be made using Drop Down Lists of all possible hues

Clothing Creation and Preview

• The Clothing Creation section of the Player Editor now has dropdown lists to sort between Layers, Clothing Items, and Hues
• The Clothing Creation section will now display a visual preview of both the Clothing’s paperdoll appearance

• The Clothing Preview will now also display an in-game animated preview of the clothing item with buttons to switch between Animation, Gender Version, and Facing

Players can click buttons to change the clothing preview’s Animation, Gender Version, and Facing