Build Number 723 4:30PM

Updates

• PVP damage was increased by roughly a third to balance out new defensive options (no impact to PVE)


• Deflect, Dodge, Glancing Blow, and Parry now all have at least a 30 second duration once proficiency is reached.


• Magic that generates a partial hit will now say "...partially resisted..."


• Performance improvement for player character rendering.


• Added 250 arrows to the reward for Obsidian Elf Sniper quest in Highvale Outskirts.


• Mackey is back from vacation in Etceter Crag Mines.


• Bandits in Etceter Crag Mines will no longer stop talking after the first sentence.


• Fixed Ice Gloves being the incorrect armor type.


• Increased masterwork bonuses from 3 to 5 on Wayland Loop, Maple Band, and Thimble of Evelyn artifacts.


• Hamstring damage will no longer be affected by a targets strength.


• The NPC chat window background darkness was increased to make text more legible.


• Dirt piles can no longer be destroyed with ranged attacks in South Drachvald Spur.


• The distance allowed for digging up dirt piles has been increased.


• Address verification on account page was updated for functionality.


• Ballet Leotard no longer clips at the chest when dancing.

• It is possible to debuff enemies when out of reach due to environment positioning.


• There are ongoing issues with being able to target, heal, and flag in parties of mixed PVP-flagging.


• Juggle emotes do not properly sync hand/item movements in low performance environments.


• Crafting UI will not properly recognize Gold Ingots to fulfill Metal Ingot recipes.


• Quest NPCs will not accept inexact stacks of quest items. Items must be exact quantity requested at time of turn-in to be recognized as valid.


• Party/Companion nameplates can be visually obscured if enough buffs are added for icons to wrap to three rows.


• Visual quest indicators may be missing from compass. Adding the data to support them is an ongoing design process.


• Dazzling Rays, and other caster-based AOE spells, have difficulty hitting nearby enemies in confined spaces (like narrow hallways)


• Overworld map terrain may appear missing or flattened in areas for Windows 10 users. Playing in Windows 8 compatibility mode may fix this.


• Ring of Cuttlekin turns avatar skin grey instead of translucent.


• Pets cannot follow players onto moving platforms.


• If an item’s name is in Runic, its flag as “Private Property” will also appear in Runic.


• Players with Tenant permissions on a Lot cannot place their own Player Vendors.


• It is currently difficult to find harvest resources in scenes with the Surveying skill. This will be revisited after a VFX review of this system.


• Deleting a character will reset the local settings for the entire client. Other accounts, or offline/online characters will also have their settings reset.


• Some decorations placed in basements may shift through walls and end up in inaccessible locations.


• Some scene instances may be bugged in which it is easy for players to fall through the ground. An existing workaround is to reload the scene.


• Players may be unable to interact with objects via double-click if their framerate is poor. A workaround is to use the “E” interaction key.


• Some spell VFX do not play properly


• Some textures may look incorrect due to optimizations (white, black, pink, low resolution, pixelated, etc.)


• Water lots in Dynamic Player Owned Towns can currently only be placed along shorelines, not on docks


• Some pledge, add on, and stretch goal items have not yet been built and/or do not yet have tech support.

• Fixed line-of-sight issues with numerous creature skills.


• Another try at fixing Cloth Chest Armor making avatar skin too dark.


• Fixed a bug that prevented the displayed weight of a container from updating when its contents changed.


• Fixed incorrect texture tiling on Duke and Lord of the Manor islands in Tropical Island player owned towns.


• Obsidian Scrolls of Unlearning will now also return 100% of experience.


• Sitting players no longer appear odd to others loading into a scene.


• Quest POI marker for turning in the bow to Horatio in Highvale Outskirts now goes away after completing.


• Fixed an issue with Offhand Attack that caused VFX to appear on the top of the screen.


• The Light spell will now follow the player more quickly when moving up and down.


• Overworld creatures will now give chase.


• Fixed death visuals for elementals.


• Players are no longer launched into the skies in Sunless Barrens when near a certain location.


• Optimization for "Good" quality mode that will increase frame rates significantly for GPU bound scenes.


• Crooked Shank in-game map created.


• Fixed not being able to loot dragons.


• The Virtue Ice Skirt cloth simulation has been disabled on male avatars.


• Some issues with the Ice Gown have been corrected.


• Female peasant NPCs no longer teleport around a scene when trying to move.


• Updated line-of-sight checks to ignore certain types of colliders.

• Mackey in Etceter Crag Mines is not appearing which blocks that quest from completing.


• It is possible to debuff enemies when out of reach due to environment positioning.


• There are ongoing issues with being able to target, heal, and flag in parties of mixed PVP-flagging.


• Juggle emotes do not properly sync hand/item movements in low performance environments.


• Crafting UI will not properly recognize Gold Ingots to fulfill Metal Ingot recipes.


• Quest NPCs will not accept inexact stacks of quest items. Items must be exact quantity requested at time of turn-in to be recognized as valid.


• Party/Companion nameplates can be visually obscured if enough buffs are added for icons to wrap to three rows.


• Visual quest indicators may be missing from compass. Adding the data to support them is an ongoing design process.


• Dazzling Rays, and other caster-based AOE spells, have difficulty hitting nearby enemies in confined spaces (like narrow hallways)


• Overworld map terrain may appear missing or flattened in areas for Windows 10 users. Playing in Windows 8 compatibility mode may fix this.


• Ring of Cuttlekin turns avatar skin grey instead of translucent.


• Pets cannot follow players onto moving platforms.


• If an item’s name is in Runic, its flag as “Private Property” will also appear in Runic.


• Players with Tenant permissions on a Lot cannot place their own Player Vendors.


• It is currently difficult to find harvest resources in scenes with the Surveying skill. This will be revisited after a VFX review of this system.


• Deleting a character will reset the local settings for the entire client. Other accounts, or offline/online characters will also have their settings reset.


• Some decorations placed in basements may shift through walls and end up in inaccessible locations.


• Some scene instances may be bugged in which it is easy for players to fall through the ground. An existing workaround is to reload the scene.


• Players may be unable to interact with objects via double-click if their framerate is poor. A workaround is to use the “E” interaction key.


• Some spell VFX do not play properly


• Some textures may look incorrect due to optimizations (white, black, pink, low resolution, pixelated, etc.)


• Water lots in Dynamic Player Owned Towns can currently only be placed along shorelines, not on docks


• Some pledge, add on, and stretch goal items have not yet been built and/or do not yet have tech support.