New update in addition to those in the thread:
Preliminary Update Notes for Update 3.25
**These notes do not necessarily reflect the final version that will be deployed on Live**
Previous update notes for this cycle: Update 3.0, Update 3.19,Update 3.21.
TESTLIVE ONLY
* Maro (80) and Mara (37) should give you the Phoenix Medallion so you can continue to the level 30 destiny quests.
* Maru (pvp level 3 + 5 gold npc) will not speak to players below level 20.
* Mara (37) will boost players level 20 and under to level 37.
* Maro (80) will boost players to 80, as long as they are under level 37.
* Headless Harlots should no longer occasionally appear near the leveling npcs.
* Leveling NPCs will no longer bind you to Tortage
* Leveling NPCs should now teleport you to the city belogning to your race.
GENERAL
* Female faces in character creation on Testlive should now appear the way they used to look.
* The Tarantia Sewers are now a group instance, and mobs inside will not respawn.
COMBAT
* Fixed a bug that occasionally got you stuck in the charge pose when charging a target from minimum range.
* The timing of special effects (like knockbacks) on multihit combo attacks has been fixed.
* Column spells (like Lance of Mitra) now work again.
GUI
* A tutorial will pop whenever your first murder points are accumulated.
* Shield indication will now appear on targetted players in cases where you are allowed to attack said player.
ITEMS
* The supply of Aqua Regia for the Exceptional Alchemist's Cache has dried up a bit, and it will now be rarer.
* Adjusted abnormally high drop chance on NPC "Mercenary" in Zingaran camps.
* Lion's Blood is now called Feral Blood, and drops off members of the cat family.
* Reverted visual look change on a Herald of Xotli 2HE sword.
* Enemy Caster NPC's will now drop "Crude, Minor and Major Alchemist Caches", which contain various alchemical reagents. The quality of the Cache will vary at different mob-levels. In addition, the Casters will also have a chance to drop an "Exceptional Alchemist Cache".
* Enemy Non-caster NPC's will now drop an "Offal Creel" item, similar to the "Exceptional Alchemist Cache", containing specific types of alchemical reagents.
* Long Bows and Short Bows have had their graphics switched so Long Bows are actually longer than the Short ones, as one would expect them to be.
MASSIVE PVP
* Battlekeeps will no longer have NPC guards.
MOUNTS
* Mammoth Charge and Rhino Charge should not go on cooldown when the ability fails.
NPC/MOBS
* Damage from conquerer-type NPC auras has been vastly decreased. They should also no longer spam aura buffs.
* The Swamp Demons in Purple Lotus Swamp are no longer pacifists.
* Rebalanced Champion of the Honorguard.
* Oasis of Zaara: Robroten's heal is now a bit stronger, but no longer instantly cast.
* Poitain: Wandering Cartographer is now attackable.
* The City Stewards that teleport you into the resource and building playfields have been updated so that the player character now faces away from the door he came through.
* Cistern : Renato should now be able to attack players/not reset in phase 2. Renato should now remove his impatient buff upon reset.
* Lacheish: The howlers in Lacheish no longer have head-scratching animation issues.
QUESTS
* Destiny Quest Soldier: Valeria will no longer leave dialog early to fight or charge blindly into battle at the Lighthouse.
TRADESKILLS
* Alchemy crafting now has distinct potions that stack up to 100, and are slightly better than the regular vendor bought and dropped potions. This difference has been taken from the regular potions, and as a result these have been lowered in effect by 10%.
* Anti-Crafter NPC's have been placed near the normal resurrection slabs in Brandoc, Caenna and Nakaset. Use these to untrain tradeskills!
CLASSES
* Some feats which modify combos have been rebalanced. Feats affected are:
Guardian - Savage Counterstrike, Power Sweeps, Master Pikeman, Revenge, Crippling Thrusts.
Conqueror - Rend and Tear, Improved Bloody Hack, Crippling Bloody Hack, Power Counterstrike, Devastate, Power Feint, Improved Shield of Retribution, Improved Dancing Steel.
Dark Templar - Devourer's Might, Hexer's Might, Unholy Strength.
Barbarian - Atrocity, Grisly Wounds, Smash 'n Crush, Brutal Cyclone, Cyclone of Razors, Jagged Weapons.
Ranger - Barbed Arrows, Heavy Bolts, Knee-Capping.
Assassin - Vile Poisons, Vile Corruption.
Assassin
* Grim Corruption's debuff effect now also applies a 10% snare. This snare bypasses immunities and does not apply them upon expiring.
* Grim Corruption will now also apply an additional 40% snare. This additional snare lasts 12 seconds and is affected by immunities.
* Assassins will now be able to change stances while hidden.
Barbarian
* No escape will do its damage component even if the target has stun immunity running.
* Reaver Stance and Blood Rage will no longer persist through death and after zoning. This change overrides the previous change to allow them to persist.
Bear Shaman
* You can now replace any kind of "Claw" buff with any other type of "Claw" without having to cancel the current one you have running.
* Bewilder, Bloodthirst, and Ether Theft have had their combo steps reduced. The damage of these combos have been adjusted because of this.
Dark Templar
* Dark Burden's range has been increased from 8 meters to 15 meters.
* Investing a second feat point into Dark Burden now increases the snare value to 60%.
Demonologist
* New Feat: Scorch, Improves the lingering Incinerate effect, allowing it to apply Blistering Wounds. Blistering Wounds reduces the amount of healing received by the target. This can be applied up to 5 times.
* Blazing Fire now additionally has a 33/66/100% chance to apply a lingering Incinerate effect to the target.
* The base casting time of Planar Shift has been reduced to 0.5 seconds from 1 second.
* Charged Storm Chains now additionally applies a 30% snare to enemies in the vicinity of the primary target.
* Black Ashes now additionally has a 50/100% chance to apply a lingering Incinerate effect to the target.
* Improved Waves of Flame now additionally has a 10/20/30/40/50% chance per tick to apply a lingering Incinerate effect to the target.
* Blessing of Amher now additionally decreases the cooldown of Inferno of Amher by .25 seconds per feat point invested.
* Greater Flames now additionally applies the lingering Incinerate effect twice on the affected Fires of Gehenna spell.
* The damage multiplier granted by Greater Flames has been slightly reduced, however the affected cast will have increased scaling from bonus magical damage.
* Detonation has had its casting time removed, allowing it to be cast instantly. The damage and scaling of Detonation has been adjusted to compensate for this change.
* Let Them Burn now ticks every 2 seconds instead of every 3 seconds and additionally applies the lingering Incinerate effect each time it deals damage.
* Hands of the Underworld may now be cast instantly.
* Placing additional points in the Flame Body feat will decrease the casting time by .25 seconds per feat point invested.
* Agonizing Fiery Torment will now additionally decrease the casting time of Fiery Torment by .33/.66/1 second per rank.
* The Conflagration feat Demonic Frenzy has been renamed to Backdraft and moved from tier 4 to tier 5 in the tree. This feat will now additionally have a 33/66/100% chance to knockback targets damaged by the Detonation spell. This knockback effect will scale in power based on the damage inflicted by Detonation.
* The casting time of Gate of Hell has been reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.5 seconds.
* Gate of Hell now causes an affected Demon to receive no healing while banished.
* The Set's Chosen feat will now additionally lower the damage inflicted on the Demonologist by Archfiend's Pact.
* The self-damage component of Archfiend's Pact is now a separate debuff on the player.
* The self-damage components of Pact with Set, Bloody Pact with Set, and Archfiend's Pact are now based on a percentage of the Demonologist's total health, rather than a flat amount.
* Break Pact can now additionally break the effect of Archfiend's Pact.
* Break Pact now costs a percentage of base mana instead of a flat amount of mana.
* The casting time of Break Pact has been reduced to 0.5 seconds from 2 seconds.
Guardian
* Fixed a bug where fear immunity would be put on the player casting Overwhelming Shout.
* The cost of Guard I has been reduced to 5.7% of your base stamina.
Herald of Xotli
* Damage over time from Burn to Death has been increased significantly.
* Damage over time from Spreading Flames has also been increased.
* Pillar of Infernal Flames III finisher animation has been reduced in length. The finisher damage has been adjusted because of this.
* Burn to Death V finisher animation has been reduced in length. The damage over time has been adjusted because of this.
* Reduced the cost of Body and Spirit Wrack II from 16.2% to 15.8% of your base stamina.
* Reduced the cost of Burn to Death from 10.8% to 10.4%.
* The cost of Hell Strikes I have been lowered to 8.3% from 8.8% of your base stamina.
* Dread Visage will now slow affected targets by 50% in addition to the fear effect.
* Hellfire now reduces the casting time of Hellfire Breath by .5 seconds per rank, resulting in Hellfire Breath being instant cast with 5 points invested.
* Demon Maw's casting time has been reduced to 1 second from 3 seconds.
* The duration of the temporary effect granted from casting Hellfire Breath with Demon Maw active has been increased to 10 seconds.
* The casting time of Dread Visage has been reduced to 0.5 seconds. The cooldown has been increased to 60 seconds.
* Added a 5/10/15/20/25% healing debuff to Herald of Xotli’s Spitfire. The amount debuffed is based on the number of feat points invested in this feat.
* Spitfire is now a spell instead of a clickable. The spell has a 7 meter range.
* Spitfire now has a 45 second reuse time.
* Spitfire now lasts 15 seconds on the target.
* Spitfire’s damage has been readjusted due to the above changes.
* Flame Lash damage has been increased significantly and the damage now scales better with more Flame Lash stacks.
Necromancer
* Freeze is now a full stun instead of a mez. Duration is down to 5.5s, range is 25 meters.
Ranger
* Evasive Action should not go on cooldown when executed during cc effects such as stun, fear etc.
* Added a 5% healing debuff effect to Ranger’s Fire Stance proc. This effect can stack up to 5 times.
* Flame Barrage will now apply a 25% healing debuff to the target.
* Flame Barrage and the accompanying damage over time effect have had their damage increased significantly.
PVP
* It should no longer be possible to engage in pvp on pvp servers inside raid instances.
* No PvP xp reward will be given if a guard helped you kill someone.
* Fixed a bug where murderers could sometimes resurrect at normal resurrection points even if there was a murderer resurrection point in the playfield.
* The criminal buff will now be correctly reset to 5 minutes if you hit your target again while you have the buff.
* All guards in Connall's Valley, Conarch Village, Old Tarantia, and Khemi will now attack players when appropriate.
* The NPC call "Fenor" in Conall's Valley is now tagged as a Redeemer.
* Connall's Valley only has "Fine" vendors in the shady camp now.
* All Black Marketers are now called Black Marketeers.
* Unscrupulous merchants in Lacheish, Purple Lotus, and Poitain can now enter their commercial enterprises in earnest with murderers (ie. the vendors are now usable).
* Eiglophian Mountains: Shady camp now has a Redeemer.
Check out those class tweaks!
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