Patch Notes, November 15th, 2009
 

Coming soon to a server near you.

• All Zone Experience Modifiers have been adjusted.
• Hermit in South Karana is now on a 2 minute spawn timer. (Nilbog)
• Noble Hunter's quest mobs in Innothule condensed into a single spawn and path grid. (Nilbog)
• Removed faction hits from Cynthia in Rathe Mountains. (Nilbog)
• Fixed click effect on Shiny Brass Idol. (Nilbog)
• Purchin Oddsbot, Trantor Everhot, and Jogl Doobraugh will now drop their heads for Deep Six Cutlass quest. (Nilbog)
• Several fixes to Faction and Spawn Issues with Gargoyles in Ocean of Tears. (Nilbog)
• Changed spawn time of the Dwarves on Sister Island in Ocean of Tears. (Nilbog)
• Neapha Vesturo and Gero Yopetu now have individual spawns. (Nilbog)
• Added Faction for completing Fleskr's Supplies Quest. (Nilbog)
• Removed duplicate spawns for Grynnaf Einoom. (Nilbog)
• Corrected loot on Ascania Halvbin and Larisa Gelrith. (Nilbog)
• Assistant Kiolna will accept Key 106 on behalf of Bank Clerk Jaylin. (Nilbog)
• Removed Heretics Faction hit from Paineel Guards. (Wenai)
• Astaed Wemor should no longer give out incorrect rewards. (Aeolwind)
• Increased mana cost on Superior Healing. (Xzerion)
• Increased spawn time and lowered drop percentange on Hadden. (Wenai)
• Sisters of Erollisi will now drop Wood Elf Parts. (Wenai)
• Captain Ashlan will now accept Orc Scalps, One at a time. (Wenai)
• Blixkin Enropop should now respond for the Bug Collection quest. (Wenai)
• Captain Hazran will accept Deathfist Slashed Belts, Two at a time. (Wenai)
• Merona Castekin wil now have a chance to award Band of Tunare and Ring of Pine. (Wenai)
• Indaria in South Qeynos will now reward those who return her doll. (Wenai)
• Armorer Dellin will now award the Reserve Militia Tunic correctly. (Wenai)
• Nultal Malfoot will now take your stinky skunk glands. (Wenai)
• Increased XP Reward for Putrid Hide Quest from Priestess Caulria. (Wenai)
• Decreased drop rate on Blackened Iron Crown. (Wenai)
• Axe of the Slayers will now proc at level 30. (Nilbog)
• Travis Two Tone is now responding correctly and no longer having an Identity Crisis with Deputy Budo. (Nilbog)
• Fixed loot changes for Petrifin. (Xzerion)
• Adjusted height on a huge water elemental. (Xzerion)
• Brother Qwinn in SK was.. Tinkered with. Codename for lack of changelog info :D. (Aeolwind)
• Fixed Aegis of Life. What exactly changed I'm not sure =o. (Aeolwind)
• Jboots are now 1% slower.

Any additional information on: All Zone Experience Modifiers have been adjusted.

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Gnice.

Also, Hill Giant loot was nerfed.

WTG on the hard work and thankless effort ya'll put into it. It's a lot harder than it looks.

(Does this update have anything to do with the server going down this morning?)

"Increased mana cost on Superior Healing. (Xzerion)"

Xzerion, please explain the logic behind this decision.

From my point of view, as a cleric, it is obvious that mob melee dmg on this server is significantly higher than it was in classic and than it should be. This is a commonly known issue now and has been for a while. Thusfar, devs have shown an inability to fix this issue.

Sooooooo ..

Making the healing of those taking this extra damage less efficient doesn't make much sense at all, imo. It only amplifies the problem with mob melee damage. Perhaps superior healing was "suppose" to be 250 mana, but alot of things on this server are not as they are "suppose" to be, specifically the afore mentionned mob melee damage issue.

Some clarification on why this change was made on this server at this time would be nice.

As a side note, the spell's mana cost still says 185 in game but it is actually costing 250 to cast.

Two wrongs don't make a right. They are fixing what they can, when they can. They shouldn't have to justify every change they make it if aligns with the initial scope of this project.

Patience
 

They are making changes for a reason one patch at a time.

Perhaps they changed the mana cost back to what its supposed to be to effectively find a fix for the known melee issue and see the true impact of the issue.

Chill out for a while before u jump to conclusions bro



Peace peace

I appreciate your conjectures, however I asked for an explanation from the source. I still would like it.

Since you changed Brother Qwinn, how is he different?