Patch Notes, February 18th, 2010

[Salty]

Rogean: Reverted Secret's Faction/Illusion code for now.

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Rogean: Pets doing 50% of the damage to a mob will now take 50% of xp If ungrouped.

^ This is what it was like on live, so haters quit crying~

[Cormac]

Originally Posted by Modal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Doesn't sound like a very good idea. Kinda eliminates the single most useful tactic a necro has, fear-kiting. And on top of that, it's coupled with a fix that finally has our pets doing a lot more damage with DW.

Definitely need to look into another way to accomplish this. Even with 2-3 dots and 40-50% of our mana on a mob, a dual-weilding pet's gonna content for 50% every time. It's a case of all the work, half the xp.

Wholeheartedly agree. And I appreciate the dev team's willingness to discuss lowering the amount of required damage for the player to receive full exp (as per Rogean's post).

I'd also like to thank them for the rest of the fixes in the past week. Thanks guys.

[Finawin]

Everything aside, this looks like the best patch I've seen since I've joined.

A lot of good fixes.

[alluvin]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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• Haynar: Fixed duration on damage shield spells. Updated to use proper duration and duration formula.
  

not so much. Still only 3 minute duration on DS

[alluvin]

Originally Posted by Salty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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^ This is what it was like on live, so haters quit crying~

only on charmed pets, normal pets the owner just had to do 1dmg. and with having them do 1 dmg it eliminates afk camping. if someone is going to sit and hit a low level mob ever minute for 1 damage they can do so. but leveling is going to be slow as fuck since they can't actually be afk

[WyldGunz]

Just remove the faction on pets , that would settle everything fairly , as a shaman i mainly slow mobds and heal pet to be mana conservative i dont do damage most the time so this is lame.

[Malrubius]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We will discuss the 1 point of damage option and have a decision for next patch

This post gets two thumbs up (or one (50% nerf) until the next patch anyway).

j/k - you guys are kicking ass with this server and we appreciate all the hard work.

[WyldGunz]

Originally Posted by Kadie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

well, it's the age old story, the few ruin it for the many. I guess we'll just have to 'deal' with it (not that those classes who can't solo will mind :P).

It's just a shame for those newbie pet classes starting out, and those who can only play a few hours here and there and want to solo a bit.

It is not the few who ruin it for the many , Its the people that cant over look those that are causing the problem or just take care of them rather than hruting everyone in the wake.

It is better to over look a handful of people than to punish a thousand in my opion. And honestly the main goal is gear in EQ not lvl , everyone gets to max lvl if they are worth anything. How about nerfing plvling ?!?! Isnt that unfair as well ?

I'm a lil upset cause i took a 4 day break from eq and come back to being shut down and unable to play now. I like to solo over grouping so YES im done unless there's solo friendly solution.

[Segoris]

Originally Posted by alluvin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not so much. Still only 3 minute duration on DS

Addressed on page 1 of this thread:

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As far as the damage shield duration goes, you need an updated spells_us.txt. The new file isn't posted yet for download, but we will get that straightened out. I forgot to let Rogean know, that it needed to be released for the fixes to the DS to work. We will get it out to you guys soon.

Haynar

[alluvin]

Good eyes, i must have overlooked it.