Patch Notes, Sunday April 17th, 2011

[Ardenya]

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

[*]Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

[Lloen]

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

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

I believe that it might have cloned weapons at some point to dual wield, but now you have to actually provide two weapons. Not sure on this, but it's possible.

[Shizzam]

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

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

Its not that big of a deal for us mages, since we can summon or own weapons to give to the pet, necros on the other hand wont have this advantage

[Daeminff7]

Well before this patch - at least according to the p1999 wiki - mage pets began dual wielding innately at 39, thus before you gave them weapons. This was helpful because you could chain summon pets mana efficiently without having to resummon weps ever time to get your elemental to DW.
So, we'll have to see how this change effects soloing tactics on the mage, I doubt it matters much for the necro as they generally are agro/fear kiting in which the pet does not take damage/have to be chain summoned.

[Qwinny]

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

Its not that big of a deal for us mages, since we can summon or own weapons to give to the pet, necros on the other hand wont have this advantage

Or early to mid level enchanters before charm becomes even close to a reasonable idea.

[Xebarsis]

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

Burnished wooden stave drop rate was noted as a resolved issue to go in this fix but isn't in patch notes. Did it miss the patch or the notes?

This. I've grouped for the equivalent of 36 hours in Chardok and I've only seen one Burnished Wooden Staff so far.

[Daldaen]

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

Have to consider bard epic spawns as well.

Okay, but Epics went in, 6 months after Kunark release?

- Epic quests are introduced (Sept. 19)

The dates of those 3-4 day spread DKP entries are in July, 2 months before epics were introduced.

[ukaking]

I also didnt see the fix for the warrior pike quest #4 go in, but Im assuming it did since it said fixed pending update on the bug forums...

[nymphloa]

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

This. I've grouped for the equivalent of 36 hours in Chardok and I've only seen one Burnished Wooden Staff so far.

Got one for a friend in EC the other night...took me all of 1 hour of looking...

Peace!

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Daeminff7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well before this patch - at least according to the p1999 wiki - mage pets began dual wielding innately at 39, thus before you gave them weapons. This was helpful because you could chain summon pets mana efficiently without having to resummon weps ever time to get your elemental to DW.
So, we'll have to see how this change effects soloing tactics on the mage, I doubt it matters much for the necro as they generally are agro/fear kiting in which the pet does not take damage/have to be chain summoned.

This change basically takes down a mage's dps by about 40% while chain summoning, something that is pretty much essential on high-hp and damage kunark mobs. It's a gigantic nerf.