18.1.2 Preliminary Update Release Notes

[Means]

18.1.2 Preliminary Update Release Notes:

- Mouse-Look should once again work correctly when using the middle mouse button.

- Tool-tips should no longer prevent scrolling of the shortcut bar.

- Target NCU window should no longer revert to list mode on log-in.

- Shadowbreed icons should now correctly have a timer on the shortcut bar.

- Player city grid destination should no longer display as "unknown playfield".

- Jobe Modified Unlearning Device is no longer No-Drop or Unique and can be purchased for significantly lower costs and sold by high computer literacy professions.

- Elysium quest NPCs should now correctly have blue names and a 6 minute grace period if they are attackable.

- Beast Room raid locks should now apply correctly when entering the instance.

- Respawn of boss monsters (ie: The Beast, Zodiacs) should no longer happen in locked instances.

- Adonis Key quest npcs should now drop "the note" with the same percentage chance for both Redeemed and Unredeemed factions.

- Peach Adonis Recollection Shard, Purple Adonis Recollection Shard,Green Adonis Recollection Shard required in the Adonis "Syndicate Brain Line" of missions should now drop with a significantly higher drop rate.

- Cell Templates, Mitochondria Samples and Plasmid Cultures should now have their own recognizable icons.

- Experience Construct and Advanced Experience Construct are now No-Drop.

- Protection buffs gained from using "Crystals" inside the LOX Vortexx instance should now have a 30 second duration (increased from 8) to decrease the number of failures to get immunity due to mistimed use.

- Kyr'Ozch Bio-Materials - Type 18, 34, 812, 687, 295, 468, 64, 935, 328 should now have a new icon to make them visually different from Solid Clump of Biomaterial.

- The following weapon procs should now show in the Hostile Target NCU window:

Dreadloch Shen Sticks, heal/nano init debuff
Dreadloch Remodulator, AAD debuff
Dreadloch Combat Remodulator, Evades debuff
Dreadloch Modified Shark, runspeed debuff
Dreadloch Obliterator, init debuffs
Dreadloch Rapier, AC debuff
Dreadloch Tigress, nano/nano dmg debuff
Amplified Kyr'Ozch Carbine - Type 12, DoT
Honed Edge of Tarasque, DoT
Vektor ND Grand Wyrm, ADD debuff + self Heal

- Devastating Blow and Bring the Pain should once again function correctly and correctly display in the Hostile Target NCU window.

- Devastating Blow and Bring the Pain are no longer part of a chain and can be used independantly.

- Power of Light and Devastating Blow descriptions changed to more accurately reflect the effects of these specials.

[Arcanite]

First!

Any ETA?

[Means]

First!

Any ETA?

We are hoping for Wednesday (July 15th). Things look good so far.

[Luiza]

- Devastating Blow and Bring the Pain are no longer part of a chain and can be used independantly.

hmm interesting... to bad 1h-edged/1h-blunt enforcers hate you for nerfing their combo :[

ps: it's independently*

[nanoforcer]

I don't usually wine about drop rates, but it has come to my attention that a particular kind of spirit in vortexx/mitaar seems to have a much lower droprate that the rate, and i know you changed the droprate of spirits a few patches ago so i was wondering if you could at the very least look into the matter

Wrist, all kinds, they seems to drop very rarely, spirits that is

1 drop in 87 kills in mitaar and 1 in 76 kills of vortex just seems low to me, of that specific kind of spirit.

[nanoforcer]

Btw no word on the 150-200 instance or daily xp quests that were announced, that still has some work left to do before it goes live i guess..?

[Luiza]

Btw no word on the 150-200 instance or dayli xp quests that were announced, that still has some work left to do before it goes live i guess..?

maybe add some stuff that adds "Victory Points" in the new instance since TL1 BS upto TL6 are all DEAD!

[Ayria]

Nice to hear about things getting their own icons. Some of them (icons) are way to overused.

[Gracee]

http://forums.anarchyonline.com/show...&postcount=371

The "Rollback" T-Shirts will be available in the next data update.

gief!

[Mereditche]

- Peach Adonis Recollection Shard, Purple Adonis Recollection Shard,Green Adonis Recollection Shard required in the Adonis "Syndicate Brain Line" of missions should now drop with a significantly higher drop rate.

Now thats the type of changes that are to be considered. This was just annoying and not challenging or anything. Also look at the Scheol quest line where the amount of running is just boring beyond believe. Especially on some professions with low runspeed.

[Rewo]

Btw no word on the 150-200 instance or daily xp quests that were announced, that still has some work left to do before it goes live i guess..?

This is just a bugfix patch. I expect we'll see things like that in the next major content patch, likely 18.2 or beyond.

[Mjolklarse]

18.1.2 Preliminary Update Release Notes:

- Beast Room raid locks should now apply correctly when entering the instance.

- Respawn of boss monsters (ie: The Beast, Zodiacs) should no longer happen in locked instances.

Lots of good changes and/or fixes! Especially theese two which potentially would kill all pande raids since people would just farm them in small groups that keep their own clean PF (which already happened, but at least it gets fixed now).

[Valhallur]

- Experience Construct and Advanced Experience Construct are now No-Drop.

Thanks for the heads up.

Had a businesstrip going for the entire 7th anniversary and by some stroke of luck, also during the 8th anniversary.

Bought a pretty big stack of 'em a couple of days ago, and its currently sitting on a 220/30/70 character, so I'm happy I get a chance to distribute it ^^.

[Phargus]

- Jobe Modified Unlearning Device is no longer No-Drop or Unique and can be purchased for significantly lower costs and sold by high computer literacy professions.

How about doing this for the ones you purchase with vp too?

[Neosh1]

Cant patch to test ><

[Aethyrguard]

Some good patch updates on this. Good to see old issues being looked in to.

[julwithnumbers]

Good, no more exploiting in Pande and selling the stuff for cheap, while pretending to be a hero of the masses.

[PhoenixOfAges]

- Tool-tips should no longer prevent scrolling of the shortcut bar.

- Target NCU window should no longer revert to list mode on log-in.

- Player city grid destination should no longer display as "unknown playfield".

Thanks, they are annoying problems.

- Jobe Modified Unlearning Device is no longer No-Drop or Unique and can be purchased for significantly lower costs and sold by high computer literacy professions.

This is a welcome surprise.

- Peach Adonis Recollection Shard, Purple Adonis Recollection Shard,Green Adonis Recollection Shard required in the Adonis "Syndicate Brain Line" of missions should now drop with a significantly higher drop rate.

Can't say I've had much problem with this compare to other such things but a nice change all the same.

- Experience Construct and Advanced Experience Construct are now No-Drop.

Could be wrong but looking back a bit between the server status and update notices forums it looks like this mini patch has its notes up well in advance of what usually happens. My guess is this is a good part of the reason why.

Personally I still think making them unique instead would avoid the problems with farming and amassing them rather well. At the same time avoiding the WTF moments and related complaints that are bound to happen in the coming months when the more on and off people and others find them stuck on mules.

- Cell Templates, Mitochondria Samples and Plasmid Cultures should now have their own recognizable icons.

- Kyr'Ozch Bio-Materials - Type 18, 34, 812, 687, 295, 468, 64, 935, 328 should now have a new icon to make them visually different from Solid Clump of Biomaterial.

That's all very well and good but increasing their drop rates and VP values would be even more welcome. Actually tossing the LE mission drops entirely and going with the kind of things listed in my thread on LE missions linked in my sig would be better and encourage teaming more.

Now thats the type of changes that are to be considered. This was just annoying and not challenging or anything. Also look at the Scheol quest line where the amount of running is just boring beyond believe. Especially on some professions with low runspeed.

I decided to lvl my alt buffer MP to 150 rather than 100 just so she could use their warp nanos due to the Scheol quest chains. Cutting down on the insane amount of running around in those quest chains would be nice.

[Canibaal]

solja debuff "Tracer" doesnt show up in Nano Target NCU window, other debuffs show up though.

[Smasherr]

Can you please add (in case they're not added already) Augmented Hellfury Assault Cannon and Twice Augmented Hellspinner Shock Cannon' to the list of weapons with procs that show in the Hostile Target NCU window ?