Patch-Notes

           

• Members of each realm should make haste to their ghostly ambassador to strengthen their realm's cause:
  • Albion - See the Ancient Paladin in the Catterick Hamlet relic town
  • Midgard - See the Ancient Thane in the Godrborg relic town
  • Hibernia - See the Ancient Champion in the Crair Treflan relic town
• Players should ask the 'Ancient' NPCs for a [progress] report to be directed to the current task at hand.
  • These NPCs offer two quests during the 'supply' phase of the event that can only be obtained and completed during that phase.
  • Once a 'summoning' phase has been started by a realm, the 'supply' phase ends for all three realms and these NPCs will direct players to defend or attack the appropriate Ghostly Summoner.
  • Once a ghostly keep lord has been called forth, the 'summoning' phase ends and these NPCs will direct players to defend or attack the appropriate ghostly keep lord!
  • Be sure to visit this NPC at each phase to ensure you pick up any available quests.
• Earn extra realm points for completing the tasks throughout each phase of the event!
• A successfully summoned ghostly keep lord will offer the new Ring of the Summoned reward, along with a quest to players that pay them a visit!
• Earn the new Ghostly Medal of Valor for successfully defending your realm's ghostly keep lord long enough for them to grant a new task!
• For more in-depth information, a handy guide can be found here that explains the phases of this event in detail!

                  

• The ruined keeps of Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, and Dun Crauchon, along with their towers, have been restored to a normal, non-ruined state.
  • These keeps will still only have two towers instead of three.
  • Please note that they will still appear as "ruined" on the /realmwar map for the remainder of the event.
  • The 'Resource Crates' for the Supplies for the Cause quest remain inside the now non-ruined keeps. They are also still available on Ellan Vannin.
• The Buggane's Obelisk buff now only awards characters bonus bounty points and coin and no longer awards bonus realm points. This is to encourage players to participate in the event and mainland RvR more.
• The portal ceremony in each realm's relic town has been disabled. This is to encourage players to participate in the event and mainland RvR more.

           

General

• The adventure wing instances in the classic-world dungeons have been disabled. This was an over-sight with the recent addition of the new campaign's dungeons and the disabling of the Catacombs expansion zones.

Animist

Creeping Path specialization

• All armor factor debuff spells have had their duration reduced to 15 seconds, down from 45 seconds. This aligns all 3 realms’ armor factor debuffs.

Bonedancer

Darkness specialization

• The non-targetable phantasm summons in the Bone Revenant line of spells no longer attack or uncover stealthed targets.

Suppression specialization

• All disarms have been changed to fumbles.
• Level 1 – Punish Combatant – 1500 range – Instant cast – 3s duration – 5m reuse – 20% power – Increases the targets fumble chance by 3%.
• Level 11 – Punish Assailant – 1500 range – Instant cast – 6s duration – 5m reuse – 20% power – Increases the targets fumble chance by 5%.
• Level 21 – Punish Aggressor – 1500 range – Instant cast – 8s duration – 3m reuse – 20% power – Increases the targets fumble chance by 10%.
• Level 31 – Punish Opponent – 1500 range – Instant cast – 12s duration – 60s reuse – 20% power – Increases the targets fumble chance by 20%.
• Level 41 – Punish Soldier – 1500 range – Instant cast – 15s duration – 60s reuse – 20% power – Increases the targets fumble chance by 30%.

Bone Army specialization

• Level 42 – Ruin Bones – Damage reduced to 121 per tick, down from 131.

Heretic

• Level 48 – Torrential Blaze – Damage increased. Now delves for 170 damage, up from 150, and increases by 60% each tick (2s frequency), up from 50%, with a maximum damage increase of 170%, up from 135%. Range remains at 1600, 15s duration.
• Level 42 – Whirling Blaze – 115 damage and increases by 45% each tick (2s frequency), with a maximum damage increase of 110%. Range remains at 1600, 15s duration.

Mentalist

Mana Magic specialization

• Level 46 – Storm of Insanity – Damage reduced to 121 per tick, down from 131.

Necromancer

Deathsight Baseline

• The ground disease spell has had its values adjusted as follows:
  • Level 6 - Decrepit Ground - Range reduced from 1000 to 500, radius reduced from 250 to 75, tick frequency reduced from 1s to 5s/tick..
  • Level 16 - Wretched Ground - Range reduced from 1000 to 500, radius reduced from 275 to 100, tick frequency reduced from 1s to 4.5s/tick..
  • Level 26 - Rotting Ground - Range reduced from 1000 to 500, radius reduced from 300 to 125, tick frequency reduced from 1s to 4s/tick..
  • Level 36 - Desecrated Ground - Range reduced from 1000 to 500, radius reduced from 325 to 150, tick frequency reduced from 1s to 3.5s/tick..
  • Level 46 - Unholy Ground - Range reduced from 1000 to 500, radius reduced from 350 to 200, tick frequency reduced from 1s to 3s/tick.

Deathsight specialization

• Level 47 – Infinite Death – Damage reduced to 121 per tick, down from 131.

Warlock

Witchcraft specialization

• All armor factor debuff spells have had their duration reduced to 15 seconds, down from 45 seconds. This aligns all 3 realms’ armor factor debuffs.

• Made some adjustments to the way /qbinds and movement work if the /qbind uses a modifier+movement key:
  • By default, modifier keys still don't break player movement except in the following scenarios.
  • Movement keys are defined as forward, backward, turn left, turn right, strafe left, strafe right; autorun is not a movement key for these purposes. The following examples work the same regardless of which type of movement key is used.
    • Example 1: If a user has an ability bound to SHIFT+W and W is their move forward key, pressing SHIFT+W will only fire the /qbound ability now and will not move the character forward.
    • Example 2: If a user has an ability bound to SHIFT+X and W is their move forward key, pressing W will move the character forward and the user can still press their SHIFT+X /qbind and continue moving; so long as the user doesn't have a bind set to SHIFT+W. If the user does have a bind set to SHIFT+W in this scenario, their character will now stop.
• Added new option to /keyboard window "Modifiers break move keys" that when toggled will cause any manual character movement (so not including autorun) to cease when ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT are pressed. This option allows for exactly how things worked prior to yesterday's client. By default this setting is NOT set.
  • Please note that custom UI developers will need to update their key_config.xml file in order for this new option to appear.
• Changing from full-screen to a windowed client will no longer cause the windowed client to always appear in front of other windows or programs on the desktop. 
• Mouse cursor movement should once again be aligned after re-sizing the client's resolution.

• The mouse cursor will no longer become "locked" when zoning or exiting the game while mouse look is active.
• New mouse sensitivity settings have been added to the character selection screen's option window. These settings work as follows:
  • Users can adjust the "Mouselook Sensitivity" on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest sensitivity.
    • The value of 3 is whatever the user's current DPI sensitivity is on their mouse, with 2 being 25% slower than that and 1 being 50% slower and 4 being 25% faster and 5 being 50% faster.
  • The value will default to "1" on first login as this is a new option, so be sure to change this to at least 3 to get your existing mouse sensitivity settings when first logging in!
  • For users who decide to adjust their mouse's DPI setting while in mouselook or mousepan mode after logging in, the mouse's DPI setting will supercede this new setting still.
  • Remember, this sensitivity setting only affects mouselook or mousepan; it does not affect normal cursor movement. For normal cursor movement, please use either your operating systems mouse sensitivity settings or your mouse's own software settings.
• Mouselook lock mode will now only function when the cursor is located over the game's screen. Mouselook lock mode will end when the game window is not the active window and need to be re-engaged when the game window becomes active again.
• Several changes have been made to the /keyboard window functionality to address some outstanding issues with certain keys and mouse clicks performing multiple, unintended functions for some users. These changes affect the following:
  • Media and browser keys on some keyboards will no longer trigger some bound keys.
  • Users can no longer bind the number keys 1 through 0 or the Esc key on the /keyboard window.
  • The /keyboard window now allows the binding of a valid key after pressing an invalid key first.
  • The Esc key will now cancel the key binding action.
• Added a borderless full-screen windowed mode option to the character selection screen's options window!
• The Heretic's uninterruptable focus damage pulse has changed as follows to rebalance the spell for PvE purposes and make it more useful in RvR, with a faster ramping time but lower maximum damage.
  • Level 36 – Glistening Blaze – Starts at 85 heat damage and increases by 35%/tick up to a maximum of 75%, down from a maximum of 350%. Cast time increased to 2.5s on the initial pulse, up from 2s. Subsequent pulse tick times unchanged. Range increased from 1500 to 1600.
  • Level 42 – Whirling Blaze – Starts at 115 heat damage and increases by 45%/tick up to a maximum of 115%, down from a maximum of 400%. Cast time increased to 2.5s on the initial pulse, up from 2s. Subsequent pulse tick times unchanged. Range increased from 1500 to 1600.
  • Level 48 – Torrential Blaze – Starts at 150 heat damage and increases by 50%/tick up to a maximum of 135%, down from a maximum of 450%. Cast time increased to 2.5s on the initial pulse, up from 2s. Subsequent pulse tick times unchanged. Range increased from 1500 to 1600.

• Users that have their forward key set to break auto-run in the /keyboard window will once again be able to engage the auto-run key while holding their forward key down.
  • For users who do not see the option to change whether their forward key breaks auto-run in their /keyboard window, they can switch to the default UI to see it or download an update for their custom UI.
• Users with Mouselook OFF set on the character selection screen's game options will once again only be able to use their mouse to look left and right (and not up and down).
  • Users with Mouselook ON or Mouselook REVERSE set will be able to use their mouse to look up/down and left/right as normal.
• Clients that use a higher full-screen resolution in-game than the resolution set in their operating system will once again be able to use their mouse across the entire game screen.
• Mouse sensitivity should be normalized between mouse-pan and mouse-turn.
  • If, after patching, you are still experiencing issues with a very slow or very fast mouse-pan or mouse-turn, please let us know via the feedback form!