1.127 Pendragon Test-Server Patch Notes

Highlights

• Fall in love with your house all over again with brand new exterior and interior models and textures!
• Enjoy using the expanded Market Explorer search options!
• Check out the Endless Conquest limitations and Veteran account reward changes!
• Upgrade your style with our new cosmetic options in the Mithril store!
• Bainshee, Wizard, and Runemaster love – oh my!
• TONS of Bug Fixes and Client improvements!

World

Housing 

New Textures and Models

• All houses have received a major facelift with new exterior and interior models, architecture styles, layouts, lighting, design, and textures for every housing tier!

• House repossession for account inactivity has been re-enabled.
  • House repossession notices will be sent via email to any accounts with 120+ days of inactivity with the launch of 1.127.
  • Repossessed houses will have all belongings available for recovery at the repossession NPCs in the Housing market towns.
  • Consignment Repo Vault merchant names now indicate whether they are for “Guild” or “Personal” houses.

• The lot-stone store that sells porches, house titles, and other items can now be opened from the housing options and permissions window when Shift + Right-clicking a house wall.
• Changes to any object’s price on a CM will now update in real-time to anyone viewing that CM’s items.

• There is now a weekly check on all Consignment merchants to determine if any items on the merchant can be purchased.
  • Any merchants that have zero purchasable items (due to too much currency on the CM or prices that are set too high) will automatically de-list each week.
  • When players have no purchasable items and go to /listmerchant a new message will appear informing them that their merchant is set to de-list at the end of the week.
  • Weekly checks follow the same schedule as weekly quest timers: Midnight EST Sunday.
• The /listmerchant command is no longer required to be run by characters on the same housing server# as the house owner.
  • On Ywain /listmerchant can now be run by any character of the same realm on the house owning character’s account.
  • On Gaheris /listmerchant can now be run by any character on the house owning character’s account.
• The /house window now lists whether the house’s merchant is currently listed or not.

• The need to re-run the /house fixemblems command after each server restart has been corrected.
  • NOTE: This fix will only apply on any subsequent server restart beyond 1.127 to players who re-fix their house emblems once more after 1.127’s launch.
    • In other words, players that fix their emblems after 1.127 will no longer have to fix their emblems on subsequent server restarts.
• The need to pick up and place house vaults after each server restart has been corrected.
  • NOTE: This fix will only apply on any subsequent server restart beyond 1.127 to players who re-place their house vaults once more after 1.127’s launch.
    • In other words, players that fix their house vaults after 1.127 will no longer have to fix their vaults on subsequent server restarts.

Market Explorer

• The Market Explorer search has been improved!
  • ALL item stat bonuses are now searchable on the Market explorer window.
    • Players can now search for up to 3 stat-bonuses at once, with the option to only find results that match all bonuses.
    • Separated bonuses on the old Market explorer window such as Skill, Power, Hits, and Resists have been consolidated into the new bonus dropdowns.
  • ALL magic ability /uses and procs are now searchable on the Market explorer window.
    • The old “Procs” category has been renamed to “Item Abilities”.
  • In addition to the existing weapon slot options, a new “One Handed” slot option will return only right and left-handed weapons but not two-handed weapons, bows, or instruments.
  • A new “Mythical” slot category has been added to search for mythirian items.
  • The old “Weapon” slot has been renamed “Wieldable” and will return any wieldable weapon or item.
  • Shift+clicking on the Min. Quality and Min/Max level buttons will now add/subtract 10.
  • All other existing filters and functionality remains.

• The bazaar_query.xml file has been updated to accommodate the new Market Explorer functionality.
  • This file will need to be adjusted in the ui/custom folder for the new functionality to be visible in any custom UIs.
  • For many custom UIs, this file can simply be copied over from the atlantis folder into the custom folder with no additional edits required, but for some custom UIs, the XML will need to be amended directly.

• The first item result in the Market explorer can once again be delved normally.
• The previous page button now works correctly on the Market Explorer results window.

Endless Conquest

• Veteran (subscribed) accounts will now receive free Mithril (MTX) currency every month!
  • Amounts and full details will be announced in the 1.127 Live patch notes.

• Endless Conquest (EC) accounts can now use Draughts of Heroism and Supremacy potions.

• Endless Conquest characters that are grouped with a Veteran (subscribed) account character and within 5 levels of them will receive full XP bonuses just like the subscribed character.

• All characters (including EC) can now obtain a weekly free realm and full skill respecialization from their king.
  • These respecs can only be received once per week and only if the character does not already have that respec type currently available.
  • Visit your realm’s throne room and follow the king’s dialogue to redeem!

• EC accounts that upgrade to a Veteran account while a realm timer is active will now have their realm timer cleared upon first logging in after upgrading and be able to immediately swap realms.
  • Subsequent logins will still trigger the standard Veteran account 15-minute realm swap timer.

Guild Emblem Changes

• Guild emblems and color schemes are no longer unique. Multiple guilds or all guilds from an alliance can now have the same emblem if they so choose.
  • Applying an emblem for the first time has had its cost increased from 1 to 10 platinum.
  • Changing an emblem now has a cost of 10 platinum.
    • The /gc emblem command now shows the cost dialog before proceeding to the emblem picker window.
    • This cost is only debited from the character upon applying the new emblem selection.
  • The guild emblem picker window now allows users to zoom in and out.

Mounts

• Mounts have been changed as follows:
  • All mounts are now set to no-trade.
    • The only exception is the 18-year Veteran reward Wyvern Mount which remains tradeable like all other Veteran rewards.
  • All mounts are now set to no-sell.
  • All mounts can now be dropped on the ground or destroyed from your pack.

• A new Royal Stable Hand NPC has been added to each realm’s capital city.
  • Right-click-interact with the Royal Stable Hand to have him record your current mounts.
    • Once recorded, those mounts can be obtained from the Stable Hand’s store going forward.
    • Mounts currently equipped into the /mount window will need to be moved to your pack to be properly recorded by the Stable Hand.
  • The stable hand’s dialogue will inform you of which mounts you are recorded as owning.
  • Players can obtain their recorded mounts anytime they wish from the Stable Hand!
    • There’s no need to keep any unused mount items in your inventory (unless you want to), freeing up valuable pack space!
    • NOTE: Please be careful destroying any existing mount items. Attached saddles, horse armor, or barding will be LOST if they are not unequipped prior to destroying the mount item.
      • Players can delve the mount to see what is attached or it can be placed into the /mount window.
• Several Warhorse and Unicorn variations that have been previously unavailable are listed on the Stable Hand NPC. Collect ‘em all at the Mithril shop!

Mithril Shop

• New wares have been added to the shop!
  • Fun new non-combat pets!
    • Meet Keggars, whose friends are never boar-ed!
    • Clasp your hands with glee with the Coco-companions!
  • Fabulous new spell effects!
    • Strike fear in the hearts of your enemies and earn the awe of your allies with your very own Murder of Crows!
  • Never-before-acquirable Unicorn mount variations!
  • Horse Trader summonable merchant!
    • A portable stable hand. An NPC that will track all the mounts you own and save you valuable inventory space!

Bug Fixes

• All non-combat, cosmetic pets are now correctly limited to 1 summoned pet at a time.
• Similarly named characters should no longer cause issues with partial name-matches involving /slash commands including but not limited to /invite, /who, /bg invite etc.
  • The /makeleader command now requires full-name matching.
• Red leather dye can now be purchased at various dye merchants across the land.
• Greater Criosphinxes in the Shades of Mist artifact encounter should now always spawn properly.

• The Hibernia New User Journey quest Dergan Island now has the correct armor rewards for each armor type.
• The Albion New User Journey quest Ending Recruitment now has the correct armor rewards for each armor type.
• The Albion Tutorial quest Wings of the Isle’s flute location now aligns with the map’s quest dot.

Realm vs Realm

Siege 

• Rams can only be moved by targeting a door now.
  • The ram will not move towards a ground-target or player/NPC target.
• Catapult and Trebuchet attacks will no longer interrupt other players.
  • Catapult’s specialty ammunition ‘greek fire’ is now a direct damage spell instead of a damage-over-time and has had its damage increased inline with the default catapult ammunition and its radius increased from 200 to 450.
  • Palintone and Ballista attacks will still interrupt.
• Catapult range has been reduced from 3500 to 3000 in-game units.
• Trebuchet range has been reduced from 5000 to 4500 in-game units.

• Corrected issue with ram-controllers being able to zoom out beyond normal character zoom length.

Client 

Changes

• A “Use Classic Icons” option has been added to the character selection options window.
  • Enabling this option will show “old icons” for spell, style, and item icons in-game.
    • Please note that newer icon stylings will be seen for any missing icon on these old files.
    • For the most part, the old icons are exact copies of the 2007 “old icons” download from Mythic with some (very-few!) item-based icon exceptions that have a similar/identical look but larger image under the newer icon styling (such as jewels, necklaces, and potion icons).
  • When enabled, this option will supersede any spell/item/style icon sheets found in the client’s custom folder.
    • Other than the icon sheets, all custom UI windows will still display normally.
  • When disabled, any icon sheets in a custom folder will still supersede the default icon sheets.

• Ground Target functionality has been revamped as follows:
  • Users now toggle ground-target mode on or off with 1 click; it is no longer required to hold down the ground-target mode key.
  • When ground-target mode is toggled on, the mouse cursor will change to a new GT-mode cursor.
  • Users can then click anywhere on the ground (terrain or structures) to set their ground target location.
  • Once set, GT-mode will end and the mouse cursor will return to normal.
  • This change will allow users to move and pan around with their mouse while simultaneously placing ground targets.
  • It will no longer be possible to use the middle-mouse scroll wheel to manually set ground target height, however, the /groundset command now allows users to set distance AND height.
    • For example: /groundset 300 100 to set a GT 300 units in front of your character and 100 units above the ground.

• The /effects none | self | group | others | all command will now save its setting after logout and zoning.

• The screenshot file naming convention has been changed:
  • The new format is “daoc_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_###”

Bug Fixes

• Camera zoom is now limited to 3x instead of 5x when riding a boat.
• The guild emblem picker window now allows users to zoom in and out.
• Adjusting the alpha on the /realmwar map window will now save upon logout.
• The move-window cursor will no longer appear when shift+clicking on value chooser controls of the Market Explorer, LFG, Quiver, Merchants, and Money selector windows.

Class Changes

Items

• Blademaster’s Freezing Blade and Shrouded Blade Vests have had their Frozen Blade proc adjusted to grant +15% damage increase and immunity to critical melee hits for its duration.
• The different levels of the Mastery of Concentration realm ability will once again modify the damage of the Shaman’s baseline single-target DoT correctly.
  Shaman’s Curse set no longer increases the frequency of its DoT ticks. Now it also casts a 3s duration disease each DoT tick that halves healing done to the target and reduces their strength; but does not snare.
  Their Curse set still provides the same +10s duration benefit to Earthen Power as before.
• Astral Cloak of the Whispers now has the random-buff shear spell effect when its buff shear /use is applied.

• Non-shearable flagged abilities such as % RP/BP/XP bonuses bought in the Mithril Shop will no longer become shearable after relog or zoning.
• Scrolls of Mass Recall are once again functional in New Frontiers and will no longer cause players to hit a load screen when teleporting to a bindpoint in the same region.
• The magic resistances associated with the Champion’s Dex/Qui debuff can now be refreshed prior to their duration ending.
• Savage’s Curse set now affects their level 30+ abilities instead of just 35+.
• Necromancer’s Curse set armor now displays as cloth armor and is dyable by cloth dye.
• The Mythirian of Ektaktos now sells for the appropriate amounts.
• Arcane Sash and Adept Belt of the Vigilant Pictslayer are now named correctly in the Bountycraft window.
• Champion’s Curse set is now named correctly in the Bountycraft menu.

Classes

• Pets should no longer attempt to heal dead targets.
• Second tier resistances will no longer reduce the duration of any negative effects, instead of only crowd control effects. Only first tier resists will affect duration of negative effects.
  • The one exception to this is damage-over-time effects which have both their damage and duration affected by both resist tiers.
  • Second tier resistances will still function as before regarding damage reduction.
• Sojourner ML10 Gateways will no longer cause grouped players to hit a load screen when teleporting to a bindpoint in the same region.
• Spells will once again message the caster and the target of the spell when the spell lands.
  • Area-based messaging to players who are not the caster or target will remain disabled.
• Shield of the Soul and Elements will no longer be castable on targets who already have a Bard, Paladin, or Skald version of greater than 10% value.
• Enchanter’s Enchantment of Ice now has the correct spell level of 16.
• Eldritch, Enchanter, and Mentalist’s level 46 Prismatic Strobe single-target stun tooltip now displays its duration.
• Mentalist’s Ghostly Adversary spell now has the correct spell level of 20.
• Mentalist’s level 36 baseline stun now has the correct yellow border on its icon.
• Hunter pets should no longer stutter their movement when buffed by Wolfen Frenzy, Gleipnir’s Wish, Will, or Command.
• Doomhammer’s negative disarm effect is no longer affected by the Thane’s +duration%.
• Cleric’s should once again see the level 26 Stunning Glare casted stun ability in their Smiting baseline.
• Cleric’s Chausses of Intrepid Souls leggings now have the correct +2% casting speed bonus instead of +2% crafting speed.
• Friar’s Tranquility and Sorcerer’s Shield of Immunity abilities now properly co-exist.
• Heretic’s Tormenting Cocoon sub-level 49 versions will no longer be able to be resisted, mimicking the level 49 version.
• Necromancer’s Decrepit and Spirit forms should no longer overwrite any other buffs from items or potions.
• Sorcerer’s level 20 Lesser Body Lock root icon now correctly displays the area-of-effect widget.
• Sorcerer’s realm rank 5 ability now delves correctly.
• Sorcerer’s Impenetrable Shield ability will no longer cause them to drop speed when recasting it.

Realm Abilities

• Ichor’s duration is no longer affected by its targets’ magic resistances or crowd control reduction stats/abilities, does not benefit from +duration% gear, and has had its duration values changes as follows:
  • Ichor 1: 2s
  • Ichor 2: 4s
  • Ichor 3: 6s
  • Ichor 4: 8s
  • Ichor 5: 10s
  • Its damage values remain unchanged.
• Lower level versions of Ichor will now correctly apply and remove snare/root immunity from all targets.

Master Levels

• Battlemaster’s Bodyguard now protects against pets’ melee attacks as well as players.

• The Ethereal Shriek specialization now has a 15% / 30% / 50% Body magic resist debuff at levels 28, 38, and 48.
• The level 28, 38, and 48 fear spells have been moved to levels 29, 39, and 49 to accommodate.

• Bone Revenant line of spells will now target enemy player pets as well as enemy players.
• The Bone Revenant line of spells will now replace lower level versions of itself in the spell list.
  • These spells will now appear under a separate Darkness category in the spell list.
    • NOTE: They will NOT appear in the training window UI when specializing Darkness for now, but will still be received after clicking ‘train’.
  • This is done to prevent Bonedancers from putting up multiple versions of this spell at once.

• The Molten Earthquake PBAoE in the Matter Manipulation specialization has had its damage reduced from 425 to 395.

• Void Mastery specialization’s level 47 Bolt of Uncreation bolt has had its delve increased to 331 damage.
• Shadow Control specialization’s direct damage line of spells have been converted to 10% cold debuff and damage spells.
• The Mana Deluge PBAoE in the Vaccumancy specialization has had its damage reduced from 425 to 395.

• The Disenchanting Explosion PBAoE in the Empowering specialization has had its damage reduced from 425 to 395.

• Friar’s can now train the Mastery of Focus realm ability.

• The following changes have been made to Archery shots with the aim of lowering their damage at level 45 and below without affecting level 45+ damage:
  • All archery shots will now deal around 25% less damage overall.
  • All archers will now receive a 30m duration self-buff, Eagle Eye, for free at level 45 that grants them a 25% increase in archery damage.
    • The net change to level 45+ archers’ damage should be neutral when using this new buff.
    • Eagle Eye can be found under the ‘Abilities’ category in the spell list.
  • Hunter pets should no longer stutter their movement when buffed by Wolfen Frenzy, Gleipnir’s Wish, Will, or Command.
  • Bola (root) shots will now be blocked by and remove bladeturns.

• The level 50 ability Bringer of Death in the Decrepit specialization has been removed and replaced with the following:
  • Speed of the Dead: +135% movement speed that does not break in-combat and ignores speedwarps – Instant Cast – 20s duration – 5 minute cooldown
  • There are no shapeshifts or other buffs associated with this ability so it can be used with any of the 3 Necromancer forms and realm rank 5.
• The Death Servant specialization’s spirit aegis pet’s melee style has had its damage lowered.

• The following changes have been made to Archery shots with the aim of lowering their damage at level 45 and below without affecting level 45+ damage:
  • All archery shots will now deal around 25% less damage overall.
  • All archers will now receive a 30m duration self-buff, Eagle Eye, for free at level 45 that grants them a 25% increase in archery damage.
    • The net change to level 45+ archers’ damage should be neutral when using this new buff.
    • Eagle Eye can be found under the ‘Abilities’ category in the spell list.
  • Bola (root) shots will now be blocked by and remove bladeturns.

• Runecarving specialization’s level 47 Sigil of Undoing bolt has had its delve increased to 331 damage.
• Runecarving specialization’s direct damage line of spells have been converted to 10% energy debuff and damage spells.

• The following changes have been made to Archery shots with the aim of lowering their damage at level 45 and below without affecting level 45+ damage:
  • All archery shots at all levels will now deal around 25% less damage.
  • All archers will now receive a 30m duration instant cast self-buff, Eagle Eye, for free at level 45 that grants them a 25% increase in archery damage.
    • The net change to level 45+ archers’ damage should be neutral when using this new buff.
    • Eagle Eye can be found under the ‘Abilities’ category in the spell list.
  • Bola (root) shots will now be blocked by and remove bladeturns.

• The Soul Abolition PBAoE in the Spirit Suppression specialization has had its damage reduced from 425 to 395.

• The Cursing specialization’s level 46 direct damage spell Warping Curse has had its delve increased from 199 to 209.

• Earth Magic specialization’s level 46 Lava’s Fury bolt has had its delve increased to 331 damage.
• Earth Magic specialization now has a 15% / 30% / 50% Heat magic resist debuff at levels 22, 33, and 44.
• The Steaming Tempest PBAoE in the Liquifaction specialization has had its damage reduced from 425 to 395.