What The Dev's are Doing

Posted are the activities the developers are working on, per Samera..

Weekly Development Activities (Apr 23, 2007)

In QA

These items are in QA and are scheduled for Update 4.1: Mark of the
Dragon.



General



    * NEW – Once upon a time there was a mighty warrior
who had a love pure and true. But then his beloved disappeared and the
mighty warrior flew into a rage. Where had the object of his passion
gone? The warrior embarked upon a heroic quest to find his lost love.
For an entire year the warrior searched without any sign of his
beloved. And then one day…..could it be? Yet this was a different sort
of love – the mighty warrior's beloved had changed, but it was his love
still, and a great happiness filled the dazed warrior.

    * NEW – You can now /point at things that are
farther away than 30 meters.





UI Improvements



    * NEW – The Enhancement Training panel now has undo
and redo buttons. In addition, hovering over the buttons will display
what hitting the button will do. For example, if you removed a benefit
that took 7 other enhancements with it, you can hover over the "undo"
button to see which 7 enhancements were removed and hit the undo button
to quickly put them back in your list.

    * NEW – You can no longer enter dirty words in your
LFM note. Bad players! No cookie for you! PS: Anyone who tries putting
a naughty word into their LFM note after reading this will get a
/pseudopod smack.

    * NEW – Corrected display issue with floating damage
numbers for Sneak Attacks when base weapon damage does not overcome
monster's Damage Reduction.





Monsters



    * NEW – The giant skeletons in Gianthold Tor no
longer have a chance to display an empty collectible shiny when they
die. They are not supposed to drop collectibles.





Combat



    * NEW – Lay on hands and remove disease now pay on
execution. Now, if you get your animation interrupted, you don't lose
your activation cost.





Spells



    * NEW – Other players will now be able to see your
Niac's Cold Ray.





Items



    * When you loot chests you can now change who the
loot is reserved for to anyone currently in your party. The new menu
contains data on player's names and primary class, so if you see the
perfect dagger for a rogue, there's no confusion about who the rogue in
the party is. Please note: items which are bind on equip cannot have
their reservation changed.

    * Items can now be designated as "exclusive." This
means that you can only have one of an exclusive item in your backpack
or equipped at a time. You can still place multiple exclusive items in
your bank, mail, trade, and sell exclusive items (as long as they are
not bound). Exclusive item A will have no effect on how many copies of
Exclusive item B you can own. We have no plans to retroactively add
this property to current items other than the Ring of Spell Storing.

    * NEW – The Fearsome armor effect will no longer
place a permanent special effect over the character's head.





NPCs



    * NEW – Aulandar Thislecrown in the House of
Wizardry, Jorasco city ward now has the title that proves she sells
level 7 spell scrolls.





In Development

These items are currently in development and are scheduled for release
some time after Update 4.1: Mark of the Dragon.



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