Game Update #6 Patch Notes - The Old Timer's Edition

Isle of Dawn

The Isle of Dawn was separated from the continent
of Kojan during the cataclysm. A village of battle hardened humans and
a band of zealot hobgoblins have warred against each other for
centuries on the Isle. Their mutual hatred for one another runs deep
and even now they are locked in an ongoing struggle. Recently though,
increasing numbers of ulvari have begun to surface on the island - much
to the dismay of both the humans and the hobgoblins.

Weakened by their perpetual war, the humans aren't able to capably
defend themselves. Even now, their villages burn as they frantically
seek aid. The isle is in desperate need of heroes.

• The Isle of Dawn is now available for new characters!
• When creating a new character, you will now be presented
  with two options for your starting location. The Isle of Dawn will be
  one option, and the other option will be your selected Race's standard
  starting area.
• PVP, Exchange Brokers, Death experience and tombstones are
  turned off on the Isle of Dawn.
• Player levels have been capped at 10 on the Isle.

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Character Model Revamp

Player character models in Vanguard have undergone
a bit of a revamp. Not only have they been optimized for better
performance but they have been given a new, updated look. The revamped
models are now capable of looking much more heroic and contain a lot
more personality. Worry not though, for those players who don't
necessarily want the heroic look, no customization options have gone
away. In fact, we are reintroducing lots of facial customization as
well. 

Class Damage
Updates

We have looked at and modified each class's damage capability, ensuring
that each lands in their correct place in the spectrum of classes. We
have looked at many things, from raid wide damage capacity to the
tank's ability to control aggo, to the weak DPS of some healers and DPS
classes. This was a relatively comprehensive pass to ensure that with
GU6 raid targets are still killable. While the effects of these changes
will primarily be felt at the highest end of the game, we are making
sure that all levels of players are still functional. There has been
extensive testing of these changes on the test server for the past
several weeks and we'd like to thank all those players who have sent in
testing logs - your efforts are greatly appreciated! For a more
comprehensive list of class changes and updates, please read the list
below.

Bug Fixes

In an effort to make the launch of the Isle of Dawn
go as smoothly as possible, the Vanguard development team set aside a
good portion of time this update to fix as many existing bugs as
possible. We are pleased to announce that well over a thousand fixes
are included with this patch. While many of them may not be immediately
noticeable, we've included a more detailed list of those that are below.



Patch Notes

Vanguard Build 2152 Patch Notes 9/09/2008

GENERAL

• Players now have an additional four character slots.

• Admiral Chrykalis Primed bearing stance should now appear
  in the buff
  window.

• Agent of Kronos should have proper body graphics now.

• Avlour Sheenj should have the proper body now.

• Azeeta Shaheen should no longer sell riftway shards.

• Azimet Mehurr should now correctly spell his name.

• All boss dropped recipes (outside of APW) should no longer
  be soulbound.

• Bog Python stuck issue has been resolved.

• Boiling Blood should no longer break stealth.

• Borinn Darkshank should no longer show a sword icon when
  moused over.

• Brock the Biomancer has finally settled on a gender.

• Celestine Ward riftway is now labelled as 30 - 40.

• Charbrook village should be labelled properly now.

• Dordug should path correctly now.

• Dreadbone Rider should no longer breath when dead.

• Eastpoint housing chunk should now be labeled properly as
  an outpost.

• Eidolon of Time should have a proper body graphic now.

• Erthagon Drudge's name has been fixed.

• Fixed an issue with the display of College of Infineum
  Studies and
  Research - Hall of Records.

• Fixed animation issue with the quest "Solid Stone".

• Fixed issue with Infineum mines where Yuni's Steps was
  displayed.

• Fixed issue with Jen Lo's display.

• Fixed issue with Kai Tak's display.

• Fixed issue with Miner Quartzbard's appearance.

• Fixed issue with stuck crows in Bordinar's Cleft.

• Fixed pathing issue with Rhantik Surelock.

• Fixed placement of Turim Bucks in Bordinar's Cleft.

• Gnome racial ability Miner's Wit has been fixed to properly
  give 10
  finesse and has been changed to Miner's Style.

• Gregan Blacque has had his dialogue updated and should now
  work
  correctly.

• Guard Jellis should be spending less time under the world
  now.

• Guard Torran should have the proper mouseover now.

• Gwartak Clan Club should now have the proper icon.

• Half Elf crafting racial should now properly increase
  problem solving.

• Harisotef Suikqo has had his name changed to Harisotef
  Quikqo.

• Karrusian Aegis' name should now display correctly above
  his head.

• Karrusian Claw should now display his name correctly.

• Lin Jing the cleric instructor has finally arrived in House
  of Fallen
  Leaves.

• Martok Okami Handler should now have the correct mouseover.

• Mature velok pathing should be better.

• Milo Summerpeddle should be a little more talkative now.

• Miner Forgeroar, Miner Hammerpike, Miner Brokengem, Miner
  Stonebreak,
  Miner Darkvein should now all display properly.

• Mitachi Waterstone should now only have valid dialogue
  options.

• More creatures in the Seawatch Coast area are now able to
  be skinned.

• Morig Ironbender should now sell weapons properly.

• Mutated Dragonfly should be doing less underwater flying.

• Freezing Touch: The description and the tooltip of the buff
  now match.

• Orcs should start with the proper equipment now.

• Pachugy Coast now has all the normal player housing
  facilities.

• Particle display for the 3rd Talon griffon buff has been
  fixed.

• Priori Larihnos should no longer be a floating head.

• Priori Nykmaga should no longer be a floating head.

• Private Narssis should have the proper mouseover now.

• Raikil Windflower's hail text should read much better now.

• Razorbeak should now animate when attacking. He has also
  lost some of
  his feathers in the process.

• Reaper's Finesse should display the proper level now.

• Rhyzopor should have less replication problems.

• Ridge Prowlers in Bordinar's Cleft should no longer get
  stuck in rocks.

• Rough Basilisk Claw should now have the proper icon.

• Sekamqa Haqiqat should no longer sit on an invisible chair.

• Shidreth trading company has been renamed to Shidreth
  Mining Company as
  it was always meant to be.

• Some higher level harvesting resources have been removed
  from
  Southwatch.

• Sorion Arachnids should do less tree climbing now.

• Spirit of Entrapment should attack properly now.

• Spirit of Iggiri has found the rest of his body.

• Surveyor Bereth should now have a proper body.

• The effect "Blessing of Might" now has a description.

• Trainee Slatebeard should no longer pop into the ground.

• Tuatiren Hunters should now award faction.

• Vesmo should now have the proper mouseover icon.

• Watlun Uebatix should display correctly now.

• Weaver Jekaqie should now properly respond to questions
  about clergy
  belts.

• Wood Elf bard starting sets have been fixed.

• Pets are now able to start combat with a special attack.

• Player summoning spells are now working outside of 30m.

• Fix for Recall to House: Camping out immediately no longer
  resets the
  refresh timer for the Ability Recall to House.

• The furniture item "Silkbloom Kojani Pillow" should now
  display
  correctly.

• "The Good" title should now be a post title.

• A spelling error in the item "Vothdar Priest Shoulder
  Satchel" has been
  fixed.

• A text error in one of To Re the Spiritseer's parleys has
  been fixed.

• A text error in Shui Redwine's ambient dialogue has been
  fixed.

• A text error in the parley for "A New Wife for Omid" has
  been
  fixed.

• A text error in the quest "Earth Den Investigation" has
  been fixed.

• A typo in a parley for the quest "Reclaimer" has been fixed.

• A typo in one of the actions for the Granite Carving recipe
  has been
  fixed.

• A typo in one of the Soldier civic parleys on the Isle of
  Dawn has been
  fixed.

• A typo in Shui Redwine's dialogue has been fixed.

• A typo in the "Outpost Work" quest has been fixed.

• A typo in the description for the item "Rented Merchant's
  House" has
  been fixed.

• A typo in the quest "History of Elani" has been fixed.

ADVENTURING

Bard

• Altered the range display on the descriptions of several
  abilities to clarify the 40m max range of bard songs.

• Hinder I
  - Fixed a display issue that made it seem as though the first version
  of this ability was vastly better than the rest of the line.

• Shatter the
  Mountain - This attack now deals 350% weapon damage.

• Cleave the
  Mountain - This attack now deals 300% weapon damage.

• Hewing the
  Mountain - This attack now deals 300% weapon damage.

• Dance of the
  Blades - Reduced the maximum damage bonus to 20%.

Blood
Mage

• Cleansing
  Leech - The effects of this symbiote will no longer be
  stripped by the Monk's meditation ability. 

Cleric

• Armor of Faith
  - This ability, in addition to its previous effects, restores energy
  every 6 seconds.

• Favor of
  Vothdar, Favor of Vaelion - Reduced refresh time on these
  to 5 minutes and they no longer incur global recovery.

• Gift of Ardor
  - Decreased the maximum damage bonus ofthis ability to 10% and lowered
  its duration to 12 seconds. Range has been increased to 30m and it no
  longer incurs global recovery.

• Divine Light
  - Lowered the refresh time to 10 seconds and increased the size of the
  heal.

• New Spell -
  Intervention has been added to trainers at level 50. This
  is a very large heal with an instant cast time and an 8 second refresh
  time. It also has 100% diminishing returns for 6 seconds.

Disciple

• Touch of Woe
  now has damage values in its tool tip.

• Increased the damage on all versions of style="font-weight: bold;">Touch of Woe.

• Fleeting Feet
  now makes you immune to movement debuffs for its duration.

• Fleeting Feet
  now has a 45 second refresh.

• Fleeting Feet
  now costs 15 endurance.

• Paralyzing
  Touch and Paralyzing
  Sweep now change the appearance of those affected.

• Paralyzing
  Sweep now adds a 100% chance on hit to stun your attacker
  for 15 seconds or 1 hit. This effect lasts for 10 seconds.

• Increased the damage dealt by style="font-weight: bold;">Kiss of Torment.

• Awakening
  now has a 3 second cast time.

• Ra'Jin Flare
  now costs 3 Jin.

• Ra'Jin Flare
  is no longer a spell, it is a ranged attack that requires shuriken.

• Removed the refresh timer on style="font-weight: bold;">Ra'Jin Flare.

• Endowment of
  Balance now lasts 10 minutes.

• Introduced new ability line at level 18 called style="font-weight: bold;">Meditate.

• Introduced new ability line at level 10 called style="font-weight: bold;">Inner Light. Inner
  Light contains components from all previous Harmonious Bonds.

• Removed the Gift
  of Anguish,
  Gift of Vitae and Sage's
  Endowment ability lines.

• Reworked Endowment
  of Balance to have Jin regeneration instead of a damage
  shield.

• Removed the Jin regeneration from the style="font-weight: bold;">Immortal Jade Dragon Form.

• Removed the spell mitigation portion of the style="font-weight: bold;">Immortal Jade Dragon
  combat form.

• Added a new passive ability called style="font-weight: bold;">Transcendence at
  level 10. Transcendence grants 15% spell mitigation.

• Endowment of
  Mastery now lasts 10 minutes.

• Immortal Jade
  Dragon now has an added bonus. Whenever you are in this
  stance Kiss of Heaven and Blessed Wind will have an instant healing
  effect added.

• Added a 6 second refresh to style="font-weight: bold;">Blessed Wind.

• Kiss of Heaven
  is now defensive targeted.

• The healing portion of Kiss
  of Heaven has been upgraded in effectiveness.

• Kiss of Heaven
  now lasts 32 seconds.

• Kiss of Heaven
  is no longer a Harmonious Bond.

• Kiss of Heaven
  now costs 4 Jin.

• Purity
  now lasts for 2 minutes and has a refresh of 90 seconds.

• Purity
  now costs 5 Jin.

• Purity
  now increases healing on your target by 300.

• Purity
  now has a range of 25m.

• Falling Petal
  and White Lotus Strike
  are now caster group targeted.

• Inner Focus
  now can be cast on multiple targets, is no longer a bond and lasts for
  5 minutes.

Dread
Knight

• Backlash
  no longer incurs global recovery.

• Lowered refresh on Bane
  down to 3 minutes.

• Lowered Hatred
  Incarnate refresh to 10 minutes.

• Bane
  no longer lowers Dreadful Countenance.

Monk

• Errant Strikes
  - Duration lowered to 12 sec.

• Withering Palm
  - Increased damage to 150% weapon damage.

• Iron Hand
  - This ability is now called Iron Resolve. It
  adds the damage as before, but also increases intelligence.

• Drunken Sway
  - A mitigation bonus has been added and the
  hatred generated by all attacks is increased by 25%.

• Drunken Fist
  Form - Reduced the damage bonus of this form.
  The new bonuses is 12%, 14%, 16%. Also reduced the mitigation penalty.
  New penalties are -4%, -3%, -2%.

• Storm Dragon
  Form - Reduced the damage bonus of this form.
  The new bonuses is 14%, 16%, 18%. Also reduced the mitigation penalty.
  New penalties are -5%, -4%, -3%.

• Jin Surge
  - The cost of this ability has been lowered to 4
  jin and the duration has been increased to 3 attacks.

• Crescent Kick
  - Increased the refresh to 12 seconds.

• Staggering
  Punch - This attack has been changed. It now
  deals melee damage plus a large scaling amount. It costs 20 endurance
  and it now incurs global recovery and has a 10 second refresh.

• Ashen Hand
  - This ability now deals 200% weapon damage plus
  a scaling amount. It now costs 6 Jin to activate.

• Secret of
  Ice/Fire - Proc rate has been reduced to 25%.

Necromancer

• Life Draught -
  Ability now heals player character when not in a group.

• New Ability -
  Bane of Heaven has been added to trainers at level 50.
  This is an extremely powerful DoT that also increases the damage that
  your abomination deals to the target. This spell is only usable on
  targets level 53 and up.

• Grasp of the
  Grave - This spell now has a 2 sec cast time.

• Plague of
  Infestation - This spell now has a 2 sec cast time.

Paladin

• Blade of Vol
  Anari I - This attack will no do the correct amount of
  damage.

• Champion's
  Might - The strength buff portion of this ability will
  once again stack with Maul of the Gods.

• Devout Foeman
  - Fixed a bug that caused the use of one rank of this
  ability to not cause the remainder of the line to refresh. Now, using
  any rank of this ability will cause the entire line to refresh.

• Strike of
  Gloriann - Shield of Gloriann will now display a correct
  cast message.

• Strike of
  Gloriann - This ability's description now details the
  correct amount of armor increase.

• Sunburst
  - This ability now correctly affects Fiendish targets.

Psionicist

• Thought Pulse
  - This spell no longer deals damage to you and no longer increases in
  power the more it is cast. Its base damage and cirtical hit chance has
  been increased and at 6 second refresh has been added.
  

Ranger

• Lowered the weapon damage on style="font-weight: bold;">Blade of the Equinox
  and Blade of the Solstice
  to 350%.
  

Rogue

• Cleared up some ability activation text issues.

• Fixed some inconsistencies with level requirement display
  on
  Poison
  and Scroll
  passive abilities.

• Elusive Foe
  - Has been changed. This form is now called
  Devious Foe. This form increases damage by 8%, dodge chance by 5% and
  adds 10% refresh timer haste. In addition, while in this form your
  Deadly and Vicious Strike will deal additional damage.

• Stalking
  - Consuming Druid berries will no longer break your
  stealth.

• Quickblade
  - Now lasts 8 seconds and has a much lowered
  energy cost.

• Assassin's
  Mark - This ability is now called Assassin's
  Guile. It now grants your group up to 8% bonus damage and 5% critical
  hit chance.

• Stalking
  - Bonus damage from this ability now hasa maximum
  cap of 15%.

• Shank/Shiv
  - A 20 second refresh has been added to these
  attacks.

• Eviscerate
  - Lowered endurance cost by 4.

Shaman

• Aegis of Life
  - This heal now has a large instant portion in addition to the reactive
  portion. Cast time has been lowered to 2 seconds and a 10 second
  refresh has been added. Reactive heal portion has been increased to
  1200 and lasts for 10 seconds or until 4800 health has been healed.

Sorcerer

• Quartz Focus
  will now strip previous focus buffs.

• Lowered the cast time of all versions of style="font-weight: bold;">Taqmir's
  Barrage to 2 seconds.

Warrior

• All warriors should now start with two weapons.

• Grim
  Determination - The description for this ability has been
  altered to make it more clear that if you use the ability and then
  change forms the ability will stop working.

• Ironfoe
  - This ability will now protect against Palpenipe's Oblivion Shot
  ability. This ability should now say that it is instant activate.

• Mountainous
  Barrier - Should now say that it is instant activate.

• Pommel Smash
  II - This ability now deals the correct amount of damage
  and adds the correct amount of hate.

• Warden's
  Bulwark - This ability will now animate correctly.

• Enrage
  - The health condition has been removed from this ability allowing it
  to be used at any time. It now lasts 18 seconds and has a maximum
  damage bonus of 20%.

CRAFTING

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• Anvils should now have a more appropriate icon.

• Architect's Apron should no longer drop from blacksmith
  work orders.

• Bordinar's Cleft miner's should be wielding the proper
  tools now.

• Cliffstrider Troll should drop the proper tier harvestable
  now.

• Crafted resource bags should now show up under harvesting
  container on the exchange.

• Carvings of Alacrity will no longer decrease spell haste
  by 95%. They will instead increase spell haste by 5% as intended.

• Healthy Necklaces of Countering have had their stats
  adjusted so that they actually have Countering bonuses.

• Items with the Blessing of Might buff will now correctly
  give Wisdom when the proc is successful.

• Items with the effect Blessing of Might have had more
  information added to their Equipped Effect's description.

• Items with the Gift of Might equipped effect have had the
  description updated to the correct duration on the ability. It was
  always 30 seconds, but the description said it only lasted for 20
  seconds. Now these match at 30 seconds.

• Kojani style Flawless Warding Robes should now display as
  Robes rather than Tunics.

• Dranin Silverbeard should properly display assembly
  recipes now.

• Fixed placement of assembly table in Bordinar's Cleft.

• Orc crafting racial should properly give finesse now.

• The blacksmith forge in the Tentree's Farmstead has
  shifted position and should no longer be floating.

• The chandelier work order item has had its icon updated.

• The harvesting instructor on the Isle of Dawn should no
  longer offer an invalid training option.
  

DIPLOMACY

• Head Informants for the Lamplighters have arrived in New
  Targonor, Ahgram, and Tawar Galan. They offer an array of rewards in
  exchange for unequalled information.

• Diplomats at levels 10, 30, and 50 can pick Signature
  Statements to further customize their decks. Visit your local Diplomacy
  Instructor for more details.

• Diplomacy Instructors should now offer a selection of basic
  statements for sale.

• Traders are now looking for diplomats who want to make some
  extra coin! They need talented negotiators to move goods. See Renny in
  New Targonor, Lura in Ahgram, or Nakiro in Tawar Galan for details.

• Basic starting Statements for diplomats have been updated.
  Characters now start with a basic set of universal Statements as well
  as one unique racial Statement and one unique class Statement.

• Collecting taxes is now more profitable.

• Presence requirement values have been lowered for most
  parleys. This should help eliminate the problems with players getting
  stuck on basic quest lines due to not having enough of the correct type
  of presence.

• Many NPCs available for Civic Diplomacy now have updated
  decks. They have a Strategy progression identical to players, giving
  them more cards to access in a parley. This change gives the NPCs more
  variety in their parleys and will make them harder to predict.

• Civic Diplomacy parley experience has been increased.

• Topaz Blade will now correctly fit in to diplomacy
  containers.

WORLD
POPULATION

Afrit

• Fixed an issue with a Var Guardian floating in the air.

• Gatrik Qoj is no longer a floating head.

• Hajir Thoun is no longer a floating head.

• Krovax Threxva is no longer a floating head.

• Oloq Foulqoth is no longer a floating head.

• Rezo Xylorn is no longer a floating head.

• Tharuz Draxen is no longer a floating head.

• Vazayen Zexthal is no longer a floating head.

Ahgram

• Fixed a grammar issue wtih Irri Al-Doleh's hail text.

• Fixed a grammatical error in Shakan Rebandars dialogue.

• Hushang Kordiyeh is no longer standing on top of his tent.

• Ju Mai is no longer just a floating head.

• Prophet of Vaelion will once again kill you if you fail his
  puzzle.

• Kedjeh Devari is no longer a floating head.

Ancient
Port Warehouse

• Many of the "living" population are no longer immune to
  Soul Blight. Cast away happy necros!
  

Bordinar's
Cleft

• Fixed a pathing issue with a Pygmy Cave Bat.

• Removed a Gwartak Scavenger from inside a rock.

• Adjusted the pathing for Lieutenant Garrith Goldforge.

Coterie Infineum
Sanctuary

• Alakrus Dei is no longer a floating head.

• Fixed a typo in Recruiter Trevorak's dialogue.

• Fixed a typo in Scholar Donovan's title.

• Infineum Soul Shard's are now attackable.

• Fixed a typo in Smith Of'Barba's title.

Cliffs
of Ghelgad

• All 'Ksaravi Scorpiontamer' NPC's are now known as 'Ksaravi
  Scorpion Tamer'.

• Subjugated Mekalian Citizens are no longer just floating
  heads.

Connor's
Retreat

• A housing escrow merchant, banker, and Exchange Broker have
  all been added to Conner's Retreat.
  

Cragwind
Ridge

• Removed some Kranoxian Slammers from inside a rock.

• Zyfuurnal Priests are longer clipping into the ground while
  walking.

• The Lesser Shrines - The ritual at the Shrine of the
  Tempest will now reset properly if not completed in time.

Dahknarg

• Removed a lion from inside a rock.
  

Falgarholm

• Removed a Rockhide Runt from inside a rock.

• Fon Cogswin's dialogue should respond faster.

Frostshard
Lake

• Frostwing Claws will now 'fly' in the air instead of 'walk'.

• Jargar, Servant of Torkald is no longer a floating head.

Gawrut
Ker

• Planted a sign that was floating in the air.
  

Grimsea
Watch

• Removed a Mud Croaker from inside a rock.
  

Hathor
Zhi

• Anuub Karu is no longer a floating head.

• Fixed a few pathing issues with some Voracious Sandcrawlers.

• Priori Drathar is no longer a floating head.

Ichtakhta

• Hulking Abhorrent's Destroying Hit will no longer reduce AC
  by 100% and will now reduce AC by 20% as intended.
  

Infineum
Plateaus

• The crafting outpost now gives rest exp.
  

Khal

• Beggar Jaineen is no longer a floating head.

• Beggar Jorkaye is no longer a floating head.

• Beggar Karmala is no longer a floating head.

• Fixed an issue with Guard Tarra's hail text.

• Karibeth Mishra now responds to hails.

• Nora Sabiri is no longer a floating head.

• The 'Bank of Khal' sign has been re-placed properly.

• Verihn Stonecaller is no longer a floating head.

Ksaravi
Gulch

• The Reef Sharks are now swimming instead of crawling
  halfway in the bottom floor of the ocean.
  

Leth
Nurae

• A horse was missing it's tail and he grew a new one!

• Fixed a typo in Guardian Draenas' dialogue.

• Removed a Bilescale Cockatrice from inside a rock.

Lomshir

• Engath Varnan is no longer a floating head.

• The Haekemish Sentries no longer appear as floating heads.

• As'trida Kanoj is no longer standing on a fence.

• Basi Fulan is no longer a floating head.

• Basi Fulan's appearance has been fixed.

• Horsethief Raiders no longer appear as floating heads.

• Prince Hazzan is no longer a floating head.

• Quojor Wulner is no longer a floating head.

• Sara Kordin is no longer a floating head.

• Wulg Lakniv is no longer a floating head.

Martok

• Warseer Fezzik's questionaire is working again.
  

Mekalia

• Agent Odapep is no longer a floating head.

• Constable Janicht should no longer get stuck in the floor.

• Dijok Hokon is no longer a floating head.

• Fixed an issue where you could not target Apprentice
  Xadalen using the mouse only.

Misthaven
Crossing

• Fixed an error in a signpost that was pointing to New
  Targonor. It now points to Silverlake as intended.

• Vulshar Soilpurge now has a pickaxe in her hands as
  intended.

New
Targanor

• Fay will no longer randomly appear as a pair of yellow eyes.

• Crafty Carla and the forge she stood by have been moved to
  rear of a nearby tent.

• General Goods Vendor, Harney Goodman, will now offer to
  repair your gear.

• Guard Taylor will now use her crossbow properly when she
  wields it.

• Mornir Singello no longer has a distorted figure.

• Valentina Ryan is no longer sitting on an invisible chair.

• Reeve Gromwell no longer paths the room he is in.

Old
Targanor

• Fixed an error in Spirit of Thorlin's dialogue tree.
  

Pankor
Zhi

• The Guardians of Pankor decided to stretch their wings and
  fly.
  

Plains
of Anguish

• Fixed some pathing issues with a few Lesser Cartheon
  Soldiers.
  

Qa
Riverbank

• Fixed some typos in Constable Xyxell's dialogue.
  

Rahz
Inkur

• Oracle Event:
  When picking up an essence, it will no longer disappear if you cancel
  the action.
  

Razad

• Belinii Neulstoz is no longer a floating head.

• Huldhar Shihebi is no longer standing on his tent.

• The scorpions at the bottom of the lake have evolved into
  angry fish.

Renton
Keep

• Fixed a grammatical error in Guard Watts' hail text.

• Raldien Culmadier is no longer attackable.

• Removed a Rekk Excavator from within a rock.

River
Valley

• Dhelas is no longer running at the speed of sound.
  

Ruins
of Trengal Keep

• Karujin Gulgrethor's event is working again.

• Several NPCs with bad pathing have been corrected.

Shrine
of the Flame

• A Grasslands Bear was removed from within some rocks.
  Hurray!

• Ashendreg Hunters now hold and use their bows properly.

Southwatch

• Fixed a grammatical error in Protector Gallad's hail text.

• Trenna Kashers has been rooted in place.

Strand
of the Ancients

• Fixed several pathing issues with Pyremaw Lioness'.
  

Stranglewater
Shore

• One of the Xenn Chaotics should no longer be stuck.
  

Tanvu

• Imperial Scout Pin Sho will now use his crossbow as a
  ranged weapon instead of a melee weapon.

• Ko Fan Bladesong's path has been slightly adjusted.

• Orimaki Kaniu is no longer a floating head.

• Several of the Lao'Jin Warriors should not get stuck in
  walls anymore.

• Added a shaman trainer to Tanvu.

Tar
Janashir

• Telqo Sanedidjeh is no longer a floating head.

• Ovadaco Modisu's face should no longer be distorted.

Tawar
Galan

• Fixed an issue with Sailor Janeth's pathing.

• Kobo Ironclub is no longer floating in the air.

• Warden Allegran is no longer floating.

Three
Rivers

• Removed a Living Stoneflux from within a rock.
  

Tomb
of Lord Tsang

• The bindstone has been restored and moved near Lotus Hold.
  

Trickster's
Haven

• Fixed a typo in Nayib Al'Kalee's dialogue.

• Guardians of the Muse (Kall'Raa, the Dark Muse) will no
  longer continually spawn once Kall'Raa is dead.

Tursh

• Fixed a typo in Volotin's Workshop and Foundry sign.
  

Varryn
Dunes

• Tahreen will no longer wander the camp.
  

Vault
of Heroes

• Fixed an issue with a Rockgazer pathing through rocks.

• Thane of Torsheim is no longer a floating head.

• A griffon chick was removed from inside some rocks.

Veskal's
Exchange

• Geenback Spiders are now known as Greenback Spiders

• The dungeon Jade Depths has been rebalanced as a solo or
  two person group dungeon. Drop rates on rare items have been increased.
  Some items have received extra attention.

• The dungeon Achlatan Spider Caves has been rebalanced for
  groups of four to five. Drop rates on rare items have been increased.
  Some items have received extra attention.

• The difficulty of bosses in the Achlatan Spider Caves has
  been increased. Groups of four should have a reasonable challenge.

• The Cleric and Druid trainers are now easier to locate.

• The Telon Global Exchange and a Thestran Banker are now
  available.

ITEMS

• Apostle's
  Bladestaff has had its stats adjusted.

• Bow of the
  Hero should now work correctly with ranged
  attacks.

• Brainfreeze
  is now properly labelled as a focus item.

• Carmellia
  Seeds should now be flagged as quest.

• Cloaks of
  Perfection should have the proper stats now.

• Coarse
  fistwraps should now have the proper icon.

• Crude
  Reinforced Weighted Piercing Shuriken should now
  properly be
  labeled as Crude - Reinforced Light Piercing Shuriken.

• Crusader's
  Sword has had its stats adjusted.

• Darkblade
  should now look like a sword.

• Darkwood Bow
  should have the proper classes listed on it
  now.

• Griffon
  Watch Insignia should no longer cancel the
  Harmonious Body
  Stance buff when equipped.

• Branch of
  Mint now stacks up to 20 at a time.

• Drape of
  Coalition should now correctly add damage to all
  appropriate
  attacks.

• Earthstar
  Greatmaul appropriately looks like a two-hander
  now.

• Fevered
  Pauldrons of Ambition has been renamed to Fevered
  Reinforcements of Ambition. The item has always been a Reinforcement.

• Fother's
  Ancient Port now explains what it will do in the
  item
  description.

• Fresh Fish
  now regenerates a proper amount of health and
  energy.

• Hassan's
  Focal Sword has changed. The proc now triggers
  for the next
  attack only.

• Hyper-Cloth
  Cap's description has been changed to reflect
  the cloak's
  existing power.

• Kormstu's
  Jeweled Warhammer now looks like a Warhammer
  instead of a
  Staff.

• Mara's Kiss will
  now proc appropriately, granting group
  members
  within 25 meters the appropriate bonuses.

• Meteoric
  Blade of Rending will now have a red colored
  name.
  Previously it was showing up as gray or white.

• Numerous items that increased style="font-weight: bold;">Endurance

  have had
  that stat
  removed.
  If you find an item that does not require at least level 48 with
  Endurance on the item, please report it.

• Ring of
  Inhibition's activated ability now works at the
  same level
  that is required to equip the item.

• Several "Pantaloons"
  from Ancient Port Warehouse have been
  renamed to
  "Kilts" to fit the look of the armor.

• The attached effects on style="font-weight: bold;">Bulky Heart of Fire

  
  and Bulky
  Heart of
  Regeneration have had their names swapped. The effects
  have remained
  the same, but the names have been corrected to match the name of the
  item that they are on.

• The Butcher's
  Blade can now be equipped with the /wear
  command.

• The Gnomish crystal "Prism
  of Retaliation" will now buff
  your party
  members as was originally intended.

• Warbow of
  Ancient Evil should once again proc at any
  normal range.
  The proc will now also generate a message indicating how much life was
  drained.

• Xenocite
  Cloaking Bracelet has had its cooldown added to
  the item
  description. The cooldown on the item has been reduced from 25 minutes
  to 20 minutes.

• Anhak's
  Right Wing has had its reuse timer lowered from 15
  minutes to
  2 minutes. The item claimed to enable your next spell as instant cast,
  but it never did. The description is updated to read that it lowers
  your next spell's cast time by 30%.

• Tiny
  Roseberries have had a refresh timer added to their
  description.
  There was already a 60 second refresh, but now the description says so.

• Siren's Kiss
  Darts should only have one description now.

• Priest's
  Knuckle now has stats.

• Tattered
  Mystic Robe should now have the proper icon.

• The description for the item " style="font-weight: bold;">Zewg's Shield

  " is
  now fixed.

• The item "Ancient
  Glory" should no longer be equippable as
  a cloak.

• The item "Blessed
  Lumber" had a typo in its description
  fixed.

• The item "Card
  of the Skawlra" has had a typo fixed in its
  name.

• The item "Channeler
  Robe" now has the correct icon.

• The item "Crossbow
  of the Redcaps" now has a sell price.

• The item "Fae
  Dust Robe" now has the correct icon.

• The item "Precision
  Throwing Hammer" should now have its
  name spelled
  correctly.

• The item "Robe
  of Desert Suns" now has the correct icon.

• Xenocite Cape:
  The reuse timer has been set to 20 min.

• Lokke's
  Blade of Malice: The Lesser Rage of Ghalnn ability
  has been
  fixed, as it never worked before. In addition, this effect has been
  modified to only work on targets level 50 and below.

• Lokke's
  Greataxe of Hatred: The Lesser Rage of Ghalnn
  ability has
  been fixed, as it never worked before. In addition, this effect has
  been modified to only work on targets level 50 and below.

class="postbody">QUESTS

• Abandoning the quest
  "Outpost Work"
  will now take the quest materials away.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Practice Thestran
  Caravel Rudders will now stack up to 5 at a time.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Heart of Clay: Fixed
  a
  grammatical error in the reward text.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Ancient Weapons of Leth
  Verael - The location for Thorian Glowban has been
  corrected.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Assist the
  Spiritragers -You must now complete Spiritblossom Harvest,
  Specialized
  Training and The Broken fang Threat before this quest becomes available.

• style="font-weight: bold;">By Night -
  Investigating
  the source behind Tremean Farm for Grelrin Tremean will now work at
  night as it was intended.

•   style="font-weight: bold;">Divide and
  Conquer - Now offers Heirloom Blessed Mace as a reward.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Faith in Jin - This
  quest
  will be offered my Master Garu again if you accidently closed the
  window before accepting.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Fly the Friend Skies
  - This quest was removed from certain creature
  handlers in cities with
  multiple races. Each city will now offer the quest from one creature
  handler. If you belong to a city with multiple races, see the following
  NPC for the quest: Ca'ial Brae,  Moonlite,
  Starwatcher - Halgarad, Ogrin Ghuu - Khal, Casemin Rafdul - Lomshir,
  Xyrix Mangvir, Martok - Mardirk Hogdumfar, Tanvu - Xous Comir,
  Hillshadow -
  Svartr Rugtvedt will offer the quest properly again.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Martok's Past - You
  can
  fill your mug of ale properly again.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Missive: TASK: Jump the
  Knights 
  - Knights of Kaon will now update the quest properly.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Protecting Misthaven
  -
  Zihurr Legionnaires The kill requirement has been reduced to 20. Also,
  the summary text now reminds you to return to Timon Mooren when done.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Pulling Teeth - This
  quest is now properly flagged as a group quest instead of solo.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Put Farmer John to Rest
  -
  This quest now has potion rewards.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Closing the Portal -
  Fixed a typo in the summary.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Relic of Courage -
  The
  drop for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Relic of Honor - The
  drop
  for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Relic of Wisdom -
  The
  drop for this quest has been converted over to the multi-loot system.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Return a Borrowed
  Weapon - A location for Ryldrak Kiltlar has been added.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Rising In Ranks -
  Light
  Fighters are now required to complete style="font-weight: bold;">Moving On Up before
  this quest
  becomes available to them.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Seeds of Power -
  Changed
  the word 'Come' to 'Came'.

• style="font-weight: bold;"> Test of Will
  - The event to test your will is working again.

• style="font-weight: bold;">The Time Has Come -
  Fixed the issue where if you abandoned Part 2 of the quest, you could
  not re-accept it. Also, added a trigger to Bujeju Stylcra to resummon
  the Khelium Firespine Hatchling so you do not have to abandon the quest
  and re-accept it to get it back.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">Bad Timing"
  has had its parleys fixed.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">Civic
  Diplomacy Tutorial: Levers" should now be working on Kev
  Wematmani.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">Earth Den
  Investigation" now has travel journal entries.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">Engran's
  Errand" now has a travel journal entry.

•  The quest
  "Horsebane Tick
  Infestation" should tell you to return to the proper
  NPC now.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">Pig Part
  Portents" should now work correctly.

• The quest " style="font-weight: bold;">The
  Hobgoblin Threat" now offers a travel journal entry for
  the Tentree's
  Farmstead.

• The quest item " style="font-weight: bold;">Ornate
  Qalian Chain" should now fit into diplomacy containers.

• There have been
  spelling fixes in "The
  Diplomat" quest.

• Yoshin Stormvalley
  should now correctly confirm you are giving him "two" wooden grips
  instead of "three" for the quest "More
  Items for Yoshin"

•   style="font-weight: bold;">Soup for
  Veskal: The Main Ingredient -  The frogs required
  for this quest have had
  their level increased.

• style="font-weight: bold;">Dark Roots - Weapon
  rewards for this quest have been upgraded to Rare quality. A Dread
  Knight and Monk/Disciple weapon have been added.
  

CODING

Broker Changes

• Broker time limit on items added. Initial time will be 14
  days
  changeable by design.

• All Markets combined into one.

• Market cap increased to 50 items.

• Markets will be reset on patch day or when code gets
  patched for
  internal servers.

• Time left on a market item will be displayed in short time
  format on
  the broker window.

•  Items that expire will still show up in your
  item list saying
  expired. You will have 7 days to relist the item. After that it will be
  returned through game mail.

Settings

• A number of options have been removed to help simplify and
  consolidate
  the settings interface. The reason for the change was to remove the
  clutter and to remove settings that were not totally functional or
  where the settings could hurt the players performance. Most if not all
  of these settings can still be manually modified in the VGClient.ini
  but we strongly recommend not changing them.

• It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that players reset their settings
  by clicking
  on the defaults option when they first login and then customize them
  from there.

• Added a new Character tab to the settings window that
  contains
  character related settings.

• Targets target will now always be on by default

• Group target symbols will now always be on by default.

• Hitting cancel will no longer cause your video device to
  reset.

• The audio distance slider will now save properly.

• The setting for Clip Plane now shows in meters instead of
  centimeters.

• Added Offensive Target Windows options.

•  Fixed numerous incorrect or missing tooltips to
  the windows
  settings.

Shaders

• The patcher will now patch down pre-compiled shaders. The
  client will
  no longer attempt to compile your shaders at start up.

Engine

• Additional memory leak fixes at the DirectX level.

•  Fixed a significant memory leak from Alt+Tabbing

• More general memory leak fixes.

• The majority of objects will now fade in when they become
  viewable
  instead of popping in.

Misc

• Chat bubbles: When a player switches from 1st person to
  3rd person
  view, their last spoken chat bubble will no longer pop up and display
  even if they said it minutes ago. Chat bubble timing will now start
  when the bubble is created, rather than upon first render of the bubble.

• Fixed an issue where the min. range on some abilities
  would show
  negative numbers on the tooltip.

• Fixed an issue where some NPC dialogs would have text in
  them. They
  should now properly show the players name.

• Fixed an issue where the character sheet was showing the
  wrong tooltip
  for the primary harvesting skill.

• Unique items can once again be removed from the bank.

• Tutorial popups no longer popup in the middle of the
  screen. They are
  now displayed as a list of exclamation points.

• Fixed an issue with the Pickpocket tooltip not displaying.

• Ships will now properly despawn when you sail into a no
  boat area. This
  is mainly in the Skawlra Rock area.

• The character sheet no longer has a place for your
  character portrait.
  The inventory slots have been centered in the UI window. You can still
  drop items anywhere on the character sheet and have it auto-equip them.

• Selling an item to a merchant that is for a quest will now
  properly
  update the quest window.

• The description for Harvesting Packs has been fixed to
  show the correct
  bag type and container size.

• Fixed an issue at character select where if you deleted
  all of your
  characters, the first slot sometimes would have a phantom character in
  it.

•  Unique Items like the Body Bag created through
  assembly now
  check to see if the player already has that item before finishing the
  recipe.

• Having multiple stacks of an item will no longer prevent
  that item from
  being assembled or resulting in the wrong item being assembled.

• Fixed an issue where players were able to get their flying
  mount in an
  un-flyable state.

• Fixed an issue where players could fall to their deaths
  when crossing a
  chunk line.

• Player torches now turn off when returning to character
  select.

• Fixed an issue with the required level on ammo cases being
  displayed
  wrong.

• When using an ability that takes ammo, it will now always
  come from the
  container before looking in the range slot.

• Fixed an issue where players would sink into the ground
  when they die
  on a mount.

• Fixed an issue where a player would no longer levitate
  after crossing a
  chunk line.

• Fixed an issue with the NPC Frazik not properly completing
  his script.

• Merchant prices are now displayed on all items without
  going to a
  merchant.

• Shadow Step: You can now open combat with this ability.

• Fixed an exploit where you could AE unattackable NPCs.

• Fixed an issue where casting Necropsy on an already looted
  harvestable
  NPC resulted in a level 1 loot.

• Ability hotkeys will now automatically be upgraded when
  you train a
  higher level version of the ability.

• Fixed an issue where hotkeys would not always appear on
  your main bar
  when training a new ability (if there was room).

• Fix for an issue where training a new ability would
  sometimes replace a
  hotkey that had already been deleted erroneously.

• Raise the death penalty level to 11.

• Added "This item cannot be deconstructed" to all items
  that cannot be
  deconstructed.

•  There will no longer be a 3 sec delay before a
  corpse with no
  items becomes harvestable.

• Fixed an issue where when harvesting in a group and
  someone killed an
  NPC, harvesting would end.

• Players can now toggle "Anonymous" status by typing "/anon"

• AFK status now properly resets when logging in and out.

Character
Customizations

• Character customizations have been re-added.

• All male characters now have the options of being bald.

•  Character models can no longer have their
  textures set to
  lowest setting.

•  Added Head and Body buttons which changes the
  camera angle
  when customizing a character.

• Fixed an issue where customization settings were not
  properly saving if
  they were set to the far left.