Camelot Patch Notes
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70aa Release Notes
June 10, 2004
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TEST SERVER CHANGES
- We have set the /level command to 34 to facilitate testing in Wilton, the level 30-34 Battleground.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The Crystal Titan's size has been decreased through its growth cycle. The final size of the Crystal Titan has also been decreased.
- (Pendragon Only) A bug which was sometimes causing players to jump to a far away "safe" point when re-entering the game has been fixed.
NEW FRONTIERS
- The keeps and towers claimed by guilds will now have the appropriate difficulty levels. Keeps located in the guild's home frontier have the lowest difficulty while keeps located in an enemy realm's non-coastal regions have the highest difficulty. The difficulty level of the keep determines the amount of guild realm points rewarded per hour. For keeps, the guild realm points rewarded per hour is equal to 1000 times the difficulty level. For towers, the guild realm points rewarded per hour is equal to 100 times the difficulty level.
- Pets set to 'Stay' will no longer teleport through a door with their controller.
- Pets which aren't within 1000 units of their controller will not teleport through a door with their controller.
- Brittleguards now teleport through doors with the caster.
- Empty boats will now have a 15 minute decay time, rather than 30 minutes.
- The cost for claiming keeps has been removed and now the only the guild bounty point cost for keeps is the hourly maintenance fee.
- The guild realm point award for owning towers is now 1/10 that of owning a keep.
- Keeps that are not claimed by a guild are no longer affected by downgrade timer pauses of any sort.
- Delve information has been added for standard and RvR resurrection illness effects.
- Players teleporting to New Frontiers from the Battlegrounds will now be teleported to the correct location.
- (Bug Fix) Players are no longer able to set the type on towers.
- Players can once again broadcast at Dun na nGed Spire and Caer Berkstead Guardtower.
- (Bug Fix) Amenities merchants are now killable.
- The vial of noxious vapors should no longer be incorrectly printing the effect which is meant to be played at the end of its cycle when it first lands.
- (Bug Fix) The PvP ruleset will now always use the 2 minute immunity timer on release, even in a Frontiers or Battleground zone.
Battleground Changes
- In response to player feedback, we have revised the terrain for the level 40-44 Battleground, Leirvik, for testing. Many of the islands in this battleground have been consolidated to provide more areas for land combat. We appreciate your feedback regarding the playability of the new Battleground terrain compared to the old terrain for this zone to choose which terrain to use for the final version of this Battleground.
New Frontiers Respecs
- (Pendragon Only) The Sophist's Realmstones were incorrectly being sold in stacks of 25. They are no longer being sold this way and they will not stack anymore. All stacks of Sophist's Realmstones will revert to a single Realmstone upon login.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Realm abilities that the character cannot train due to their level now appear in [brackets]. Attempting to train that realm ability will tell the character that they cannot, and what level they must be to train the realm ability.
- Dashing Defense now plays the correct block or parry animation on the player using the realm ability. After using the ability, the player can now properly execute block or parry chains.
- Soldier's Barricade now stacks properly with all absorb buffs, including the Barrier of Fortitude realm ability.
- Necromancer pets now gain the benefit of their owner's Mastery of Pain skill.
- Mastery of Concentration now gives the correct chance to not be interrupted. Note that this chance can be lowered if the player is being attacked by a monster of greatly higher level.
- Arm's Length now gives the proper speed benefit.
- The delve for Speed of Sound and Arm's Length has been changed to be more descriptive.
- Prevent Flight now correctly has a 10% chance to apply a 25% snare for the correct duration.
- Mastery of Magery has been slightly reduced in effectiveness. Tier 3 and 4 will give an additional 5% bonus instead of 7% and Tier 5 will give an additional 5% bonus instead of 9%. The total bonus with Mastery of Magery V will now be 20% instead of 28%.
Siege Changes
- If a helper on a ram tries to swing when the ram has no target, they will receive a different message now.
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to miss with a siege weapon but not receive a 'miss' message.
- Mounted Trebuchets have their own animations now - the wheels will stay closer in on the tracks and will move slightly on their tracks after firing.
- We have increased the volume of destroyed sounds for siege engines, keep doors/gates, and keep walls.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- Armor, weapons, and jewelry in the following dungeons have been upgraded to higher imbue, bonus, and quality values: Tepok's Mine, Catacombs of Cardova, Keltoi Fogue, Tomb of Mithra, Muire Tomb, Spraggon Den, Koalinth Caverns, Treibh Caillte, Nisse's Lair, Vendo Caverns, Cursed Tomb, and Varulvhamn.
- All arrows and bolts labeled as "blunt" now do crushing damage instead of thrusting damage.
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
Albion Quests
- Shades and Shadows - Martley's cloak now has an icon.
Hibernia Monsters
- (Pendragon Only) Bard Selveren is no longer stuck in the wall of the Grove of Domnann.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Volcanus Encounters
- Azar in Typhon's Reach will no longer attempt to teleport while engaged in combat.
Item Notes
- (Pendragon Only) Fixed an error in the scroll combines for the Ring of Unyielding Will artifact that would prevent two of the scrolls from combining properly.
- (Pendragon Only) The imbue values of the new artifacts have been set to the correct values.
