Patch Notes for 0.27.0.0

Features

Monk, Fighter and Cleric class revamps are in
Fishing has been refactored
- Fishing now rolls multiple times per cast
  - The rod type and bait type may affect what fish you can catch
  - Rods that match the type of fish will reduce fishing duration, which will in turn make it more likely to catch the fish
  - Implementation is limited
  - Fishing is still single action then wait, but you will see more messages
Added Do Not Disturb (/dnd) mode.
Prevents both outgoing and incoming tells while in DND mode.
Tavern Games
- Added chess and checkers boards to Night Harbor
  - Free play: no turn order or move validation, pieces can be moved anywhere
  - Drag pieces to the side stacks to set captured pieces aside
  - Multiple players can view and move pieces on the same board
/coinflip now mentions the result.
Add sense heading ability.
Added animations when using mud actions.
Added character idle fidget animations.
Dying on a lift or boat should leave your corpse on the floor or ocean surface, not mid air
You can no longer place items on lifts or boats
Smoothed entering & exiting water some more

Fixes

Client performance improvements
Invisible GMs can no longer be tracked
Prevent NPCs that were rooted from teleporting to you as soon as root fades
Fix for corpses that show very long rot timers. They will now show their true time to rotting
Fix for house furniture ending up in a different subspace than players in the same room
Prevent creating duplicate UNIQUE items when crafting
NPCs will now immediately stop moving when you feign death successfully
NPCs will now immediately stop moving if they start responding to a trigger while going somewhere
Prevent buying items that you are not supposed to be able to because of your faction
Various player inventory fixes that allowed items to end up in unexpected places OR on unexpected players after a trade
Mount panel now properly updates its stats when stabling and unstabling mounts
Prevent buffs from placeable objects from lasting past the lifetime of the object
- This will fix permanent campfire buff and permanent caltrops
Fix to NPC disarming: It used to not reset their Delay values, and so disarming an NPC using a fast weapon could end up being a DPS increase
Doors now properly sync their state in strage edge cases that may have them end up desynced for an individual player
Fixed afk spam that followed after inviting someone to group that was tagged as AFK. This should now only notify you once.
The Aura bar can once again be rearranged, according to the order of the innate skills in your book.
Fixed an issue when dropping an item onto any npc, which should have resulted in targeting that npc and initiating a trade.
There was a bug when importing UI from other characters from the HUD editor, where not all chat windows would not populate - this should behave correctly now.
Fixed Player stealth detection of both players and mobs which are stealthed.
Adjusted minimum detection range from 1 meter to 7 meters in all directions, to a max of 17 meters based on 1 meter bonus per level differential.
Potentially fixed Grip of Shadows from causing people to fall through the world. Let us know if you see any of this!
Fixed purchased items sometimes not showing up in the sell section of the merchant interface.
Fixed the fishing animation not always playing properly.
Fixed reclaim essence not working on pets after zoning.
Fixed sneaking sometimes causing other players to not be able to see you permanently.
Fixed a bug that could cause a part of an ability effect to fail because another unrelated part of the effect didn't meet its conditions.
Fixed crafting sounds looping infinitely when you camp out while crafting.
Fixed being able to swap mount rigging while you are mounted, causing visual glitching.
Fixed mounts running back to their last sit/stay position after dismounting. Mounting now clears the previous sit/stay command.
Fixed bard song animations looping indefinitely if you sat during the animation.
Fixed furniture not showing up when you log into the game while in a house.
Fixed furniture briefly spawning and despawning inside houses when they weren't supposed to.
Fixed market stalls not always displaying furniture properly.
Characters were falling through terrain or boats in various circumstances
Characters could walk up walls by jumping at flat vertical surfaces
Characters were reverting to most recent zone line upon loading
Pets and mounts were disappearing (likely more scenarios remain to fix, though hopefully improved)
Dhow boats could get in the way of the player boat
Animal forms (rat, wolf, etc) had animation flickers near water
Rat form couldn't get breath in deep water
Shoreline glitches due to camera position in SS
Underwater fog effects were missing

Balance

New rules for outdoor buffs
- Outdoor buffs now cannot be cast indoors or in dungeons
  - Bringing an outdoor buff into an indoor zone or in a dungeon will disable its effect while in that area
  - Specific areas can now (very rarely) be defined by designers as indoor areas preventing outdoor only buffs from being cast or functioning while inside. None have been implemented so far
Allow buffs to be disabled for X miliseconds after being damaged
- Eltindra's Blessing potion now disables for 10 seconds when you take damage, reflecting its use as a limited travel potion
NPC damage formulas have been revamped
- NPCs used to deal a decent chunk of unmitigatable damage as part of their melee damage, which was devaluing AC
  - NPCs entire swing can now be mitigated by various methods of mitigation (Avoidance, AC, Dodge, Parry, Block, etc). Some methods of mitigation only partially mitigate.
  - NPC base damage has been increased to compensate for the increased mitigation
  - This will not have much impact until later levels, if you are below 45 you should see minimal change
  - However, as many have realized already, AC at the highest levels was losing its effectiveness. This is no longer the case
You can now give a torch to your humanoid pet and it will use it in its offhand slot until it is fully consumed
NPCs now can use torches if they spawn with one
- They will properly be lit while using it
- When you kill them, you can loot the torch, but it will not be fully charged
- Looting the torch will now make their corpse lose its light
Npc kicks no longer lock you out of the school of magic.
Block skill damage reduction is now based on the relative quality of the shield to the Attacker's level, not the Defender's
Fixed inconsistent scaling with agility before level 40
Fixed inconsistency in setting Beastmaster pet damage and health
Fixed diminishing returns damage calculation for very high strength values
Added threat on resist to several spell effects that were adding 0
Damage shields no longer activate against ranged attacks
Throwing Daggers are now equippable in the Ammo slot instead of Ranged. Throwing abilities (Throw, Pinning Throw, and Deadly Throw will require the item to be in that slot to work correctly)

Content

New simplified quest and mud prompt buff detection that allows us to detect if a buff is NOT on you as well
Allow generic responses from NPCs for bad quest prompts
Add new ways to control who can forage what in a zone
Deity choice now impacts where you can start
New quest response that animates the NPC
Quest Journal will now be much more selective in what messages it logs
Weather data has been refactored, it should be the same as previously but now affords designers much more flexibility in changing weather conditions, intensities, and frequency
Allow merchants to change their pricing of specific items based on world conditions
- Spoiler alert: this is initially going to be used for an interaction where killing Ga'Duuz will give a discount to certain items in Night Harbor due to easing of trade with Calafrey
Earthquakes now spawn an additional boss and do not impact the boss's regular respawn as long as the boss is killed before they would normally respawn
Altitude audio filters can now be properly calibrated by the audio guys for the zone with new tooling

Encounters

Bone construct room, encounter, and rewards revamped. It is not yet accessible while we finish its trigger mechanism
New AI options relating to NPC abilities
Localized camera shake can now be triggered by quests, mud actions, etc
New volume type that moves all corpses within it to a target area
More control for setting when an NPC may despawn
Raid NPCs are no longer locked to FTE. They will now depend on a shout or emote that states who got FTE, but will follow regular corpse loot rules (whomever deals the most damage). This does not exclude them from the Play Nice Policy and GM enforcement is still in effect

Character Art

Updated Dwarf hair/beards
Updated Wood Elf hair/beards
Updated Ogre hair/beards
Updates to Generic weapon set geometry & textures
Added Floating Skull models
Added Scorpion model
Fixed ogre moustache from clipping through some helms
Adjusted numerous item icons to match models
Fixed Bulwark of the Fallen's missing model
Reduced Male Ogre weapon size by 20%
Imported updated Gelatinous Cube rig
Adjusted Halfling Halfling sclera to be more white
Added Ooze prototype model
Updated Deep Elf Hair and Eyes
Updated Deep Gnome Hair

Archer

You will now receive a message when you have received an Ambush bonus from Sniper's Blind.

Beastmaster

Sharks and Basilisks are no longer tameable, and will be reenabled in a future patch after completion of a quest
Call Companion now has a 30s cooldown to prevent exploits from dismissing and recalling pets.
Lick Wounds cooldown reduced to 1m
Mangle now applies the debuff to the target, not your pet
Chop and Mangle now require a Two Handed weapon
Maul now requires Dual Wielded weapons
Command: Kill will no longer activate when the pet is out of range, leaving the ability on cooldown
Guardian Spirit now causes the pet to generate 25% more Threat instead of reducing the Provoke cooldown.

Druid

Added Mantle of Autumn and Mantle of Spring for druids that prefer to start in these seasons. These mantles share a cooldown with the existing mantles. They are available at level 12, with scrolls for purchase from the spell vendor.

Monk

Fixed a bug causing Feign Death to reliably mem blur targets 100% of the time. Reaggro chance has been greatly reduced from the original settings.
Npcs that have been damaged will loiter longer after a feign/death than undamaged ones, whose loiter time has been greatly reduced.

Spellblade

Static Field per tick damage increased to 10/20/30/50
Static Field now reduces the target's resistance to Electricity

Rogue

Pick Pocket now steals from a separate loot pool
You will now receive a message when you have received an Ambush bonus from Stealth.
Poison vial weight has been reduced
Poisonmaking skillup rate has been increased for both toxin extraction and vials of poison
Backstab may no longer be performed with a 2H spear. You can still choose to stab from the front, if you wish.

Wizard

The Glyph system can no longer be used to cast spells that you don't have memorized or scribed to an equipped spellbook.

Tradeskills

Food made with cooking now applies stat buffs when consumed
All fish can now be cooked
Low level cooking recipes now use vendor purchased Sea Salt
Crystalized Salt gather rate increased
- Tanning has had additional components added and now provides canvases
As a result of the increase in recipe cost, tanning now yields more resources
Updated mining nodes to only drop gems now used in professions, increasing those drop rates as a result of the reduction
Fish have been incorporated into cooking and alchemy
- New cooking and alchemy recipes created
Common jewelcrafting has undergone a meaningful set of changes for balance purposes
- Common jewelry has been reworked and is now limited to a single primary stat type per item, scaling with tier
  - We intend for the most powerful jewelry in the game to come from named drops or rare magic recipes, and have reworked common jewelry to reach this goal
  - The list of harvested & dropped gems has been reduced to 7 to improve access to any gem needed for a specific stat
  - The likelihood of collecting a gem from harvesting nodes or enemies remains the same
  - Phased out gems will likely be reintroduced in the near future as higher quality magic recipes ingredients, spell reagents, or high value vendor fodder
  - Common jewelry items crafted using phased out gems remains in the game on Beta, but has been modified to utilize a single primary stat
Jewelcrafting recipes now require respective molds
- Money values are placeholder

UI

Added Mini Inventory pop-out from the Character Sheet. Players can now open a compact, movable inventory window that displays all bags and slots. This pop-out mirrors the primary inventory’s functionality, supporting full item management and interactions without needing to open the main inventory panel.
A new keybind has been added to toggle mini inventory
During character creation, your chosen Race / Class should now have a default location selected when you move to the starting city selection.
Added the alias /auc to be used in place of typing out the full channel /auction
Mount level now displays correctly in the Pet/Mount UI when purchasing a mount and after zoning

PVP

PvP combat (except duels) is prevented while on a boat.
Adjusted how PvP hit rating bonus works (for low levels attacking higher ones).
- Max bonus provided is equal to about ₁₅% chance to hit when capped at a 25 level differential, down from ₂₂%.
  - This grows slowly the closer together in levels players are (for reference, a ₁₀ level difference is roughly a 2% bonus, down from ₃.5% prior to this change), and faster at higher differentials up to the ₁₅% chance to hit bonus.
Adjusted PvP resist bonus/penalty values
- Min chance to resist is now 1%, up from 0%.
  - Max chance to resist remains the same at 85%.
  - Max level bonus/penalty is lowered from ₆₀% to ₅₀%, but growth is quicker capping at 25 level differential.
  - This now gives a bonus to high levels landing on low levels (to help in overcoming resist gear bonuses), in addition to the penalty for low levels landing on high levels.
    - Higher levels attacking lower get half the bonus that a low level attacking higher gets in penalty for the same level differential.
      - For comparison prior to this adjustment, a level 40 vs 60 had a ₂₂% penalty to land. Now this is a ₃₃% penalty, while the 60 has a ₁₆% bonus to land spells.
PvP only: Abilities that can be resisted but have no resist element associated with it (such as Purge, Intimidation, Terror in the Shadows, etc.), the element now defaults to Magic based.
- Note: this does not make it Magic dispellable, it simply uses Magic resist values for the resist calculation.
Dispels and Purges in PvP are now always randomized.
- Also updated general cure/dispel/purge combat text showing what gets cured/dispelled/purged, and adjusted error messaging to clarify things.