Patchnotes 1.70a-1.70Z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70a Release Notes
April 19, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- All old frontiers zones, battlegrounds, and RvR dungeons are now closed on Pendragon.
- A player will only receive one "You are protected" message from the Protect skill per second.
- Spells such as speed songs that do not work while the user is in combat no longer spam the user when they cannot take hold.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The relics have been moved from the old frontiers to the new relic temples. Until the final system for the new relics are fully in place, the relics will be found in the center of their corresponding temples.
- Guild claimed/lost broadcast messages are now in the New Frontiers.
- A keep should now take 32 hours total to go from level 1 to level 10.
- A keep should now take 12 minutes to reach level 1 when released.
- Realm point awards from keeps are now in the correct color.
- New keep doors will now correctly maintain their material type after being destroyed.
- Fixed a bug where new keep doors hitpoints were not being calculated correctly in certain cases.
Monsters
- We have implemented two guards in each of the home-realm Frontier border keeps who teleport you to the center of the courtyard if you get too close to the Frontiers side of the upper walkways.
- Patrolling guards will now stay much closer to the structure in which they are guarding.
Frontiers Quests
- We are in the process of updating both NPCs and quest journals for quests that involve venturing into the New Frontiers. Please read NPC dialog and quest journal entries carefully - many monsters have new homes in the New Frontiers. The following quests now have updated information. Frontier-related quests not on this list will be updated soon.
Albion - Long Lion Fang, Dugan's Magic Totem, Passage to Eternity, Kindred of the Fallen
Midgard - An End to the Daggers, War Concluded, Saving the Clan, The Desire of A God, Blessed Enchantments, Better Off Buried, Black Plague, Dark Places of the Soul, Strange Powers, The Three Sisters, White Pelts Midgard Bounty
Hibernia - Magic's scar, Larylle's Necklace, Sea Shell Sleeves, Season of Remorse, Morven's Return, Sraoi's Heart
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Albion
- Castle Sauvage and its residents have been moved further inside the Camelot Hills zone area. Please note that the portal ceremony NPCs are still in the process of being moved.
- Snowdonia Fortress and its residents have been moved further inside the Black Mountains North zone area.
Midgard
- Svasud Faste and its residents have been moved further inside the Vale of Mularn zone area. Please note that the portal ceremony NPCs are still in the process of being moved.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Artifact Notes
- The delve information on the Eerie Darkness Stone should no longer indicate a time of day requirement to earn experience.
- The primary ability of the Healers Embrace should now correctly be set to a self-target heal.
Item Notes
- The Whip of the Blaze (Albion) now has a bonus to Matter Resistance in place of the bonus to nothing.
- The Demonwolf Tainted Protector now has the correct speed of 3.5.
- The Lightning Embossed Studded boots now use enamel dyes.
- The particle effect on the Zephyr Lute (Albion & Hibernia) has been replaced with one that fits a little better.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70b Release Notes
April 20, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The New Frontiers portal merchants which were used to port players to New Frontiers and back to the classic side portal keeps have been removed. Beta testers will only need to pass through the Border Keep doors to enter the New Frontiers.
- The high speed transport boats will no longer hit the rock boundaries when leaving Emain, Hadrian's Wall, and Odin's Gate while taking players to the enemy realms.
Frontiers Quests
- The following quests have been updated to reflect zone changes in the New Frontiers
Albion - Craft of Retribution, Supplies for Lillian, Bishop Burhoff's Curse, Ivy Weave Gloves, Legend of the Lake, Lisreen's Plight, Secret Orders, Feast of the Decadent, Symbol of the Broken
Midgard - The War Continues, Burning Realm, The Legend of Fenrir's Folly
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
- We have temporarily changed the portal ceremonies at the portal keep for each realm. Players will only need to click on the center Portal NPC while wearing their medallion to teleport. Players will no longer be able to teleport to the old Frontiers or to the Battlegrounds (as these zones are now closed). The remaining medallions are Houses, Guild Houses, Shrouded Isles, and Trials of Atlantis.
Albion
- All doors in Castle Sauvage and Snowdonia Fortress should now function properly.
- All methods of teleportation into Castle Sauvage and Snowdonia Fortress will now take players to the proper locations inside each keep.
- All horse routes to Castle Sauvage and Snowdonia Fortress will now drop players off at the proper locations.
Midgard
- All doors in Svasud Faste should now function properly.
- All methods of teleportation into Svasud Faste will take take players to the proper location inside the keep.
- All horse routes to Svasud Faste will now drop players off at the proper location.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The particle effect on the Flamespark Battle Axe (Albion) has been replaced with one that is a better fit.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70c Release Notes
April 21, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Requesting the realm war map near a portal stone that cannot be ported to now displays the teleport status of keeps correctly.
- Players can no longer left click on attackable keep doors to teleport through them. Players will need to right-click on the doors in order to teleport.
- Structures will no longer generate scouting reports for the realm that owns the structure (for example, if a group of Midgard players passes by a structure owned by Midgard, no report will be generated).
- Siege equipment should now automatically begin arming when you /control it.
- Siege equipment which has a base ammo set will no longer give a "You must load.." error message when attempting to fire.
- At Keep Upgrade level 10, a new honor guard contingent will spawn around the Keep Lord to protect him.
- All guards are now set to normal testing levels.
- All doors and structure walls are now set to normal testing levels.
- We are in the process of resolving pathing issues with the fast attack boats in each frontier. Please be aware of these when using these boat routes in the New Frontiers.
- The Dockmistress of Pennine Mountains has had her location moved to the dock near Caer Boldiam on Essum Isle. The fast attack boats leaving from Pennine will now make a stop at this dock.
- The following Dockmasters and Dockmistresses will no longer delete the fast attack boat tickets that are handed to them if a different boat is already at the dock. The merchants will now return the ticket to the player's inventory. The merchants will now also return the correct ticket item to the player's inventory if the ticket is returned to the player.
Dockmaster of Hadrian's Wall
Dockmaster of Cruachan Gorge
Dockmistress of Mount Collory
Dockmaster of Emain Macha
Movement in New Frontiers
- Players will move at 50% speed when wading in water.
- Players will be slowed down when moving up hills with steep slopes.
- Please note that these effects will only take place in the New Frontiers areas, not anywhere else.
The Realm Point Pool
- Currently in testing is a Realm Point pool. As players are killed around a keep, bonus Realm Points are added to a Realm Point pool that is awarded on a successful capture or defense of a keep.
- We have changed the Realm Point pool message to reflect whether you have successfully defended or assaulted the keep.
Tradeskill Updates
- The Siegecraft recipe list has been reworked to reflect siege engine changes for New Frontiers. Please note that these recipes are still in testing and are subject to change.
- The Siege Ammo store has been updated to reflect the new siege engine changes.
SHROUDED ISLES USER INTERFACE
- The Shrouded Isles client will now use the new XML user interface that was introduced with Trials of Atlantis.
- You may choose from the Shrouded Isles UI, Classic UI, or Transparent UI, using the new XML interface.
- Custom skins are not allowed using the Shrouded Isles client.
- Any interface features previously marked as 'ToA Only' (such as quiver, Master Level window, extended buffing window, etc) are now available under the Shrouded Isles client.
- The options menu has been updated to be more user-friendly, similar to the Trials of Atlantis options menu.
- Players using the 'New Classic' client (accounts that have only purchased the Classic expansion, but are running with the Shrouded Isles engine) will also now use the new XML user interface.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
- The portal ceremonies have been changed. The portal master and his lackeys will no longer walk down to the teleport pad. They will now remain stationary on the pad at all times. A single player must right click the master to initiate the ceremony. Once the ceremony is cast, all players on the portal pad wearing a medallion of passage will be teleported to their destination.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The shapechanges cast by the Shades of Mist and Traitor's Dagger artifacts should now work consistently while the player is running or in a crowded area, regardless of their target.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70d Release Notes
April 22, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The /release command will now give a warning when the player misspells or does not fully type out "house" for /release house.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Towers now only require four people to claim.
- Siege equipment and guards placed on hookpoints will be correctly removed if the hookpoint is no longer available when the keep is downgraded, or moved when the keep is upgraded.
- We are in the process of enabling and adjusting the broadcast channels within the relic temples, keeps, and associated towers. Please be aware of this when using broadcast within those regions.
- You will now see siege ammunition flying through the air when launched from siege equipment.
- We have enabled a new set of ambient battle sounds that play when you are in RvR combat of sufficient size.
Ram Operation
- With the changes to siege engines in New Frontiers, players can now use other players as helpers to attack with a ram.
- In order to taking control of a ram or help man a ram, right-click on the ram. If there is a ram controller and room for helpers, then the player will automatically be attached onto the ram as a helper.
- Once the player is attached to the ram, the player is unable to move until they release the ram using the Release button.
- As more players are added to the ram, the DPS of the ram goes up steadily, reaching a maximum DPS when the maximum number of operators is reached.
- Gates and doors can only be attacked by one ram at a time.
Siege Changes
- In order to take control of a piece of siege equipment, players must right-click on it.
- When a player targets by left clicking, it will also set the siege target to that location.
- The basic damage without player ammunition for the catapult, trebuchet, ballista, and palintone has been adjusted.
Tradeskill Changes
- Removed the Ballista Bolt recipe from Siegecraft.
- The Hibernia Siegecraft recipes should now call for the appropriate ferrite ingredients.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- All housing merchants have had the equipment they wear randomized to give the merchants a variety of outfits. Picking up the merchants (both consignment and internal house merchants) and placing them back down on their hookpoints (or porch) will cause the NPC to randomly choose an outfit from the equipment it has been given. Please note: Hasteners, Intoners, Pipers, and Bankers have not had their equipment modified.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70e Release Notes
April 23, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Fixed a bug that caused guilds to be unable to claim keeps.
- You should no longer be able to strafe through "ground is too steep" areas.
- Repaired doors will now close at a faster speed to mirror the current speed that is set on the live servers.
- Keep lords for level five or higher keeps should now correctly drop keys to supply chests. Please note the contracts found in the chests are not yet functional.
- The merchant town NPC pet classes should now have pets that con as friendly to members of their respective realm.
- All stealther realm guards have had their hit points reduced.
- Albion Milegates will now teleport friendly troops to the other side.
Ram Changes
- Rams can only be used to attack gates/doors.
- If the ram controller loses control of the ram while it is moving, it will stop its movement immediately.
Siege Changes
- It is no longer possible to aim more than three pieces of siege equipment at a keep piece at the same time, and no more than 1 piece can be aimed at a gate/door at once.
- When using a trebuchet or catapult and using ground targeting rather than left-click direct target aiming, splash damage will no longer affect keep pieces.
- All of the damage modifiers from the various different types of siege equipment against the various target types (players and controlled pets, doors/gates, wall pieces, boats) should now be fully functional.
- A new catapult ammunition called stone shot is available on siege ammunition merchants.
- Greek fire now has an in-flight animation.
Quests - Albion
- Prelude to War - Players stuck on step 8 of this quest can now kill the Ellyll villagers and Ellyll guards in any of the three camps in Pennine Mountains to continue the quest.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70c Release Notes
April 21, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Requesting the realm war map near a portal stone that cannot be ported to now displays the teleport status of keeps correctly.
- Players can no longer left click on attackable keep doors to teleport through them. Players will need to right-click on the doors in order to teleport.
- Structures will no longer generate scouting reports for the realm that owns the structure (for example, if a group of Midgard players passes by a structure owned by Midgard, no report will be generated).
- Siege equipment should now automatically begin arming when you /control it.
- Siege equipment which has a base ammo set will no longer give a "You must load.." error message when attempting to fire.
- At Keep Upgrade level 10, a new honor guard contingent will spawn around the Keep Lord to protect him.
- All guards are now set to normal testing levels.
- All doors and structure walls are now set to normal testing levels.
- We are in the process of resolving pathing issues with the fast attack boats in each frontier. Please be aware of these when using these boat routes in the New Frontiers.
- The Dockmistress of Pennine Mountains has had her location moved to the dock near Caer Boldiam on Essum Isle. The fast attack boats leaving from Pennine will now make a stop at this dock.
- The following Dockmasters and Dockmistresses will no longer delete the fast attack boat tickets that are handed to them if a different boat is already at the dock. The merchants will now return the ticket to the player's inventory. The merchants will now also return the correct ticket item to the player's inventory if the ticket is returned to the player.
Dockmaster of Hadrian's Wall
Dockmaster of Cruachan Gorge
Dockmistress of Mount Collory
Dockmaster of Emain Macha
Movement in New Frontiers
- Players will move at 50% speed when wading in water.
- Players will be slowed down when moving up hills with steep slopes.
- Please note that these effects will only take place in the New Frontiers areas, not anywhere else.
The Realm Point Pool
- Currently in testing is a Realm Point pool. As players are killed around a keep, bonus Realm Points are added to a Realm Point pool that is awarded on a successful capture or defense of a keep.
- We have changed the Realm Point pool message to reflect whether you have successfully defended or assaulted the keep.
Tradeskill Updates
- The Siegecraft recipe list has been reworked to reflect siege engine changes for New Frontiers. Please note that these recipes are still in testing and are subject to change.
- The Siege Ammo store has been updated to reflect the new siege engine changes.
SHROUDED ISLES USER INTERFACE
- The Shrouded Isles client will now use the new XML user interface that was introduced with Trials of Atlantis.
- You may choose from the Shrouded Isles UI, Classic UI, or Transparent UI, using the new XML interface.
- Custom skins are not allowed using the Shrouded Isles client.
- Any interface features previously marked as 'ToA Only' (such as quiver, Master Level window, extended buffing window, etc) are now available under the Shrouded Isles client.
- The options menu has been updated to be more user-friendly, similar to the Trials of Atlantis options menu.
- Players using the 'New Classic' client (accounts that have only purchased the Classic expansion, but are running with the Shrouded Isles engine) will also now use the new XML user interface.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
- The portal ceremonies have been changed. The portal master and his lackeys will no longer walk down to the teleport pad. They will now remain stationary on the pad at all times. A single player must right click the master to initiate the ceremony. Once the ceremony is cast, all players on the portal pad wearing a medallion of passage will be teleported to their destination.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The shapechanges cast by the Shades of Mist and Traitor's Dagger artifacts should now work consistently while the player is running or in a crowded area, regardless of their target.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70d Release Notes
April 22, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The /release command will now give a warning when the player misspells or does not fully type out "house" for /release house.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Towers now only require four people to claim.
- Siege equipment and guards placed on hookpoints will be correctly removed if the hookpoint is no longer available when the keep is downgraded, or moved when the keep is upgraded.
- We are in the process of enabling and adjusting the broadcast channels within the relic temples, keeps, and associated towers. Please be aware of this when using broadcast within those regions.
- You will now see siege ammunition flying through the air when launched from siege equipment.
- We have enabled a new set of ambient battle sounds that play when you are in RvR combat of sufficient size.
Ram Operation
- With the changes to siege engines in New Frontiers, players can now use other players as helpers to attack with a ram.
- In order to taking control of a ram or help man a ram, right-click on the ram. If there is a ram controller and room for helpers, then the player will automatically be attached onto the ram as a helper.
- Once the player is attached to the ram, the player is unable to move until they release the ram using the Release button.
- As more players are added to the ram, the DPS of the ram goes up steadily, reaching a maximum DPS when the maximum number of operators is reached.
- Gates and doors can only be attacked by one ram at a time.
Siege Changes
- In order to take control of a piece of siege equipment, players must right-click on it.
- When a player targets by left clicking, it will also set the siege target to that location.
- The basic damage without player ammunition for the catapult, trebuchet, ballista, and palintone has been adjusted.
Tradeskill Changes
- Removed the Ballista Bolt recipe from Siegecraft.
- The Hibernia Siegecraft recipes should now call for the appropriate ferrite ingredients.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- All housing merchants have had the equipment they wear randomized to give the merchants a variety of outfits. Picking up the merchants (both consignment and internal house merchants) and placing them back down on their hookpoints (or porch) will cause the NPC to randomly choose an outfit from the equipment it has been given. Please note: Hasteners, Intoners, Pipers, and Bankers have not had their equipment modified.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70e Release Notes
April 23, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Fixed a bug that caused guilds to be unable to claim keeps.
- You should no longer be able to strafe through "ground is too steep" areas.
- Repaired doors will now close at a faster speed to mirror the current speed that is set on the live servers.
- Keep lords for level five or higher keeps should now correctly drop keys to supply chests. Please note the contracts found in the chests are not yet functional.
- The merchant town NPC pet classes should now have pets that con as friendly to members of their respective realm.
- All stealther realm guards have had their hit points reduced.
- Albion Milegates will now teleport friendly troops to the other side.
Ram Changes
- Rams can only be used to attack gates/doors.
- If the ram controller loses control of the ram while it is moving, it will stop its movement immediately.
Siege Changes
- It is no longer possible to aim more than three pieces of siege equipment at a keep piece at the same time, and no more than 1 piece can be aimed at a gate/door at once.
- When using a trebuchet or catapult and using ground targeting rather than left-click direct target aiming, splash damage will no longer affect keep pieces.
- All of the damage modifiers from the various different types of siege equipment against the various target types (players and controlled pets, doors/gates, wall pieces, boats) should now be fully functional.
- A new catapult ammunition called stone shot is available on siege ammunition merchants.
- Greek fire now has an in-flight animation.
Quests - Albion
- Prelude to War - Players stuck on step 8 of this quest can now kill the Ellyll villagers and Ellyll guards in any of the three camps in Pennine Mountains to continue the quest.
AW: Patchnotes 1.70a-z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70f Release Notes
April 26, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The Convoker Master Level ability, Summon Warcrystal, now has a 30 second recast timer.
- The Warlord Master Level ability, Resilient Will, should now have the correct delve information.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Bounty point costs associated with keep upgrade and ownership have been removed temporarily for testing purposes.
- Players will no longer be able to board the enemy realms' fast attack boats.
- Doors will now close again when repaired.
- Fixed a bug where players received the realm point pool award when they were not in the keep's region.
Siege Changes
- Players should now see siege fire effects from a longer distance away.
- Siege weapons will now follow player/controlled pet damage rules when fired at enemy realm guards.
- Siege damage should now be much closer to intended values against different types of targets.
- Right clicking should now properly load helpers onto rams.
- Fixed a bug that caused the siege equipment control windows to not pop up when you /control a piece of siege equipment you had previously controlled and lost.
Tradeskill Changes
- A recipe for stone shot has been added to Siegecraft.
- Recipes that will enable players to construct battle rams and war rams have been added to Siegecraft.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Albion
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Albion players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Camelot City, Snowdonia Fortress, Caer Gothwaite, Caerwent Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Midgard
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Midgard players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Jordheim, Vindsaul Faste, Aegirhamn, Erikstaad Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Hibernia
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Hibernia players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Tir na Nog, Druim Cain, Grove of Domnann, Meath Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Mordred and Gaheris
- The djinn stones will now teleport players on Mordred and Gaheris to all of the above listed teleportation sites.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- The Siegecraft Supplies house merchant now costs 100 gold to purchase.
- New Trials of Atlantis Trophies have been added for the Deep-Chasm Matriarch, Dasyatis, Voracious Barracuda, Supreme Iaculus, and the Huleros Champion. Players can speak to the following NPCs in the housing zones to create the new trophies.
Albion - Ectant Dinailaine, Ilphrae Dinailaine, Jhanva Dinailaine, Airyn Dinailaine, or Ybaedric Dinailaine
Midgard - Frolder, Warmir, Hudi, Thieya, or Aenda
Hibernia - Sannan, Sabrea, Sionyn, Sadoc, or Sioned
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70g Release Notes
April 27, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (SI and ToA Only) Changes made in 1.69 inadvertently caused players running two instances of DAOC to go linkdead or experience other problems. To address this and restore the original level of functionality, we have added a new "sleep mode" to the client, to allow it to run while using very low CPU usage when in the background or minimized. Setting it to "Background" will not render when the window is not the active window on your desktop, and setting it to "Minimized" will cause it to not render when the game is minimized. You can adjust your settings in the Options Menu or ingame using the "/clientsleep" command.
- (Pendragon Only) Fixed an issue where bodies of monsters were not being removed after they died.
- We have added the /range command. This command works similar to /gtrange but is based off of your current target rather than your ground target.
- Clerics, Druids, and Healers should now be correctly converted to receive the lower level spreadheals.
- The friends list should now work correctly.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Boats no longer require Trials of Atlantis access.
- Players who attempt to log in near a keep that is owned by an enemy realm will now be moved to a "safe point".
- Fixed a bug where pets were not able to capture keeps.
- Players can no longer do positional styles on doors.
- Fixed remaining issues that enabled players to board the enemy realms' fast attack boats.
- Fixed a bug that would not allow a guild to claim a keep in the New Frontiers if the guild owned a keep in any old frontier zone.
Siege Changes
- /groundassist can now be used on siege equipment to acquire its current ground target location.
- Players should now take 50% less damage when hit by a siege attack while riding a piece of siege equipment.
- Players can no longer cast spells, use items, or sit while riding a ram.
- Line of sight to your ground target is now required to begin moving siege equipment.
- Typing /control with no siege weapon close should no longer print garbage text.
- Fixed a bug where after releasing a piece of siege equipment, the next player to try to right click control it would not immediately get the control box.
- Destroyed siege equipment should now properly release the owner's control.
- Fixed a bug where trade skill created siege weapons could not be boarded by players other than the crafter of the siege weapon.
- You should now receive a message if your siege weapon misses all targets.
Tradeskill Changes
- The ranged ballista available through Siegecraft will now have the appropriate maximum range, arming timer, and damage.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70h Release Notes
April 28, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Speed spells should correctly resume at the same time for pet owners and pets after leaving combat.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Siege Changes
- Moving (not aiming) a siege weapon will now always unarm it. It will need to be stopped and go through the arming process again.
- There is now a check when you begin or finish creating a siege weapon to ensure that you are not too close (or on top of) a keep piece. This only applies to trade skill created siege weapons.
- If you are the controller of a ram, you should now be able to set your groundtarget by clicking on terrain.
- There is now a 30 minute timer before siege equipment will decay when it is not being controlled. If a player takes control during this time, the timer will reset and not begin counting down until there is once again no controller.
- Ram damages have been greatly improved.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70i Release Notes
April 29, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Fixed an issue where the /clientsleep command and options menu were not syncing up correctly.
- (Pendragon, SI Only) Fixed an issue where resolution choices on the new Options Menu would not take effect.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Siege Changes
- Siege engines now have the appropriate minimum range set.
- The velocity on mobile siege engines has been reduced.
- Boiling oil damage against players, pets, and realm enemy monsters has been quadrupled.
- Players who board a ram as a helper will immediately receive the helper pop-up message.
- Hitting the "swing" key too early as a helper will no longer give the, "The ram isn't ready to be fired yet", message.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Siegecraft - The ranged ballista, ranged catapult, and ranged trebuchet have been renamed to field ballista, field catapult, and field trebuchet.
- Many of the ingredients in Alchemy and Spellcrafting stores have been re-arranged. Items should be better organized into similar groupings, and alphabetized in some cases.
- Alchemy - A new set of dyes, Crafted Weapon Lusters, is available at skill level 1012. These dyes are intended for use only on player-crafted weapons. A crafted weapon luster remover is also available at skill level 730, under Dye Removal Agents. Please note that Legendary Weapons are not enabled to use the Crafted Weapon Lusters.
- Gest in Jordheim should no longer mention incorrect armor when players join the Order of Armorcrafters.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- Players who bought a Siegecraft Supplies merchant at the old price of 1 platinum should now be able to sell the merchant back for full price and purchase a new Siegecraft Supplies merchant for the new price of 100 gold.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70f Release Notes
April 26, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The Convoker Master Level ability, Summon Warcrystal, now has a 30 second recast timer.
- The Warlord Master Level ability, Resilient Will, should now have the correct delve information.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Bounty point costs associated with keep upgrade and ownership have been removed temporarily for testing purposes.
- Players will no longer be able to board the enemy realms' fast attack boats.
- Doors will now close again when repaired.
- Fixed a bug where players received the realm point pool award when they were not in the keep's region.
Siege Changes
- Players should now see siege fire effects from a longer distance away.
- Siege weapons will now follow player/controlled pet damage rules when fired at enemy realm guards.
- Siege damage should now be much closer to intended values against different types of targets.
- Right clicking should now properly load helpers onto rams.
- Fixed a bug that caused the siege equipment control windows to not pop up when you /control a piece of siege equipment you had previously controlled and lost.
Tradeskill Changes
- A recipe for stone shot has been added to Siegecraft.
- Recipes that will enable players to construct battle rams and war rams have been added to Siegecraft.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Albion
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Albion players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Camelot City, Snowdonia Fortress, Caer Gothwaite, Caerwent Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Midgard
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Midgard players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Jordheim, Vindsaul Faste, Aegirhamn, Erikstaad Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Hibernia
- The djinn stones will now teleport players to other locations. Hibernia players will now have access to the following teleportation locations: Tir na Nog, Druim Cain, Grove of Domnann, Meath Housing Zone, Personal House, and Guild House
Mordred and Gaheris
- The djinn stones will now teleport players on Mordred and Gaheris to all of the above listed teleportation sites.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- The Siegecraft Supplies house merchant now costs 100 gold to purchase.
- New Trials of Atlantis Trophies have been added for the Deep-Chasm Matriarch, Dasyatis, Voracious Barracuda, Supreme Iaculus, and the Huleros Champion. Players can speak to the following NPCs in the housing zones to create the new trophies.
Albion - Ectant Dinailaine, Ilphrae Dinailaine, Jhanva Dinailaine, Airyn Dinailaine, or Ybaedric Dinailaine
Midgard - Frolder, Warmir, Hudi, Thieya, or Aenda
Hibernia - Sannan, Sabrea, Sionyn, Sadoc, or Sioned
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70g Release Notes
April 27, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (SI and ToA Only) Changes made in 1.69 inadvertently caused players running two instances of DAOC to go linkdead or experience other problems. To address this and restore the original level of functionality, we have added a new "sleep mode" to the client, to allow it to run while using very low CPU usage when in the background or minimized. Setting it to "Background" will not render when the window is not the active window on your desktop, and setting it to "Minimized" will cause it to not render when the game is minimized. You can adjust your settings in the Options Menu or ingame using the "/clientsleep" command.
- (Pendragon Only) Fixed an issue where bodies of monsters were not being removed after they died.
- We have added the /range command. This command works similar to /gtrange but is based off of your current target rather than your ground target.
- Clerics, Druids, and Healers should now be correctly converted to receive the lower level spreadheals.
- The friends list should now work correctly.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- Boats no longer require Trials of Atlantis access.
- Players who attempt to log in near a keep that is owned by an enemy realm will now be moved to a "safe point".
- Fixed a bug where pets were not able to capture keeps.
- Players can no longer do positional styles on doors.
- Fixed remaining issues that enabled players to board the enemy realms' fast attack boats.
- Fixed a bug that would not allow a guild to claim a keep in the New Frontiers if the guild owned a keep in any old frontier zone.
Siege Changes
- /groundassist can now be used on siege equipment to acquire its current ground target location.
- Players should now take 50% less damage when hit by a siege attack while riding a piece of siege equipment.
- Players can no longer cast spells, use items, or sit while riding a ram.
- Line of sight to your ground target is now required to begin moving siege equipment.
- Typing /control with no siege weapon close should no longer print garbage text.
- Fixed a bug where after releasing a piece of siege equipment, the next player to try to right click control it would not immediately get the control box.
- Destroyed siege equipment should now properly release the owner's control.
- Fixed a bug where trade skill created siege weapons could not be boarded by players other than the crafter of the siege weapon.
- You should now receive a message if your siege weapon misses all targets.
Tradeskill Changes
- The ranged ballista available through Siegecraft will now have the appropriate maximum range, arming timer, and damage.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70h Release Notes
April 28, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Speed spells should correctly resume at the same time for pet owners and pets after leaving combat.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Siege Changes
- Moving (not aiming) a siege weapon will now always unarm it. It will need to be stopped and go through the arming process again.
- There is now a check when you begin or finish creating a siege weapon to ensure that you are not too close (or on top of) a keep piece. This only applies to trade skill created siege weapons.
- If you are the controller of a ram, you should now be able to set your groundtarget by clicking on terrain.
- There is now a 30 minute timer before siege equipment will decay when it is not being controlled. If a player takes control during this time, the timer will reset and not begin counting down until there is once again no controller.
- Ram damages have been greatly improved.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70i Release Notes
April 29, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Fixed an issue where the /clientsleep command and options menu were not syncing up correctly.
- (Pendragon, SI Only) Fixed an issue where resolution choices on the new Options Menu would not take effect.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Siege Changes
- Siege engines now have the appropriate minimum range set.
- The velocity on mobile siege engines has been reduced.
- Boiling oil damage against players, pets, and realm enemy monsters has been quadrupled.
- Players who board a ram as a helper will immediately receive the helper pop-up message.
- Hitting the "swing" key too early as a helper will no longer give the, "The ram isn't ready to be fired yet", message.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Siegecraft - The ranged ballista, ranged catapult, and ranged trebuchet have been renamed to field ballista, field catapult, and field trebuchet.
- Many of the ingredients in Alchemy and Spellcrafting stores have been re-arranged. Items should be better organized into similar groupings, and alphabetized in some cases.
- Alchemy - A new set of dyes, Crafted Weapon Lusters, is available at skill level 1012. These dyes are intended for use only on player-crafted weapons. A crafted weapon luster remover is also available at skill level 730, under Dye Removal Agents. Please note that Legendary Weapons are not enabled to use the Crafted Weapon Lusters.
- Gest in Jordheim should no longer mention incorrect armor when players join the Order of Armorcrafters.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- Players who bought a Siegecraft Supplies merchant at the old price of 1 platinum should now be able to sell the merchant back for full price and purchase a new Siegecraft Supplies merchant for the new price of 100 gold.
AW: Patchnotes 1.70a-z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70j Release Notes
April 30, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The /range command now only works on object targets.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The Passage of Conflict dungeon is now open for exploration. This dungeon replaces the original three dungeons that led to Summoner's Hall in the old frontiers zones. Entrances to the Passage of Conflict may be found in Jamtland Mountains, Pennine Mountains, and Breifine. Please note that players may not yet reach Summoner's Hall.
- All ranged guards should now deal less damage.
- The PvP immunity timer in Frontiers regions has been changed to 5 seconds from 120.
- RvR death messages will now include region names when applicable (for example: Joe was just killed by Harry in Bratag Woods).
- Players will now receive "You have entered (zone name) messages" when you load into a new region.
- Combatants purchased off hookpoints now have their cost increased linearly from 10 to 75 based off of the upgrade level of the keep.
- Hookpoints that have become inactive, either through the object or monster being destroyed or their 30 minute timer expiring, will continue to block further purchases for a period of five minutes.
- Players only need a minimum of 3 towers to teleport into a keep. Taking only the towers to a keep will no longer allow players to cut off the supply line and teleportation into other keeps.
Realm Ability System
- With this version, all characters (including players not currently in the New Frontiers beta) are stripped and refunded of all realm abilities upon login. Please visit your class trainer to train in the new system.
- The first pass of the new Realm Ability system for New Frontiers is now in place for all players to begin testing. For more information on the replacement of the Realm Ability system, please visit http://www.camelotherald.com/newfro...ities/index.php Please note that none of the class unique abilities have been implemented at this time.
- All realm abilities now have delve information. Players can view the details of the new realm abilities by clicking the "Info" button on the class trainer when highlighting an ability before training it, or by delving the ability on the character sheet once it has been purchased.
Siege Changes
- Siege operators will receive a "You missed the (target)" when they were using a piece of siege equipment with a specific target set and it misses.
- The radius affected by the cauldron of boiling oil has been reduced.
- The prices on the hookpoint siege engines have been increased.
- Ice ball and stone shot ammunitions now have in-flight animations.
- Hookpoint siege engines can no longer be salvaged.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Player-crafted instruments may now be dyed with regular enamels.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Midgard
- The following trainers in Vindsaul Faste have been moved from behind the zone wall: Gunnolf, Dain, Kaisa, Ingemur, Eryk, and Mar.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Volcanus Encounters
- Shades of Mist - Destroying the Long Black Cloak will now correctly return the cloak to the Aged Statue.
Item Notes
- Zahur's Bracer (Midgard) should now have the proper amount of hitpoints.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70k Release Notes
May 3, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The "All Melee" bonus on objects has had its named changed to "All Primary Weapon". Please note that the bonus for these objects is not changed.
- (Pendragon Only) Item-based damage procs no longer proc for "You do 0 damage! (+13892179247)" on every proc.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The experience awards for realm vs. realm combat have been increased for the standard servers. Players will now be awarded 8 times more experience than they were previously awarded for killing enemy players in the frontiers.
Realmwar Window Changes
- You can now see relic status in the Realmwar Window, by clicking on the relic temples.
- The relic temples will mark as "under siege" (flames behind their icon) whenever the relic milegates are opened by taking the appropriate keeps.
- Fixed a bug where towers weren't displaying their claiming guild's name properly.
- You can now choose to teleport to your own Border Keeps.
Siege Changes
- Cauldrons of boiling oil can now be attacked.
Realm Abilities
- If a realm ability that a character has already trained in is delved while next to a character's class trainer, it will display the "trainer delve" (displaying all possible levels of the ability) instead of delving at the character's current realm ability level.
- Heroes, Warriors, Armsmen, Berserkers, Blademasters, Mercenaries, and Savages will now be granted the Stoicism realm ability at level 35.
- All classes with access to weapon styles will now be granted the Tireless realm ability at level 15.
- Rangers, Hunters, and Scouts will now be granted the Volley realm ability at 35 bow specialization. The ability will upgrade to Volley II at 40 bow specialization, Volley III at 45 bow specialization, and Volley IV at 50 bow specialization.
- Characters that have the free-gift version of the Charge realm ability will now have that ability stripped upon logging in.
- The Empty Mind realm ability now displays the correct resist value instead of "100" in the spell effect icon when used.
- The Purge realm ability is now usable while stunned or mesmerized.
- The realm ability, Ichor of the Deep, now properly roots the target. The damage value for the realm ability now also displays in the delve.
- The realm ability, Perfect Recovery, now correctly scales based on the levels of the realm ability purchased instead of always granting a 100% resurrection.
- Anger of the Gods now correctly scales based on the levels of the realm ability purchased and should not be capped based on the player's DPS.
- Whirling Dervish no longer doubles the damage of the third and fourth hits in a Savage hand-to-hand hit chain.
- Mastery of Concentration's debuff component now affects the following spells: the value of non-instant casting heal spells, the duration of crowd control spells (mesmerize, stun, snare, and root), the lifetime of Theurgist pets, and the lifetime of Animist turrets.
- Fixed the delve for the Static Tempest realm ability to show that it is a stunning storm.
- Fixed the delve for Ameliorating Melodies.
- Fixed the delve for the Soldier's Barricade group buff effect.
- Fixed the delve for the Barrier of Fortitude group buff.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The amount of experience required to level the Atlantis Tablet artifact has been reduced to an amount more appropriate to its level.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70l Release Notes
May 4, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Crystal Titan will now grow much larger in size than before. This should give this intimidating creature much more presence in the frontiers.
- Typing "/groundset 0" now moves the height of your ground target back down to the default if it had previously been raised or lowered, in addition to setting your ground target position at your feet.
- Melee damage done by a pet (controlled or otherwise) now reports back to the pet owner on the Attacks/Other channel.
- Damage done to an actively controlled pet now reports back to the pet owner on the Attacks/Other channel.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- New Frontiers will now run under the Shrouded Isles client. Beta testers will need to use their New Frontiers installer in order to access the frontiers zones with the SI client.
- Essence Flare, a stun used by realm guards, will now properly trigger an immunity timer.
- Pets will now accompany their masters on keep-to-keep teleports with the exception of Animist and Theurgist pets.
- We have added additional information to the bounty point, realm point, and experience earning messages to tell where the bonus earnings came from.
- You can no longer drop Trials of Atlantis boats in frontiers regions.
- You can no longer /stick, /face, or /follow keep pieces or towers.
- Right clicking a keep piece no longer targets it.
- Trebuchets, rams, other large siege equipment, and boats now have smaller clickable areas to make it easier to select targets when they are onscreen.
- You are no longer restricted to only the "Shrouded Isles" Interface Skin when in New Frontiers zones. Please note that many custom skins may not display the New Frontiers windows correctly, and you should switch to a prebuilt skin in order to use these new windows.
- You can now open the "/realmwar" map from anywhere ingame.
- You can now open the Realm War map with a button on your Stats Group window.
Realm Abilities
- Juggernaut now causes the target pet to grow in size as the pet's level increases.
- Archetype realm abilities (Stoicism, Volley, Tireless) are no longer stripped when doing a realm ability respec.
- All characters of the appropriate classes are checked and given Volley, Stoicism, and Tireless again upon logging in.
- The Charge realm ability now works correctly. Also, this ability now has delve information.
- Reflex Attack now works against all attacks, not just ones from the defender's forward arc.
- Fixed the delve information for Mastery of Concentration.
Siege Changes
- We have reduced ballista/palintone damage vs. players and realm enemy monsters.
- Catapult damage vs. players and realm enemy monsters has been increased.
- Boiling oil damage vs. other siege equipment has been reduced.
- Damage from siege ammunition impact should now hit any eligible target within the ammo's damage radius.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70n Release Notes
May 7, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Gaining artifact experience in RVR has been returned to its original values.
- Monsters should now recognize locked keep doors. Sending a theurgist pet or animist bomber at a keep defender will make them stop in front of the keep door.
- Fixed a bug with Faultfinder where the damage was not being modified by the level of the door or wall being attacked. Also reduced the effectiveness of faultfinder overall.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Realm Abilities
- Fixed a bug with some Infiltrators, Mercenaries, Armsmen and Scouts not being able to see any effect from stat augmentation realm abilities.
- The Necromancer's version of First Aid has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. It should now have a cast time for the pet, which will prevent it from being used in combat without the use of facilitate pain. It has been reduced in effectiveness by 50% until the bug preventing its variance is fixed.
- The Necromancer's version of The Empty Mind has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. Duration is reduced to its intended 45 seconds. The bonus has been reduced to 10% to prevent any exploitation of the ability until the bug preventing its variance is fixed.
- The Necromancer's version of Negative Maelstrom has been changed in the following ways: Re-use time set to 15 minutes.
***Please note that Negative Maelstrom will not function for the Necromancer at this time. We're aware of the problem and we appreciate your patience while we are fixing this issue. Necromancers should avoid purchasing this ability until further notice.
- The Necromancer's version of Ichor of the Deep has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. Damage type changed from body to spirit, which is its intended damage type. Damage reduced by 50% to prevent this ability from being exploited until the bug preventing its variance is fixed. The ability's snare should no longer permanently snare targets. However, we're also aware that the snare lasts only 10 seconds, regardless of level. This will be fixed in a future Pendragon version.
Siege Changes
- Boiling oil will now do more damage.
- Boiling oil will once again do full damage against all targets in the radius of effect.
TRADESKILL CHANGES:
- The diminutive ballista apparatus recipe should now call for 100 wood instead of 300, and it should also require a ballista trigger.
- The flask of glacial essence recipe should require the proper ingredients.
- The diminutive catapult and trebuchet apparatus recipes should now require a counterweight.
- Diminutive siege apparatus recipes should no longer check Armorcraft skill where inappropriate.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70j Release Notes
April 30, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The /range command now only works on object targets.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The Passage of Conflict dungeon is now open for exploration. This dungeon replaces the original three dungeons that led to Summoner's Hall in the old frontiers zones. Entrances to the Passage of Conflict may be found in Jamtland Mountains, Pennine Mountains, and Breifine. Please note that players may not yet reach Summoner's Hall.
- All ranged guards should now deal less damage.
- The PvP immunity timer in Frontiers regions has been changed to 5 seconds from 120.
- RvR death messages will now include region names when applicable (for example: Joe was just killed by Harry in Bratag Woods).
- Players will now receive "You have entered (zone name) messages" when you load into a new region.
- Combatants purchased off hookpoints now have their cost increased linearly from 10 to 75 based off of the upgrade level of the keep.
- Hookpoints that have become inactive, either through the object or monster being destroyed or their 30 minute timer expiring, will continue to block further purchases for a period of five minutes.
- Players only need a minimum of 3 towers to teleport into a keep. Taking only the towers to a keep will no longer allow players to cut off the supply line and teleportation into other keeps.
Realm Ability System
- With this version, all characters (including players not currently in the New Frontiers beta) are stripped and refunded of all realm abilities upon login. Please visit your class trainer to train in the new system.
- The first pass of the new Realm Ability system for New Frontiers is now in place for all players to begin testing. For more information on the replacement of the Realm Ability system, please visit http://www.camelotherald.com/newfro...ities/index.php Please note that none of the class unique abilities have been implemented at this time.
- All realm abilities now have delve information. Players can view the details of the new realm abilities by clicking the "Info" button on the class trainer when highlighting an ability before training it, or by delving the ability on the character sheet once it has been purchased.
Siege Changes
- Siege operators will receive a "You missed the (target)" when they were using a piece of siege equipment with a specific target set and it misses.
- The radius affected by the cauldron of boiling oil has been reduced.
- The prices on the hookpoint siege engines have been increased.
- Ice ball and stone shot ammunitions now have in-flight animations.
- Hookpoint siege engines can no longer be salvaged.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Player-crafted instruments may now be dyed with regular enamels.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Midgard
- The following trainers in Vindsaul Faste have been moved from behind the zone wall: Gunnolf, Dain, Kaisa, Ingemur, Eryk, and Mar.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Volcanus Encounters
- Shades of Mist - Destroying the Long Black Cloak will now correctly return the cloak to the Aged Statue.
Item Notes
- Zahur's Bracer (Midgard) should now have the proper amount of hitpoints.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70k Release Notes
May 3, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The "All Melee" bonus on objects has had its named changed to "All Primary Weapon". Please note that the bonus for these objects is not changed.
- (Pendragon Only) Item-based damage procs no longer proc for "You do 0 damage! (+13892179247)" on every proc.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- The experience awards for realm vs. realm combat have been increased for the standard servers. Players will now be awarded 8 times more experience than they were previously awarded for killing enemy players in the frontiers.
Realmwar Window Changes
- You can now see relic status in the Realmwar Window, by clicking on the relic temples.
- The relic temples will mark as "under siege" (flames behind their icon) whenever the relic milegates are opened by taking the appropriate keeps.
- Fixed a bug where towers weren't displaying their claiming guild's name properly.
- You can now choose to teleport to your own Border Keeps.
Siege Changes
- Cauldrons of boiling oil can now be attacked.
Realm Abilities
- If a realm ability that a character has already trained in is delved while next to a character's class trainer, it will display the "trainer delve" (displaying all possible levels of the ability) instead of delving at the character's current realm ability level.
- Heroes, Warriors, Armsmen, Berserkers, Blademasters, Mercenaries, and Savages will now be granted the Stoicism realm ability at level 35.
- All classes with access to weapon styles will now be granted the Tireless realm ability at level 15.
- Rangers, Hunters, and Scouts will now be granted the Volley realm ability at 35 bow specialization. The ability will upgrade to Volley II at 40 bow specialization, Volley III at 45 bow specialization, and Volley IV at 50 bow specialization.
- Characters that have the free-gift version of the Charge realm ability will now have that ability stripped upon logging in.
- The Empty Mind realm ability now displays the correct resist value instead of "100" in the spell effect icon when used.
- The Purge realm ability is now usable while stunned or mesmerized.
- The realm ability, Ichor of the Deep, now properly roots the target. The damage value for the realm ability now also displays in the delve.
- The realm ability, Perfect Recovery, now correctly scales based on the levels of the realm ability purchased instead of always granting a 100% resurrection.
- Anger of the Gods now correctly scales based on the levels of the realm ability purchased and should not be capped based on the player's DPS.
- Whirling Dervish no longer doubles the damage of the third and fourth hits in a Savage hand-to-hand hit chain.
- Mastery of Concentration's debuff component now affects the following spells: the value of non-instant casting heal spells, the duration of crowd control spells (mesmerize, stun, snare, and root), the lifetime of Theurgist pets, and the lifetime of Animist turrets.
- Fixed the delve for the Static Tempest realm ability to show that it is a stunning storm.
- Fixed the delve for Ameliorating Melodies.
- Fixed the delve for the Soldier's Barricade group buff effect.
- Fixed the delve for the Barrier of Fortitude group buff.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The amount of experience required to level the Atlantis Tablet artifact has been reduced to an amount more appropriate to its level.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70l Release Notes
May 4, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Crystal Titan will now grow much larger in size than before. This should give this intimidating creature much more presence in the frontiers.
- Typing "/groundset 0" now moves the height of your ground target back down to the default if it had previously been raised or lowered, in addition to setting your ground target position at your feet.
- Melee damage done by a pet (controlled or otherwise) now reports back to the pet owner on the Attacks/Other channel.
- Damage done to an actively controlled pet now reports back to the pet owner on the Attacks/Other channel.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- New Frontiers will now run under the Shrouded Isles client. Beta testers will need to use their New Frontiers installer in order to access the frontiers zones with the SI client.
- Essence Flare, a stun used by realm guards, will now properly trigger an immunity timer.
- Pets will now accompany their masters on keep-to-keep teleports with the exception of Animist and Theurgist pets.
- We have added additional information to the bounty point, realm point, and experience earning messages to tell where the bonus earnings came from.
- You can no longer drop Trials of Atlantis boats in frontiers regions.
- You can no longer /stick, /face, or /follow keep pieces or towers.
- Right clicking a keep piece no longer targets it.
- Trebuchets, rams, other large siege equipment, and boats now have smaller clickable areas to make it easier to select targets when they are onscreen.
- You are no longer restricted to only the "Shrouded Isles" Interface Skin when in New Frontiers zones. Please note that many custom skins may not display the New Frontiers windows correctly, and you should switch to a prebuilt skin in order to use these new windows.
- You can now open the "/realmwar" map from anywhere ingame.
- You can now open the Realm War map with a button on your Stats Group window.
Realm Abilities
- Juggernaut now causes the target pet to grow in size as the pet's level increases.
- Archetype realm abilities (Stoicism, Volley, Tireless) are no longer stripped when doing a realm ability respec.
- All characters of the appropriate classes are checked and given Volley, Stoicism, and Tireless again upon logging in.
- The Charge realm ability now works correctly. Also, this ability now has delve information.
- Reflex Attack now works against all attacks, not just ones from the defender's forward arc.
- Fixed the delve information for Mastery of Concentration.
Siege Changes
- We have reduced ballista/palintone damage vs. players and realm enemy monsters.
- Catapult damage vs. players and realm enemy monsters has been increased.
- Boiling oil damage vs. other siege equipment has been reduced.
- Damage from siege ammunition impact should now hit any eligible target within the ammo's damage radius.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70n Release Notes
May 7, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Gaining artifact experience in RVR has been returned to its original values.
- Monsters should now recognize locked keep doors. Sending a theurgist pet or animist bomber at a keep defender will make them stop in front of the keep door.
- Fixed a bug with Faultfinder where the damage was not being modified by the level of the door or wall being attacked. Also reduced the effectiveness of faultfinder overall.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
Realm Abilities
- Fixed a bug with some Infiltrators, Mercenaries, Armsmen and Scouts not being able to see any effect from stat augmentation realm abilities.
- The Necromancer's version of First Aid has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. It should now have a cast time for the pet, which will prevent it from being used in combat without the use of facilitate pain. It has been reduced in effectiveness by 50% until the bug preventing its variance is fixed.
- The Necromancer's version of The Empty Mind has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. Duration is reduced to its intended 45 seconds. The bonus has been reduced to 10% to prevent any exploitation of the ability until the bug preventing its variance is fixed.
- The Necromancer's version of Negative Maelstrom has been changed in the following ways: Re-use time set to 15 minutes.
***Please note that Negative Maelstrom will not function for the Necromancer at this time. We're aware of the problem and we appreciate your patience while we are fixing this issue. Necromancers should avoid purchasing this ability until further notice.
- The Necromancer's version of Ichor of the Deep has been changed in the following ways: It should no longer have a power cost. Damage type changed from body to spirit, which is its intended damage type. Damage reduced by 50% to prevent this ability from being exploited until the bug preventing its variance is fixed. The ability's snare should no longer permanently snare targets. However, we're also aware that the snare lasts only 10 seconds, regardless of level. This will be fixed in a future Pendragon version.
Siege Changes
- Boiling oil will now do more damage.
- Boiling oil will once again do full damage against all targets in the radius of effect.
TRADESKILL CHANGES:
- The diminutive ballista apparatus recipe should now call for 100 wood instead of 300, and it should also require a ballista trigger.
- The flask of glacial essence recipe should require the proper ingredients.
- The diminutive catapult and trebuchet apparatus recipes should now require a counterweight.
- Diminutive siege apparatus recipes should no longer check Armorcraft skill where inappropriate.
AW: Patchnotes 1.70a-z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70o Release Notes
May 19, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Facilitate Painworking (the Necromancer quickcast spell) now works identically to other list casters' Quickcast ability. Previously it had a very small chance of failure when fighting higher level opponents.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- (Pendragon Only) All realm abilities have been cleared and the points for them refunded. Please see your class trainer to repurchase your realm abilities.
- (Pendragon Only) Bounty point costs associated with keep and tower upgrade/ownership have now been reinstated. It will now also cost gold, bounty points, or guild bounty points to purchase items off of hookpoints. Please note that tower and keep bounty costs are currently incorrect and will be adjusted in a later version.
- (Pendragon Only) All keeps and towers will be reset to level 1, unclaimed status, and original realm ownership.
- Guilds that own keeps will now get the old realm point award of 1000*keep difficulty per hour (on PvP servers, this is the 1000+1000*number of relics owned).
- Pets will now be teleported through doors with their owners.
- It will no longer be possible for realm enemies to attack players on the high speed transport boats.
- Players will no longer be able to teleport when dying from a duel. The realmwar map will no longer appear on a duel death.
Battlegrounds
- The new battlegrounds, with the exception of Proving Grounds and The Lions Den, are now ready for testing on Pendragon. Players can now use the portal ceremonies at the border keeps in their home realm to port into the battlegrounds using the Battleground Medallion of Passage. The names and level ranges of the battlegrounds are as follows:
1 - 4 Proving Grounds
5 - 9 The Lions Den
10 - 14 The Hills of Claret
15 - 19 Killaloe
20 - 24 Thidranki
25 - 29 Braemar
30 - 34 Wilton
35 - 39 Molvik
40 - 44 Leirvik
- The new battlegrounds do not have realm point caps.
- We have set the /level command to 14 to facilitate testing in the Battlegrounds. We will raise this level as testing proceeds to match each battleground in succession.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Necromancer pet-casted realm abilities now delve correctly and scale properly depending on the amount purchased by the Necromancer.
- The Necromancer pet-casted First Aid realm ability now heals for the correct amount specified.
- Animist bombers and Necromancer pets now derive the benefit from their owner's Mastery of Magery realm ability.
- Hit points now correctly recalculate when doing a realm ability respec. Resistance bonuses now correctly recalculate and report when lowering or raising, when purchasing or respecing realm abilities.
- Volley now fires the correct number of arrows and reports the number of shots remaining in the volley when firing. Volley will now also report when completed.
- Targets which are under the cover of a roof can no longer be hit by Volley.
- Volley's announcement now correctly reflects the archer's gender.
- Purge I now has the correct 5 second delay instead of 10 seconds upon use.
- Thornweed Field now correctly lasts the specified duration for its purchased realm ability level.
Siege Changes
- Siege equipment now releases its ownership when the current owner logs out.
- Bags will no longer be created when siege weapons are fired.
- Siege ammo will no longer "splash" on keep pieces - it must hit them directly.
Tradeskill Updates
- (Pendragon Only) The Diminutive Siege Apparatus recipes will no longer check Armorcrafting where inappropriate.
- (Pendragon Only) The cost of the swing harness when purchased from an NPC vendor is now correct.
- (Pendragon Only) Hibernia Spellcrafting - The Diminutive Siege Ballista now requires a ferrite ballista trigger, instead of iron.
Monsters
- The Nightshade trainer, Ethalind, and the Champion trainer, Adroameth, in the town in Cruachon Gorge are now dressed in the correct guild track armor.
Item Notes
- The Crocodile Tear Ring, the Shield of Khaos, and the Maddening Scalar Gloves will now earn experience from any kills in the new frontier zones as well as from killing enemy players.
- The Guard of Valor will now earn experience in the new frontier dungeon zones as well as from killing enemy players.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- Please be aware that the capital cities are currently undergoing a slight "renovation" with the merchants. A lot of the familiar merchants are gone and have been replaced with static NPCs who now have combined stores on them. When some of these NPCs greet players, their talk may be incorrect. This is a known issue and is currently being adjusted.
New Class Gifts
- We have added new class gifts to the game (in addition to the ones currently given out at level 5). These will be given by the class trainers in each realm's capital city, as well as the class trainers in Caer Gothwaite, the Grove of Domnann, and Aegir's Landing.
- There are four new gifts for each class. The gifts are given based on the character's level.
- The first new gift will be given to characters level 10 to 14. The second will be given to characters level 15 to 19, the third to characters level 20 to 24, and the fourth to characters level 25 to 35.
- Please note that these class gifts are given out one time only. Once you receive one, you will not be able to get another gift for that level range, even if you lose or destroy the item.
Item Notes
- (Albion) Faded Boots now have the correct studded icon in place of the leather icon.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Oceanus Encounters
- As a part of the Eirene's Hauberk artifact encounter, Linos will remain up at his current location for a full day after spawning.
Item Notes
- (Albion and Hibernia) The Breath of the Wind instruments now have a more fitting particle effect.
- (Albion) Hermes Golden Sleeves can now be dyed with enamels.
Man bemerke die Neuen BGs ^^ und kein RP cap ;D
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70o Release Notes
May 19, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Facilitate Painworking (the Necromancer quickcast spell) now works identically to other list casters' Quickcast ability. Previously it had a very small chance of failure when fighting higher level opponents.
NEW FRONTIERS NOTES
- (Pendragon Only) All realm abilities have been cleared and the points for them refunded. Please see your class trainer to repurchase your realm abilities.
- (Pendragon Only) Bounty point costs associated with keep and tower upgrade/ownership have now been reinstated. It will now also cost gold, bounty points, or guild bounty points to purchase items off of hookpoints. Please note that tower and keep bounty costs are currently incorrect and will be adjusted in a later version.
- (Pendragon Only) All keeps and towers will be reset to level 1, unclaimed status, and original realm ownership.
- Guilds that own keeps will now get the old realm point award of 1000*keep difficulty per hour (on PvP servers, this is the 1000+1000*number of relics owned).
- Pets will now be teleported through doors with their owners.
- It will no longer be possible for realm enemies to attack players on the high speed transport boats.
- Players will no longer be able to teleport when dying from a duel. The realmwar map will no longer appear on a duel death.
Battlegrounds
- The new battlegrounds, with the exception of Proving Grounds and The Lions Den, are now ready for testing on Pendragon. Players can now use the portal ceremonies at the border keeps in their home realm to port into the battlegrounds using the Battleground Medallion of Passage. The names and level ranges of the battlegrounds are as follows:
1 - 4 Proving Grounds
5 - 9 The Lions Den
10 - 14 The Hills of Claret
15 - 19 Killaloe
20 - 24 Thidranki
25 - 29 Braemar
30 - 34 Wilton
35 - 39 Molvik
40 - 44 Leirvik
- The new battlegrounds do not have realm point caps.
- We have set the /level command to 14 to facilitate testing in the Battlegrounds. We will raise this level as testing proceeds to match each battleground in succession.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Necromancer pet-casted realm abilities now delve correctly and scale properly depending on the amount purchased by the Necromancer.
- The Necromancer pet-casted First Aid realm ability now heals for the correct amount specified.
- Animist bombers and Necromancer pets now derive the benefit from their owner's Mastery of Magery realm ability.
- Hit points now correctly recalculate when doing a realm ability respec. Resistance bonuses now correctly recalculate and report when lowering or raising, when purchasing or respecing realm abilities.
- Volley now fires the correct number of arrows and reports the number of shots remaining in the volley when firing. Volley will now also report when completed.
- Targets which are under the cover of a roof can no longer be hit by Volley.
- Volley's announcement now correctly reflects the archer's gender.
- Purge I now has the correct 5 second delay instead of 10 seconds upon use.
- Thornweed Field now correctly lasts the specified duration for its purchased realm ability level.
Siege Changes
- Siege equipment now releases its ownership when the current owner logs out.
- Bags will no longer be created when siege weapons are fired.
- Siege ammo will no longer "splash" on keep pieces - it must hit them directly.
Tradeskill Updates
- (Pendragon Only) The Diminutive Siege Apparatus recipes will no longer check Armorcrafting where inappropriate.
- (Pendragon Only) The cost of the swing harness when purchased from an NPC vendor is now correct.
- (Pendragon Only) Hibernia Spellcrafting - The Diminutive Siege Ballista now requires a ferrite ballista trigger, instead of iron.
Monsters
- The Nightshade trainer, Ethalind, and the Champion trainer, Adroameth, in the town in Cruachon Gorge are now dressed in the correct guild track armor.
Item Notes
- The Crocodile Tear Ring, the Shield of Khaos, and the Maddening Scalar Gloves will now earn experience from any kills in the new frontier zones as well as from killing enemy players.
- The Guard of Valor will now earn experience in the new frontier dungeon zones as well as from killing enemy players.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- Please be aware that the capital cities are currently undergoing a slight "renovation" with the merchants. A lot of the familiar merchants are gone and have been replaced with static NPCs who now have combined stores on them. When some of these NPCs greet players, their talk may be incorrect. This is a known issue and is currently being adjusted.
New Class Gifts
- We have added new class gifts to the game (in addition to the ones currently given out at level 5). These will be given by the class trainers in each realm's capital city, as well as the class trainers in Caer Gothwaite, the Grove of Domnann, and Aegir's Landing.
- There are four new gifts for each class. The gifts are given based on the character's level.
- The first new gift will be given to characters level 10 to 14. The second will be given to characters level 15 to 19, the third to characters level 20 to 24, and the fourth to characters level 25 to 35.
- Please note that these class gifts are given out one time only. Once you receive one, you will not be able to get another gift for that level range, even if you lose or destroy the item.
Item Notes
- (Albion) Faded Boots now have the correct studded icon in place of the leather icon.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Oceanus Encounters
- As a part of the Eirene's Hauberk artifact encounter, Linos will remain up at his current location for a full day after spawning.
Item Notes
- (Albion and Hibernia) The Breath of the Wind instruments now have a more fitting particle effect.
- (Albion) Hermes Golden Sleeves can now be dyed with enamels.
Man bemerke die Neuen BGs ^^ und kein RP cap ;D
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70p Release Notes
May 20, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS
- /gc info now displays the following in regards to keeps - Outpost controlled and its current level, the update timer and the cost for the hourly update, the total time to upgrade the keep/tower from 1 to 10, and, if the keep/tower is currently upgrading/downgrading, it shows the level it is moving to and how long until it gets there.
- You will now be able to port to any coastal keep if you own all of your own keeps, the coastal keep you are porting to, and at least three of the coastal keep's towers.
- The Frontiers oceans and rivers have been populated with underwater monsters.
- Instances of invalid class/race combinations for keep guards all over the Frontiers should be eliminated.
- We have added a "slick rock" ground texture to many of the one-way areas in the game, to give players a better visual indicator of the one way slopes.
Tower and Keep Claiming, Upgrading, and Maintenance
- Keeps now cost 500 guild bounty points to claim. There is no up front cost to set the upgrade level.
- Keeps have an hourly guild bounty point fee based off of the current level of the keep. The fees per level are as follows: 50, 50, 50, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and 1000.
- Keeps take varying times to upgrade based off of level. The upgrade times per level are as follows: 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 24 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, and 16 hours.
- Towers cost 50 guild bounty points to claim. There is no up front cost to set the upgrade level.
- Towers have an hourly guild bounty point fee based off of their upgrade level. The fees per level are: 5, 5, 5, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100.
- Towers take 12 minutes to level, regardless of level.
- Level 5 and higher towers and keeps upgrade times are affected by realm relic ownership.
Siege Changes
- Boiling Oil now has a pour animation when used.
- The hitpoints on the field ballista and field catapult have been increased.
- The damage values for a few siege engines have been tweaked a little. War rams and field ballistas should now do more damage, while palintones should do less.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Please note that Volley will still affect players inside of outpost towers. Volley will temporarily remain on a 15 minute re-use timer while we address this issue.
- The Soldier's Barricade realm ability now correctly blocks the specified percentage of damage, will no longer break in combat, and its delve has been fixed. Soldier's Barricade does not stack with the "focus shell" line of spells introduced in version 1.69.
- The realm ability, Vanish, now correctly clears all damage over time spells and damage over time poisons on the character when activating. Persons who take damage while under the effect of Vanish will no longer destealth.
- Thornweed Field now correctly uses a variable duration as defined by the casters' realm ability attribute instead of lasting forever.
Battlegrounds
- Teleportation into a battleground will not check for a realm point cap for players to gain admittance into that battleground. This is a clarification to the patch note in version 1.70o.
- Players will not earn realm points in the first three battlegrounds - Proving Grounds, The Lions Den, and The Hills of Claret. (Please note that Proving Grounds and The Lions Den are still unavailable for testing at this time)
- Players will be able to earn realm points in each of the remaining battlegrounds, however, there will be a limit to the number of realm points players can earn in each battleground. After they have reached this limit, killing other enemy players will not grant any more realm points (players will still be able to participate in that battleground until they exceed the level cap). The realm point limits for the battlegrounds are as follows:
Realm Rank 1 Level 3 - Killaloe
Realm Rank 1 Level 4 - Thidranki
Realm Rank 1 Level 6 - Braemar
Realm Rank 2 Level 0 - Wilton
Realm Rank 2 Level 5 - Molvik
Realm Rank 3 Level 0 - Leirvik
- Players who log out in a battleground not designed for their level will be placed in the appropriate border keep.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Guard of Valor artifact now requires less experience to level. This is a retroactive change.
- The Corroded Circlet of Sutekh (Albion) now has a bonus to Piety in place of Intelligence.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70q Release Notes
May 21, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Damage shield spells and damage add spells (including the Excited Frenzy realm ability) on pets now report damage dealt to the pet's owner when applicable.
NEW FRONTIERS
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Necromancer realm ability, Ichor of the Deep, now correctly scales for the damage and duration. The realm ability now also delves correctly.
- The Excited Frenzy realm ability now correctly scales based on the amount of the realm ability purchased. The ability now also delves correctly at the trainer.
- Volley now has the correct range of 2300 units instead of a variable ranged based on your equipped bow.
- Volley cannot be activated if you do not have a ground target selected or if your ground target is further than 2300 units away.
- Pressing the Volley button while volleying will cancel your volley (Please note that this cannot be done while your re-use timer is active).
- You will be warned if attempting a volley while already having a queued ranged shot.
- Volley no longer reports the third person "Bob readies his bow to unleash a volley of arrows!" to Bob, but instead tells Bob, "You prepare to unleash a volley of arrows."
- Volley now correctly strips itself after a skill respec.
- Mastery of Concentration no longer reduces the lifetime of Animist bombers.
- Mastery of Concentration now reduces the effectiveness of Arboreal Mastery, Creeping Path, and Creeping Mastery Animist bombers.
Battlegrounds
- Proving Grounds (Level 1-4) and The Lions Den (Level 5-9) are now open for testing. Players will now be able to use the portal ceremonies at the border keeps to gain admittance to these battlegrounds.
- Newly created characters entering the game for the first time will now have a Proving Grounds medallion of passage equipped on the character.
- The first three battlegrounds now have reduced prices for their medallions of passage. Note that existing Medallions of Passage will also take players in this level range to the appropriate battleground.
1 copper - Proving Grounds medallion of passage
1 silver - The Lions Den medallion of passage
5 silver - The Hills of Claret medallion of passage
- Players will now earn realm points at the correct rate in the Molvik and Leirvik battlegrounds.
- Players will no longer earn bounty points in the Hills of Claret battlegrounds.
Passage of Conflict
- Three powerful demons have been sighted in the wings of the Passage of Conflict. These demons have split up the Passage into three sections, with each section under the control of one demon.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- We have added a new NPC to each entrance of the capital cities to aid players in their adventuring. The NPCs can grant hastener speed and have the ability to teleport characters under level 10 to the border keep so new players can participate in Realm vs. Realm combat. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Camelot - Minstrel Lucaris and Minstrel Trinnon
Jordheim - Skald Seisill and Skald Rumdall
Tir na Nog - Bard Eltonos and Bard Medrend
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
SI Capital Cities
- We have added an NPC to each of the Shrouded Isles cities to aid players in their adventuring. The NPCs can grant hastener speed and have the ability to teleport characters under level 10 to the border keep so new players can participate in Realm vs. Realm combat. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Gothwaite Harbor - Minstrel Olias
Aegirhamn - Skald Velder
Grove of Domnann - Bard Selveren
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70p Release Notes
May 20, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS
- /gc info now displays the following in regards to keeps - Outpost controlled and its current level, the update timer and the cost for the hourly update, the total time to upgrade the keep/tower from 1 to 10, and, if the keep/tower is currently upgrading/downgrading, it shows the level it is moving to and how long until it gets there.
- You will now be able to port to any coastal keep if you own all of your own keeps, the coastal keep you are porting to, and at least three of the coastal keep's towers.
- The Frontiers oceans and rivers have been populated with underwater monsters.
- Instances of invalid class/race combinations for keep guards all over the Frontiers should be eliminated.
- We have added a "slick rock" ground texture to many of the one-way areas in the game, to give players a better visual indicator of the one way slopes.
Tower and Keep Claiming, Upgrading, and Maintenance
- Keeps now cost 500 guild bounty points to claim. There is no up front cost to set the upgrade level.
- Keeps have an hourly guild bounty point fee based off of the current level of the keep. The fees per level are as follows: 50, 50, 50, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and 1000.
- Keeps take varying times to upgrade based off of level. The upgrade times per level are as follows: 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 24 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, and 16 hours.
- Towers cost 50 guild bounty points to claim. There is no up front cost to set the upgrade level.
- Towers have an hourly guild bounty point fee based off of their upgrade level. The fees per level are: 5, 5, 5, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100.
- Towers take 12 minutes to level, regardless of level.
- Level 5 and higher towers and keeps upgrade times are affected by realm relic ownership.
Siege Changes
- Boiling Oil now has a pour animation when used.
- The hitpoints on the field ballista and field catapult have been increased.
- The damage values for a few siege engines have been tweaked a little. War rams and field ballistas should now do more damage, while palintones should do less.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Please note that Volley will still affect players inside of outpost towers. Volley will temporarily remain on a 15 minute re-use timer while we address this issue.
- The Soldier's Barricade realm ability now correctly blocks the specified percentage of damage, will no longer break in combat, and its delve has been fixed. Soldier's Barricade does not stack with the "focus shell" line of spells introduced in version 1.69.
- The realm ability, Vanish, now correctly clears all damage over time spells and damage over time poisons on the character when activating. Persons who take damage while under the effect of Vanish will no longer destealth.
- Thornweed Field now correctly uses a variable duration as defined by the casters' realm ability attribute instead of lasting forever.
Battlegrounds
- Teleportation into a battleground will not check for a realm point cap for players to gain admittance into that battleground. This is a clarification to the patch note in version 1.70o.
- Players will not earn realm points in the first three battlegrounds - Proving Grounds, The Lions Den, and The Hills of Claret. (Please note that Proving Grounds and The Lions Den are still unavailable for testing at this time)
- Players will be able to earn realm points in each of the remaining battlegrounds, however, there will be a limit to the number of realm points players can earn in each battleground. After they have reached this limit, killing other enemy players will not grant any more realm points (players will still be able to participate in that battleground until they exceed the level cap). The realm point limits for the battlegrounds are as follows:
Realm Rank 1 Level 3 - Killaloe
Realm Rank 1 Level 4 - Thidranki
Realm Rank 1 Level 6 - Braemar
Realm Rank 2 Level 0 - Wilton
Realm Rank 2 Level 5 - Molvik
Realm Rank 3 Level 0 - Leirvik
- Players who log out in a battleground not designed for their level will be placed in the appropriate border keep.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Guard of Valor artifact now requires less experience to level. This is a retroactive change.
- The Corroded Circlet of Sutekh (Albion) now has a bonus to Piety in place of Intelligence.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70q Release Notes
May 21, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Damage shield spells and damage add spells (including the Excited Frenzy realm ability) on pets now report damage dealt to the pet's owner when applicable.
NEW FRONTIERS
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Necromancer realm ability, Ichor of the Deep, now correctly scales for the damage and duration. The realm ability now also delves correctly.
- The Excited Frenzy realm ability now correctly scales based on the amount of the realm ability purchased. The ability now also delves correctly at the trainer.
- Volley now has the correct range of 2300 units instead of a variable ranged based on your equipped bow.
- Volley cannot be activated if you do not have a ground target selected or if your ground target is further than 2300 units away.
- Pressing the Volley button while volleying will cancel your volley (Please note that this cannot be done while your re-use timer is active).
- You will be warned if attempting a volley while already having a queued ranged shot.
- Volley no longer reports the third person "Bob readies his bow to unleash a volley of arrows!" to Bob, but instead tells Bob, "You prepare to unleash a volley of arrows."
- Volley now correctly strips itself after a skill respec.
- Mastery of Concentration no longer reduces the lifetime of Animist bombers.
- Mastery of Concentration now reduces the effectiveness of Arboreal Mastery, Creeping Path, and Creeping Mastery Animist bombers.
Battlegrounds
- Proving Grounds (Level 1-4) and The Lions Den (Level 5-9) are now open for testing. Players will now be able to use the portal ceremonies at the border keeps to gain admittance to these battlegrounds.
- Newly created characters entering the game for the first time will now have a Proving Grounds medallion of passage equipped on the character.
- The first three battlegrounds now have reduced prices for their medallions of passage. Note that existing Medallions of Passage will also take players in this level range to the appropriate battleground.
1 copper - Proving Grounds medallion of passage
1 silver - The Lions Den medallion of passage
5 silver - The Hills of Claret medallion of passage
- Players will now earn realm points at the correct rate in the Molvik and Leirvik battlegrounds.
- Players will no longer earn bounty points in the Hills of Claret battlegrounds.
Passage of Conflict
- Three powerful demons have been sighted in the wings of the Passage of Conflict. These demons have split up the Passage into three sections, with each section under the control of one demon.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- We have added a new NPC to each entrance of the capital cities to aid players in their adventuring. The NPCs can grant hastener speed and have the ability to teleport characters under level 10 to the border keep so new players can participate in Realm vs. Realm combat. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Camelot - Minstrel Lucaris and Minstrel Trinnon
Jordheim - Skald Seisill and Skald Rumdall
Tir na Nog - Bard Eltonos and Bard Medrend
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
SI Capital Cities
- We have added an NPC to each of the Shrouded Isles cities to aid players in their adventuring. The NPCs can grant hastener speed and have the ability to teleport characters under level 10 to the border keep so new players can participate in Realm vs. Realm combat. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Gothwaite Harbor - Minstrel Olias
Aegirhamn - Skald Velder
Grove of Domnann - Bard Selveren
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70r Release Notes
May 24, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Font of Power will no longer affect targets which have been engaged in PvE combat within the last 10 seconds. The Font was having an unbalancing effect on PvE combat. After much discussion and debate, we decided to leave the Font itself alone and make it RvR-only (rather than reduce its effectiveness or otherwise reduce its usefulness in RvR with an across-the-board change).
- Necromancer pets and Animist bombers now get full benefit from their owners' spell piercing items and Traldor's Oracle Archmagery buffs.
- It is no longer possible to use pets to attack targets with an engage radius when the caster is outside of the engage radius. This includes dragons, keep lords, and tower captains.
- Pets will once again follow their masters underwater when possible.
- Players on personal boats will no longer be hit by radius effects from spells.
- Players will no longer be able to board a boat while in combat.
- Personal Boats will now be automatically removed from the water if there are no passengers on the boat after a 30 minute timer has expired. Once a player boards the boat, the timer is turned off and reset until the boat is emptied again.
NEW FRONTIERS
- (Pendragon Only) Pets will now be able to attack doors.
- The Jamtland Mountains to Caer Berkstead fast attack boat should now continue on the correct course.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Prevent Flight realm ability will be granted to all Berserkers, Blademasters, and Mercenaries when they reach level 24. The delve information for Prevent Flight has also been added.
- A set of the unique realm abilities is now available. The unique ability (based on class) is received when a character reaches realm rank 5. The following unique realm abilities are now ready for testing on Pendragon:
Armsman - Snapshot
Paladin - Selfless Devotion
Mercenary - Blinding Dust
Reaver - Soul Siphon
Cleric - Retribution of the Faithful
Friar - Whirling Staff
Infiltrator - Assassinate
Minstrel - Calming Notes
Scout - Shield Trip
Cabalist - Resolute Minion
Sorceror - Shield of Immunity
Theurgist - Minion Rescue
Wizard - Wall of Flame
Necromancer - Call of Darkness
Blademaster - Blade Barrier
Eldritch - Arms Length
Enchanter - Searing Pet
Warden - Fury of Nature
- (Pendragon Only) Using Volley now drops you from stealth.
Siege Changes
- Ranged, Targetted (Non-ground target) siege equipment will now attempt to "lead" it's target based on the target's current heading, velocity, and the ammo's travel speed. This should make it possible to hit moving targets where before it mostly was not. Targets that change heading or velocity while the shot is in flight will stand the best chance at dodging these shots.
- Players will no longer be able to /use diminutive siege apparatuses to create siege engines. Instead, the diminutive siege apparatuses are now used in special "deploy siege engine" recipes located under Siegecraft.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Fletching & Weaponcraft - In response to player feedback, the constitution stat on Legendary Weapons has been changed to either strength or dexterity, depending on the type of weapon. As a result, the Spellcrafting gems required in the recipes have also changed to reflect the stat used on the final product. This change is not retroactive, so players who wish to utilize an updated version of a Legendary Weapon must seek out a Weaponcrafter or Fletcher to create a new product.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Quests - Albion
- Barnett's Shield - The maximum level of this quest has been raised to level 25 so that players working on Bedelia's Grief can continue working on their quest.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Temple of Twilight
- A Cure for Kepa - Players that have A Cure for Kepa in their pending quest list but had no journal entry should now have one. These players should now be able to kill Kepa and finish the quest.
PVP SERVER
- Players will once again have the option of triggering the teleports in PvP zones by saying "port me" instead of handing the scroll to the teleport NPC.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70t Release Notes
May 26, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS
- (Pendragon Only) RvR Death Sickness can no longer be right-click removed.
- It is no longer possible to finish repairing a target which comes under attack during the repair process.
RvR Death Penalty System - Take Two
As part of the New Frontiers expansion and based on player feedback, we have decided to change the way our death penalty works in RVR combat. The existing system (as it plays out on Pendragon with our new terrain) often results in gameplay with very little strategy, where people mindlessly fling themselves at a target over and over. Enemies are rarely worth realm points after the first few minutes, and all around it’s not very interesting or fun. The new system allows the player to make strategic decisions, gives more value to player resurrection, and provides an incentive to strategize attacks rather than relying on “the zerg rush.” We will obviously be watching the feedback closely, and we will make adjustments as necessary. There is plenty of discussion and there are varied opinions on this subject here at Mythic, and we look forward to your testing and feedback helping us to make the final decisions.
- There is a 20 second timer before a player can release (via the command /release) from an RvR death.
- If a player releases from an RvR death, a RvR Death Sickness is applied to the character. This Death Sickness lasts for three minutes and is incurable (with one exception, Restore the Soul). The player will get a 30% decrease in effective power (meaning that everything is now affected - healing, spell damage, spell duration, melee damage, etc) and a 20% movement rate reduction for each Death Sickness icon of this type.
- Please note that this is a completely separate death sickness from the current PvE death sickness, which will remain in-game for PvE deaths. And, as always, the PvE death sickness will be curable at a Healer.
- If a player is resurrected from an RvR death, a different RvR Death Sickness is applied to the character (unless Perfect Recovery was used, in which case there is no Death Sickness). The 30% decrease in effective power still applies, but there is no movement penalty of any kind. This Death Sickness lasts up to three minutes and is incurable (with one exception, Restore the Soul).
- The duration of this Sickness can be reduced by the type of resurrection spell used. Currently:
Base Line Resurrection/Egg of Youth - 2 minutes, 48 seconds
Tier 1 Spec Resurrection - 2 minutes, 31 seconds
Tier 2 Spec Resurrection - 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Tier 3 Spec Resurrection - 1 minute, 28 seconds
Perfect Recovery - 0 seconds (again, using Perfect Recovery means there is no RvR Death Sickness)
- Both resurrection Death Sickness and /release Death Sickness can be completely cured by the Master Level 8 Perfector ability, Restore the Soul.
- Multiple Death Sicknesses can stack with each other, for cumulative effects. In other words, if the player dies and releases a second time while still bearing the icon for Released Death Sickness, he will have two icons, his movement will be decreased by 40%, and suffer a 60% decrease in effective power - at least until the first icon drops. If a player dies and releases, and then dies and is resurrected while the first icon is still active, he will have a 60% decrease in effective power, but only a 20% movement penalty.
- The Veil Recovery realm ability will shorten all timers by 20% for each level of the Veil Recovery ability that you have.
Realm Points and Player Deaths
- While you are dead, you will now earn 25% of the realm points you would have earned if you were still alive.
- RELEASED AFTER DEATH - For three minutes after any death (RvR or PvE death), if the player releases, the player will receive a 50% reduction to realm points gained for enemy realm kills. In other words, if you die and release, you will be limited by 50% in your ability to earn realm points for three minutes.
- A released player will not be worth any realm points for one minute after death, and worth 25% of his total points for four more minutes after that. After five minutes, the player will be worth the full total. (As a point of comparison, on live servers, a player is worth no points at all for ten minutes after death.)
- RESURRECTED AFTER DEATH - There will be no penalty to the player's ability to earn realm points.
- Same as a released player, a resurrected player will not be worth any realm points for one minute after death, and worth 25% of his total points for four more minutes after that. After five minutes, the player will be worth the full total. (As a point of comparison, on live servers, a player is worth no points at all for ten minutes after death.) Please note that distance restrictions on realm points still apply.
Battlegrounds
- Experience rewards have been added which will be granted upon the successful keep capture in the battlegrounds from levels 1-44. Upon successfully killing the Keep Lord/Jarl/Chieftain, every eligible player inside the keep region will be awarded approximately 25% of their level in experience. This experience reward can be earned once per level for every level, up to level 44.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The following unique Realm Abilities are now ready for testing on Pendragon.
Healer - Sputin's Legacy
Shadowblade - Shadow Strike
Spiritmaster - Spirit Martyr
- The Sputin's Legacy unique Realm Ability for Healers has been redesigned. It is now an ability that can be used every 15 minutes, that gives the Healer a 30 second "window". During that window, if they die, they have an additional command they can use in addition to /release, '/resurrect'. Typing /resurrect will self-resurrect the healer with 10% power and health. Note that unlike the original Realm Ability design, this can be used by the Healer any time between death and the healer's auto-releasing to their bind point. The Healer can also release or be resurrected by another player if they choose.
Siege Updates
- (Pendragon Only) The recipes to deploy diminutive siege engines should now work properly.
- Players will now be able to hit targets which are above water with siege equipment.
Monsters
- Evern, his wraith drakes, and his wraith fairies have returned to Breifine.
Passage of Conflict
- A new demoness has appeared in the Passage of Conflict, forcing all others to pay her homage.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- The NPCs at each entrance of the capital cities will now also provide a 30 minute duration strength buff to aid players inside the city. The strength buff is automatically removed if the player leaves the capital city before the buff expires. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Camelot - Minstrel Lucaris and Minstrel Olias
Jordheim - Skald Seisill and Skald Rumdall
Tir na Nog - Bard Eltonos and Bard Medrend
Quests - General
- (Pendragon Only) Completed quests will no longer clear from the player's journal upon attaining the next level.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Tablet of Atlantis will now shapechange players into a large sobekite at level 5 and a smaller sobekite at level 10.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- (All Realms) There are now three new horse routes leaving each marketplace that head to another housing market. Every marketplace should now be within two horse rides of one another and most will be within one ride.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70u Release Notes
May 28, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Pets hit by damage adds should no longer print incorrect messages to their owners.
- All medallions of passage now have delve information.
NEW FRONTIERS
- (Bug Fix) The swamps around Dun Bolg, Caer Erasleigh, and Hlidskialf Faste will now slow your movement as you wade through them.
- (Bug Fix) If you are in the Albion, Hibernian, or Midgard Frontier zones, the realmwar map will open to your current Frontier by default. Anywhere else in the world, it will open to show your home realm by default.
- It is no longer possible to salvage enemy siege equipment or siege equipment being controlled by someone else.
- (Bug Fix) The Cleric, Healer, and Druid versions of the healer hookpoint guards will now correctly heal friendly players with the proper spell.
- Guards positioned on keep walls should now adjust their position when the keep is upgraded, maintaining their position on the top of walls.
- A single guard has been added to each dock in the Frontiers. This new guard can see through stealth and will attack any enemy who gets too close.
Player Controlled Boats
- New player controlled boats can now be purchased from the dock merchants at the various docks in the new Frontiers. The boat merchants will attempt to place boat owners on the boats they purchase as soon as the boat is placed in the water. Please note that Trials of Atlantis boats cannot be used in New Frontiers.
Scout Boat - Requires at least one person to launch at minimum speed (395 units) and has a total capacity of 8. The maximum speed is 500 units.
Galleon - Requires at least two people to launch at minimum speed (290 units) and has a total capacity of 16. The maximum speed is 500 units. The galleon has two siege hookpoints.
Warship - Requires at least four people to launch at minimum speed (80 units) and has a total capacity of 32. The maximum speed is 500 units. The warship has four siege hookpoints.
- For each person under the total capacity that is not on the boat, movement speed is decreased approximately 3%. If a boat has less than the minimum requirement, the boat cannot be moved.
- The player controlled boats have hitpoints and can be damaged and sunk.
- Boats can only be built in your home frontier and cannot be picked up once they are placed in the water. Once a boat is placed in the water, the boat object in your inventory is removed.
- The controller of the boat can set the boat to be public or private using the '/vset' command.
- Players hook onto attach points on boats after boarding.
- Players cannot move, cast, attack, or perform any other actions while sitting on a boat. Players can only be attacked using targeted range attacks. AE spells, mezzes, roots, and melee attacks will not affect players on boats.
- Players can move to an attach point near a siege hookpoint on boats. Siege equipment can be built on these hookpoints while the boat is stopped. Siege equipment on these hookpoints can be fired while the boat is moving or stopped.
- To prevent players from jumping off of boats by mistake, a new '/disembark' command has been added. You will need to use this command to get off any boat in New Frontiers. Trials of Atlantis boats will remain unchanged.
RvR Death Penalty System
- There is now a maximum of two of each of the two types of RvR death sicknesses (released and resurrected sickness) which can be on a player at any one time.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The True Sight realm ability has been removed. Characters with this realm ability will have the ability stripped and the realm skill points refunded upon login.
- Mastery of Stealth now modifies stealth detection as well as stealth movement and is now available to all archer and assassin classes. The following shows the progression for each level of the realm ability (the bonuses are cumulative):
Mastery of Stealth I - Cost 1 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +75 Stealth Detection
Mastery of Stealth II - Cost 3 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +100 Stealth Detection (10%/175 unit total for 4 points)
Mastery of Stealth III - Cost 6 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +125 Stealth Detection (15%/300 unit total for 10 points)
Mastery of Stealth IV - Cost 10 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +150 Stealth Detection (20%/450 unit total for 20 points)
Mastery of Stealth V - Cost 14 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +175 Stealth Detection (25%/625 unit total for 34 points)
- Camouflage counters the Mastery of Stealth bonus, allowing an archer to only be seen at the normal range (this is the same way this works on live with See Hidden). Shadowblades, Nightshades, and Infiltrators do not gain any benefit from Mastery of Stealth when detecting or being detected by other Nightshades, Infiltrators, and Shadowblades.
- The Warrior unique realm ability, Testudo, now announces to the surrounding area that the player has activated it. Testudo now places an ability icon on the user's effects bar when activated. Please note that this icon is not the same as the realm ability's hotbar icon.
- There is now a 10 second delay between typing /resurrect and self-resurrecting when using the Sputin's Legacy unique realm ability. The message reported when typing /resurrect without Sputin's Legacy active is clearer.
- Using the Savage unique realm ability, Blissful Ignorance, now triggers all available Savagery buffs the player has available automatically.
- Damage over time spells no longer print damage messages, add to monster aggro, or attempt to perform a lifetap if the damage dealt has been removed through the Remedy unique realm ability.
- Heals cast as a result of realm abilities (First Aid, etc) are no longer halved in effectiveness if the target is diseased.
- Realm abilities that are cast as spells now set their re-use timers when the spell is actually cast, not when the ability is used. Realm ability spells that are interrupted via combat or moving during casting should no longer set their re-use timer.
- Styles will now only cast spreadheals if the Warden unique realm ability, Fury of Nature, is active.
- Delving the Mastery of Concentration effect now shows the proper degradation amount of spell effectiveness.
Quests - Albion
- A Prelude to War - The Albion Scout now gives players the correct directions to the elven village.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Djinn Stones
- (Pendragon Only) The Djinn Stones will now correctly teleport players to Vindsaul Faste.
COOPERATIVE & PVP SERVER
Capital Cities
- The Medallion Masters inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog will now also provide a 30 minute duration strength buff and hastener speed to aid players inside the city. The strength buff is automatically removed if the player leaves the capital city before the buff expires.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70r Release Notes
May 24, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Font of Power will no longer affect targets which have been engaged in PvE combat within the last 10 seconds. The Font was having an unbalancing effect on PvE combat. After much discussion and debate, we decided to leave the Font itself alone and make it RvR-only (rather than reduce its effectiveness or otherwise reduce its usefulness in RvR with an across-the-board change).
- Necromancer pets and Animist bombers now get full benefit from their owners' spell piercing items and Traldor's Oracle Archmagery buffs.
- It is no longer possible to use pets to attack targets with an engage radius when the caster is outside of the engage radius. This includes dragons, keep lords, and tower captains.
- Pets will once again follow their masters underwater when possible.
- Players on personal boats will no longer be hit by radius effects from spells.
- Players will no longer be able to board a boat while in combat.
- Personal Boats will now be automatically removed from the water if there are no passengers on the boat after a 30 minute timer has expired. Once a player boards the boat, the timer is turned off and reset until the boat is emptied again.
NEW FRONTIERS
- (Pendragon Only) Pets will now be able to attack doors.
- The Jamtland Mountains to Caer Berkstead fast attack boat should now continue on the correct course.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Prevent Flight realm ability will be granted to all Berserkers, Blademasters, and Mercenaries when they reach level 24. The delve information for Prevent Flight has also been added.
- A set of the unique realm abilities is now available. The unique ability (based on class) is received when a character reaches realm rank 5. The following unique realm abilities are now ready for testing on Pendragon:
Armsman - Snapshot
Paladin - Selfless Devotion
Mercenary - Blinding Dust
Reaver - Soul Siphon
Cleric - Retribution of the Faithful
Friar - Whirling Staff
Infiltrator - Assassinate
Minstrel - Calming Notes
Scout - Shield Trip
Cabalist - Resolute Minion
Sorceror - Shield of Immunity
Theurgist - Minion Rescue
Wizard - Wall of Flame
Necromancer - Call of Darkness
Blademaster - Blade Barrier
Eldritch - Arms Length
Enchanter - Searing Pet
Warden - Fury of Nature
- (Pendragon Only) Using Volley now drops you from stealth.
Siege Changes
- Ranged, Targetted (Non-ground target) siege equipment will now attempt to "lead" it's target based on the target's current heading, velocity, and the ammo's travel speed. This should make it possible to hit moving targets where before it mostly was not. Targets that change heading or velocity while the shot is in flight will stand the best chance at dodging these shots.
- Players will no longer be able to /use diminutive siege apparatuses to create siege engines. Instead, the diminutive siege apparatuses are now used in special "deploy siege engine" recipes located under Siegecraft.
TRADESKILL UPDATES
- Fletching & Weaponcraft - In response to player feedback, the constitution stat on Legendary Weapons has been changed to either strength or dexterity, depending on the type of weapon. As a result, the Spellcrafting gems required in the recipes have also changed to reflect the stat used on the final product. This change is not retroactive, so players who wish to utilize an updated version of a Legendary Weapon must seek out a Weaponcrafter or Fletcher to create a new product.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Quests - Albion
- Barnett's Shield - The maximum level of this quest has been raised to level 25 so that players working on Bedelia's Grief can continue working on their quest.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Temple of Twilight
- A Cure for Kepa - Players that have A Cure for Kepa in their pending quest list but had no journal entry should now have one. These players should now be able to kill Kepa and finish the quest.
PVP SERVER
- Players will once again have the option of triggering the teleports in PvP zones by saying "port me" instead of handing the scroll to the teleport NPC.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70t Release Notes
May 26, 2004
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NEW FRONTIERS
- (Pendragon Only) RvR Death Sickness can no longer be right-click removed.
- It is no longer possible to finish repairing a target which comes under attack during the repair process.
RvR Death Penalty System - Take Two
As part of the New Frontiers expansion and based on player feedback, we have decided to change the way our death penalty works in RVR combat. The existing system (as it plays out on Pendragon with our new terrain) often results in gameplay with very little strategy, where people mindlessly fling themselves at a target over and over. Enemies are rarely worth realm points after the first few minutes, and all around it’s not very interesting or fun. The new system allows the player to make strategic decisions, gives more value to player resurrection, and provides an incentive to strategize attacks rather than relying on “the zerg rush.” We will obviously be watching the feedback closely, and we will make adjustments as necessary. There is plenty of discussion and there are varied opinions on this subject here at Mythic, and we look forward to your testing and feedback helping us to make the final decisions.
- There is a 20 second timer before a player can release (via the command /release) from an RvR death.
- If a player releases from an RvR death, a RvR Death Sickness is applied to the character. This Death Sickness lasts for three minutes and is incurable (with one exception, Restore the Soul). The player will get a 30% decrease in effective power (meaning that everything is now affected - healing, spell damage, spell duration, melee damage, etc) and a 20% movement rate reduction for each Death Sickness icon of this type.
- Please note that this is a completely separate death sickness from the current PvE death sickness, which will remain in-game for PvE deaths. And, as always, the PvE death sickness will be curable at a Healer.
- If a player is resurrected from an RvR death, a different RvR Death Sickness is applied to the character (unless Perfect Recovery was used, in which case there is no Death Sickness). The 30% decrease in effective power still applies, but there is no movement penalty of any kind. This Death Sickness lasts up to three minutes and is incurable (with one exception, Restore the Soul).
- The duration of this Sickness can be reduced by the type of resurrection spell used. Currently:
Base Line Resurrection/Egg of Youth - 2 minutes, 48 seconds
Tier 1 Spec Resurrection - 2 minutes, 31 seconds
Tier 2 Spec Resurrection - 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Tier 3 Spec Resurrection - 1 minute, 28 seconds
Perfect Recovery - 0 seconds (again, using Perfect Recovery means there is no RvR Death Sickness)
- Both resurrection Death Sickness and /release Death Sickness can be completely cured by the Master Level 8 Perfector ability, Restore the Soul.
- Multiple Death Sicknesses can stack with each other, for cumulative effects. In other words, if the player dies and releases a second time while still bearing the icon for Released Death Sickness, he will have two icons, his movement will be decreased by 40%, and suffer a 60% decrease in effective power - at least until the first icon drops. If a player dies and releases, and then dies and is resurrected while the first icon is still active, he will have a 60% decrease in effective power, but only a 20% movement penalty.
- The Veil Recovery realm ability will shorten all timers by 20% for each level of the Veil Recovery ability that you have.
Realm Points and Player Deaths
- While you are dead, you will now earn 25% of the realm points you would have earned if you were still alive.
- RELEASED AFTER DEATH - For three minutes after any death (RvR or PvE death), if the player releases, the player will receive a 50% reduction to realm points gained for enemy realm kills. In other words, if you die and release, you will be limited by 50% in your ability to earn realm points for three minutes.
- A released player will not be worth any realm points for one minute after death, and worth 25% of his total points for four more minutes after that. After five minutes, the player will be worth the full total. (As a point of comparison, on live servers, a player is worth no points at all for ten minutes after death.)
- RESURRECTED AFTER DEATH - There will be no penalty to the player's ability to earn realm points.
- Same as a released player, a resurrected player will not be worth any realm points for one minute after death, and worth 25% of his total points for four more minutes after that. After five minutes, the player will be worth the full total. (As a point of comparison, on live servers, a player is worth no points at all for ten minutes after death.) Please note that distance restrictions on realm points still apply.
Battlegrounds
- Experience rewards have been added which will be granted upon the successful keep capture in the battlegrounds from levels 1-44. Upon successfully killing the Keep Lord/Jarl/Chieftain, every eligible player inside the keep region will be awarded approximately 25% of their level in experience. This experience reward can be earned once per level for every level, up to level 44.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The following unique Realm Abilities are now ready for testing on Pendragon.
Healer - Sputin's Legacy
Shadowblade - Shadow Strike
Spiritmaster - Spirit Martyr
- The Sputin's Legacy unique Realm Ability for Healers has been redesigned. It is now an ability that can be used every 15 minutes, that gives the Healer a 30 second "window". During that window, if they die, they have an additional command they can use in addition to /release, '/resurrect'. Typing /resurrect will self-resurrect the healer with 10% power and health. Note that unlike the original Realm Ability design, this can be used by the Healer any time between death and the healer's auto-releasing to their bind point. The Healer can also release or be resurrected by another player if they choose.
Siege Updates
- (Pendragon Only) The recipes to deploy diminutive siege engines should now work properly.
- Players will now be able to hit targets which are above water with siege equipment.
Monsters
- Evern, his wraith drakes, and his wraith fairies have returned to Breifine.
Passage of Conflict
- A new demoness has appeared in the Passage of Conflict, forcing all others to pay her homage.
CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES
Capital Cities
- The NPCs at each entrance of the capital cities will now also provide a 30 minute duration strength buff to aid players inside the city. The strength buff is automatically removed if the player leaves the capital city before the buff expires. Please note that these NPCs do not exist on Mordred or Gaheris.
Camelot - Minstrel Lucaris and Minstrel Olias
Jordheim - Skald Seisill and Skald Rumdall
Tir na Nog - Bard Eltonos and Bard Medrend
Quests - General
- (Pendragon Only) Completed quests will no longer clear from the player's journal upon attaining the next level.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Tablet of Atlantis will now shapechange players into a large sobekite at level 5 and a smaller sobekite at level 10.
FOUNDATIONS NOTES
- (All Realms) There are now three new horse routes leaving each marketplace that head to another housing market. Every marketplace should now be within two horse rides of one another and most will be within one ride.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70u Release Notes
May 28, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Pets hit by damage adds should no longer print incorrect messages to their owners.
- All medallions of passage now have delve information.
NEW FRONTIERS
- (Bug Fix) The swamps around Dun Bolg, Caer Erasleigh, and Hlidskialf Faste will now slow your movement as you wade through them.
- (Bug Fix) If you are in the Albion, Hibernian, or Midgard Frontier zones, the realmwar map will open to your current Frontier by default. Anywhere else in the world, it will open to show your home realm by default.
- It is no longer possible to salvage enemy siege equipment or siege equipment being controlled by someone else.
- (Bug Fix) The Cleric, Healer, and Druid versions of the healer hookpoint guards will now correctly heal friendly players with the proper spell.
- Guards positioned on keep walls should now adjust their position when the keep is upgraded, maintaining their position on the top of walls.
- A single guard has been added to each dock in the Frontiers. This new guard can see through stealth and will attack any enemy who gets too close.
Player Controlled Boats
- New player controlled boats can now be purchased from the dock merchants at the various docks in the new Frontiers. The boat merchants will attempt to place boat owners on the boats they purchase as soon as the boat is placed in the water. Please note that Trials of Atlantis boats cannot be used in New Frontiers.
Scout Boat - Requires at least one person to launch at minimum speed (395 units) and has a total capacity of 8. The maximum speed is 500 units.
Galleon - Requires at least two people to launch at minimum speed (290 units) and has a total capacity of 16. The maximum speed is 500 units. The galleon has two siege hookpoints.
Warship - Requires at least four people to launch at minimum speed (80 units) and has a total capacity of 32. The maximum speed is 500 units. The warship has four siege hookpoints.
- For each person under the total capacity that is not on the boat, movement speed is decreased approximately 3%. If a boat has less than the minimum requirement, the boat cannot be moved.
- The player controlled boats have hitpoints and can be damaged and sunk.
- Boats can only be built in your home frontier and cannot be picked up once they are placed in the water. Once a boat is placed in the water, the boat object in your inventory is removed.
- The controller of the boat can set the boat to be public or private using the '/vset' command.
- Players hook onto attach points on boats after boarding.
- Players cannot move, cast, attack, or perform any other actions while sitting on a boat. Players can only be attacked using targeted range attacks. AE spells, mezzes, roots, and melee attacks will not affect players on boats.
- Players can move to an attach point near a siege hookpoint on boats. Siege equipment can be built on these hookpoints while the boat is stopped. Siege equipment on these hookpoints can be fired while the boat is moving or stopped.
- To prevent players from jumping off of boats by mistake, a new '/disembark' command has been added. You will need to use this command to get off any boat in New Frontiers. Trials of Atlantis boats will remain unchanged.
RvR Death Penalty System
- There is now a maximum of two of each of the two types of RvR death sicknesses (released and resurrected sickness) which can be on a player at any one time.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The True Sight realm ability has been removed. Characters with this realm ability will have the ability stripped and the realm skill points refunded upon login.
- Mastery of Stealth now modifies stealth detection as well as stealth movement and is now available to all archer and assassin classes. The following shows the progression for each level of the realm ability (the bonuses are cumulative):
Mastery of Stealth I - Cost 1 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +75 Stealth Detection
Mastery of Stealth II - Cost 3 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +100 Stealth Detection (10%/175 unit total for 4 points)
Mastery of Stealth III - Cost 6 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +125 Stealth Detection (15%/300 unit total for 10 points)
Mastery of Stealth IV - Cost 10 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +150 Stealth Detection (20%/450 unit total for 20 points)
Mastery of Stealth V - Cost 14 - +5 Stealth Move Speed and +175 Stealth Detection (25%/625 unit total for 34 points)
- Camouflage counters the Mastery of Stealth bonus, allowing an archer to only be seen at the normal range (this is the same way this works on live with See Hidden). Shadowblades, Nightshades, and Infiltrators do not gain any benefit from Mastery of Stealth when detecting or being detected by other Nightshades, Infiltrators, and Shadowblades.
- The Warrior unique realm ability, Testudo, now announces to the surrounding area that the player has activated it. Testudo now places an ability icon on the user's effects bar when activated. Please note that this icon is not the same as the realm ability's hotbar icon.
- There is now a 10 second delay between typing /resurrect and self-resurrecting when using the Sputin's Legacy unique realm ability. The message reported when typing /resurrect without Sputin's Legacy active is clearer.
- Using the Savage unique realm ability, Blissful Ignorance, now triggers all available Savagery buffs the player has available automatically.
- Damage over time spells no longer print damage messages, add to monster aggro, or attempt to perform a lifetap if the damage dealt has been removed through the Remedy unique realm ability.
- Heals cast as a result of realm abilities (First Aid, etc) are no longer halved in effectiveness if the target is diseased.
- Realm abilities that are cast as spells now set their re-use timers when the spell is actually cast, not when the ability is used. Realm ability spells that are interrupted via combat or moving during casting should no longer set their re-use timer.
- Styles will now only cast spreadheals if the Warden unique realm ability, Fury of Nature, is active.
- Delving the Mastery of Concentration effect now shows the proper degradation amount of spell effectiveness.
Quests - Albion
- A Prelude to War - The Albion Scout now gives players the correct directions to the elven village.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Djinn Stones
- (Pendragon Only) The Djinn Stones will now correctly teleport players to Vindsaul Faste.
COOPERATIVE & PVP SERVER
Capital Cities
- The Medallion Masters inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog will now also provide a 30 minute duration strength buff and hastener speed to aid players inside the city. The strength buff is automatically removed if the player leaves the capital city before the buff expires.
AW: Patchnotes 1.70a-z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70v Release Notes
June 1, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Spell Piercing bonuses now correctly modify resistances downward instead of upward, for direct damage spells, debuffs and damage over time spells. A level 50 character can not have more than 10% Spell Piercing effect up at any one time (from items or spells); any Spell Piercing over 10% is ignored (previously Spell Piercing was "capped" at 25% for a level 50 character).
- (Pendragon Only) It is now possible to join groups engaged in player vs. player combat.
- (Pendragon Only) The Banelord master level abilities now work correctly.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Players holding relics should no longer gain a movement speed benefit from water breathing potions.
- A prescience node has been placed at each Frontier dock. These nodes are permanent and cannot be attacked.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Mastery of Stealth realm ability has been temporarily disabled while we adjust this ability.
- The remainder of the unique realm abilities are now available for testing on Pendragon. This includes the following:
Animist - Fungal Union
Bard - Dreamweaver
Druid - Nature's Womb
Hero - Tactics
Mentalist - Selective Blindness
Valewalker - Vale Defense
Bonedancer - Allure of Death
Hunter - Entwining Snakes
Skald - Epiphany
Thane - Chain Lightning
Shaman - Restorative Mend
- The Animist's unique realm ability, Fungal Union, now gives the Animist a 10% chance to not use power when casting a spell.
- The Bonedancer's unique realm ability, Allure of Death, now gives 90% resistance to crowd control, and complete immunity to nearsight.
- The Bard's unique realm ability, Dreamweaver, breaks when the target swings a melee weapon or fires a ranged weapon. This illusion will not use casting animations when casting.
- The Nightshade's unique realm ability, Remedy, now blocks all item-based proc effects (reactive armor as well as weapon based) if active (instead of blocking damage-over-time damage).
- Dashing Defense now plays the correct parry or block animation, depending on the action taken.
- Soldier's Barricade will now successfully cast on the pets of group members when activated.
- The Infiltrator's unique realm ability, Assassinate, can now only be done when stealthed and is cancelled when unstealthed. Assassination is also cancelled when attacking with a crossbow. The message returned from attacking another target and when attacking the target prior to assassination being ready now prints the same error message, "Your attack cancels your assassination attempt".
- The Blademaster unique realm ability, Blade Barrier, now works correctly.
- The Fury of Nature unique realm ability now correctly checks for range to group members when trying to heal them and includes both style and regular damage in the total to heal.
- Players can no longer attack while the Testudo unique realm ability is active.
- (Bug Fix) The Desperate Bowman unique realm ability is now working correctly.
- Sputin's Legacy now leaves resurrect effects.
- The Hunter's unique realm ability, Entwining Snakes, no longer delves as doing damage.
- Pets with the Speed of Sound effect will now move with the proper run speed.
- Mesmerize spells can no longer target players with Speed of Sound active.
- Speedwarp will now overwrite Speed of Sound.
- Veil Recovery now deducts the proper amount of res sickness time when resurrected by a player.
- The Mastery of Focus realm ability now works for spells cast by Necromancer pets and Animist bombers.
- Mastery of Concentration no longer affects insta-cast spells.
- Players must now have a ranged weapon equipped and readied to begin a Volley.
- Disarm now blocks players from launching both melee and ranged attacks.
Siege Changes
- Boiling Oil should once again properly hit attackers who are right up against the door.
Controllable Boat Changes and Fixes
- Siege equipment attached to boats should no longer be able to collide with other boats.
- The warship's hitpoints have been reduced to half of its previous amount.
- Boats should now delete themselves in all cases when they have been unoccupied for 30 minutes.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Aerus Encounters
- Jacina's Sash - Cyrek will no longer leave his lair in an effort to attack players.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70w Release Notes
June 2, 2004
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TEST SERVER CHANGES
- Pendragon players who pay rent using the /bountyrent command will now receive a large discount. One bounty point is now worth 20 gold pieces and will pay for one full week's rent for a cottage. Note that the /bountyrent command must be used to take advantage of this discount. Bounty rent tokens will *not* get a discount.
- We have set the /level command to 19 to facilitate testing in Killaloe, the level 15-19 Battleground.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Fixed a bug that made it possible for players to attack someone on the other side of a wall/gate.
Temporary Keep and Tower Cost Reductions
- Underpopulated realms will receive a reduction of cost bonus for all hookpoint purchases, maintenance costs, and claiming costs of keeps in New Frontiers. Currently, Pendragon players of all three realms will now receive a 75% reduction to these settings for testing purposes. The costs currently on Pendragon are as follows:
Hookpoint Purchases - 10 gold/3 bounty points/3 guild bounty points
Keep Claiming Costs - 125 guild bounty points
Tower Claiming Costs - 13 guild bounty points
Keep Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 13, 13, 13, 13, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 250 guild bounty points
Tower Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 25 guild bounty points
- Once version 1.70 has gone to live servers, underpopulated realms will receive a 50% reduction of cost bonus. Right now, we are considering these numbers as possible settings for underpopulated realms. These numbers should in no way be considered final at this time.
Hookpoint Purchases - 10 gold/5 bounty points/5 guild bounty points
Keep Claiming Costs - 250 guild bounty points
Tower Claiming Costs - 25 guild bounty points
Keep Maintenance Costs (based on current level) - 25, 25, 25, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 500 guild bounty points
Tower Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 guild bounty points
- For more information on this system, please go to http://www.camelotherald.com/more/1507.shtml
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Perfect Recovery will now properly remove up to all five types of death sickness (as players can have two versions of each of the new RvR death sicknesses and the PvE Resurrection Illness on the character at once).
- Necromancers will no longer be able to purchase the Whirling Dervish realm ability. Necromancers with this ability will have the ability removed in a future patch. This realm ability was removed for the Necromancer class because it did not work with the Necromancer's pet.
Siege Changes and Fixes
- Eliminated several cases where players were receiving false "You release your siege equipment" type messages.
- The field trebuchet and field ballista can now be moved.
Controllable Boat Changes and Fixes
- After the boat owner leaves the captain's seat (and no other passenger currently on the boat moves into the seat), the next passenger boarding the boat will automatically enter the captain's seat.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Tomte Bow (Midgard) now increases quickness instead of intelligence.
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- In some instances, Hibernia cloth dye merchants sold the same hooded cloak for two different prices. This has been corrected so that all hooded cloaks should be the same price.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Stygia Encounters
- The cerabo iaculus should no longer attempt to cast on a necromancer in shadeform.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70x Release Notes
June 4, 2004
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TEST SERVER CHANGES
- We have set the /level command to 24 to facilitate testing in Thidranki, the level 20-24 Battleground.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Graphical effects from radius spells will no longer play an effect for every target within the spell's radius. Players will only see one graphic play over the caster's target for the spell. This is a fix for a bug that was re-introduced in version 1.69 that played unintended spell effects, causing severe client problems for some of our users.
New Grouping Level Range Changes
With 1.70, we are relaxing the rules that govern the level ranges that can effectively group together. The intent of this new system is to allow lower-level players to group with substantially higher-level group leaders, and enable them to make some contribution to combat and spellcasting.
The system works as follows:
- Whenever a low-level character (5th level or higher) joins a group led by a higher level character, they are temporarily adjusted so that they can hit and land spells on monsters of the range that are normally fought by the group leader. They will be able to hit, and also to do damage to these monsters.
- This adjustment kicks in when a player approximately 90% of the level of the group leader or less joins a group. This means that if anyone less than 17th level joins a group led by a 20th level group leader, their to-hit and damage are boosted up so that they can hit and damage monsters that are commonly fought by a 20th level group. Also, while grouped, they will take less damage per hit from high level monsters.
- This system does not affect items such as weapons or armor - only to-hit and damage, and to some extent, damage taken is affected.
- Lower level group members must be within 3000 units of the group leader in order to receive the bonus.
- Experience gained by the lower level character is the same as it currently is on the live servers when lower level characters are being powerleveled by higher level friends.
- There are diminishing returns on the effectiveness of wide level ranges in this system. Any character that is approximately half the group leader's level or lower will not see as much bonus from this system as characters closer to the target range; although they will still get some benefit.
NEW FRONTIERS
- As a part of the New Frontiers expansion, the line of sight code is being revised to improve the keep battle experience. On Pendragon, new line of sight code is now in place for all keeps in the frontiers. Players will not be able to use area effect spells to damage others through keep walls/gates. Keep guards will also obey line of sight rules when attacking enemy players. Please note that as this system is still in development, there are still some cases where players are able to achieve line of sight through keep walls/gates. We are aware of these cases and we will be addressing them in the next patch. When reporting line of sight bugs, please make sure you include the zone name, keep name and level, and the complete location you get when typing /loc.
- Volley is no longer stripped from a player if they do a single skill respec in a skill other than archery.
- Outpost patrol guards will no longer spawn inside the wall of the outpost. They have also had their patrol path adjusted slightly.
PvP Server Notes
- Players under the PvP ruleset (Mordred) will not have any of the new types of RvR death sicknesses applied to them.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Epiphany should now grant 25% power to the caster and the caster's group. This fixes a bug that caused this ability to grant only 15% power.
- Animist bombers and necromancer pets now gain the benefit of their owner's Wild Power realm ability.
- Shadowblades can now execute subsequent styles in their Critical Strike chain after performing a Perforate Artery, Backstab II, or Backstab I through Shadowstrike. Additionally, followup styles in a style chain executed from Shadowstrike should no longer give the "You fail to execute Creeping Death perfectly" error message.
- If a player unstealths, they cancel any pending Assassinations or Shadowstrikes.
- The stealth effect from Vanish is now removed when you die.
- Allure of Death now correctly provides the resistance to nearsight when in skeletal form.
- The Runemaster unique realm ability, Rune of Utter Agility, now grants over 50% evade and works as an enhanced evade. Note that while the evade delves as a 90% evade, the chance will be lower if attacked by significantly higher level enemies.
- Veil Recovery now modifies sickness duration when a player releases.
- The Blademaster's Blade Barrier unique realm ability now grants over 50% chance to parry. Note that while the ability delves as a 90% chance to parry, the chance will be lower if attacked by significantly higher level enemies.
- When a player is healed by a Divine Intervention healing battery, it now properly notes the owner of the healing battery in the heal message.
Mastery of Stealth Changes
- Mastery of Stealth now grants a passive increase to the character's stealth detection radius, as listed in the ability's delve, in addition to the previously described movement bonus while stealthed.
Mastery of Stealth 1 - 75 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 2 - 175 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 3 - 300 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 4 - 450 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 5 - 625 unit increase
- The figures listed above are total, not cumulative.
- The Mastery of Stealth bonus can be canceled if the stealthed target is using Camoflauge or if both the stealthed target and the user have the Detect Hidden skill.
- Note that both the target and the searcher can have Mastery of Stealth. These will *not* cancel each other out; in this instance both players will detect each other from a greater distance away (if one has Detect Hidden, they will detect the other first due to Detect Hidden's bonus).
- Players with Vanish active are immune from detection, no matter what the searcher's Mastery of Stealth skill is.
Siege Changes
- It is now possible to move a ram similar to how a boat is moved - simply setting a new ground target will direct the ram to move to the targetted location.
- Siege equipment should no longer track and fire on stealthed targets.
- The radius on stone shot ammo has been increased to 450.
- The ammunition types created through the Convoker Summon Warcrystal ability have been updated. Players will now be able to summon ammo equivalent to stone shot, greek fire, and ice ball.
Item Notes
- All monsters except the animals in the Passage of Conflict and the Summoner's Hall dungeons now have a chance to drop realm respec stones.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Albion Quests
- Weakened Bonds - Necromancers may now use the ley crystals while in shadeform.
Hibernia Quests
- Seek the Moonstone - The area around Macnol's tower has now been named the Ruined Tower of Tir na mBeo to help players locate the correct place.
Item Notes
- Anrid, in Jordheim, now sells Roleplay Hats and Clothes.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Aerus Encounters
- The Jacina's Sash encounter has been reduced in difficulty. Furthermore, it will no longer be possible to pull Cyrek or Balasi outside of the canyon.
Item Notes
- Landrine's Hammer (Midgard) now has a weapon proc.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70v Release Notes
June 1, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Spell Piercing bonuses now correctly modify resistances downward instead of upward, for direct damage spells, debuffs and damage over time spells. A level 50 character can not have more than 10% Spell Piercing effect up at any one time (from items or spells); any Spell Piercing over 10% is ignored (previously Spell Piercing was "capped" at 25% for a level 50 character).
- (Pendragon Only) It is now possible to join groups engaged in player vs. player combat.
- (Pendragon Only) The Banelord master level abilities now work correctly.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Players holding relics should no longer gain a movement speed benefit from water breathing potions.
- A prescience node has been placed at each Frontier dock. These nodes are permanent and cannot be attacked.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Mastery of Stealth realm ability has been temporarily disabled while we adjust this ability.
- The remainder of the unique realm abilities are now available for testing on Pendragon. This includes the following:
Animist - Fungal Union
Bard - Dreamweaver
Druid - Nature's Womb
Hero - Tactics
Mentalist - Selective Blindness
Valewalker - Vale Defense
Bonedancer - Allure of Death
Hunter - Entwining Snakes
Skald - Epiphany
Thane - Chain Lightning
Shaman - Restorative Mend
- The Animist's unique realm ability, Fungal Union, now gives the Animist a 10% chance to not use power when casting a spell.
- The Bonedancer's unique realm ability, Allure of Death, now gives 90% resistance to crowd control, and complete immunity to nearsight.
- The Bard's unique realm ability, Dreamweaver, breaks when the target swings a melee weapon or fires a ranged weapon. This illusion will not use casting animations when casting.
- The Nightshade's unique realm ability, Remedy, now blocks all item-based proc effects (reactive armor as well as weapon based) if active (instead of blocking damage-over-time damage).
- Dashing Defense now plays the correct parry or block animation, depending on the action taken.
- Soldier's Barricade will now successfully cast on the pets of group members when activated.
- The Infiltrator's unique realm ability, Assassinate, can now only be done when stealthed and is cancelled when unstealthed. Assassination is also cancelled when attacking with a crossbow. The message returned from attacking another target and when attacking the target prior to assassination being ready now prints the same error message, "Your attack cancels your assassination attempt".
- The Blademaster unique realm ability, Blade Barrier, now works correctly.
- The Fury of Nature unique realm ability now correctly checks for range to group members when trying to heal them and includes both style and regular damage in the total to heal.
- Players can no longer attack while the Testudo unique realm ability is active.
- (Bug Fix) The Desperate Bowman unique realm ability is now working correctly.
- Sputin's Legacy now leaves resurrect effects.
- The Hunter's unique realm ability, Entwining Snakes, no longer delves as doing damage.
- Pets with the Speed of Sound effect will now move with the proper run speed.
- Mesmerize spells can no longer target players with Speed of Sound active.
- Speedwarp will now overwrite Speed of Sound.
- Veil Recovery now deducts the proper amount of res sickness time when resurrected by a player.
- The Mastery of Focus realm ability now works for spells cast by Necromancer pets and Animist bombers.
- Mastery of Concentration no longer affects insta-cast spells.
- Players must now have a ranged weapon equipped and readied to begin a Volley.
- Disarm now blocks players from launching both melee and ranged attacks.
Siege Changes
- Boiling Oil should once again properly hit attackers who are right up against the door.
Controllable Boat Changes and Fixes
- Siege equipment attached to boats should no longer be able to collide with other boats.
- The warship's hitpoints have been reduced to half of its previous amount.
- Boats should now delete themselves in all cases when they have been unoccupied for 30 minutes.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Aerus Encounters
- Jacina's Sash - Cyrek will no longer leave his lair in an effort to attack players.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70w Release Notes
June 2, 2004
===================================
TEST SERVER CHANGES
- Pendragon players who pay rent using the /bountyrent command will now receive a large discount. One bounty point is now worth 20 gold pieces and will pay for one full week's rent for a cottage. Note that the /bountyrent command must be used to take advantage of this discount. Bounty rent tokens will *not* get a discount.
- We have set the /level command to 19 to facilitate testing in Killaloe, the level 15-19 Battleground.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Fixed a bug that made it possible for players to attack someone on the other side of a wall/gate.
Temporary Keep and Tower Cost Reductions
- Underpopulated realms will receive a reduction of cost bonus for all hookpoint purchases, maintenance costs, and claiming costs of keeps in New Frontiers. Currently, Pendragon players of all three realms will now receive a 75% reduction to these settings for testing purposes. The costs currently on Pendragon are as follows:
Hookpoint Purchases - 10 gold/3 bounty points/3 guild bounty points
Keep Claiming Costs - 125 guild bounty points
Tower Claiming Costs - 13 guild bounty points
Keep Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 13, 13, 13, 13, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 250 guild bounty points
Tower Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 25 guild bounty points
- Once version 1.70 has gone to live servers, underpopulated realms will receive a 50% reduction of cost bonus. Right now, we are considering these numbers as possible settings for underpopulated realms. These numbers should in no way be considered final at this time.
Hookpoint Purchases - 10 gold/5 bounty points/5 guild bounty points
Keep Claiming Costs - 250 guild bounty points
Tower Claiming Costs - 25 guild bounty points
Keep Maintenance Costs (based on current level) - 25, 25, 25, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 500 guild bounty points
Tower Maintenance Costs per hour (based on current level) - 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 guild bounty points
- For more information on this system, please go to http://www.camelotherald.com/more/1507.shtml
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Perfect Recovery will now properly remove up to all five types of death sickness (as players can have two versions of each of the new RvR death sicknesses and the PvE Resurrection Illness on the character at once).
- Necromancers will no longer be able to purchase the Whirling Dervish realm ability. Necromancers with this ability will have the ability removed in a future patch. This realm ability was removed for the Necromancer class because it did not work with the Necromancer's pet.
Siege Changes and Fixes
- Eliminated several cases where players were receiving false "You release your siege equipment" type messages.
- The field trebuchet and field ballista can now be moved.
Controllable Boat Changes and Fixes
- After the boat owner leaves the captain's seat (and no other passenger currently on the boat moves into the seat), the next passenger boarding the boat will automatically enter the captain's seat.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- The Tomte Bow (Midgard) now increases quickness instead of intelligence.
SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES
Item Notes
- In some instances, Hibernia cloth dye merchants sold the same hooded cloak for two different prices. This has been corrected so that all hooded cloaks should be the same price.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Stygia Encounters
- The cerabo iaculus should no longer attempt to cast on a necromancer in shadeform.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70x Release Notes
June 4, 2004
===================================
TEST SERVER CHANGES
- We have set the /level command to 24 to facilitate testing in Thidranki, the level 20-24 Battleground.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Graphical effects from radius spells will no longer play an effect for every target within the spell's radius. Players will only see one graphic play over the caster's target for the spell. This is a fix for a bug that was re-introduced in version 1.69 that played unintended spell effects, causing severe client problems for some of our users.
New Grouping Level Range Changes
With 1.70, we are relaxing the rules that govern the level ranges that can effectively group together. The intent of this new system is to allow lower-level players to group with substantially higher-level group leaders, and enable them to make some contribution to combat and spellcasting.
The system works as follows:
- Whenever a low-level character (5th level or higher) joins a group led by a higher level character, they are temporarily adjusted so that they can hit and land spells on monsters of the range that are normally fought by the group leader. They will be able to hit, and also to do damage to these monsters.
- This adjustment kicks in when a player approximately 90% of the level of the group leader or less joins a group. This means that if anyone less than 17th level joins a group led by a 20th level group leader, their to-hit and damage are boosted up so that they can hit and damage monsters that are commonly fought by a 20th level group. Also, while grouped, they will take less damage per hit from high level monsters.
- This system does not affect items such as weapons or armor - only to-hit and damage, and to some extent, damage taken is affected.
- Lower level group members must be within 3000 units of the group leader in order to receive the bonus.
- Experience gained by the lower level character is the same as it currently is on the live servers when lower level characters are being powerleveled by higher level friends.
- There are diminishing returns on the effectiveness of wide level ranges in this system. Any character that is approximately half the group leader's level or lower will not see as much bonus from this system as characters closer to the target range; although they will still get some benefit.
NEW FRONTIERS
- As a part of the New Frontiers expansion, the line of sight code is being revised to improve the keep battle experience. On Pendragon, new line of sight code is now in place for all keeps in the frontiers. Players will not be able to use area effect spells to damage others through keep walls/gates. Keep guards will also obey line of sight rules when attacking enemy players. Please note that as this system is still in development, there are still some cases where players are able to achieve line of sight through keep walls/gates. We are aware of these cases and we will be addressing them in the next patch. When reporting line of sight bugs, please make sure you include the zone name, keep name and level, and the complete location you get when typing /loc.
- Volley is no longer stripped from a player if they do a single skill respec in a skill other than archery.
- Outpost patrol guards will no longer spawn inside the wall of the outpost. They have also had their patrol path adjusted slightly.
PvP Server Notes
- Players under the PvP ruleset (Mordred) will not have any of the new types of RvR death sicknesses applied to them.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Epiphany should now grant 25% power to the caster and the caster's group. This fixes a bug that caused this ability to grant only 15% power.
- Animist bombers and necromancer pets now gain the benefit of their owner's Wild Power realm ability.
- Shadowblades can now execute subsequent styles in their Critical Strike chain after performing a Perforate Artery, Backstab II, or Backstab I through Shadowstrike. Additionally, followup styles in a style chain executed from Shadowstrike should no longer give the "You fail to execute Creeping Death perfectly" error message.
- If a player unstealths, they cancel any pending Assassinations or Shadowstrikes.
- The stealth effect from Vanish is now removed when you die.
- Allure of Death now correctly provides the resistance to nearsight when in skeletal form.
- The Runemaster unique realm ability, Rune of Utter Agility, now grants over 50% evade and works as an enhanced evade. Note that while the evade delves as a 90% evade, the chance will be lower if attacked by significantly higher level enemies.
- Veil Recovery now modifies sickness duration when a player releases.
- The Blademaster's Blade Barrier unique realm ability now grants over 50% chance to parry. Note that while the ability delves as a 90% chance to parry, the chance will be lower if attacked by significantly higher level enemies.
- When a player is healed by a Divine Intervention healing battery, it now properly notes the owner of the healing battery in the heal message.
Mastery of Stealth Changes
- Mastery of Stealth now grants a passive increase to the character's stealth detection radius, as listed in the ability's delve, in addition to the previously described movement bonus while stealthed.
Mastery of Stealth 1 - 75 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 2 - 175 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 3 - 300 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 4 - 450 unit increase
Mastery of Stealth 5 - 625 unit increase
- The figures listed above are total, not cumulative.
- The Mastery of Stealth bonus can be canceled if the stealthed target is using Camoflauge or if both the stealthed target and the user have the Detect Hidden skill.
- Note that both the target and the searcher can have Mastery of Stealth. These will *not* cancel each other out; in this instance both players will detect each other from a greater distance away (if one has Detect Hidden, they will detect the other first due to Detect Hidden's bonus).
- Players with Vanish active are immune from detection, no matter what the searcher's Mastery of Stealth skill is.
Siege Changes
- It is now possible to move a ram similar to how a boat is moved - simply setting a new ground target will direct the ram to move to the targetted location.
- Siege equipment should no longer track and fire on stealthed targets.
- The radius on stone shot ammo has been increased to 450.
- The ammunition types created through the Convoker Summon Warcrystal ability have been updated. Players will now be able to summon ammo equivalent to stone shot, greek fire, and ice ball.
Item Notes
- All monsters except the animals in the Passage of Conflict and the Summoner's Hall dungeons now have a chance to drop realm respec stones.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Albion Quests
- Weakened Bonds - Necromancers may now use the ley crystals while in shadeform.
Hibernia Quests
- Seek the Moonstone - The area around Macnol's tower has now been named the Ruined Tower of Tir na mBeo to help players locate the correct place.
Item Notes
- Anrid, in Jordheim, now sells Roleplay Hats and Clothes.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
Aerus Encounters
- The Jacina's Sash encounter has been reduced in difficulty. Furthermore, it will no longer be possible to pull Cyrek or Balasi outside of the canyon.
Item Notes
- Landrine's Hammer (Midgard) now has a weapon proc.
AW: Patchnotes 1.70a-z
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test 1.70y Version Release Notes
June 8, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Petcast spells that would fail when the player's pet is in combat now correctly abort before casting, triggering timers, using power, etc.
- Objects can no longer do critical hits from procs or reverse procs.
- Players are no longer required to have 1 skill point in Siegecraft to control, aim, and fire siege equipment.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Volley no longer bypasses bladeturn spells.
- Players now need to take all four towers in order to teleport into a keep. Note that the central keep still determines supply chains.
- Respec'ing your realm abilities no longer prints the last update message twice if your resistances, power, or hit points update.
- Piece condition no longer affects downgrading keeps.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Minstrels no longer have access to Mastery of Stealth. This change was made with version 1.70x, but was not documented.
- Purge will only set its re-use timer if it actually removes a negative effect.
- The Nightshade's unique realm ability, Remedy, has been reworked. It can now be used from stealth (although it cannot be activated while mesmerised or stunned). It now also has delve information. The health subtracted from the nightshade now is levied when the ability expires. Since Remedy is now ability-based instead of spell based, it now uses an ability toggle icon in the effects bar which cannot be delved and is different from the realm ability's hotbar icon.
- Characters now drop out of combat mode when they try to take a swing at someone who has debuffed them with Selective Blindness. Ranged combat and spell combat targeting with Selective Blindness has not been changed, just melee.
- Characters that have the Vanish effect can no longer be targeted at all by snare, mesmerise, and stun spells (area of effect or otherwise). Previously area of effect versions of these spells would target Vanished players.
- The Necromancer version of Negative Maelstrom no longer is petcasted. It is now cast by the shade and now follows the same rules as master level ability storms and necromancers (i.e. the shade must be close to their pet to trigger the realm ability).
- Necromancers who try to cast storms while too far from their pet no longer trigger re-cast timers.
- Thornweed Field now delves as casting a 50% snare at all realm ability levels and variable damage, depending on the realm ability level.
- Petcasted realm abilities should no longer have missing information in spell delves.
- The Mastery of Concentration realm ability now levies the specified effectiveness penalty on spells when used (previously it was ignoring purchased levels and setting spell effectiveness to 100%).
- Fixed delve information for Assassinate and Vanish realm abilities.
- Players can now use the Assassination realm ability on Necromancer pets.
- Using the Testudo unique realm ability now slows you to 75% of your normal movement speed. Using a style will cancel the Testudo realm ability.
- Dreamweaver now properly breaks whenever the bard enters combat mode.
Siege Changes
- Messages have been added to let the ram helpers know fire timing and damages.
- A message has been added to let the ram controller know to add more helpers when under-helped.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Respecs
- We are in the process of adding a free full respec for all classes at level 5. Upon promotion to an advanced class, players will be offered a free full respec by their trainer. Trainers will only offer this respec while players are level 5. The following classes now have access to this respec:
Albion - Paladin, Cleric, Theurgist, Friar, Armsman, Scout, Cabalist, Mercenary, Infiltrator
Midgard - All classes
Hibernia - Warden, Eldritch, Hero, Ranger
- The remaining classes will have access to this ability with the next patch.
- Please note that in order to use the respec granted to the character, you must type /respec all in front of your class trainer.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
New Artifacts
- We have added three new, lower level artifacts to Oceanus. The artifacts are Orion's Belt (can be obtained at level 30), The Ring of Unyielding Will (can be obtained at level 35), and the Gem of Lost Memories (can be obtained at level 30). The researchers and apprentices in the Haven of Oceanus have teasers for the encounters and information on where to locate the scrolls. The sphinx Callia also has riddles related to the encounters.
- Once the locked artifact and completed book have been obtained, they can be taken to the following researchers in either the Hall of Heroes or in the Haven of Oceanus for activation.
Albion - Scholars Shamira and Khalial
Midgard - Loremistresses Margit and Vendela
Hibernia - Sages Linyive and Narvla
Item Notes
- Many pieces of Albion studded armor were incorrectly set to use leather dyes. These have now been corrected to use enamels.
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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70z Release Notes
June 8, 2004
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TEST SERVER CHANGES
- All relics have been reset to their home relic temples for testing.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Sure Shot and Longshot effect icons are properly cleared when activating another archery ability.
- When an offensive proc buff expires, it no longer clears shapechanges.
- You can no longer cast a fatigue heal on yourself if you have over 90% fatigue.
NEW FRONTIERS
- All characters have been stripped of their realm abilities and their points refunded upon login.
- Players or pets targeting player enemies (or player pets) should now follow line of sight rules which Player to Player combat currently follows.
- Players who log out in upgraded keeps and log back in after they have been downgraded will no longer appear in the air or at an invalid location.
- If a player dies on an upgraded keep and leaves the region and then the keep is downgraded, their tombstone will now be lowered to the new height when they re-enter the region.
- When repairing a door or other object which comes under attack, the timer dialog should now disappear when your repair is cancelled.
- Neutral items, such as boats and siege, will no longer report that they are from an enemy realm when targetted on the PvE server.
New Frontiers Respecs
- As part of New Frontiers, we are providing players with the ability to obtain a full realm ability respec at a very low cost (10 silver). We introduce this system for testing on Pendragon today. Players wishing to respec their realm abilities can visit the merchants set up specifically for this purpose and purchase special respec stones - Sophist's Realmstone. **These special stones will only be available for one week on the live servers, then they will disappear.** During the time these new stones are available, the Respec NPCs will temporarily not accept the old realm stones. Once the merchants are gone, the Respec NPCs will once again accept the old stones. These are the merchants that will be selling the new, temporary respec stones:
Albion - Brandonne Chauncy in Camelot
Midgard - Frumdall Helmer in Jordheim
Hibernia - Gwinna Galbrath in Tir na Nog
- Please note that in order to use these stones, you must turn them in to the appropriate Respec NPC and then type '/respec realm' in front of your class trainer. The NPCs that accept these respec stones are listed below.
Albion - Paiton Hazlett in Camelot
Midgard - Haili in Jordheim
Hibernia - Bretta in Tir na Nog
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Toughness realm ability now correctly adds hit points to the Necromancer pet when summoning.
- Mastery of Concentration now correctly prevents the Necromancer's pet from being interrupted when the shade has Mastery of Concentration up.
- Mastery of Concentration debuffs necromancer pet spell effectiveness if active.
- The Cleric's unique realm ability, Retribution of the Faithful, now stacks with the Trial By Fire spell line.
- Realm abilities (such as Avoidance of Magic) no longer reduce the duration of crowd control spells (snare, stun, and mesmerize).
- The following realm abilities have been limited to characters that are level 40 and above. If the character is below level 40, the realm ability will not be shown in the class trainer's list.
Vehement Renewal
Ameliorating Melodies
Anger of the Gods
Wrath of Champions
Volcanic Pillar
Decimation Trap
Negative Maelstrom
Thornweed Field
Ichor of the Deep
Juggernaut
Toughness
Mastery of Focus
Divine Intervention
- You can no longer begin a ranged attack while Disarmed.
- The delve for the Assassinate realm ability now word wraps correctly.
Siege Changes
- Ram helpers can now exit a ram by clicking on the release button.
- Switching a catapult from special ammo back to default ammo should properly update the image of the ammo in the catapult.
- Targets hit by duration effects from siege equipment (such as the vial of noxious vapors) should no longer receive an odd description with "espec" at the end.
- Siege weapons created in Battleground zones will now automatically have their levels scaled down appropriately to make them attackable to players of that zone.
- The hitpoints on the cauldron of boiling oil have been reduced.
- Siegecraft - The weights of the diminutive ballista apparatus, gimbal, torsion cables, spring arms, and ballista trigger have been reduced.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Respecs
- All classes in all realms now have access to the free full respec at level 5. Once you have been granted the respec by your trainer, please type /respec for information on how to use it.
Item Notes
- The Gloves of the Malignant and the Boots of the Malignant in Midgard are now set to the correct material.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
New Artifacts
- (Pendragon Only) The researchers, apprentices, and Callia the sphinx will now really give out the information about the new artifacts. Information about the encounters can be heard from Callia as well as Scholar Ashton (Albion), Loremistress Brigha (Midgard), and Sage Lora (Hibernia). Information about the scrolls can be found on the following apprentices: Aegan (Albion), Yian (Midgard), and Garrad (Hibernia).
Item Notes
- The correct spells are now attached to the Astral Cloak of Heroes and the Astral Cloak of Whispers.
Dark Age of Camelot
Test 1.70y Version Release Notes
June 8, 2004
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- Petcast spells that would fail when the player's pet is in combat now correctly abort before casting, triggering timers, using power, etc.
- Objects can no longer do critical hits from procs or reverse procs.
- Players are no longer required to have 1 skill point in Siegecraft to control, aim, and fire siege equipment.
NEW FRONTIERS
- Volley no longer bypasses bladeturn spells.
- Players now need to take all four towers in order to teleport into a keep. Note that the central keep still determines supply chains.
- Respec'ing your realm abilities no longer prints the last update message twice if your resistances, power, or hit points update.
- Piece condition no longer affects downgrading keeps.
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- Minstrels no longer have access to Mastery of Stealth. This change was made with version 1.70x, but was not documented.
- Purge will only set its re-use timer if it actually removes a negative effect.
- The Nightshade's unique realm ability, Remedy, has been reworked. It can now be used from stealth (although it cannot be activated while mesmerised or stunned). It now also has delve information. The health subtracted from the nightshade now is levied when the ability expires. Since Remedy is now ability-based instead of spell based, it now uses an ability toggle icon in the effects bar which cannot be delved and is different from the realm ability's hotbar icon.
- Characters now drop out of combat mode when they try to take a swing at someone who has debuffed them with Selective Blindness. Ranged combat and spell combat targeting with Selective Blindness has not been changed, just melee.
- Characters that have the Vanish effect can no longer be targeted at all by snare, mesmerise, and stun spells (area of effect or otherwise). Previously area of effect versions of these spells would target Vanished players.
- The Necromancer version of Negative Maelstrom no longer is petcasted. It is now cast by the shade and now follows the same rules as master level ability storms and necromancers (i.e. the shade must be close to their pet to trigger the realm ability).
- Necromancers who try to cast storms while too far from their pet no longer trigger re-cast timers.
- Thornweed Field now delves as casting a 50% snare at all realm ability levels and variable damage, depending on the realm ability level.
- Petcasted realm abilities should no longer have missing information in spell delves.
- The Mastery of Concentration realm ability now levies the specified effectiveness penalty on spells when used (previously it was ignoring purchased levels and setting spell effectiveness to 100%).
- Fixed delve information for Assassinate and Vanish realm abilities.
- Players can now use the Assassination realm ability on Necromancer pets.
- Using the Testudo unique realm ability now slows you to 75% of your normal movement speed. Using a style will cancel the Testudo realm ability.
- Dreamweaver now properly breaks whenever the bard enters combat mode.
Siege Changes
- Messages have been added to let the ram helpers know fire timing and damages.
- A message has been added to let the ram controller know to add more helpers when under-helped.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Respecs
- We are in the process of adding a free full respec for all classes at level 5. Upon promotion to an advanced class, players will be offered a free full respec by their trainer. Trainers will only offer this respec while players are level 5. The following classes now have access to this respec:
Albion - Paladin, Cleric, Theurgist, Friar, Armsman, Scout, Cabalist, Mercenary, Infiltrator
Midgard - All classes
Hibernia - Warden, Eldritch, Hero, Ranger
- The remaining classes will have access to this ability with the next patch.
- Please note that in order to use the respec granted to the character, you must type /respec all in front of your class trainer.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
New Artifacts
- We have added three new, lower level artifacts to Oceanus. The artifacts are Orion's Belt (can be obtained at level 30), The Ring of Unyielding Will (can be obtained at level 35), and the Gem of Lost Memories (can be obtained at level 30). The researchers and apprentices in the Haven of Oceanus have teasers for the encounters and information on where to locate the scrolls. The sphinx Callia also has riddles related to the encounters.
- Once the locked artifact and completed book have been obtained, they can be taken to the following researchers in either the Hall of Heroes or in the Haven of Oceanus for activation.
Albion - Scholars Shamira and Khalial
Midgard - Loremistresses Margit and Vendela
Hibernia - Sages Linyive and Narvla
Item Notes
- Many pieces of Albion studded armor were incorrectly set to use leather dyes. These have now been corrected to use enamels.
===================================
Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.70z Release Notes
June 8, 2004
===================================
TEST SERVER CHANGES
- All relics have been reset to their home relic temples for testing.
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- (Pendragon Only) Sure Shot and Longshot effect icons are properly cleared when activating another archery ability.
- When an offensive proc buff expires, it no longer clears shapechanges.
- You can no longer cast a fatigue heal on yourself if you have over 90% fatigue.
NEW FRONTIERS
- All characters have been stripped of their realm abilities and their points refunded upon login.
- Players or pets targeting player enemies (or player pets) should now follow line of sight rules which Player to Player combat currently follows.
- Players who log out in upgraded keeps and log back in after they have been downgraded will no longer appear in the air or at an invalid location.
- If a player dies on an upgraded keep and leaves the region and then the keep is downgraded, their tombstone will now be lowered to the new height when they re-enter the region.
- When repairing a door or other object which comes under attack, the timer dialog should now disappear when your repair is cancelled.
- Neutral items, such as boats and siege, will no longer report that they are from an enemy realm when targetted on the PvE server.
New Frontiers Respecs
- As part of New Frontiers, we are providing players with the ability to obtain a full realm ability respec at a very low cost (10 silver). We introduce this system for testing on Pendragon today. Players wishing to respec their realm abilities can visit the merchants set up specifically for this purpose and purchase special respec stones - Sophist's Realmstone. **These special stones will only be available for one week on the live servers, then they will disappear.** During the time these new stones are available, the Respec NPCs will temporarily not accept the old realm stones. Once the merchants are gone, the Respec NPCs will once again accept the old stones. These are the merchants that will be selling the new, temporary respec stones:
Albion - Brandonne Chauncy in Camelot
Midgard - Frumdall Helmer in Jordheim
Hibernia - Gwinna Galbrath in Tir na Nog
- Please note that in order to use these stones, you must turn them in to the appropriate Respec NPC and then type '/respec realm' in front of your class trainer. The NPCs that accept these respec stones are listed below.
Albion - Paiton Hazlett in Camelot
Midgard - Haili in Jordheim
Hibernia - Bretta in Tir na Nog
Realm Ability Changes and Fixes
- The Toughness realm ability now correctly adds hit points to the Necromancer pet when summoning.
- Mastery of Concentration now correctly prevents the Necromancer's pet from being interrupted when the shade has Mastery of Concentration up.
- Mastery of Concentration debuffs necromancer pet spell effectiveness if active.
- The Cleric's unique realm ability, Retribution of the Faithful, now stacks with the Trial By Fire spell line.
- Realm abilities (such as Avoidance of Magic) no longer reduce the duration of crowd control spells (snare, stun, and mesmerize).
- The following realm abilities have been limited to characters that are level 40 and above. If the character is below level 40, the realm ability will not be shown in the class trainer's list.
Vehement Renewal
Ameliorating Melodies
Anger of the Gods
Wrath of Champions
Volcanic Pillar
Decimation Trap
Negative Maelstrom
Thornweed Field
Ichor of the Deep
Juggernaut
Toughness
Mastery of Focus
Divine Intervention
- You can no longer begin a ranged attack while Disarmed.
- The delve for the Assassinate realm ability now word wraps correctly.
Siege Changes
- Ram helpers can now exit a ram by clicking on the release button.
- Switching a catapult from special ammo back to default ammo should properly update the image of the ammo in the catapult.
- Targets hit by duration effects from siege equipment (such as the vial of noxious vapors) should no longer receive an odd description with "espec" at the end.
- Siege weapons created in Battleground zones will now automatically have their levels scaled down appropriately to make them attackable to players of that zone.
- The hitpoints on the cauldron of boiling oil have been reduced.
- Siegecraft - The weights of the diminutive ballista apparatus, gimbal, torsion cables, spring arms, and ballista trigger have been reduced.
CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES
Respecs
- All classes in all realms now have access to the free full respec at level 5. Once you have been granted the respec by your trainer, please type /respec for information on how to use it.
Item Notes
- The Gloves of the Malignant and the Boots of the Malignant in Midgard are now set to the correct material.
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES
New Artifacts
- (Pendragon Only) The researchers, apprentices, and Callia the sphinx will now really give out the information about the new artifacts. Information about the encounters can be heard from Callia as well as Scholar Ashton (Albion), Loremistress Brigha (Midgard), and Sage Lora (Hibernia). Information about the scrolls can be found on the following apprentices: Aegan (Albion), Yian (Midgard), and Garrad (Hibernia).
Item Notes
- The correct spells are now attached to the Astral Cloak of Heroes and the Astral Cloak of Whispers.