1.53 D - The Next Generation from Sanya Thomas 2002-09-12 11:23:49 I think this patch should prove to be a good one =) =================================== Dark Age of Camelot version 1.53d Test Release Notes Thursday, September 12, 2002 =================================== EXPERIENCE POINT PROGRESSION CHANGES - After gathering a year's worth of data, and listening to Team Lead and player concerns, we are lessening the experience point curve between levels 40-45. Under the current system, from levels 1 to 40, the time-played per level slowly increases. At level 40, time played increases dramatically and remains the same (give or take) from 40 to 50. We had intended a smoother curve from levels 40 to 45 to "ramp up" to levels 45 to 50 (which we intended to take a long time). In order to compensate for this, we've reduced the number of monsters you will need to kill between levels 40-45 - you'll still get the same amount of experience points per kill, but you'll need to kill fewer monsters each level. - The experience awarded for killing 35th to 40th level monsters has been increased. We had a "bump" in our awarded experience per level of kill at that range and we're smoothing out the curve by raising the experience awarded per kill. - The experience awarded for completed quests has been increased by 10% across the board (more than 10% for levels 40-45, due to the "fewer monsters killed per level change"). GROUPING AND EXPERIENCE CHANGE - We've relaxed the rules that govern the experience clamp that occurs when lower level characters group with higher level characters and the group fights monsters deemed unchallenging to the group's total strength. You should now be able to group with a wider range of players in the group without suffering an experience point penalty. PALADIN UPDATES We are making the following updates to Paladins to make them more desirable in RvR, and to generally make them slightly more effective at upgrading their group's overall power and effectiveness. - All Paladin chants have had their range increased to 1500 (their regeneration chant was at 700). - The Paladin self armor-factor chant now stacks with other armor factor buffs. - A new line of endurance regeneration chants have been added to the Paladin. These new chants consume power. - A new line of stackable resistance buffs have been added to the Paladin. These new chants stack with the resistance buffs of other classes and consume power. The new spells (all take power at every pulse): - Endurance Regeneration line 2 Chant of Endurance 12 Chant of Stamina 22 Chant of Persistence 32 Chant of Resilience 42 Chant of Perseverance - Resistance to Heat/Cold/Matter, stacks with single element buffs: 27 Elemental Ward 46 Elemental Shield - Resistance to Body/Spirit/Energy, stacks with single element buffs: 25 Soul Ward 44 Soul Shield NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES - Norse helms can once again be tinted. Please note that this fixes a Pendragon-only bug. - Minstrels will now see their "speed" spell effect around their feet once again when using their speed song. - You should now properly get a +3% to +15% realm point bonus and bounty point bonus when fighting around a realm owned keep. - When you right click on an item in the incoming trade window, it now correctly shows the bonus field. - Players who were tailors (order #4) will be converted to zero out Gemcutting, Herbcraft and Spellcraft - they had the fields accidentally. - When a player had a combat style selected on his mouse and an Accept/Decline dialog appeared, the dialog would not work correctly. This has been fixed. - /FOLLOW, /STICK and /FACE have been added to the command repeat (shift-up) queue. - /REPORT commands and /APPEAL have been removed from the command repeat (shift-up) queue. - A bug with bonus levels on focus items for Spellcrafting has been fixed. - a new slash command; "/scrollchat" has been added. This toggles the Chat Buffer scrolling. If it is toggled on, messages in your visible chat buffer will disappear after 90 seconds - but you'll still be able to view old messages by scrolling back in the chat buffer. WORLD NOTES Hibernia: The corrupted reinforced store has been fixed (Pendragon only) - Akira, Twm, Mariota, Roise, Pegeen, Nolan, Uaine, and Maltia Cyrille all now are ready to serve Hibernia again. Realm V. Realm - Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds (ALL): We have added a new NPC type called a Siege Master. These Siege Masters can be found at your realm’s portal keep within the Battlegrounds. The primary purpose of these Siege Masters is to provide a method for players to gain experience in the use of siege weaponry in these RvR training grounds. Please visit this new NPC within your Battleground in order to gain more insight. Items - The "polished bone" (quest item) should no longer stack. - Wolf Hide Leggings (Albion) should now be dyable. - Players should now be able to pick up the Insidious Golden Band. - Bounty potions are now usable in combat.