0.21.0.0 - Beta Patch 2

Features

• Temporarily disabled Discord Rich Game Presence
• Lock harvest node for 10s after harvesting it for the first time, it can only be harvested by the same player
• Storage boxes and display boxes now have configurable permissions (Owner only, Group only, Guild only, and Everyone. Inside houses they can be set to Co-owners only)
• Market stalls will now always be public
• Add the ability for certain areas in a house to be marked as always public (such as open patios and rooftops)
• You can now convert a regular house to a guild house
• It will no longer count towards your housing limits
• Each guild may currently own only one house
• Only houses are able to be converted
• The owner of the house will be the guild leader, and everyone else will have coowner privileges
• The conversion costs 1 Platinum and increases upkeep by 50%
• More GM moderation tooling for housing
• Added customs agents to Night Harbor, Evershade Weald, Keepers Bight and Shallow Shoals
• They will recover items lost from destroying furniture storage boxes with inventory inside
• They are region locked
• The UI is temporary: they will stack in one slot and taking one item will reveal the next

Bug Fixes

• Only harmful debuffs may be resisted from placeable objects (like Caltrops)
• Prevent campfires and other similar objects from bestowing their beneficial buffs to NPCs
• Solve small edge case in trades: Manipulating items inside containers were not updating properly to the other player
• Fix PVP guard aggro checks
• Force a stand if feared while crouching and prevent crouching input while feared
• Prevent walking NPCs from continuing to walk when rooted out of combat
• Some fixes addressing randomly being teleported to safe location
• Movement in plane of meat has been fixed. (Campfire button at character selection)
• Fixed a bug related to the reset UI button in the main menu, thanks Taron!
• Fixed a bug related to the note icon you see in the group finder, you should now be able to click on the note icon and see the classes desired.
• Fix bug with duels, where killing a players pet would declare you as winner of the duel
• Fix minor bug with hide player pet names also hiding npc pet names
• Move harmful buff application PvP check, addresses a bug where buffs that later applied a "harmful" buff would result in players being attacked by guards
• Ensure lightsources are deactivated when sending them to the bank from players inventory
• Don't signal guard aggro for PvP when dueling players auto attack each other
• Update diminishing returns stacks in edge case where the caster is the same on an additional cast
• Show the crafting expand option for bags where it's appropriate when calling 'open all bags' (via shift + b)

UI

• Error message when campfire or other similar object is full and we are trying to add more items to it
• Change granularity of weight display on inspect window. Add the hundredth place if required
• Better error messaging for invalid placement of furniture and other objects
• /cast 0 and /cast 10 are now the same thing. They will cast the last spell on the bar
• F10 will now cycle: Hide UI -> Hide UI + Name Plates -> Restore UI
• There is now an initial color blind option available under interface settings
• currently - this only affects health bar color changes for disease, poison, and afflicted (things that can be cured)
• Major change to interactions windows and filters.
• A new mud tab will be added automatically to your existing Main chat.
• This tab by default, has the Mud and MudError filters, under gameplay in the context menu.
• This will filter mud actions AND NPC interactions that you have.
• By default, Mud and MudError will now appear in your Main chat, you can remove these with the filters mentioned above.
• Old settings, related to mud chat fading and disable mud / interactions window - have been removed.
• A new context menu has been added to the guild  window, you can now right click on members to invite to group or send a tell.
• The default location of the States has been moved slightly to the left, so the FPS counter isn't being blocked by it.
• Updated pivot and anchor for the server announcement, so it doesn't go off screen while increasing the scale of your UI.
• New key binds introduced for hot bar banks. Set them in your key binds menu in game.
• If you submit a petition, a new glow will appear around the M (main menu button) while the petition is unclaimed, this will stay active. When the petition is claimed, it will turn off. Additionally, the text in the main menu "Petition for a GM" will change to "Pending GM Petition" while your petition remains unclaimed.
• The GM CS chat now populates in the middle left of the screen by default.
• GM CS Chat now respects global chat font size.
• The aura bar no longer shows on your UI unless you have an ability that uses it.
• You can now search for the key bind you would like to set using the search box which will now appear in the Keybinds menu.
• Added a keybind for the self target frame icon. Default was middle mouse button, for those who are middle mouse button challenged.

Character Art

• Minor visual adjustments to a handful of player weapons & armor
• Ensured NPC halfling foothair was securely velcroed on
• Jackal Form now looks like normal jackals instead of bright white jackals

Environment Art

• Mining nodes in the Wyrmsbane tunnel are once again accessible
• Texture updates to all of Shallow Shoals
• Additional props added in some areas of Night Harbor

Tradeskills

• Fixed wooden nightstand to be properly of type Furniture
• Added furniture wrench that you can use to destroy furniture
• Sold at carpenters
• In the future, they will give back the furniture item

Content

• Harvesting suppliers and trainers (Mining, Lumberjacking, etc.) in Evershade Weald have been moved a central location at the top of the harvester's mesa, beneath the Ranger's Rest. Props to follow.
• Additional NPCs added to Faelindral and the surrounding region.
• New Glass Flats Boneyard Mobs
• Various loot table fixes
• Various quest fixes and improvements
• Storage Crate construction abilities removed
• Sandstorm Intensity reduced in Night Harbor
• Carpentry Supplies vendor now sells Furniture Wrench

Keeper's Bight

• Added description to Poacher Wilna's Ring.
• Named NPC's are restricted from more spell effects.
• Coolwater Basilisks are now charmable.
• Added exterior lighting to the Hanging Garden Inn.
• Added additional props to docks, Penshaw, Farms, Blacktide Bay.
• Added additional orcs to the bay area.
• Random mobs should no longer try to enter Blacktide Bay caves from the outside.
• The northern bridge is now fully guarded.
• Adjusted spawns at Shady Farm.

Balance

• Player weapon damage caps are no longer static across large level ranges- they now scale every level, factor in weapon delay, and account for 2H & Ranged weapons types.
• Player class is no longer a factor in Weapon damage caps
• A significant issue with spellcasting and physical ability skillup rates has been addressed- these skills will now increase at the expected rates
• Note: Players who were far behind on these skills will skillup significantly faster due to our catchup mechanic kicking in after the fix. Combat skillups will not normally trigger this quickly.
• Enemy NPC health has increased slightly, primarily focused on levels 5 through 45
• Enemy NPC armor class will now scale at a consistent rate from 1-60
• Player health per STA has been increased, while baseline health has been reduced
• Player mana per INT & WIS has been increased, while baseline mana has been reduced
• Player physical damage from STR has been increased, while baseline physical damage has been reduced
• The level-based scaling for physical damage does not impact the early game, so the reduction will not impact those levels
• The small chance to fail a trivial combine has been removed
• The existing Hand to Hand (unarmed) weapons have been switched to Monk only
• Tradeskill difficulty bands (light blue, dark blue, etc) have been scaled down to better represent your chance of success
• The actual chance to fail a combine has not changed, just the presentation of recipes in the UI
• Damage caps math has been changed
• New charm, fear, and pacify break logic, charisma is more important
• Health regeneration now works like mana regeneration and will consider amount of time sitting within a tick
• Shorten sandstorms to only 2-4 hours of in game time (down from 8-16 hours)
• Night harbor sandstorms have been toned down in intensity

Mounts

• Mount speed at all swiftness tiers has been slightly increased
• Donkey swiftness value has been lowered to compensate for the increased speed
• Fixed an issue where zoning on a mount could leave a copy of a character model at the zoneline

General Abilities/Skills

• Fixed several Invisibility spells that lost their Invisibility property
• Autoattack will now be enabled for some damaging physical abilities that were previously omitted (ex. Round Kick)
• Fixed discrepancies in melee abilities and melee autoattack range (ex. Round Kick sigh)
• Ability ranges will receive less lag compensation allowance for stationary targets
• Fixed minimum range application being almost completely negated by this lag compensation, allowing abilities with minimum ranges to be used trivially while in melee range
• Safe Fall skillup rates have been increased
• Fixed several instances where a buff would work until you zoned or logged out, and then part of the buff would not work correctly (such as Seal of Magic's ability portion)
• Fixed the Stealth vfx applying after entities leave stealth/invis
• Stun is no longer considered an Incapacitate and will no longer be removed by Tenacity
• Immunity to a status effect will now only block the status effect, and not the entire buff causing that effect
• Aura abilities will no longer stack with other auras of the same type from other players in the group

Archer

• Flash Fire Damage Increased
• Most Abilities are now on the Melee Global Cooldown
• Flurry of Arrows now buffs only Ranged damage instead of all Physical damage, matching the intention and tooltip.
• Pinning Shot now applies the root effect only if the target is knocked into a wall or obstacle.
• Made Caltrops placement only be blocked by other Caltrops, with a minimum distance of 3.0

Beastmaster

• Exhaustion added to Beastmaster Spell Merchant
• Now has access to Minor Regeneration, Lesser Regeneration, Regeneration, and Greater Regeneration
• Bears and beetles / scarabs should always bond with the intended abilities
• Food will last longer on pets, and their stomach size has been doubled
• Removed some odd emote and... other behavior from tamed pets.
• Fixed several issues with buff persistence when pets die or are dismissed.
• You can no longer dismiss dead pets

Inquisitor

• Purifying Blow now has a passive chance to strike an additional time
• Mana Burn Line
• Replaced Placeholder Mana Values
• Cast Time Increased from 1.5 seconds to 2.0 seconds
• Fixed an issue with Aura of Magic Resistance behaving erratically and turning itself off

Monk

• Fists of Flame Damage Increased
• Empowered Celestial Vitality now also grants 1 (L1) to 5 (L60) Mana
• Earth Empowered Celestial Fury
• Physical Damage Reduction increased from 5% to 10%
• Now also grants +5 Block skill
• Celestial Strike and Round Kick are now on the Melee Global Cooldown
• Sweeping kick now uses the roundhouse kick animation

Paladin

• Restorative Smite now has a passive chance to strike an additional time

Ranger

• Now has access to Minor Regeneration, Lesser Regeneration, Regeneration, and Greater Regeneration

Shadow Knight

• Shadow Strike now has a passive chance to strike an additional time

Wizard

• Fixed Wizard Dual Wield not actually performing offhand melee attacks
• Added Ability: Imbue: Arcane Filament (L1), a novice staff imbuement that can unlock your Mana Missiles Line
• Added the Mana Missiles line. These channeled blasts of magic require an enchanted staff and can be used to stack Marks of Magic on enemies
• Mana Orbs (L4)
• Mana Darts (L12)
• Mana Arrows (L20)
• Mana Missiles (L28)
• Mana Volley (L44)
• Mana Barrage (L60)
• Added Ability: Imbue: Projection of Will (L28), a more advanced imbuement granting your staff with the power to drive away foes
• Added Ability: Wall of Force (L40). Summons an ethereal barrier that stops your enemies' pursuit
• Telekinetic Knockback now applies the stun effect only if the target is knocked into a wall or obstacle