ZONES AND EVENTS
ZONE EVENTS
* All Zone Events will now reward player with level appropriate rewards if the player mentors down appropriately. Yes, this means you can now earn Void Stones from Volan!
* Clarified the descriptions of all zone event achievements to include the name of the event and the zone.
* Merged Plane -> Fire achievements of Your Fate is Sealed with Terror Above because the triggering events for both were identical. This should not be confused with the Rhen of Fate achievement also named Your Fate of Sealed (which was not changed).
* Carnival of the Ascended: The Zone Events Jewel of Brevane and Take It All Back! have been re-enabled for next year's Carnival.
* Carnival of the Ascended: The achievements Go Home, You're Drunk, What? I'm Taking It Back!, and Fear and Loathing in Tulan have been moved from the Planes - Life category to World Events - Carnival of the Ascended.
* The requirements of the achievement Bug Juice have been changed to killing Swarmlord Khargroth.
DRAUMHEIM
* Quest: The Unproductive Mushroom has finally reached the surface of the street.
TARKEN GLACIER
* Quest: Soul Atrophy: The Pelagic Monks are growing concerned that too many Ascended have been slipping off the icy cliff while trying to help them. The Soul Repair ability has had a range increase from 10 meters to 15 meters and is no longer blocked by line of sight.
* Completely finishing a Crafting Rift in Tarken Glacier now spawns usable crafting workstations and a crafting skill increase buff for two minutes! Enjoy!
RANDOM CHRONICLES
* When a player enters a random chronicle, they are mentored to a level appropriate to the difficulty for it.
- Players will not be able to mentor while they are in it.
- As soon as they exit the chronicle, their level will be restored to the value it was before they entered the chronicle.
* When a player queues for a random chronicle, the player's unmentored level is used to determine what level-appropriate chronicles are available to them.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
* All tier 1 and tier 2 raids have had their difficulty reduced! All bosses now have 10% less health and deal 10% less damage.
LOOT ADJUSTMENTS
* In Hammerknell, Estrode and Moliar drop a DPS polearm, Zamira drops a tanking polearm, and Akylios drops both a tanking axe and a dps sword.
- In Intrepid Guild of Prophecy, Uruluuk and Guurloth each drop a tanking and a dps weapon.
* The loot tables for Nightmare Tide raids have been adjusted as follows:
- Tank items are now 1 in every 5 drops, down from 1 in every 3 drops.
- Leather items and jewelry with dexterity as the primary stat are twice as common as other items to account for Primalists occupying raid spots and competing for dexterity loot.
* Raid bosses from the Rhen of Fate, Mount Sharax, Tyrant’s Forge, Hammerknell, and Intrepid Guild of Prophecy raids now drop an additional item.
- As part of this change bosses that previously dropped 1 each of two types of items now have a very small chance to drop 3 of the same type of item (e.g. Grugonim has a small chance to drop 3 chest armors).
- However, in the rare case of 3 items of the same type dropping, no individual item will be repeated.
* Rogue weapons now drop from Sicaron and Zamira in Hammerknell.
HAMMERKNELL INSTANT ADVENTURE
*Fixed Lashers of Akylios to attack players in a 360 degree radius.
MOUNT SHARAX
* Mount Sharax bosses now also drop tier 1 raid weapons. Izkinra drops a primalist tank weapon, the Yrlwalach drops a primalist dps weapon, and Threngar drops both a relic tanking weapon and a relic dps weapon.
TYRANT'S FORGE
* Crucia now triggers reactive abilities conditioned on block with her auto attack.
PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Players are now significantly less likely to be assigned to a Warfront that is close to ending.
- Although the exact cutoffs vary for each warfront, matches that have lopsided scores and are near the last 20% of their time limits will no longer be assigned new players.
- This should dramatically lessen the number of warfronts that players enter that are “already lost.”
- These cutoffs are deliberately loose to preserve as much potential for comeback wins as possible while still addressing the pain of queuing into what feels like an unrecoverable match score.
* Fixed a bug where some abilities healed more than intended during PVP.
CRAFTING
* Upgradable items will now display the upgrade icon in the crafting window.
* The effects from the new flavor items created by Apothecaries and Runecrafters will now be removed whenever a PvP action is taken.
* The Planar Crafting fishing lure now occasionally lets you fish-up trash to let you know that the lure is working.
* Added the missing rune upgrade recipe, 'Illustrious Weapon-rune of Endurance' to Smokey in Choreburg.
* The crafting window will now remember which crafting skill categories you had expanded when you log out and restore that the next time you log in.
* The crafting window will now remember if you had the Hide Trivial Recipes checkbox checked.
* Crafting rifts have been spotted in Planetouched Wilds!
* We’ve added crafting workstations that appear once a Crafting Rift is fully sealed in Tarken Glacier or Planetouched Wilds. You will also receive a buff that increases your crafting skill-ups while using the crafting workstations.
* Apothecaries and Runecrafters rejoice! There is now support for you in Planar Crafting! Seek out Tephael in Choreburg to obtain the new weekly quest and the Rift Store or Bob to obtain the new recipes!
* New Dream Orb recipes have been added for Dream Weaving! We have also added new Dream Orb recipes for Planar Crafting! The planar crafted Dream Orbs can also be used on earrings, belts and gloves!
* With the power increase for 3.4, we are able to add in new crafting recipes for Apothecaries, Runecrafters and Survivalists!
*A whole new tier of power for crafted items upgrades have been added to Rift!
* The number of available tiers of crafted items have been reduced and combined to ease the path to power.
* The cost to upgrade all crafted gear have been reduced to make upgrades more compelling for players.
* Stan’s Tacklebox and Lure has been found in Planetouched Wilds as well as Tarken Glacier! Feel free to continue your search there as well!
* Please take note that we have lowered the merchant buy price of all Nightmare Tide fish to 1 silver.
* The Planar Crafted fishing poles no longer fish up Motes or the relic Imperishable without the use of a Planar Crafted fishing lure.
- With this change, the cooldown on the Planar Crafted fishing lures has been reduced from 24 hours to 8 hours.
* Set a minimum level of 62 to the Planar Crafting and Congealed Dreams weekly quests in Choreburg.
ITEMS
* Fixed a bug that caused equipping the Icy Heart of the Marauder to trigger some Synergy Crystal effects.
* Column of Housed Souls now has an DPS upgrade path for a relic item.
* Added messaging to clarify when socketed essences can be upgraded.
* Fae Yule Revelers and Summer Shimmy appearance sets now contain the correct items.
* Weapon damage is now bolstered correctly when entering warfront map.
* The "Ice-Zerker" effect present on weapons from Threngar has been redesigned.
- While Ice-Zerker is active, it now deals 4,201 Water Damage to your target when you attack them with a single-target ability.
- Ice-Zerker affects your next 5 attacks when it activates.
AUDIO
* Fixed some incomplete footstep sound tags on the Greathound mount. Thanks Nithydux!
DIMENSIONS
* The random dimension button will now try to choose dimensions with players in them.
* The dimension items incorrectly appearing as a metallic sphere have been replaced with more appropriate appearances.
* Looking for that Laboratory workstation to put in your Dimension and add to your collection?! Look no further, they are now available from Crafting Rifts in Tarken Glacier and Planetouched Wilds!