Publish 29
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 29 on January 20, 2005.
General Fixes/Tweaks/Enhancements
- Moved Britain starting location from The Sweet Dream’s Inn to the Wayfarer’s Inn in east Britain
- Damage numbers are now shown for you and any pets or controlled NPCs that are in your range
- NPC job titles, "(Paragon)", and "(General)" now appear in "allnames"
- Fixed an issue when a member of a faction guild quit made most guild members removed from the faction
- Holiday gifts will no longer be distributed
- Passive detect hidden no longer reveals group mates and allied faction members in Felucca / Siege
- Pet ghosts no longer stay around for days. Pet ghosts will now only exist between 2-4 hours, after which they will vanish, even if their owner is online
- Pets with high Magery were casting invisible on themselves too often. Pets will now cast heal or greater heal instead of invisibility.
- Added the ability to unfriend pets via the context menu
- Pet hit points will no longer refill when crossing server lines
- Fixed an issue with crossing a server-line having a value of 0 in a stat would refill that stat
- Can no longer create a blank alliance name
- Weight will no longer remain if gold is in 2 piles when tithed
- New characters will now default to having show guild invites turned off
- Fixed the misspelled sign at the Bank of Trinsic
- Also fixed Britannia Provisions misspelled sign
- Setting a blank InvokeVirtue macro will no longer cause the client to crash
- Fixed a crash bug in 3D client involving the name macro field
- Fixed a crash bug in 3D client related to trying to delete 2 skill groups at once
- Fixed a crash bug related to renaming a book’s title
- A warning message was added to the guild invite gump informing players that they are attackable if they accept
- Attempts to recall into west Britain will be redirected to a safe location
- Attempts to open gates into west Britain from outside the area will be redirected to a safe location, Gates opened from inside west Britain can be used normally
Item Fixes/Changes
- Reuse delay for wands is now the equivalent of casting a like spell. Fast-casting will apply to wands.
- Clothing Bless Deeds now work on SE clothes
- Fukiya Darts and Shurikens can no longer be thrown at yellow NPCs
- Dread Pirate Hat has been improved
- Spirit Speak is now a possible skill bonus on magic jewelry
- Gold Bricks can no longer be fed to pet White Wyrms
- Soulstone: Skill absorption animation will no longer play when skill points are flushed
- Hearth of the Homefire no longer turns after exiting house custimization mode
- Bolts now have a chance to spawn in dungeon chests
- Corrected typo when trying to re-deed mistletoe with a non-house owner
- Add-on type items will no longer disappear when a house is demolished
- Players can now uninsure items that were blessed after already being insured
- Big Fish should provide more fish steaks when cut up (now its weight / 5 will determine number of fish steaks (minimum of 4))
- Fixed two issues with Event JP Finnigan Prize Giveout
- Stackable loot is now distributed proportionally between instanced corpses involving two or more party members in the top attackers list
Combat Fixes/Tweaks
- Fixed an issue that could allow archers to fire while on the move
- Players can no longer throw bolas while in Animal Form
- Bola throwing now correctly prevents re-mounting of Hiryu and Lesser Hiryu
- Fixed an issue causing the No-Dachi Riding Swipe, when used to dismount a murderer or criminal, to make the player become a criminal.
- Provoked and controlled creatures should no longer heal aggressors
- Fixed an issue that allowed a player to activate Moving Shot, then before the arrow hit, activate Armor Ignore
- Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed
- Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer
Spell Casting Adjustments
- Summoned daemons will now take 4 control slots instead of 5.
- Improved AI and damage for Air and Water Elementals
- Ninja Mirror Images are now affected by multi-target spells
- Fixed an issue causing criminal’s Mirror Images to appear blue
- Fixed an issue with Mana Drain not restoring the target’s mana after 4 seconds in rare cases
- Mage field spells cast on ships no longer cause the ship to stop moving
Creature and Spawning Fixes/Adjustments
- Male Ronin will now give as much loot as female Ronin
- Reduced amount of loot dropped by Fan Dancers
- Lesser Hiryu no longer give quite as good loot
- Doom Guardians will now spawn treasure map of random level (1-3) instead of spawning level 3-4 maps
- Can no longer use Animate Dead to turn Dark Father corpse into bones
Slayer Changes
- Blood Elemental Slayer weapons / instruments will now spawn as common slayer weapons / instruments
- Snow Elemental Slayer effect has been improved to now include Ice Elementals
- Added Sand Vortex and Efreet to Elemental super slayer group
- Repond, Wolf, Reptile, and Daemon Slayer groups have been updated
- Yomotsu and Fan Dancers have been removed from the Repond group
- Fan Dancer has been added to the Demon Slayer group
- All Daemon Slayers will become demon slayers
- Daemon Slayers will no longer spawn
Updates
Update 1
On January 26, 2005, the following was published:
- ERT update to fix an issue with the Ninjitsu ability Focus Attack where under certain circumstances, the weapon held by the ninja may have a hit chance property reduced.