Build 1840 May / 30 / 2007
Vanguard Build 1840 Patch Notes 5/31/2007 – TEST SERVER

GAMEPLAY NOTES
- Cash loot and gear values have been changed slightly. All merchants will now give top dollar for gear players wish to sell. An internal change to how cash loot is calculated may result in slight fluctuations in its worth. If anything out of whack is discovered please report it.

 ADVENTURING NOTES
- Bard – Energizing Embellishment and Cirel’s Counterpoint of Clarity now properly restore energy.
- Bard – Asilam’s Anti-Venom Aria is no longer an embellishment and is now a shout type ability.
- Bard – Strain of Purification is no longer an embellishment and is now a shout type ability.
- Bard – Upgrades to Asilam’s Anti-Venom Aria and Strain of Purification are now available on trainers.
- Bard – Slightly increased the damage added by Humming Blade above level 20.
- Bard – Lowered the energy reduction on humming blade gradually.
- Bard – Humming Blade now specifies that it increases melee damage.
- Bard – Swirl of the Tempest is no longer limited to 4 targets.
- Bard – Fox Overtakes the Hare II and III now have a refresh timer of 20 sec.
- Cleric – Ethereality was supposed to be trainable at level 30.  This has been fixed.
- Cleric – Ethereality now works as intended.
- Cleric – Aspect of the Destroyer no longer increases cast time.
- Cleric – Wraith Touch now returns the correct amount of hit points
- Cleric – Increased the power of Wraith Touch.
- Cleric – Affinity removal quests are now available.  Please visit the trainer that gave you the initial affinity quest.
- Cleric – Absolution no longer affects those NPCs that are not currently attacking you.
- Psionicist – All versions now state that this spell does physical damage.
- Shaman – Increased the critical hit bonus on Tearing Claw
- Shaman – Decreased the refresh timer on Throat Rip to 45 seconds, down from 2 minutes.
- Shaman – Bloody Fang will now deal more damage when exploiting the Bitten weakness.
- Shaman – Lowered the cast time of Aegis of life to 3.5 seconds, down from 4.5 seconds.
- Shaman – Lowered the refresh time of Ritual of Scarring to 2 minutes.
- Shaman – Bosrid’s Gift has been added to trainers at level 26. Upgrades every 8 levels.
- Shaman – The healing effectiveness debuff of Gnashing Bite now lasts for 45 seconds, up from 20 seconds.
- Shaman – Deafening Roar now costs only 20 END.
- Shaman – Spear of the Ancestors has had its functionality changed. It now deals less damage, but heals endurance over time. Has a 45 second refresh. (fear not Fist of the Earth is now available to fill the no refresh, nice damage chain slot that Spear of the Ancestors used to).
- Shaman – Removed the howling when you cast a spell while in Skin of Rakurr
- Shaman – Vicious Bite now displays its damage in combat window
- Shaman – Feedback has been added to Throat Rip.

CRAFTING NOTES
- Shandrel’s Robe now has a proper graphic.
- Dark Venom effects should now give the proper feedback

 

DIPLOMACY NOTES
- Diplomacy Cash Loot rewards have been modified to make them more compatible with Adventuring and Crafting cash loot.

 

WORLD POPULATION
- Gorgalog Swamp – The Hardened Wood plate armor components are no longer shown as cleric usable.
- Gorgalog Swamp – Skull Plated, Impervious Chitin, and Shimmering Silverbark armor is no longer cleric usable.
- Gorgalog Swamp – Fae Fire, Magic, and Nature wisps will no longer instantly despawn upon death.
- Gorgalog Swamp – Players dying or evacuating within Vsurog Moor will now be sent to the appropriate altar location.
- Gorgalog Swamp – The quest “Symbols of the Flordiel” now correctly requires that a player have the appropriate favor with the Ichtakhta.

 

CODING NOTES

- You can now zoom the camera out much further from your character.
- Some hitching caused by the UI's ability processing (e.g. hotkeys) has been eliminated.
- Fixed a bug with chat channel filters not getting added and enabled properly.

 

~The Vanguard Team


Overall, very disappointing.

yep..pretty stupid and retarded and screwed up all around..

at least they are fixing Bard and Cleric, the 2 classes that need the most help 

but in all seriousness, nobody plays Monk. You would think that's a reason to want to fix the class, but maybe they are trying to cater to the subscribed members. They do, after all, have clear records who's playing which class and they know a lot more people are playing awesome classes like bard and cleric. They MUST be trying to cater to the masses who are already subscibed? Seems stupid if you ask me.

hah, assumming they fix FD so that it actually works, we will at least be able to brag about that...

A nice bonus would be for SOE to bring our class up to par with the masses so that FD isn't our only selling point into a group. And if they can't do that, again, just fix FD.