Patch Notes July 05, 2010

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• Haynar: Pets will now prefer to stand while in combat.
• Haynar: Bash/Kick reuse time has been adjusted up some for NPCs.
• Haynar: Variable pet levels should now scale better.
• Haynar: Pet focus items should now focus the pets correctly.
• Haynar: Pets have had some adjustments to their HP Regen rates.
• Haynar: Bind Sight and Alliance line of spells should now work properly for all classes.
• Haynar: Pets got an IQ boost. They should get off the beaten path less often while following their master.
• Haynar/Bumamgar: Found a better variable modifier to use for exp. It should be live with this patch.
• (Previously Updated) Bumamgar: Classic EXP changes.
• (Previously Updated) Haynar: AC mitigation changes.

Content

• Aeolwind: Mobs in Fear have had an Armor Class pass. They should be significantly tougher.
• Aeolwind: Rigg Nostra will no longer spawn in East Freeport. Non-Classic mob
• Aeolwind: Canloe Nusback will no longer give out double items on belts.
• Nilbog: Creamy Fennel Sauce is no longer available on vendors.
• Nilbog: Gull Skytalon will now be on an 8 hour respawn timer.
• Nilbog: You will no longer lose faction with Grobb Merchants when killing Bashers.
• Nilbog: Hundle Quatvel will now be primary faction DismalRage
• Nilbog: Gargoyles and greater skeletons should now fight appropriately on spectre isle in OOT.
• Nilbog: Golem Metal Wand and Oil of Fennin Ro have had their casting times removed.
• Nilbog: The drop ratio of ruined/low/medium/high quality pelts has been adjusted. Quality skins will now be noticeably rarer than ruined ones.
• Bumamgar: Fixed Cazic Thule's "call for aid" logic so that it will now summon every mob in the zone to his aid instead of one random mob every 3 seconds.

[oldhead]

Where can I find details on the exp and ac changes?

[Vexden]

can you explain the pets better? Thanks.

[Vorin]

Originally Posted by Vexden [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

can you explain the pets better? Thanks.

Over-nerfed about does it.

[JxP]

nerfed how?

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by oldhead [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Where can I find details on the exp and ac changes?

AC has been moved to a softcap based system that more resembles live and now scales better so that you can actually see a difference when adding AC. Its not perfect, but it is an improvement.

Haynar

[Malrubius]

The pet changes are painful to my SK, but overall I'm glad that things keep evolving towards what classic was. Thanks for all the hard work as usual.

[Vorin]

My pet is hitting for about 25% less damage.

[girth]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The way pet scaling is supposed to work, is it varies the pets HPs and Stats for different levels. But the database, has the stats for the highest level pet. The way the scaling should have been, is it varies from the current highest level over a range of 5 levels total, with the database level as the highest.

When SOE changed pets, they made all pets summon the highest level.

So when it is patched, the lower level pets will hit for less, and have lower stats and hit points - So in that aspect it is a nerf.

THe current variance is varying up levels too, so that wont happen either. So max pet level will be lower - Another nerf.

But I am bumping up pet regen rates. The level 39 pet and up, will have the 30 hp regen rate as they should. The lower level mage pets will have 6 hp per tick regen rate like they should. These are all boosts in power.

I still need to work out the out of combat regen for pets, but this will help some.

Also the focus items are just totally borked.

The lower level mage focus items, should be pet specific, they should not increase pets max level or affect their hit rates. These are going to be nerfed to be like classic.

The higher level pet focus staffs of elemental masteries, will have about the same focus as they do now. But some stats will focus more, and some will focus less, depending on the pet. So the elemental masteries staffs will actually be of some use, to make the pet stronger.

That is it in a nutshell

[Aposi]

thats not really over nerfed. it was changed to how it was in classic. Pet focus was broken on Torch Stein Broom and Shovel. They simply fixed it.