*** Headlines ***

• - Tons of new quests, mostly for solo players!
• - New Character Differentiation option: Training!
• - Lots of artisan recipe and ability fixes!
• - Eat healthy! New examine information to explain the benefits of food and drink!
• - Brawlers get built-in shields!
• - Guild followers can spend the status they earn at city merchants!
• - Now easier to equip rings, wrist items, and weapons!
• - Slash that dot! Maps now show your current heading!
• - Lots of UI tweaks and enhancements!
• - More bug fixes than you can shake a moss snake at!

*** Training ***

• - Characters now receive a new character differentiation option every ten adventure levels: Training!
• - Training allows you to choose one of four new abilities. Each of these spells or arts builds off abilities you've been using but substantially increases their effectiveness and benefit.
• - The choice is yours whether you prefer a stronger attack, a more potent buff, a heartier heal, or a handier utility function. Training allows you to enhance specific aspects of your character and be a bit unique.
• - These Training abilities have a longer span of effectiveness than most common spells and arts, so they'll prove very useful to you.
• - Note: Characters who reach levels 10 and 20 will not be prompted to make their Training selections until they leave their current zone and enter another. This is a known issue that will be corrected in a future update.

*** Gameplay ***

• - Group members can now join other group members in a specific instance of a zone even if that zone has reached its capacity.
• - If a character dies and is given the option to be revived in a different zone, the revive window will allow the player to choose from multiple instances if they are available.
• - Harvesting quests can no longer be completed by purchasing the items from a broker.
• - Spells that debuff the target's maximum health or power now work appropriately.
• - Fixed a bug that could cause you to fall under the world while swimming.
• - Removed the restriction that only guild patrons can spend status points.
• - You are no longer able to swap bags into your shared bank if one of the bags contains a lore or no-trade item.
• - You are no longer able to drag lore items from your overflow slot into the shared bank.
• - Fixed a bug that caused rare mastery quest items not to drop from solo encounters.

*** Controls, Commands, and UI ***

• - Character Select: If you choose to delete a character, you will now be asked to type in the character name.
• - Inventory: The overflow slot now features a context menu that allows you to examine the item, move it to your inventory, or destroy it.
• - Inventory: The default behavior when dragging a stack of items or coins has changed to drag the entire stack. To choose a quantity, hold down the Shift key while dragging. Holding down the Control key while dragging still picks up a single item from the stack.
• - Inventory: You can now drag bag windows if your mouse pointer is over an empty slot.
• - Inventory: If you attempt to equip a weapon that is not compatible with what you're wielding, your current weapons will be unequipped for you. For example, if you are currently holding a sword and shield and attempt to equip a two-handed weapon, both the sword and shield will be unequipped.
• - Inventory: Equipping items in the wrist and finger slots is much easier.
• - Inventory: Double-clicking a second dual-wield weapon in your inventory should now allow it to be equipped properly.
• - Inventory: Added information on the value of various kinds of food and drink in the examine window and tooltip.
• - Guild UI: Class and Name columns are now sized according to their content.
• - Guild UI: Guild UI now displays the guild status earned by each patron in the "Standing" column.
• - Guild UI: Fixed the confirmation screen for guild demotions.
• - Main UI: The society window's members list will now sort correctly on rank, level, current status, and total status when you click on the column headers.
• - Main UI: Fixed a bug causing only the first embedded item link to get the link color.
• - Main UI: Custom chat channels now use their assigned channel colors.
• - Main UI: Maps now have a heading indicator instead of a dot.
• - Main UI: Coins in your bank and in a trade window now have a tooltip.
• - Main UI: Clicking on a map icon now creates a temporary waypoint and a wisp to that location. For real this time.
• - Main UI: Various points of interest have been added to the city maps.
• - Main UI: UI window settings should now save more consistently.
• - Main UI: You will receive notification when players on your friends list log in and out.
• - Main UI: The tooltip on the experience bar now reports experience debt more accurately.
• - Main UI: The con color of quests is now visible on the quest acceptance window.
• - Main UI: Hotkey macros can now have up to three command lines, which are executed in order.
• - Main UI: Hotkeys should no longer flash when a heroic opportunity starter chain fails.
• - Main UI: Only relevant hotkeys should flash during a heroic opportunity.
• - Main UI: Items that cannot be equipped no longer show their condition in the examine window.
• - Main UI: Items can now be dropped anywhere in the trade window. If you drop an item somewhere that doesn't make sense, it will be placed into the leftmost available spot.
• - Tradeskill UI: When repeating a recipe, the components window will now remember which particular items you previously selected.

New Quests

• - A Bitter Brew
• - A Change in Plans
• - A Message for Kitty
• - Darig Giantbane
• - Desperately Seeking Ants!
• - Desperately Seeking Butterflies!
• - Desperately Seeking Moths!
• - Duranar the Swift
• - Flight of the Sage
• - Granville's Restaurant, D'Lere
• - Granville's Restaurant, Antonica
• - Karath the Forgotten
• - Kleron's Earring
• - Kleron's Helmet
• - Kleron's Leggings
• - Kleron's Ring
• - Kleron's Shoes
• - Kleron's Wrist-Guards
• - Kuranam of the Seven Foals
• - Like a Ring in a Haystack
• - Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
• - No More Witnesses
• - Reliving the Past
• - The Age of Rediscovery
• - The Curious Augur's Three Meanings of Life
• - The Farmer's Ring
• - The One-Eyed Chief
• - The Scholar's Search
• - The Traveling Augur's Three Meanings of Life
• - The Wanderer's Three Meanings of Life
• - Trantieral Thunderhoof
• - A Menace to Berrybrook
• - Angry Augur's Three Meanings of Life
• - Arboreal Survey
• - Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to Old Grove
• - Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to West Zek
• - Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to the Badlands
• - Case of the Missing Person
• - Case of the Poisoned Wine
• - Crab Exploratory
• - Defending Harold Winemaster
• - Disrupting the Mining Operation
• - Far Seas Requisition ENC0457
• - Far Seas Requisition ENC0679
• - Far Seas Requisition ENC0699
• - Far Seas Requisition ENC0745
• - Far Seas Requisition ENC0825
• - Far Seas Requisition Special Contract #TS023
• - Fauna Fecundity
• - Hail to the Derris Heroes
• - Hail to the Sullon Heroes
• - Hail to the Tallon Heroes
• - Hail to the Vallon Heroes
• - Keys for Hammer
• - Magical Residue Recovery
• - Marine Fecundity
• - Meandering Augur's Three Meanings of Life
• - Mettle Testing
• - Miscellaneous Request
• - Native Hostile Exploratory II
• - Native Melee Efficacy IV
• - Native Projective Efficacy IV
• - Sea Life Farmability
• - Short Range Patrol
• - Special Acquisitor, I
• - Special Acquisitor, II
• - Special Acquisitor, III
• - Special Acquisitor, IV
• - The Curse of the Bloody Shank
• - The Grain Grog Run
• - The Mysterious Dagger
• - The Tallon Plunder Chests
• - Undead Survey
• - Utilitarian Desires of the Miners
• - Utilitarian Desires of the Protectors
• - Utilitarian Desires of the Toiler

Modified Quests

• - Avenge the Freeport Trooper
• - Do or Die, Says Irizan
• - Kill 'em All
• - Lost Friend in Fallen Gate
• - Narin Heirloom
• - Saving the Sewage Pumps
• - Slaying the Defiled Villagers
• - Stopping the Grimmin Plan
• - Ignatia Cellus' History of Antonica
• - Iridescent Brooch

• - Gildas' Requests - Part III
• - Gildas' Requests - Part IV
• - Gildas' Requests - Part V
• - Gildas' Requests - Part VI
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part I
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part II
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part III
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part VI
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part V
• - Selwyn's Errands - Part VI

Heritage Quests

• - Some modifications have been made to the Bag of Sewn Evil Eye, Polished Granite Tomahawk, and Stein of Moggok quests.
• - The tradeskill tutorial window should no longer show up during the Dwarven Workboots quest.

Quest Updates

• - The experience gained when completing catalog quests has been modified.
• - Catalog quests should now reward players when completed.
• - The zombie mastery trophy has a new appearance.
• - The access quest to Fallen Gate should now be working properly.
• - Players should now be able to finish the "Vale of the Shattering" quest.
• - Some modifications have been made to Ian Cathlan's armor quests.
• - The "Acidic Liquid" quest will now reward an item of a more appropriate level.
• - The level of the "Failed Assassin" quest has been increased to match the difficulty of the targets of the quest.
• - The quest level for "The Lost Religion of Fallen Gate" has been increased. Skullsprainer weapons have been removed from the quest.
• - Society tasks will now reward players with coin in the quest reward window.
• - The reward for "Green Hood Ration Recipe" has been changed to something more appropriate.
• - Lore and Legends quests are no longer flagged as Mastery. They'll now have their own quest category type.
• - The "History of the Feir'Dal" book has been added to sage merchants in Qeynos.
• - The rat collar quest in Edgewater Drains is no longer repeatable. The reward has been set to be Lore and No Trade.
• - The level and experience rewarded in the "Snake Slayings" quest has been modified to better match the difficulty of the quest.
• - The Leatherfoot Brigade quests can now be completed more easily.
• - "Keep of the Ardent Needle" is no longer labeled as an Access quest. It is now labeled as an Antonica quest.
• - "Recovery of Bloodsaber Plans" and "Into the Crypt of Betrayal" are no longer labeled as Access quests. They are now labeled as quests for Elddar Grove.
• - "Cleansing of the Firemyst Gully" should now be working correctly.
• - Dialogues have been modified in the "Skullsprainer" quest.
• - The Collection quests for moths and butterflies should now properly reward players. Players will need to speak with the collector NPCs to have the larger collections added.
• - Kregnok's Axe is no longer obtainable as a quest reward.
• - The amount of experience rewarded for completing "Tillin's Gnoll Woes" has been lowered.
• - "Shadow Axe" has had its reward changed.
• - "Rings that Thirst" had its reward changed.
• - Celeg Ixuri, Ikara V'Tahl, Obere Warrain, Narek Bonecarver, Shadowdash, and Ott Stompgut should no longer appear if the armor quest they are part of has been completed.
• - Books found in adventure areas that provide quests had their respawn times reduced from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.
• - The Deathfist Access quest will now work properly if the character's journal is full and has been changed to a Hallmark quest.
• - The Polished Granite Tomahawk recipe and pristine piece of granite have been marked as No Trade, No Value, and No Destroy.
• - Language quest items have been changed to be Lore and had their drop rate increased.
• - The "Insulated Warmers" quest will now update correctly.
• - All steps for the "Hundred Fold Blade" quest are no longer displayed immediately on starting.
• - The Orcish Wastes creature catalog quest has been updated.
• - The Qeynos Catacombs creature catalog quest has been updated.
• - The Elephant Hide Boots quest will now update correctly when defeating Dervish Cutthroats.
• - The Feerrott creature catalog quest has been updated.
• - Mr. Burpbelly can once again be found within Fallen Gate.
• - Betrayers should now be able to select their tradeskill class and subclass correctly.
• - Qeynos betrayers should no longer be able to accept and complete another class quest within Freeport.
• - The Bird Watching tome quest has had its reward modified.
• - Several tome quests had their category changed from Miscellaneous to the zone in which they are meant to be completed.
• - The Fury subclass quest in Freeport has been adjusted.
• - "Pretty Ponies, All in a Row" can now be completed.
• - Dancer should now give you her second quest even if you end the dialogue or happen to die in the middle of speaking with her.
• - "The One Who Got Away" quest has been modified.
• - "Rumble" should now update correctly.
• - "Freedom" should now update correctly.
• - "Virtue Belt" should now update correctly.
• - "Blood Ore Basher" should now update correctly and had some typos fixed.
• - Striped spiders should now update the Striped Spider collection quest.
• - Vital portions of Rask Helstot's quests can no longer be deleted.
• - Experience rewards have been removed from the following quests:
  • Report to Marauder Kindolus
  • Report to Disciple Telas'velle
  • Report to Aesthetic Winchester
  • Report to Missionary Jenson
  • Report to Sergeant Ironcast
  • Report to Guard Rellin'thir
  • Report to Baron Zafimus
  • Report to Shepherd Sell'ar
  • Report to Archivist Jindlefog
  • Report to Chronicler Steelwill
  • Report to Boatswain Fomas
  • Report to Liege Helvanica
  • Report to Naturalist Tummyfill

*** Zones ***

• - The zombie maid should no longer be dropping inappropriate treasure.
• - Ghostly orcs are no longer classified as living orcs.

• - Several items that drop in the zone had a stat increase.
• - Fallen Nobles should no longer spawn inside walls.

• - Some areas within the zone have been re-leveled.
• - Players should now be able to retrieve their corpses from the Fallen Gate doors if they do not have a key to the zone.

• - A dragoon guard near Theeral the Nomad has been removed.

• - Giantslayers are now more plentiful.

• - The class type of a Varsoon apprentice has been modified.
• - Doomsquall and Grimfeather will no longer camp players at the zone line.
• - The drop rates for items obtained from Doomsquall and Grimfeather have been modified.
• - An additional respawn camp has been added into the zone.

• - Triggers for the level 20 priest hallmark quest should now only appear when the player is on the proper stage.
• - Infected burrowers and infected tomb vermin should no longer have pets.

• - The Bandits involved in the Flowing Black Silk Sash quest will now despawn after a set amount of time if they are left untouched.
• - Additional marine life has been added to water areas.
• - Scarecrows should now show their names.

• - Executor Adept Sal`ynelle has been moved to the Ironforge Estate.

• - A Runnyeye armorer will no longer drop treasure associated with another NPC.

• - The Creator should no longer break encounters when attacked.

• - The secret entrance door linking Antonica and Stormhold must now be unlocked from inside Stormhold before it can be used.

• - Several spells have been added to the treasure tables in Stormhold, Thundering Steppes, Nektulos Forest, the Crypt of Betrayal, and Edgewater Drains.
• - The re-use timers for epic and instanced zones have been changed based on the level of the zone.
• - Changes were made to instanced zone junctions to only allow up to the maximum number of people intended to enter the zone.

*** NPCs ***

• - Kizdean Gix will no longer disguise himself as a female. He has also decided to carry a certain key.
• - Lady Faideth will no longer attempt to appear to be male.
• - Icsillinatis the Marrow Fiend and Captain Surestout should now drop items appropriate to the difficulty of their encounters.
• - Bosses in Permafrost, Runnyeye Citadel, and Feerrott should now behave appropriately.
• - Scribe Zizwold will no longer drop an owlbear feather.
• - Players who end their conversation with Investigator Targok can now continue to receive their quests.
• - The spawn time on Tinmizer's astounding frostdisruptors in Orcish Wastes and Enchanted Lands has been reduced.
• - Tangle Weed's minions should now follow properly and not wander off on their own.
• - Mender Manus will wait until you are closer to him before calling out.
• - Chaplin Graveguzzle can now be found by looking in the proper location.

*** Mechanics ***

• - Dual Wield is now listed in the skill window for all professions who can use dual wield weapons.
• - Slightly increased the block rate of round shields.
• - Adjusted shields to provide a more noticable benefit at higher levels of quality.
• - The Safe Fall skill will now increase through use.
• - The cost of light and higher armor types on vendors has been reduced.
• - Scouts can attempt to disarm traps beyond their current skill level. Even if unsuccessful they have the chance to gain skill through use.
• - Removed the ability for bralwers, monks, and bruisers to equip shields.
• - Increased brawler Deflection to provide the equivalent of always having a buckler equipped.
• - Increased monk and bruiser Deflection to provide the equivalent of always having a round shield equipped.

*** Items ***

• - The price of the Market Bulletin Board has been reduced.
• - The colors of certain ranger and monk armor quest rewards have been modified.
• - The appearance of the level 20 bruiser quest armor has been changed.
• - Band of the Soulstripper no longer looks like a chain chestpiece.
• - The names of some Heritage Paintings have been corrected.
• - The Ghoulbane will now do bane damage to the undead.
• - The Fishbone Earring has been modified slightly.
• - The Greater Lightstone will now shed a yellow light.
• - The Charred Bone has been changed to No Trade, No Value, Lore.
• - The stats of Cap of the Ethernere have been increased.
• - A Glowing Black Stone has been changed to No Trade.
• - The following items have been set to No Trade, Lore, and No Value: Crude Blueprint, Tattered Diary, Acidic Gland, Rat Collar, and a Trooper Signet.
• - All Legend and Lore quest items should now be using the correct icon.
• - Assault Axes have been changed to be one-handed instead of two-handed.
• - The Shiny Brass Halberd has been made No Trade and Lore.
• - Starfall no longer appears as a scourge and is more like the description given in the quest.
• - Many new quest rewards and loot drops have been added to the game.

*** Spells ***

• - The damage on Lanet's Excruciating Scream has been increased.
• - All spell scrolls should now list the tier after the name instead of before it.
• - Apprentice IV ward spells can now absorb an increased amount of damage.
• - Class and Subclass "Vitae" lines of spells should now stack correctly.
• - Odyssey has been changed to only be used on group/raid members.
• - Protection of the Seasons now adds heat and cold resistances correctly.
• - Ensnaring Roots, Grasping Roots, and Seizing Vines affect movement speed correctly.
• - Decree of Decay has been fixed to allow the lifetap effect to work correctly.
• - Wisdom of Zephyl increases skill with updgrades correctly.
• - Frozen Manacle's root duration has been increased.
• - The description for Venomous Runes was changed to be more reflective of the actual spell effect.
• - Runic Shield had its description changed to be more clear.
• - Spirit of the Rhino was fixed to allow application to the group. Note that this ward only protects against elemental and noxious damage.
• - Umbral Fortitude should now increase divine resistance as intended.
• - Sibyllant should now have its damage effect working properly.
• - Noxious Bolt had its description clarified.
• - Boon of the Lifeless had its description clarified.
• - Flaming Agony now includes a DoT effect and had its spell icon changed.
• - Quicksand had its movement decrease effect increased.
• - Mend Bones should now cost the caster health as was intended.
• - Spiritual Seal had its description clarified.
• - Favor of the Phoenix should now only allow revival of the correct classes.
• - There were many additional updates and fixes to address spell bugs and balance issues.

*** Combat Arts ***

• - Escape has been changed to a 5-second cast time with a 30-minute recast.
• - Power Cleave should now be available on the appropriate merchants.
• - Stealth abilities no longer stack.
• - Focused Rage had its description clarified.
• - Unfriendly Reminder should now lower the target's agility as intended.
• - Ignore Pain should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - Intimidating Orders should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - Watery Shot should now reduce the target's power correctly.
• - Break Through now has the correct skill requirement.
• - Bob and Weave should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - Kidney Blow had its description clarified.
• - Haymaker should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - Bouncer had its description clarified.
• - Fury should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - Grapple now includes a stun effect.
• - Bloodlust should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
• - There were many additional updates and fixes to address combat art bugs and balance issues.

*** Tradeskills & Societies ***

• - Artisans level 15-19 and 25-29 should now receive tasks of a level near or slightly below their own.
• - Several alchemy potions/poison recipes have been fixed.
• - Society task rewards have been reduced.
• - The Manastone Heritage quest recipe should now be working correctly.
• - New raids are now available for guilds level 20 and 25.
• - Alchemy Potions and Poisons have been changed to Baubles. They are no longer stackable and will use their charges properly.
• - Multiple city writ quests can no longer be obtained from the same NPC.
• - Fixed a bug that allowed city task NPCs to issue quests to players whose citizenship did not match that of their guild leader at the time of the guild's formation.
• - The kill quotas have been reduced for the level 15+ Social Structure quests.
• - New tradeskill quests have been created that reward players with guild experience and status points.
• - Power Cleave can now be created using a tradeskill recipe.
• - New tradeskill tasks are now available for players between level 30 and 50.
• - Spell and combat art creation has been changed to allow for different qualities of scrolls to be created. Apprentice IV spells and arts will now result when a pristine spell or art is successfully made.
• - Multiple fixes were made to advanced craftsman recipes.
• - Reactive arts now share reuse timers across the same crafting lines.
• - Stacking rules for the benefits received from reactive arts have been revised.
• - Some special events have been changed in frequency and severity.
• - Refine basil has been added to the Tradeskill Essentials 3 book. Players who have scribed this book automatically gain the ability to refine basil.
• - Tin Plate now uses the correct tradeskill techniques to counter negative events.
• - Player-crafted food and drink durations have been adjusted.
• - Cream cheese has been added to tradeskill wholesalers.
• - Edible refined components were removed from tradeskill vendors.
• - Advanced Crafting Volumes should now work properly.
• - Missing Adept III spell and art scrolls have been added to recipe books.
• - The Outfitter Essential recipe for the Iron Crescent Axe has been fixed.
• - Essence of Bully: Adept III has been added to Advanced Alchemist Vol. 45.
• - Liquefied Sycamore has been added to scholar recipes.
• - The iron bar recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types and techniques.
• - Pristine versions of Carbonite Vanguard armor can now be created.
• - Loss of harvesting skills should no longer occur when a character's tradeskill level is higher than the adventuring level.
• - The burlap thread recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types and techniques.
• - The iron plate recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types and techniques.
• - The burlap yarn recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types and techniques.

*** Player Housing ***

• - A one-room apartment in Qeynos now allows a hundred furnishings to be placed inside it, and two vendors can now operate from a single merchant board.

*** Status ***

• - Status gain messages have been add to Social Structure tasks.
• - Status defrayment values have been added to in-game furniture items that did not previously have them.
• - Guild followers can now use their status points to purchase items from City Merchants.

*** Art ***

• - Fixed shaders on fire beetle and gnoll LODs.
• - Fixed combat states for gnolls and giants.
• - Fixed skin weights on orc skeleton LODs and adjusted shaders, improved LOD tolerances.
• - Fixed Venekor's breath attack.
• - Made flies on diseased skeletons visible from further away.

• - Whips can now be holstered when wielded in the secondary slot.
• - Fixed orbs to show up when wielded in the secondary slot.
• - Added eight new one-handed spears.
• - Added eight new fighting sticks.
• - Fixed some robe issues to allow helmets, hair, and bracers to display properly.

• - Fixed bugs that caused players to fall below the world in Stonestair Byway, Starcrest Commune, and Freeport five-room apartments.
• - Fixed some disappearing NPC issues in Graystone Yard and the Orcish Wastes.
• - Made some minor cosmetic fixes to Qeynos Harbor and South Qeynos.
• - Opened access to the bear caves in Nektulos Forest.
• - Fixed some rock placements in Antonica.
• - Improved the environment settings for the boats leading to Everfrost and Lavastorm.
• - Improved door functionality in Solusek's Eye.

• - Removed erroneous sound triggers from all harvesting visuals: fishing, gathering, mining, forestry, and trapping.
• - Fixed these persist effects so they display on the creature and follow it better: stun, stone, poison, mesmerize, mental, energy, ice, divine, debuff, and fire.
• - Shortened the initial result visual used on these spells: Eidolic Ward, Spectral Ward, Wards of Spirit, Oberon, Wakinya's Skin of Spirits, Everling's Cadaverous Ward, Cursed Affliction, Curse of Shielding, and Eidolic Savior.
• - Fixed the dust fall effect used on many combat arts.
• - The skull effect is now more visible in lifetap spells.
• - Lightning bolt effect now displays properly on non-humanoid creatures and objects.
• - Optimized the lightning bolt effect.
• - Missing glows fixed in spell crystal pieces.
• - Fixed all "animal" spell visuals so the initial conjuring effect is displayed.

*** Audio ***

*** The Following UI Files Have Been Modified ***

• UIDefaulteq2ui_community.xml
• UIdefaulteq2ui_journals_quest.xml
• UIdefaulteq2ui_mainhud_editmacro.xml
• UIdefaulteq2ui_mainhud_guild.xml
• UIdefaulteq2ui_mainhud_map.xml
• UIdefaulteq2ui_mainhud_socials.xml