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2008-10-01

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• ADVENTURING
• Necromancer - abomination grafts will no longer get in a bugged state when mounting and un-mounting.
• Necromancer - Detonate Corpse can no longer be used beyond the specified range.
• CRAFTING
• Completing the Isle of Dawn harvesting tutorials now rewards you with the standard harvesting equipment found on the mainland. In addition, if you complete the Isle tutorial, the mainland one will not be offered. This should prevent people from accidently resetting their skills.
• The crafting recipe trainer will now show the prices for the abilities that can be trained.
• DIPLOMACY
• Tax collection has had its higher end rewards increased.
• The item "Card of Cherry Pick" has had a text error in its description fixed.
• The presence on the Lamplighter Cloaks has been increased.
• The presence on the Lamplighter Sashes has been increased.
• Some items from the Head Informants have been updated: the Lamplighter Wrist Purse now has +200 Merchant and Noble Presence, the Lamplighter Luggage now holds 75 diplomacy items, and there are new cloaks, necklaces, and sashes available.
• The Informant's Sigils on-equip enhancement should no longer disappear after a period of time.
• The Civic Benefit "Sage Words" now increases spell haste as displayed instead of decreasing it.
• Nelon Issan is now stronger in parley and has his own unique Statement.
• Trade goods now do not stack and cannot be mailed. However, they will also now fit in diplomacy containers.
• Hitting escape when in parlay will no longer unintentionally end the parlay.
• Monetary rewards from trade parleys have been reduced.
• ITEMS
• The item "Kojani Caravel Mast" now stacks.
• The item "Practice Kojani Caravel Helm" now stacks.
• WORLD POPULATION
• Hunter Elan will now offer the "Ring of the Rakshasa" quests if you declined them initially."
• Kojani Caravel Rudders now stack.
• Cragwind Ridge: The Lesser Shrines - The ritual at the Shrine of the Tempest will now reset properly if not completed in time."
• The Achatlan Invader's Plans: The Redcap Gossipers are functioning properly again."
• QUESTS
• Amphibious Vengeance - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Becoming Bold - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Crippling The Fleet - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Forest Enchanted Helm - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest summary text.
• Forest Enchanted Sabatons - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Horsebane Tick Infestation - Fixerd a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Mail of the Father - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Oathbreakers: Destroy the Enslaved Kobolds - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Swamp Satin: Robe - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest summary text.
• The Crafty One - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text.
• Fight the Yukionna - Fixed a grammatical error in the quest text
• CODING
• All PC pets will now mitigate 75% of all incoming Area of Effect damage.
• Legendary Critical Hits will now only generate as much hate as an Epic Critical Hit.
• You may no longer get “super legendary” critical hits. This would have displayed as a normal legendary critical but would have done 2 times the damage.
• Each level of critical hit above normal critical hits will now only do an additional 10% damage instead of double damage.
• You can now see a list of the items in your bags in the tooltip for the bag when hovering over it.
• Fix for quest pets despawning when you mount.
• Fixed an issue where unique NPC’s could occasionally spawn more than 1 copy of themselves.
• Changed the display string for critical hit item mods. It was previously called "Critical Hit Chance", "Critical Melee Hit Rating", "Critical Ranged Hit Rating", and "Critical Spell Hit Rating". This has been changed to "General Critical Hit Rating", "Melee Critical Hit Rating", "Spell Critical Hit Rating", and "Ranged Critical Hit Rating".
• Increased server stability.
• Fixed some additional client crashes.
• The minimum length of a guild name is now 3 characters.
• Fixed the issue with some boats not displaying in the Tanvu and some other areas.
• Players in a group that are not the group leader can now suggest an invite to the group leader of another player by doing a standard invite on that player.
• The friends list will now be updated when a friends level changes.
• NPC’s and PC’s will no longer fade over distance. They will still fade in once.
• The view distance of NPC’s and PC’s is now based off of your characters location and not the location of your camera. The max view distance has been increased slightly for both NPC’s and PC’s.
• Fixed an issue where the min range on all range abilities was set to 0. They should now be what they were before the GU 6 update.
• Friends in your friends list will now show as Anon if they are set to Anon.
• Fixed some issues where certain abilities were ignoring the raid lockout checks.
• The group leader's name will now only appear once in the master looter's drop down menu.
• Targeted tombstones will now update their distance.
• Corpse targeted abilities will now always use the targeted corpse or the closest corpse as intended.
• Killing NPC’s in a single hit will now give faction hits.

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