Asherons Call: September Dev Notes are Up!

[big]Developer's Notes[/big]
posted on 08-Sep-2004
[big]New Functionality and Content[/big]

[li]War Magic damage has been improved for bolts and arcs at levels 1 through 6, and for all levels of streaks.
[li]The Three Crystals quests have been revised.
[li]Content surrounding the city of Al-Jalima has been revised.
[li]Projectile speeds on the Weeping, Hollow and Phantom missile weapons have been increased.
[li]All characters have the opportunity to obtain one free level's worth of experience, as recompense for recent server rollbacks. This award will only be available this month.

[li]Fall is here, with changes to the landscape and the character selection screen!
[li]The Singularity Scepters have been adjusted for balance.
[li]All Singularity missile weapons have had their damage modifiers increased.
[li]Gromnie trophy weapons have had their wield requirements changed to base skill instead of buffed skill.
[li]Agents of the Arcanum will now accept a Thick Gromnie Hide and exchange it for a Gromnie Hide Shirt.
[li]Many generators on Aerlinthe were spawning too many creatures. This has been resolved.
[li]New spawns have been added to the undead town on Aerlinthe.
[li]Some White Wasp generators on landscape were only creating one Wasp instead of three. This has been fixed.
[li]Some creature spawns have been moved farther away from housing, and from the town of Hebian-To.
[li]Some high particle-effect objects have been removed from the center of the Singularity Caul in order to improve graphical performance.
[li]Some emotes have been removed from Ivory Crafters in order to make it easier to give them items.
[li]The Frozen Fury dais has returned to Glenden Wood.
[li]The Alchemists, Cooks, and Fletchers of the new crafting quests will now return your item if your quest timer hasn't expired.
[li]It's no longer possible to lure Bleeargh away from his initial spot in Yanshi.
[li]The (100) in the name of a bag of Salvage now no longer appears in the dialog box if Crafting Confirmation is disabled.
[li]Houses now have better internal tracking for limited-hook items such as chalkboards.
[li]We've resolved a bug that, in rare situations, could cause a house covenant crystal to forget which house it belonged to.
[li]If a monarch character is deleted the new allegiance(s) created will properly get allegiance chat room(s).
[li]The text displayed when a gagged character tries to speak in allegiance chat has been clarified.
[li]War Magic scrolls now have unique icons.
[li]The Hand of Vagurat is now correctly Bonded and not Attuned.
[li]All Canescent Mattekar robes are no longer Attuned.
[li]Gromnie Coats no longer have a white abdomen section when dropped on the ground.
[li]The Silken Wrap no longer makes your feet disappear when worn with lower leg armor and no shoes.
[li]The Refulgent Bracelet is now Ivoryable.
[li]The Spear of Kreerg is now destroy-on-sell.
[li]The Eye of Drageerg is closer to the edge of the dais on which it rests, so it should be easier to pick up.
[li]Ancient armor is no longer sellable.
[li]The crafter-only restriction on the original Crops, Exquisite Elari Bows, and Virindi Scalpels has been removed.
[li]All Sanctifier of the Clutch spells now correctly state that they affect Magic Defense.
[li]The Lifestone Sending spell is now self-targeted.
[li]Some Newbie and Low level treasure chests have been rebalanced to better fit the revised treasure system.
[li]Ancient Coral Golems now have a chance of dropping Coral Golem Hearts.
[li]Pyreal Target Drudges are now green.
[li]Some creatures tweaked for balance.
[li]"Turbine Chat enabled" has been removed from text at login.

[li]The Aphus Sun Guard looks better when hooked.
[li]The Ebon Tooth Katar now hooks properly.
[li]If you selected an Olthoi Acid Katar in the world, the selection reticule was to the left of the object. This has been fixed.
[li]A black line at the bottom of the icon of the Wooden Tablet has been removed.
[li]The icons on the untranslated Burun spell rewards have been corrected.
[li]Typos in Leikotha's speech, Galaeral's speech, and the translated Aerlinthe Record have been fixed.
[li]The descriptions of the fellowship spell reward statues in Hizk Ri and the resulting scrolls have been clarified.
[li]The description of the Academy Quartermaster's door in the Training Academy was incorrect and has been fixed.
[li]Some text in the character creation screen regarding skill credits has been clarified.