Dungeons And Dragons Online: Weekly Development Activities (Feb 5, 2007)

In QA

These items are in QA and should be part of the next update, "Academy Training".

UI Improvements

• NEW - Auctions
  • The Auction UI will now better estimate time remaining on items posted for sale.
  • There is now a "cancel bid" button so you may remove bids, as long as you are no longer the high bidder. This will allow you to bid on more items at one time.
  • Added page number and total number of pages display to the bottom of the auction list.
  • When you change pages the new page will now sort based on your previously selected criteria.
  • Once you select a sort type, the auction house will remember your choice and always sort by that criteria until you select another sort button.
    

Monsters

• NEW - The Marilith's Efreeti Elite Guards now display their names above their heads to indicate to players that they have the boss ward effects on them.

Spells

• NEW - Heroes feast now has our intended (1 minute per level) duration.
• NEW - The Protection from Energy spells now state the correct duration in their descriptions.

Skills, Feats, & Abilities

• NEW - Song of Freedom is now properly adding bard level to its dispel checks.

Enhancements

• NEW - Divine Cleansing has been updated so that in addition to giving a minute long bonus to fortitude saves, it also dispels a series of effects depending on tier:
  • Divine Cleansing 1: +4 bonus on Fort Saves, dispels poison and disease
  • Divine Cleansing 2: +6 bonus on Fort Saves, dispels poison, disease, blindness, and curses
  • Divine Cleansing 3: +8 bonus on Fort Saves, dispels poison, disease, blindness, curses, paralysis, and petrification
• NEW - The Divine Light cleric enhancement, rather than being a single target damage to undead, is now a AOE damage to undead centered on the caster. In addition, we increased the amount of damage done to be more in-line with the optional turn-undead variant rule.
  • Divine Light 1: 4d6 light damage, will dc 14+charisma mod half
  • Divine Light 2: 8d6 light damage, will dc 18+charisma mod half
  • Divine Light 3: 14d6 light damage, will dc 24+charisma mod half
    

Items

• NEW - The Righteous effect will now do its additional +2 damage versus all Evil creatures.
• NEW - "Universal" damage amplification effects such as Efficacy and Potency items will now work on spells with unusual damage types (Blade Barrier, Cometfall, Icestorm, Flamestrike etc.).
• NEW - Items must now be fully repaired in order to be posted in the Auction House.

NPCs

• NEW - Guard Killmarten is no longer a pushover: when he asks for the 20 gold bribe to enter the marketplace, he will now actually collect it instead of giving you a free pass.

PVP

• NEW - The regen effect in PvP arenas no longer goes away on death.
• NEW - Column headers will now be correct when going from a Deathmatch to Capture the Flag arena.

Quests

• NEW - The Necropolis
  
  • All quest tombs should now be appropriately marked.
• NEW - The Vulkoor Spiral
  
  • Several adventuring parties from Stormreach report sightings of heavily laden parties of Drow entering the Vulkoor Spiral.

Under Development

These items are currently in development and are scheduled for Module 4: Reaver's Bane.

General

• The elven female avatar now has the braided hairstyle available.

Monsters

• The Hobgoblins have finally gotten their long-delayed and much-needed shipments of bows. Now, wherever hobgoblins live, there is a chance they will have some archers amongst their ranks.