Dungeons And Dragons Online: Weekly Development Activities (Apr 30, 2007)

It's Monday and Samera has posted her weekly development activities:

In QA

These items are in QA and are scheduled for Update 4.1: Mark of the Dragon.

General

• NEW - Resurrection Shrines now function in all ways like the Raise Dead spell. They will no longer drain the mana of a spellcaster that uses them, and restores people to life at 10% hit points rather than at 1 hit point. This is meant to address an imbalance between the effects of death for casters versus non-casters.
• NEW - The Coin Lords have used a portion of their increased income from the Auction House to upgrade the elementals powering the teleporters in Stormreach. Each of the teleporters in the various House wards of the city now allow anyone using them to select their destination from any of the other teleporter locations in Stormreach.
• Once upon a time there was a mighty warrior who had a love pure and true. But then his beloved disappeared and the mighty warrior flew into a rage. Where had the object of his passion gone? The warrior embarked upon a heroic quest to find his lost love. For an entire year the warrior searched without any sign of his beloved. And then one day.....could it be? Yet this was a different sort of love - the mighty warrior's beloved had changed, but it was his love still, and a great happiness filled the dazed warrior.
• You can now /point at things that are farther away than 30 meters.

UI Improvements

• NEW - The bold lock icon for locking your inventory has returned!
• NEW - The resistance labels in the character sheet have been replaced with icons. This fixes a bug in which the character sheet was not able to display all resistances.
• The Enhancement Training panel now has undo and redo buttons. In addition, hovering over the buttons will display what hitting the button will do. For example, if you removed a benefit that took 7 other enhancements with it, you can hover over the "undo" button to see which 7 enhancements were removed and hit the undo button to quickly put them back in your list.
• You can no longer enter dirty words in your LFM note. Bad players! No cookie for you! PS: Anyone who tries putting a naughty word into their LFM note after reading this will get a /pseudopod smack.
• Corrected display issue with floating damage numbers for Sneak Attacks when base weapon damage does not overcome monster's Damage Reduction.
• NEW - Portal Screens for House Jorasco, House Kundarak, House Phairlan, House Denieth, the Market, and the Harbor have been updated to reflect the environment of each ward.
• NEW - The tabs in the bank have new artwork.

Monsters

• NEW - We have made additional adjustments to some monster AI.
• NEW - You can now click on Hellcats.
• The giant skeletons in Gianthold Tor no longer have a chance to display an empty collectible shiny when they die. They are not supposed to drop collectibles.

Combat

• Lay on hands and remove disease now pay on execution. If you get your animation interrupted, you don't lose your activation cost.

Spells

• NEW - Cure Critical Wounds is now a Spontaneous Cast spell like the rest of the Cure Wounds spells. This means that Cure Critical Wounds is always memorized in the Cleric's Spell book and may not be removed.
• NEW - Wizards are now able to inscribe Scrolls of Banishment to add the spell to their known spells list.
• NEW - The Knock spell can now be learned by Wizards when training.
• Other players will now be able to see your Niac's Cold Ray.

Items

• When you loot chests you can now change who the loot is reserved for to anyone currently in your party. The new menu contains data on player's names and primary class, so if you see the perfect dagger for a rogue, there's no confusion about who the rogue in the party is. Please note: items which are bind on equip cannot have their reservation changed.
• Items can now be designated as "exclusive." This means that you can only have one of an exclusive item in your backpack or equipped at a time. You can still place multiple exclusive items in your bank, mail, trade, and sell exclusive items (as long as they are not bound). Exclusive item A will have no effect on how many copies of Exclusive item B you can own. We have no plans to retroactively add this property to current items other than the Ring of Spell Storing.
• The Fearsome armor effect will no longer place a permanent special effect over the character's head.
• NEW - Arrows and Bolts of Chaotic Outsider Slaying and Lawful Outsider Slaying will now slay Outsiders of the appropriate alignment.
• NEW - The bonus from Seeker now also adds to the base damage of the weapon on critical hits (before multiplication). Beware Seeker Heavy Picks.

NPCs

• Aulandar Thislecrown in the House of Wizardry, Jorasco city ward now has the title that proves she sells level 7 spell scrolls.

Quests

• NEW - Stormreaver Raid
  
  • The spike damage will no longer scale quite as high for Hard/Elite.
  • Players overcharged by the Stormreaver will no longer get a save roll (since there wasn't a save anyway).