Treaties in Stone
Dev Notes
Developer's Notes
posted on 14-Jul-2004
New Functionality and Content
- War Magic have been improved. The largest changes are to the maximum effect of the Crippling Blow and Critical Strike imbues when used with War Magic.
[li]It is possible to gain the ability to add a Magic-Absorbing property, similar to that of the Aegis Shield, to any loot missile weapon.
[li]The content surrounding the town of Lin has been revised.
[li]The Singularity Weapons quest has been revised.
Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements
- Campfires taken from the Renegade camp are now floor-hookable.
[li]The Lugian Crest, Lugian Armor, Blade of the Heart, Cloth of the Arm, Sceptre of the Mind, Lugian Pauldron, and Lugian Scepter are all no longer Attuned.
[li]The new Virindi Scalpel was intended to no longer be life-hollow, but gain the double-strike ability. These changes have been made for this month.
[li]Yaja's Reach can now do both slashing and piercing damage, as intended.
[li]Homunculus Heads no longer have crafter wield requirements.
[li]There is now a 14-day timer on picking up a Gibbering Claw.
[li]The Arcane Lore requirement on the Renegade Ring has been reduced to 100.
[li]Some Hollow Boulders were not correctly ignoring magic protections. This has been fixed.
[li]Behdo Yii now gives out his jewelry before giving other items, so that if your backpack is nearly full you will still get the jewelry reward.
[li]The rewards for the Hea Toneawa quest have been improved slightly.
[li]A bug that was preventing the Ceremony room in the Gaerlan quest from resetting has been fixed. Killing the creatures that spawn if silence is broken will reset the room.
[li]Gaerlan's health regeneration has been decreased at all four level breaks of the quest.
[li]The spawn rate on the Homunculus has been increased.
[li]A Titan Mana Charge no longer spawns in the Lyceum.
[li]Marguls would make a typeless damage melee attack during their spellcasting animation if you were standing above them. This has been removed.
[li]Text indicating the intended level range has been added to the descriptions of most gems that open quest portals.
[li]Additional text has been added to Gems of Enlightenment to reflect specialization costs.
[li]It is no longer possible to lock housing chests with a lockpick.
[li]Emotes have been removed from most collectors. No more failing to hand in that Wasp Wing because the collector is yawning!
[li]It was possible to use hooked items many times in a row, very rapidly. This could cause strange behavior from some hooked objects, so hooked items now have a delay similar to that found on NPCs. This change will also allow us to expand the sorts of things that hooked items can do in the future.
[li]Loot weapons that cannot be imbued now state as such explicitly when identified. This currently only applies to missile weapons that have had the magic-absorbing property applied.
[li]The Sclavus Cathedral that has been overrun by Burun is now known as the Burun Cathedral.
[li]The creatures in the Effigy Foundry have been rebalanced for characters from levels 20 to 30.
[li]A landscape generator right next to Aun Papileona has been removed.
[li]A room in the Orphanage has been tweaked to make combat in the room more challenging.
[li]The lower arm part of Nariyid sleeves now dye correctly.
[li]Living Hoeroas should now look better when hooked.
[li]The Glittering Necklace of Acid and Piercing Protection now looks better when hooked.
[li]Bloodletter, Soulrender, Fleshripper and Crystal-Tipped atlatl darts now have unique icons.
[li]Creature Enchantment Dispel scrolls and all Item Enchantment scrolls now have unique icons.
[li]The icons for some creature-cast fellowship spells now have a different icon to indicate that they affect multiple players.
[li]Spiketails were intended to be made unsellable with all other player-craftable items in June, but were missed. They are now properly unsellable.
[li]The Bronze Statues in towns now behave like signs and not like books. To read them, you only need to examine them instead of "using" them.
[li]We have fixed a bug that, in some very rare cases, could cause monsters to ignore your presence.
[li]Many creatures have had small tweaks for balance.
Minor Details
- The old Scalpel is now called "Virindi Scalpel" and the new one is "Sharpened Virindi Scalpel."
[li]A reference to missing chickens has been removed from the Fishing Hole.
[li]A duplicate rumor has been removed from the barkeep in Redspire.
[li]Typos in some Marae Lassel rumors have been corrected.
[li]Some portal drops that left you facing the wrong direction have been fixed.
[li]The Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk no longer refers to a Dread Mattekar Hide.
[li]The Sublime Elari Bow and Sharpened Virindi Scalpel are no longer sellable.
[li]A typo in Behdo Yii's text has been fixed.
[li]The Portal Space quest Buadren has had descriptive text added to help distinguish it from Living Weapons Buadren.
[li]A typo in the name of the Lytelthorpe Portal Gem has been fixed.
[li]A typo in the name of the Carenzi Stalker has been fixed.
[li]A black line in the icon for the sweet-smelling piece of bark has been removed.
[li]A typo in the message received when crafting a one-eyed Orb of the Homunculus has been fixed.
[li]Some of Gabrielle's text has been clarified.
[li]Descriptive text on the Renegade Meat, Distilled Mana and Refined Chorizite Chunk has been corrected.
