2/10/2015 Update Notes

Update Notes

Character

Items

Fixed an issue that caused the player’s helm to show at the incorrect time after purchasing character customization changes.
Items with faction-specific imbuement quests now have the appropriate faction requirements to be worn. NOTE - if you are already wearing an item with an imbuement of the opposite faction, it will no longer provide any benefit to your character.

Classes

Spellslinger

Abilities
- Astral Infusion : T1-7 Surged now properly applies the HoT to allies
- Charged Shot : Surged T8 no longer triggers an additional GCD.
- Healing Torrent : T8 now properly triggers on allies affected by Affinity.

Stalker

Abilities
- Nano Skin, Evasive : Reduces Damage Taken by 17%, increased from 10%.

Warrior

Abilities
- Relentless Strikes : Relentless Strikes T4 was adding more damage than intended to Tremor. This has been reduced.

Content

OMNICore-1

Fixed several instances of missing text throughout the Journey to OMNICore-1 mission.

Whitevale

Mercenary Runok, as a quest NPC, can no longer be mercilessly slaughtered by the Dominion.
The Grand Poohbot will no longer take damage from mines when casting spell, Deploy the Mines.

Dungeons & Raids

Dungeons

Fixed a rare issue where players received a lower medal reward than their points earned would indicate.
Skullcano
- Fixed an issue that was causing Chief Kaskalak’s Molten Escort event to reset when a Stalker went into Stealth.
Ultimate Protogames
- When a room is complete, the points earned in that room now appear in the Room point section for 5 seconds before being added to the total.
- The timer for the optional objective « Going Green » in the Waste Management Facility has been increased by 30 seconds to allow players a better chance to complete the objective.
- Bev-O-Rage : Drinks and Coins should no longer, occasionally, fly over the wall.

Raids

Renown can no longer be gained while in a raid group unless the group is in a raid zone.

Datascape

Avatus
- Support Cannons are now 20% larger targets.
- Fragmented Data Chunks no longer cast Crushing Blow, have had their health reduced by 88%, and will cast Strikethrough less often.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the Excessive Force Protocol to summon an additional wave of clones before becoming active.
- Fixed an issue that was causing Core Essence Fragments to spawn when they shouldn’t.
- Support Cannons will now appear every 23s, instead of every 20s.
Elemental Pairs
- Visceralus’ Brambles will no longer spawn from pets.
Hydroflux and Aileron
- The encounter challenge “Whiteout” has been changed to « Defeat Hydroflux and Aileron before they finish summoning the third Glacial Icestorm ».
Megalith and Mnemesis
- Fixed an edge case where the Overcharged buff would fail to apply or be removed correctly.
Visceralus
- Life Force now deals ~25% less damage to the raid.
Visceralus and Aileron
- Players should now take minimal falling damage when landing after breaking an Annihilation Orb.
Maelstrom Authority
- Previous applications of Wind Walls will now despawn the next time the spell is cast.
- Reduced the target count for Typhoon and Static Bombshell to 5.
- Wind Walls will now take 6 seconds to cast.
- Weather Stations now have greatly reduced armor and resists.
- Reduced the size of the safe zone for Static Fallout.
System Daemons
- It is no longer possible for the Engineer Bruiser Bot to eat all of the Power Surges.
- The Generator Rooms have been condensed into a single room to provide more flexibility in learning the encounter. The Firewall Power penalty incurred when enemies reach the Generators has been doubled to compensate.

Genetic Archives

Phageborn Convergence
- Killing the caster of the middle phase event no longer prevents the middle phase from occurring again.

Protogames Academy

Players will no longer receive the Deserter penalty for completing Protogames Academy through the Group Finder.

PvP

Battlegrounds

Daggerstone Pass

It’s no longer possible to remain in the spawn point for the duration of the game.

Warplots

The Warplot Battle floating action bar will now always be visible to the last player that joins the team.

Various

Paths

Soldier

Fixed a bug where a Soldier using ‘Bail Out!’ might appear to lose their weapon.

Housing

Fixed an error where selecting the « Hide Ground Clutter » option on the Housing Remodel pane would appear to cancel any other selected remodel options.

Guilds

Forced rename of guilds will no longer pop back up on the screen right after performing a rename.

Economy

Auction House/Commodity Exchange

The buy/sell price of items on the commodities exchange is now a better estimation of the final cost/value of the items.

Tradeskills

Added method for players who acquired bad Genetic Archives recipes for Armorer and Tailor to acquire the good ones for cheap.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause schematics to be unlearned when swapping tradeskills.

Technologist

Technologist-crafted PvP consumables should no longer be refundable for Prestige.

Weaponsmith

The Weaponsmithing schematic, « ‘Adventus’ AS-2 CM Tanking Assist Basic », has been adjusted to properly require 14 Eldan Data Fragments for creation.