2016 Patch Notes

Archived patch notes from 2016.

Patch Notes October 7, 2016

• Mobs should respect water boundaries when agroing
• You should no longer get a binding message once you've bound a BOE item
• /cm refresh is back. It's primary purpose is to help correct odd issues like people not being invisible, spell gems being dead or your group being broken. As before, it can only be used every 15 minutes
• People should no longer be booted from groups when going LD, etc., which hopefully helps with group/raid problems
• You shouldn't be able to throw range/ammo items that don't have a range on them or the appropriate skill
• /cm stats shows endurance for melee classes other than warriors
• /cm stats shows your worn attack (since sometimes the client's displayed attack isn't correct)

- The SoD Team

Small Patch - 03/24/2016

Just a quick patch to add some content, fix chest-slot proc rates, and re-open Windstone (sorry!).

2.5 Progress Report - 03/14/2016

Here are the major bugs we have worked on in the past month:

• Groups
• Item proc rates
• Chat filters
• Faction problems
• Script conversion errors
• Poorly migrated DB tables (this is things like missing loot and HHK tmap site not functioning).
• We found a solution for helms not showing up.
• Other things (the list of minor bugs is about a billion things).
• Oh Haenir figured out how to get into a zone that had been inaccessible on 2.5 since it launched.

Here is what our content plans are:

• Marza is working on the second half of Thazeran's Tower (it's good trust me I have seen the loot).
• Marza may have finalized Eniva encounter (since it's officially beaten now).
• I am working on a sequel to one of my zones (higher tier 6-man).
• I am working on my major puzzle zone (only recently accessible in 2.5).
• I am outlining a rough sketch for a follow up to an old exp zone.
• I am working on a few more things, too. As usual the pile of unfinished Slaariel projects is immense.

Here is something that is important:

• I need an ITEM DEVELOPER to make items for all my zones. If you have an encyclopedic knowledge of Game Content and are willing to use that force for good please tell me about it (you can send me a pm on the forums that goes to my e-mail somehow).
• We are very close to having the tools for our content development stack functioning. At that time, I'll be looking for another content dev as well. Seriously though I really need an item developer, please apply if you have time and knowledge to spare for me.
• The plan to do a server advertising blitz has been delayed by these bugs (mostly groups / raids) but every week we make some progress toward this milestone. I've been assured that Woldaff has created a truly legendary advertising e-mail that is just sitting there ready to deploy when this bug is finally squashed.

Thank you for your patience as we continue down this immeasurably long road to 2.5 stability.

Patch Notes - 03/07/2016

• Disarm works again
• The SB Buffbots in Surefall and Sadri should also work
• I fixed something else but cannot remmeber what it was
• Oh wait that's right pets can equip weapons, etc. again

Patch Notes - 02/28/2016

Hello!

• Monk unarmed damage is fixed world-wide now.
• If you have previously been running into errors with your House ("Maybe the owner changed the locks?") that should be cleared up, too.

Enjoy your stay!

Patch Notes - 01/31/2016

• YAGF (yet another group fix)
• Made a change which hopefully reduces or eliminates tome exp vanishing bug. We can't reproduce this on test, so we are taking some shots in the dark here. Please report any changes.
• Newport Sewers signs should be correct now

Patch Notes - 01/28/2016

• Fixed items bought with alt currencies being duped
• Big fix to one of the quest engines, should hopefully fix a number of broken NPCs, quests and events

Patch Notes - 01/25/2016

• More group/raid fixes, hoping things persist on zone now. Still have a bit to go probably, but we should be getting close
• Tomes in progress should now show when you have no tomes completed
• Fixed an issue that could result in codex exp loss for no discernable reason
• Fixed a spell that affected green mob resists
• Knockback should work again
• Players should automatically max sense heading
• World tradeskill container icons should look correct now
• Lifeward forge items should now behave correctly (as well as anything else requiring RSM forge)
• Loading message for Windstone should be correct
• Corrected some missing spawns
• Factions in Windstone should be fixed

Patch Notes - 01/16/2016

• Should be able to add more than one person to a group
• Disbands should notify the disbander now
• A few BL fixes

Patch Notes - 01/06/2016

• Non-tradeskill combines should work again
• Raid groups should be better, though still a work in progress
• Fixed a zone crash problem

Patch Notes - 01/05/2016

First patch of the new year! It's a doozy, and the possibility of regression bugs is somewhat high on this one, so please report major breaks right away if you would.

• Elevators should work again
• Groups *hopefully* are better, but it is very hard to tell outside of actual game conditions. Please report whether it helped, made it worse, etc.
• Guild rank 0 should be able to reassign leadership
• Fixed a paladin problem with connecting/going LD
• Dev blows should no longer hit for 59,000 damage
• Re-added monk permanent /s 6
• Other internal fixes