Code: solar * zone crash fix - bard AE song could affect connecting clients that didn't load yet, we ignore these now until they're fully in world * Made AA titles visible to other players. * Resummon wizard familiar pet if you have the buff when entering zone * Change Balance of Zebuxoruk debuff to subtract 75% from heals instead of adding 25% * NPCs killed by Disintegrate spells should respawn normally now * load invis status from buffs earlier so invis players spawn as invis when entering zone * when force eating food from an inventory slot, check that the item about to be eaten is actually food before deleting it. this should prevent accidentally eating backpacks when trying to eat foraged vegetables. * break invis properly when casting an AA ability and adjust how instant spells are cast so that innate camo works the way it should * removed the chance of regaining concentration for players without the channeling skill (pure melee classes) * disable critical heals on percental heal spells (Tunare's Request, Kragg's Mending, Karana's Renewal) * fixed reverse damage shield effect not applying * change Veil of Elements to be a fixed duration invis spell * tweak casting and wear off messages for melee disciplines * prevent Stoicism, Torpor from stacking with movement speed increasing bard songs to avoid client buff desync * enforce zone location type 2 (dungeon) restriction in spells. the list of dungeons is probably incomplete and needs some research. acrylia, akheva, befallen, blackburrow, cazicthule, charasis, chardok, citymist, codecay, crushbone, crystal, dalnir, droga, frozenshadow, fungusgrove, griegsend, gukbottom, guktop, hateplane, hole, kaesora, karnor, kedge, kurn, mistmoore, najena, necropolis, nurga, paw, permafrost, potorment, powater, runnyeye, sebilis, sirens, sleeper, soldunga, soldungb, ssratemple, templeveeshan, thedeep, thurgadinb, unrest, veeshan, veksar, velketor, vexthal, warrens Haynar * Improved pathing from open spaces to area with path nodes. * NPCs which summon players, will no longer use their z location as the player destination. Players will be summoned to the ground at NPCs location. * Charm on players should work again. Torven * Experience gained from kills of NPCs near your level was increased significantly for players level 51+. * Charmed pets now have a melee range hate bonus again. * Archery will no longer function on an NPC target while standing outside of its ignore range. Database: Robregen * Umbral Plains: Gantru Draklnr should now drop a bracer everytime. * Umbral Plains: Gantru Draklnr should now roam instead of being static. * SSRATemple: a warrior type "a Shissar acolyte" should no longer cast wizard spells. * Items: Porous Mineral Block is made to not be stackable. * Sanctus Seru: warrior type "A Signiferi of the Hand" should no longer cast spells. * The Deep: Corpse summoning should now work at zone lines (Echo and ssratemple) * Shadeweaver Thickets: Loda'Kai Soldiers at the building should no longer spawn under the building. * SsraTemple: Taskmaster Keuzozh should now be slowable. * Grieg's End: Grieg Veneficus should now drop Glowing Orb of Luclinite. * The Grey: Boulder should no longer summon * Grien's End: Adjust spawntimer for Praetorian Myral * ssratemple: Increase the spawn chance for Ssraeshzian Insignia Names. * ssratemple: Increase the spawn chance for the Commanders. * Umbral: Added missing raldukan armor loots to a gantru raldukan Torven * Minor changes to various common Luclin NPC stats. (dmg adjusted, enrage added/removed, etc) * NPC ignore range reduced slightly (~12%) from what AK's probable values were in The Deep and Fungus Grove to better simulate the loss of mobs on pulls. * Avatar removed from NPC spell sets. * ssratemple: Luclinite added to Xerkizh The Creator. * ssratemple: Vyzh`dra the Cursed no longer equips inventory. * ssratemple: Arch Lich no longer equips shields. * thedeep: elder thought horrors now see invis 100% of the time * thedeep: elder thought horror aggro radius increased from 75 to 100. * thedeep: elder thought horrors in THO's chamber now respawn in 1 hour. * sseru: Seru building NPCs will now assist, buff and heal each other. * fungusgrove: Fungusbeast NPC contact proc rate increased. * acrylia: Burrower husk drop rates fixed. * griegsend: A Vereor Tesserarius is now aggressive. * akheva: Missing contact proc added to Tavuel Tatrua. Script: Torven * Fungus Grove caller quest NPCs no longer depop in combat and now corpse camp. * Fungus Grove caller quest nameds now depop 1 minute later than the common NPCs. * Fungus Grove caller quest named spawn chance reduced slightly. * Grimling Forest 'miner bug' script implemented. A limit of 30 is in place. Robregen * Sanctus Seru: LIS should now have his hatelist wiped and fully healed when he leash back to his spawnpoint. * The Deep: Depop all the summoned burrowers properly and reset the cycle when Restless is killed. Misc Haynar * Added pathing to caves and around entrance in Umbral Plains. * Added pathing in Maiden's Eye. Mobs should path into zone in/out areas better. * Improved pathing in Akheva Ruins. Mobs should path around corners and up/down steps better. * Improved pathing in Ssra Temple. Mobs should go up and down ramps and corners better.
What an excellent patch! The changelogs had gotten so short at the end of Velious. *pulls up a chair*
Torven * Experience gained from kills of NPCs near your level was increased significantly for players level 51+. I’m curious to what is determined to be “near your level”. For the vast majority who are 60, most EXP camps are 55 and lower mobs. Zones like Sebilis, Velketor, the Deep, Ssra, etc. Only a handful of camps have 58-60 trash mobs (FG Shard, Seru Praesertum guards, Ssra Insignia PHers, Seb Juggernauts). This may just be how the game was designed though! Excellent patch all around.
he wrote it up in the dev patch notes recently: https://www.takproject.net/forums/index.php?threads/8-6-2018.12214/#post-68628
Yea I saw that but I still wasn’t clear. White cons grant that bonus. But I would imagine blue cons just shy of being white cons get some lesser bonus scaling down to some point? IE Level 59s give 200%, 58s give 160%, etc. Or is there a hard break. A level 60 mob will give a level 60 player a 230% increase in EXP compared to last patch. But a level 59 mob will give the exact same? Also I’m curious how it works in grouped scenarios, where basically all of these will be. Does a level 53 in a group killing red con 56s get that 150%ish increase if they are grouped with a 60?
I already don't like the long string of bugs that grant this server massive experience bonuses, so I'm not going to add a non-AK bonus to it. Long story short is PoP zones didn't just grant lots of exp because of their ZEMs. Shortly before PoP, Sony changed the experience algorithm to award more experience to higher level kills. I did an audit of our exp code and found it to be incomplete. I thought Cavedude had this done with packet data, but I was wrong. Zamiel's experience thread included examples of exp per kill at various levels and group sizes, so it's obvious when the exp/kill is off. I also checked my logs to see how many kills were required for an AA from caller quest NPCs, and my log required more kills, so it's possible we may be awarding more exp per kill (at least for AAs) from low blues, but I can't figure out why yet. This stuff is hard to figure out and may never be certain. Relevant Sony patch notes: Code: [ Only registered users can see the bbcode. Click Here To Register... ]
Since I can’t edit, I will add, I suppose it isn’t completely necessary players have a full understanding of the inner workings of our EXP code. It’s out of curiousity I ask these questions. But I understand if the Devs don’t feel like they should receive answers.
As of today, experience bonus scaling for a level 60 looks like this: Code: [ Only registered users can see the bbcode. Click Here To Register... ] This is not precise and will likely be adjusted later.
Very neat! Thanks Torven, hopefully this makes Ssra EXP a bit more tolerable and AE EXP a little less attractive.
Exactly. I like this change a lot. Vaporizing froglok dar knights with my Fangs of Vyzh'dra (#humblebragon) shouldn't be the best XP pathway.
Clicky items sound effects are all busted atm, if this is intentional? Can't remember Jboots / Shrunken Goblin Skull earring / 10th ring etc is supposed to make these sounds. Maybe different on AK then live?
There should be sounds and particle effects from clickies like JBoots. Busted sounds bad - can you explain what you mean?
Sound effects are incorrect on all the clicky items. Also they all create a spell text now. Didnt do this before.
Basicly before patch if I casted 10th Ring: [Mon Aug 06 19:34:36 2018] You feel the blessing of ancient Coldain heroes. Today after patch: [Wed Aug 08 18:09:12 2018] You begin casting Frostreaver's Blessing. [Wed Aug 08 18:09:12 2018] Your Ring of Dain Frostreaver IV begins to glow. [Wed Aug 08 18:09:12 2018] You feel the blessing of ancient Coldain heroes.
I think its the first one, anyways after more testing, I can say that the sound effects that is different seems to be that you get 2 sound effects going off at the same time. You have the classic "casting a spell sound" + the item itself's sound.
[Sun Aug 11 15:15:54 2013] You begin casting Illusion: Dark Elf. [Sun Aug 11 15:15:54 2013] Your Guise of the Deceiver begins to glow. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:00 2013] Returning to your own perspective. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:00 2013] You feel different. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:03 2013] You feel the blessing of ancient Coldain heroes. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:07 2013] You begin casting Icicle Aura. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:07 2013] Your Cloak of Icy Shadows begins to glow. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:08 2013] You are surrounded by icicles [Sun Aug 11 15:16:11 2013] You begin casting Call of Fire. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:11 2013] Your Gloves of the Crimson Sigil begins to glow. [Sun Aug 11 15:16:12 2013] The Call of Fire fills your weapons with power.
So Begin casting for any non-instant clicky is correct. Instant clickies seem to skip that phase in the messaging though.
