Neverworks Gaming Blog

General

• The game will now pause all game activity when you die in hardcore mode to help “capture the moment”.
• Improved a problem with server-side lag booting players from the game.

General

• Fixed selling items and the Banker’s Trinket functionality. It currently doesn’t update the server.
• Upgrading magical damage on items now works correctly.

Bards

• Increased default Bard song cast time to 2 seconds up from 1 second. Sorry Bards.

• Fixed Bard’s L20 Chant of Battle tooltip. Also ensured magic damage only applies while the song is actually playing.
• Changed Ranger’s Warder’s Rift talent to reduce mitigation of your own attacks.
• Bard AE damage songs now re-apply an icon with each tick.
• Fixed Ranger’s Snare talent tooltip. It does not apply enhanced damage. It only empowers your auto attacks.
• Bards can now run from their charmed pets after fighting a boss.
• Bleed effects no longer stack, but they hit slightly harder.
• You can no longer dual wield with a shield/spellcaster off-hand item. Happy days are over.
• Bard’s Chords of Dissonance and Desperate Dirge are now indicated as BUFFS. This will make it easier to determine when the song is playing.
• Added all kinds of stuff that will probably break server accounts tomorrow.
• Added the item icon to the item tooltip window.

• Auto attacks will now queue up while casting spells, stunned, feared, etc.
• Rounded displayed value on Rinara’s Glow tooltip.
• Fixed Enchanter’s talented Cajoling Whispers disappearing icon (it never expires).
• Bards’ Boastful Bellow now adds a DoT icon.
• Improved load times while zoning…
• Load screen messages will stay on the screen for at least 4 seconds regardless of how quickly you load.
• Fixed Ranger’s Warder’s Rift L20 talent. It now triggers a stackable regen when you parry.

• Changed Wizard’s Charged Bolt, Magician’s Firestorm, and Druid’s passive skill Thunder Storm (from talented Volcano) to select random living targets. This makes these skills much more powerful than the old targeting system since some would simply hit nobody. This makes it very powerful against one target. The old targeting system that sometimes hit nothing made all of those skills unsatisfying.
• Paladin’s L20 Vengeance bonus now unlocks from Vengeance properly. Rebuke was incorrectly unlocking it before.
• Changed the name of Symbol of Ryltan and Naltron. Just way too EverQuest.
• Paladin’s L20 Slam bonus was changed to +50 Fear Resistance from +25 Defense.
• Paladin’s L20 Thunderbolt from Rebuke now hits 5 random targets, up from a 3-cone pattern.
• Paladin’s L20 Vengeance now fires a hail of divine Holy Bolts at random targets.
• Ranger’s Thistlecoat talented health bonuses now updates the health bar correctly.
• Fixed the 2nd hit on a L20 Shockwave.
• Changed Warrior Slam’s L20 from “snaring all targets” to unleashing a non-stun shockwave on all targets.

• Wizard’s Charged Bolts now target random mobs correctly.
• Fixed mana leech.
• Druid’s Earthquake is more powerful now since it selects random living targets instead of purely random slots.
• Adjusted Volcano to hit twice as many times over 7 seconds. It deserved more power for such a long cooldown.
• Lowered Volcano’s cooldown to 60 seconds and 30 seconds with 20 talent points.
• Adjusted Volcano’s animation a bit.
• Druid’s Earthquake, Volcano, and Hurricane are all considered damage over time spells now. This means that Iron Maiden no longer affects them.
• Status reduction can now go below 0% on nightmare and hell difficulty. This means that on hell you can actually have -50% fear duration, increasing the duration of fear by 50%. This makes it very important to have some status duration gear since status effect duration can be increased significantly (a bad thing).
• Screen resize now maintains the original aspect ratio.