Camelot Patch Notes

Straight from the Camelot Herald:

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Dark Age of Camelot

Test Version 1.70z Release Notes

June 8, 2004

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TEST SERVER CHANGES

– All relics have been reset to their home relic temples for testing.

– We have set the /level command to 29 to facilitate testing in Braemar, the level 25-29 Battleground.

NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES

– (Pendragon Only) Sure Shot and Longshot effect icons are properly cleared when activating another archery ability.

– When an offensive proc buff expires, it no longer clears shapechanges.

– You can no longer cast a fatigue heal on yourself if you have over 90% fatigue.

NEW FRONTIERS

– All characters have been stripped of their realm abilities and their points refunded upon login.

– Players or pets targeting player enemies (or player pets) should now follow line of sight rules which Player to Player combat currently follows.

– Players who log out in upgraded keeps and log back in after they have been downgraded will no longer appear in the air or at an invalid location.

– If a player dies on an upgraded keep and leaves the region and then the keep is downgraded, their tombstone will now be lowered to the new height when they re-enter the region.

– When repairing a door or other object which comes under attack, the timer dialog should now disappear when your repair is cancelled.

– Neutral items, such as boats and siege, will no longer report that they are from an enemy realm when targetted on the PvE server.

New Frontiers Respecs

– As part of New Frontiers, we are providing players with the ability to obtain a full realm ability respec at a very low cost (10 silver). We introduce this system for testing on Pendragon today. Players wishing to respec their realm abilities can visit the merchants set up specifically for this purpose and purchase special respec stones – Sophist’s Realmstone. **These special stones will only be available for one week on the live servers, then they will disappear.** During the time these new stones are available, the Respec NPCs will temporarily not accept the old realm stones. Once the merchants are gone, the Respec NPCs will once again accept the old stones. These are the merchants that will be selling the new, temporary respec stones:

Albion – Brandonne Chauncy in Camelot
Midgard – Frumdall Helmer in Jordheim
Hibernia – Gwinna Galbrath in Tir na Nog

– Please note that in order to use these stones, you must turn them in to the appropriate Respec NPC and then type ‘/respec realm’ in front of your class trainer. The NPCs that accept these respec stones are listed below.

Albion – Paiton Hazlett in Camelot
Midgard – Haili in Jordheim
Hibernia – Bretta in Tir na Nog

Realm Ability Changes and Fixes

– The Toughness realm ability now correctly adds hit points to the Necromancer pet when summoning.

– Mastery of Concentration now correctly prevents the Necromancer’s pet from being interrupted when the shade has Mastery of Concentration up.

– Mastery of Concentration debuffs necromancer pet spell effectiveness if active.

– The Cleric’s unique realm ability, Retribution of the Faithful, now stacks with the Trial By Fire spell line.

– Realm abilities (such as Avoidance of Magic) no longer reduce the duration of crowd control spells (snare, stun, and mesmerize).

– The following realm abilities have been limited to characters that are level 40 and above. If the character is below level 40, the realm ability will not be shown in the class trainer’s list.

Vehement Renewal
Ameliorating Melodies
Anger of the Gods
Wrath of Champions
Volcanic Pillar
Decimation Trap
Negative Maelstrom
Thornweed Field
Ichor of the Deep
Juggernaut
Toughness
Mastery of Focus
Divine Intervention

– You can no longer begin a ranged attack while Disarmed.

– The delve for the Assassinate realm ability now word wraps correctly.

Siege Changes

– Ram helpers can now exit a ram by clicking on the release button.

– Switching a catapult from special ammo back to default ammo should properly update the image of the ammo in the catapult.

– Targets hit by duration effects from siege equipment (such as the vial of noxious vapors) should no longer receive an odd description with “espec” at the end.

– Siege weapons created in Battleground zones will now automatically have their levels scaled down appropriately to make them attackable to players of that zone.

– The hitpoints on the cauldron of boiling oil have been reduced.

– Siegecraft – The weights of the diminutive ballista apparatus, gimbal, torsion cables, spring arms, and ballista trigger have been reduced.

CLASSIC CAMELOT WORLD NOTES

Respecs

– All classes in all realms now have access to the free full respec at level 5. Once you have been granted the respec by your trainer, please type /respec for information on how to use it.

Item Notes

– The Gloves of the Malignant and the Boots of the Malignant in Midgard are now set to the correct material.

TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES

New Artifacts

– (Pendragon Only) The researchers, apprentices, and Callia the sphinx will now really give out the information about the new artifacts. Information about the encounters can be heard from Callia as well as Scholar Ashton (Albion), Loremistress Brigha (Midgard), and Sage Lora (Hibernia). Information about the scrolls can be found on the following apprentices: Aegan (Albion), Yian (Midgard), and Garrad (Hibernia).

Item Notes

– The correct spells are now attached to the Astral Cloak of Heroes and the Astral Cloak of Whispers.