WHISPERS OF TYRANNY
The ever present threat of the Shissar looms large throughout Luclin and will soon spill over onto Norrath if they are not stopped. Unimaginable terrors, emboldened and reborn of shadow, now stalk the citadel of Vex Thal. Among these nightmares, bidding their Emperor's will, walks the previous High Priestess of Luclin, Aten Ha Ra. The whispers of tyranny are growing ever louder and it is time for Emperor Ssraeshza and his reign of shadows to come to an end!
Now is the time: Return to Shar Vahl where you'll find Head Scholar Nabihan awaiting your arrival. The Duality has sent her with an item of appropriate magnitude intended as an offering to the Feral Spirit. Will Sahteb Mahlni accept the offering, and provide the power needed? Will Aten Ha Ra's last breath of kaas protect your mortal flesh from being torn asunder in the Plane of Shadows? Can you contend with Emperor Ssraeshza and become wielders of shadowbane? Ready thyselves Adventurers, it's time to steel thy will. You'll need it.
Travel across Shadeweaver's Thicket to the citadel of Vex Thal, where you'll be presented with the following paths:
- Vex Thal: Den of Shadows [Solo], for those who like to go at it alone or in pairs...
- Vex Thal: Den of Shadows [Heroic I], for those who like it casual, but with more than just a few...
- Vex Thal: Den of Shadows [Heroic II], for those who like it a bit more rough and tumble...
- Vex Thal: Edge of Oscuris [Challenge], for those who've surpassed the rough and tumble confines of the Den of Shadows
- Vex Thal: Beyond the Veil [Raid] for those who have survived the Labyrinth of Solace.
OVERSEER SEASON 3
Kingdom of Sky – Your agents will face the perils of the Overrealm, a previously-unknown mystical territory, made up of islands floating high above the land. Battle strange new creatures, find powerful new objects and items, and a world filled with unseen wonders. Send your agents out to the Overrealm and to stop the creatures who intend to enslave and conquer Norrath, and earning new rewards along the way!
GENERAL
- Player run animation speed has been capped at normal player running speed allowing the animations to be played at their intended speed. This is a visual change and has no impact on the actual movement speed of the character.
- The local group reordering feature has been enabled again.
- Fast Travel - The following locations should now be present on the Fast Travel location map:
- Obol Plains
- Tranquil Sea
- Phantom Sea
- Thalumbra
- Zek, the Scourge Wastes
- Obulus Frontier
- City of Fordel Midst [Luclin]
- The Blinding [Luclin]
BUG / FEEDBACK
- The Bug and Feedback UIs have been divided into their own separate windows. Check out the forum post for visuals
USER INTERFACE
- The Welcome Window has been removed from the game.
- Journal: You can now filter your collections by name in the journal UI.
- Added an option to map a hotkey which will toggle lock/unlock of the hotkey action bars, Default binding: CTRL+h.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
- General
- Prime Stockmajor Grelishhin in Timorous Deep has been reminded the price for a Work Order Clipboard.
- City of Fordel Midst
- Verica Redbrand [Housing Merchant] in the city of Fordel Midst received a shipment of items Norrathian merchants were no longer interested in selling. She has added the following items to her store: a storage barrel, wooden cask, a rope bundle on a small hook, a feeding trough, a rope bundle on a large hook, a rein bundle on a large hook, a group of three candles, small redwood room divider, a small teak table, and small tynnonium brazier.
- Vex Thal: Labyrinth of Solace [Raid]
- The Heral encounter should no longer use immunity when within the wrong room and will use damage reduction instead.
- Health for the adds in the Heral encounter have been lowered.
- Sezjin the Betrayer should now more reliably drop stolen plans for weapons as well as give faction more freely.
- The Withered Lands
- a holgresh luminary - Name has been corrected.
- Savage Weald
- A new echo shard collection can now be found.
- Savage Weald: Shadow's Hold [Raid]
- Something is amiss out in the Weald. This all new raid can be accessed from a portal near the Smitetooth Camp in Savage Weald. It requires having someone in the raid that has completed the quest "A Bounty is in Order."
- City of Shar Vahl
- A new echo shard collection can now be found.
MERCENARIES
- Standardized the upkeep cost of all mercenaries:
- Level 10 > 200 copper
- Level 20 > 400 copper
- Level 30 > 1,000 copper
- Level 40 > 2,000 copper
- Level 50 > 2,500 copper
- Level 60 > 5,000 copper
- Level 70 > 10,000 copper
- Level 80 > 20,000 copper
- Level 90 > 50,000 copper
- Level 100 > 1,000,000 copper
- Level 110 > 1,500,000 copper
- Level 120 > 3,500,000 copper
MOUNTS
- Using the /rear command will now cause flying, gliding, and leaping mounts to do their rear/roar animation if available.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- G.L.E.E.S.H. Supporter - RoS prelude event achievement is now hidden, as the event is no longer active.
- An updated Flawless Trophy guildhall item has been introduced for defeating all Reign of Shadows raid bosses flawlessly.
ABILITIES
- General
- Profession Melee Attack's will now bypass block, deflection, parry, and riposte by NPC targets.
- Ready Up is now a single tier and requires three points to obtain.
- Ready up will now clear the reuse of most modifiable profession Abilities for all classes.
- Updated all damage abilities to allow damage override effects such as ascension self buffs to be allowed by default.
- Heroic Opportunity starter chains may be cancelled with the slash command, /cancel_ho_starter.
- Beastlord
- Warder AI has been re-written to be more efficient and cast abilities more reliably when they are available.
- Updated warder AA's to grant effectiveness increases.
- Berserker
- Corrected a bug that caused Blood Rage to use caster's current level for heal calculations instead of the spell level.
- Brawler
- Increased the base damage of Devastation Fist by 145%
- Brigand
- Increased the base instant damage of Backstab by 563%
- Increased the base over time damage of Backstab by 186%
- Increased the base damage of Battery and Assault by 319%
- Increased the base damage of Bum Rush by 216%
- Increased the base combat mitigation reduction of Dispatch by 43%
- Increased the base damage of Double Blast by 371%
- Increased the base combat mitigation reduction of Entangle by 50%
- Increased the base damage of Forced Arbitration by 37%
- Increased the base damage of Gut Rip by 60%
- Increased the base combat mitigation reduction of Mug by 30%
- Increased the base damage of Murderous Rake by 186%
- Increased the base combat mitigation reduction of Murderous Rake by 11%
- Increased the base damage of Rob by 511%
- Increased the base instant damage of Shank by 306%
- Increased the base over time damage of Shank by 277%
- Bruiser
- Bodyguard of Stone will increase base auto-attack of the target.
- Increased the base damage of Wild Beating by 58%
- Increased the base instant damage of Blaze Kick by 561%
- Increased the base over time damage of Blaze Kick by 267%
- Increased the base damage of Eye Gouge by 467%
- Increased the base damage of Hadooken by 37%
- Increased the base damage of Merciless Stomp by 471%
- Increased the base damage of Meteor Fist by 375%
- Increased the base damage of One Hundred Hand Punch by 495%
- Increased the base damage of Pummel by 595%
- Increased the base damage of Roundhouse by 459%
- Increased the base damage of Shoulder Charge by 604%
- Increased the base damage of Sucker Punch by 283%
- Increased the base damage of Uppercut by 512%
- Channeler
- Piercing Arrows now has a chance to trigger an incrementing raid buff that grants potency, crit bonus overcap, fervor overcap, and weapon damage overcap buff to the channeler's raid on hostile conduit cast.
- Focus of Restoration now has a chance to trigger raid wide heal on beneficial conduit cast.
- Shield of Blackwood's dodge component will now apply to the Channeler's group.
- Aura of Crippling will now decrease the combat mitigation of the target encounter.
- Corrected a bug with Interfering Noise that prevented it from applying to the entire enemy encounter.
- Interfering Noise will now decrease the combat mitigation of the target encounter.
- Weapon Dissonance is no longer a toggled ability and thus may be applied to multiple targets.
- Weapon Dissonance will now decrease the combat mitigation of the target encounter.
- Increased the base damage of Precise Volley by 37%
- Shadow Escape will apply a group weapon damage and crit bonus buff when cast.
- Marisha Kur's Blessing will increase the groups flurry and flurry multiplier.
- Increased the base combat mitigation reduction of Shadow Bind by 67%
- Increased the base damage of Distracting Shot by 9%
- Increased the base damage of Poison Bolt by 72%
- Increased the base damage of Mist of Poison by 113%
- Rebalanced Channeled Cleansing as a tierless dispel.
- Cleric
- Group Reactive Heals no longer share triggers between the group members.
- Decreased the base group reactive trigger amount to 3 per group member.
- Reactive heals will no longer trigger if the target is not below 99% current max health and would not be reduced below 99% max HP on the attack.
- Coercer
- Peaceful Link will no longer stack with multiple casters.
- Manashield will no longer stack with multiple casters.
- Conjuror
- Corrected an issue that prevented Najena's Essence Summoning from replenishing power for anyone but the caster.
- Corrected an issue that prevented Miragul's Dark Heart Summoning from replenishing power for anyone but the caster.
- Necromancer
- Corrected a bug that prevented Shadowstep from applying to the pet.
- Corrected an issue with blighted horde and awaken grave that caused them to apply damage amounts from multiple level ranges instead of their specific pet level range.
- Paladin
- Increased the base healing of Arch Heal by 27%
- Heretic's Destruction will grant Fervor and Fervor Overcap to the raid instead of Potency and Crit Bonus.
- Increased the base damage of Ancient Wrath by 612%
- Increased the base damage of Glorious Strike by 47%
- Increased the base damage of Decree by 234%
- Increased the base ward of Demonstration of Faith by 26%
- Increased the base damage of Divine Strike by 31%
- Increased the base damage of Divine Vengeance by 359%
- Increased the base healing of Holy Aid by 70%
- Increased the base instant damage of Holy Strike by 305%
- Increased the base over time damage of Holy Strike by 152%
- Increased the base damage of Judgment by 369%
- Increased the base damage of Power Cleave by 804%
- Increased the base healing of Prayer of Healing by 69%
- Increased the base damage of Reparations by 46%
- Increased the base damage of Refusal of Atonement by 181%.
- Predator
- Increased the base base auto attack multiplier of Vicious Stabbing by 248%
- Ranger
- Enhance: Makeshift Arrows Makeshift Arrows will apply to the group at rank 5
- Increased the base damage of Hook Arrow by 39%
- Enhance: Honed Reflexes Honed Reflexes will apply to the group at rank 5
- Extension will increase base auto-attack bonus of the target.
- Increased the base flurry bonus of Double Arrow by 146%
- Cat-Like Reflexes is now a group buff.
- Increased the base damage of Arrow Barrage by 45%
- Corrected a bug that allowed Opening Volley to apply between 70% and 79% of the targets health.
- Increased the Effectiveness modifier of Opening Volley to 7 per tier.
- Increased the base damage of Crippling Arrow by 388%
- Increased the base damage of Hidden Shot by 174%
- Increased the base damage of Hidden Assault by 122%.
- Increased the base damage of Miracle Shot by 342%
- Increased the base damage of Rear Shot by 460%
- Increased the base damage of Searing Shot by 428%
- Increased the base damage of Shadebringer by 38%
- Increased the base damage of Sniper Shot by 145%
- Increased the base damage of Stream of Arrows by 28%
- Increased the base damage of Trick Shot by 429%
- Increased the base damage of Triple Shot by 243%
- Rogue
- Increased the base base auto attack multiplier of Opportunistic Cover by 244%
- Increased the base Crit Bonus of Blackguard's Luck by 100%
- Increased the base Crit Bonus Overcap of Blackguard's Luck by 80%
- Increased the base Weapon Damage of Remarkable Mobility by 110%
- Increased the base damage of Pirate Stab by 63%.
- Increased the base fervor of Coordination by 200%
- Increased the base Weapon Damage of Ruthless Cunning by 42%
- Ruthless Cunning will grant Weapon Damage Overcap.
- Increased the base Weapon Damage granted by Ruthless Cunning to a base of 27.5
- Lie Low will grant Crit Bonus overcap while active
- Increased the base Crit Bonus granted by Lie Low to a base of 93.7
- Swashbuckler
- Increased the base base auto attack multiplier of Reach by 130%
- Increased the base damage of Arctic Blast by 540%
- Increased the base Fervor of Cocky Maneuver by 100%
- Increased the base Weapon Damage of Cocky Maneuver by 100%
- Increased the base damage of Dashing Swathe by 247%
- Increased the base damage of Counterattack by 85%
- Increased the base damage of Flourishing Strike by 150%
- Increased the base damage of Flurry of Blades by 450%
- Increased the base damage of Lucky Gambit by 364%
- Increased the base damage of Razor Edge by 447%
- Increased the base damage of Shanghai by 278%
- Increased the base damage of Snap of the Wrist by 307%
- Increased the base damage of Storm of Steel by 278%
- Increased the base damage of Shanghai by 191.%
- Increases the base combat mitigation reduction of Evade Blame by 50%
- Increased the base Fervor granted by Marauder's Vaunt by 148%
ITEMS
- Polished Stone Fishing Dagger collection item, "Buffed Acrylia Sphere" has been renamed from "Polished Acrylia Sphere" to reduce confusion with another collection item by the same name.
- small impure globe of steam - Item name corrected.
- large impure globe of steam - Item name corrected.
- Peach Stucco Block set has been readjusted to return its solid peach in color and clean appearance.
- The casting time of All-Out Brawl, on the Ring of Ages, is now 2 seconds.
- Michaelya has new gear available for adventurers.
- Blidgero is now offering powerful items in exchange for Coins of the Cabal.
- Leveled items such as spirit stones or items with planar levels will now inherit the Heirloom tag instead of the No-Trade tag once they have gained experience.
- Phantastic weapons have gained a new effect that will grant extra stats for completing Whispers of Tyranny content.
QUESTS
- Head Scholar Nabihan can be found in Shar Vahl looking for level 120 adventurers, on accounts that have already completed "Reign of Shadows: Against Thal Odds." She carries with her an integral item from the Duality in the battle against Emperor Ssraeshza!
- New daily missions are now available for the new solo and heroic instances of Vex Thal, either from the mission givers in the House of Fordel within the City of Fordel Midst, or upon entry into the respective dungeon.
- A new weekly outdoor mission, targeting named heroic encounters, can be obtained from Nevid Piecrust <Weekly Missions> in the House of Fordel within the City of Fordel.
- The Everlasting Quill of Ashe Boderra - Fressia Ticklewing should not fall to the forest floor below the city from now on.
- Unlikely Allies - Oomitelmora's Disintegration Vials are now removed from inventory as the quest progressed, as intended.
- The Inhabitants of Cloudmist Isle - Freeing wind essence locations on Isle of Eaglewatch, can no longer be interacted with, as intended. The quest update happens automatically with the correct items in your inventory.
- Not Really Deep or Murky, Actually - Cursor now changes to indicate the mound of silt can be interacted with.
- Encompassing Goal - Raffik should no longer spawn within the rock he is standing on.
- The plan of Growf - Grammar fixed in popup warning message.
- Head Scholar Nabihan can be found in Shar Vahl looking for level 120 adventurers, on accounts that have already completed "Reign of Shadows: Against Thal Odds." She carries with her an integral item from the Duality in the battle against Emperor Ssraeshza!
- High Tide - High Shaman Lien's dialogue now makes it clear the player will have to find their own way to Cobalt Scar if they do not accept her offer to teleport them at that time.
- The Trials of the Truthbringer - Players who have failed the Test of Courage or the Test of Valor will now be properly informed by The Aspect of Courage and The Aspect of Valor that they must leave the Chamber of the Truthbringer, if the zone has not yet been reset since their failed attempt.
- The Trials of the Truthbringer - Emblem of the Truthbringer is now usable from the quest helper window
- Moon Platoon II: The Return [Raid] now rewards Coins of the Cabal.