BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
World Polish
- Plains of Ashford
- The Battle for Ascalon City meta-event’s cycle time has been reduced to cycle every 20 – 30 minutes.
General
- Added an option to the Options panel to move the Compact option found in the Inventory panel to the bottom of the drop-down menu.
- Changed some map bonus rewards to provide a more straightforward method of acquiring many types of cloth and leather crafting materials. Maps that previously awarded jute scraps, wool scraps, cotton scraps, linen scraps, rawhide leather sections, thin leather sections, coarse leather sections, or rugged leather sections as infrequent rewards now award these materials as their primary rewards.
- Crab Toss has been temporarily replaced with Keg Brawl in the daily activity rotation.
Raids
- Spirit Vale
- Adrenal mushrooms have been added near rally points.
Personal Story
- Fixed an issue that prevented the incinerator golem from appearing in the “A Sparkling Rescue” story step.
- Fixed an issue that prevented troll salve from being usable after defeating the trolls guarding it in the “Awakening” story step.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Clement Forktail from appearing in the “Searching for the Truth” story step.
Items
- Mastery vendors now sell obsidian shards for the correct amount of karma.
- Fixed various text bugs on legendary collection collectibles.
- Vale Guardian guild decorations now have collision and can be removed.
- Minstrel III—The Alluring Song of Meat: Fixed a bug that prevented Roj the Rowdy Butcher from teaching his song.
- Minstrel III—Burrisson’s Ditty: Fixed a bug that prevented Burrison the Blue from teaching his song.
- Bifrost III—Jade Maw’s Eye Lens: Using the Jade Maw’s Eye Lens now displays an icon while it is active.
- Incinerator III—Destructive Substance: Fixed a bug that caused the “Bashing Bauxite Alchemicals” meta-event chain to stall.
- Juggernaut III—Corrupted Ooze: Corruption pools in the “Stop the Risen Priest of Grenth from retaking the Cathedral of Silence” event will now grant this collectible.
- Juggernaut III—Mystic Chromatic Ooze: This item will now be usable after completing the collection. If it was discarded, an extra can be purchased from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs.
- Legendary Collector: Gain progression in this achievement by collecting new legendary weapons released with Heart of Thorns.
- All gear given during character creation is no longer salvageable.
Profession Skills
General:
Revenant:
- Coalescence of Ruin: Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from being able to hit the same target simultaneously when using this skill.
Warrior:
- Scorched Earth: Fixed an issue that prevented multiple players from being able to hit the same target simultaneously when using this skill.
World vs. World
- Will no longer display party or guild member map markers for enemies.
- Fixed a text-wrapping bug with the word “Reinforced.”
Guild
- The Griffon Fountain guild hall decoration now continuously has water flowing.
BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
- Black Lion Chests no longer include a bonus Personalized Homemade Lucky Envelope.
- A new Wings of Love Glider is available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 400 gems.
- A new Soaring weapon set is available from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for the limited-time price of 1 complete Black Lion Claim Ticket from a Black Lion Chest. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems.
- Lovestruck weapons have been returned to the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for a limited time for 2 Black Lion Claim Tickets.
- The Wedding Preparation Package contains a Wedding Attire Outfit, Name Change Contract, Total Makeover Kit, Bouquet of Roses, and 5 Teleport to Friend charges for 1580 gems in the Style category of the Gem Store.
- The Box of Chocolates and Bouquet of Roses are available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 250 gems.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented unique warhorn-skin sound effects from playing when used with Tempest warhorn skills.