Patch 21

Patch 21, October Content Patch, was added to live servers on 9th October, 2007.

Changelog

The game, login, and patch servers have been brought down to upgrade them with the Patch 21 content. The servers should be back up within a few hours. The following are changes in this patch:

Attack Rating

• The ATR bonuses attributed to weapon powers has been removed
• Weapon Power Damage Bonuses have been balanced
• Increased the ATR bonuses for training the Skill Mastery for melee weapons to 3pts for every 1% skill increase

Loreplay

• The Barbarian Clan now allows Doomsayers; a Doomsayer Trainer has been placed in the Factionhold
• The Kh'ree now accept Bards; a Bard Trainer has been placed in the Factionhold
• The Mercenary Company now allows Assassins; an Assassin Trainer has been placed in the Factionhold
• The Temple Factionhold now has an Assassin Trainer in it
• The Thieves's Den now allows Vampires and Wizards; a Wizard Trainer has been placed in the Factionhold

City and Siege

• Siege Recovery Time; has been fixed and will now last for 24 hours
• Wall Towers and Gate Houses; can now only have one Wall Archer

Races

Half-Giant

• Violent Rage; Is now a Skill and can be cast while in Wereform or while stealthed.

Classes

Fighter

• Changed Precise Stance's OCV bonus to scale from 21 to 51 (PR40)

Rogue

• Changed Precise Stance's OCV bonus to scale from 21 to 51 (PR40)
• Changed Hide to scale to Casting Time of 0.0 at PR40
• Changed Sneak to scale the Casting Time to 0.0 at PR40

Assassin

• Chilling Shadows; Reduced the Attack Speed Debuff to be 5% (PR0) to 25% (PR40); The Attack Speed Debuff is now flagged as a Debuff
• Passwall; No longer stacks with the Black Mask or Strigoi versions of this power
• Silence and Aura of Silence; changed to be labeled as silence powers instead of debuffs
• Hide and Sneak has been removed.
• Mage Assassins now have access to the Fade and Invisibility powers

Bard

• Gentle Melody; Increased the Health Recovery Rate from 30% (PR0) to 150% (PR40)

Druid

• Blight; Changed the casting time to 3.6s (3.5/.1)
• Grasp of Thorns; Changed the casting time to 2s (1.9/.1)

Fury

• Claws of Blindness; changed the recast timer to 60s
• Call the Blizzard; changed the recast timer to 20s; changed the damage range to be 12-52 (PR0) to 16-69 (PR40)
• Call Storm; changed the recast timer to 20s; changed the damage range to be 12-41 (PR0) to 15-61 (PR40)

Huntress

• Amazon's Endurance, Grace of the Panther, and Phaedra's Fury; have been flagged as skills so they can be cast while in Pantherform or while stealthed.

Prelate

• Aid to the Injured; Changed the casting time to 3s (2.9/.1)
• Saint Victor's Vigor; Increased recast timer to 180s; added a secondary effect that heals 2% of stamina every 5 seconds [Duration goes from 4s (PR0) to 30s (PR40)]
• Touch of Saint Wend; Changed the casting time to 2s (1.9/.1)

Priest

• Corrected range on power "Incantation of Renunciation" to 100 units. (unannounced fix)

Ranger

• Bite of the Pack, Braialla's Power, Braialla's Zeal, Herb Lore, Turn Steel, and Wolf's Vigor; have been flagged as skills so they can be cast while in Pantherform or while stealthed.

Thief

• Passwall; Granted as a Class Power
• Can no longer take the Black Mask discipline

Warlock

• Dull the Body; Reduced the Health Recovery Debuff to -25% (PR0) to -75% (PR40)
• Dull the Mind; Reduced the Mana Recovery Debuff to -25% (PR0) to -75% (PR40)

Wizard

• Sign of Disruption; Changed the casting time to 2s (1.9/.1)
• Fixed the casting timer on Greater Translocate to scale from 7s to 2s

Discipline

Black Mask

• Passwall; No longer stacks with the Assassin or Strigoi versions of this power

Rat Catcher

• Infection; New Power granted at Character Level 40 at Power Rank 20 (trainable to PR40); Only available to Rogues; Dispels Mana Regen at equal or lower Power Rank; Places a Mana Regen Debuff of 15% to 25% on target

Savant

• Litany of Serenity; Reduced the Mana Recovery to 10% to 50%; this effect now stacks with other Mana Recovery effects

Strigoi

• Passwall; No longer stacks with the Assassin or Black Mask version of this power

City, Siege, and Guild

• Fixed Windows of Opportunity to compensate for the Daylight Saving Time change (really this time!).
• Fixed an issue with repairing Resource Mines
• R8 Trees will now dynamically update when deranked during a siege
• Mangonels have been removed from the game

Grouping

• Reduced the range group members can be from the group leader to get pulled along
• Whenever a group member attacks or is attacked, they can no longer follow the Group Leader for 60s

Effects Window

• The Effects Window has undergone some changes so it will no longer cause someone's client to lock up

Miscellaneous

• Bows have been updated to remove LOS issues when they have the Marksmanship effect on them

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