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1.0.5 patch note preview

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:16:54 +0000

1.0.5 patch note preview

Each career has been reviewed, and we have made many changes to improve career balance and playability. Players who belong to one of the following careers will need to speak to their trainers in order to re-train their Career Mastery abilities:
- Black Orc
- Bright Wizard
- Chosen
- Engineer
- Ironbreaker
- Magus
- Shadow Warrior
- Sorcerer
- Squig Herder
- Swordmaster
Players who go AFK while in Public Quest areas or during keep sieges will no longer receive contribution credit towards those encounters.
Players are now able to set their rally points in warcamps.
Fixes have been made to issues which were causing guild promotion and demotion not to work properly.
Several issues have been addressed that previously allowed players to get to locations they were not supposed to be able to reach.
Morale abilities will now be much more responsive. These abilities will now fire immediately when activated by the player on the first attempt.
Morale abilities will now display their cooldowns correctly at all times.
Root effects, with the exception of morale roots, will now grant a 5 second immunity from all roots to the victim when the effect breaks, and in addition will no longer stack with other roots.
Root effects will now properly have a chance to break whenever a player takes ANY damage. This includes individual tics of Damage over Time spells.
To promote population balance among the various scenarios, we have added a feature that reduces the number of times a scenario can launch in a short period of time. This will give scenarios which are launched less frequently an opportunity to catch up in the queue population and launch more often.
Improvements have been made to auto-attack animations. Players will now see smoother, more consistent weapon swaps when players change from ranged to melee auto-attacks, and vice-versa.
The responsiveness of ability activations has been improved. Players will now see less of a delay between the activation of an ability and the corresponding animation.

General Changes and Bug Fixes

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There were some instances in which the reticule for ground-target-area-effects was allowing these spells to be cast in areas which were not originally intended. This has been adjusted.
Several issues have been addressed that previously allowed players to get to locations they were not supposed to be able to reach.

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Combat and Careers

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Tactics gained from Tome Unlocks have been renamed.
Damage over Time abilities: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of these abilities has been made consistent across the board. This generally resulted in an increase in damage, but some abilities have also been brought down. Individual abilities are noted under each career�s section.
Unstoppable: Knockdowns will now be listed on all tooltips for this ability when applicable.
Point Blank will now correctly ignore Knockback and Knockdown immunity, as well as not trigger it.
Fixed assorted issues in which certain movement reductions/increases would stack, slowing or speeding targets more than intended. This also addresses cases in which snared players would find themselves essentially rooted when in lava.
Image Changing Rewards: A player�s illusion will now break upon using an ability in addition to breaking on damage.
Alter Fate: Tooltip should now display the correct values.
Misdirection: This ability should now play an effect on the caster while the ability is active, and play a brief effect on anyone damage by the effect.
Rampaging Siphon: Morale should now heal the group for each target hit, instead of only once.
Frenzied Slaughter, Force of Will, and Relentless Assault: These abilities will now play an effect when used.
Relentless Assault: This ability will no longer remove snares and roots.
Divine Protection should now list the amount of damage absorbed in the tooltip.

Renown Rewards

Mission Focused: This tactic should now provide the correct bonus while fighting around objectives.
Spiritual Refreshment: This ability should now show it�s bonus correctly in the Character Window.

Archmage

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Prismatic shield: This ability will no longer fail if your defensive target is not a group member.
Transfer Force: The damage of this ability has been increased.
Hurried Restore: This tactic will now stun the caster when the resurrection spell is cast, instead of when it is accepted.
Healing Energy: Contribution from stats has been reduced to bring the ability in line with our design goals.
Drain Magic: This ability will now increase in potency with High Magic.
Balanced Mending: The HoT portion of Healing Energy will now benefit from this tactic.
Radiant Lance: This ability will now reliably consume high magic.
Law of Conductivity: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Radiant Gaze: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Transfer Force: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Dissipating Energies: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased slightly to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Scatter the Winds: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased slightly to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Lambent Aura: Duration has been increased to 24 seconds, amount healed over this duration remains the same.

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Black Orc

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All Black Orcs have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
All War Bellows will now persist through the Black Orc's death. This means that you will not have to recast a War Bellow after respawning or being resurrected.
Trip Em Up: The snare from this ability will no longer stack with other snares. Also, the damage has been reduced but no longer occurs over time. The AP cost has increased and the reuse timer has been removed.
Da Big Un: The damage of this spell has increased, and its radius reduced.
Skull Thumper: This ability now adds an effect that deals additional damage to the target whenever they are critically hit.
Right in da Jibblies: The reuse timer of this ability has been lowered.
Follow me Lead: The Toughness buff given to the defensive target should now work correctly.
Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
Rock 'Ard: This ability now starts a Plan chain.

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Bright Wizard

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All Bright Wizards have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Flame Breath: Affected targets will now properly receive a debuff icon.
Explosive Force: The damage done to the targets around the caster is now defendable.
Fiery Blast: The tooltip now displays the correct damage and radius. In addition, this ability now builds the correct amount of combustion.
Scorched Earth: This ability now builds 10 combustion.
Playing with Fire: The damage from this ability is only triggered when the affected player casts a direct heal and cannot do critical damage.
Detonate: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
Combustion will no longer start to fade away if you continue casting spells after hitting 100.
Fire Cage: This ability�s cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Pyroclastic Surge: This ability is now available at rank 10.
Scorched Earth: The ability should now have the correct cooldown.
Ignite: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Boiling Blood: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Detonate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Flame Breath: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Spreading Flames: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Backdraft: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Chosen

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All Chosen have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Suppression: The parry buff from this ability should no longer stack with itself.
Mixed Defenses: The tooltip for this ability should now display proper values.
Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
Seeping Wound: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Disciple of Khaine

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All Covenants will now persist through the Disciple's death. This means that you will not have to recast a Covenant after respawning or being resurrected.
Covenant of Tenacity: Fixed a bug that made the radius of this ability much too small.
Covenant of Vitality: Fixed a bug that caused the healing portion of the lifetap to always heal the Disciple, instead of the player who procced the damage.
Covenant of Vitality: The damage of this ability has increased.
Consume Essence: The damage of this ability has increased.
Transfer Essence: The damage of this ability has increased.
Restore Essence: The stat contribution has been fixed. This ability was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
Bloodthirst: The snare component for this ability has been removed, and damage has been increased.
Lacerate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Fell Sacrifice: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Soul Infusion: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.

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Engineer

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All Engineers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Flak Jacket: Magic Damage will no longer reduce Armor counters.
Steam Vent: Newly created Engineers will no longer show this ability as being trainable at Ranks 15 and 21.
Gun Blast: The damage of this ability has increased.
Field Repair: Cost, range and cooldown increased, now instantly restores health instead of being a channel.
Incendiary Rounds: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.
Friction Burn: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.
Fragmentation Grenade: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.
Signal Flare: The damage and cost of this ability has increased, and its reuse reduced.
Penetrating Round: The damage of this ability has increased.
Focus Fire: The damage of this ability has increased.
Firebomb: The damage of this ability has increased.
Self Destruct: This ability has had its cost removed, the reuse timer has been increased significantly, and now deals damage in addition to knocking down.
All Turrets: Gun, Flame and Bombardment Turrets have had their cost greatly reduced and their auto attack damage greatly increased. In addition they are now core abilities and will match the level of the player�s rank when summoned.
Pet Ability - Penetrating Round: Damage Increased, now considered a Path of the Rifleman ability.
Pet Ability - Machine Gun: Now considered a Path of the Rifleman ability.
Pet Ability - High Explosive Grenade: Damage and build time increased, reuse reduced, now considered a Path of the Grenadier ability.
Pet Ability - Shock Grenade: Damage and reuse increased, build time reduced, now considered a Path of the Grenadier ability.
Pet Ability - Flamethrower: Now considered a Path of the Tinkerer ability.
Pet Ability Steam Vent: Now considered a Path of the Tinkerer ability.
Electromagnet: This ability has undergone significant changes. The cost of the ability has been significantly reduce while the cooldown has been increased. In addition the build time has been increased,the ability can no longer be cast on the move, and the maximum number of targets affected by this ability has been decreased and it can now be defended against. Lastly this ability will grant immunity to knockback effects.
Barbed Wire: This abilities cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Hip Shot: This ability is now available at rank 10.
Friction Burn: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Acid Bomb: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Incendiary Rounds: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Fragmentation Grenade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Signal Flare: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Phosphorous Shells: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Sticky Bomb: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Napalm Grenade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Lightning Rod: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Blunderbuss Blast: This ability now has the correct cooldown.
Fragmentation Grenade: This ability now does the correct amount of damage.

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Ironbreaker

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All Ironbreakers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Shield of Reprisal: This ability will no longer knock down Unstoppable targets.
Guarded Attack: This ability�s Oathfriend buff will no longer stack with other, more powerful Armor buffs.
Punishing Knock: Targets will now actually fall down after being hit by this ability.
Avenging the Debt: This ability�s damage has been increased.
The rate in which Grudge is lost has been changed. Grudge will now start decaying 10 seconds after you stop building Grudge. It will decay at 10 Grudge every second. This is the same mechanic that is used for the Bright Wizard's "Combustion" mechanic. Grudge will still be gained at 5 Grudge per hit except in the case of more than 3 attackers all hitting the Ironbreaker simultaneously, in which case the Grudge gained will be slightly reduced.
Oath Friend: The rate in which Grudge is generated from the Oath Friend ability has been changed. If the Ironbreaker is at 0-30 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 5 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 31-60 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 3 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 61-100 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 1 Grudge every time the Oath Friend is attacked.
Oath Friend: The cooldown for this ability has been changed to 1.5 seconds.
Juggernaut: This ability is now available at Rank 12.
Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
Binding Grudge: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Stone Breaker: This ability will no longer be considered a Blessing.
Inspiring Attack: The Strength and Willpower bonus from Inspiring Attack will no longer stack with the bonuses from other Ironbreakers. Players will only receive whichever bonus is most powerful.
Ironbreakers may now use Hammers.

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Magus

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All Magus have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Daemonic Armor: Magic Damage will no longer reduce Armor counters.
Summon Blue Horror: Opponents must now be close to the Blue horror to melee it.
Wither Soul: The ability tooltip has been corrected and no longer gives the false impression that % debuff was scaling.
Warping Blast, Dissolving Mist: These abilities now display the correct icon.
Infernal Blast: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
Baleful Transmogrification: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
Pandemonium: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
Wither Soul: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
Rend Winds: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
Strengthen Thrall: This ability�s cost, range and cooldown timer have been increased. In addition, it now instantly restores health instead of being a channeled ability.
Instability: The cost of this ability has been removed, its reuse timer has been increased significantly, and it now knocks down the target instead of draining Action Points.
Flamer, Blue Horror, and Pink Horror of Tzeentch: These abilities have had their cost greatly reduced and their auto attack damage greatly increased. In addition, they are now core abilities and the demons will match the level of the player�s rank when summoned.
Pet Ability - Flames of Change: Reuse time reduced, now considered a Path of Changing ability.
Pet Ability - Flame of Tzeentch: Reuse time and channel duration reduced, damage increased, now considered a Path of Changing ability.
Pet Ability - Coruscating Energy: Damage reduced, now considered a Path of Daemonology ability.
Pet Ability - Warping Energy: Now considered a Path of Daemonology ability.
Pet Ability Daemonic - Consumption: Build time increased, now considered a Path of Havoc ability.
Pet Ability - Daemonic Fire: Build time and damage increased, now considered a Path of Havoc ability.
Chaotic Rift: This ability has undergone significant changes. The cost of the ability has been significantly reduced and its cooldown has been increased. In addition, the build time has been increased. The ability can no longer be cast on the move, the maximum number of targets affected by this ability has been decreased, and it can now be defended against. Lastly, this ability will also grant immunity to knockback effects.
Tzeentch's Grasp: The cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Move Surging Violet Fire: This ability is now available at at rank 10.
Infernal Blast: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Glean Magic: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Baleful Transmogrification: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Pandemonium: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Withered Soul: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Mutating Blue Fire: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Seed of Chaos: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Dissolving Mist: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Agonizing Torrent: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Demonic Consumption: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Flames of Change: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Marauder

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Tainted Claw: This ability will now be increased in duration by Ailments, not Cripples.
Rend: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Wave of Mutilation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Deadly Clutch: The Value of this debuff has been reduced to 50%. In addition, 25% of the value the target is healed for (after debuff) also affects the Marauder.

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Runepriest

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Blessing of Valaya: This ability will no longer fail to cast if you don�t have line of sight to your defensive target.
Rune of Fortune: The damage of this ability has increased.
Rune of Fate: The damage of this ability has increased.
Rune of Mending: Stat contribution fixed. This ability was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
Oath Rune of Sanctuary: This ability will now be affected by the anti-resurrection aura.
Rune of Immolation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rune of Cleaving: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Spellbinding Rune: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rune of Fate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rune of Battle: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rune of Warding: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rune of Iron: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Oath Rune of Power: Now also increases the target�s Ballistic Skill.
Rune Of Regeneration: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.

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Shadow Warrior

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All Shadow Warriors have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Festering Arrow: The hotkey for this ability will no longer light up when in Assault Stance.
Hunter�s Fervor: The radius has been increased to match similar group based effects.
Acid Arrow: Buff Icon will now state the actual number that the armor is debuffed, instead of percent.
All stance abilities will now persist through death.
Skirmish Stance: The buff granted to the Shadow Warrior when in Skirmish Stance will now allow ranged autoattack to fire while moving.
Vengeance of the Nagarythe: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced.
Assault Stance: This ability has been given an added benefit. While the Shadow Warrior is in Assault stance, all +Balistic Skill benefits provided by items will be considered +Strength as well.
Broadhead Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Acid Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Takedown: The damage of this ability has increased.
Spiral Fletched Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Flame Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Rapid Fire: The damage of this ability has increased.
Eye Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.
Throat Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.
Glass Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Festering Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
Fell the Weak: The damage of this ability has increased.
Shadow Sting: The damage of this ability has increased.
Flanking Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.
Whirling Pin: The cost of this ability has decreased, the cooldown has increased, and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Vengeance of Nagarythe: This ability is now available at rank 10.
Broadhead Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Draw Blood: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Flame Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Glass Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Shadow Sting: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Shaman

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Gork�ll Fix It: The buff icon for this ability will now state that the ability is healing you, instead of damaging you.
Greener �n Cleaner: This abilty will now properly remove effects from allies.
Ere We Go!: The tooltip for this ability will now list the duration of the effect.
Bleed fer Me: : The damage of this ability has increased.
Dat Makes Me Dizzy: This tactic will now stun the caster when the resurrect is cast, instead of when it is accepted. In addition, when this tactic is equipped, Shrug it Off will now work properly.
Gork�ll Fix It: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed. This was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
Life Leaka: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Bleed Fer me: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Ere� We Goes Again: Duration of Ere� We Go will no longer be reduced with this tactic equipped.
Brain Bursta: This ability will now reliably consume Waaagh!
Shrug it Off: This ability will no longer work in anti-resurrect areas.
'Ey, Quit Bleedin': The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.

Sorceress

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All Sorcerers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Surging Pain: This ability now builds 10 Dark Magic.
Triumphant Blasting: Players knocked back by this ability will now correctly be provided knockback immunity.
Grip of Fear: The cost of this abiltiy has decreased, the cooldown has increased, and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Arctic Blast: This ability is now available at rank 10.
Piercing Shadows: The damage done to targets around the caster is now defendable.
Chillwind: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Word of Pain: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Ice Spikes: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Gloom of Night: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Absorb Vitality: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Squig Herder

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All Squig Herders have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Ard Noggin: The cooldown for this ability has been removed.
Sneaky Stabbin: The tooltip for this ability is now correct.
Spiked Squig: The buff granted to the Squig Herder when a Spiked Squig is summoned will now allow ranged autoattack to fire while moving.
What Blocka?: This ability is now defendable, and now reduces the target�s armor and block chance.
Plink: The Action Point cost and damage for this ability have been increased.
Stabbity: The Action Point cost and damage for this ability have been increased.
Run �n Shoot: The Action Point cost for this ability has been reduced.
Squig Armor: While in Squig Armor, the Squig Herder�s Ballistic Skill from items is now converted into Strength.
Ard Noggin: The damage of this ability has increased.
All pets will now summon at the same level as the Squig Herder�s rank.
Pet Ability �Poisoned Spine:� This ability now fires properly and its damage has been increased.
Pet Ability �Goop Shootin:� The damage of this ability has increased.
Yer� Bleedin: The damage of this ability has increased.
Stop Runnin!: The damage of this ability has increased.
Run �n Shoot: The damage of this ability has increased.
Explodin� Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
Lots o� Arrers: The damage of this ability has increased.
Not So Fast!: The damage of this ability has increased.
Choking Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
Finish Em Off: The damage of this ability has increased.
Shrapnel Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
Rotten Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
Behind Ya!: The damage of this ability has increased.
Sticky Squigz: The cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
Squig Frenzy: This ability is now available at rank 10.
Yer Bleedin' : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Cut Ya : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Explodin Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Big Claw : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Shrapnel Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Rotten Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Gore : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Poisoned Spine : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Swordmaster

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All Swordmasters have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities! All Blade Enchants will now persist through the Swordmaster's death. This means that you will not have to recast an Enchant after respawning or being resurrected.
Heaven's Blade: This ability now reduces resists by the correct amount and will display as a debuff.
Graceful Strike: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
Nature's Blade: The proc from this ability now has new art for its area effect.
Gusting Wind: The cost of this ability has been decreased, it has been changed to a Perfect Balance attack, and it now deals spirit damage.
Quick Incision: The cost has of this ability been increased, its cooldown timer has been removed, and its damage has been changed to apply instantly instead of over time.
Wrath of Hoeth: The cost of this abilty has been increased, it has been changed to an Improved Balance attack, and its radius has decreased.
Blurring Shock: This ability now applies an effect on the target for the next 10s: whenever they are critically hit they take additional damage.
Phoenix Wing: This ability no longer adds additional hate. Its damage has been increased, and its radius has been increased.
Crushing Advance: The damage of this abilty has increased, its reuse has increased, and this ability now adds 10% to the Swordmaster�s block instead of increasing the current value by 10%.
Protection of Hoeth: This abilty has been changed to an Open Balance attack, its reuse has been decreased, and its absorb effect has been decreased.
Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of the Swordmaster�s group.
Graceful Strike: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Warrior Priest

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All Prayers will now persist through the Warrior Priest's death. This means that the Warrior Priest will not have to recast an Aura after respawning or being resurrected.
Prayer of Absolution: Fixed a bug that made the actual range much shorter than the range listed in the tooltip. The range has been increased to match the tooltip value.
Soulfire: This ability�s tooltip will now state that the effect is a Curse, instead of a Cripple.
Divine Strike: The damage of this ability has increased.
Sigmar�s Radiance: The damage of this ability has increased.
Prayer of Righteousness: The buff window tooltip for this ability will now display correctly.
Divine Aid: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed. This was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
Prayer of Devotion: The health gained when this ability triggers has increased.
Castigation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Healing Hand: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.

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White Lion

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All Training buffs now persist through the White Lion's death. This means that the White Lion will not have to recast a Training after respawning or being resurrected.
Blindside: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
Pet ability Gut Ripper: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
Cleave Limb: This ability now snares the target for 10-seconds. The ability no longer reduces auto attack speed.
Pet Ability �Bite:� The damage of this ability has increased.
Pet Ability �Claw Sweep:� The damage of this ability has increased.
Pet Ability �Shred:� The damage of this ability has increased.
Pet Ability �Leg Tear:� The duration has decreased on the Damage over Time aspect of this ability.
Pet Ability �Fang and Claw:� The damage of this ability has increased.
Pet Ability �Maul:� The damage of this ability has decreased and its reuse timer has been decreased.
Pet Ability �Gut Ripper:� This ability�s reuse timer is now 20 seconds.
The White Lion pet�s auto attack damage has been given a substantial increase.
Pack Assault: Fixed a bug that prevented the initial damage of this ability from being displayed to the player.
Blindside: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Shattering Blow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Echoing Roar: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Leg Tear: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Gut Rip: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.

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Witch Elf

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All Kisses now persist through the Witch Elf's death. This means that the Witch Elf will not have to recast a Kiss after respawning or being resurrected.
Envenomed Blade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Wracking Pains: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Elixir of Insane Power: The benefit of this ability has been reduced. The Witch Elf�s attacks will now ignore 50% of her target�s armor.

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Witch Hunter

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All Witch Hunters have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
Repel Blasphemy: This self-buff is now right click removable.
Blessed Bullets of Cleansings: The damage of this ability has increased and the amount of Action Points stolen has been increased. This ability is now available at rank 35.
Blessed Bullets of Confession: The damage of this ability has increased, and this ability is now available at rank 9.
Blessed Bullets of Purity: The damage of this ability has increased, and this ability is now available at rank 4.
All Bullets now persist through the Witch Hunter's death. This means that the Witch Hunter will not have to recast a Bullet after respawning or being resurrected.
Sanctified Bullets: This tactic has been adjusted so that Blessed Bullets of Purity will now heal for 50% of the damage they cause.
Fervor: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
Sweeping Strikes: This tactic will now correctly affect two other targets.
Emperor�s Commendation: This ability now triggers off of from-stealth openers.
Fervor: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Burn, Heretic!: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Burn Away Lies: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Seal of Destruction: The Witch Hunter�s attacks will now ignore 50% of his or her target�s armor.

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Zealot

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Endless Gifts: This ability will no longer affect Winds of Insanity.
Boon of Tzeentch: The damage of this ability has increased.
Dark Medicine: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed; it was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
Manipulation: This ability will no longer trigger if the target of the heal is already at full health.
Mark of Remaking: This ability will now be affected by the anti-resurrection aura.
Warp Reality: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Demon Spittle: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Tzeentch's Lash: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Wind of Insanity: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Vortex: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Spell Destroyer: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Mark of Daemonic Fury: This ability now also increases the target�s Ballistic Skill.
Tzeentch's Cordial: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.

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Content

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Common monster disable abilities will now be gated by monster rank and tier. Players will notice fewer disable abilities from common monsters at the lower ranks of play.
Non-humanoid monsters will no longer hit for 50%+ of player�s health on critical hits.

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Items

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An issue has been fixed that was causing the buff icon on various marketing rewards not to display correctly.
Book of Boom: You can no longer be knocked back while under the effects of the Book of Boom.
Numerous bugs have been corrected relating to Weapon and Armor effect procs. These should now display correctly and fire more reliably.
Opponents may no longer right click item effects to remove them from themselves, and the Boost, Blades, Barrier and Barricade effects will now proc far more reliably.
Fixed a bug that was causing weapons and armor not to display their proc effects in the item display.
Numerous bugs have been corrected relating to Weapon and Armor effect procs. These will now display correctly and fire more reliably.
Opponents can no longer right-click unfriendly item effects to remove them from themselves, and the Boost, Blades, Barrier and Barricade effects will now proc far more reliably.
Image Changing Rewards: A player�s illusion will now break upon using an ability in addition to breaking on damage.
All Dwarf spanner items in the game are now set to be useable by Engineers only.
All Dwarf great hammer items in the game are now set to be useable by Iron Breakers only.
All Empire rapier items in the game are now set to be useable by Witch Hunters only.
Tooltips on armor set pieces will now display information relevant to the that set's bonuses.
When conquered, Keeps and Fortresses will now offer one or more guaranteed gold loot bags as part of the chest loot.
Standards: All references to banners should now be removed. All text now refers to standards.
In addition to reducing the amount of damage received from high-level encounter NPCs, each Ward on high-level armor set pieces worn will now affect the amount of damage players are able to do to those NPCs. Players not wearing any pieces of the appropriate armor set will see their damage greatly reduced. For each piece of the appropriate armor a player wears, their damage against the boss monster will increase.

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Realm Vs. Realm

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Fixed an issue which was causing the Martyr's Square battlefield objective not to issue renown properly.
Fixed an issue with the postern door of the Ghrond's Sacristy keep which was preventing players from being able to enter the keep through the door.
A time delay has been added to the preliminary spawns of flags and murderballs in several scenarios. This change was made in order to ensure that both sides have a chance to run to the spawn location of the flag or murderball at the start of the match, and battle for control of the area even before the object has spawned. The affected scenarios include the following:
- Mourkain Temple
- Stone Troll Crossing
- Tor Anroc
- Howling Gorge
- Talabec Dam
- Serpent's Passage
The interact timer for planting the bomb in the Howling Gorge and Talabec Dam scenarios has been lowered to 2 seconds.

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User Interface

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The "Ability Not Ready" message will no longer display when the remaining cooldown on an ability is less than or equal to the full global cooldown.
Corrected an issue with the cooldown timers on the action bar buttons that was causing them to count down improperly. The timers will now count down in half-second increments beginning at 3 seconds remaining.
Characters will no longer have all of their currently-active cooldown timers reset when they are granted new abilities.
Morale abilities will now display their cooldowns correctly at all times.
Fixed the tooltip display for the first custom guild rank slot.
Kicking a player from a guild now properly deactivates the guild and alliance tabs for that player.
Guild members may now be promoted to the first customized guild rank slot.
Fixed an issue in which guild and alliance roster sub-tabs appeared on the screen if the player joined a new guild after having left a guild with the Guild Roster tab as the last Guild Window viewed.
Guild titles will now sort by rank rather than alphabetically.
Players who have not been given permission to kick members from their guild will no longer be presented with the option to do so.
Fixed an issue in which the guild roster was not updating properly when 'Hide Offline' was checked. *
Guild Leaders, Officers and anyone with appropriate permissions can once again use the guild window context menus to promote and demote members.
Locking the chat window will now persist upon logging out.
Fixed an issue with the targeting system that could be used by players to gain an unfair advantage. Targeting of friendly players will now work in the same way as using abilities. Players must either use a keyboard key or click with the mouse to acquire a friendly target. To target a monster or NPC, players must click on the target in the world or /assist a friendly player. Players using our default user interface should see no change as a result of this fix.

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A guide to add-ons

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:55:51 +0100

Below is a great article written by a fellow Stout N Sturdy / Smelly N Scary guild member, Thorgrimmur - it's got some great info on the add-ons you can install (using the curse client) to make your WAR experience even better....

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I have been using a number of the more popular addons for WAR for a few days now. The idea is to give you an idea of which to use yourselfs! The links will take you to the Download/Install page for each addon on Curse. You can find further information about each addon and screenshots of them ingame!

I suggest you use the Curse Client for your addons from that site. You then simply click the install button instead of the download button. You can also manage your addons and search for updates of them through the client.

One note about UI changes in WAR. If you want WAR to look like it does now, the look and feel of the UI, the addons dealing with UI changes will most of the time not add anything visually pleasing but only make it more functional. Look at the screenshots before you make a decision.

Take a look at the WHA Addon FAQ for some tips and tricks on addons.

First of all, you will need LibSlash to use a lot of these, and other, addons!

RvR
LittleBlackBook - Will store all your killing blows (KB's in short) and you can watch them by doing a /bb show which opens a window ingame where you can sort by kills and deaths. It's fun to see who you're pwning!
KillingBlow - WIll show you in floating text when you get a KB and the name of the person you killed. It will also show the word Revenge! if you get a KB on someone that has gotten one on you!

UI
Clock - Will add a simple clock on the UI.
zBuffBars - Adds bars to show the duration of buffs and debuffs on you or your target. The major issue I have with this addon is that it also shows your Bolster buff (if you're under rank 8, 18 etc in RvR areas or scenarios) and your long buffs that last for an hour. Every buff and debuff gets their own bar so with a few long buffs and the bolster there will be quite a few bars filling up quite some space on your screen. I don't think I'll be using this.
ActionBarColor - Easy and brilliant! Tints the entire button red when you are out of range or sight of your target. A must have!
CleanUnitFrames - A cleaner looking unit frame (the avatar portraits and health/action point bars in short. Looks good and fits everyon, not just healers. Beware though, according to Caelis there is a bug that won't allow you to unistall it.
Warhammer Scrolling Combat Text - If you don't know SCT from WoW, then I have to dircet you to the link to the left. It's a very helpfull addon, very much so!
EnemyTargetClass - Adds a small window to the UI (movable ofcourse) with a text with the class of your target. Simple and can be useful, after all; a White Lion without a lion just looks like a Swordmaster!

Performance
BuffThrottle - Makes not only red ones go faster, read the damn link, it's technical!

Functionality
AutoLoot - Makes you auto loot bodies. The newset patch have added an option in the game options to do this, so this addon might be obsolete
NPC Item Sale Price - Shows the sell price for an item without having to interact with a merchant, good if your backpack is full and you want to see what items to trash and which to run off with.
Mostly Harmless Item Linker - Will not work as actual item link, but rather place the name and important information about an item in the chat window, in the channel you last chatted.
UI Mods Menu Enabler - Will add a nice menu to take control of your addons, be sure to look at the tip from the WHA FAQ further down in this guide about character specific changes!
Identity - This addon allows you to set a prefix to your chat messages, a way to identify you if you're on an alt. Look it up in the link, it's an ok addon waiting for the damn player notes!

Yet to try

These are addons that seem really nice, but that I haven't tried yet for one reason or other. I've added a short description but really nothing you can't read for yourself by clicking the links.

AutoDismount - Will make you dismount instantly when using an ability. Now you don't have to press the dismount button to throw yourself in battle!
ISAssistTracker - Adds an assist menu for the WAR UI, makes assisting a target easier
Squared - A very pupular addon that makes selecting people in your group or warband a lo easier, developed with healers in mind.
Scenario Join All Button - Adds a button and a menu to the scenario join menu t join all avaliable or choose several to join.
zMailMod - Makes sending several mails, at the same time, ingame a lot easier. Still won't take away the 5 second delay though.

More addons to look up

This is a funny one: Orcanizer - Yes, it will make everything you write come out through the Orcanizer, and hence everything you write will be Orcish!
Magic Word - This allows you to set a magic word, and any player telling you the magic word will be automatically invited to join your party or warband.
Killer Guides - Adds an ingame strategy guide
ISSelfCast - Adds a function where you choose a modifier key (e.g ALT) and when pressing this key, the spells (heals and buffs I assume) you cast will be targeting you, and when you release the modifier key you will again target your current defensive target. Sounds good, but untested.
HealrGrid - Looks like a promising addon for easy healing, check it out for yourself!
Fast Friends - Will synchronize your friend and ignore list across all characters per server.
DamageCounter - DamageCounter tracks your hits and stores the damage/heal you make to review later.

A final note: If you want to make your settings character specific (unique for each character) here's a quote from the WHA addon FAQ:

Q: How do I get WAR to save all my settings on a per-character basis?
A: Open the file at <WAR DIR>\User\UserSettings.xml (while Warhammer is not running) and look for save_settings_per_character="false" near the bottom of the file inside a tag named Interface. Change the value inside the quotes from false to true. Then save the xml file and start up WAR; your settings will now be saved per-character instead of globally.

That's it for now folks!

Added by others below or in other threads

http://war.curse.com/downloads/war-addons/details/ishealbot.aspx
which works with squared. it gives you a little icon on your minimap. You click on it and it gives you a column of boxes. You drag skills from your ability box (V?) into the column. This will mean you can left click on a saquare and if you've dragged in your main heal it will automatically go off without having to click your hotbars. Your second heal can be a'alt+left click and your shield 'shift+left click'. No facility for right clicking but it still means I get my heal dots up faster. Even better, it does not clear your main target. Is the flag carrier your main target? They'll still get the heals if you click your hotbar. Which is nice.

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Patch 1.0.2 notes

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:37:43 +0100

* The war against the gold spammers continues. We've added new code that will hinder the spammers as they seek to carry out their nefarious deeds! This is only the next step, not the final one, in our continued battle against them

* We have added a 'Join All' button to the scenario window which now allows players to join all scenario queues in their current tier at once.

* In order to promote realm and population balance, some realms on some servers will now award their players with a +20% bonus to renown and experience. This is not a permanent bonus, but rather a temporary incentive to promote balance. Realms currently offering this bonus are marked on the server list with a colored icon; blue for Order and Red for Destruction - Check the Herald for the latest list! Update: This is now live in game. Information can be found at the server select screen and on the Herald.

* In response to player feedback, we have made several improvements to the behavior and responsiveness of the siege weapon interface. In addition we have fixed some issues with the control and release processes of siege weapons.

* In an ongoing effort to deter players from going AFK while in scenario starting areas, we have made the following changes:
- First, players who join a scenario and remain in their realm's spawn area for two minutes will be automatically removed from that scenario.
- Second, upon entering the spawn area of a scenario, players will receive a debuff that prevents them from earning renown and experience. This debuff will be removed when the player leaves the spawn area.

* The level range at which players are able to receive the "Bolster" buff while in RvR has been expanded. This buff will now be available starting three levels lower than it had been previously. Please note this change only applies to Scenarios on Open-RvR Ruleset Servers.

- In tier 2, the buff will apply from rank 8 to rank 17, and will raise players to Battle Rank 18.

- In tier 3, the buff will apply from rank 18 to rank 27, and will raise players to Battle Rank 28.

- In tier 4, the buff will apply from rank 28 to rank 35, and will raise players to Battle Rank 36.

* In response to player feedback, we've added RvR and NPC chat tabs for new players. These tabs filter scenario chat and NPC chat respectively. In order to minimize frustration to users who have already customized their chat window, we will not be overwriting any current settings, so this change will affect only new players. Players who wish to add these tabs may do so through the normal chat configuration options.

* While in scenarios, players will no longer be able to select "Need" in their loot window unless their career or race can use the item being offered. Players of a lower level than required by the item are still eligible to roll. Outside of scenarios, this feature is an optional setting that may be turned on manually by group leaders.

* We have fixed an issue that was causing claimed keeps to forget that they had been claimed after a server restart.

* Improvements have been made to how pets follow and they should now return to their owners more quickly.

* We continue to work on the issues with the pet window. We have identified and corrected another bug which was causing this window to disappear.

* Improvements have been made regarding an issue that was causing pets to teleport back to their owners after combat.

* Fixed a bug that prevented players from creating an alliance with more than two guilds. Now that this issue is resolved, alliances can grow to great numbers to crush their enemies!

* Due to reports that text logging in RvR may have been affecting performance in some cases, we have set combat and chat logging to be turned off by default. Players who wish to turn their logging on once more can do so by changing their game settings. Please note that there is a certain risk to changing your game settings, and so this process is only recommended for advanced users.

- In the game directory, in the user folder, locate the file named UserSettings.xml.

- Edit that file with Notepad or Wordpad (double clicking on it will usually result in Internet Explorer showing the file and it will not be editable.)

- Find the line that says, .

- Change "false" to "true".

- Save the file to the proper directory.

General Changes and Bug Fixes

* Ongoing improvements have been made to client and server stability.

* In order to deter players from spam-mailing, WAR continues to enforce a 5-second delay between sending mail messages. However, we have reduced this delay to 1 second for mails being sent to alts or guildmates.

* We have fixed an issue that was causing monsters to lose their aggression toward players in some rare cases.

* We have identified a small percentage of monsters in the game that were slightly less challenging than originally designed. We have adjusted the abilities of these monsters to bring them in line with their intended level of difficulty.

* Fixed an issue that was allowing players to change their tactics configuration during combat.

Items

* Warlord Set Trinkets were missing their career requirements. Career requirements have been added to these items.

UI

* In response to player feedback, we have made several improvements to the behavior and responsiveness of the siege weapon interface.

* The words in the chat tab labels will no longer disappear when players change the game's graphical resolution.

* The chat window will no longer slide upward when being resized.

* Fixed some issues with the creation of chat tabs. Newly-created chat tabs should no longer continue beyond the border of the chat window.

* Players who interact with guild vaults while their inventory is full will no longer see items in the guild vault disappear.

* We have fixed an issue that was causing the game not to remember the chat prefix (/tell, /g, /wb), forcing players to retype it each time. The game should now correctly remember the chat prefix.

* Chat font settings will now save properly.

* Fixed an issue which was causing healers to lose targeting on a player who they just resurrected.

* A number of game actions and NPC and monster communications were being sent to players through the wrong chat channel. We have made several fixes relating to these issues.

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RvR

* We have fixed an issue that was causing claimed keeps to forget that they had been claimed after a server restart.

* Players' use of siege weapons will be no longer be interrupted when those players take damage.

* We have fixed an issue that was preventing players from opening the main door of a captured keep which belonged to their realm.

Patch 1.0.1

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:23:50 +0100

Patch 1.0.1

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Highlights

Players no longer need to scroll down through the EUALA when logging into the game. The window now defaults to the bottom, and players need only check the Agreement box and click accept.
The war against the gold sellers continues! We have made improvements to the Appeal system to allow players to report spam messages from gold sellers more quickly.
TAB-targeting should now more consistently select the nearest enemy in the player's field of view.
Corrected an issue that was preventing players from adding new friends to their friend list even while the number of existing friends was below the list's size limit.
Fixed the issue that was causing players to sometimes get stuck in a particular animation state.
Monsters which change velocity while moving in combat should no longer return "Target is Out of Range" sometimes when attacked by players.
The /ignore command will now work more consistently.
In response to player feedback, we have made improvements to player pet movement and behaviors.
The Pet window should no longer disappear when its master is zoning or entering the game.
We made many UI fixes including a new "autoloot" feature requested by many players.
Guild cloaks will now display their heraldry properly.
We have made several improvements to the chat window, and it should now be more intuitive to use and set up. A number of chat window issues were resolved in the process. We are continuing to work on your requests about chat, with more improvements to come in the future.

General Changes and Bug Fixes

Player pets have learned to behave themselves. They should now listen to their masters and stay focused while in combat with monsters, rather than dancing erratically. In addition, they should follow obediently at their masters� side rather than spinning around.
Monsters that are rooted in place will no longer appear to chase you if you flee from them, even though they are still rooted.
Continued improvements have been made to client stability and performance.
We have fixed an issue that was awarding an overly large experience bonus to players who killed many monsters in rapid succession (IE, several killing blows within a second or two of each other). This will largely only affect small groups that use AE abilities to kill off a very large number of monsters with a single ability activation.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause roots to last longer than they should.
The delay between sending multiple mails has been reduced from 20 seconds to 5 seconds.
We have found and eliminated an occasional zone crash bug.

White Lion

Fixed an issue that was allowing players to use the "Pounce" ability without an enemy target. The ability now requires an enemy target to jump towards.

Shaman

The debuff from "Hurts, Don't It" will no longer stack with itself.

Content

We have identified a couple of serious bugs that trivialize the content in the Lost Vale dungeon. We have disabled the dungeon entrance while we investigate these issues. Thank you for your understanding as we work to better your in game experience!
The Public Quest "Wagon Defense" will no longer get stuck because of objectives spawning in trees.
Fixed a bug in the "Wagon Defense" quest.
The quest "Killing Time" should now allow players to gain credit when killing enemy characters in the Stone Troll Crossing scenario.
Lorcar Perrithan no longer offers the quest "Phoenix Gate". Players can now obtain this quest from the Uthorin Warscout.
The Gunbad instance lockouts will now be 30 minutes instead of 24 hours.
We have corrected an issue that was preventing Erikwuf Wrathbound from offering the "Good Will" quest.
Some monsters have been identified that were dropping Destruction items for Order players. These monsters will now drop Order items for Order players.
Fixed an issue with the spawning of burning bushes in the "Rewards for the Faitfhful" quest.

A feature has been added to User Settings which allows players to auto loot corpses by default. Players can enable this feature by selecting the "always auto loot" option, under the game play section. Please note that holding shift while looting with the option enabled will cause you to loot normally. When the option is disabled, shift-loot will still auto loot all.
Guild cloaks will now retain heraldry settings through zoning.
Corrected an issue that was preventing players from adding new friends to their friend list even while below the list's size limit
Improvements to the behavior of TAB-targeting. This should now more accurately target the nearest enemy in the player's field of view.
The /ignore command will now work more consistently
The Pet window should no longer disappear when zoning or entering the game
In some cases, the chat window would reset to default position upon logout. This should no longer occur.
Resizing the chat window should no longer cause the chat window to reposition itself.
The text entry button is now colored to match the color of the channel the player is currently defaulting to for text entry.
Hitting enter no longer fades in the entire chat window, instead it just fades the text entry box.
Changing resolutions should no longer cause the chat tab labels to disappear.
If more chat tabs are created than the width of the chat window is able to display, then buttons allowing the player to scroll forward and backwards through the chat tabs will appear.
When resizing the chat window, players will now get a resizing cursor.
Left-clicking on the chat window now causes it to fade immediately.
When dragging a chat tab off of the chat window players will now get a "phantom chat tab" until they release the mouse button, instead of creating and dragging the new tab immediately.
When docking one chat window to another, an arrow indicator is now displayed on the chat tab listing which indicates where in the order of chat tabs the tab will now be placed.
When creating a new tab, the properties of the new tab are cloned from the original tab chosen. For example, using New Tab on the Combat tab menu creates a Combat(1) tab with all the same filters and font settings of the original Combat tab.
Players will no longer be able to use the /petname command unless they have a White Lion out
New Cycle Enemy Target action added as a handier version of Target Next Enemy. This action is bound to Tab by default; existing characters will not have their keybindings changed, so if you would like to use this action instead of Target Next Enemy with your current character, you will need to change this keybind.
Fixed an issue that was causing the health bar fade option to work incorrectly.
We have re-skinned the Guild Registrar interaction window.
Fixed an issue that was causing the health bar fade option to work incorrectly.

International

Many parts of the UI have been modified to fit localized text properly:
- Quest Titles in the Quest Dialog window
- Zone Names in the Zone Loading screen
- The Title Bar in the Open Parties and Warband�s window
- Tactic Names in the Guild Tactics store window
- Zone Names in the Guild Roster tab of the Guild window
- Permission Text in the Admin tab of the Guild window
- Alliance Information in the Alliance tab of the Guild window
- Requirement (Blue) Ability Tooltip text
Fixed an issue with chat text in localized versions of the game.