U53 Preview 1: Hunt or be Hunted

[droid327]

[*]You may now hold your block key (default: left Shift) while falling with Feather Fall to drop as if you did not have Feather Fall.

Ha you finally got it working!

I'd just repeat what I'd suggested before about this: could the "free fall" button be Jump instead of Block? There are legit reasons you may want to block while feather falling, and reasons you may want to stay mounted while free falling (since block will now dismount you midair as well). But there is no benefit to the Jump button while in midair, so that seems like a more logical mapping.

[rabidfox]

There are legit reasons you may want to block while feather falling

You couldn't block in the air before this (the game engine wouldn't let you from what's been said)-- outside of the hitting & holding block prior to a floor crumbling away (which if you hold block before falling on lam, FF stays active unless you release and re-hit the block key- so it should perform the same as anything you can do on live currently).

[CaseStringer]

Is this another Feywild raid? If not, where are the quests and raid set? Thanks in advance.

[Alcides]

Spear of the Hunter
- A++ on the look
- This should do piercing damage instead of bludgeoning

Dwarven Axe
- Swing speed of Dwarven axes seems very slow compared to live

Legendary Belt of the Ram
- Does not grant double Ram's Might effect with Spirit of the Beast (3/3)

New raid loot completion loot list is the same as Chronoscope

The [Legendary] Hedge Trimmer
- Bug: Clicky to change your facial hair appearance is non-functional.

Head Master's Favor set bonus
- Bug: Dumbledore says that this isn't ready for the wizarding world yet.

Lack of Tank loot
- Bug: Without tanks, no dps will be able to get loot.

[droid327]

bug: Extra Clip sucks

More usefully...Fatesinger attacks (Pluck and Discord) with a Repeater will only proc a single attack, and then incur an extended reload animation of a full 2.5 seconds. Significantly longer than a standard attack reload

It does this even during Endless Fusillade ><

[Alcides]

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[iswind1]

Items from other adventure packs are no longer able to be used with Slave Lords Crafting ???
WT?
after I farm slave lords 200 times, you said no longer able?
thanks dev, thanks.

[TheMuppet2021]

Items from other adventure packs are no longer able to be used with Slave Lords Crafting ???
WT?
after I farm slave lords 200 times, you said no longer able?
thanks dev, thanks.

yeah - i am wondering what the issue here was as well.... what ingredients could be used as subs for SL ingreds.... (angry face)

[Madja]

I'd just repeat what I'd suggested before about this: could the "free fall" button be Jump instead of Block? There are legit reasons you may want to block while feather falling, and reasons you may want to stay mounted while free falling (since block will now dismount you midair as well). But there is no benefit to the Jump button while in midair, so that seems like a more logical mapping.

+1 to this. Seems more logical and comfortable to use Jump instead. In any case what an amazing change! Good job!

Spells

• The Quest Selection UI now spells Receive correctly in its tooltips

Cheeky!

[Amoneth]

I have to say, I really dislike the hybrid items, there are so few builds that want both melee abilities and spell caster abilities on one item. Fey had loads of them so half of the abilities on a lot of the items are completely useless to the toon wearing them.

[Epicsoul]

Items from other adventure packs are no longer able to be used with Slave Lords Crafting ???
WT?
after I farm slave lords 200 times, you said no longer able?
thanks dev, thanks.

Have no fear. Soon, there'll be a system where you can crunch Mythic items for Mythic Fragments. Here's even better news: you only need 1000 of them to craft Mythic bonuses on an item, and you can only crunch items at level 30. Doesn't that sound fun?

[Jerevth]

"You may now hold your block key (default: left Shift) while falling with Feather Fall to drop as if you did not have Feather Fall." Awesome.

[Ulfo]

yeah - i am wondering what the issue here was as well.... what ingredients could be used as subs for SL ingreds.... (angry face)

Currently you can use almost all stuff to apply to it nice mythic bonuses from SL pack. Obviously, developers have too much free time if they see this as a problem that needs to be addressed as a matter of priority, if at all.

Wrong augmentation bonuses? Nonsense! Incessant lags? Nonsense again! A gazzillion other bugs? Totally nonsense! Applicable SL mythic? Oh no, "fix" it ASAP!!! 8)

I am increasingly wondering if the developers have at least a drop of common sense...

Have no fear. Soon, there'll be a system where you can crunch Mythic items for Mythic Fragments. Here's even better news: you only need 1000 of them to craft Mythic bonuses on an item, and you can only crunch items at level 30. Doesn't that sound fun?

Plausible, yea...

[Xgya]

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• Undead monsters in a variety of content packs should now no longer heal from positive energy.

About the above: Does this also fix the many non-undead monsters that heal from negative energy?

Such a FANTASTIC list of fixes.
Love the pet changes for sure, though I loved the idea of customized pets, there wasn't much to customize to begin with.

[Lynnabel]

About the above: Does this also fix the many non-undead monsters that heal from negative energy?

We'll need more info to answer that - is there a specific type or content pack or monster that you're thinking of?

[Xgya]

We'll need more info to answer that - is there a specific type or content pack or monster that you're thinking of?

The plant zombies in Thralls of the Fungus Lord and the Ex-Adventurers at the end of Amber Temple are the only ones coming to mind right now. I know there was a third category, but those are the two are the ones I noticed most.

At least one of the Ex-Adventurer (don't remember if that was all of them, but the Ex-Rogue definitely) was classified as a Humanoid - it just absorbed negative energy.
My Palemaster was quite surprised.

[Azriel_Angelus]

The plant zombies in Thralls of the Fungus Lord and the Ex-Adventurers at the end of Amber Temple are the only ones coming to mind right now. I know there was a third category, but those are the two are the ones I noticed most.

At least one of the Ex-Adventurer (don't remember if that was all of them, but the Ex-Rogue definitely) was classified as a Humanoid - it just absorbed negative energy.
My Palemaster was quite surprised.

Animated armors in several things the only ones I can remember off the top of my head are the ones in frosty reception in the first 3 encounters.

Side note: Can pale masters get an ability to strip immunity to negative energy similar to sorc capstone, keep the Unholy Avatar enhancement as it is at tier 4 but give it an upgrade when you take the capstone or something similar to that.

[crackerjackwr]

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• Traditionalist Caster in Tiefling Scoundrel no longer resets your enhancement trees when you log in

If you could fix Staccato Sovereign thatd be great. Like really great.

[Amoneth]

Side note: Can pale masters get an ability to strip immunity to negative energy similar to sorc capstone, keep the Unholy Avatar enhancement as it is at tier 4 but give it an upgrade when you take the capstone or something similar to that.

You mean like this?

Unholy Avatar: You are cloaked in the darkness itself, and can reach out with your Negative Energy Spells to taint the Undead with mortality. When you strike an Undead with a damage-dealing Negative Energy Spell, it leaves a lingering weakness to Negative Energy that bypasses an Undead's natural resistance to Negative Energy for 20 seconds.

Or do you mean also non-undead? If the latter then /signed!

[Azriel_Angelus]

You mean like this?

Unholy Avatar: You are cloaked in the darkness itself, and can reach out with your Negative Energy Spells to taint the Undead with mortality. When you strike an Undead with a damage-dealing Negative Energy Spell, it leaves a lingering weakness to Negative Energy that bypasses an Undead's natural resistance to Negative Energy for 20 seconds.

Or do you mean also non-undead? If the latter then /signed!

I mean also non-undead, leaving the enhancement as it is in tier 4 but giving it an upgrade in capstone. Or make it part of one of the epic feats, like Master of the Dead/ Scion of the Shadowfell.