Update 79 Release Notes

Update 79 Release Notes

New Quest Pack: The Dragon's Hand!

News and Notes:

Balance Changes and Small Features:

• Cannith Crafting has been renamed to "Essence Crafting".

• Essence Crafting is now available in Eveningstar.

• Essence Crafting now supports the creation of items level 33 and 34.

• All previously-released Patron Coffers and Expansions that have a cosmetic claim NPC now have the option to reclaim a mount or pet certificate.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with monster AI where certain monsters would sometimes go brain dead after being hit by a confusion effect.

• Two Weapon Defense now provides its +1 AC to Handwraps users.

• Lieutenant Rauva in Strike Back now requires the listed Diplomacy DC in her dialogue.

• Obscuring Mist in Dragon Disciple now lasts its intended duration.

• The Level 28 Topaz of Spell Penetration and the Level 32 Topazes of Melee and Ranged Power now properly drop from random loot.

• Paladin Vanguard's Action Boost: Power now triggers abilities that care about Action Boosts.

• Storm's Harness now has its correct border color and flavor text.

• The Icewalkers boots are now property Bound to Account.

• Legendary Experimental Rocket Boots (Minor Artifact Boots) are now properly Bound to Character.

• Fixed a typo in Black and Blue's DM text.

• Follow Up in Vanguard now lasts its intended duration of 30 seconds.

• The Elder's Knowledge set bonus now has its proper description in the buff bar.

• Fixed a bunch of tooltips in Lahar's Recipes.

• Fixed a string table error in Radiant Servant for both Cleric and Sacred Fist.

• The Legendary Gem of Many Facets now rolls for its correct Mythic boost.

• Snowslide now properly takes Stunning DC bonuses.

• Jaws of Winter now properly takes Stunning DC bonuses.

• Fixed a typo in Snowslide's description.

• Fixed the icons and names of a few Essence Crafting recipe related stacks of 15 collectibles.

• The items Nightforge Stiletto, Bloodletter's Knife, Threnalian Wardagger, Grievous Blade, Tenebrous Stiletto, Thunderforged Dagger, and Greensteel Daggers all now properly allow for Dexterity for to-hit and damage.

• Fixed some typos in the Eladrin and Chaosmancer racial tree.

• Fixed some typos in the Wild Mage enhancement tree.

• Scion of the Shadowfell's Negative Amplification no longer falls off on death.

• Nightshield now has a max caster level of 20.

• Healing Lore now has its proper name mutation for randomly generated items.

• Ameliorate now reliably applies its debuff to non-undead enemies and undead enemies that succeed on their saving throws.

• Elemental Weapons and Greater Elemental Weapons are now properly Crimsonite alchemist spells.

• The Double Daggers buff to offhand strike chance in Vistani Knife Fighter no longer falls off on death.

• Fixed a bunch of typos in Ravenloft quests.

• Epic Tinder now has its correct augment slots.

• Magic Missile cast from the Wizard past life feat does damage again.

• Arcane Trickster - Presto will no longer break certain quests if a critical monster that is normally immortal is presto'd.

• Dhampir's Jewelry Color and Aasimar's skin reflection color now properly save through character creation instead of returning to a default.

Engineering Changes:

• The class info shown during character selection no longer abbreviates the class name of single or dual-class characters above level 20.

• Feats that change which ability score contributes to a saving throw now correctly compute the highest of available scores to use with your saving throws.

• Split-Set Filigree that have been slotted into Sentient Slots 7 and 10 now properly provide their full set bonuses.

32-bit Worlds:

• Characters on the 32-bit game worlds who are in a "Reincarnate" state can now enter their 32-bit game world in order to reincarnate. Once reincarnated, these characters can now Pack and transfer. Read more about transfers from our 32-bit game worlds on DDO.com.