July 2009 Content

July 2009 Content
The chest and key system comes with this patch along with changes and additions to several quests and other content.
Release Type:	Content Update
Rollout Live:	2009/07/24

Key/Chest System Changes

The Key/Chest system has been revamped with this patch. The changes include:

• A new skill has been added to all adventuring schools called "Intuition". Keys are capped by tier based on your intuition skill.
• Keys have a minimum level which you must attain before they can be used. Once you have attained an adventuring tier in any single school, that will always be the tier of key that you will need to use. For example, if you have attained level 100 as a warrior, then decide to multi-school and take up mage, you will still need to use a T6 key even when opening a T1 chest. Skeleton Keys are the exception to this rule. You must be level 100 in your current school to use a Skeleton Key.
• Key damage overall has been lowered significantly such that doing damage with a key is usually less effective than using a normal spell/weapon on a monster of that tier. While in theory you can still damage a monster with a key, doing so uses up the key and does not provide a very effective attack, in other words.

Other Changes

• Quest "Biggletorque: Chests in the Deep" will now be more specific about what type of chest (and where) to use the Odd-Shaped Key
• Rebalanced the Jade Golem loot tables
• Marble and Jade Golems now have a longer delay between wandering
• Adjusted the spawn rate of Jade Golems
• Myloc Birthing Sacs are no longer worth any XP
• Formula "Journeyman Spell: Dark Cyclone" is now called "Epic Spell: Dark Cyclone" and counts as a Master level formula
• Formula "Journeyman Spell: Shining Blades" is now called "Epic Spell: Shining Blades" and counts as a Master level formula
• Raised the damage of Frosty Maelstrom, but lowered the % chance of applying its effect
• Frosty Maelstrom augmentation is now known as "Frozen Solid" and is now an Ice DoT in addition to a speed decrease
• Doc Tarrant will no longer sell Master level formulas
• Mohs the Diamond Golem now has updated resistances
• Slightly increased the spawn rate of Hierophants and Harbingers within Dralnok's Doom
• Updated the treasure for Fire and Flame Beetles

Quest Fixes

• Quest "Blackhammer: Stop the Attacks" now refers to Baltosh the Vile instead of generically to "Risen Necromancer"
• Quest "Tradok: Carry Word to Delgarath" properly refers to Kincaid as a Leftenant
• Quest "Delgarath Militia Unsung Heroes: The Bigger They Are..." will now properly track looting of requested items
• Quest "Delgarath Militia Unsung Heroes: The Bigger They Are..." will now properly refer to Dralnok's Doom
• Fixed broken chat link and misspelled words in quest "Delgarath Militia Unsung Heroes"
• Fixed issues in quest "Delgarath Militia Unsung Heroes: Corruption" with names and places and chat links
• Fixed issues in quest "Delgarath Militia Unsung Heroes: For the Empire" with names and places
• Fixed references in quest "Delgarath Militia: Collect Provisions for the Militia" to Leftenant Carmichael
• Quest "Biggletorque: Chests in the Deep" will now accept the Ancient Chest in the Myloc Colony
• Quest "Primal Mastery: Become a Primal Expert" will now check if you have the Primal Adept ability instead of having completed the quest
• Quest "Primal Mastery: Become a Primal Master" will now check if you have the Primal Expert ability instead of having completed the quest
• Quest "Memni's Challenge: Earn Lasting Embers" will now properly refer to Memni in Chiconis instead of Dralk
• Quest "Gangaf Quest: Construct a Pump" will now properly point you to Morrigan in Feladan, not Tazoon
• Quest "Drain Bolt VI: Performance Enhancement" now properly sends you to the Rachival Outlands for Shadow Spiders
• Quests "Sigrun's Last Request", "Sigrun's Letter", and "The Ghostbuster" should no longer conflict with other quests when you are trying to obtain them

Other Fixes

• Noncas' Bi-Directional Recording and Scanning Device will now use current skill instead of base
• Shaloth the Myloc Queen will once again spawn guards.
• Formulas "Expert Antidote", "Master Antidote", "Expert Spell: Cure Poison", "Expert Spell: Primal Cure Poison", "Master Spell: Cure Poison" and "Master Spell: Primal Cure Poison" now call for Hunter Scorpion Tail Stingers instead of Scavenger Scorpion Tail Stingers to make the Tier 5 potions and spells
• Noncas Fizzlebot will now properly sell formulas
• Balion Stonebreaker and Farida Shieldcleaver in Delgarath will now act as guards
• Elthan the Elf at Tradok's Stand now has a level appropriate to his location
• Emblem Purifier will now give you the title "the Purifier" rather than just "Purifier"
• Carmichael Kincaid is now a Leftenant instead of a Sergeant
• Master Alchemical Metal Powder now has a requirement of 1200 Alchemy
• Master Alchemical Gem Powder now has a requirement of 1200 Alchemy
• Fixed a bug with Eilen the Mage where she wouldn't accept Icy Tokens as payment (buy_nothing keyword can't be used)
• Shadow Spider Venom will now use the correct icon
• Weapon "Exceptional Arthridgel Forest Cudgel" will now give the proper effect on use
• Technique "Rending IV" now requires Kwellen Flame Cinders instead of Kwellen Blight Auras
• Technique "Sharper III" now requires a Snow Beetle Mandible instead of a Crushing Ogre Club Splinter
• Technique "Piercing Winds III" now requires a Greater Mummy Scarab instead of a Crushing Ogre Club Splinter
• Technique "Piercing Winds V" now requires a Defiled Shade Vapor instead of a Fire Pygmy Ear
• Removed the "Spell" keyword from Drulkar's Wrath spell so it will be usable by Dragons
• Beginner Ambrosia was marked as obsolete, but it is not. Fixed it up and set it back to ready.
• Removed tier 4 formulas that were mistakenly dropping as loot
• Incorporeal augmentation will now use the rift form effect as a graphical component
• Returned Weaker Ghost Vapor to the loot tables for T1 ghosts so that the Shining Blades quest can be completed again.
• Drain Bolt spells now have a tier classification so that they can be filtered
• Ganesh's Journal pages are now stackable and tradeable
• Brachina Beetle Gland is now tradeable
• Myloc Trophies are now tradeable
• Bhal'kuk Chieftain's String of Beads is now stackable
• Bioscholar Phylactery is now stackable
• Chieftain Bulok's Charm is now stackable
• Brachina Beetle Carapace now has a proper icon
• Cedar Treant Totem now has a proper icon
• Added resource keywords to unprocessed clay resources
• Porcelain nodes are now found in Istaria