Patch Notes 27/05/2022
Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 3:44 pm
Highlights
Weekend Warfront: Battle at the Cairn
The land of Ulthuan seems to have been built on tragedy. Some tragedies come from without, and are guided by neither malice nor whim. Others are manufactured and forced upon their victims like deadly poisons. The tale of the Brothers Blackcairn, Elthryril and Lothelryel, is one such tragedy. Lothelryel made a pact with Morathi to betray his brother, Elthryril. Using Morathi's magics, Lothelryel sought to take control of his line and follow Malekith. Yet it was Lothelryel who was deceived. The magic that would have imprisoned his brother entrapped both of them, even as their blades guaranteed their mutual destruction.
In places the rage and hatred of familial betrayal have seeped into the land, turning the sites of ancient struggles into magical wellsprings of dark power. Now a new battle erupts as Order and Destruction forces vie for control of the Blackcairn Estate.
This weekend the Battle at the Cairn will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Blood of the Black Cairn scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Realm versus Realm
City Sieges
You can now fly to outside the enemy city gates when the city is in contested state.
Scenarios
The crest rewards for scenarios have been tweaked to be:
- Winning team T4: 10 crests
- Winning team T2-T3: 8 crests
- Winning team T1: 6 crests
- Losing team all tiers: 1 crest + 1 crest per 100 points (up to 5 crests if losing team has 400+ points)
The top player of each category on each side gets one extra crest as before.
Ranked
- Disabled queueing for Group Ranked while in a warband.
- Ranked Triumphant Emblem Rewards have been switched to War Crests and all existing Triumphant Emblems are converted to War Crests.
- Ranked Solo gives 15 War Crests for a win, 2 + 1 per kill for a loss
- Ranked Group gives 20 War Crests for a win, 2 + 1 per kill for a loss
- Ranked Warfront rewards adjusted, 25/50/75 War Crests accordingly instead of Triumphant Emblems.
- Ranked Event slot items now cost 200 War Crests and 1 Triumphant Insignia.
Ward System changes
The PvE and Public Quest set wards have been merged into one unified system with the PvP sets. So now you can unlock each ward with either PvE or PvP sets, and unlock the next tier of armor sets of either type.
- Carnage PQ set counts towards Recruit’s Ward.
- Havoc PQ set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Tracker Consignment set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Keeper’s dungeon set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Mayhem PQ set counts towards Soldier’s Ward.
- Stalker Consignment set counts towards Soldier’s Ward.
- Ruin PQ set counts towards Officer’s Ward.
- Red Eye dungeon set counts towards Conqueror’s Ward.
- Onslaught PQ set counts towards Conqueror’s Ward.
- Sentinel dungeon set counts towards Vanquisher’s Ward.
- Bloodlord dungeon set counts towards Invader’s Ward.
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
Items with +AP/s now grant that each second regardless of GCDs or casting, this is soft capped at 6AP per second, for anything above that you get half the value.
Implemented "Battlefield Master" and "Advanced Battlefield Master" buffs from live.
These buffs give +25 AP pool each. On live servers you got them at RR65 & RR75. We have decided to give them a bit earlier, at RR50 & RR60, but also require that you are level 40.
Bug Fixes
- [20120] Phoenix Wing doesn't require enemy target within 5ft anymore
General
- Fixed an exploit which allowed you to keep set bonuses after unequipping them.
- Fixed an issue which caused you to not be able to remove a single item from mail.
Items
Alternate appearance is now allowed if item slot matches, even if not item type matches. So on a chosen you can now use an Axe alternate appearance on a Sword, or on an Ironbreaker use a Hammer alt appearance on an Axe.
Weekend Warfront: Battle at the Cairn
The land of Ulthuan seems to have been built on tragedy. Some tragedies come from without, and are guided by neither malice nor whim. Others are manufactured and forced upon their victims like deadly poisons. The tale of the Brothers Blackcairn, Elthryril and Lothelryel, is one such tragedy. Lothelryel made a pact with Morathi to betray his brother, Elthryril. Using Morathi's magics, Lothelryel sought to take control of his line and follow Malekith. Yet it was Lothelryel who was deceived. The magic that would have imprisoned his brother entrapped both of them, even as their blades guaranteed their mutual destruction.
In places the rage and hatred of familial betrayal have seeped into the land, turning the sites of ancient struggles into magical wellsprings of dark power. Now a new battle erupts as Order and Destruction forces vie for control of the Blackcairn Estate.
This weekend the Battle at the Cairn will be the weekend warfront from 12:00 on Friday to 12:00 on Monday Altdorf time. You get +50% XP and Renown in the Blood of the Black Cairn scenario, and extra rewards from completing the event tasks.
Realm versus Realm
City Sieges
You can now fly to outside the enemy city gates when the city is in contested state.
Scenarios
The crest rewards for scenarios have been tweaked to be:
- Winning team T4: 10 crests
- Winning team T2-T3: 8 crests
- Winning team T1: 6 crests
- Losing team all tiers: 1 crest + 1 crest per 100 points (up to 5 crests if losing team has 400+ points)
The top player of each category on each side gets one extra crest as before.
Ranked
- Disabled queueing for Group Ranked while in a warband.
- Ranked Triumphant Emblem Rewards have been switched to War Crests and all existing Triumphant Emblems are converted to War Crests.
- Ranked Solo gives 15 War Crests for a win, 2 + 1 per kill for a loss
- Ranked Group gives 20 War Crests for a win, 2 + 1 per kill for a loss
- Ranked Warfront rewards adjusted, 25/50/75 War Crests accordingly instead of Triumphant Emblems.
- Ranked Event slot items now cost 200 War Crests and 1 Triumphant Insignia.
Ward System changes
The PvE and Public Quest set wards have been merged into one unified system with the PvP sets. So now you can unlock each ward with either PvE or PvP sets, and unlock the next tier of armor sets of either type.
- Carnage PQ set counts towards Recruit’s Ward.
- Havoc PQ set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Tracker Consignment set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Keeper’s dungeon set counts towards Scout’s Ward.
- Mayhem PQ set counts towards Soldier’s Ward.
- Stalker Consignment set counts towards Soldier’s Ward.
- Ruin PQ set counts towards Officer’s Ward.
- Red Eye dungeon set counts towards Conqueror’s Ward.
- Onslaught PQ set counts towards Conqueror’s Ward.
- Sentinel dungeon set counts towards Vanquisher’s Ward.
- Bloodlord dungeon set counts towards Invader’s Ward.
Combat and Careers
General Changes and Fixes
Items with +AP/s now grant that each second regardless of GCDs or casting, this is soft capped at 6AP per second, for anything above that you get half the value.
Implemented "Battlefield Master" and "Advanced Battlefield Master" buffs from live.
These buffs give +25 AP pool each. On live servers you got them at RR65 & RR75. We have decided to give them a bit earlier, at RR50 & RR60, but also require that you are level 40.
Bug Fixes
- [20120] Phoenix Wing doesn't require enemy target within 5ft anymore
General
- Fixed an exploit which allowed you to keep set bonuses after unequipping them.
- Fixed an issue which caused you to not be able to remove a single item from mail.
Items
Alternate appearance is now allowed if item slot matches, even if not item type matches. So on a chosen you can now use an Axe alternate appearance on a Sword, or on an Ironbreaker use a Hammer alt appearance on an Axe.