T4 Announcement !

[Jildaz]

Its Happening !!
See u guys in Praag to crush green skin head ! dwarfs of Ekrund !

[Telen]

I never saw the problem with higher level renown ranks just for titles and appearance. Gives end game some more mileage.

[saupreusse]

Server restarting... hold the line.

[Bretin]

where more details :O

[quda]

Ok now we will have the 80-90% of the game here, hope server cap will be raised!

[ManSandwich]

Server went down as I hit 99% xp at 34 on my first character. Send superman and/or Jesus please.

[cooljosh]

I'm literally on the edge of my seat!

[jorgemarco]

I just can say, THANKS

[RyanMakara]

where more details :O

soon™

[Genisaurus]

Additional details have been added:

Changes to Leveling:
- Renown Rank is now capped to your current Career Rank. You will no longer gain renown if your renown rank is greater than your career rank, until you reach level 40.
- The renown rank cap has not been raised. We are deliberating a change to the way we handle renown caps, and you can expect to hear more about this very soon.
- The level caps in each tier are now as follows:

• Tier 1: 11
• Tier 2: 21
• Tier 3: 31
• Tier 4: 40

Changes to Items:
- There will be no upconversion from Soldier's Medallions and Emblems to Officer's Medallions and Emblems for a period of time. Tier 4 renown potions will be purchasable with Soldier's emblems for a time.
- Annihilator set pieces are purchasable at vendors in all friendly T4 held keeps and both capital cities. An entire set costs 530 Officer's Medallions.
- Rank 34/34 Scenario weapons are purchasable from the T4 Scenario vendors in the War Quarter and the Apex. Weapons are 335 Officer's Emblems for 1-handed, 670 Officer's Emblems for 2-handed.
- Rank 39/39 Scenario weapons are also purchasable from the T4 Scenario vendors in the War Quarter and the Apex. Weapons are 440 Officer's Emblems for 1-handed, 880 Officer's Emblems for 2-handed.
- Mercenary set pieces are purchasable from the T4 Scenario vendors in the War Quarter and the Undercroft. The full Mercenary set costs 880 Officer's Emblems.
- Uncommon (green) renown weapons and armor have been completely overhauled. These new items are purchasable from the renown equipment vendors in the War Quarter and the Undercroft.
- Ruin set pieces are obtainable through Tier 4 PQs. At the moment, the following PQs are guaranteed to work:

• PRAAG :
• Chaos - Tomb of Deathsword
• Empire - Hells fall
• DRAGONWAKE :
• HE - Dominion of khaine
• DE - Caladains furnace
• THUNDER MOUNTAIN :
• GS - Reicharts raiders
• DW - Ungry ungry greenskins

- Faster mounts are now available.
- The Tier 4 epic quest chains have been implemented, and offer several powerful weapons to choose from. Along with this, many items have new and functional passive abilities. Expect more abilities to be implemented over time.

Some Wipes:

- Characters: characters meeting any one of the below criteria have been deleted.

1. Belonging to an account which has been permanently banned. Exiled and temporarily banned characters are fine.
2. Belonging to an account which has not been logged into for over 1 year.

- Items: the following items have been wiped, with the below conditions.

1. Charger's Charms were never meant to be available, and have been wiped now that the ability they grant has been fixed. They may become available again in the future.
2. Mounts with a 60% speed bonus are now available. Old, nonfunctional mounts have been wiped, and the gold used to purchase them has been refunded.
3. Boundless items were discovered to have been originally awarded from content that is not available, at an extremely low drop rate. As such, they are more powerful than most T4 weapons available, and were given in higher quantities than was responsible. They have been completely replaced with new items with a more appropriate degree of power.

- All purple and blue items have been removed from the drop lists until such a time as their proper origins can be discovered.

And last but not least, the full patch notes:

[Groups]

Londo:
- Group member's nameplates will now be shown in green while in orvr.

[Scenarios]

Londo:
-Serpent's Passage scenario has been enabled.

[Keeps]

Nalgol:
- Goldchest for successful keep defense.

[Guilds]

Nalgol:
- New guild leader assignment if. If the guild leader is banned or not logged in for 26 days.

[General Changes]

Genisaurus
- Added support for a new command for all players: .ror will convey information about features unique to RoR
- Added support for variable NPC ranges. Engineer and Magus turrets will have their proper ranges restored, depending on their tooltips (100'/65'/30').
- Renown Rank is now capped to your current Career Rank. You will no longer gain renown if your renown rank is greater than your career rank, until you reach level 40.
- Rewards for capturing BOs have been removed.
- Added support for items and skills that increase the maximum AP pool.
- Some set bonuses related to mastery trees have been reworked. They now add free mastery point(s) to the indicated mastery tree. These points are lost when removing the gear, as are any abilities or tactics you no longer qualify for without the bonus points.
- The number of kill quests in each pairing has been reduced to 1. The overall kill quest rewards have been increased, and will now be restricted to the pairing in which they are assigned.
- Adjusted Debolster requirements to account for the new tier caps.

• Tier 1:
• • No mastery points spent
  • No more than 10 renown points spent
  • No gear equipped higher than level 8.
  • No talismans in any equipment
• Tier 2:
• • No more than 5 mastery points spent
  • No more than 20 renown points spent
  • No gear equipped higher than level 18.
• Tier 3:
• • No more than 13 mastery points spent
  • No more than 30 renown points spent
  • No gear equipped higher than level 28.

[Addressed Tickets]

RyanMakara:
- [5478] Item: Changed Torn Holy Shirt to Medium robe instead of Robe.
- [5565] Item: Steelcap Mushroom now sells to vendors for 90 brass each.
- [5602] Item: Fangbreaker Bigchoppa has been renamed to Fangbreaker Bigloppa and now looks like an actual 2 hander for Black Orcs.
- [5604] Item: Trisanctifier's Klad now has the correct stats.
- [5627] Item: Ironfist Ambraces now have appearance.
- [5611] Quest: 'Ead 'Unta (Destruction Tracker boots quest) can now be completed again.
- [5474] NPC: Fixed a strange looking shaman.
- [5474] NPC: Aspects of the Winds of Magic now have the correct subtype.
- [5498] NPC: Bloodforged Bloodletter now has the correct subtype.
- [5503] NPC: Zchekil the Vile double spawn removed.
- [5559] NPC: Grim Wolves no longer kill their cubs.
- [5619] NPC: Chaos Raven now counts as a bird.
- [5629] NPC: Deep Root Spider is no longer a Chaos follower.
- [5601] NPC: Stopped Loremaster of Hoeth from messing with the Winds of Change, reducing his size back to normal.
- [5464] ToK: Killing 1,000 Goblins now awards the appropriate tome unlock.
- [5501] ToK: For Once It Isn't Guano tome unlock and title reward added.
- [5529] ToK: Ironmane's Lock added to Memorial Plaque.
- [5536] ToK: Good Night Goblin is now obtainable.
- [5540] ToK: Simple Minds added to Observation Point.
- [5542] ToK: Correct unlock added to the Bloody Sun Banner.
- [5573] ToK: De-spite can be obtained again from killing Maegda.
- [5628] Dog Waylayers grant the "Dirty Dealin'" tome unlock upon being killed now.

Other Changes

RyanMakara:
- Level 6 quest chains salvaged from older Return to WAR recruitment politics have been added for both Destruction and Order, obtainable from Spymaster Raveth and Scoutmaster Herold. They award the Return to WAR trophies.
- Added the required ToK unlocks for Greenskin Grappler trophies. They currently count for 1k, 10k and 100k Orc NPC kills (this unlock is order only).
- Fixed an exploit in Temple of Isha that allowed players to jump over the walls.
- Removed the Rank 12 mounts intended to be only used by guilds from the Light Mount vendor.
- Added the correct Rank 12 guild mounts to the guild vendors.
- Changed the armor of Dwarf Ranger NPCs with more appropriate attire, resembling a more lore-oriented look.

Torquemadra:
- Added functionality for a very large number of passive item abilities. These abilities will be added to items over time.

Meralors:
- Fixing AreaIDs, all areas should display the correct influence.



And so much more. There's so much that went into making T4 possible that I can't itemize. There is so much work that can't be thoroughly listed, because it was required just to get T4 off the ground. Everyone on the team has put a ton of time and effort into getting us here, and we wouldn't be here today without their efforts.