• We’re now done with the majority of the process to completely equalize Male and Female damage. We’ve balanced the animation-lengths for all “white damage” attacks as well as all “combo finishers”, and furthermore we’ve matched the animation length of “moving attacks” to the lengths of “stationary attacks”. As a result players should now experience no difference in damage dealt or time needed to execute an attack based on what gender their character is.
• Aborting multihit combos before they’re finished won’t activate their full effects anymore.
• Pet commands should now be more responsive.
• When aborting a multihit combo finisher, you now get a percentage of the full cooldown depending on how many hits you got in before the abort happened. (It’s really in this time!)

CLASSES

• All Assassin, Barbarian, Bear Shaman, Conqueror, Dark Templar, Guardian, Herald of Xotli, and Ranger combo damage and stamina costs have been rebalanced to match the newly adjusted animations.

Priest Archetype

• Spirit Aegis will now give 0.5% invulnerability to Holy and Fire instead of 1% Fire with the first rank trained.

Assassin

• Combos granted by feats should now deal significantly more damage than before.

Dark Templar

• The Talisman Mastery buff will no longer be removed upon death if the proper feat is trained.

Guardian

• Shield Sweep combo will now scale more consistently across the first three ranks.

Herald of Xotli

• Pillar of Internal Flame Rank II is now a three-step combo (including combo starter) instead of an instant cast.

Necromancer

• Bone Horde debuff now uses the proper icon in the debuff GUI.

ITEMS

• Resolved an issue that caused item bonuses to not scale correctly.
• Many items are now ‘bind on equip’ meaning that once equipped the item can no longer be traded.
• Resolved the issue with raid gear that had lost it’s bonuses in a previous update.
• The bonuses awarded by gems have been rebalanced. Unfortunately some of the gem bonuses were originally applied incorrectly leading to situations where too much bonus was given, mainly for invulnerability rating. These gems have now been modified. The benefit of the different level gems has been also been amended though, meaning that higher level gems should now be better than the lower level versions.
• All items Green+ are now Bind on Equip (BoE) or Bind on Pickup (BoP).
• Items which are BoE/BoP should now state this fact below their item name in the mouseover tooltip. When these items are equipped and bound to the character, the text below the item name will change to reflect this. A message will now ask if you are sure when attempting to roll “need” on a Bind on Pickup item.

PVP

• Players will now always see Massive PvP results, and the time left in a battle during battles. This information is displayed in the right top corner, below the minimap.

QUESTS

• Field of the Dead: Changed the level on the quest Entourage from 52 to 47.
• Field of the Dead: Changed the level on the quest Cleansing the Tomb from 53 to 48.
• Khopshef Province: Forbidden Knowledge - The Crumbling Codex will now despawn after it is picked up.
• Khopshef Province: Slave Cages will now show a visual effect when player is on the correct quest to interact with them.
• Pyramid of the Ancients: New Quests have been added to enhance your questing experience. Bosses have been upgraded to present a challenge to solo (or small groups) of players. Pay careful attention to the items they drop - they could be the key to defeating more challenging enemies.
• Pyramid of the Ancients: All quests should now be working.
• Tarantia Sewers: Orphans in the Hovel - Galeria should now talk to you after you kill her captor.
• Defeating Lord Atum-Keket in the Pyramid of the Ancients will now reopen the door to the Lord chamber.
• The teleport altar behind Lord Atum-Keket will now be visible at all times.
• The Master Torturer in Pyramid of the Ancients will no longer spawn multiple times in a row.

NPC / MOBS

• Toirdealbach’s Tomb has had its level range adjusted from 50-53 to 46-48. Loot in Toirdealbach’s Tomb has been adjusted to fit the new level range of mobs.
• Pyramid of the Ancients: The Harem Girls have been dressed up properly, and sexily!
• Many of the spells used by raid bosses will now ignore line of sight-checks, thus making it impossible to avoid them by hiding behind pillars and such.
• Many of the spells used by raid bosses will now be impossible to fully resist.
• The Dark Flames breath attack used by Vistrix will now use normal line of sight checks.
• The knockback strength on Kyllikki’s Blizzard has been reduced.
  Yakhmars adds have been modified, they will no longer stun players as they did.

TRADESKILLLS

• Cloth Resource droprate in the world has increased somewhat.
• The Resource and Building playfields (Lacheish Plains, Purple Lotus Swamp, Poitain) have new NPC camps that will drop tradeskill items previously only available through the Alchemist’s Cache. Some of these encampments will aggro, some will not. This makes these zones more dangerous, but allows lower level players a chance to get the tier 1-3 resources they need.

WORLD DESIGN

• Checkerboard textures should no longer appear on the ground throughout the world.

MOUNTS

• The horse ability Hind Leg Kick will now have a 12 second reuse timer, like the other horse abilities.
• The Skewbald Pinto Horse has had its stats adjusted to horses of the same tier and price.

GUI

• The “Quests” tab in the quest journal should now indicate the current number of accepted quests and the total number of allowed quests.
• An option to add a player to your ignore list was added to the “Add by name” dialog.
• If your trade is rejected, you will receive an onscreen message.
• Tooltips for NPCs on the map should now show up in the localized version of their names, instead of their default English names.
• You can no longer trade while in combat mode.
• You will see an onscreen message stating that a team member has joined your team.
• Onscreen feedback for a failed attempt at a trade due to a full inventory has been tweaked.
• Added a new option that allows the player to make his cloak invisible.
• Strange or seemingly out of place text in the UI should be removed

GENERAL

• Several causes of crashes and assert failures have been addressed and fixed.
• Important notification sounds now won’t be interrupted by other sounds.
• A fix was implemented for item descriptions when switching between languages on the client.
• Fixed an issue that would cause some playfields to be empty after logging out for some time, and then back in.
• You can no longer send unlimited mail through the tradepost. If you send several mails and are informed via system message you cannot send any more, you will need for in-game time to pass before being able to send more mail.
• Ignored users will no longer be able to send you mail.
• Raid playfields will now kick players who are not in the raid.
• Fixed some animations that weren’t blending properly
• The number of needed ‘Fresh Kills’ has been increased to 20.

Player Character

• Dead team members will now get quest kill credit if they are within range.
• You now only prohibited from entering stealth mode if team members are in combat nearby.
• All your team members and their pets will now get the fatality buff when a team member performs a fatality.
• The mentor and apprentice will see an onscreen message regarding confirmation or declining of pending apprenticeship requests.
• Mesh effects during spellweaving should no longer rotate with the character.
• Shield of the Risen will only display particle effects on hidden players if they are on your team.
• Animations for the ‘grin’, ‘laugh’ and ‘laughheartily’ emotes have been tweaked for both male and female characters.
• Emote ’squirm_on_ground’ has been renamed to ‘lounge’, to better fit the animation.

Classes
Assassin

• The following abilities now have new effects: Cat’s Paw, Opportunistic Strike, Kidney Shots, Avatar of Death, Lotus Overdose, Necrotic Leech, Corrupting Strikes, and Lunge.

Barbarian

• Feats “Eyes of Madness”, “Rampaging Horde”, “Welcoming Death”, and “Too Many To Count” now have visuals associated with them.

Demonologist

• Earth Recharge ability will have a better visual indicator of activation.
• Let Them Burn should now have the correct cooldown.
• Let Them Burn will now properly increase in damage the longer it is channeled.
• Shockblast (Rank 1) and Inferno of Amher (Rank 1) will now scale correctly when compared to Rank 2. The additional splash damage of Shockblast now scales correctly, as it dealt more damage than intended previously.

Necromancer

• Frostblast now has a visual cone of frost.
• Ice Shackle spell is now less invasive and more optimized.
• The tooltip for Malefic Chant now shows up as intended.
• Night of the Harvester should now correctly increase the effect of the Harvester mana/stamina heal by 15/30%.
• To offset the change to Void causing the pet no longer to be rooted, the drain effect of Void has been reduced and now scales more consistently based on level.
• Spell “Siphon Unlife” now has visuals and sound.
• The casting time of Set’s Ruin, Set’s Cold Hatred, and Blasphemy have been reduced from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Parasitic Soul Swarm is now less invasive and should take up less screenspace.

Priest of Mitra

• The Spellweaving animation has been tweaked.

Ranger

• The ranger’s tracking list can now be sorted by distance.
• Dead NPCs and players will now longer appear when using the tracking ability.

Tempest of Set

• Set’s Life Spark should now trigger a resurrection prompt instantly after dying.
• Puppets of Set should now draw the attention of nearby NPCs if you attempt to cast it on a group of NPCs.

Combat

• Combos and all other actions will be aborted when you start to charge.
• The combo chain will now be stopped when you begin a charge.
• You can no longer start combos in the middle of a charge.
• Dismembering fatalities should now show appropriate visual effects.
• You can now abort multihit combos without all the damage being rolled back.
• Aborting multihit combos will not make the target’s health become desynced from the client/server anymore.
• Fizzle and immunity rolls have been moved to the end of your spellcast. If your target becomes immune after you start your spellcast but before it deals damage, your target will resist the spell.
• Stealth is checked again at the end of your spellcast. If your target hides before you land the spell, your spellcast will fail.
• The distance to your target while casting a spell is checked again at the end of your spellcast, with a 25% bonus to your range.
• If your target is behind an obstacle when you’ve finished casting your spell, the spell will fail
• Combo finishers (the last attack in the combo chain) now have 25% extra range, making them easier to land in PvP.
• Mobs will keep you in combat from further away now.
• Aborting unarmed attacks (using a knockback, for example) will now properly cause the damage not to be dealt.
• Clickable abilities with instant effects will not be queued after your attack anymore, but executed right away.
• You cannot use abilities while jumping or falling anymore.
• Dying while knockbacking NPCs will not cause the npc to become stuck in combat mode anymore.
• Attack animation speed should be more balanced between genders (note: this does not yet include the combo animations).
• Combat music has been tweaked so that tension music will be area specific, rather than random.

PvP

• Massive PvP: Mercenary players in a team with a guild member should no longer be hostile-flagged during battle.
• You will no longer be able to attack guild members on PvP servers.
• The Massive PVP gui will show up on a separate tab than Minigame PvP.
• If your pet does the most damage to a target in a minigame, you will now get credited for the kill instead of the pet.
• Ground targeting AOEs should now only be allowed if the player has line of sight to the target.
• The siege camps will now give a message when they are clicked on and the city is not vulnerable.
• You should no longer be able to damage your raid members on Culture PvP servers.

Player Cities

• The player cities and Battlekeeps now have various NPCs living in them.
• Buildings should now show the proper damage states when the building gets damaged or repaired.

Quests

• Grey quests will now award XP again.
• (Atzel’s Approach) Kidnapping and Torture ; Diversionary Tactics Inner West - It should now be possible to ignite all palisades.
• (Atzel’s Approach) Revenge of the Ape God - Location of this quest is now marked in the journal.
• (Black Ring Citadel) Bowls of Set, The Hunt - Quest will now complete when you speak to Kalanthes about it.
• (Conall’s Valley) An Impending Attack - The location marker for Torin has been changed.
• (Field of the Dead) The Honored Dead - This is now a solo quest.
• (Kheshatta) Den of Evil Perversions - Has been fixed. Go find the Onyx Chambers, retrieve Hakar Tep’s head, then return it to Zane.
• If you currently have this quest, you MUST delete the quest and go pick it up again from Zane.
• (Kheshatta) Mouth Of Darkness - Journal text has been updated. The Marker Rune is found near the entrance, rather than within it.
• (Kheshatta) Markers of the Lost Tomb - A goal marker has been added for the third objective.
• (Khopshef) Yipping Hyenas - Changed quest waypoint radius, to cover a larger area and more hyenas.
• (Khopshef) Usurping the Power - Now marked as a group quest.
• (Khopshef) Emerald Eyes - It should no longer be possible to walk through the door to the Emerald Guardians without first getting the quest.
• (Khopshef) Trapped by Lions - Timer has been changed to 10 minutes, instead of 10 hours.
• (Khopshef) The Swindler’s Game, Shedding Torment, Stygian Superstitions, The Forgotten Temple, Fascinating Faces, Conflicting Interests - An item reward has been added to these quests.
• (Khopshef) Lusts of the Flesh - Alekeep in Caravansrai will now ask you for tin, not copper.
• (Tarantia Noble) Paetus & The Nemedian Crown - Coordinates have been updated within the Villa. The map item will now have a particle effect when you have the quest.
• (Tarantia Noble) Rahim and Lord Camillus - Rahim’s dialog should now work properly when you tell him “Then this madman must be stopped”. Player will receive a quest.
• (Tarantia Noble) Obtaining the Arena Key – Quest should now be completable.
• Several typos corrected in many quests worldwide.

NPCs / Mobs

• Charmed NPCs will now be able to attack and perform actions while charmed.
• More NPCs should now be visible in the vicinity for several raid dungeons.
• NPCs wielding two handed weapons will now attack correctly.
• Knockback animations (the landing-animations in particular) will now be smoother for many creatures.
• Raid bosses should now be visible from further away, in most cases.
• Black Ring Citadel: Incubus and Succubus are now strong enough to knockback all players. Swamp demon’s swamp has become increasingly more dangerous.
• Black Ring Citadel: Seruha will wait a little before closing the door.
• Conall’s Valley: Wounded Vanir in Conall’s Valley will no longer execute the same identical movements at the same time.
• Field of the Dead: Lieutenant Rhor has learned some new skills, and should no longer be so easy to defeat.
• Field of the Dead: The Lupine Superior boss has lost his floating wig. He will also spawn minions in a more correct manner.
• Khemi: Rhino name-plates should now be displayed properly and will no longer clip into the rhino.
• Kheshatta: Scorpion Archers should now attack more consistently at range.
• Kheshatta: Several NPCs with equipped weapons have been corrected.
• Tarantia Noble: Astrologer will no longer send you into a dialog loop.
• Tortage: Renton should no longer make strange sounds during the Destiny Mage quest.
• Underhalls: Litharia’s patrol has been adjusted a bit, to end her walking through walls or pillars.
• Vistrix: All players that participate in the fight against Vistrix should now get his tooth.
• White Sands: Thrall Warrior armor has been tweaked so as to not clip anymore.
• Wild Lands: Oris should no longer send you into a dialog loop.
• Certain bosses were using combos they weren’t supposed to. This has been fixed.