Quests:

- It should no longer be unreasonable under some circumstances to complete the spider and cockatrice parts of Gertund's Favor. There was a strange zone-wide lockout under some conditions that could effectively completely eliminate drops - this has been removed, which should make these less painful

AAs:
- Health of Target's Target HP updates should work a lot better now

Tomes:
- The third druid tome is implemented! Called Natural Balance, it evens out the HP of all group members and does a small heal once that's done. To use the AA (which costs 1 point per rank), you must complete the requisite druid tome. Increases in tomes increase the heal, as well as decreasing the cooldown of the AA

Spells:
- Bard movement songs should no longer cause stutter stepping every tick

Zones:
- Zenn Malath now has a faction.

Items:
- Stuck Spear is no longer usable by Monks, who have no piercing skill in the first place. Instead, Paladins are now able to wield the spear.

As we wrap up the year, we thought we'd offer up a new feature: Health of Target's Target (HoTT). The best way to think about this (since it's a healer-only ability) is that you can monitor not only who your healing, but what they are attacking along with its real time health percentage. This should make it a lot easier to manage healing and mechanics associated with more complex fights.

To use this, you will need to do two things:

1. Enable the ability in Leadership AAs. This can be brought up using "L" - create a hotbutton to turn on Group and Raid HoTT. Once you have 3 or more people in the group, this will enable a small HoTT window. Note that all classes can bring up the window, but only healers with the AA will get anything sent to it!

2. Purchase the Class AA (Clerics, Druids and Shamans) for 10 AAs. Now, with your HoTT window open, you should see what your target has as their target! It should change in real time as their target changes, eliminating the need to re-target them, etc.

Aside from this, quite a few other changes:

Mobs / Encounters:
- Hakopta, Queen of Chaos should no longer bug out.
- Two new Tier 13s have been added to Dalaya. The first, a six man in Eastern Badlands, and the second, an eighteen man in Sea of Swords.
-An ikisith shark (Forest of the Fallen) should no longer summon.

Race Changes:
- Froglok racial bonus for melee crit rate racial has been corrected.

Alternate Advancement:
- Healer AA: Health of Target's Target (see above) is now available!
- Magician AA: Elemental Mastery will now allow mage pets to crit spells.

Spells:
- The Circle of Soothing spell scroll now has a sale price with merchants.
- The spell scrolls for Alter Plane: Water and Alter Plane: Fire have had their sale prices adjusted to match the rest of the planar port spells.

Items:
- Stinking Shoes and Foul Gruplok Broth had their "stink" mechanic removed as it was causing problems. We may tweak the items up a bit to compensate at some point.

Miscellaneous:
- Bloodlust will no longer heal based on non-melee (like damage shield) damage taken as this was never meant to be the case
- Bashes will no longer crit
- Paladin heals will now share a cooldown (see last patch; the amount of healing was increased and cooldown decreased to compensate)
- Filters will actually work and persist across zoning now. Hallelujah!

We have a Shards first!

Our own Grinkles has created a zone 100% from scratch - Zenn Malath. He created the terrain. He textured it. He set up all the content within. It's a truly unique experience, and make sure to congratulate him when you see him! It's a starter zone, designed for players up to level 15.

As part of this, we are introducing a new class / race combination: frog monks! Make sure to swing by Zenn Malath and see what the disciples of Malath have in store for training. You can find more information at https://shardsofdalaya.com/forum/threads/introducing-zenn-malath-home-of-the-froglok-monks.30868/.

Aside from this, quite a few other patch notes:


Bugs:
- Inge the Voracious now has a loot table that didn't show up before.
- Fixed a crash where if you died with a dot on you the zone would crash.
- Weather effects will display better now.

Features:
We are tinkering with Knights a bit to address some of the issues they face, particularly at higher levels. This is an ongoing process, and while we take on suggestions and such, keep in mind not all of those will make it live. For now however, we are doing the following:

Bash: Increase bash damage for Paladins/Shadow knights. Damage scales off of levels and shield AC. If using a 2hander and bashing, shoulder AC is used instead.

Added a new level 65 paladin spell: Searing Light.

NPCs:
- The beach bum adept has been overhauled to be more player-friendly. When the fight phase is over, players and pets automatically stop attacking him. Players who die mid-fight will be eligible to claim the quest item from him. Any lingering debuffs/items from the fight are automatically removed. Most importantly, he no longer causes zone crashes.
- The Earth Terror is slightly smaller to prevent him from occasionally lodging in the ceiling.

Events:
- The "egg sack" event in Abyss should be a bit less insane now - add damage and hitpoints were tuned down a bit, particularly on harder waves. The fundamentals of the event remain the same.

Spells:
- The Healing Waters spell cast by Celestial Well pets no longer causes players to do the "player takes damage" animation. (thank you to whoever did this by the way!)
- The duration of Divine Rage has been doubled

ITEMS
- Several clickies (primarily gate necks) have had their icons diversified to minimize confusion during inventory management.
- The spell scrolls for Alter Plane: Fire and Alter Plane: Mercy are no longer lore. Also, the latter scroll now has the correct race listing.
- The Strand of Creation's 100% proc rate no longer results in the player constantly doing casting animations each hit; they should now do archery animations instead.
- Bundles and quivers of arrows should now summon stacks of 60 instead of 20. The recipes and such remain the same, it's just an increase in size. A few other clicky range summons will also summon stacks of 60 now as well
- Skeletal Link and Screamblade had their proc rates lowered a bit

NPCs
- A named shade wraith in Deepshade has had its script fixed to allow the mob to spawn properly for the first time. (This happened some time ago but never made it to the patch notes.)
- An Emissary of Shojar has had her aggro radius reduced to avoid her interfering with the level 32 Dher`quc fight in The Oasis.
- Oggok Watchmen and several other NPCs that use the "Oggok Citizen" model are now appropriately large.
- Traekoth, Jr now appears as a ghost dragon instead of a prismatic dragon.

QUESTS
- The FRG WAR guild questline is available for the first time in Sadri Malath; a minor script error had left the guildmaster’s dialog broken for the last 5+ years.
- Lead Artificier Marynni of Lake Starfall no longer misgenders artificiers when speaking about them; also, her brief alignment dialog has been revised for clarity.

SPELLS
- BRD: Angstlich's Appalling Screen has more appropriate spell particles.
- ENC: Nejax's Unmaking Curse uses the same spell particles as the other Nejax curses instead of having no particles at all.
- WIZ: Blades buffs now have thematically appropriate spell particles instead of sharing the same "bones floating upward" particles.
- Corrupt Spell: Mielech's Fury had mana regen increased, which should overwrite lich correctly

MISC
- You will no longer be able to activate most spell-like AAs (like Spellsurge) while feigned, charmed, etc. If you are sitting, you will automatically stand and activate the AA

The following zones should have nearly all summoning removed for mobs below 65, except for raid encounters:
Badlands N/W/S
Bloodied Quarry
Catacombs
Citadel
Cmalath
Crystal Caverns
Darkwoods
Deepshade
Dragon Necropolis
Dreadfang
Dreadlands
East Wastes
Eldenals
Emerald Jungle
Everchill
Everfrost
Faentharc
Field of Bone
Fire Grotto
Forest of the Fallen
Freport N/E/W
Frosthorn
Goblinskull
Gorge of the One-Eye
Great Divide
Great Divide
Haegra Malath A/B
Halls of Misery
Heartland Plateau
Hidden Temple of Yaralith
Highkeep
Kaesora
Kaladim A/B
King's Pass
Lair of the Paw
Lasanth
Mielech A/B/C
Murk
North Wastes
Oasis
Obsidian Shard Mountains
Plaguelands E/W
Plane of Earth
Prophets (city mobs still summon)
Redsun Mines
Redsun Peaks
Remnants of Ikild
Ruins of the First City
Rust
Shrouded Island
Siren's Grotto
Sorcerer's Labyrinth
Sorcerer's Labyrinth
South Wastes
Storm's Sea
Sundered Mountains
Tears of Elael
The Runnyeye Citadel
Undercaverns
Warpstone
Warrens
West Wastes
Whisperling Forest
Wyvernfang

We spent some time looking at necros and mages, particularly how they scale at 65+, and found they were lacking in some areas. To help address that, the following changes were made:


MAGE:
Wind barrage is now a magic resist check, not poison. (bug)
Elemental Barrage:
Cast time: 5.5 -> 3.5.
Recast: 7 -> 0.
Mana: 510 -> 425.
An extra barrage (water/fire/wind/earth) is casted on your target depending depending on what elemental form you have.
Relic Bladewind:
Cast time 5.5 to 3 seconds.
All mage pet heals
Recast: 20 -> 12 seconds.
Til's Elemental Recomposition
Heal: 1215 -> 3000
Transon's Elemental Renewal
Heal: 900 -> 2000
Transon's Elemental Infusion
Heal: 580 -> 1300

NECRO:
Archaic: Claws of the Chill
3.75 seconds -> 3.2 seconds
Added 200 direct damage on impact.
Damage/tick: 765 -> 795.
Runic: Grip of Kaezul
Cast time: 5.5 -> 5 seconds.
Mana: 1020 -> 920.
Relic: Spirit of Kaezul, Relic: Hand of Kaezul
Cast time: 5.5 -> 5 seconds.
Damage/tick 380 -> 420.
Mana: 520 -> 470.
Spell: Scitterpox
6.5 seconds -> 4.5 seconds
Damage/tick 350 -> 385
Mana cost reduced 525 -> 325
Spell: Relic: Marlow's Cremation
5.5 seconds -> 4 seconds
Damage/tick 460 -> 520
Spell: Funeral Pyre of Malath
5 5 seconds -> 5 seconds

The following zones have had nearly all (except special named) summoning capabilities removed for mobs that aren't permarooted and under level 65 (more to come next patch). Please report anything weird!
Murk
Dreadlands
Prophets (city mobs still summon)
Remnants of Ikild
Emerald Jungle
Plane of Earth
West Wastes
East Wastes
Great Divide
Sorcerer's Labyrinth
Mielech A/B/C
Frosthorn
Deepshade
Haegra Malath A
Haegra Malath B
Bloodied Quarry
Forest of the Fallen
Tears of Elael
Freport N/E/W
Plaguelands E/W
Darkwoods
Redsun Peaks
Field of Bone
Gorge of the One-Eye
King's Pass
Badlands N/W/S

In case you missed it, the annual Halloween quest is now LIVE. We also have these goodies:


BUGS:
-Fixed a bug where making a vendor transaction with over 1,000,000 copper pieces would remove all copper from your inventory.
Shadow Knight's Servant Training Tome wasn't healing appropriately when in a group/raid.

ITEMS:
-The drop rate on the RNG Starfall quest item Griffon Eye has been upped to a reasonable amount. (They were previously set to under 2% drop rate.)
-Logistian's Supply Pack has had its misspelled named corrected to Logistician's Supply Pack.

LORE:
-All instances of "Yshtar" in items and book text have been changed to "Ysthar" for consistency.

NPCs:
-The AI of Slimes in Runnyeye has been corrected so they no longer attack other NPCs in the zone.
-Curator Mashira in Newport Sewers now sells Cleric spells for levels 29-49 instead of serving as a redundant spell merchant for levels 1-19.
-Gristle’s respawn time has been corrected from 30 seconds to the intended 2 hours.
-NPCs with the misspelled words "artisian" and "logistian" in their names have been corrected to "artisan" and "logistician."
-Rockling adds that spawn after killing certain Blood Quarry NPCs no longer summon.
-The Wind Hag is capable of melee once again.

SPELLS:
-Buffs should no longer expire in town.
-The following buffs from the Quickness spell line have had their duration increased to better fit with the rest of the spell line: Celerity, Swift like the Wind, Adrecia's Quickening.

ZONES:
-Silent Halls are finally open.
-The fog in Rivervale is once again gray instead of bright indigo.
-The Arena no longer has fog.
-Western Wastes now has an Athica Wizard to attend the MoP portal there.

- The Ward Come Alive: Mobs spawned in this event shouldn't be attacked by npcs in zone.
- Various boss mobs that repopped midfight when night time occurred shouldn't anymore.
- Bunch of items added a 65 recommended level for ~T7 raid loot and up that didn't have a recommended level.
- Something new with treasure hunting.

Evac spots have been updated in Gorge of the One-Eye and Steamfont to not put you under the world.
Misc broken textures fixed.
Fixed some random buffs where the duration wouldn't display correctly.
Totem of the Vicar proc has been fixed (last patch).

- While in Juggernaut's rage, aggro generation is greatly decreased.
- Gravedigger Gumdor's quest has been re-factored to fix some zone crashes. Also killing malicious spirits should give exp now.
- Bloodstorm quest drop rates greatly increased to compensate for increased trash repop rate.
- Wizard Quick Gate is working again
- Bind Wounds should no longer go off when pickpocketing

Update: we still have a couple things to do before we can let the new zone run free, stay tuned, we'll get that done ASAP.


- Muddy runeblade proc has been fixed
- Fixed a bug where taunt could occur to mobs out of line of sight
- Iskkath the Mindful and Misstress Saitha should be super fixed now and hopefully not bug out
- Fixed several buffbot npcs that would cast a buff but only on themselves
- Silent Halls (will soon be) open. Apologies for some last minute updates that need to happen first
- Bloodstorm trash has been increased to be an 8 hour repop to be consistent with other 12-man content
- Familiars and healing wells should work properly again
- A proc bug that could cause crashes has (hopefully) been identified and fixed. If you had issues with Screamblade/Hooptyhork, see if those issues are now resolved
- Group members should no longer poof when going LD, and groups should not suddenly dissolve when there are only 2 people left
- We will be lowering respawn times on some of the older adepts that are still really slow so they are more in line with newer ones. Please be patient while we identify them and get them updated