Release Notes: Update 9 Patch 1

Welcome to the Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These release notes were posted on Monday, May 16th, 2011.

News & Notes

Of Special Note:

Crafting Beta

• The crafting level cap has been increased to 75!
• Deconstruction of items now grants players a small amount of crafting XP in the crafting school associated with the essences gained.
• Deconstructing low tier effects on high-end loot will now return more reward essences.
• The ingredient cost to create shards has been significantly lowered.
• A maximum enchantment level of +5 now appears on all standard craftable item blanks. This level determines how much power a given item can hold when adding magical effects through crafting. The items can have their maximum enchantment level increased by crafting Shards of Potential.
  • Recipes exist in all three schools of crafting to create “Shards of Potential” of various strengths that can be applied to a crafting blank to increase its maximum enchantment level. Higher plus Shards of Potential are significantly more expensive to create than lower plus Shards of Potential.
• Bound crafting shards are now Bound to Account instead of Bound to Character.
• It is now possible to deconstruct crafting Shards using the Deconstruction Eldritch Device.
• Crafting recipes will now display how much the minimum character level to equip an item will increase when the recipe is applied.
• The names of essences have been changed for better standardization.
• The "Vengeful Rage" mutation is now a prefix instead of a suffix.
• Numerous treasure mutations have had their enchantment values lowered.
• The Everbright Shard has been consolidated, and can be applied to either weapons or shields.

General Changes

Combat

• The Intimidate symbol will no longer randomly appear over monsters' heads.

DDO Store

• The Lesser Anti-Beholder Crystal now blocks beholder telekinesis attacks.

Feats

• Cleave and Great Cleave are now working correctly for half-orc characters.

Items

• Mineral II greensteel items now have all of their expected effects.
• Older arrow types that went mad with the release of Update 9 have now been made sane, and are back to their proper descriptions.
• Crafted handwraps will now properly apply their to-hit and damage bonuses.
• Bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons will now work properly with smiting, banishing, and disruption.
• Several typos have been corrected in the description of disruption.

Localization

• The Crafting tab is now available on the character sheet for players with localized German clients.

Monsters

• Thaarak hounds are less prone to dancing and falling down, and have new abilities.
• Orange-named mini bosses now get deathblock on epic difficulty.

NPCs

• The Twelve favor patron now gives out a Small Ingredients Bag when first visited.
• The Free Agents now subscribe to the Stormreach Chronicle instead of the Korranberg Chronicle.

Quests

Harbinger of Madness

Fear Factory

• Fixed some DM text.

In The Flesh

• Dead Pykzyl is now able to leave his room and pursue attackers.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Yaulthoon to become unresponsive.
• Parties will now have their soul stones sent to the beginning of the dungeon after a party wipe in the final fight with Yaulthoon.

The Missing

• The mini-boss Pale Fire has been upgraded slightly.
• Auto-opening doors are now selectable.

Inspired Quarter

I Dream of Jeets

• Corrected several focus orbs.

The Necropolis

Ghosts of Perdition

• Ice floors no longer re-form upon dungeon re-entry.

The Twelve

The Tower of the Twelve

• The door to the Eldritch Chamber in the Twelve can now be used normally.

Vale of Twilight

The Shroud

• Fixed a stuck spot.

Races

• Half-orc and half-elf males no longer use the female icon in the Who panel.

Skills, Feats, and Enhancements

• Some enchantment-based effects that inadvertently affected raid bosses no longer do so.

Spells

• The visual appearance of barkskin will no longer remain on characters after the effect wears off.
• Solid Fog's reflex penalty now works on bosses and raid bosses, and has been fixed to apply the correct -5 penalty to creatures within the spell's area of effect.
• Acid Fog's tool tip now states that enemies within its area of effect suffer a -4 penalty to Armor Class.

UI

• When receiving a quest from an NPC, the yellow guidance arrows in the mini map now point at the correct dungeon entrance. Quest Journals correctly default to the most recently-bestowed quest instead of the alphabetical first on the list.
• The Escape key can now be used to close Barter UI and Crafting UI windows.
• The focus orb has been fixed for the Gnollish War Bow.

Other Changes

• Fixed a bug where shadows were not displaying properly with DX10 and DX11.
• Moving can now interrupt the /death command.