Update 41 Patch 2 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 41 Patch 2, released on Tuesday, January 15th.

News and Notes:

Bard visual and sound effects no longer cause client lag and other visual stutters.

Animations for the following Vistani Knife Fighter dual-dagger animations now properly scale with attack speed: Attacking while sneaking, mobile attacks, Cleave, and Whirlwind Attack.
Eldritch Knight Orb Saves now properly grants its Spell Power, and no longer grants effects it was not intended to.
Eldritch Knight Mystic Wards no longer give out unintended levels of elemental resistance.
Eldritch Knight Spellsword no longer drops Dwarven Axe Proficiency from Dwarves when your genus changes (for example, when you become Undead.)

Bard hirelings have received work to prevent locking up under certain combat conditions.

Killing Time raid loot can now be properly updated by the Reacquire Raid Loot Barter Box.
Fixed the flavor text for the kamas found in Lost at Sea.
Armors with so-called "skirt" appearances no longer ignore their color data. This will update the colors of several armors, including Temple of Elemental Evil medium armors.

The green slime in White Plume Mountain can once again be destroyed by a Fire Ball.
Work has been done to prevent erroneous red Dungeon Alert in several quests.
Fixed an issue that was causing twice as many monsters to appear on Epic Hard and Elite difficulty in Tharashk Arena.
Fixed an encounter in The House of Death Undone that caused orange/red alert to occur without appropriate provocation.
Fixed an issue that was causing multiple wave spawns to overlap in In the Belly of the Beast.
Fixed numerous Dungeon Alert issues in Thrill of the Hunt due to monsters being aggro'd behind closed doors.
Fixed a bug with Aloysius Cornwall that made his rescue fire early in Thrill of the Hunt.
Fledren Hull in Thrill of the Hunt has more hit points.

Several retired trophy and bounty-related messages no longer appear in the /quest completion command.

The base body texture of Bladeforged characters is now back to its intended look.
Fixed an effect issue that was causing decreased game performance.
Corrected an issue that was causing the item Buy Back repository to not properly clean itself over time.