Update 32 Release Notes

Special Note:

Against the Slave Lords

Cannith Crafting

News and Notes:

Classes

• The Paladin Past Life feat now lists its correct Healing Amplification.

Enhancements

• The elf enhancement's Fey Energy Tap now states incorporeality, not concealment.
• Pale Master's SLAs have had their descriptions updated to include things like hit point cost, metamagic usage, and other things.
• Pale Master's Cloak of Night now clarifies that it will reduce the amount of healing received from Positive Energy, or Negative Energy if you are undead.
• Sorcerer's Water and Fire Savant no longer asks if you are a warforged twice.
• Arcane Archer's Elemental Imbues no longer say they only do acid damage.
• Paladin's Knight of the Chalice positive healing amplification now matches its actual effect.
• Gnome and Deep Gnome SLAs now properly contain text about what the SLA actually does, instead of just telling you the spell's name.
• Arcanotechnician's Arcane Mechanism no longer gives 100 times as much Spell Power as it was supposed to.
• Repair Systems now works on players and the Artificer Iron Defender.
• Merciful Shot now scales with Ranged Power.

Epic Destinies

• Epic Destinies that grant Ranged Power now list the benefit in their Tier 0 tooltips.

Favor

• Players will now earn their proper rewards above 5,000 favor.

Feats

• All Single Weapon Fighting feat tooltips now properly attribute attack speed to a combat style bonus.
• Stunning Fist now has its DC listed in its tooltip (10 + (Character Level/2) + Wisdom modifier).

Items

• Light, medium, and heavy armor found in randomly-generated loot can now appear with many appearances that existed prior to their removal in Update 14. As a result, the number of visual possibilities on randomly-generated armor has greatly increased.
• Collectibles have been added to the following Dungeons:
  • The Devil's Details
  • Multitude of Menace
  • Palace of Stone
  • Precious Cargo
  • A Study in Sable
  • Tavern Brawl
• Hide armor once again appears in randomly-generated loot. Hide Armor is Medium armor, and identical to Scalemail, except it has a different look, is made of leather, and can be equipped by druid wolf pets.
• Randomly-generated weapons now generate either martial or caster effects on a given item.
• Scepters once again appear in randomly-generated loot.
• Insightful Spell Power can now rarely appear on randomly-generated weapons.
• Some scaling effects have had their benefits corrected:
  • On-crit Intelligence and Charisma drain effects no longer drain Dexterity instead of their correct stat.
  • On-crit Wisdom and Constitution drain effects no longer drain Strength instead of their correct stat.
• Force Spellpower now grants spell power to untyped and physical magical damage in addition to force damage.
• Cannith Challenge gear has been updated to use new scaling effects that increase in power as the items are upgraded. These items no longer use Cannith Crafting.
• Good, evil, chaos, and law damage effects now break DR.
• Collectibles used in Cannith Crafting now stack to 500.
• Fixed an issue where the Broken Music Box's Cacophonic Guard caused performance issues by applying hidden copies of the effect.
• Fixed some items that were showing string table errors during certain display conditions.
• Spell Focus Mastery now works correctly.
• Ranged weapons now carry their correct power values for on-hit effects.

Monsters

• Epic and harder Hezrous, Umber Hulks, and Slaad now have epic rocks, and enjoy throwing them at you.
• Several Monster Manual typos and other issues have been corrected.

Quests and Adventure Areas

• The Hall of Heroes has had its music changed.
• The Hall of Heroes has new rugs.
• The exit loading screen in Don't Drink the Water has been fixed.
• The guild airship Sellswords Tavern amenity no longer grants +40% movement speed in quests.
• Players in Three Barrel cove will no longer see the Fog of War in the public area of the landscape.

Races

• Gnome SLA DCs now state that their DC is Character Level + Intelligence Modifier + Illusion DC bonus.

Spells

• Divine Punishment now has its max caster level specified.
• Further work to prevent lag caused by Freedom of Movement.

UI

• The Help Window will no longer reappear when a character exits a portal space.
• There is now a Quest panel tab for Hall of Heroes Classics, including Against the Slave Lords and Temple of Elemental Evil.
• Various quests have had their tooltips in the Adventure Compendium fixed.
• Various quests have been moved from the "Misc." tab in the Quest Journal to their actual quest locations.
• Quest from the Trials of the Archons adventure pack now appear under a new Quest Journal tab "Shavarath - Archons".
• Quests from the Temple of Elemental Evil and Against the Slave Lords no appear under a new Hall of Heroes tab in the Quest Journal.