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Les notes de version de la session #5
Bullroarer Update 21.3 - Beta #5 - Preview and Release Notes
Welcome to our fifth open preview of Update 21.3. These notes are for Bullroarer, released on Thursday November 30th. Both the notes and the update are a work in progress, so you should expect things will change over time. We look forward to hearing your feedback and receiving your bug reports. The server is expected to remain available through noon (server time) Monday 12/4.
Please feel free to copy your current live character to Bullroarer using the LIVE transfer wizard. Any characters created or copied over the last month remain intact. Please remember that deleting a character will not allow you to re-copy from live worlds.
Focus for this Beta:
Please join us this weekend and provide feedback on The Abyss of Mordath Raid and additional changes that have been made to Monster Players. For the raid, the final boss fight should now be accessible and contain more of the final mechanics. We look forward to your feedback on tier 1 and tier 2 runs. Please note that the tier 1 locks have changed and some gear tweaks have also been made since the last preview. For Monster Player characters, several changes have been made to base Monster Player stats and traits. While this work is not yet complete, it should be an improvement from the prior set of changes. Your feedback on how these changes work in action would be greatly appreciated.
Known Issues:
- The Master of Mordor Lore, Keeper of Mysteries, and High-enchanter barter vendors have not been completely updated. They contain some duplicated items, some mis-priced items, and some incorrect items.
- Any "of the Abyss" set bonus helms acquired during previous Bullroarer sessions are no longer relevant (and no longer have set bonuses). This is intentional. The set bonus helms are now crafted items.
- A small selection of gear from the Gorgoroth instances (Expeditions Vanguard cloak & bracelet, Mordor's Bane necklace & shoulders) are broken and missing in this particular build.
- Equipment that drops in the raid should bind to account (once the bind on raid group has expired) and only bind to character on equip. Currently anything not in a selection box is bind to character on acquire (once the bind on raid group has expired).
- The Abyss of Mordath third boss challenge has not been fully hooked up and third boss chests have not be placed in this build.
New in this build:
- Monster Player character base stats and traits have been adjusted. Generally this should increase Creep mitigations and reduce the overall damage of critical hits (on both sides) by increasing critical defence while decreasing crit magnitude bonuses. Some racial bonuses were also updated. As before, this is very much a work in progress and benefits from feedback, so please take these changes out for a spin in the Ettenmoors.
- Beorning Skill - Expose - Now usable in Bear form and Man form. In Man form skill will continue to apply mitigation reduction of +40%, but in Bear form the skill will apply a mitigation reduction of +15%.
- The Caparison of Elessar's Host has a new icon.
- The Featured Instance cap level rewards boxes will now drop either an Enchanted Gorgoroth Adamant or 2 Slivers of Black Steel. The Enchanted Gorgoroth Adamant will now disenchant for 40 Ashes of Gorgoroth.
- Bound Black Steel Keys will now be bound to account.
- PvMP - Black Arrow Explosive Arrow delayed AOE damage will only affect Free Players in the Ettenmoors and PvMP Osgiliath. The delayed AOE damage will no longer affect npcs, player pets, or mobs.
- PREVIEW: Added many French and German localized strings for 21.3.
- PREVIEW: JWBarry in the tavern basement will now complete Abyss of Mordath discovery, tier1, and tier2 completion deeds for level 115 characters.
Notes:
- To enter the new Raid, you will need to Discover the Abyss of Mordath. Find the door in the Chamber of the Watchers in the lower levels of Barad-dur (Western edge of the Barad-dur map on the lower corridor branching).
- Abyss of Mordath - The new raid uses a new raid lock technology that separates weekly raid quest progress from raid chest looting. There are weekly 'The Abyss of Mordath (Tier X)' quests. The state of that quest (current objective) will allow you (and your raid group) to skip past the the bosses defeated by the first member of the party to cross the line at the beginning of the instance. Simply use the banner pole.
- Instance chests can now drop items that are "Fellowship Tradeable". These items can be freely traded amongst fellowship / raid members that were present in the instance space when the chest was created, until the Fellowship Tradeable timer expires. These items will list a "Item binds in:" timer in their tooltip. These items cannot be mailed or auctioned. These items cannot be stacked until the Fellowship Tradeable timer expires. Currently only The Abyss of Mordath chests use this new tech.
- Abyss of Mordath rewards:
- Incomparable set gear will drop from raid chests (in a picker box so you can select the set piece right for your character). This incomparable gear will be item level 345, and will have a chance to receive bonus item levels when it comes out of the box.
- The Incomparable set gear helms, incomparable pocket items, and incomparable necklaces will be craftable items, and will require a fragment of the abyss crafting component from the raid.
- An Incomparable item level 345 cloak will drop from raid chests.
- Incomparable item level 345 Grand Abyssal Runes will drop from raid chests.
- Other incomparable pieces from the raid (essences, other jewellery) and all rare gear from the raid will be item level 337.
- Once you have completed the Tier 2 raid deed, you will be able to barter for all of the incomparable raid gear on the Masters of Mordor Lore. This allows you to use Ash of Gorgorth to barter for pieces that just haven't dropped for you in the raid. The bartered gear does not have a chance to receive bonus item levels. Note that npcs in this current build may have some gear incorrectly available for barter.
- Item level 337 incomparable armour (without set bonuses, not including the helm), rings, earrings, bracelets, offhands, and essences will be available in Gorgoroth lootboxes.
- Rare item level 337 gear of all types will be available in the raid, in Gorgoroth lootboxes, and for barter with no restrictions.
- Preview - PvMP: Many Monster Player stats and attributes have been adjusted as a start to achieving better balance in the Ettenmoors and Osgiliath. THIS WORK IS NOT DONE and we welcome continued feedback!
- The npc "Dust" in the Eyes & Guard tavern stairwell offers a quest that rewards Ash of Gorgoroth.
- Eyes & Guard tavern: Vastin's Mordor Relics T1 box now has Rare and Incomparable Vanguard Runes of Force, Healing, and Power.
- Preview - Eyes & Guard: 'Cursed' gear in the "Mordor I <armour type> Abyssal" & "Mordor I <armour type> Wyrm" boxes available from Vastin has been replaced with non-cursed pieces.
- Eyes & Guard tavern - Dust requested a make-over. She no longer looks like a swirling dust cloud.
- Preview - New quests in the Eyes & Guard tavern:
- Ransroth in the tavern now has 'Mordor - Conquest of Gorgoroth' reputation quests.
- Karst in the tavern now completes the Throne of the Dread Terror deeds and grants Throne of the Dread Terror tokens.
- Rock in the tavern basement now has quests for Silver Signets of the Thandrim and North Ithilien barter items.
- Dungeons of Naerband - A new chest has been added for players who make it out of the Dungeons of Flame section of the Instance.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Voice over and dialogue text was added to major Boss attacks. Dialogue text has been added to Orc and Uruk mobs for some of their attacks.
- Dungeons of Naerband - The door to Thraknûl's area should reset more reliably when the fight resets.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknûl's Chains of Malice attack includes an induction and different effect icon.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Damage done by the anti-healing debuffs has been reduced.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknûl is more resistant to unintentionally resetting when being kited.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Fewer trash mobs will spawn between the first and second boss fights. Additionally, area-of-effect damage from Thraknûl and the Flame-spirits has been further reduced.
- The first door in The Court of Seregost can now be opened in combat (but remains locked during the boss fight) to prevent players from getting stuck inside.
- Ash of Gorgoroth has currency cap of 10,000.
- North Ithilien Essences are now bound to account by default.
- Missing farming ingredients were added to some Crafting Suppliers.
- Steed of the Moon Moth naming inconsistencies are cleaned up.
- The mount collections that previously granted titles have been replaced with deeds. To advance one of the mount collection deeds, you must use that mount skill (from the mount collections panel or from skill panel, mounts tab.) New mount collection deeds/titles have also been added for the 2015 & 2016 Festival steeds, Goat mounts, and Gondor mounts!
- The 2017 Festival Steed deed has been added.
- Lore-master Class Items "Book of Beasts", class items at level 20, level 30, and level 40, now give minor bonuses to pet stats.
- Skills - Lore-master - Inner Flame - Duration halved from 10s to 5s. Fire Damage buff increases at an accelerated pace to compensate. Healing increased.
- Tier 10 Captain Armaments may now be bartered for exchange receipts.
- Crafting - Universal Ingredient Packs may now be used on select Westemnet Guild Recipes.
- Crafting - Certain Jeweller recipes which did not allow you to inscribe critical outputs now allow it.
- Crafting - Westemnet and Doomfold Captain Armaments now provide significantly more armour to heralds.
- Crafting - The Anorien Expertise Token may now be consumed in a recipe also available from skirmish barterers.
- The stable travel route to the First Hall should now drop you off in the correct spot in front of the stable master.
- The quest "Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Agarnaith" now rewards the correct reputation.
- Human female mood animations have been updated.
- Players who have logged out in the Vales of Anduin may be sent to Archet upon logging in. This is because the absolute location of the Beorning starting area has been moved. Other than this possible teleport, you should notice no difference in the Vales of Anduin.
- Equipment - Level 105 Featured Instance Armour sets will once again be item level 222.
- Crafting - Fragments of Gorgoroth Dungeons will have the proper plural name when stacked.
- Instance: A Trap for the Creature should no longer break when using the flat stone too soon.
- The Court of Seregost: Black Númenórean-slayer deed now indicates how many need to be defeated.
- The Weeping Reeds in Agarnaith for the quest Flora Investigation are now visible above ground.
- Coldan and Hithgol in Dor Amarth have been cosmetically adjusted to better suit their role and surroundings.
- Camp site fires in Taur Druadan, Lossarnach, and the Wastes now allow Burglars to Contact Pedlar.
- The Lossarnach quest "The Smoke Lures" no longer requires Orcs to be defeated.
- Recent mounts such as Steed of Elessar's Host, Sunflower Steed, Rescued Steed of Agarnaith, Goat of the Harvest Sky, and Steed of Eldar Autumn have been added to the Mounts Collection display.
- The Lossoth Steed and Steed of the Dusk-watch now have correct source information in the Mounts Collection panel.
- The Skeleton Steed Rider Bundle can now be used (opened) even if you already have the Riding trait.
- Minor performance improvements were made to the loading of the mounts collection page. Please let us know if you notice anything failing to load properly.
- The Quartermaster "Conquest of Gorgoroth Rewards" now carries a slate of new housing items including statues, stained glass, and decorative flower garlands.
- The character panel no longer hides equipped items that are in the loot filter.
- The cat wander sequence plays smoothly now.
- When a quest is filtered but underway, characters can still interact, advance, and turn in the quest.
- Players should no longer see a Free Hobbit Present button immediately following the redemption of a free present.
- To fix an issue that could prevent their use, the Poorly Hidden Chest, Out-of-Place Strongbox, Out-of-Place Lockbox, and Out-of-Place Chest in the haunted burrow will now disappear and respawn after each opening.
- Gorgoroth Scourge Spoils boxes no longer include Gondor Silver Pieces or Anórien Sealed Wax.
- Rare spawns have been added in Agarnaith and Dor Amarth. This allows Hidden Threats of Gorgoroth to be able to be completed.
- Captain Skills - Dropping power cost from motivating speech and improved motivating speech.
- Items - Took in the Hole Hobnanigans recipe now properly provides +5% incoming healing.
- Lore-master pets and Captain soldiers were collecting mobs from a greater area of landscape than desired. Their aggro radius has been halved.
- Collections panel model views are now slightly bigger.
- Kinship leaders are no longer required to abandon a premium kinship house to receive housing writs prior to disbanding a kinship.
- Various small bug fixes for Ilex branches spawned in tree, the exit to Boffin Manor, two patrons in a Bree auction house are sitting on nothing, an invisible water volume, Ralthat's awkwardly positioned shield, floating planks of wood, a floating bush, an oddly misshapen rock formation, and an npc floating over bench.
- The quest bestowal UI in German should now correctly fit the indicators for solo, small fellowship, fellowship, and raid quests.
- Portions of Agarnaith should no longer be overrun with limitless cave claws.
- 'Daily Request: An Errand for Frodo' has been restructured. Now the random spawns of Imprisoned Nurnhoth in Naerband have been replaced with static spawns, and should be a less frustrating experience.
- Additional quest guide info has been added to Mordor quests: The Caretaker, Treasures Forgotten.
- During the quest 'Stolen Supplies' Viznak and the Ranger will no longer occasionally disappear before you can interact with them.
- Inn League members should once again be able to obtain the Inn League Notable and Senior Inn League Member deeds/titles.
- Minor texture adjustments have been made to the Autumn Leafmail Dress to address the dark skirt underlayer.
- The background image for the credits has been updated and the credits music updated to 'Ever On'.
- All Gorgoroth leg armour pieces now have the correct light or medium armour values for their weight.
- Corrected the icon for Mordor's Bane and Expedition's Vanguard leg armour.
- Gorgoroth Steel-bound lootboxes now carry new housing items, including statues of Sauron, watcher statues, and a way to play "The floor is lava".
- The respawn timers on the Haunted Burrow Poorly Hidden Chest, Out-of-Place Strongbox, Out-of-Place Lockbox, and Out-of-Place Chest have been halved.
- Kite cosmetic pets will now settle at a lower height when you are indoors.
- Level 106 - 115 landscape mobs will no longer have a chance to drop incomparable equipment. Mobs in the resource instances will continue to drop incomparable equipment.
- A variety of landscape bugs were fixed including rock texture missing in Lhingris, a stuck spot in the Ruins of Barad-dur, a floating pillar in Udun, an area in Dum Boha that was tagged as part of Mordor rather than as part of the Wastes, a bridge in Dum Boha that you could fall through, floating resource nodes in various areas, and an unintentional underwater slag pile hidey hole.
- Sighterseer's Trousers will no longer change color based on the dye applied to your chest piece.
- The High Sorcerer of Harad in the High-elf starting area has been given an appropriate weapon.
- You can no longer disenchant items if you do not have room for the resulting Ash of Gorgoroth.
- Cooks have a few new Doomfold recipes automatically granted to them.
- Some gloves and helmets available at the skirmish camps, as well as cosmetic rune-keeper satchels are no longer invisible on High-elf characters.
- Mounts - Steed of Agarnaith now offers 68% move speed and 250 Morale, an improvement from its previous stats.
- The featured instance rotation has been updated to feature a new selection of instances. 'The Dome of Stars' replaces 'Lost Temple', 'Great Barrow - The Maze' replaces 'Sammath Gul', 'Fornost Wraith of Fire' replaces 'Dungeons of Dol Guldur', 'Sunken Labyrinth' replaces 'Halls of Night', 'The Ruined City' replaces 'StoneHeight', and 'The Battle for Erebor' replaces 'Barad Guldur'.
- Preview - Malleable Shadow Essences are now unbound and fully tradable.
- Naerband and Seregost instance chests now have a 1-day lock on them. Equipment drop rates for these chests have also been increased substantially.
- The Camp of the Host milestone skill now has its own icon.
- Gorgoroth Instances - 'of the Wyrm' and 'of the Abyss' shields have an updated appearance.
- Item levels in pending loot reflect the actual level of the item when it is obtained.
- A Reflecting Pool for the Wastes has been added to Haerondir, allowing you to replay many instances from that region.
- A Reflecting Pool for Gorgoroth has been added near the Ruins of Dingarth, allowing you to replay many instances from that region.
- The Gorgorth Daily Expedition quests now award 2 Slivers of Black Steel each so that you can earn Black Steel Keys equally from any daily expedition.
- Mounted combat 2-handed combat animations have been adjusted to reduce clipping through the character avatar.
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