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[News] Test Center 1 Has Been Updated

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Posted to <a target="_blank" href=http://www.uoherald.com/news/>uoherald.com:</a><blockquote><span class=osi></p>

<font size=+1> Test Center 1 Has Been Updated</br></font> <font size=-1>Jeremy Dalberg </font>
07 Feb 2008 18:11:04

TC1 has been updated with the following

[*]Changed all Blacksmithing and Tailoring runic intensities. Runics will now better match up to higher end loot. Maximum intensities are now 100% for all tailoring and blacksmithy runics, minimums are as follows: [*]Blacksmithing: <ul>Dull Copper: was 10, now 40 [/list] <ul>Shadow: was 20, now 45 [/list] <ul>Copper: was 25, now 50 [/list] <ul>Bronze: was 30, now 55 [/list] <ul>Gold: was 35, now 60 [/list] <ul>Agapite: was 40, now 65 [/list] <ul>Verite: was 45, now 70 [/list] <ul>Valorite: was 50, now 85[/list] [*]Tailoring: <ul>Spined: was 20, now 40 [/list] <ul>Horned: was 30, now 45 [/list] <ul>Barbed: was 40, now 50[/list] [*]Increased chance for GM smiths to get a hued BOD: +20% at 110 skill, +40% at 120 skill [*]Increased chance of receiving a Valorite BOD [*]Large footwear BODs should now be available in hues [*]BODs now have a 10 second wait time between turnins [*]NPCs now vocally acknowledge a BOD turnin [*]Creatures now give double meat resources in Felucca (except Siege and Mugen) [*]Frenzied Whirlwind now does more damage: 20 - 50 per strike [*]Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots [*]Ancient Wyrms now even more dangerous and powerful [*]Harrower resists and weapon skills slightly lowered [*]Bag of Sending fixed to handle items' weight ranges properly: <ul>1 - 10 stones cost one charge [/list] <ul>11 - 20 costs two, etc. [/list] [*]Broken quest chains can now be resigned from properly [*]Fixed bug where NPCs at the New Haven dock could block escort quests [*]Fixed bug where player can become stuck when trying to leave the Dark Knight challenge [*]Salvage bag: No longer creates overweight situations [*]Salvage bag: Recycles cloth without problems when multiple items exist in the bag [*]Salvage bag: Recovered resources will now stack appropriately [*]Removed monster firecrackers and particle effects on death [*]Blackrock elementals will not be a factor in your Valentine's Day mining activities [*]Disabled Halloween trick or treating [*]Disabled pumpkins from spawning [*]Magincia: Travel spells reenabled [*]Magincia: Permanent teleporters set up between Trinsic and Magincia (near the docks on each), both on solid ground [*]The New Haven moongate (southwest of the city) received worldbuilding updates, and a guard zone [*]Strangle should now be 12 seconds at 120 SS, instead of 11

Valentine's Day Content:</p> [*]Gift box spawns on characters older than 30 days [*]Added three new books of poetry [*]Added new NPC to sell books of poetry, called "Francis the Chapman" inside the Britain Conservatory [*]Rare pink bunnies will now spawn in a few hues throughout the land. Extremely rare purple bunny may make an appearance [*]Added four new "Stuffy Animals" that can be snuggled with at home [*]Added new Valentine's Day cards, in softer pastel pinks and whites. Several new messages [*]Added dark, milk, and white chocolates [*]New park area built around the Yew Waterfalls [*]Added a new Chocolatiering branch to the Cooking skill (Known Issue: the new chocolates only appear on the Cooking menu in 2D) [*]Added new chocolate ingredients that spawn on paragon monsters [*]Live event content
 
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"Strangle should now be 12 seconds at 120 SS, instead of 11". Seems strange, if anything people have been asking for nerf of this. Why the buff?
 
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I bet the dev team play necros, they just want to turn this into necros online!

(I imagine it was a bug in the counter that was fixed rather than a concious effort to boost it)
 
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zarobhr

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What happened to the 5 second delay that we were told it was going to be changed to on turning in bods
 
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Hm, I seem to remember that. I'll pass it along. I suspect it got overlooked in the madness that was November - that, or it did get changed but the actual note didn't get updated.
 
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that what i was just wondering... what is the point of the bunnies?!? just to look at? cause ive found many on test shard and nothing spawns on them, havent tried taming them yet but, they should have like rare colored eggs on them or somethin! all ive came up with so far is ohh i get to look at a rabbit thats lil diff color.. not even special names for em or anything!
 

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OMG OMG OMG!!!!

WE GOT BLESSED BACON AGAIN!!!

The tradition of Wilki lives on...YES! *laughs*

I love it!!

Oh I got a stuffy dragon too! That's so cool!
 

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Dwagon yes....LOL too cute.

I like the gifts they are so cute!!!

TINY piece of chocolate though....I need more!! *laughs*
 
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Pictures someone? Some people are waiting for their payment to get in and are unable to play at the moment (meaning me :p).
 
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<blockquote><hr>

Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots
Ancient Wyrms now even more dangerous and powerful

[/ QUOTE ]

Do you have ANY idea how this is going to affect siege PVP with the already current overpowered tamer bonding issue. Its just NOT right that not bola'ing tamers are going to have an even MORE powerful dragon than the ones that already blast you with 75+ points of damage from crazy spell casting and hits you for 50 damage!

Seriously HOW LONG is it going to be before this little oversight ever gets fixed? probalby not before giving tamers more power on siege.
 
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kennykilleduo

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Alright , I'm mad , the ladies get the goodies , what about us males , we have our needs you know.... Runs quietly off before becomes a UO HR issue......
 
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imported_Gwendar-SP

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Which dragons?

Does this mean that black rock will stop spawning? Will there be a use for black rock?
 

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*laughs* The dragon is just the vet reward statue renamed Stuffy Dwagon
Chocolate is a gem....ruby maybe? renamed Milk Chocolate
Blessed Slice of Bacon
2 cards, I got a white one and a light pink one.
 
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I figured the forum would be full of pics already or I would have taken some.
I got mostly horsies and bears but I did get a red dwagon
and one of my horsies was blue!
yay!
Is it on Catskills yet? Hu Hu is it? Hu?
*blinks*
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What about now???
*blinks again*
Anyone find new content?
Hu hu did ya????
 
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imported_GalenKnighthawke

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Woah.

Big publish!!!

Are those changes "the crafting changes?" Or was there more?

-Galen's player
 
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"Certain" Dragons get buffed? Which ones and how do we tell which are which? I wonder if I will be able to take a new dragon or white wyrm to farm swoop the way I used to with my old cu-sidhe......
 
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imported_wrekognize

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I love the bunny idea. I had this thought when I saw a dark grey sheep one time outside my house. I thought it would be cool if they had a rare black sheep that spawned once every few months.

...
 
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<blockquote><hr>



Do you have ANY idea how this is going to affect siege PVP with the already current overpowered tamer bonding issue. Its just NOT right that not bola'ing tamers are going to have an even MORE powerful dragon than the ones that already blast you with 75+ points of damage from crazy spell casting and hits you for 50 damage!

Seriously HOW LONG is it going to be before this little oversight ever gets fixed? probalby not before giving tamers more power on siege.

[/ QUOTE ]


Risk Vs Reward. You can always go to Tram if you don't wanna get PeeKayyyed.
 
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Al Thorin

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<blockquote><hr>

Do you have ANY idea how this is going to affect siege PVP with the already current overpowered tamer bonding issue.

[/ QUOTE ]
Actually, some of us already have an idea, and I would assume the devs did too since they went live on test officially.

When they were released accitently a little while back, a number of us did testing.

When we tested, the -biggest- danger was not the dragon, but peoples lack of knowledge of them. I watched about 6-8 people try to go after the one LadyNico so kindly trained and gave me, and they were prompty eaten, obviously not expecting the beefier response.

In usage, they are effective, but due to there only being -1- pet, and no mount (this is be a ninja pet in PVP, which needs to be corrected, ninja form should count towards control slots). Since there's only 1 pet, there's only a predictable melee hit, and spells from -1- critter instead of 2.

So far the biggest effect they seem to have, is that it's probably far easier to kill most tamer instead of the dragon.

They do good damage, but I'd rather see one uber dragon headed my way than a beetle/mare, or even normal dragon/mare.
 
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imported_GalenKnighthawke

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And let me add....Has anyone seen the live event content yet? If so, what is it?

-Galen's player
 
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OK...Stuffy Horse is teh cuteness.

I am actually glad they included the blessed bacon again, too. As long as that isn't meant as the main part in any given year, keeping it as a funny reminder of Wilki's "oopsie" one year is good for a UO tradition standpoint, as far as I am concerned.



-Skylark
 
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zackerybarber444

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I asked a dev running around brit bank and she said she cant give out the information yet until she knows that all of other changes are working properly
 
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Ryix (europa)

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<blockquote><hr>

<blockquote><hr>



Do you have ANY idea how this is going to affect siege PVP with the already current overpowered tamer bonding issue. Its just NOT right that not bola'ing tamers are going to have an even MORE powerful dragon than the ones that already blast you with 75+ points of damage from crazy spell casting and hits you for 50 damage!

Seriously HOW LONG is it going to be before this little oversight ever gets fixed? probalby not before giving tamers more power on siege.

[/ QUOTE ]


Risk Vs Reward. You can always go to Tram if you don't wanna get PeeKayyyed.

[/ QUOTE ]

:p

but whatever :p
 

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A little buggy.

I'm getting Verite Runic Items with as little as 68% Intensity (Hit Life Leech 34%).

Agapite at 64% (Hit Life Leech 32%)

Valorite Weapons looks awesome! Wow!
 
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by 12 secs on Strangle yall mean 12 ticks? like 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 (that would be 22 seconds, no?)
 
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Barbed kits need higher minimum intensity. They are the best runic kit yet they are barely better than spined kits.
 

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<blockquote><hr>

"Strangle should now be 12 seconds at 120 SS, instead of 11". Seems strange, if anything people have been asking for nerf of this. Why the buff?

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Necro needs some love, hopfully this is just the beginning

Strangle is easily removed:
remove curse from chiv (only need like 50 chiv for nofail remove curse which is WAY less skill points than to cast strangle nofail, 105 necro and atleast 100 spiritspeak to be effective at all. Not to mention chivlary is STILL the ONLY casting skill with a FC at 4 instead of 2.

apples

remove curse talisman

Dont nerf necros anymore til chiv is balanced
 

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<blockquote><hr>

by 12 secs on Strangle yall mean 12 ticks? like 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 (that would be 22 seconds, no?)

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its 12 ticks now instead of 11 if thats what you're confused about
not 22
 
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Good_Ole_Lefty

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Tested Metal armor. Base resists on metal armor still bite making it undesirable. No noticable GM bonus to resist while using a runic hammer. The properties however are good

Please make metal armor viable for game play.
 
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<blockquote><hr>

New park area built around the Yew Waterfalls

[/ QUOTE ] ?? where is this at?
 
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<blockquote><hr>

Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots

[/ QUOTE ]

Now this I don't understand? Is this a dragon we can tame and why 5 control slots for it, are we forcing the owner to walk every where now??
 
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"why 5 control slots for it"


"Dragons have been buffed"
 

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<blockquote><hr>

<blockquote><hr>

Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots

[/ QUOTE ]

Now this I don't understand? Is this a dragon we can tame and why 5 control slots for it, are we forcing the owner to walk every where now??

[/ QUOTE ]

If you want the greater dragon, yes.

Greater. Dragon.
 
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<blockquote><hr>

A little buggy.

I'm getting Verite Runic Items with as little as 68% Intensity (Hit Life Leech 34%).

Agapite at 64% (Hit Life Leech 32%)


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The intensity of Hit Life Leech depends now on the swing speed of the weapon, so man can not know whether the Hit Life leech are appropriately added without knowing the swing speed of the crafted weapon.
 
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<blockquote><hr>

<blockquote><hr>

Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots

[/ QUOTE ]

Now this I don't understand? Is this a dragon we can tame and why 5 control slots for it, are we forcing the owner to walk every where now??

[/ QUOTE ]

Back in my day we used to run everywhere... we ran from Moonglow to Skara Brae in a straight line without stopping! Not to mention the hills... It was uphill BOTH ways!
 
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imported_ImaNoobieToo

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When what I read on the in testing page has me thinking to myself "spined runics will be pretty good" then something fantastic has happened! Changing the minimum intensity was pretty decent but changing the maximum to 100% WOW!

spined runic can be as good as horned (with more charges than a horned)
horned runic can be as good as barbed (with more charges than a barbed)
barbed runic still makes "the best" but... HORNED RUNICS RULE!

They "can be as good" but usually won't be but still this change is awesome. The difference from a horned runic and a barbed runic is that the barbed runic crafted item MAY have 1 extra property but then again it prolly wont so that makes them even IMO.
 
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oh well guess I will not be getting one of those new pets, its like this dog someone gave me last year, have to be a elf to ride, unless you wear those fur boots/pads they have for human, but I hate that, my tamer is human, wear black sandles and rides a Mare. Now If the Dog would let me ride as Human, I would carry a enty mount to ride like my Daughter's tamer does.

So this Dog has been in my stable for a yr and no one wants it. Its not one of those fancy colored ones that you see all those elf tamers riding.



Now if this new Greater Dragon could be rode, then I go for it.
 
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Connor_Graham

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If that dog is on Pac, I'd be glad to take it off your hands.
 
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RTLFC

Getting an error on test:
Instead of stuffy monbat statue:
Error [MegaCliloc] : Stringld Not Found : 1079984

And for chocolate:
Error [MegaCliloc] : Stringld Not Found : 1079996
 
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AND I AM NOT COMPLAINING..... but just a thought....

Colored bunny statues would have been cool..... (maybe for easter?)
 
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If that dog is on Pac, I'd be glad to take it off your hands.

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god I wish he was, then he be out of my stables, Sorry he is on Sonoma
 

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Sounds like you've not patched your client yet.
 

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One of the best things is that Spined Runics will be the kit of choice for use with spined leather. After all, most people, while looking to build a luck suit for a tamer or bard, are less concerned with other properties, you each spined runic will give you 45 shots at a 130+ luck item.
 
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<blockquote><hr>

If that dog is on Pac, I'd be glad to take it off your hands.

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god I wish he was, then he be out of my stables, Sorry he is on Sonoma

[/ QUOTE ]

That's just my luck. I never have been able to find a combo of good HP's and good resists. I either get one or the other.
 
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