4 / 17 Patch - Druid highlights

[Fenier]

- Added new spell drops to Meldrath's Majestic Mansion.
- Increased the drop rate slightly for some spells in Crystallos.
- The Adrenal Boost focus effect has been changed to Life Line, which is a mana cost reduction on Pure Life.
- Breastplate worn effects that enhanced one rank of a spell or discipline now enhance all three ranks.
- The Vinelash Ensnare effect triggered from Vinelash Cascade will no longer overwrite the highest version of Entrap.
- The efficiency of Secrets of Faydwer direct damage spells now scales up on higher ranks of the same spell.
- Increased the range of the Wrath of the Wild AA line to match other Damage Shield spells that Druids have.
- Increased the hitpoints and resists of all "Wards" for all classes to make them better able to resist ambient damage.
- Iksar and Wood Elves should be able to increase their forage skill caps after purchasing the forage AA.
- The bobbing effect of levitation has been removed. A new effect that pushes you off the ground about a foot and a half has been introduced.
- Fixed an issue that could place levitated players below the world when entering certain zones.
- Fixed an issue that would cause levitate to fail if a player's mount was hit by a spell (usually an aura).
- Lockout timers linked on many similar long-reuse spells of the same line.

Things changed which did not make the notes:

Fix for Fortified Survival should now be in place. EDIT - did not go in
Clicks and Focii for SoF BPs now added at the Crystallos essence point. The focus has changed to 19% at group level, 25% at raid level for the spell series Purvida

-Fenier

[Aelfin]

fen, i understand you are some kind of optimist but, after this patch, a list of crap that is fuxx0red all to hell would prolly be more useful than a list of possible things updated.

seriously dude, quit whatever job you are doing and get into marketing. naming this post 'druid highlights' is true spin genius.

[Fanra]

Don't blame Fenier for the huge number of bugs introduced, he didn't do it.

He's just pointing out what was in the patch message that applies to druids.

I'll admit that other than the "things that didn't make the notes" that there really was no point to his post, since anyone who can read would see that when they logged in or just read the main post with the entire patch notes in the General section.

As for his "marketing" skills, that is pretty much needed if you are going to deal directly with SOE and the "optimist" is probably the main reason he was picked as CC in the past.

A new "EQ Community Leader" has already made snarky comments about my "tone" toward SOE, he is under the delusion that if he is polite and kisses their butts he will succeed with getting them to pay attention to the players and druids. I already told him I've tried that and gotten nowhere. Let him figure that out himself.

If his "respectful" "tone" works, then good for him. But I'll believe it when I see it.

The day that SOE sends me a message that they want to work with me, that is the day I'll be polite toward them. So far, all I've gotten is garbage in return for my polite suggestions.

[Aelfin]

meh, i'd hope by now fen knows i don't blame him, or any player, for the current state of the druid. the blame rests completely on the devs.
my post was meant to be more of a 'jfc i can't believe how frikken bad sony sucks at patches.' like 1 step forward with those 'highlights', 583641745936 steps backward with the myriad of bugs introduced.

[Brohg]

Be more specific? What's bugged by this patch?

[Fanra]

[Alei Sugar`Nspice]

Don't forget our recast AAs for Survival still haven't been fixed.

[Fenier]

[Fanra]