Patch 17.34.04

Cool New Stuff

• Berserker skills adjusted. (Just the skills—berserkers are still totally maladjusted.)
  • Thunder Strike
    • Decreased charging time for ranks 1–3 to 0.8 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
    • Decreased charging time for ranks 4–9 to 0.65 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
    • Damage from overcharging every 0.45 seconds
  • Cyclone
    • Decreased charging time for ranks 1–3 to 0.8 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
    • Decreased charging time for ranks 4–9 to 0.65 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
    • Damage from overcharging every 0.4 seconds
  • Vampiric Blow
    • Decreased charging time to 0.8 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
  • Lethal Strike
    • Decreased charging time to 0.8 seconds (maintains full charge for 2 seconds)
  • Unchained Anger
    • Reduced hit point cost
      • Rank 1 : 748 to 640
      • Rank 2 : 1,350 to 884
      • Rank 3 : 2,303 to 1,221
      • Rank 4 : 3,784 to 1,685
      • Rank 5 : 6,467 to 2,329
      • Rank 6 : 10,198 to 3,261
  • Skill Added: Cyclone Intensity
    • Obtained at level 26
    • Cyclone deals full damage, even across multiple targets.
    • Passive
• Added new gear drops for Kelsaik’s Nest (Hard).
  • Bind-on-pickup weapons of similar power to the dreamkeeper series:
  • Fire Talons, Ice Talons (warrior)
  • Emberspar, Frostspar (lancer)
  • Flamewright, Frostwright (slayer)
  • Firewing, Icewing (berserker)
  • Flamecoil, Frostcoil (sorcerer)
  • Firebow, Icebow (archer)
  • Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Ice (priest)
  • Emberneedle, Rimetorch (mystic)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Decreased warrior tank buffs in the Instance Matching system:

Before	Now
Damage	Down 30%	Down 20%
Reaction	Down 70%	Down 50%
Aggro	Up 40%

• Improved drop rates in high-level instances:
  • Labyrinth of Terror (Hard)

  • Ebon Tower (Hard)
  • Kelsaik’s Nest (Hard)
  • Fane of Kaprima (Normal and Hard)
  • Balder’s Temple (Normal and Hard)
• Extended the ruling period for vanarchs from three to four weeks. For those who asked, no, you may not be named vanarch for life.
• The cooldown timer for rejoining a guild (either the previous guild or a new guild) now starts from the moment you join a guild.
  • Formerly, this was from the time you withdraw from a guild.

  • Cooldown changed from 24 hours to seven days, but it starts the moment you join a guild.
• Players now vote to change loot settings in a party.
• Added buffs for using Instance Matching.
  If one or two players apply…
  • Defensive Class (Tank): Attack Speed 4%, Defense 10%, Aggro 20%, Reaction Resistance 30%
  • Offensive (DPS)/Restoration (Healing) Class: Attack Speed 4%, Defense 10%, Damage 10%
  If three people apply…
  • Tank: Attack Speed 3%, Defense 5%, Aggro 15%, Reaction Resistance 20%
  • DPS/Healing: Attack Speed 3%, Defense 5%, Damage 5%
  If four people apply…
  • Tank: Attack Speed 2%, Defense 3%, Aggro 5%, Reaction Resistance 10%
  • DPS/Healing: Attack Speed 2%, Defense 3%, Damage 3%
• New fifteen-minute “Dropout” status added.
  • Applies to players who drop out of a party and party leaders who disband a party after being matched through the Instance Matching system.
  • Does not affect players kicked from parties.
• New “Execute the Executioner” quest added.
  • Changed Chimakur’s spawn time to a uniform 90 seconds and reduced its drop rates.

Bugs Squashed

Known Issues