Welcome to the October Patch Tree. Without further ado.
The portal.dat by Optim Shi (note there are many many dark
majesty icons in there so the portal dat is a less useful roadmap
to the patch than it normally is)
- Official Information
- Pre-Patch
Teaser
- Letter
to the Players
- Rollout
Notes
- Developer
Notes
- Security
Alert
- Town
Crier Sayings
- Have you tried one of those tasty candy
bars? Chocolate and a scrumptious gooey
filling!
- My cousin the alchemist is much more in
demand with his monarchy now that he's
learned how to make those handy trade
elixirs!
- My cousin the archmage got himself a new
Ursuin mask! I've never seen him looking
so shaggy!
- I hate this time of year. I always get
pumpkin stains on my robe...
- The great armorsmiths of each race have
developed new, fabulously ornate regalia
masks!
- To furnish the houses built by the
Arcanum, furniture vendors have appeared
in Zaikhal, Hebian-To, and Cragstone!
- News! Alchemists of Dereth have developed
their craft further! They can now brew
health and mana elixirs that are a little
different, and maybe a little better,
than the ones available from merchants!
- I think I'll go ahead and buy myself some
furniture... But first, I suppose, I have
to figure out what it is those Arcanum
agents want. They're so picky about what
they'll take!
- Those new regalia masks sure are
impressive...
- News! Cooks have created new sweets based
on a strange, sweet food carried by
Monougas!
- News! Agents of an organization called
the Arcanum have built houses that they
will rent out to Derethians in exchange
for some very specific quest item.
- The great armorsmiths of each race have
developed new, fabulously ornate regalia
masks!
- Ulgrim's
Rambles
- I hear tell that Aliester the Loquacious
is retiring. Well, good riddance to him,
the wordy prat. Only man who ever beat me
in a drinking contest... Wait, you didn't
hear me say that.
- Candeth Martine came through here the
other day. He said he'd teach me the
secrets of his magic in exchange for my
Virindi-repulsion techniques. I slapped
him on the back of his glowing head and
sent him packing
- Yeah, I think it's about time I opened up
that other island... Be respectful when
you get there, though. It's my island.
- Yarrr, look at me, I have no head! Oh,
wait, I'm not wearing that thing... Well,
heck, where did I put it? So easy to
misplace...
- Those mansions I've seen are pretty nice,
but nowhere near as nice as the fortress
I built for myself on Asheron's Island.
- You know why the Obsidian Plains aren't
so dense with critters any more? They
heard about how righteously I regulated
the Virindi, and now they're quaking in
terror for miles around.
- I'm a learned sage! I shouldn't have to
put up with this shabby treatment! Get me
another stout, kid!
- I've been to Steiner's Recliners. Nice
wares. Versatile solutions to pre-urban
living.
- Miscellanious Notes
- Bows (nayins, longbows, etc) were buffed to 113%
damage. This vastly improves the chances
than an archer will one day be able to find and
use a bow better than the composite bow in day to
day use.
- Pookie is reported fixed -- doesn't stop
fightning. (Izanki of Morningthaw)
- Locked doors have been removed from the hub
(Abandoned mines).
- New Artwork for the lowly
pyreal (Stephen Veiss)
- Both in your pack, and when on the
ground. I'm sure there used to be three
different stack sizes for pyreal on the
ground, but now there is only one stack
size - the largest, even if you only drop
one pyreal.
Plus, the stack of pyreal on the desk of
the Agent of the Arcanum in Zaikal uses
the old art.. someone slipped with the
continuity? :)
- Tumerok NPCs don't have any new weapons so keep
saving the tokens.
- Decorative
scarecrows are back in game now (They're not
all decorative though)
- Monsters
- Ravlen reports Scarecrows are back with PUMPKINS!
(Cooks, fletchers, & Thrown Weapons dudes
rejoyce!)
- Monougas now drop Monougats
(Cooking Item)
- It's widely reported Ascendant Drudge's magic
resistance has been lowered to 340 and loot has
been substantially improved.
- Scarecrows have returned to the game.
- Olthois have a new look!
- New Items
- Tradeskill Improvements!
- New Alchemy Elixers!
- Stamina Elixers can not be
created at this time per the
release notes.
- Credit for first discovery goes
to Ophelea of Leafcull!
- Alchemy
Health Elixers
- Value 10p
- 70bu
- Restores 70 health
- Use a health infusion
on a health potion.
- Yew Wan Sum notes:
For whatever reason, not
many people seem to do
this. Get anyone with a
healers heart to
replenish your health
while you make them
quickly. At 1 mana per
Heal Other VI, its
virtually free and speeds
the process considerably.
Healing is also viable,
but takes time and
stamina.
- Alchemy
Mana Elixers
- Value 10p
- 70bu
- Restores 70 mana
- Use mana infusion on
a mana poition.
- Aurel of Solclaim
reports Mana Conversion
works in this process.
- New Recepies!
- Dark Chocolate Candy Bar (Typhoid
X)
- Restores 35 points of
Stamina
- 20bu
- Value 45pyreals
- Cannot use mana or health
oil on it
- Recipie
- Monougat
(dropped from a brutish
monouga)
- Combine with a Dark
Chocolate bar
- Milk
Chocolate Candy Bar (Ravlin)
- Restores 35 points of
Stamina
- 20bu
- 45p
- Cannot use mana or health
oil on it
- Recipie
- Monougat
(dropped from Monouga)
- Combine with Milk
Chocolate Bar
- Candied Appled (Silik Millithor)
- Restores 15 Stamina
- 50bu
- 7p
- Recipie
- Monougat
(dropped by Monougas)
- Use on Apple
- New Masks!
- This is old information but relevant.
Take monster heads to the mask makers
found in Eastham, Sawato, and Al-Jalima.
- The masks themselves are mostly old
content, they're being revisited here for
the people who were not in game last
year.
- Scarecrow Mask
(Glue)
- Give scarecrow head to Mask Maker
- Dropped by Shady
Scarecrows
- Tusker Mask
- Give Tusker Head to Mask Maker.
- Mosswart Mask (Pixar)
- Give Mosswart Head to Mask Maker
- Ursin Mask
(Leanne Abracadaver)
- Give Ursin head to Mask Maker
- Note than an Ursin scalp
still gets you an Ursin helm
which is not the same as a mask.
- Zombie Mask
- Give Zombie head to Mask Maker
- Banderling Mask
- Give Banderling head to Mask
Maker
- Dropped by Banderling
Captains
- Drudge Mask
- Give Drudge head to Mask Maker
- Dropped by Drudge
Prowlers
- Skeleton Skull Mask
- Give Skeleton Skull to Mask Maker
- Dropped by Skeletons
- The skull from the 3
towers quest is not
craftable into a mask, if
you try you will lose
this item.
- Sclavus Mask
(Kespel)
- Give mask maker Sclavus Head
- Alexander the deft tells you,
"My girlfriend is afraid of
snakes. Maybe I should get a mask
like that one and go home to her
tonight?"
- I killed a Chromo Sclavus got his
head and got a mask (Falling
Star)
- Inviso Mask (See
Doll Mask)
- Doll Masks (Starbucks of Frostfell)
- Reportedly does not require a
crafter.
- Dropped by Innocent Dolls
- Best place for Doll Masks
is "Aerbax's
Labratory"
(Optim Shi)
- There's about 20-30
Innocent Dolls in there
(they're the only ones
that drop a mask...)
- Give Doll Mask to Mask Maker to
get an Inviso
Mask (F-urax)
- Makes your head
transparent.
- Virindi Inquisitor Masks now make
high-level racial masks
- Koji's Beast
(Picture by Pyros)
- Turn Virindi Inquisitor
Mask into the Sho Mask
Maker in Sawato
- Tsua Kagemata tells you,
"The chances of you
finding a whole Virindi
mask were highly
unlikely, but I seems you
have beat the odds! With
it, I can replicate one
of my people's ancient
masks! Here, take this,
and carry Koji's strength
in your heart."
- Tarion was the first to
make an inqusitor Sho
Mask
- AL 240
- Average to Slash
- Average to Pierce
- Poor to Bludgeon
- Poor to Fire
- Average to Frost
- Average to Acid
- Below Average to
Electiricty
- Spells
- Magic Resist Self III
- Unarmed Combat
Mastery self V
- Requirements
- Difficulty: 100
- Must be Sho
- Unarmed Combat skill
must be 280
- Pwyll's Crown
(Palum)
- Turn Virindi Inquisitor
Mask into the Sho Mask
Maker in Sawato
- AL 250
- Average to Slash
- Below Average to
Pierce
- Average to Bludgeon
- Below Average to Fire
- Below Average to Cold
- Below Average to Acid
- Poor to Electrical.
- Spells
- Leadership Mastery
Self III
- Dagger Mastery Self V
- Requirements
- Difficulty: 100
- Must be Aluvian
- Dagger skill must be
280 or higher
- Veil of
Darkness (Ajax the great)
- Turn a Virindi
Inquisitor's mask in to
the mask maker in
Al-Jalima.
- AL 210
- Below Average against
Slash
- Average to Pierce
- Average to Bludgeon
- Average to Fire
- Average to Cold
- Average to Acid
- Average to Electric
- Spells
- Staff Mastery V
- Invulnerability III
- Requirements
- Difficulty 100
- Must be Gharu'ndim
- Staff must be 280 or
higher
- New Thrown Weapons
- Each racial maskmaker now has a new
"apprentice" NPC
- Tsua's Apprentice tells you,
"Hi, I'm Zoe, Tsua's
apprentice. He wants to make sure
I polish my basic skills before I
move to more advanced things. If
you give me either a skull or a
scarecrow head, I will make a
thrown weapon from them."
- Flaming
Skulls (Ravlen)
- Give Skeleton skull to
apprentice mask maker.
- 10-25 fire
- Speed 10
- Range 4 yards (Based on
strength 100)
- Several new Golum hearts have been added to the
game
- Water Golums drop Water
Golum Hearts now (Fire Star of
Morningthaw, Pic by Optim Shi)
- Can not be carved, cooked,
alchemy, or fletched. Trophy
Smiths eat them (Ravlen)
- Mud Golums drop Mud Hearts now. (Lemming)
- Tusker Backpacks!
- Give a tusker mask to a mask maker
(Ensure you have a free pack slot open)
- It may be a random roll whether
you get a backpack or a tusker
wand.
- Tusker backpack sizes seems to be
random either 6, 18, or 24
(Toilet Duk)
- New Wands!
- Note! Zombie masks will NOT
make wands. (Infernal Machine of
Wintersebb)
- Tusker Wand
- Give Tusker Mask to mask maker
- Note there is a random
chance you will get
either a tusker wand or
tusker backpack.
- Mosswart Wand
(Pixar)
- Give mosswart mask to mask maker.
- Interface Improvements
- New Dungeons / Portals / Quests
- New "Greenspire Portals" have appeared,
useable only by owners of the Dark Majesty
Expansion
- Gats of Harvestgrain was the first to
discover the dark majesty
"greenspire portals" --SE of
Shoushi.
- Greenspire Portal in rithwic 11.1n 59.6e
(Typhoid X)
- Greenspire Portal at 21.3S/1.5E, Yaraq
Eastern Outpost (Bajin of Solclaim)
- New "Widening Gyre Quest"
- Pictorial
and walkthrough
- New Virindi guy by name of Encorto, and a
Virindi in Zhaikal (Boonta)
- Ecorto the Lost Director tells
you, "Greetings, human. Call
me Ecorto. I have disjoined
myself from those who plan your
eradication because I disagree
with their methods. Their plan to
construct a New Singularity in
this realm is madness. Even now
they gather and imbue material to
construct their monstrous dream.
Find the repositories of the New
Singularity in the desert, the
southern mountains and the
Obsidian Plains, human."
Ecorto the Lost Director gives
you Ecorto's
Chisel.
Ecorto the Lost Director tells
you, "Take this chisel,
scrape slivers from the pillars
they assemble, and bring the
joined elements back to me... Be
careful, however. The Singular
material is quite strong, and
could break the chisel."
- Ecorto the Lost Director gives
you Ecorto's
Chisel.
- You can only get one
chisel (Levi Eathann)
- Ecorto the Lost
Director tells you,
"I have given you
the instrument already,
human. Hurry now!"
- The Chisel CAN
break during use.
- Timer in chisel appears
to be less than a day.
(Ashmael)
- Singular Obsidian
Repository (Shelzard)
- Restricted to levels 45-56
- 56s 64.8w (Obsidian Plains)
- Poque reports: Holy moly that is
a crazy place. Easy for the first
four levels, level 52 BM soloed
np. Got to this one corner, where
tumideons, rampagers, tuskers all
spawned practically as soon as
the other one died. There was a
director further in the room,
suspect killin the director may
stop spawn. Myself and Khel and
another killed around 50-60
rampagers before I died and they
recalled.
- Kill Director at end
- Loot
- Obsidian
Director's Mask
- AL 120
- Average to Slash
- Average to Pierce
- Average to Bludgeon
- Average to Fire
- Unparalleled to Cold
- Average to Acid
- Unparalleled to
Electrcity
- Spells
- Impenetrability V
- Focus Self V
- Invulnerability V
- Requirements
- Singular Obsidian
Message Shard
- Give to Diyas Al-Yat
(Virindi Translator,
Zachail)
- Colleague,
A disaster has come to
pass. The fool Ecorto has
broken from our unity,
has defected to the
humans and tells them of
our plans and our
installations around the
island. Be prepared for
the humans to do their
worst. They are barbaric
and crude and worthy only
of destruction, but they
are maddeningly
persistent and clever.
Should our inferiors fail
us, it remains to you to
make sure that your own
reserves of material
remain inviolate.
-- Speaker of the New
Directive
- Singular Obsidian Pillar
- Use Chisel on Pillar
- Get Sliver of
Singular Obsidian
- Use with similar
pieces from the other 3
new dungeons
- Singular Chorizite
Repository (Shelzard)
- Restricted to levels 35-46
- 77.3s, 51.6e (Southern Osteth)
- Report by MenkChui: Lugian
RAIDERS from Gigas to Tiatus and
Virindi Servants and Masters
inside. Singular Lugian Warlord
drops Lore and Lugian Warlord's
Scepter ... which is really a
Mace. All items are dropable
- Kill Lugian Warloard (Gendhil)
- Loot
- Lugian
Warlord's Scepter
- Mace
- 8-16 Bludgeoning
- 1200bu
- Very Slow (80)
- Spells
- Leadership Mastery
Self V
- Blood Drinker IV
- Strength Self IV
- Requirements
- Difficulty 35
- Mace skill must be
220 or greater.
- Singular Chorizite
Message Shard
- Give to Diyas Al-Yat
(Virindi Translator,
Zachail)
- Honored ally,
We are pleased to have
your cooperation and
assistance in this
important phase of our
joint plan. Guard the
mineral well. One of our
own has betrayed us and
provides traitorous
advice and guidance to
the humans. Expect human
raids in your
installation. As soon as
we have completed the
construction of our New
Singularity, we will
assist you in your
efforts to circumvent the
defenses of your home
fortress.
-- Speaker of the New
Directive
- Singularity Pyreal Repository (TikoKura)
- Restricted to 24-36
- 4.2s, 8.9e (Samsur)
- At the end are a bunch off dolls
and raverners. Kill the
"Signular Doll"
- Loot
- Doll Leader's Charm
(Givable)
- Bracelet
- Focus 4
- War Mastery 4
- Diff 100
- War Magic 190+
- Singular Pyreal
Message Shard
- Give to Diyas Al-Yat
(Virindi Translator,
Zachail)
- Servant,
You and your host are the
first line of defense
against the humans. Guard
your charge well. Ecorto
has most likely told the
humans of your location.
Should even one human
slip past your defenses,
you will feel our wrath
and be subjected to such
tortures as were not even
visited upon the meatling
Martine.
- At the end is a Singularity
Pyreal Pillar (Ravlen)
- Final dungeon name
- Combine all the slivers to make a
Fragment of
the New Singularity (Pic by
Ibn)
- Give to Ecorto
- Ecorto the Lost
Director tells you,
"This is what is
required... I will make
you the portal to enter
the Seat of the New
Singularity. Seek out
Levistras and put an end
to the renegade faction's
disastrous plan.
Levistras is vulnerable,
because in his ambition
he has severed his
connection to the home
Singularity, before the
completion of the New
Singularity! Stand back,
lest you interfere with
my casting..."
- Kill Levistras
- Confirmed dead:
- Bodag has struck down
Levistras, the Speaker of
the New Directive! All
across Dereth, Virindi
recoil as the leader of
their movement falls,
severed from the
Singularity. The other
members of the Virindi
inner circle go into
hiding...
No! The New Singularity
was so close to
completion! This is not
an acceptable outcome!
- Loot
- First to kill
Levistras
- Shroud
of Levistras
- This item is unique,
1 per server, ala the
nexus armor.
- This is a robe, you
can not wear armor over
it.
- It is vulnerable to
hollow weapons.
- AL 0
- Average to Slash
- Average to Pierce
- Average to Bludgeon
- Below Average to Fire
- Average to Cold
- Below Average to Acid
- Below Average to
Electrical
- Spells
- Impenetrability V
(+150 to AL)
- Magic Resistance Self
VI
- Willpower Self V
- Invulnerability Self
VI
- Requirements
- Following groups get
the following
- Virindi
Shroud
- This is a robe, you
can not wear armor over
it.
- It is vulnerable to
hollow weapons.
- AL 0
- Below average to
Slash
- Below average to
Pierce
- Below average to
Bludgeon
- Poor to Fire
- Below Average to Cold
- Poor to Acid
- Below Average to
Electric
- Spells
- Impenetrability V
- Magic Resistance Self
V
- Willpower Self V
- Invulnerability Self
V
- Requirements
- Housing
- New "Arcanum" NPCs in each city.
- Per Lopan and John Lenon:
- Agent of the Arcanum tells you,
"Greetings, adventurer. I
have been sent here by the
Arcanum to provide Writs of
Refuge in return for various
items needed to prepare for any
coming turmoil that threatens the
Isparian presence here on Ispar.
Nuhmudira has informed us that
creatures of old may soon be
stalking the earth. And these
creatures hold items of value.
Items that we can use. If you
come across a Crest of the
Falatacot, a Ring of Mummified
Skin, or a Quiddity Crystal, I am
able to exchange a Writ of Refuge
for any one of these items. What
we need may change at any time,
so be prepared."
Apparently the creatures
who hold these items may not be
abroad in the land quite yet.
When they first appear, we shall
herald their presence and repeat
our warning for as long as they
stalk the earth.
Once you possess the Writ of
Refuge, then you have satisfied
the main requirements for
acquiring a home. The Covenant
Crystals also require money and
other minor items, but those
items should not be in short
supply. Enjoy your homestead! One
note: Nuhmudira has set aside a
small number of palatial estates
for those allegiances thought to
be most worthy of their
ownership, and the most generous
with their resources. She has not
opened them up yet, but she will
soon."
- Houses now have level restrictions on them now
(Ferox of Frostfell)
- Cottages 20+
- Villas 35+
- Mansions 50+ (nikkol)
- Furniture Seller NPCs
added
- Craigstone
- Zachail
- Hebian-to
- Housing Commands (From Paraduck)
- @house guest add|remove [character name]:
modifies the house guest list
- @house guest remove_all: removes all
guests from the house guest list
- @house storage add|remove [character
name]: modifies house storage permissions
- @house storage remove_all: removes all
storage permissions from guests
- @house open|close: creates an open house
- @house boot [character name]|all: removes
a player from the house
- @house guest list: shows the current
guest list
- @house abandon: abandon your house
- @house recall: teleports you to your
house
- Bugs
- Trying to inscribe the new flaming skull crashes
AC for some people (Bodag of Leafcull)
- ID an item on a corpse, run away/hop a
portal/whatever... you'll still be ID'ing the
item forever...presumably til the corpse decays
and/or the item itself decays from the landscape.
the ID window does NOT go away. This bug does not
happen (as far as i've tested) if you drop an
item on the landscape, ID it, run/portal/whatever
away. the ID window *will* go away in this case.
(Aten)
- Un-assessed monsters HP %age does not always
decrease, although hit point bar does.
- After casting spells on an item you must close
and re-id the item to see the spells.
- Town criers say "The great armorsmiths of
each race have developed new, fabulously ornate
regalia mask" in reality it's the mask
makers which that masks.
- Helmar Na-el reports: Whenever you're in chat
mode, typing out a message, if someone hands you
an item, you're booted out of chat mode. Not a
real biggie, but it's annoying on quests when
you're trying to type out "Heal!" or
"Help! Tenumbrus Minion one me, a
mage!", someone hands you a Health potion or
another item, and you're doing hotkeyed emotes
for the next 20 seconds...
