Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Item Shop Changes
  • Breed change is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Gender Change is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Side Change is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Faction Increase is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Premium XP buff nano is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Premium Grid nano is now sold in the itemshop.
  • New buff cans are now sold in the itemshop.
  • Nascence, Elysium, Scheol, Adonis, Penumbra and Inferno Garden Access are now sold in the itemshop.
  • Premium Nano and Healing Kit is now sold in the itemshop.
  • Saved Location Recall Beacon is now sold in the itemshop.
  • The window for item shop should no longer be possible to expand beyond shop size.
Seasonal Updates
  • Uncle Pumpkinheads, Entwines and Elfleets should now be equipped with this year's seasonal goodies.

Market Updates
  • It should now be possible to upload multiple items to the market inventory at once.
  • The 'quick sell' screen now shows a warning at the bottom informing players that trades are final.
  • Order list 'i' button should link to the right QL on in the market
  • It should now be possible to sort on the various columns on the order page.
  • Thousand separators have now been added to the credit values in the market.
  • The listing durations for orders have been extended to 14, 28, 42 and 56 days. The fees for these order durations are 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2%.
  • It should now be possible to modify the price on buy and sell orders.
  • The QL drop down should no longer clip outside the window.
  • Buy and sell orders with high price should now display the correct price.
  • Items returned from the market should now have the correct log entries.

NPC Updates
  • Monsters in the Smugglers and Mantis den have improved their insurance plan and should now re-spawn more quickly.
  • Xark and Razor have decided to reduce their lunch hunt from 7 hours to 2..
  • Asanon has stopped hiding inside an invisible wall in inferno.
  • Pets have gained an increased resistance against the damage caused by the shadowlands spirit DOTs.
  • The malahs in Alappaa have spoken with their sisters and learned to stun enemies instead of slowing them down.
  • The Predators in Alappaa have increased their cooperation skills and will now debuff their target's critical hit resistance instead of slowing their enemies down.
  • The Shadows in Alappaa are sick of being kited, and have decided to change their stun proc to a snare proc.
  • The damage of the Molokh Spawns has been reduced a bit.
  • Frozen Steps from Unnatural Ice should no longer affect pets.
  • Various npc nanos have gotten their icons replaced with new modern icons.
Item Updates
  • The Fancy black dress now shows enough melons!
  • We have now cleaned up the last items that unintentionally flag players.
  • The Kyr'Ozch Nano Protection Ring should no longer have zone validation.
  • Chunk of smoking rock should look less purple.
  • The Veteran Token now displays the proper criteria.
  • We removed the of Night Vision effect on Advanced Scent Sensor, as it was considered annoying.
  • The new subscriber tokenboards now have Zone Validation.
  • The Refresh Terminal in the PvP area "SBC-Xpm Site Alpha-Romeo 29" is now working properly.
  • The OFAB NT Helmet should no longer add nanocost instead of subtracting it.
  • We have removed the unique flag from various items: Empty Ancient Device, Ancient Containers, Finely Refined Notum, Metawater Repellent Spiritech Suit, Hyper-Radiation Protection Skin and Glasses, Lava Protection Boots and Skin Galvanizer, Hold Hell at Bay, De'Valos Protection Ring, Carlos/Allyssas armor, Alien Augmentation Devices, Carioso Menthol Pseudo-Coffee Block, Fink Fragrant Morning Enhanced Coffee Block and Hollow Island Token Boards.
  • Experience constructs, Shop Buyable XP buffs, PVP xp buffs, and seasonal XP buffs will no longer stack with Bureaucrat XP aura. They will however have a much higher xp multiplier to make up for this change.
  • The Token Boards should now be fully upgradable to Subscriber Token Boards when you have the right amount of tokens!
  • Zone Validation has been removed from Hold Hell at Bay.
  • Turn Spirit Flesh Pouch no longer has broken criteria.
  • The Scourged Bracer of Jobe should no longer get you stuck inside the Research and
  • Training Biosphere in Jobe Research.
  • Items with special characters have been re-exported without them and these items should now display properly in the market.
  • The Gunships should no longer have energy.
Client Updates
  • The /mentor" command should no longer allow you to spam multiple invite boxes on other players. (You guys need to start playing nice with the other kids! )
  • The yellow dot that represents your character on Battle Station map should now be on top of the star icons.
  • The keyboard input should be directed to the password field by default.
  • Deleting mails should now be easier.
    Sitting should no longer be required for hitting ALF+F4 twice to exit the client.
Nano Updates
  • The unpolluted crystal spawned by the "Boon of Ergo" nano programs should actually spawn and no longer be temporary items. We hope this will provide a tranquilizer for the Meta-Physicists that have been slamming their heads against the control tower.
  • The Fixer evacuation grid nanos can no longer be used when you just zoned in to prevent that you attempt to zone before you are able to. Once you are able to zone, the nano programs can be used normally.
  • All the Shadowlands Maps are now available for all professions!
  • The Veteran Nano: Insight into the Shadowlands now includes all maps!
  • Adventurer nano "Nano Crystal (A Clear Sense of Scheol - Extended (Team)" obtained from "Knowledge of the Yuttos" Quest line in Sheol is now named "Nano Crystal (Pr0n0wnzm3nt 0f H4xx)" and will turn the adventurer in to a shadowleet. It will also increase the adventurer's Concealment skill by 424 points and be sharing the nano line with other concealment buffs.
  • All long term XP buffs have been sorted in to the same nano line
  • Bureaucrat and Adventurer XP buffs will now be equally powerful and include xp numbers from both buffs.
  • The Sauna XP buff will give an xp buff equal to the weakest bureaucrat XP buff.
  • Veteran Leet transformation is now self only, to prevent people from spamming the morph on other players. The premium version can still be used on other players every 30 seconds.
  • Raid Buffs have been given a zone validation and can no longer be utilized by players below their intended level range.
Mission Updates
  • All alien daily missions in the unicorn hub (APF) should now allow you to use the agency teleporter.
  • Various mission nanos have gotten their icons replaced with new modern icons.
  • The unionist pvp-quests are now much more team friendly, offering the quest item for everyone in the team who has the quest.
  • Daily Mission: Famous Last Words: you will no longer be able to click on the page you already have picked up, this is to ensure that the pages will not despawn as often - making it easier for you to find a page
  • OT Tailor is less hungry when a player hands him a piece of rollerrat flesh when they don't have the proper quest.
Vendor Updates
  • Shining Nano Knot of Swimming has been removed from the tradeskill vendors.
  • Market Floor plans have been removed from Uncle Bazzit shop.
Environment and Formula Updates
  • We have changed the SL environmental damage to deal "nano damage" to prevent the player's damage add to increase the damage.
  • The Non-Instanced Pandemonium will now properly require you to have the Pandemonium Map Nano running, the Map Nano is obtainable by killing the Geosurvey Dogs.
  • The PvP flag no longer lets team members damage each other through the use of pets or perks
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Breed changes ftw! Now I think I should start back on my shade, but as an opi...

Interesting the removal of the unique tag on the hhab, boots and EADs too.

I wonder is the xp nano re-useable?
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Does Breed and Side change require you to be naked?
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Normally yes for breed, side not sure.
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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i assume side wouldnt, but you may run into that play shift thing with token boards and keys
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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EVERYONE can now be a TROX!!!!

DO IT!
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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Not sure I'd switch, being one of the original Nanomage docs. Too much nostalgia?
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I wouldn't change anything personally before professions rebalance. Unless you are stuck with something.
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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with very few exceptions, most professions are pretty viable with most breeds now. I was consdering changing to opi shade for the increased ability to hot-swap alphas between combat and defence and for the much, much easier time opi has over trox with spirits in general.

Having said that, there isnt much else I would need to get to be able to put in alphas, or high betas on the Trox shade. But not sure the high amount of work is worth the slight extra HP and AR.
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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It sees that, currently, there are more people moving from Trox to another breed than becoming Trox. Equipment concerns I assume? Also I haven't seen that many changes globally.
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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I think for the most part people will move from what they rolled such as soli or trox and move towards the preferred breed such as opi and nanomage. For example rolling a trox fixer then realising nano pool issues are too bad or symbs are too hard so they go back to opi. Having said that I doubt too many people will use the service initially.
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Re: Patch 18.5.2 release notes

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trox looks the best, and we all know that looks are more important than anything else...and nobody fills out the thong like a trox!
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