Patch Notes - 8 September 2007

Stability

• Made several changes to improve server stability and protect against crashes.
• Fixed a crash when clicking the exit button on the launcher.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an “Out of Memory” error when launching the client.

Character Advancement

• The number of Combat Excellence Points (CEP) required to attain each rank has been rescaled as follows:
  
  

  RankLevel	Old CEP		New CEP
  
  Reborn		0		0
  Initiate	6		6
  Disciple	130		40
  Adept		210		100
  Ascendant	300		220
  Expert		510		450
  Master		760		700
  Grand Master	1050		1054
  Paragon		4497		4503
  Eternal		9093		9093

• Made changes to the type and amount of essence required to complete trials:
  • For each Discipline, the first three trials all require Fury Essence (they previously required aligned Essence)
  • Fury Essence is now the dominant Essence required to complete trials.
  • The aligned Essence requirements on a trial are now 1/5th the total Fury essence required.
• Fixed a bug with Ability selection when completing a Trial.

Balance Changes

• Defensive Stance no longer shares a cooldown with the advanced defensive stances.
• All advanced defensive stances now share a 30 second cooldown.
• All advanced defensive stances now grant an additional effect: User is immune to all hostile actions (except Deathblows) for the first 5 seconds the stance is active.
• Remedy, Aid, Treat, Revivify, Rend, Desolate, Ravage and Enervate now remove 3 effects instead of 5.
• Trickster's Step, Unstoppable Strike and Nature's Liberty have all had their cooldown increased.

Matchmaking

• Fixed a bug that could cause only one team to load into an Elimination match.
• Changing matchmaking queues now correctly reports which queue you left to join the new queue.

User Interface

• Made optimizations to the tooltips to improve performance.
• Fixed issues with the Abilities tab of the Journal panel displaying erroneous information about abilities.
• Fixed a bug with the "Unlock Memories" button that could cause it to display incorrectly.
• Screenshots taken via the in-game Bug Reporter now include the interface. Please use the in-game Bug Reporter to report any interface bugs.

Sound

• Made changes to the sound and music system to help prevent some crash issues.

VOIP

• VOIP options changes should now be saved correctly.
• Default volume for outgoing voice chat has been increased.
• Added a volume slider to modify volume of received voice chat.
• VOIP should now be correctly disabled in Bloodbath matches.

Item Broker

• Item Broker now correctly reports that you sold an item when selling to the pawnshop.
• Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause players to be unable to sell to the pawnshop.
• You can no longer sell equipped items to the pawnshop.

Equipment

• The loot display at the end of the match can now be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to spend more gold than they had available at the Durability Repair NPC.

Targeting

• Fixed an issue that could cause your target to be changed automatically before that target died.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed the Instance dropdown menu to correctly show "Abandon Warzone" when in a combat zone.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent Clan creation.
• Characters now spawn facing in the correct direction at the start of matches.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause a character to appear as a headless female with red skin.