Highlights

Wonders of Gond has been updated!  Starting after maintenance on Thursday, March 24, players will be able to see the following changes to the event.

• Wondrous Cogs (Rank 2) and Wondrous Sprockets (Rank 3) now only require a Wondrous Grommet (Rank 1) to upgrade, rather than others of the same rank.  This is intended to make the path to the Wondrous Gadget (Rank 4) more straightforward.
• A new version of the Apparatus of Gond is now available from the Creations of Wonder pack.  The Embellished Apparatus of Gond has a sleek, silvery, polished look, has a Crescent, Enlightened, and Universal slot, Speed of the Wind (110% like other Epic quality mounts) for movement, and its Equip Power causes your Daily Powers to refill 15% of your Action Points over 10 seconds.
  1. The Creations of Wonder pack now drops a Wondrous Apparatus of Gond instead of the original Apparatus of Gond.  This Wondrous item, when consumed, allows the player to choose either the original Apparatus of Gond or the new Embellished Apparatus of Gond.
• The Creations of Wonder pack now drops an Insignia of Gond when an Apparatus does not drop.  This Insignia can be of any type (Barbed, Crescent, Enlightened, Illuminated, Regal), can be Uncommon or Rare quality, and gives 100 Max HP and 50 Recovery at Uncommon rank, and 200 Max HP and 100 Recovery at Rare rank.

Content and Environment

Castle Never

• Players now spawn forward to unlocked respawn points when joining the instance.
• Players no longer have a chance to get locked out of Orcus' arena at the start of the boss encounter.

Cragmire Crypts

• Killing Kallos Tam too quickly no longer has a chance to prevent the party from progressing.
• The rival adventuring party no longer respawns after being defeated.

General

• A certain NPC now properly refers to Lans by the correct last name.
• Factional Assets: This quest can now properly be completed by talking to Feldon Strongbeard.
• The Blacklake Terror skirmish is once again available for players in its level range.
• The Epic Demogorgon queue is now properly available at any time once unlocked.
• The Mount tutorial is now easier to notice; it now shows in the Level-Up Wizard for players who completed the old tutorial, and now properly leaves the Wizard if the player had never completed the old tutorial, but completed the new one.

Items and Economy

Mounts

• Demon Sled: The Demon Sled and Frozen Demon Sled once again look properly demonic.
• Demon Sled: The visual effects on the Demon Sled are once again fiery.  (And blue fiery in the case of the Frozen Demon Sled.)
• Tenser's Floating Disk: This mount once again properly binds on use, rather than on pickup.
  1. Existing mounts are still bound, but we will be addressing that for any character with Tenser's Floating Disk still in their inventory over the course of next week.
• Gilded Giant Spider: The version purchased on the Zen Market now properly moves to the Stable, like the one purchased on the Wondrous Bazaar.
  1. Gilded Giant Spiders that vanished from the inventory will be moved into the main inventory again over the course of next week, so players can properly bind them to their Stable.
• Gilded Giant Spider: Players may no longer purchase a Gilded Giant Spider from the Zen Market if their current character has one from the Wondrous Bazaar, and vice-versa.  This is intended to prevent accidental redundant purchases.

General

• Certain retired Lockboxes no longer have a chance to drop Jeweled Idols or Astral Resonators.
• Items in the Trickster Rogue Class Pack have updated icons.

User Interface

HUD

• The context menu on players no longer shows an "Invite to Alliance" option.

Queues

• The Accept / Decline popup no longer has a chance not to appear, resulting in the player's queue prompt timing out without the player even knowing it was there.

Localization

• Insignias now properly display their equip bonuses in all languages.

Stability and Performance

• Players no longer have a significant chance to crash while engaging in PvP.
• Queues no longer have a rare chance to wait forever for a map that doesn't finish launching.
• The occurrence rate of map-wide disconnects is now less frequent than before.

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