Highlights

Professions

Artisans

• Artisan icons now show their faces instead of the profession's icon.
• It is no longer possible to hire duplicate Rare Artificers via Artisan applications and the Artisan Recruitment purchase from the Zen Market.

Workshop and Quest Flow

• A Clean Start: This quest no longer becomes stuck if the player leaves the workshop immediately before they return the quest.
• Facilities Upgrade: This quest no longer becomes stuck if the player leaves the workshop immediately before they return the quest.
• Lady Begum, Tress Greenrun, and Bolden Corsca no longer appear as duplicates in the workshop when a player declines to speak to them at the end of "The Grand Upgrade," then complete the quest "Second Chances."
• The Grand Upgrade: During this quest, there is no longer a chance for Lady Begum not to appear, which would block progress.
• The workshop retainer, Callum, no longer displays an incorrect dialog to male characters after completing the professions tutorial, which would prevent characters from exchanging deprecated materials and assets.

Crafted Items

• Crafted capes and belts now have appropriate level requirements to equip.
• Masterwork artifact weapons in "Stronghold Set II" no longer have higher than expected item levels at ranks below Legendary.
• Masterwork artifact weapons "Brightsilver Holy Symbol" and "Brightsilver Longbow" have had their item levels increased to the expected values at Legendary rank.
• The following items no longer have an equip level above 70, which prevented them from being equipped: "Manticore Raid Armlets," "Feathered Raid Isongos," "Manticore Assault Gloves +1," and "Manticore Assault Armlets +1."

Exchange

• The following deprecated materials can now be exchanged for credit in the Material Exchange:
  • Arcane Crystal
  • Arcane Shard
  • Brightleaf
  • Dark Clover
  • Desert Rose
  • Eldritch Crystal
  • Fundamental Earth, Fire, Ice, and Lightning
  • Symbol of Moradin, Symbol of Tempus
  • Witchwood
  • Mark of Gratitude
• Quicksilver has been removed from the South Sea Trading Company commission list, and may once again be sold to normal vendors.
• The specific alchemy items that may be exchanged as commission at the South Sea Trading Company have been adjusted.
  • The recipe level of alchemy items that may be donated at a given level range more closely match that of other professions.
  • Exchange values for alchemy recipes now consistently grant the same credit values at each level bracket. (Note: Alchemy recipes which create more than 1 item have exchange rates that reflect this.)
  • There are no longer alchemy recipes which are exchangeable at multiple level brackets.

Release Notes

Content and Environment

Acquisitions Incorporated

• Ralvortix is now consistently named Ralvortix.
• Retrieval Operation and Convention Infiltration no longer tend to get stuck if party members or nearby players interact with ladders on certain quest steps.

General

• Illusionist's Gambit can once again be chosen for private queues.

Combat and Powers

Classes and Balance

• All characters created before The Heart of Fire released now have a free retraining available in the Powers UI.
• Devoted Cleric: Terrifying Insight now gives a 30% damage increase to the cleric at maximum rank, and gives a 10% damage increase to allies when the cleric damages an enemy.

Items and Economy

General

• A version of Tidespan Potion has been restored, and no longer creates a persistent hole in the inventory.
• Black Ice equipment upgrades at the Black Ice Forge in Caer-Konig no longer require deprecated resources.
• "Cleansed Black Ice Chunk" can now properly be made at the Black Ice Forge.
• Daily Astral Diamond rewards for Random Queues are once again given once per account, rather than once per character.
• Intern Reclaim Pack can once again be claimed, and can properly only be claimed once per account.
  • Known issue: If a player redeems a promotion that makes this pack available, the pack may not show up until the player logs out and back in.
• It is now possible to donate High-Quality materials to the Stronghold for Professions Supplies credit. However, High-Quality materials don't provide a bonus for this donation.
• There is no longer a weird, icon-less entry for Astral Diamonds in the Stronghold chest.

User Interface

Auction House

• Professions materials now properly appear under the Professions category of the Auction House.
• Sorting by Buyout Price and Bid Price now works properly.

Art, Animation, Effects, and Audio

Visual Effects

• The artifact, Bruenor's Helm, now properly plays its visual effects when used.

Remaining Known Issues

• Acquisitions Incorporated repeatable quests are only repeatable weekly, preventing the player from reaching the campaign currency cap on the first week.
• After opening any Artisan pack, no more reward windows will appear in the UI. This includes lockbox rewards, invocation rewards, boxes, etc.
  • This will persist until you close and reopen the game.
  • This is also the cause of the "Open the Profession Starter Kit" tutorial tip staying active.
• Certain non-quest-critical NPCs can sometimes be missing from the Workshop.
• Cotton Petasos don't hide a character's hair, leading to egregious clipping.
• Crafted capes and mantles currently do not change the character's appearance when equipped.
• Crashing while accepting your first Artisans can cause the Professions tutorial to become stuck.
• Neverdeath Graveyard: The quest Doomguide's Duty cannot be completed.
• Under certain circumstances, players can end up in other players' Workshops.