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Neverwinter

Patch Notes: NW.55.20160106a.1

By Andy (StrumSlinger) | Wed 13 Jan 2016 03:19:11 PM PST

Patch Notes

Content and Environment

Protector's Enclave

  • Civilians no longer clip through the sides of staircases quite as often.
  • The VIP area of the Moonstone Mask no longer has particularly restrictive collision.

 

Stronghold

  • Completing the Throne of the Dwarven Gods skirmish now correctly completes the related Stronghold daily quest.
  • The Spore Tower description no longer includes "Untranslated" text.

 

Stronghold Siege

  • Water in Knight's Lane is now dangerous.

 

Skirmishes

  • Prophecy of Madness: Three new achievements have been added: Balors' Bane, Master of Madness, and Protector of the Prophecy.
  • Throne of the Dwarven Gods: Three new achievements have been added: Corruption Corrected, Flayer Slayer, Infiltration Foiled.

 

Dungeons and Boss Encounters

  • Demogorgon: Players may no longer be vote-kicked while the Demogorgon encounter is active.
  • Demogorgon: Two new achievements have been added: Tamer of Demogorgon and Master of Demogorgon.
  • Intro quests are no longer incorrectly offered for dungeons that are currently inaccessible.
  • Temple of the Spider: The introductory cutscene for Halbryn Dark Stalker now matches the name of the character in-game, and now properly plays before players are in attack range.

 

General

  • Blackdagger Ruins: Various quests in this zone now properly show a quest path back to Blackdagger Ruins while outside the zone.
  • Drowned Shore: The quest, Shock Troop, can now properly be completed while in a party.

 

 

Combat and Powers

Companions

  • Grazilaxx's Active Companion Bonus now grants 190 Critical Strike at Rare quality and 300 Critical Strike at Epic / Legendary quality.  They still also provide their existing bonus to Demonic Ichor earnings.
  • The Snowy Fawn's Active Companion Bonus can now stack with the bonus from the Fawn of Shiallia.

 

Items and Economy

Artifact Weapons

  • The Howling Artifact Weapon set bonus, Heart of Air, now procs when the wielding Scourge Warlock uses Shadow Slip.  The tooltip has been updated as well.
  • The Earthen Artifact Weapon set bonus, Earthen Heart, now properly stacks to 5.

 

Masterwork Professions

  • Alum is now obtained more frequently from Explorer's Charts in Mt. Hotenow, relative to other materials.

 

General

  • Call to Arms: Refiner's Cache now drops Enchantments of ranks 4/5/6, up from 3/4/5.
  • Coupons now display the correct names and descriptions for what categories they affect.
    • Known issue: This fix only addresses the English version of Neverwinter.  Localized versions will be addressed in a later build.
  • Items in the final bag now function the same as if they are in other bags.
    • Example: Attempting to interact with a Black Ice node now properly functions if the pick is in the final bag.
  • Mount Training Manuals are no longer available in the Wondrous Bazaar or at the Mount Merchant.
  • Ring of Cowardice: The effect on this ring now properly has an internal cooldown.
  • Simril refinement items now show the correct values in the tooltip.
  • The Beholder Piñata no longer includes Liar's Charms.
  • The Howling Hatred Lockbox now correctly states that it has a chance to drop the Trove of Elemental Evil.

 

User Interface

Login Screen

  • The Username field no longer sometimes reverts to a long string of numbers rather than the player's username.

 

Professions

  • Time-limited profession tasks, such as the ones for the Wonders of Gond event, now sort to the top of the profession task list.

 

Rewards

  • The error message has been improved for failing to gain Demonic Ichor after hitting the weekly cap.
  • The quality reported by the reward pack UI now properly matches the highest quality item received.

 

Strongholds

  • When a structure is at the maximum level, it no longer displays blank requirements for the next level.

 

Zen Market

  • Moonsilver Regalia now properly has detail art.
  • The Winter Wolf mount entry no longer incorrectly claims it provides 80% movement speed.

 

Gateway

  • There is now appropriate audio when selecting the Lizardfolk Shaman and Earth Archon companions in Sword Coast Adventures.

 

Graphics, Effects, and Animation

  • Animation popping between running and walking is now less frequent for the Owlbear mount.

 

Stability and Performance

  • A crash related to Steam integration has been addressed.
  • Certain artifact weapons no longer crash the game when equipped.
  • Dungeon maps no longer rarely crash when looting during the Double Seals event.
  • Several miscellaneous rare UI-related crashes have been addressed.
  • The client no longer crashes when attempting to cancel destruction of a Stronghold structure in the brief period after the structure has been destroyed, but before the Empty Plot UI loads.
  • The client no longer rarely crashes in Stronghold coffer donation.

 

Localization

  • Further fixes have been made to French and German localization.
  • Localization updates have been made to the French, German, Italian, and Russian locales.

 

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