Rise of Tiamat Patch Notes

New Features

Content

• New Zone: Well of Dragons
• New Raid: Temple of Tiamat
• Extended Tyranny of Dragons campaign.
  • Includes access to new Boons.
• New quests, gear and other awesome rewards.

Performance

• Significant frame rate improvements throughout the game.
• We identified and fixed a multi-second stall that was occurring intermittently throughout the game.

Vote Kicks

• Some background changes to how queues work to alleviate the frequency of players kicking others from dungeons.
• An in-progress instance now respects roles when trying to fill new players. If you’re missing a healer, you’ll get a healer.
• Players can no longer be kicked immediately upon entering a dungeon.
• Changed the vote kick confirmation button to the X button.

Minimap

• A minimap on the main user interface, making it easier to navigate the world.
• This can be toggled in the Options menu.

PvP Stats

• PvP Stats is a new section in the menu.
• A PvP leaderboard now exists, displaying top players and your rank amongst all players.
• A match history section has been added, containing data of your last 20 matches.

Reporting Content

• A “report player” feature to make it easier to report players with inappropriate names or behavior.
• Stricter profanity filtering has been implemented.

Change Instance

• Implemented sorting in the Change Instance interface.
• Full instances can now be viewed in the Change Instance interface.
• An option has been added to move to a player's instance through the guild roster.

Auctions

• Sorting added to auction search results.
• Auction listings now compare with equipped gear where applicable.
• Improved messaging when searching auctions too frequently.

Misc.

• Players can now customize the channels that appear in each tab of the chat window.
• Quest rewards now display in the Quest Log.
• Players can now navigate to specific quests on the right-hand side of the screen.
• Improved fade-in of distant objects drawn in the world.
• An error is now shown when trying to send guild mail when one was already sent within the last 24 hours.
• Navigation to inventory has been enabled when looting while inventory is full.
• Players can now navigate to the hourly events in the game menu.
• Jewelcrafting assets and tools have been added to the professions booster and asset packs.
• Lore messages will no longer disappear when focused.
• Overview task slots in the professions window will behave like the rest of the professions window and no longer auto-focus.
• A new option exists on player portraits to view scoreboards when there is a relevant board to show.
• The quest path can now be hidden.
• Buffs and debuffs on bosses will now only show nine icons before truncating the list.
• The Honey Badger will now behave similar to other companions when dying and reviving.

Bug Fixes

Chat Log

• Fixed an issue where the chat log would clear too soon causing messages to disappear rapidly when in high combat zones like dragon fight areas.

Quests

• Quest names no longer truncate in the Quest Log.
• Removed tooltips from quests in the quest-giver windows.

Gameplay

• Fixed a display issue with XP boosters not showing the remaining boost on Overflow XP.
• Improved handling for navigation of multiple loot rolls that appear at the same time.
• Multiple lore notifications showing at the same time will now properly queue.
• Fixed a flicker on the character portrait when mounting and dismounting.

Character Sheet and Companions

• Shortened the tooltip comparison information for artifact weapons to fit on the screen.
• Comparing companion equipment will now correctly compare to the companion's equipment instead of the character's equipment.
• Fixed an issue in the Inspect Companion window where the cursor would always jump to the top of a category when moving between them.
• Fixed some shifting UI on the Character Sheet when selecting a piece of armor.
• Fixed the erratic bouncing arrows on the Character Sheet gear.

Misc. Interface

• LT and RT buttons are now disabled when only one banner is shown in the large space of the Home screen.
• It is no longer possible to attempt additional refinement when an item is max level.
• The full mailbox warning will now stay visible until you navigate to the mail list.
• Removed the confirm button prompt when trying to go to a teammate's instance that is full.
• Fixed some cases where text was being truncated when it had enough space to display.
• Fixed several places where text was wrapping unexpectedly.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused some players to have unusable inventory slots.

Environment, Effects and Animations

• Closing the Heroic Encounter details will now correctly return players to their previous navigation state.
• Fixed dragon-entry cinematic sequences to play correctly.
• Fixed some effects that were drawing white boxes.
• Fixed an issue where mobs in the Orc Assault skirmish would stutter while walking.
• Fixed the high ponytail female hair to no longer pop when viewed at a distance.
• Fixed some issues with drawing lens flares.
• Fixed a blinking sigil on the floor of Lair of the Mad Dragon.
• Fixed an issue that prevented enchantment effects from playing on the Dragon Bone Scepter.
• Removed a mysterious blinking red sphere from the Armored Ghost Horse mount.

Marketplace

• Fixed some scenarios where reclaimable unique items that were destroyed couldn't be reclaimed.
• Players who unlock the Menzoberranzan Renegade will now properly unlock the 6 renegade tattoos that come with it.
• Region support expanded to Australia and New Zealand. Welcome new players!

Performance

• Fixed a stall that caused the game to be unresponsive for several seconds at a time.
• Fixed some memory leaks that were causing lag after several hours of play.
• Fixed an issue with voice chat support that was causing performance issues for grouped players.
• Changed how we render effects for some performance gains.

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