Patch Notes: NW.60.20160410a.4

Highlights

Skill Nodes Update
Refinement items are being removed from Skill Nodes, and Insignias can drop more often as a result.  Bound, uncommon Insignias will also now drop from most enemies in-game.  For more information, see the news post, Upcoming Changes to Skill Nodes.

Events

• A Double Refinement weekend is now scheduled to start at the end of maintenance, and end on Monday, May 2, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC -7).
• A Double Seals weekend on May 19 has been swapped with the Double Guild Marks weekend on May 26.

Release Notes

Content and Environment
Elemental Evil Campaign

• If players had managed to complete quests later in an Elemental Evil zone without completing the earlier quests, the Campaign now properly catches up.

Strongholds

• Items can once again properly be purchased when they require Stronghold structures of a certain rank.  (Was hotfixed 2016-04-21)
• The Jubilee Trader has been disabled.  Any remaining resources on this trader will no longer be claimable.
• The North Terrace Vendor is still active, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.  The Waterdhavian Trader now properly allows Salvage actions nearby.

General

• Crypts of Kelemvor: Enemies no longer unexpectedly teleport or disappear in this instance.
• Dancing on the Ceiling: A typo has been fixed in this achievement's description.
• Fiery Pit: A terrain transition in the northeast corner has been smoothed out.
• Mantol-Derith: Players no longer stand a chance of spawning under the docks when leaving certain quests.
• Pirate King's Retreat: A ghostly door in this dungeon has been made corporeal again.
• Pirate King's Retreat: The achievement is once again properly granted when completing the dungeon.
• Reclamation Rock: Some ghostly doors in this zone have been made corporeal.
• Scoundrel's Retreat: Captain Kayliss can no longer be knocked off ledges in the boss arena.
• Stronghold Siege Tutorial: Players can now consistently turn in Dragon Hoard Gold.

Items and Economy
General

• The Antiquities Scholar now removes Enchantments and Jewels from any Lostmauth gear exchanged, free of charge.  These Enchantments and Jewels are returned to the player's inventory.

Skill Node Update

• Bound Uncommon (Green) Insignias now have a slight chance of dropping from most enemies in the world.
• Most enemies in the world now have an increased chance to drop an Enchantment or Runestone. However, the relative chances of dropping one or the other have been changed, with a lower chance of dropping Runestones, and an increased chance of dropping Enchantments.
• Skill Nodes no longer drop any Refinement items. Instead, they now have an increased chance to drop Insignias.

User Interface
Queues

• While a queue group is waiting to be matched with other players, individual players cannot leave the queue group.

Performance and Stability

• A client crash has been addressed in the visual effects / particle system.
• Server-side stability for the queue system has been improved.
• Stability for certain cases in the User Interface has been improved.

Localization
Voice-over

• Much of the localized voice-over audio for the refreshed Elemental Evil content has been updated.

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