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Announce News Post #1544

Bug fixes and other adjustments

Written by: Garryn
Date: Monday, May 17th, 2010
Addressed to: Everyone


I have just loaded a couple of fixes to various abilities, details as follows:


Bladedance
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- Fixed a problem causing BLADE SPIN to hit most mobiles only once


Bonding
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- Failed POUND attempts will no longer give kai

- BURROW can no longer be done while prone

- TRUMPET now strips deafness if it's up


Bowmanship
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- Placing arrows into a quiver should now display the correct amount in all circumstances


Concoctions
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- INPOT should display the ingredient name correctly in all cases now

- You can no longer drink elixirs or apply salves directly from the pot - they must be poured into a vial first


Devotion
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- RESURRECTION should no longer be causing untrapped errors if the target player isn't online


Elemancy
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- ELEMENTALS should now correctly increase staffcast damage against mobiles

- STAFFCAST should now work properly against targets in the same room if a Cataclysm vibration is present

- GUST will no longer move people into the sewers


Engineering
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- Stonewalls being destroyed by a sapping charge will show a message at both sides of the wall now

- Failure to move a siege weapon will no longer cause you to stop manning it

- Players in the air should no longer be receiving cut-off messages when a cannonball flies through the room


Enslavery
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- Entities attacking their owner should show a correct message to onlookers now


Fayth
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- Learning messages refer to Priests now, not Clerics

- Spiritwrack should stop if the target is dead or graced


Groves
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- Valleys are now considered to be grasslands for the purpose of environment checks; this affects the relevant Hunting abilities as well

- Spin staff and flail staff defences are now correctly removed when switching professions

- Both isolation exits for the Grasslands affinity should be functional once again

- The GROVE DISPLACEMENT message should be showing the correct gender now

- GROVE LIGHTNING, GROVE SNOWSTORM and GROVE MAELSTROM should now be blocked by canopy and similar effects in the target room

- GROVE MAELSTROM will be paused if its owner is dead or graced

- Multiple GROVE MAELSTROM effects in an area should no longer stack

- GROVE MAELSTROM will no longer hit burrowed targets

- The GROVE LIGHTNING message no longer includes titles

- GROVE STATUS should now correctly include rainstorm, clearskies, snowstorm and maelstrom


Knifeplay
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- Fixed a problem causing CRESCENTCUT to do limb damage


Malignosis
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- Damage caused by vomiting will no longer bypass DEMON APATHY; this also applies to Kaido Numbness


Necromancy
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- SHRIVEL message is gramatically correct now

- LIFEVISION and SOULMASK will be removed when switching professions


Noctu
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- HEARTSTONE and SIMULACRUM will only work if you have the ability in Noctu - the items will do nothing if you switch profession


Predation
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- Fashioning of darts will correctly stop if you fall asleep or if you no longer have the commodities; this also applies to fashioning arrows

- RIFLE HOSTAGE now requires you to have balance and equilibrium

- Guards will no longer reveal the name of a masked predator when shooting a siege weapon

- Fixed a problem allowing you to EVADE past walls


Smithing
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- You can no longer combine the anti-magick purification with an elemental etching


Taming
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- You can no longer pettrack to a burrowed target


Tarot
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- DEATH tarot will stop if you are moved by any means, as well as upon leaving the arena


Telepathy
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- Switching professions will properly clear a mind lock if you are holding one

- Fixed a problem causing some out-of-arena mind prints to be incorrectly wiped upon leaving the arena


Thespia
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- A WAYMARK attempt will now be aborted if you are taken hostage in the process


Trailblazing
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- Fixed a problem causing Hunt/Pursue to occasionally switch its target


Voice
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- BRIAH will no longer move people into the sewers


Wardance
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- BREAKFALL will no longer drain endurance if you already have the defence


Misc
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- Aspect TERRIFY will be correctly cured upon leaving the arena


Penned by my hand on the 16th of Aequitas, in the year 608 AD.


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