Warding
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- You can no longer glaivetoss at yourself, unless you have clumsiness.
- Fend should now linebreak properly.
- Movement will now disrupt your powersoul preparation.
- Shieldbash should more frequently give more varied afflictions.
- Shieldbash should be dodged less frequently.
- The mana cost for Arrowcatching has been reduced.
- PREPARE SOUL and ROUSE SOUL will no longer be aggressive actions.
- Wardens now have the previously Amazon-only ability Lanyard.

Trailblazing
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- Pursue will be cleared properly when you logout.
- If, for some reason (like phase or blackwind), you are unable to track
your target with Pursue, you will be informed of such.
- Camouflage now requires charcoal instead of fenugreek.
- Building an encampment will now only cost two wood in forest or
dark forest environments.
- You can now breakdown campgrounds, getting some of the commodities
used in its construction back.
- Setting up a campground will be slightly faster.
- Throwing a torch from an encampment is faster.
- Watch should now show emotes again.
- Tracking is slightly faster.
- Trailblazing now has Weathering.
- Trailblazing provides a health/mana elixir bonus similar to Concoctions,
but smaller.

Bowmanship
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- Doubleshot has been sped up slightly. *See note below.
- Wooden, spiral, and pitched arrows no longer require steel to fashion.
- Bow users without the Net ability in Bowmanship will occasionally
become entangled in their own net arrows.
- Bow users without the Incendiary ability in Bowmanship will occasionally
be harmed when they shoot an incendiary arrow.





-*A note on doubleshot -

This ability is discussed quite a bit. I just wanted to outline our
position on this ability. It was mentioned in the Classlead report that
doubleshot is slower than firing two quickshots. This is not true. I
tested it myself with a hornbow, and all three levels of artifact bows.
In all cases, the doubleshot was faster than two quickshots. This test
also does not take into consideration the fact that there is going to be
some delay (as a result of reaction time and network latency) between
the two quickshots.

Furthermore, most combat in Imperian is not particularly well-suited for
powerful, ranged combat. Most classes need to be in the same room with
their opponent, and giving one class an extremely powerful ranged attack
(which doubleshot easily was) clearly did not work in Imperian. There
are always exceptions to every rule, but the power of doubleshot did not
warrant it being one of them.

Finally, there is some contention that the only problem with the
original doubleshot was that it was only powerful when used with an
artifact bow. I can assure you that this was unequivocally not the case.
The doubleshot ability was extremely powerful, even when used with a
plain hornbow. So much so that it was capable of doing more damage than
any other (non insta-kill) ability in the game. I emphasise the fact
that this was with a hornbow, not an artifact. The artifact bows simply
compounded the problem.

With all of this said, we're sympathetic with the frustration with
doubleshot as presented in the Classlead report, and we've sped up the
ability slightly, as was requested.

In summary, our intention is that Bowmanship provide utility as a
support skill. For the reasons provided above as they relate to ranged
combat, it cannot serve effectively as the primary combat skill.

Penned by my hand on the 22nd of Vita, in the year 492 AD.