Update[April 24, 08] Acids and Various Masterpiece changes

Death · Post by **Death** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:07 pm

Forgot to post this update log a few days ago before I left for vacation but here they are:

* Kappas now drop less acid
* Increased chances for masterpiece resource drops on corpses
* Lowered uncommon masterpiece resource drops on supremes and added a max drop for common resources
* Increased chance of obtaining a masterpiece weapon on supremes. It is also now possible to get a masterpiece weapon off the smaller supremes
* Lowered the amount of common masterpiece resources you can get from dungeon chests. Slightly increased the chances to get uncommon masterpiece resources from dungeon chests
* Increased the scale of masterpiece weapons you can sometimes find in high end dungeon chests
* Added a special "thief armor set" to level 6 dungeon chests. It will take awhile to get all 6 pieces but when combined, the suit is easy to stealth in, gives a 30+ skill bonus in thieving skills as well as high resists in physical, fire and poison and excellent regenerations.
* Orb of elements and scales of balance have had their masterpiece points increased.
* Fixed a bug with faleryns that caused a crash. They are now safe to fight
* Solen warriors and solen queens can now throw acid at ranged attackers as per osi (The initial hit does little damage but if you continue to step in the acid at your feet, it will hurt)

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ninja2007 · Post by **ninja2007** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:29 am

OoOOoo Theif Armor !

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j4bber · Post by **j4bber** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:01 pm

Nice update.. I must say I like the new items in the chests. Got a piece of thief armor the other day....

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:46 pm

j4bber wrote:Nice update.. I must say I like the new items in the chests. Got a piece of thief armor the other day....

If you're an avid thief it probably won't take too long to find either. The suit is a nice addition for frequent chest hunters as you can then put 30 points into something else useful.

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Munson · Post by **Munson** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:00 pm

what exactly is "lvl 6 dungeon chest" cus i looked for quite a while and picked quite a few chests, and i havent found one piece of armour.... i was looking in lvl 3 of despise. Also, how many pieces of armour are there?

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:15 pm

Munson wrote:what exactly is "lvl 6 dungeon chest" cus i looked for quite a while and picked quite a few chests, and i havent found one piece of armour.... i was looking in lvl 3 of despise. Also, how many pieces of armour are there?

Level 6 dungeon chests are found on the lowest levels of dungeons. So say, hythloth for example, they'll be on the very last floor. If you frequently check the anti-virtue dungeons (Shame, covetous, wrong, hythloth, destard, depise, etc), you'll eventually find some.

The best way to see if you've hit a level 6 chest is to check the haul you get. If the gold's really high and you start seeing better intensity loot, you might have hit a level 6 chest.

It will take a while to find all 6 pieces and may require a bit of bartering with other thieves to get all the pieces.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:16 pm

Munson wrote:i was looking in lvl 3 of despise. Also, how many pieces of armour are there?

Despise or destard are probably not the best areas to try to find those chests because they are popular dungeons so other thieves may have already cleaned out the areas. I'd check around some of the other dungeons like shame and hythloth if you haven't had much luck in the other dungeons.

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j4bber · Post by **j4bber** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:07 am

Juest wanted to say it "looks" like the "rares" are a little harder to get int he L6 chests now. Not sure if you guys changed the spawn rate or what. I know I used to be able to find a lucky necklace or shroud every day or 2 at most and now I haven't found one in almost a week. Maybe there are more thieves getting them faster, but not sure as I am finding L6 chests, but no real "rares".

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:18 pm

j4bber wrote:Juest wanted to say it "looks" like the "rares" are a little harder to get int he L6 chests now. Not sure if you guys changed the spawn rate or what. I know I used to be able to find a lucky necklace or shroud every day or 2 at most and now I haven't found one in almost a week. Maybe there are more thieves getting them faster, but not sure as I am finding L6 chests, but no real "rares".

Hence the "rare" part. The percentages are the same, but they now only drop in level 5 and 6 chests. They used to drop in level 4 chests but when the thief armor set was introduced, that part was removed. Also, seems there's a lot more thieves around these days. I saw 3 of them last night in different dungeons.

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harlequin · Post by **harlequin** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:23 pm

yea i have thief now too lol i hit up khladon all night and this morning opended every damn lock box even the ones with the horower in it lol and alot of monney some decent armor to enhance and 1 lucky necklace lol i have 1k of luck on the char to thinking that it would help is the pieces in both fel and tram cus i was in covetous bottom level and 0 chests

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:28 pm

harlequin wrote:yea i have thief now too lol i hit up khladon all night and this morning opended every damn lock box even the ones with the horower in it lol and alot of monney some decent armor to enhance and 1 lucky necklace lol i have 1k of luck on the char to thinking that it would help is the pieces in both fel and tram cus i was in covetous bottom level and 0 chests

Luck will not affect the loot you get from the chests. The chest's level decides the intensity. I'll take a look at covetous, I might have accidently removed that spawner when I was revamping it.

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harlequin · Post by **harlequin** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:30 pm

cus it deff was hard very bottom nothing but krakens and balrons lol and me 0 fighting skills lol

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harlequin · Post by **harlequin** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:31 pm

also does like the ml areas like the citadel etc have chests too or just reg dungeons and does it matter fel or tram?

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:35 pm

harlequin wrote:also does like the ml areas like the citadel etc have chests too or just reg dungeons and does it matter fel or tram?

Only anti-virtue dungeons have chests so far (So shame, wrong, destard.....). Facet does not matter but that's something that will probably change as felucca should be harder yet more rewarding.

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harlequin · Post by **harlequin** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:37 pm

i tell u what khaladun is no joke lol i died i dont know how many times and then u cant rez inside there its pretty crazy and specially going agiainst a horrower as thief deffiently a challenge lol.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:43 pm

harlequin wrote:i tell u what khaladun is no joke lol i died i dont know how many times and then u cant rez inside there its pretty crazy and specially going agiainst a horrower as thief deffiently a challenge lol.

Ya the tentacles have that lovely ability of leeching you, even if you're hidden. Shadow fiends also have that lovely reveal special, although they go down in one hit. Khaldun's not a dungeon to be taken lightely.

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harlequin · Post by **harlequin** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:59 pm

and the damn spectral armours u cant see and then u run into them and they reveal u lol and ancient lich lords shadow wyrms void walker vampires nice lil combination in there lol

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j4bber · Post by **j4bber** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:23 pm

I just wanted to check if the drop calc changed or not. I usually can tell a Lvl 5/6 chest and I must say the "rare" drops in them seem less. I have not checked since the latest update however. So maybe it has changed...

And yeah, lots more thieves around these days...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:51 pm

Also some locations that spawn high level chests can still have a chance to spawn a low level one so could be getting unlucky with the spawners.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:52 pm

j4bber wrote:I just wanted to check if the drop calc changed or not. I usually can tell a Lvl 5/6 chest and I must say the "rare" drops in them seem less. I have not checked since the latest update however. So maybe it has changed...

And yeah, lots more thieves around these days...

The rares have not been changed for about a week. They were changed maybe a week ago in the respect that the good stuff is now reserved for level 5 and 6 chests so it's possible that older chests were still hanging around waiting to be picked.

The thief armor set chances were also increased as of last update.

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