Age of Conan News

As usual Funcom sneaks in a massive amount of hidden or stealth nerfs and changes, some intresting things this time around. We’ll try to keep this updated as new things are discovered.
General
* Outdoor bosses seem to have an upgraded loot table now.
* Drop rate of blue items seems improved
* Harvesting bug introduced in last patch appears to be fixed.
* Some Normal mobs are hiting harder than they used to.

Mounts
* The Rhino has aparantly been given some new shoes- He no longer travels with a loud stomp.

NPCS
* Grey Elite mobs have lost their innate miss chance and damage reduction on significantly higher level characters. (will hurt high level players farming low level dungeons.)[this is a bug.]

Items
* Drawing ink is now 25s
* Parchment is now 50s
(Cost for drawing ink and parchment, for the architect profession has been lowered by 25s a piece, resulting in an overall cost reduction of 75 silver, making total cost 1.25 gold PER structure.)

Player Character’s

* Crimson shield (mage feat) is aparantly not working properly. The ability is supposed to add additional damage absorption with each feat point added. It appears that it is instead adding the “extra absorb amount” numerical value to your HP pool. So instead of gaining additional damage absorption, you are simply gaining a slightly bigger HP pool with each feat point.

Assassin:
* The cooldown on the Assassin ability “Snap Kick” has been reduced to 45 seconds.

Bear Shaman
* The stamina, mana and health regeneration on the ability “Untamed Regeneration” has been reduced by approximately 40%. Additional damaged recieved has been increased from 10% to 15%.

Herald of Xotli
* Undying Glory of Xotli now gives you shield of risen after the self-res

Necromancer
* Spell: Death’s Terror - A Pet is no longer needed to cast the spell. However, If you have a pet out it will sacrifice it as usual.(bug?)

Dark Templar
* “Unhallowed Blight” now gives 5% unholy debuff, 25 second duration, and 20 second cool down. It was 2% unholy debuff, 12 second duration, with a 30 second cool down previously.

Confirmed Bugs Introduced
* Gems still do not appear on the Trader after being searched for.
* Major problems with gemmed items still being reported.
* No type of silk will show on auction house.
* Many reports of major FPS drops in many areas. (will continue to monitor this one for more info)
* Barb feat “Savage Rage” is aparantly broken, causing a pause after use where you can’t do anything.
* Possibly linked to the adjustments made to Elite Mob’s vs high levels, all mobs have been buffed with higher evasion, parry, and dodge. You may notice that your attacks are missing much more than usual.
* Several reports of Combo’s seemingly missing, yet the combat log doesnt register it as a missed attack.
* The res point in Thordealbach’s Tomb is bugged. The entrance no longer works as a res point and you now have to pick one in Fields of Dead and res there and run all the way back again. This means if your entire party whipes, that the instanse will reset due to everyone zonning out at the res point, making it impossible for you to retrieve your tombstones.

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