Charune2009-11-22 22:36:22
QUOTE (Fern @ Nov 22 2009, 05:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
wonder if this means embedded motes work again now, too
They do, sorry I forgot to mention it in the news. Both were affected.
Razenth2009-11-22 23:01:49
Yay! Radiance does something now! Now hopefully we can also get it to do bonus damage >_>
Zallafar2009-11-27 11:16:03
QUOTE (Azoth Nae'blis @ Nov 22 2009, 02:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
ANNOUNCE NEWS #1441
Date: 11/22/2009 at 22:13
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: Streamlining and Bugfixes
o Eyepeck skills now show eye side afflicted to target and includes side
in cure message.
o Fractured arm's cure message now specifies left or right side.
o Broken wrist now specifies which wrist was cured (left or right) in
its cure line.
o You will receive a message when no longer affected by bardic
attraction.
Date: 11/22/2009 at 22:13
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: Streamlining and Bugfixes
o Eyepeck skills now show eye side afflicted to target and includes side
in cure message.
o Fractured arm's cure message now specifies left or right side.
o Broken wrist now specifies which wrist was cured (left or right) in
its cure line.
o You will receive a message when no longer affected by bardic
attraction.
Here is the new attraction cure line: You lose your attraction to Zallafar.
Does anyone have the new cure lines for eyepeck, fractured arm, and broken wrist?
Genos2009-12-16 07:14:57
QUOTE
ANNOUNCE NEWS #1448
Date: 12/10/2009 at 22:19
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: Envoy Reports - October 2009
o Listen (Part of Crow Spy) now requires constant carrion upkeep. The
initial cost has been lowered to compensate.
o Knockdown (Knighthood) now gives balance loss instead of stun.
o Weakness and gluttony for Malign Prophesy (Runes) have been replaced
by addiction and masochism. In addition, the skill message is no longer
followed by individual messages for each affliction.
o Typhoon (Aquamancy) is now castable without a demesne.
o Typhoon (Aquamancy) and Lodestone(Geomancy) are now the tools used by
mages to prevent use of natural forest.
o New skill in Tarot - Dreamer. See the AB!
o Disembowel has been added for Pureblades.
o Magic Tome (Bookbinding) will absorb damage now regardless of charges.
o Selfishness now blocks pouring out vials.
o Angkai (Nekotai) will only lose momentum on head and chest.
o Crone (Wicca) afflictions of shyness and claustrophobia have been
replaced by loneliness and blindness.
o Kissing a toad requires and takes balance.
o The healing cure message for first person will now display the type of
cure used.
o Bleeding investment's bleeding has been raised.
Enjoy!
Penned by My hand on the 18th of Avechary, in the year 252 CE.
Date: 12/10/2009 at 22:19
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: Envoy Reports - October 2009
o Listen (Part of Crow Spy) now requires constant carrion upkeep. The
initial cost has been lowered to compensate.
o Knockdown (Knighthood) now gives balance loss instead of stun.
o Weakness and gluttony for Malign Prophesy (Runes) have been replaced
by addiction and masochism. In addition, the skill message is no longer
followed by individual messages for each affliction.
o Typhoon (Aquamancy) is now castable without a demesne.
o Typhoon (Aquamancy) and Lodestone(Geomancy) are now the tools used by
mages to prevent use of natural forest.
o New skill in Tarot - Dreamer. See the AB!
o Disembowel has been added for Pureblades.
o Magic Tome (Bookbinding) will absorb damage now regardless of charges.
o Selfishness now blocks pouring out vials.
o Angkai (Nekotai) will only lose momentum on head and chest.
o Crone (Wicca) afflictions of shyness and claustrophobia have been
replaced by loneliness and blindness.
o Kissing a toad requires and takes balance.
o The healing cure message for first person will now display the type of
cure used.
o Bleeding investment's bleeding has been raised.
Enjoy!
Penned by My hand on the 18th of Avechary, in the year 252 CE.
Anyone have the AB for the new Tarot ability? Also, I don't really understand what the change to Lodestone and Typhoon does.
Daganev2009-12-16 07:18:19
QUOTE
Knockdown (Knighthood) now gives balance loss instead of stun.
how do you get past the parry now?
Daganev2009-12-16 07:19:34
QUOTE (Genos @ Dec 15 2009, 11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Anyone have the AB for the new Tarot ability? Also, I don't really understand what the change to Lodestone and Typhoon does.
Gets rid of the illusionary terrain requirement.
Genos2009-12-16 07:38:08
QUOTE (daganev @ Dec 16 2009, 02:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gets rid of the illusionary terrain requirement.
What illusionary terrain requirement are you talking about? Anyways I found the Envoy report and now it seems Lodestone and Typhoon stop abilities that would work in a natural forest environment like Vines, Wisp, etc. It seems kind of strange as Typhoon is higher in Aquamancy than Lodestone is in Geomancy.
Esano2009-12-16 09:23:15
That is correct. I'm going to correct a few old mistakes here.
In the rest of this post, natural trees does not refer to trees summoned by druids, to sacred trees, or to dryad trees. It refers to the 'trees' ... flag, I guess, although I'm not sure if it's implemented as such. This occurs in natural forest rooms such as are found in Caoimhe/Wydyr, Glomdoring, Serenwilde, Ethereal, etcetera.
Formerly, tainting forest would deprive it of natural trees, preventing the use of tree-based abilities (such as nature vines, wisp, etc. as Genos said) and removing the trees elevation. This was not a function of defoliation; defoliation was merely a different syntax and message for tainting wyrden forest, I believe a leftover from when Blacktalon/Glomdoring were introduced as playable orgs (before the Wyrd) and the two demesne types needed to be separated. Forest tainted by either geocast taint (such as used on ethereal/sylvan forest) and defoliation (wyrden forest) both lose their trees without any further commands.
Aquamancers never had a similar method of removing natural trees. If a room in one of the aforementioned areas was flooded, trees still existed there (notably allowing wisp from an aquamancer meld on Ethereal but not from a Geomancer one, which was I believe a major prompt of this change).
Tainting forest no longer has this effect, as per this envoy change.
Rather, this effect (removal of natural trees) is now part of the lodestone and typhoon effects. While either of these effects is active, there are no natural trees. I don't know if it requires the mage to be in the room or adjacent or if it applies to everywhere the effect is raised. I'll test later, but I will say I hope the latter.
In the rest of this post, natural trees does not refer to trees summoned by druids, to sacred trees, or to dryad trees. It refers to the 'trees' ... flag, I guess, although I'm not sure if it's implemented as such. This occurs in natural forest rooms such as are found in Caoimhe/Wydyr, Glomdoring, Serenwilde, Ethereal, etcetera.
Formerly, tainting forest would deprive it of natural trees, preventing the use of tree-based abilities (such as nature vines, wisp, etc. as Genos said) and removing the trees elevation. This was not a function of defoliation; defoliation was merely a different syntax and message for tainting wyrden forest, I believe a leftover from when Blacktalon/Glomdoring were introduced as playable orgs (before the Wyrd) and the two demesne types needed to be separated. Forest tainted by either geocast taint (such as used on ethereal/sylvan forest) and defoliation (wyrden forest) both lose their trees without any further commands.
Aquamancers never had a similar method of removing natural trees. If a room in one of the aforementioned areas was flooded, trees still existed there (notably allowing wisp from an aquamancer meld on Ethereal but not from a Geomancer one, which was I believe a major prompt of this change).
Tainting forest no longer has this effect, as per this envoy change.
Rather, this effect (removal of natural trees) is now part of the lodestone and typhoon effects. While either of these effects is active, there are no natural trees. I don't know if it requires the mage to be in the room or adjacent or if it applies to everywhere the effect is raised. I'll test later, but I will say I hope the latter.
Charune2009-12-16 17:04:09
QUOTE (daganev @ Dec 16 2009, 02:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gets rid of the illusionary terrain requirement.
Illusory terrain has nothing to do with the change.
Xavius2009-12-16 18:44:03
QUOTE (Genos @ Dec 16 2009, 01:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Anyone have the AB for the new Tarot ability?
Dreamer Let Vestera sleepily unravel your enemy.
Expert 66%
Syntax: FLING DREAMER AT
The Dreamer tarot will drain your target of ego and mana.
Courtesy of http://sites.google.com/site/xieltalnara/tarot
Shamarah2010-01-31 07:04:15
ANNOUNCE NEWS #1482
Date: 1/30/2010 at 21:48
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: December 2009 Envoy Reports and Bugfixes
=== December 2009 Envoy Reports ===
o Ancestral Spirits from Ancestralwatch(Wildarrane) now will be
attentive to all elevations and only disappear after three enemies
enter.
o Longnight(Night) now doubles power costs instead of preventing power
abilities.
o You can now use HEXEN WIPE to wipe hexes from throat, soles, and palm.
See the ABs for more information.
o Elasticity(Acrobatics) now works.
o Divinefire now blocks force commands from going through and is also no
longer forceable.
o Ablution and Lustration (Sacraments) now increase max mana/hp for an
hour.
o Ashlamkh(Ninjakari) has been lowered in cost from 500ka to 350ka.
=== General Fixes ===
o Vileblood(Necroscream) will only display a message if something is
cured.
o If the caster is asleep, Chasm(Geomancy) will stop.
o Nightsweats will not proc on phased people.
o Kill/death records will be wiped when one party suicides.
o The Great Rune of Musical Enhancement will properly extend song time
limits.
o The World Tarot will display a message if the defense is already cast
rather than letting one recast it.
o Trample will work properly relative to current mount levels.
o Disruption scrolls will properly not take balance away from the
psionic user.
o Perfect fifth will not cure on unsuccessful tumbles.
o Bug where rejection messages weren't sent for designs and credits not
given for reviewers has been fixed.
o Precheck warnings for designs have been improved with more conjugated
forms of words and alternative acceptable main nouns added.
o Extra blank lines at the end of a design's examined will automatically
be stripped.
o New DIPLOMACY commands:
- DIPLOMACY ADDCOMMENT
- DIPLOMACY ADDNOTE
Adds another line of comment or note to any already present, with a date
stamp attached.
o Several error fixes for Firstaid.
o Numerous typo and grammar fixes.
Enjoy!
Penned by My hand on the 14th of Dvarsh, in the year 256 CE.
Oh man, lustration/ablution are awesome now.
Date: 1/30/2010 at 21:48
From: Charune, Lord of the Hunt
To : Everyone
Subj: December 2009 Envoy Reports and Bugfixes
=== December 2009 Envoy Reports ===
o Ancestral Spirits from Ancestralwatch(Wildarrane) now will be
attentive to all elevations and only disappear after three enemies
enter.
o Longnight(Night) now doubles power costs instead of preventing power
abilities.
o You can now use HEXEN WIPE to wipe hexes from throat, soles, and palm.
See the ABs for more information.
o Elasticity(Acrobatics) now works.
o Divinefire now blocks force commands from going through and is also no
longer forceable.
o Ablution and Lustration (Sacraments) now increase max mana/hp for an
hour.
o Ashlamkh(Ninjakari) has been lowered in cost from 500ka to 350ka.
=== General Fixes ===
o Vileblood(Necroscream) will only display a message if something is
cured.
o If the caster is asleep, Chasm(Geomancy) will stop.
o Nightsweats will not proc on phased people.
o Kill/death records will be wiped when one party suicides.
o The Great Rune of Musical Enhancement will properly extend song time
limits.
o The World Tarot will display a message if the defense is already cast
rather than letting one recast it.
o Trample will work properly relative to current mount levels.
o Disruption scrolls will properly not take balance away from the
psionic user.
o Perfect fifth will not cure on unsuccessful tumbles.
o Bug where rejection messages weren't sent for designs and credits not
given for reviewers has been fixed.
o Precheck warnings for designs have been improved with more conjugated
forms of words and alternative acceptable main nouns added.
o Extra blank lines at the end of a design's examined will automatically
be stripped.
o New DIPLOMACY commands:
- DIPLOMACY
- DIPLOMACY
Adds another line of comment or note to any already present, with a date
stamp attached.
o Several error fixes for Firstaid.
o Numerous typo and grammar fixes.
Enjoy!
Penned by My hand on the 14th of Dvarsh, in the year 256 CE.
Oh man, lustration/ablution are awesome now.
Rika2010-01-31 07:07:22
Except they still use pool power. 
Xiel2010-01-31 07:09:27
Still need to get me Wildarrane and Hexes AB skill tweaks. -ponder-
I'm lagging behind.
I'm lagging behind.
Ixion2010-01-31 07:11:06
Paladins are insane now... good god *envy*
edit: Even more insane.
edit: Even more insane.
Xavius2010-01-31 07:20:35
Yay for power-enhanced surge? Slap on a Seeker blessing and hoo boy, that thing isn't dying to damage.
Xiel2010-01-31 07:23:00
Yay prompt AB info. Thanks folk!
Razenth2010-01-31 07:29:23
Woot for Celestine envoy report going through. Even though I can't use it anymore
Jack2010-01-31 14:18:17
"Elasticity (Acrobatics) now works." - has it been broken all this time?
Unknown2010-01-31 15:20:33
QUOTE (Jack @ Jan 31 2010, 09:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
"Elasticity (Acrobatics) now works." - has it been broken all this time?
I was surprised to see it on that list, mostly because the last time I tested damage with and without it, it was working as intended.
Xenthos2010-01-31 15:23:33
QUOTE (Zarquan @ Jan 31 2010, 10:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I was surprised to see it on that list, mostly because the last time I tested damage with and without it, it was working as intended.
It was checking the attacker's skill in acrobatics, not the person with acrobatics. So, sometimes it would work and sometimes not, depending on the attacker. I imagine no little frustration in tracking down this bug.
Good catch on Charune's part, though.