Asheron’s Call April Release Notes from Turbine
And now we have here the April 2009 Release Notes for Asheron’s Call. Turbine’s promising a whole lot of changes now that “the snow has all melted away, and Baby Creatures have appeared on the landscape.”
And now we have here the April 2009 Release Notes for Asheron’s Call. Turbine’s promising a whole lot of changes now that “the snow has all melted away, and Baby Creatures have appeared on the landscape.”
Check out the list:
- Many monsters that don’t drop corpses now drop treasure piles. This is to fix an issue where loot wouldn’t drop if the monster was in certain animation state when killed.
- The XP on Moarsmen Isle and Freebooter Isle landscape creatures has been increased.
- A new bottle style quest has been added that begins with a note that will drop from a particular type of creatures. The dungeon for this quest may not be what most players expect.
- A new level has been added to the Crystalline Crag Dungeon.
- Spring has finally arrived. The snow has melted and baby creatures are appearing on the landscape once again.
- Slayers can now be added to the Sword of Lost Light.
- A stranger has shown up in The Lost Portal town. She appears to be looking for some specific items.
- The Rare Exchanger NPC has had some adjustments made.
- The Exploration and Monthly Kill tasks have been updated.
- Arc spells have had their damage increased like the bolt spells did last month.
- The Olthoi Matron Colosseum fight has been tweaked more based on feedback.
- Spirit Drinker 8 now does 8%; Blood Loather 8 now matches Blood Drinker 8.
- Paralyzing Fear will now override Incantation of Slowness Other.
- Adept rank Graveyard quests will now give you another tracing paper and supplies if you town crier the originals.
- The PvP town now has a new mechanic which allows the town to be taken after 27 hours. Players of the winning faction after the town is taken will now also be rewarded Mana Forge Keys.
- Armor kits now look like a black gem when bought; when the gem is used it creates an armor kit in your pack.
- New items to use the armor kits on:
Doomshark Hide Coat
Snarl’s Jerkin
Scourge‘s Hide Leggings
Plaquefang’s robe
Nefane Shield - Moarsman City has received some slight changes. Make sure you check them out!
- The Crate of Olthoi Acid Arrowheads now pluralizes correctly.
- The Bound Wisp now portals you back to the start of Crystalline Crag.
- The Following quests have had 2 use Mana Forge Keys added to the rewards for completing them:
Jester Released (the jester you fight not the one you let out of the cell) key only receivable once every 2 weeks whereas Jester can be fought every 3 days
Jester Focuses (K’nath Core quest)
Elysa’s Journey
Dreams of the Hopeslayer
Vision of the Past - The Jester Released quest will now tell you how long until you can do it again.
- A typo in the Uber Towers in The Tower Defense has been fixed.
These quests have also been fitted with the pack space check on reward.
Via WarCry