Telonian Tribune - October 23, 2009(2) : Vanguard News

Telonian Tribune - October 23, 2009(2)
Are you wondering what the Vanguard development team is up to? The team is currently in the middle of a mild revamp of all the classes that can be found in Vanguard and the two latest classes to get a look over are the Ranger and Rouges. Has this made you curious as to the changes? Good, because we're outlining them all here for you to check out. Do keep in mind that these are subject to change and adjustments may be made as needed!

Ranger Update :

-Rangers may now have both melee and ranged paths.
-Switching melee/ranged forms will unlock abilities designed for that form while locking ones designed for the other.
-Ranger offensive forms can now only be switched once every 2 minutes.
-Fixed an issue with Wave of Lightning damage not scaling properly.
-Fixed an issue with the discharge effect on Wave of Lightning not displaying its damage.
-Sweeping Strike has had its endurance cost reduced.
-Fixed an issue with the discharge effect on Discharging Arrow not displaying its damage.
-Regress has been increased to 35m.
-Talismans will no longer fade when energy has been depleted.
-Thorn Cloak will no longer fade when energy has been depleted.
-Fixed an issue with Monsoon Cloak not consuming energy while activated.
-Summer Cloak now adds dexterity with the strength buff.
-Monsoon Cloak now adds dexterity with the strength buff.
-A new ability called Warden's Temper has been added to the trainers. This ability will max out your progressive form as well as give a 30 sec buff that increases accuracy, crit chance and strikethrough chance.
-Fixed an issue with Static Surge doing the incorrect damage for levels 10-45.
-Golden Berries was removed from the forage tables.
-Fletching combine outcomes have been increased from 50 to 100.
-Fletching assembly component stack sizes have been increased to 200.
-The following abilities should now state their damage types correctly:
-Blade of Storms
-Destructive Swarm
-Entangle
-Grasp of Earth
-Intercept
-Maelstrom
-Monsoon Cloak
-Shocking Arrow
-Static Surge
-Summer Cloak
-Swelter
-Wave of Lightning
-Winter Cloak

Rouge Update :

-Shadowblade duration increased to 30 seconds (damage should be adjusted accordingly)
-Hemorrhage duration increased to 30 seconds (damage should be adjusted accordingly)
-Quickblade refresh reduced by 60 seconds
-Blindside now places a 100% crit buff on the rogue for one attack, instead of a crit weakness on the target. This crit should only affect modular attacks
-Added Vital Strikes 2 to Sparkles loot tableVital Strikes 2 adds 100% crit and 5% crit damage for 4 seconds

-Increased dot duration of Eviscerate to 30 seconds (damage should be adjusted accordingly)
-Ruin's duration has been increased to 30 seconds for all ranks.
-Assassin's Guile should now properly give 5% crit instead of 4%
-Deter should no longer break stealth
-Details on Poison changes next week
-Fixed damage display on Azure and scarlet flame poisons since it is a DD
-Lint Bandages now stack to 300
-Pickpocket lockout should now display properly on NPCs
-Poison assembly recipes have been removed
-All non advanced poisons, scrolls, flechettes, and darts can now be purchased from rogue vendors.All rogue poisons now require a certain adventuring level to be used. This level should be equal to the skill previously required for the recipe/10.
-Apply poison skill has been removed
-Advanced poisons are now on pickpocket tables
-Advanced scrolls are now on their own pick pocket tables
-Advanced Flechettes/Darts are now on their own pick pocket tables
-There is an increased chance of rolling on the poison tables when pickpocketing
-Max stack size of all poisons, scrolls, flechettes, etc. have been reduced to 50.
-Poisons now consume a poison reagent on when they proc. So for example water of life when it procs will consume a water of life vial
-All poison proc buffs should now last an hour
-Old rogue poison related gems should no longer default to the poison pouch when looted.
-Azure Flame, Scarlet Flame, Siren's Kiss, & Water of Life now last for 1 hour. This is for both basic and advanced versions.
-Poison weapon procs have had their efficiency increased by 20%
-Scroll: Advanced Bear's Strength now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Advanced Blinding Strikes now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Advanced Cat's Feet now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Advanced Float now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Advanced Group Water Breathing now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Advanced Wolf's Legs now lasts for 1 hour.
-Scroll: Bear's Strength now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Blinding Strikes now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Cat's Feet now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Float now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Group Water Breathing now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Wolf's Legs now lasts for 30 minutes.
-Scroll: Vampiric Thirst now lasts for 1 hour. This is for both basic and advanced versions.
-Vampiric Thirst now requires and consumes a Vampiric Bloodstone per proc.
-Vampiric Bloodstones have been added to the rogue merchants.
-Advanced Vampiric Thirst proc rate has been raised to 25%.
-Fix for smoke trick burning mana when it does not fire correctly
-All ranks of stealth have had their base modifiers increased by 2%
-The max rank of stealth and the epic rank of stealth now add strikethrough chance of 5%
-The max rank of stealth and the epic rank of stealth now increase chance to proc by 5%
-Salamanders should now be classified as humanoid
-After looking at trick attack it is working correctly and over time adds more hate then the monk agro push ability goading slap since there is no refresh component. We do not see an issue with the power of this ability at this time
-Water of Life poison has been renamed to Viper Venom
-Water of Life Dart has been renamed to Tear Burst
-Siren's Kiss has a new rank at 55Viper Venom has a new rank at 55 that adds a chance to fire twice when it procs
-Tear Burst has a new rank at 55
-Azure Flames has a new rank that adds a reduciton in crit chance debuff
-Scarlet Flames has a new rank that adds a reduction in crit damage debuff.
-Foul blood has a new rank at 55
-Enflaming Veins Flechette has a new rank at 55
-Shadowy Flechette has a new rank at 55
-All of these new ranks have advanced versions as well.
-Fixed the restriction of many mobs in POTA that were not pickpocketable or able to be taken as hostages
-Removed the increased hate mod from devious foe.
-Vital strikes buff timer increased to 6 seconds
-Reduced Refresh of Eviscerate by 15 seconds
-Endurance cost reduction portion of criminal intent has been increased by 1 percent per tier after the first.
-Stack size of flash powder has been increased

Author: Raijinn
Publish Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:40:47 GMT
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