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Announce News Post #2314

Liaison changes part 1

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Monday, September 29th, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone


Battlefury
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(1711) [Fitness] balance penalty has been removed. This applies to all skillsets that have the Fitness ability.
(1720) Weapon mastery effects have been divorced from specific weapons and now attached to a weapon class. Refer to AB BATTLEFURY MASTERY.

Bladefire
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(1715) The mental_disruption affliction is now focusable. Both mental_disruption and physical_disruption are now above sunlight_allergy on the ginseng/ovary curing tree.

Corpus
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(1705) [Deathlink] defence now persists across class changes.

Crystalism
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(1702) [Tone] balance is now fixed at 2.5 seconds.
(1776) Folding multiple pearls at once is now supported.
(1787) [Cataclysm] will allow indoor targets in a line of sight.

Desiccation and Naturalism
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All these comes from report 1739:
* Overgrowth and sand can now exist in the same location.
* [Emergence] and [Desiccate] will now have a delay if there is a Teradrim or Shaman in the room, respectively.
* Ranged sand and overgrowth placement (including greenfoot) will still not work if the opposing effect is in that location already. You need to walk into the room to place your domain.
* [Naturalism: Roots, Pull] and [Desiccation: Trap, Blast, Meld and all projection abilities] can be used regardless of overgrowth, sand and pllar ownership.

Devotion
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(1699) [Bliss]'s ticks now consistently restore willpower and endurance each time, to the exclusion of all other benefits. Fitness, Toughness, and Resistance are now all abilities in Spirituality. The cooldown has been removed and devotion cost lowered.
(1704) Convocation now has a 1 second channel, during which any movement by the target will interrupt the attempt.

Dhuriv
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(1703) [Slice] now exclusively targets the torso.
(1774) [Reave] will use Slash's balance time if it strips shield or rebounding. The balance time will be as it is currently when a different defence is stripped, or the ability fails.

Domination
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(1721) The stun on Chimera Roar has been shortened to 1.5 seconds.
(1759) With the removal of hunger as a combat tactic, the demonic worm (Palpatar) now allows you to WORM REPORT <target>, where target is the player to which your worm is attached. At an equilibrium cost, this command shows you vital information as well as class-specific stats such as Kai and Essence.
(1783) Pathfinder travel will now involve a 2-second channel, interruptable only through caster movement. Conditions will be re-checked at the end of the channel, so impales and such will prevent the pathfinder from working. Additionally, pathfinders will now display their owners in INFO HERE.
(1592) Chaos orb's function has been changed. Instead of parrying an attack, it will now soften the blow, causing it to deal 50% less health damage (but still same limb damage). Cooldown on summoning has been removed.

Enchantment
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(1803) The Gem of Negation is now stopped by paresis and being prone in addition to the existing restrictions. There is also a 60 minute cooldown on its use.

Ferality
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(1719) [Destroy] and [Mangle] can no longer be dodged.
(1749) Increased bodypart damage of these Ferality attacks: [Slashing], [Spinalcrack], [BodyPunch], [Skullwhack], [Jugular], [Faceslash], [GroinRip], [SpleenRip], [ThroatRip]. They were mistakenly lowered during the Shapeshifter changes.

Hematurgy
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(1685) New ability: [Umbrage]
(1734) Those in the Bloodborn class will naturally deal more damage against NPCs when using a scythe attack.
(1778) The damage stat on scythes has been lowered and the speed raised. This should bring scythe attacks roughly in line with dwhisper time at neutral balance/equilibrium.

Hypnosis
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(1706) Hypochondria now blocks diagnose's output instead of scrambling it.
(1765) The shadow balance on dissipate, void, and bedazzle have all been increased by 1.0 seconds.

Illumination
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(1298) EVOKE SHADOW will now cost 3s true equilibrium (down from 5s modifiable equilibrium) and provide messages to the caster and target when the effect ends.

Kaido
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(1708) New ability: [Recursion].

Misc
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(1717) Silence, cloak of the hunt will no longer hide the global message when a lesser is extracted. It instead has two new functions: 1) it will hide entry into the Iernian fracture from the ylembic resonators, and (2) When farseeing someone in an unstable area that is wearing it, you will no longer be able to tell that the area is unstable.
(1722) Player corpses/husks will now show who killed them when probed.
(1751) You can now BREATHE FIRE <direction> to attempt to destroy an icewall.
(1771) Paralysis will now prevent Shamanism Tranquility Oath, Numerology Oneness and Righteousness Cleansing to not proc if the user has full paralysis.
(1763) Abilities that heal health/mana now have a cooldown that adds diminishing returns. Each time you use a healing skill within 15 seconds, it will heal for 33% cumulatively and reset the timer back to 15 seconds. Affects these skills: Necromancy Vigour/Sapience, Tarot Priestess/Magician, Deathlore Consume, Devotion Hands, Illumination Infusion.
(1768) The negative move speed aspect of monuments will now only affect order enemies.
(1788) New config: CONFIG ENEMYLIST <ON|OFF>
(1709) Added basic support for affliction_view messages on secondary aff messages. Doesn't work for all of them since there's a lack of code unification in that respect. We'll add those as they get bugged. That said, I think I've covered all the common ones people use for checking - let me know if I missed any of the common ones.

Necromancy
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(1689) [Extermination] now respects a 5 minute cooldown and an increased channel time. However, a successful extermination now grants 20% more essence.
(1712) [Soulcage] is now treated like rebirth, in that it provides the killer experience and shows a proper deathsight.
(1746) [Vivisect] now requires a shriveled chest. Shriveling a chest will expose the target's ribcage after 15 seconds, for a period of 60 seconds after the last aggressive action or until death. You may only shrivel one chest at a time, and only you may take advantage of the chest you have shriveled. However, multiple Necromancers may shrivel the same target's chest for their own use. Shriveling chests does not require or consume balance or equilibrium.

Primality
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(1755) [Equivalence] will now show a discernment line and give its affs unhidden.

Righteousness
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(1756) Accuracy aura has been decreased from +50% hit chance to +35%, and Accuracy blessing has been decreased from +25% to +15%.
(1770) Spellbane will no longer increases mana drained from mana draining attacks.

Sanguis
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(1742) If target has both shield and rebounding up, devastate will only strip rebounding and halt, costing only 2 seconds of bal/eq.

Shamanism
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(1695) Songline Travel (self-only) will no longer be prevented by a monolith at the destination if the room is in a city, and the Shaman isn't enemied to it.

Subterfuge
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(1754) You can now wear a wielded bow if you have bowstance.

Survival
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(1760) New ability: [Relaxing].

Tarot
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(1744) [Fool] tarot's cooldown has been reduced to 25s.
(1779) [Adder]'s strike is now able to be dodged.

Tekura
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(1707) [Vault] has been removed. In its place in Tekura is now [Dash].

Telepathy
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(1671) [Crush] no longer has a diminishing return to its damage.
(1761) [Blackout] now causes a 15 second immunity in the target.
(1789) [Push] now causes a 10 second immunity in the target.

Terramancy
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(1395) [Furor] will now count as two seperate attakcs in one turn.

Tracking
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(1762) New skill: Meteorshot.

Vision
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(1725) [Discernment] will proc a generic line whenever someone resists an affliction, e.g. fitness blocking asthma

Vocalizing
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(1802) New ability: [Convergence]

Weaponry
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(1731) New ability: [Quickwield]
(1792) [Shatter] channel time increased from 3.00 to 4.00 seconds.

Woodlore
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(1646) Wildmarks will now properly decay.
(1727) Camouflaged nightingales will no longer show room messages.
(1775) Tents and campsites may now be constructed in jungles.
(1784) Elk, bear, and raloth will now perform their attacks as intended.

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Slyphian, in the year 430 MA.


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