PatchNotes May 15th

[Tasos]

Skills

• Skill gain has increased significantly in all melee skills
• Skill progression in archery has been increased significantly
• You are now required to hit a valid target to gain skill in archery
• Skilling up in magic has been increased significantly
• Skill progression in spells requires the caster to hit a valid target
  
• Number of successful hits required to reach surging mode again with spells has been extremely reduced
  
• Knockback, Seize and Whirlwind have been modified and skill gain has increased
  

Gameplay / Fixes

• Small adjustments made to melee reach depending on character race
  
• Corrected spells that would skill up rigor without dealing damage
• Corrected a problem some players had while buying skills and starter weapons from vendors
  
• Corrected an issue in auto optimization
• Fogginess of environments has been reduced
  
• Various client side issues have been corrected
• Clan Mines/Quarries/Groves/etc now start out at 25% capacity and their regrowth rate has been increased
• Clan Guard Tower damage had been slightly increased

Monsters

• Monster loot for Demon and Fire Giant has been updated
• A.I. tactics have been enhanced and improved

User Interface

• Improved worldmap and minimap marker information (You can use the options window to change this)
• Zoom added to World Map
• Improved crafting window
• Improved tooltips for crafting window
  
• New tooltip for spells display reagent requirements
• Display of active weapon under hotbar updated, improved and fixed
• New chat messages displaying who buffed or debuffed you
• Vendor icons on minimap now display the vendor name
• Player Journal and Clan pages now accessible trough external browsers. Go to http://web001.eu1.darkfallonline.com/darkfall and log in with your username and password
• Trading window confirmation now displays the name of the person wanting to trade with you
• Various skill descriptions have been improved
• Various item descriptions have been improved
• Various problems with Journal and Clan windows have been resolved

Weapons

Melee Range has increased:

* Axes
* Clubs
* Greataxes
* Greatclubs
* Knives

New Polearms have been added to the game:

* Guisarme
* Spetum
* Imperial halberd
* Polehammer
* Glaive
* Partisan
* Dragon tail
* Skewer

Visual Updates

We have made visual updates to:

• Giant Dragon Skeletons
• Blacksmith market stands
• Kobold huts and props.
• Harbor bases
• Human keep bases
• Human skeleton props
• Minotaur Statues
• Some player controlled ships
• Miscellaneous props

New Quests

ORDER OF THE AXE - DWARVEN FACTION

• A New Enemy
• A link to the Leaders
• Fire Standard Leaders
• Helping Out
• The Legendary Blacksmith

FIVE BEARDS TRADING COMPANY - DWARVEN FACTION

• Masters of the Dark Taint
• A Trading Post in Trouble
• Protecting the Trading Post
• Evigvanger is Safe
• The Miners of Otredale

THE RADIANT CIRCLE - ALFAR FACTION

• Rare Sightings
• Forgotten Creatures
• These New Neighbors
• Castle Obad
• Materials for Enchantments
• The Fallen Necromancers
• Shulgan the Cautious
• A Matter of Security
• The Cursed Ones

THE HARN MANDEAN - ALFAR FACTION

• West of Nagast
• Weak Minds

ALFAR CAPITAL

• Tialanta the Fighter
• Five Humans Less
• Hunting Mirdain is Fun
• True Predators
• Big, Slow, Ugly and Stupid

OTHER ALFAR QUESTS

• As Strange as they Come
• Two Eyes
• Hanthar's Gift
• Dangerous Gnolls

Crafting

• Crafting ingredients have been reduced for

• Tribal Pike
• Cultist Polearm

• Crafting skill gain has been increased
• Requirements for getting trueforge armor and trueforge weapon skills have been modified.
• Improved crafting window
• Improved tooltips for crafting window

World Building

There have been area and world building updates to:

• Carpendale
• Winterworth
• Wetstone
• Thangruk
• Waterbourne
• New NPCs have been added in Obad

Magic

• 'Leech' spells no longer work on mounts
• Mana cost for powerful spells has been reduced
• Potential maximum damage for spells has been increased
• Holy/Unholy damage will now drain stamina
• Bone can now be bought from the arcanist

Spell Balancing

AIR MAGIC

• Arrow shield: Effect has been significantly increased
• Arrow ward: Reach has been increased
• Come hither: Reach has been significantly increased
• Exploding charge: Damage output has been increased
• Guiding wind: Effect has been significantly increased
• Lightning bolt: Reach has been significantly increased
• Lightning ward: Effect increased, reach increased
• Lightning weakness: Effect increased
• Lightning shield: Effect increased
• Thunderstorm: Reach and duration increased

EARTH MAGIC:

• Acid Rain: Reach significantly increased. Duration increased
• Acid Shield: Effect significantly increased
• Acid ward: Effect significantly increased
• Disintegrate: Damage increased. Impact area increased
• Gravity: Reach increased. Cooldown reduced
• Impale: Damage increased
• Ironskin: Effect increased. Reach increased
• Pungent mist: Reach increased
• Stamina leech: Reach increased
• Stoneskin: Effect significantly increased
• Tarnish : Effect significantly increased

FIRE MAGIC:

• Dragonbreath: Reach increased
• Fire Shield: Effect significantly increased
• Fire ward: Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
• Haste: Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
• Inferno: Damage increased
• Smoke signal: Reach increased
• Volcano: Reach increased. Duration increased. Damage increased
• Wall of fire: Reach increased
• Weakening blaze: Effect significantly increased

GREATER MAGIC:

• Beacon: Reach increased
• Heal other : Reach increased
• Infliction shield: Effect significantly increased
• Infliction ward: Effect significantly increased
• Insight: Effect significantly increased
• Rend: Casting time reduced. Cooldown time reduced. Damage increased. Area of effect increased.
• Telekinesis: Reach increased
• Venom: Cooldown time reduced

LESSER MAGIC:

• Health to mana: Effect significantly increased
• Heal mount: Reach increased
• Launch: Reach increased
• Lay on hands: Reach increased
• Magic ward: Reach increased
• Mana drain: Effect significantly increased

NECROMANCY

• Bludgeoning weakness : Effect significantly increased
• Desecration : Effect significantly increased
• Death fog : Reach increased
• Infernal shield : Effect significantly increased
• Infernal ward : Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
• Mental weakness : Effect significantly increased.
• Piercing weakness : Effect significantly increased
• Slashing weakness : Effect significantly increased
• Undeath : Effect significantly increased. Mana cost reduced
• Unholy caress : Reach increased
• Unholy flames : Effect increased. Mana cost slightly increased.
• Vampiric touch : Reach increased

SPELL CHANTING

• Bless other : Effect significantly increased
• Blessing : Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
• Hymn of Intellect : Reach increased. Effect increased
• Hymn of Might : Reach increased. Effect increased
• Hymn of Skill : Reach increased. Effect increased
• Hymn of Swiftness : Reach increased. Effect increased
• Hymn of Vigor : Reach increased. Effect increased

WATER MAGIC:

• Blizzard : Cooldown slightly increased
• Cold shield : Effect increased
• Cold ward : Effect increased. Reach increased
• Frostbite : Reach increased
• Ice storm : Reach increased
• Icicle : Slight damage decrease
• Shards : Slight damage decrease
• Toxic rain : Reach increase. Duration slightly decreased
• Water breathing : Reach increased
• Weakening chill : Effect significantly increased

WITCHCRAFT:

• Disease : Effect increased
• Insect swarm : Reach increased
• Ominous drain : Effect increased
• Palsy : Effect increased
• Pestilence : Effect increased
• Sluggish : Effect increased
• Stupidity : Effect increased
• Tongue Rot : Cooldown increased

[Tasos]

Addition to Magic: Requirements for buying spells have been adjusted.