Post by Acaos on Feb 7, 2010 20:15:48 GMT
- Higher Ground has updated to CEP 2.3. Please visit www.hgweb.org/update.html for more information.
- HG Enhanced has also updated to Beta 25; you can download this from the Wiki or use the HGE Updater. This is a mandatory update to HG Enhanced.
- The Abyss has been released! The Abyss is for level 55+ characters and contains over 50 individual areas in five major layers (plus Pazunia, the Plane of Portals). PLEASE NOTE: The Abyss is still under playtest, and may have need of further balancing. Enter at your own risk.
- Item changes:
-- Some ego items have been moved to a new category where they will conflict with each other, but not with ego items from augmentation.
-- Due to an antiexploit tweak, you will need to run any Divine Intervention amulets you possess through the bank to use their double-Miracle power.
- Spell changes:
-- The Sleep spell now receives an additional +1 DC per Enchantment focus.
-- The Hold Animal, Hold Person, and Hold Monster spells now receive an additional +1 DC per Enchantment focus (except for Dwarven Warchanter Hold Monster, which has its own DC bonus). Hold Animal can now paralyze animals, beasts, magical beasts, and vermin.
-- The Entangle and Web spells now receive an additional +1 DC per Conjuration Focus, and ignore Spell Resistance at CL41 and higher.
-- Entangle, Web, and Grease spells can no longer be dispelled by Gust of Wind.
-- Ball Lightning and Firebrand for DSMs and BFMs are now limited to one strike per ten caster levels per target (so at caster level 60, at most 6 balls/brands will hit each target).
-- The Time Stop spell now has a 30 second cooldown timer.
-- The Rebuke spell now respects Mind and Confusion immunity rather than Mind and Dominate immunity.
- New Spells:
-- Defoliate (Druid 4, Necromancy): As Crumble, but works on plants. Also includes the Fortitude save decrease effect from Crumble.
-- Freezing Fog (Sorc/Wiz 5, Conjuration): As Acid Fog, but cold (and does d6 instead of d8).
-- True Resurrection (Cleric 9, Conjuration): Ranged single-target resurrection spell; range is Touch without Conjuration foci, Short with SF Conjuration, Medium with GSF Conjuration, and Long with ESF Conjuration. LSF Conjuration is planned to allow you to recover allies from Limbo, but not yet done.
- Class and ability changes:
-- The unresistable divine damage from Divine Might and Divine Wrath no longer stack.
-- Construct Shape Iron Golem Breath now costs 5 EP per use.
-- Dragon Shape Dragon Breath now costs 1 EP per six caster levels or fraction thereof per use. In addition, dragon breath now does CL dice of damage, and the penalty for not having shifter levels has been removed (reducing the average breath damage at level 60 with maxed AE from ~960 to ~800).
-- The Sigil of Mystra's special power now grants three temporary caster levels for the duration of the power.
-- Artifact visual effects have been reworked to show up more consistently.
- Hotpatch rollup:
-- Camera zoom-in has been removed from all conversations.
-- Elemental Potions of Locate Object now function. They can find items and non-empty containers in the current area exactly (look for beams of light) and will also give you a sense of general direction towards active search spots when quaffed.
-- Added the !list levels SIMTools command. Note that this command may not be fully reliable for older characters (pre-dating March 2009). Generally the issue will be feats taken in legendary levels showing up in odd places.
-- Rest spawns have been removed from many low-level areas.
-- The Avernan Dragonblood flowers have been modified to reduce crashing problems.
-- The Greater Scabbard of Blessing should now work properly.
-- You can now use !portal here to portal to the server you are on.
-- Guild Warrior Nation now has a Split Merchant.
-- Shifters now receive unlimited shifts with limited forms as long as they have remaining essence, but have a single EP pool for all uses of that form (e.g. if you would have had 60 EP and 4 shifts before for Dragon Shape, you now have a total of 240 EP to use in Dragon Shape).
- Bug, exploit, lag, and documentation fixes.
- HG Enhanced has also updated to Beta 25; you can download this from the Wiki or use the HGE Updater. This is a mandatory update to HG Enhanced.
- The Abyss has been released! The Abyss is for level 55+ characters and contains over 50 individual areas in five major layers (plus Pazunia, the Plane of Portals). PLEASE NOTE: The Abyss is still under playtest, and may have need of further balancing. Enter at your own risk.
- Item changes:
-- Some ego items have been moved to a new category where they will conflict with each other, but not with ego items from augmentation.
-- Due to an antiexploit tweak, you will need to run any Divine Intervention amulets you possess through the bank to use their double-Miracle power.
- Spell changes:
-- The Sleep spell now receives an additional +1 DC per Enchantment focus.
-- The Hold Animal, Hold Person, and Hold Monster spells now receive an additional +1 DC per Enchantment focus (except for Dwarven Warchanter Hold Monster, which has its own DC bonus). Hold Animal can now paralyze animals, beasts, magical beasts, and vermin.
-- The Entangle and Web spells now receive an additional +1 DC per Conjuration Focus, and ignore Spell Resistance at CL41 and higher.
-- Entangle, Web, and Grease spells can no longer be dispelled by Gust of Wind.
-- Ball Lightning and Firebrand for DSMs and BFMs are now limited to one strike per ten caster levels per target (so at caster level 60, at most 6 balls/brands will hit each target).
-- The Time Stop spell now has a 30 second cooldown timer.
-- The Rebuke spell now respects Mind and Confusion immunity rather than Mind and Dominate immunity.
- New Spells:
-- Defoliate (Druid 4, Necromancy): As Crumble, but works on plants. Also includes the Fortitude save decrease effect from Crumble.
-- Freezing Fog (Sorc/Wiz 5, Conjuration): As Acid Fog, but cold (and does d6 instead of d8).
-- True Resurrection (Cleric 9, Conjuration): Ranged single-target resurrection spell; range is Touch without Conjuration foci, Short with SF Conjuration, Medium with GSF Conjuration, and Long with ESF Conjuration. LSF Conjuration is planned to allow you to recover allies from Limbo, but not yet done.
- Class and ability changes:
-- The unresistable divine damage from Divine Might and Divine Wrath no longer stack.
-- Construct Shape Iron Golem Breath now costs 5 EP per use.
-- Dragon Shape Dragon Breath now costs 1 EP per six caster levels or fraction thereof per use. In addition, dragon breath now does CL dice of damage, and the penalty for not having shifter levels has been removed (reducing the average breath damage at level 60 with maxed AE from ~960 to ~800).
-- The Sigil of Mystra's special power now grants three temporary caster levels for the duration of the power.
-- Artifact visual effects have been reworked to show up more consistently.
- Hotpatch rollup:
-- Camera zoom-in has been removed from all conversations.
-- Elemental Potions of Locate Object now function. They can find items and non-empty containers in the current area exactly (look for beams of light) and will also give you a sense of general direction towards active search spots when quaffed.
-- Added the !list levels SIMTools command. Note that this command may not be fully reliable for older characters (pre-dating March 2009). Generally the issue will be feats taken in legendary levels showing up in odd places.
-- Rest spawns have been removed from many low-level areas.
-- The Avernan Dragonblood flowers have been modified to reduce crashing problems.
-- The Greater Scabbard of Blessing should now work properly.
-- You can now use !portal here to portal to the server you are on.
-- Guild Warrior Nation now has a Split Merchant.
-- Shifters now receive unlimited shifts with limited forms as long as they have remaining essence, but have a single EP pool for all uses of that form (e.g. if you would have had 60 EP and 4 shifts before for Dragon Shape, you now have a total of 240 EP to use in Dragon Shape).
- Bug, exploit, lag, and documentation fixes.