[2022] 7.600 Test Server Update Notes for 2/8/2022

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Campaign

To ensure that Strongholds feel more like a “home base” to the faction or guild/alliance that controls them, this update brings a few changes to player protections while inside them.  Outside of the duration of a siege window, whenever a player is inside the walls of a friendly keep or fort they are given a buff “Stronghold Protection” that prevents them from taking damage. The periodic DoT effect that the Keeps used to place on enemies out of siege hours has been removed.

Another goal of this update has been to make the Shadow gameplay more compelling, as this campaign mode is where players should head to after completing the God’s Reach intro. The zones in Shadow Campaigns now have Rank 9-10 harvest nodes and Lv 34-35 NPC's.

• All forts and keeps in both Dregs and Shadow will always have level 35 guards now
• Increased Overseer mine buff duration to 45 minutes
• Enemy players can no longer interact with Fort vendors
• Players can no longer place siege weapons in the Overseer's Outpost
• Shadow small keeps now have a storehouse building type
• Training dummies added to the Dregs and Shadow Temples
• The rewards eligibility login time now immediately updates when joining a Shadow campaign for the first time
• Uncommon and Rare quality vessel vendors have been added to the Temples in Shadow and Dregs campaigns

Rendering and Performance
Added support for Global Illumination. Global Illumination improves lighting by allowing lights to bounce off surfaces in a more realistic way. This can be toggled in settings (Off/Low/High)

Crafting

• Added crafting icons for Humerus, Femur, and Enhanced Hand, Eyes, Lungs, Hearts, and Stomachs
• Crafting - Assembly Difficulty Reduction and Experiment Difficulty Reduction caps set to 50.
• Increased the Discipline drop rate from crafting stonemasonry buildings and Parcels

Eternal Kingdom

• Fixed an issue where moving buildings in an EK could randomly show a placement error after placing the building.
• Missing Move and Pick-Up interactions have been fixed for Thatch Manor and Manor

NPE

• Fixed Druid Rewards packages in the NPE to grant more sickles and only grant a staff once the player can reasonably hit level 14
• Fixed missing banners on the factions gates in sky point gods reach

Chat

• All event toast messages now appear in the chat Events channel as well

UI

• Added a locked message to the season card tooltip for inactive seasons
• Added a Wildlands zone type icon
• Added an error message popup when a player tries to collect a bill of sale from a vendor when they have a full inventory
• Added fade-in/fade-out animations to the credits UI
• Drop protection stat values were confusing and have thus been removed from the detailed stats list.
• Adjusted the icons over the heads of the Campaign Vendors to be more accurate
• Reduced the min font size on map names to fix long names not fitting on one line
• Reduced the interior red in the equipable item backings to improve readability
• Updated the Leaderboard's guild member entries to support displaying the guild rank icon next to player names.
• The ingredient slot outline is now displaying properly for larger items
• Vault and bank retain their sort setting when switching categories and searches

Powers

• AoE powers with target circle can no longer be used from the Fort's Roof and deal damage or heal to enemy/ally.
• Blind SFX has been removed to solve the problem where they would trigger from the caster perspective.

Assassin

• Corrected an issue where Deadly Poison would activate for Assassin Blackguards when using Deadly Infector Envenom without purchasing the Garrote power
• Exhaustion’s DoT will no longer break stealth
• The Blur power no longer has a pip indicator in the icon

Cleric

• The damage over time has been increased for the Damnation effect applied by Cleric Spiritual Presence and the Exhaustion effect has been removed

Champion

• Corrected a typo in the Anger Management buff tooltip

Confessor

• Fixed a typo in the Spitting Distance buff display
• Fervor will now display the CC immunity shader if it grants you CC immunity

Duelist

• Duelist Ricochet now stacks properly with Spirit Whip
• Added a queue blackout time to Duelist Ultimates to prevent unintentionally canceling stealth

Knight

• The Swordsmanship and Mighty Surge descriptions have been updated
• Fixed the wording of the Oath of Protection tooltip 

Templar

• Righteous Smash from Templar’s Reproach combo now grants 5% PHM (previously 25%)

Disciplines

• Beneficial Harvest buffs icons will now display the correct stat amount modified
• Energetic Harvesting now uses an abbreviated description when viewed from a harvesting discipline
• Fixed an issue with the 4th Minor Discipline displaying properly
• Updated the tooltips for several Domain traits

Dead  Eye

• The Shredded debuff effect icon now refers to the correct stat

Endure Cold

• Fixed Endure Cold buff tooltip

Forest Creature

• Forest Creature Discipline now grants 10% PHM (previously 25%)

Mudman

• Dispel and Mass Dispel will now function to remove the Jelly Skin barrier

Payback

• Blind will now trigger the Payback minor discipline

Restoration Strike

• Restoration Strike no longer affects Mighty Surge

Shadow

• The Recon minor discipline, which grants a power usable only from the stealth tray, is now granted by the Shadow domain only

General

• Added a hit SFX per tick of the “keep out” enemy territory debuff
• Public, Noble, Vassal, Faction, and Guild's chests now have a chest log that shows which players withdrew and deposited items from a chest.
• Tracking and removing  a quest from tracking,  should no longer cause a notification to be sent unless the quest state has also changed