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-Reverted Daeron to its former, pre-1.69 state. However, I put diviners throughout Daeron since they used to be scattered throughout the encampments.

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Lead NS4 developer

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[ Azchekelon ]

Word of Faith: Enemies only, not under an effect of this spell and SR = yes for:
- 20% misschance, lasting caster level/4 rounds
- d4/level sonic damage
- if caster lg, cg, le, ce, opposed alignment (ce, le, cg, lg respectively) must pass will save v sonic or stun two rounds (visual on that).

Mind spell immunity blocks the stun part (engine). Don't know if I want to address that.

(Other updates: Both Linux and I have been pretty busy IRL the past few weeks. Have a sizeable list of things to look at, but not able to dive into it right now.)

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

-Fixed Frozen Guardian's loot
-Polymorph forms now no longer receive twice their boot's dodge AC, now its just a single bonus (like everyone else)
-Healkits now heal d2 hitpoints per Heal skill point. NOTE: This is now d4 hitpoints
-Fixed some minor exploits

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

-The Acolyte's Medallion now provides a d6 bonus vs a target's level for Turn Undead ability. Additionally it provides a d6 to your level for purposes of resisting being turned. I meant to put this in before last wipe, but I always forgot... anyway, enjoy.

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

- Scythe is now slashing only. Same crit threat and damage dice.

-Added Assassin's Stealth ability. Once a day ability gives + 1 hide/ms per 2 Assassin levels. Duration is 2 rounds per Assassin level. Assassins receive this ability with 5 Assassin levels.

-Fix bug in CHA vs. WIS check on pickpocket. Was using the WIS modifier of the thief instead of the target, so he was essentially doing a check against himself.

-Improved Black Devil summon. Removed weapon focus feats and dropped strength a bit, but gave spear a +6 enhancement bonus and +6 vampiric regeneration. Gave +2 to fortitude and Keen Sense... they can't spot/listen worth anything but should prevent summon from walking slow while in Stealth Mode. Gave +10 to AC.

-Improved duration of Assassin's True Strike ability to 18 seconds. This does not affect the spell True Strike, which remains at 9 seconds.

-Rewrote spamming of healing items (potions, scrolls, etc.). After the first heal item use, there's a 10% decrease to each healing afterward to a maximum of 50% decrease. Two minutes after the last heal item use, it wears off and goes back to 0%.

-Increased heal kit healing to 1d4 per heal rank (was 1d2).

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

-Increased artifact (that is, {Unique} items) rate
-Tweaked some of the monsters in Plane of Water to make the difficulty more in line with the other elemental planes

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

Retributive damage shields: one of a kind per customer now.

It's the intention that other bonuses from jobs or subraces don't go away when a damage shield does so if they do, please inform us (damage shields are removed when you use anything that gives you one).

Also, ammo stack size has gone up:

500 for shot ammo.

100 for thrown ammo.

-Improved poison on gas traps

-Implemented theme-based trap spawning for chests. We used to have fixed traps for each type of chest, so they were pretty predictable and had low variety. Now more types of traps are available in chests. The number of trapped chests is the same as before.

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Lead NS4 developer

[ Brilhasti ap Tarj ]
[ ...Darkfalz... ]
[ Azchekelon ]

We changed something, guess what.

Fixes mostly this update:

Bigby 6 push distance quartered in places where /makesafe is disabled - which I think covers most places you can get stuck.
Little behind the scenes stuff.
Healing Sting: Now halves damage when the target passes the save, as opposed to when they fail it. *cough*

Slight CR/Power tweaks to early game and NS areas.
Welcome back Deputy Dog!

Minor tweaks to giant mountain. In unrelated news,
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