Update 36 Patch 3 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 36 Patch 3, released on Tuesday, October 17th.

Of Special Note
A new Night Revels dungeon! A spooooooky variant of Coalescence Chamber has been added as the seventh Night Revels dungeon. New items are now available with the Night Revels vendor, and existing items now have level 28 upgrades! Read more below.

Classes

 * Clerics on paths are no longer forced to select their Tier 2 and higher Domain Feats.
 * All classes and Iconic Heroes now use Customize as the default option when the Path stage in character creation is opened.
 * Clerics on the Font of healing path now consistently receive Healing Domain.
 * Clerics on the Scourge of the Undead path now consistently receive Good Domain.
 * Clerics on the Warpriest Path now consistently receive War Domain.
 * Sun Elf Morninglords on their path now consistently receive Sun Domain.

DDO Store

 * The DDO Store will now open in your system browser if the embedded browser fails to initialize.
 * The browser and in-game Store has returned, and now opens on all clients using Windows 7+ operating systems, provided the option has been enabled in the UI options. Windows Vista and earlier operating systems, along with Mac clients, will continue to use the default external web browser.

Enhancements

 * Unyielding Sentinel's Vigor of Battle now gives only the 20 Healing Amplification its text indicates that it should.
 * Changed the name of the Favored Soul Warpriest enhancement tree to War Soul.
 * A multiselector has been added to War Soul's Divine Might:
 * Divine Might: You gain an Insight bonus to Strength equal to your Charisma Modifier.
 * Divine Presence: Adds one half of Charisma modifier to melee damage and tactical DC's.
 * Divine Will: Adds one half of Wisdom modifier to melee damage and tactical DC's

Night Revels

 * ​A spooky variant of Coalescence Chamber has been added as the seventh Night Revels dungeon.
 * Additional item rewards have been added to the turn in vendor for the event:
 * Existing Night Revels items have been given recipes for level 28 upgrades.
 * Most recipes have had their ingredient costs reduced significantly.
 * A red variant of the Reaper's Platemail has been added.
 * A collection of new named items have been added to the festival vendor turn in:
 * (Light Pick)
 * Undead Bane (Extra damage to Undead. Exact values dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Coruscating (Light Damage on hit. Exact values dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Light Bringer (On Vorpal: Destroy undead below 1000 hit points. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.)
 * Sunburst (Chance for Blind and area Light Damage. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.)
 * (Morningstar)
 * Unholy (Evil Aligned. Evil Damage on hit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Smashing (Bludgeon damage on crit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Piercing (Piercing damage on hit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Combat Mastery (Tactics DC's. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * (Great Club)
 * Tendon Slice (Chance for slow on hit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Electrifying (Lightning damage on hit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Freezing (Ice Damage on hit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Armor-Piercing (Bypass enemy Fortification. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * (Dagger)
 * Ghostbane (Ghost Touch, bypasses ethereal evade chance, deals Bane damage vs. Incorporeal monsters. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Evil Outsider Bane (Extra damage to Evil Outsiders. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Crushing (Force damage on crit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Vorpal (Extra W damage. On vorpal enemies with few hitpoints are instantly slain. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.)
 * (Throwing Dagger)
 * Ghostbane (Ghost Touch, bypasses ethereal evade chance, deals Bane damage vs. Incorporeal monsters. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Evil Outsider Bane (Extra damage to Evil Outsiders. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Crushing (Force damage on crit. Exact value dependent on Minimum Level)
 * Vorpal (Extra W damage. On vorpal enemies with few hitpoints are instantly slain. Only on higher Minimum Level variants.)
 * 2016 candy, ingredients, and non-store bought keys have been deprecated and can no longer be used.

Races

 * Corrected an issue with attack animations on Dragonborn who wield melee weapons or crossbows with runearms.
 * Iconic Deep Gnome was erroneously giving 1% Dodge per rank in addition to its other bonuses. This has been fixed.

Reaper Difficulty

 * Reaper XP is now doubled for dungeons with a base CR of 30 or higher.

Reincarnation

 * Changes have been made to the way a player's inventory and bank are moved to the True Reincarnation cache during reincarnation. The process occurs upon first login after a reincarnation. The process is now more resilient against disconnects that occur at this time.
 * If there is a problem and it detects that items were lost, a message will be displayed in the chat window at login.
 * Customer service now has additional tools to identify and restore items lost in this process.
 * Non-bankable items will not be moved to the Reincarnation Cache during reincarnation, and will instead be moved to the front of your character inventory. These are items like the Iconic Hero loot boxes and Monster Manual reward bags.