Update 13 Patch 1 Release Notes

Welcome to the Update 13 Patch 1 Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These release notes were posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2012.

Of Special Note

• Epic scrolls will once again appear in Epic-level dungeons.

News & Notes

Classes

• Reincarnating will no longer cause a Character Sheet UI issue, and players can apply tomes of learning normally.
• Tome upgrades will now work after reincarnation.

Combat

• Fascinated or hypnotized enemies will no longer teleport.

Creature Companions

• Creature Companions will now do their tricks when a trick is activated from a locked hotbar.
• Cranium Rat and Kobold Shaman Creature Companions are now available in the DDO Store. Additional tricks and gear for these companions are available as well.

Items

• Items that grant bonus feat uses (like Uncanny Dodge) will no longer remove counts when unequipped, except to return the number to its new maximum count.
• The Epic Ring of the Master Artificer and Epic Mournlode Breastplate can now have their augments cleansed in a Stone of Change.
• It is once again no longer possible to summon monsters in public areas.
• The level 4 Ring of the Master Artificer, Ring of the Stalker, Spare Hand, Blasting Chime, Bracers of Wind, Cloak of Flames and Rock Boots no longer have the "Upgradable: Tier 1" effect on them, since there is nothing for them to upgrade to.
• Fixed an issue where weapons with the Righteous benefit were not applying their proper to-hit and damage bonuses against Evil creatures.

Quests and Adventure Areas

• Fixed an issue where quest objectives would not always display properly when logging into an adventure area.

Euphonia's Challenge

• Fixed a tooltip error involving the Greater Bold Trinket.

Korthos Island

• The new quest objectives that appear in the Korthos public area for new players will now properly appear when in the Wavecrest Tavern.

The Necropolis

Accursed Ascension

• The tile puzzle now works the same on all difficulties again. Fixed an issue that caused a bug with the phase tile puzzle.

The Web of Chaos

Servants of the Overlord

• The end fight is now less difficult on higher difficulty settings.
• The area where Flamefang and his hellhounds reside has been reworked.
• Changed some of Flamefang's dialog.
• Added a rumbling noise to a quest-related event.
• The Khyber Reavers' flaming rocks now do less damage.

The Spinner of Shadows

• The background behind Lolth during the end drama sequence is now more demon webby.
• Fixed a stuck spot near one of the shrines.
• The Spinner of Shadows will no longer attack players outside of the prison room.

UI

• Fixed an issue that could cause buffs and debuffs to not be removed from the UI bar when their time runs out.
• Fixed an issue that could cause inventory to appear to be hidden on the Creature Companion tab.
• Improved the vitals bar for characters with hit points, spell points, and ki.

Skills, Feats, and Enhancements

• Fixed an issue where Rage and other "clickable" feats would not always activate, but still have their cooldowns engage.

Other Changes

• Decreased upstream bandwidth usage related to mouse click information.
• Fixed an issue that could cause lag when an avatar’s position was in dispute by the server.
• Reduced the resource usage of the game UI in combat. Spell casters and hotbar connoisseurs should experience better performance.
• Challenge Leaderboards will now update properly for solo players.
• Summoned Ghaeles should no longer go "teleport crazy" and decrease game client performance.
• Fixed an issue that caused the floating health bars of monsters to be the same as the health bar of a targeted enemy.

Known Issues

Known issues are now available:

• Here for the copy here on the wiki
• click here for the copy on the official forums

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Source: Official U13.1.0 release notes on DDO.com