News and Notes:



Crafting Storage:
• Crafting from Shared Bank - Crafting Storage is once again available.
• Cannith Crafting Item Deconstruction essences will no longer be consumed without benefit when pulled from Shared Bank - Crafting Storage.

DDO Store:
• Fixed an issue that could cause certain Bound to Account items to erroneously become Bound to Character.

Hirelings:
• Hireling Stand Your Ground AI has been improved.
• Disabling a spell on the hotbar of the hireling will now prevent it from being used by the hireling automatically as well.
• Hirelings set to Aggressive mode will now attack more reliably.

Items:
• Non-VIP players can now consume Fate Tomes without first having to speak to the Fatespinner.
• All Lasting Potions now persist through death.
• Fixed the description of the Eternal Flask haste effect.
• Hide of the Fallen's Druidic Survival Mastery now works more reliably.

Quests and Adventure Areas:
• Amrath ◦ Made some minor graphical changes to the Archons in Amrath to improve game performance.
◦ The Devil's Details ◾ The quest now has an exit waypoint.

◦ Demon Assault ◾ The quest now has an exit waypoint.

◦ Defiler of the Just ◾ The monsters that spawn in the trap room are now split into two groups, and a small delay has been added so that they do not spawn at the same time.
◾ Teleportation behavior of devils has been changed so they now have a longer cooldown between attempts, and will not teleport upon spawning.
◾ Made some adjustments to monster spawning in the Fallen Archons/Reinforcements area.
◾ Abishai Executioners will now stick closer to the Fallen Archons.
◾ Pit Fiends and Horned Devils have had their detection range lowered.
◾ Tieflings have had some of their behaviors adjusted.
◾ Some monster pathing has been improved.
◾ There is now a resurrection shrine that appears upon completion of the raid.


• Temple of Elemental Evil ◦ Epic Docents now have their correct Minimum Level.


• Ingrediants in Huge Bags are no longer accessible if they are at the end of the list. This is not intentional, we just simply have a way to fuck things up!

My gripe is not with her graphical design. If it was I would have massive issues with LoB's pike being stuck to his wrist instead of his hand the first week of release, or the orc archers in ToEE still holding a bow backwards (string end away from them) until they fire etc etc.

My gripe is with the mechanics of the raid and what we see as the end result. This sums it up quite well.


Somehow, the fight always reminds me of this:

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