Update 25 Patch 2
Welcome to the Update 25 Patch 2 Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These notes were posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015.

News and Notes

Champions

    The number of Mysterious Remnants that appear when killing a champion have been doubled on all difficulties, for both miniboss chests and non-chest drops.

Combat

    Sneak Attack now scales with 150% Melee or Ranged Power.

Enhancements

    Vanguard shield bonuses no longer erroneously remain after being unequipped.
    The Rogue Mechanic enhancement tree has been improved:
        Time Bomb's Balance DC has had its text corrected to show that it uses full Rogue level for the DC.
        Sharpshooter: Non-repeating crossbows increase their damage to +2 and add one Sneak Attack die in Tiers One through Four.
        Sharpshooter at Tier Five provides +3 additional damage and one Sneak Attack die with all non-repeating crossbows, and now requires Rogue Level 5 and Character Level 12.
        Sniper: Non-repeating crossbows increase their Sneak Attack die to three, and gain +2[W].
        Non-repeating crossbows now get their Alacrity bonus provided by Mechanical Reloader.
    The Rogue Thief-Acrobat enhancement tree has been improved:
        Cartwheel Charge's Doublestrike has been increased to +20 (from +5), and now only works for staves.
        Acrobat Staff Training damage with staves has been increased from +1 to +2 for Tier One and Three.
        Acrobat Staff Training at Tier Five now offers +10 Melee Power, +3 to hit and +3 damage with quarterstaves (adds Melee Power.)
        Sweeping strikes now does +1/3/5[W] to all nearby enemies, and trips them on a DC of 10/14/18 + Rogue level + Dexterity modifier + Trip bonuses. The enemy rolls Balance to negate the trip.
    The Rogue Assassin enhancement tree has been improved:
        A new Assassin's Mark now refreshes the duration of an existing mark.
        Movement speed during stealth has been increased to +25/50/75% (from +20/35/50%.)
        Shadow Dagger's saving throw is now 10/14/18 + Rogue Level + the greater of Intelligence or Dexterity bonus + bonuses to Assassinate. Damage now scales with 400% Melee Power.
        Execute's extra damage now scales with 400% Melee Power.
        The saving throw for Assassinate is now 10 + Rogue level + the greater of Intelligence or Dexterity bonus + bonuses to Assassinate (adds possibility of Dexterity bonus instead of Intelligence bonus if higher.)
        Measure the Foe now gains 6 Melee Power per stack.
        Deadly Strikes now adds +10 damage against enemies with an Assassin's Mark.
        The Lethality enhancement has been changed. It now reads: While wearing light or cloth armor you gain +1 to your Critical Damage Multiplier for any one-handed weapon you are wielding (Two Weapon Fighters will get the bonus for both weapons provided they qualify.)
        The Wizard Pale Master's spell critical chance enhancements now give as much critical chance as they should.

Hirelings

    Hirelings who are Standing their Ground will no longer leave their assigned area to aid players.
    Fixed a bug that could cause hirelings to switch back to "follow" mode shortly after a teleportation that was followed by a quick press of Stand Your Ground.

Items

    +7 Tomes and +6 to +7 Upgrade Tomes now function and display correctly on character sheets.
    Resistance Mythic effects have had their descriptions fixed.
    Temple of Elemental Evil Docents are no longer Bound to Character on Aquire.
    Fixed an effect error on the Doused Bastard Swords available from the Temple of Elemental Evil.
    The stack size for most thrown weapons and other ammunition is now 100, if it had been lower.

Monster Manual

    Baktor now counts as a Horned Devil.
    Ilso Hrolk now counts as an Orc.
    Droaam Conscript now counts as an Orc.
    Droaam Skirmisher now counts as an Orc.
    Bashevis now counts as a Lion.
    Jungle Panther now counts as a Lion.
    Forest Lion now counts as a Lion.
    The Guardian of Shan-to-Kor now counts as a Stone Golem.
    Hullstone now counts as a Stone Golem.

Quests and Adventure Areas

    Temple of Elemental Evil
        Players should no longer sometimes experience a locked chest after defeating Zuggtmoy.
        Elemental Victory can now drop.
        The objective "Slay Cragmore the Adamant" now completes.
        There is now an exit waypoint at the quest entrance.
        Fixed an issue that could cause multiple random encounters to trigger at the same time.

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DropBear wrote on Apr 28^th, 2015 at 9:17am:


Pac man larp? AKA the gayest fucking thing I have seen since...


Richard Simmons.

Combat

    Sneak Attack now scales with 150% Melee or Ranged Power.


Could be interesting with a deepwood sniper build...

I can't quote because it's a pain in the ass on mobile. But can someone clarify on the assassinate change. Uses dex or int and adds bonuses from the lesser stat? Or am I reading this wrong?
Deep never mind I see what it is now. Ignore

FFS…

Now I gotta know what "Elemental Victory" is.

I'm sure it'll be a disappointing item, but there's hope it's "Mirror-Worthy."

Who Cares wrote on Apr 28^th, 2015 at 9:59am:

The accuracy of this evaluation sorta scares me 

Aeplo wrote on Apr 28^th, 2015 at 2:12pm:

LOL

Multiple quests with "Kill 25 XXXX" either for completion or as an optional are only displaying "Kill 25." There's still a countdown when a kill is made so you can figure it out (and these have been level 4-5 quests so I know damn well what it is). It's not that important but it makes it seem like some unfinished version of the quest is running.

This is on G-land by the way.


Re: What is Elemental Victory
Quote:

This seems to guarantee it will be underwhelming.


Champions

    The number of Mysterious Remnants that appear when killing a champion have been doubled on all difficulties, for both miniboss chests and non-chest drops.
https://youtu.be/BHUNWqmasxk?t=1m17s

Kluege wrote on Apr 28^th, 2015 at 9:52am:


Will post my new Max DPS Shuriken build this week or weekend: 11 Rogue/3 Monk/4Ranger (Improved SA, some DWS love, etc) Almost a 25% improvement over my last best build.

Well, taking some liberties. That would be with 100% SA damage application. But with slotted deception and improved deception and close to 100% Fort reduction, it's close. New Assassins trick makes it more possible.