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Update 37 Patch 2 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 37 Patch 2, released on Thursday, January 11th, 2018.

Classes

  Eldritch Blast no longer starts and fails in public spaces, causing animation stutters.
  Warlocks no longer display their weapons while using their Eldritch Blast.
  Warlock Enlightened Spirit's Knockdown Ward no longer displays on the buff bar.
  Corrected an issue where Barbarians could get locked out of their Intimidate skill if they had certain Enhancements trained.
  Artificer Battle Engineer's Endless Fusillade is now properly considered to be an Action Boost.
  The Armor Class bonus provided in a Cleric's Protection Domain Tiers 1 and 4 now stack with equipped armor.

Combat
  A Howler's Quill attack now displays on your debuff bar.

Epic Destinies
  Exalted Angel's Astral Vibrance is now better at detecting health changes on targets close to the character.
  Legendary Dreadnought's Advancing Blows is no longer erroneously considered to be an Action Boost.

Items
  Sentient Filigree:
    Electrocution's Electric Spellpower now applies correctly.
    Armor Class Bonuses from Filigree now stack properly.
    Stealth Filigree no longer state they give +4 to Hide and Move Silently.

  Tomes:
    The drop rate of tomes has been increased in Curse of Strahd, Old Baba's Hut, Defiler of the Just, and Riding the Storm Out.
    Ravenloft raids now have a higher drop rate for +8 Ability Tomes and +7 to +8 Upgrade Tomes.
    Riding the Storm Out and Defiler of the Just can now drop +7 Tomes and +6 to +7 Upgrade Tomes.
 
  All Ravenloft Set Bonuses have had their buff bar icons updated.

  Glamered items no longer count towards Set Bonus totals, and no longer trigger a Set Bonus recalculation.

  The Legendary Crypt Raider Set Bonus now correctly grants 20 Melee and Ranged Power.

  The Sword of Shadows and Epic Sword of Shadows are now actually Adamantine.

  Legendary Greensteel Set Bonuses no longer display String Table Errors.

  Ravenloft Docents now drop with their proper Enhancement bonus.

  Some Armors have had their icon border color corrected.

  Void, the Endless Cold now looks like it is made of ice.

Quests and Adventure Areas

Old Baba's Hut:
   Several changes have been been made to Old Baba's Hut to make the interior section to perform more reliably.
   Fixed an issue where the raid could get into a state where it can not complete if certain abilities are used to bypass a door.
   Added code to prevent a race condition that could cause some encounters to not reset correctly.
   Fixed an issue where characters could pass through all barriers. Certain barriers can no longer be bypassed.

  Corrected an issue in Lines of Supply that will allow us to reopen the quest.

  Vasily Ivanych is no longer invincible in certain parts of Into the Mists.

  The Abbot chest in the Abbey of Sunrise now drops the same treasure table as the end chest.

  Fixed various text issues in Invitation to Dinner and Oath of Vengeance.

  Fixed an issue in Ravenloft and the Temple of Elemental Evil where combat music would sometimes play on top of non-combat music.

  The music in the quests Missing, Sinister Storage, In the Flesh, Undermine, Eyes of Stone, Frame Work, Lost in the Swamp, and Sane Asylum now plays as originally intended.

  Rescuing Bookbinder family members in Bookbinder Rescue is now optional, and failing to do so does not fail the quest.

  The Bloody Crypt and Brood of Flame's optionals now display their full text.

  Flagging for Litany of the Dead has been updated! When talking to Sir Rohine in order to turn Sigil Fragments in, players can now trade their copy of a completed Sigil for a new Fused Sigil. This allows
  players to use the Fused Sigil instead of the eight separate Sigil fragments to enter Litany of the Dead on subsequent lives. Fused Sigils are Bound to Character. Players currently flagged for Litany of
  the Dead will need to True Reincarnate and turn in a completed Sigil in order to get this new item.

Miscellaneous
  Fixed an issue that could cause the game launcher to crash when the game is down for an update. The launcher will now show a dialog telling you the game is down, then open the launcher so you can
  view the Newsfeed. The launcher will remain "Stuck on Installing Pre-Reqs", but it is not actually installing anything.

Dumbing down of the binder rescue sounds silly.  Making necro 4 flagging permanent?  Much rejoycing.

Toke wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 10:14am:


Bookbinder was a quest that you couldn't zerg run like a bull in a china shop in.  It's actually a shame there aren't more quests like that.  I think a better middle ground would have been only requiring saving 2 of the 4 vs. all of them.  Give a margin for error but not make it brainless.

The removal of flagging on litany makes TRing way easier.  That quest is 200k of the easist XP in the game.  Now if only we can get perma-Shadow Crypt flagging...

Reapers one shot bookbinder NPCs, so you aren't shit out of luck due to spawn RNGesus.

Pseudonym wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 12:56pm:


Did I say I didn't have an opener?  Doesn't mean it's not an annoyance I'd rather avoid.  Getting the sigil completed for Litany isn't that hard either.  All those quests are great XP per min and easy as pie these days to run.  Bookbinder just means dropping to elite for one quest and having to spend an extra 60 seconds in there to make sure no one dies.   QoL stuff is never more than just minor annoyances removed.  But if something is annoying enough that everyone expects to use an exploit/workaround (like an opener) then why not just change it?

Asheras wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 1:28pm:

Fleshmaker is a royal pain-in-the-ass to solo.

Hirelings love to die and run off to the other side of the universe for no particular reason when your trying to hit runes.

Carpone wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 3:39pm:


Right after they fix the cosmetic bug... 

Carpone wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 3:39pm:


Don't worry.  30% off bypass timers will run the new raids into the ground even more quickly.   Good luck waiting till March to buy the expansion for DDO Points.  Anyone you'd want to run with will have burned it out by then.

An hour to do all 4? What are you doing when you are in there, star gazing?

Skrilla wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 6:03pm:

Wow... I forgot about that completely since I havent run abott in so long.

They really need to revisit all these old chains where there was engineered grind to extend the replay and pack life... along with adding Ravenloft style free teleporters to the wilderness zones (which I loved, and I'm a huge S/R/E fan).

But getting the Sigil of Dal Quor v2.0 is a good start.

Vendui wrote on Jan 12^th, 2018 at 2:26am:



I actually loved running flagging groups.. people would show by the ton.. it's just tuff trying to get it through peoples heads why you're there, not to get distracted, and just RUN. .. yet you always end up with corpses because they refuse to listen or play that "it won't hurt if I go chase that particular beastie"... *sigh*

Vendui wrote on Jan 12^th, 2018 at 2:26am:


Swearing for five minutes, then repeating one of them because I forgot to smash the fuckin' crystal, in my case.

Asheras wrote on Jan 13^th, 2018 at 10:17am:


Agreed, but I don't consider running a few quests to be "complex flagging".

Like I said, I'm of the opinion that it would be reasonable to be able to repeat SC (as well as other quests that require flagging) without having to repeat the flagging if you've done it that life.