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  Publish 29 - Details and Information. Jan 5 2005 4:42PM CST  
The shards "TC2 Pub29 Test" and "Origin" have been published with the "Publish 29" Server code. Publish 29 contains the following changes, fixes, and additions:

NOTE: This is not a final list and may change before this publish goes live. We will post a final list of Publish 29 details as we are ready to publish to the production shards.

    General Fixes/Tweaks/Enhancements
    • Moved Britain starting location from The Sweet Dream’s Inn to the Wayfarer’s Inn in east Britain
    • Damage numbers are now shown for you and any pets or controlled NPCs that are in your range
    • NPC job titles, "(Paragon)", and "(General)" now appear in "allnames"
    • Fixed an issue when a member of a faction guild quit made most guild members removed from the faction
    • Holiday gifts will no longer be distributed
    • Passive detect hidden no longer reveals group mates and allied faction members in Felucca / Siege
    • Pet ghosts no longer stay around for days. Pet ghosts will now only exist between 2-4 hours, after which they will vanish, even if their owner is online
    • Pets with high Magery were casting invisible on themselves too often. Pets will now cast heal or greater heal instead of invisibility.
    • Added the ability to unfriend pets via the context menu
    • Pet hit points will no longer refill when crossing server lines
    • Fixed an issue with crossing a server-line having a value of 0 in a stat would refill that stat
    • Can no longer create a blank alliance name
    • Weight will no longer remain if gold is in 2 piles when tithed
    • New characters will now default to having show guild invites turned off
    • Fixed the misspelled sign at the Bank of Trinsic
    • Also fixed Britannia Provisions misspelled sign
    • Setting a blank InvokeVirtue macro will no longer cause the client to crash
    • Fixed a crash bug in 3D client involving the name macro field
    • Fixed a crash bug in 3D client related to trying to delete 2 skill groups at once
    • Fixed a crash bug related to renaming a book’s title
    • A warning message was added to the guild invite gump informing players that they are attackable if they accept
    • Attempts to recall into west Britain will be redirected to a safe location
    • Attempts to open gates into west Britain from outside the area will be redirected to a safe location, Gates opened from inside west Britain can be used normally

    Item Fixes/Changes
    • Reuse delay for wands is now the equivalent of casting a like spell. Fast-casting will apply to wands.
    • Clothing Bless Deeds now work on SE clothes
    • Fukiya Darts and Shurikens can no longer be thrown at yellow NPCs
    • Dread Pirate Hat has been improved
    • Spirit Speak is now a possible skill bonus on magic jewelry
    • Gold Bricks can no longer be fed to pet White Wyrms
    • Soulstone: Skill absorption animation will no longer play when skill points are flushed
    • Hearth of the Homefire no longer turns after exiting house custimization mode
    • Bolts now have a chance to spawn in dungeon chests
    • Corrected typo when trying to re-deed mistletoe with a non-house owner
    • Add-on type items will no longer disappear when a house is demolished
    • Players can now uninsure items that were blessed after already being insured
    • Big Fish should provide more fish steaks when cut up (now its weight / 5 will determine number of fish steaks (minimum of 4))
    • Fixed two issues with Event JP Finnigan Prize Giveout
    • Stackable loot is now distributed proportionally between instanced corpses involving two or more party members in the top attackers list

    Combat Fixes/Tweaks
    • Fixed an issue that could allow archers to fire while on the move
    • Players can no longer throw bolas while in Animal Form
    • Bola throwing now correctly prevents re-mounting of Hiryu and Lesser Hiryu
    • Fixed an issue causing the No-Dachi Riding Swipe, when used to dismount a murderer or criminal, to make the player become a criminal.
    • Provoked and controlled creatures should no longer heal aggressors
    • Fixed an issue that allowed a player to activate Moving Shot, then before the arrow hit, activate Armor Ignore
    • Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed
    • Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer

    Spell Casting Adjustments
    • Summoned daemons will now take 4 control slots instead of 5.
    • Improved AI and damage for Air and Water Elementals
    • Ninja Mirror Images are now affected by multi-target spells
    • Fixed an issue causing criminal’s Mirror Images to appear blue
    • Fixed an issue with Mana Drain not restoring the target’s mana after 4 seconds in rare cases
    • Mage field spells cast on ships no longer cause the ship to stop moving

    Creature and Spawning Fixes/Adjustments
    • Male Ronin will now give as much loot as female Ronin
    • Reduced amount of loot dropped by Fan Dancers
    • Lesser Hiryu no longer give quite as good loot
    • Doom Guardians will now spawn treasure map of random level (1-3) instead of spawning level 3-4 maps
    • Can no longer use Animate Dead to turn Dark Father corpse into bones

    Slayer Changes
    • Blood Elemental Slayer weapons / instruments will now spawn as common slayer weapons / instruments
    • Snow Elemental Slayer effect has been improved to now include Ice Elementals
    • Added Sand Vortex and Efreet to Elemental super slayer group
    • Repond, Wolf, Reptile, and Daemon Slayer groups have been updated
    • Yomotsu and Fan Dancers have been removed from the Repond group
    • Fan Dancer has been added to the Demon Slayer group
    • All Daemon Slayers will become demon slayers
    • Daemon Slayers will no longer spawn


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