Warhammer Online News

The Public Test Server: Deathsword is now offline for an update, and should be back online by 7PM EST. There’s a lot of additions and fixes which should go in patch 1.05, so be sure to read them below.

Combat & Careers

Healer Archetype

• Restorative Burst: The tooltip for this tactic will now correctly state the number of Action Points gained when triggered.

Tank Archetype

• Champion’s Challenge: Neither the player nor the player’s enemy may be knocked back while this Morale ability is in effect.

• Juggernaut: This ability will only fire when the player is rooted, snared, silenced, or disarmed.

• Raze: This channeled ability will no longer be interrupted while on the move.

Dwarf Racial Tactics

• Stoutness of Stone: This tactic will once again reduce the effectiveness of Stuns and Knockdowns.

Archmage:

• Boon of Hysh: This ability has had its cast time reduced to 2.5 seconds, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

• Wild Healing: This tactic will now correctly provide a 50% reduction to AP costs on direct healing abilities when triggered.

• Funnel Essence: This ability will now correctly behave like a channeled ability.

• Radiant Gaze: This ability will now correctly reduce the target’s chance to critically hit and reduce their damage by the correct amount.

• Storm of Cronos: This ability will now correctly reduce Spirit resistance for the correct amount.

• Balanced Mending will now correctly provide a bonus to heals on other players, and a penalty to heals on the caster.

• Increased Conductivity: This Tactic will now increase the damage for all abilities listed in the tooltip.

• Rain Lord: The tooltip for this effect will now list all stats affected.

Bright Wizard

• Combustion mechanic: Chance to critical hit based on combustion level has been reduced.

• Combustion mechanic: Chance to cause a Miscast and damage yourself based on combustion level has been reduced.

• Choking Smoke: This ability now has no build time.

Chosen

• Blast Wave: This ability will now behave like a melee attack. Strength will contribute to this ability’s damage (rather than Intelligence), and this ability can now be defended against like a melee attack.

• Bane Shield: This ability will now behave like a melee attack. Strength will contribute to this ability’s damage (rather than Intelligence), and this ability can now be defended against like a melee attack.

• Quake: This ability will now behave like a melee attack. Strength will contribute to this ability’s damage (rather than Intelligence), and this ability can now be defended against like a melee attack.

• Bane Shield: The damage for this ability is now considered Spiritual Damage

Disciple

• Rend Soul: This ability now returns 350% of the damage done, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

• Curse of Khaine: The effect of this ability has been reduced to 50%.

• Covenant of Celerity: This ability will no longer stack with other snares, and the effect can now be removed with snare cleansing abilities.

• Flay: This ability is now considered a snare and can be removed with snare cleansing abilities

Engineer

• Self Destruct: This ability will now correctly knock all targets down and kill the turret.

• Barbed Wire: This ability will now correctly root all players.

• Friction burn: This ability will now work correctly when there are no targets in the area.

• Strafing Run: This ability now has less delay before damaging and knocking back the target.

Ironbreaker

• Oath Friend: The rate at which Grudge is generated has been changed. If the Ironbreaker is at 0-30 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 10 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 31-60 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 5 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 61-100 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 3 Grudge every time the Oath Friend is attacked.

• Avenging the Debt: The heal value of this ability has increased.

• Away With Ye: The Grudge cost for this ability has been reduced to 25, and the cooldown has been decreased to 10-seconds.

• Grumble An’ Mutter: The heal value of this ability has increased.

• Oathbound: The Grudge cost for this ability has been reduced to 15.

• Shield Sweep: The Grudge cost for this ability has been reduced to 25.

• Watch An’ Learn: The Grudge cost for this ability has been reduced to 15, the damage has increased, and the cooldown has increased to 10 seconds.

• Axe Slam: This Morale Ability will now correctly gain benefit from Mastery into Path of Stone.

• Strength in Numbers: This Morale Ability will now correctly gain benefit from Mastery into Path of Vengeance.

Magus

• Daemonic Lash: The tooltip for this ability no longer displays an incorrect cooldown time.

• Seed of Chaos: The AoE damage for this ability will once again fire at the end of the damage over time.

Marauder

• Mouth of Tzeentch: This ability will now behave like a melee attack. Strength will contribute to this ability’s damage (rather than Intelligence), and this ability can now be defended against like a melee attack

Runepriest

• Rune of Restoration: This ability has had its cast time reduced to 2.5 seconds, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

• Rune of Nullification: The effect of this ability has been reduced to 50%.

Shaman

• Bleed fer Me: Fixed a bug which caused this ability to heal for incorrect amounts when used with WAAAGH.

• Nuthin’ But Da WAAAGH: This ability now works correctly on players other than the caster.

• Bigger, Better, An’ Greener: This ability has had its cast time reduced to 2.5 seconds, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

Squig Herder

• Squig Squeal: This ability’s damage over time will now fire on the target correctly.

Sorcerer

• Dark Magic mechanic: The chance to critical hit based on Dark Magic level has been reduced.

• Dark Magic mechanic: The chance to cause a Miscast and damage yourself based on Dark Magic level has been reduced.

• Stricken Voices: This ability is now instant cast.

• Word of Pain: This ability is no longer a Willpower reduction, and will now lower the target’s Spirit resistance instead. The effect will last 15 seconds and deal a large amount of damage after the effect wears off. The need to stack this ability has been removed, and it now has a 10 second cooldown time.

• Triumphant Blasting: The tooltip for this ability now correctly states that it will knock down mobs.

• Surging Pain: This ability now builds 10 Dark Magic.

• Umbral Fury: This ability has been renamed to Frozen Fury. The tooltip now points to the correct ability name that it effects.

• Tapping the Dark: The tooltip for this ability now refers to the correct ability that it effects.

Swordmaster

• Crashing Wave: This ability will now knock targets down every time.

• Perfect Defenses: Players will now properly receive the bonuses to defense while in Improved and Perfect Balance

• Sapping Strike: The Action Point drain on this ability will now work correctly.

• Shadow Blades: The damage done with this ability can no longer be defended against.

Warrior Priest

• Divine Assault: This ability now returns 350% of the damage done, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

• Divine Shock: This ability will now fire when there are no targets in the area.

White Lion

• Thin the Herd: This ability will now have the correct range.

• Pack Assault: This ability will now correctly grant all group mates the extra damage.

• Cull the Weak: This ability will now have the correct range.

Witch Hunter

• Seeker’s Blade: This ability will now check for an Ailment before firing.

• Burn Away Lies: This ability will now trigger Blessed Bullets.

Zealot

• Elixir of Dark Blessing: This ability has had its cast time reduced to 2.5 seconds, and the setback amount has been reduced to half a second.

• Boon of Tzeentch: The tooltip for this ability now displays the correct range.

• Storm of Ravens: The tooltip for this ability now displays the correct range.

• Chaotic Agitation: The tooltip for this ability will now display the correct frequency for damage pulses.