Issue #12: To the Dark Tower Below - Game Update 1.12

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• Update 1.12 - August 20th
• Hotfix - August 25th
• Update 1.12.1 - August 27th
• Hotfix - September 1st
• Hotfix - September 3rd
• Hotfix - September 8th
• Hotfix - September 17th
• Hotfix - September 23rd
• Update 1.12.5 - October 14th
• Hotfix - October 15th
• Hotfix - October 22nd
• Update 1.12.6 - October 27th
• Hotfix - October 28th
• Hotfix - October 29th
• Hotfix - November 4th
• Update 1.12.7- November 12th

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NEW!

• Daily Challenges: Enjoy many new challenges which update every day and week to reap powerful rewards which allow you to improve the best gear in the game even further!
• New Token System: All tokens in the game have been combined and you now only need Black Bullion or Marks of the Pantheon.
• Two Fresh Raids: The Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen (Flappy) and the Eidolon of the Outer Dark are now ten man Raids which can be done every three days.
• Massive World Bosses: The final tier of the Lair system now lets you battle huge World Bosses in New England, Egypt and Transylvania.
• Improved Social Window: It is now much easier to use the Social window to find groups for any activity in the game.

GENERAL

Tilty says...
Over the years we have added one too many currencies to the game, making things a little bit convoluted.
With this update, we re-evaluated the need for all those currencies and decided to combine most of the existing ones into two: Black Bullions and Marks of the Pantheons.
Most activities in the game will reward you with either currency, or both.
Vendors that will trade their special goods for those currencies can be found in all hubs.

• A cap has been placed on the amount of Black Bullion a player can carry.
• Marks of the Pantheon have been added. Players can earn a limited amount of this new currency per week, and can only carry up to a certain amount at any time.
• Shortened the distance at which test dummies in the training rooms lose aggro to the player from 21m to 15m.
• It is no longer possible to purchase the Signal Hunter title if you already have it.
• The emote dance_hitman_lean will now work with the Shoes of Synchronicity.
• The "/cabal remove" command will now accept a player name, and can be used to remove both online and offline players from a cabal.
• It is no longer possible to delete a mail while it still has items attached.

GUI

Tilty says...
We've completely revamped the LFG window and increased its overall usefulness!
You will now be able to add a comment next to your entry. Its functionality has also been expanded beyond simply looking for dungeon or raid groups.
You can use the Social window to advertise any event you might be holding.
Check it out often, and if you find something you are interested in joining, simply meet-up or send a message to the person by right-clicking their name.

• The Looking For Group UI has been overhauled into the Social UI.
• Signing up through the Social UI now allows you to select an activity, location, and difficulty level in addition to Roles.
• Signing up through the Social UI now allows you to add a comment up to 120 characters that will be displayed to other players.
• The Social UI now displays name, roles, activity, location, and comment for players currently signed up.
• Added Tabula Rasa as a location for social activities in the Social UI.
• A filters button has been added to the Social UI to filter the results shown.
• Players can filter results by activity and difficulty.
• Players can update their entry in the Social UI without removing themselves from the listing by using the update button on an existing listing.
• Meet Up has been added to the right click and player menu in the Social UI.
• View Entry has been added to the right click and player menu in the Social UI.
• View Entry in the Social UI can be used to show you additional information about an entry, including difficulty and full length comment.
• The Social UI will no longer display entries for players who are on your ignore list.
• The Social UI will now run a background search every 15 minutes and display how many players are signed up matching your filters in system chat.
• Added a "Show Social Reminders" option under Notifications to enable or disable the 15 minute background search.
• Added a new interface option under Advanced -> Privacy that blocks incoming group join requests.
• Show Sign Up Notifications option has been split into Show Social Notifications and Show PvP Notifications.
• Joining a team no longer prevents you from signing up for the Social UI, nor does it remove your listing if you are already signed up.
• Requesting to join the party of someone in a full team on a raid will send the request to the group leader of the first team that has an open space.
• Players signed up for the Dungeon activity will be automatically removed when their team size reaches 5.
• Players signed up for the Raid activity will be automatically removed when their raid size reaches 10.
• Added an overlay on the castbar of uninterruptable attacks.
• Fixed an issue where swapped hotbar abilities would not visually enable or disable properly.
• Fixed an issue where some abilities would not be disabled in the GUI when they were locked.
• Updated the shop, tokens, world domination, and PvP scoreboard UIs with new token icons for black bullion and marks of the pantheon.
• World Domination UI no longer displays tick based rewards for Fusang Projects.
• Updated the rewards display in the World Domination UI to show new rewards.
• Updated the rewards display in the PvP Scoreboard to show new rewards.
• Fixed an issue where rewards would display incorrectly on the PvP Scoreboard.
• Updated the Tokens UI to display caps, weekly gain, and weekly caps.
• Removed dungeons tab from Lockouts UI.
• Updated Agartha's minimap to reflect the recent growth.

Tilty says...
Issue #12 introduces a brand new feature: Challenges.
Completing them will grant you bonus rewards, so make sure you check out what new challenges are available every day and try to complete the ones you like.
The daily challenges will reset everyday at 10:00 GMT, and weekly challenges reset every Tuesday morning at the same time.

• A new window has been added to display challenges. You can access this window from the top menu or by pressing shift+J.
• Added a new get effect animation for when challenges are completed.
• Added a new notification icon for when challenges are completed.
• Added new icons for challenges in the Challenge Journal.
• Added a new option under notifications to display or hide challenge completion notifications.
• Added an option under General Interface Options to open the challenge journal on login if new challenges are available.
• Added an option to show reminders periodically when there are unclaimed pending rewards.
• Makeup selection box for the barber shop is now a static size. This will prevent it from falling off the top and bottom of the screen for players with lots of makeup options playing at low resolutions.
• Fixed an issue where text could be cut off on the radio button selection UI.
• The following windows will now remember their last position when opened:
  
  • Token UI
  • Lockout Timers UI
  • Pets UI
  • Cabal UI
  • Friends UI
  • Claim UI

ITEMS

• All Venice items have been updated and converted to Custom items. They will now function just as their Custom counterparts for the purposes of upgrading.
• The Contrivance vendor in the faction HQs will now sell a Contrivance upgrade toolkit which will allow a blue Contrivance to be upgraded to a purple one. This item costs 950 Black Bullion and requires Battle Rank 4 or higher to purchase.
• Nightwatch Glyph toolkits have been added to the Nightwatch vendors.
• Criterion Upgrade and Astral Fuse have been added to the Nightwatch vendors.
• Weapons and Talismans bought from the PvP Vendors in faction hubs can now be disassembled.
• The Deep Mystery Box has been updated to include the new Mark of the Pantheon.
• Blue and Green signet items now describe how you can upgrade them by combining 10 of them.
• Fixed an issue that threw a FIFO error message the second time players use the remuneration field in the same playfield.
• The Multichromatic Cardinal is no longer able to be purchased if you have already learnt it.
• Fixed an issue which caused groups which had formed into a raid to not receive Black Bullion in certain cases.
• Removed the vendor who sold Epic gear from The Sunken Library in Venice. This vendor has been replaced by a Nightwatch Weapon Dealer and a Nightwatch Equipment Dealer.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Auxiliary weapon (Mod) tooltip to not appear on Whips.
• Black Bullion which drops in Lair or Nightmare camps has been changed to Uncommon rarity to allow groups to roll on them.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Reaping the Whirlwind achievements have received a new icon.
• Rear Windows can once again be obtained.
• Annalist now requires all The Black Signal lore from its specified categories.

MISSIONS

• General
• Updated several missions which did not award any tokens to now award Black Bullion.
• The first mission of Issue 9, Issue 10, and Issue 11 are now visible in the game world, even if the Issue has not been purchased. These missions still require purchasing the relevant Issue.
• Relocated several missions from the void and placed them into proper zone categories:
  
  • City of the Sun God - The Binding
  • City of the Sun God - The Black Pharaoh's Guard
  • Scorched Desert - O Tempora! O Mores!
  • Scorched Desert - A Time to Every Purpose
  • Scorched Desert - From Carthage to Cairo
  • Seoul - Rogue Agent, and its Templar counterpart To Catch a Thief
  • Kaidan - Nightmare in the Dream Palace
  • New York - Crossroad of the Worlds (and Revisited variant)
  • London - Harvesting the Sun (mission availability has not changed)
  • Agartha - Enter the Filth Phase 3 (mission availability has not changed)
  • Blue Mountain - Picking Up the Pieces
  • Blue Mountain - The House Always Wins
  • Blue Mountain - Ghosts and the Darkness
  • Savage Coast - Hell Hath No Vacancy
  • Carpathian Fangs - You Only Die Twice
  • Carpathian Fangs - Panic Room

Kingsmouth Town

• Flame Away - It is no longer necessary to change zones or relog to be able to pick up Cans of gasoline after completing the mission.

Kaidan

• Reduced the amount of Black Bullion gained when doing story missions in Kaidan for the first time. Instead, finishing the final story mission for issues 9 and 10 for the first time will now also reward a MkI Memory Expansion Module. Finishing the issue 11 story for the first time will award a MkII Memory Expansion Module.
• The Pagans - The bounty has been removed from Aoi's head. She should no longer vanish from the zone.
• Runaway Circus - No longer incorrectly displays as a Nightmare mission.

COMBAT

• General
• Most enemies now finish executing a current ability before they turn against a target they hate more.
• Damage reduction effects which last until the next hit, such as Saving Grace, Fleeting Fortress, and Art of War, will now be triggered when any health is lost.

Elementalism

• Updated the short description of Critical Control to correctly state that it increases critical rating.

Assault Rifles

• Fixed an issue where Shot of Anima would not be treated as a resource consumer in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where Anima Outbreak would not be treated as a resource consumer in some cases.

Pistols

• Fixed an issue where Killer Flow could generate secondary weapon resources when not hitting a target.

Fists

• Gore should now deal damage properly when having the duration refreshed rapidly by multiple attackers.
• Hot Iron should now trigger for each tick of the Scarlet Arts channel that it is able to.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• General
• The final bosses of Elite difficulty dungeons will now drop Black Bullion.
• The final bosses of Nightmare difficulty dungeons will now drop Marks of the Pantheon.
• Elite raid bosses will now drop Marks of the Pantheon.
• Nightmare dungeons no longer have lockout timers.
• Swapping AEGIS shields will no longer fail the Master Planner achievement.

The Polaris

• Fixed issue that occasionally caused Haugbui Mother not to respawn after a team wipe.
• Haugbui Mother will drop loot even when she's killed extremely fast.

Tilty says...
The Eidolon of the Outer Dark is no longer part of the Lair progression, we replaced him with the ability to summon new World Bosses.
Combining the Ritual Fragments (Head, Heart and Hand) will now reward you with Summoning Ritual Materials, which will grant you the ability to summon a World Boss either in New England, Egypt, or Transylvania.
Those world bosses will require the help of the entire zone to defeat and will reward every participants individually, as well as dropping additional epic rewards for the original summoners.

Eidolon of the Outer Dark

• The Eidolon of the Outer Dark no longer requires a lair key to open the raid portal, or access loot.
• The Eidolon of the Outer Dark has become more dangerous while Strength from Beyond is active.
• The Eidolon of the Outer Dark no longer removes players from the anima well halfway through the fight.

Agartha Defiled

• Agartha Defiled has returned! It may be accessed from a low branch in Agartha. This raid has been designed for 10 players.

The Penthouse

• Filthy Amalgam's basic attack now does Physical damage. Additionally, its damage on Nightmare has been further tweaked.

SCENARIOS

• General
• The final bosses of Nightmare difficulty scenarios will now drop Marks of the Pantheon.

PVP
General

• Significantly increased the overall power of the Equal Footing effect.
• Black Bullion rewards in PvP Minigames and Fusang are now scaled based on the participants Faction Rank. The winning team members additionally win a Mark of the Pantheon.
• Obsolete tokens are no longer awarded in PvP.
• Distinctions of the Council have been removed, and will no longer be given out when increasing Battle Rank.
• Battle Rank requirements have been added to the PvP Uniforms. These uniforms are available at the Contrivance Quartermaster.
• Reduced the penetration mitigation provided by PvP Uniforms to 10% (was 20%).
• The High-Powered Weaponry uniform has received the following changes:
  
  • Increased the damage reduction provided by the suit to 5% (was 2%).
  • Increased the penalty on heal, barrier, and leech effects provided by the suit to -15% (was -5%).
  • Increased the glance reduction bonus provided by the suit to 4% (was 3%).
  • Increased the damage bonus provided by the suit to 8% (was 5%).
• The Reinforced Armour uniform has received the following changes:
  
  • Increased the penalty on heal, barrier, and leech effects provided by the suit to -15% (was -5%).
  • Increased the damage reduction effect provided by the suit to 10% (was 5%).
• The Integrated Anima Conduits uniform has received the following change:
  
  • Increased the penalty to damage dealt provided by the suit to -10% (was -6%).

Fusang

• Removed the tick based reward system from Fusang Projects. Instead, there is a new set of missions which can be taken from any Anima Well, Facility, or home base. These missions will change every 5 minutes and offer different activities to perform while in Fusang.
• Removed the button that repairs the gate/turret around the outer facilities in Fusang Projects. The only way to repair the turret is now to take the facility it was guarding.
• Added Pax rewards to all Fusang rotating missions.
• Added Mark of the Pantheon reward to Complex Fusang rotating missions.
• The Underdog mission is available only at the underdog custodian now.
• Kill credit for the 'Defeat' missions is now awarded to anyone on the killing player's faction who is nearby the person killed.

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GUI

• Challenge missions no longer appear in the finished missions section of the Mission Journal.
• Added the uninterruptable cast bar overlay to various enemies in lairs.
• The Social UI can now be resized by clicking and dragging the bottom right corner.
• New checkboxes have been added to the Social UI's filters panel to enable or disable all activities or difficulties in one click.
• Comments in the Social UI can no longer have multiple lines.

ITEMS

• When receiving a stack of items, the chat log will now indicate how many you got.
• Satchel of Purity will now give between 7 and 20 pure materials when opened.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Updated the rewards tooltips for Issue 2: Digging Deeper and Issue 3: The Cat God to display all rewards.

COMBAT
Fists

• Fixed an issue where See Red would not apply properly to targets affected by Muzzle or Bushwhack.

CHALLENGES

• Reduced number of daily side missions required in Fusang from 3 to 2.
• Sabotage Mission in Egypt now properly rewards Marks of the Pantheon, Pax Romana, and Black Bullion.
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent getting credit for the "Elite Dungeon" challenges when finishing these dungeons on elite mode:
  
  • The Manufactory
  • The Slaughterhouse
  • Hell Eternal
  • The Facility

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
General

• The Gatekeeper no longer incorrectly requires completion of Elite dungeons after Transylvania.

Eidolon of the Outer Dark

• Fixed the Eidolon raid lockout timer.

Agartha Defiled

• Fixed an issue that could cause players to get stuck in the bubbles.

The Manufactory

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Tank Commander to leave the fight without the door opening.
• Non-boss cyborgs in the production area will no longer leash.

PvP
General

• Equal Footing will now properly take into account glyph stats on both weapons and will adjust the stats given appropriately.

Fusang

• Anima wells credit players in the area of the well when captured.
• Capture 2 Anima Wells is only credited once when capturing a well.
• Shortened the wording for some of the Fusang kill missions.

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GENERAL

• Pit and Pendulum have held a mandatory etiquette class for all Templar guards. The guards will no longer be so friendly to Dragon or Illuminati, and will no longer be as mistrustful of Templar.
• Weekly token gains will now reset on Tuesdays at 10:00 UTC.

GUI

• Fixed a case where the time until weekly reset would be displayed incorrectly in the Challenge Journal.
• There is now a limit to how many social window searches you can do in a short time.
• Added completion progress to Challenge Journal headers.
• Fixed an issue where the PvP Scoreboard would show info from previous matches instead of the most recent one.

CHALLENGES

• Daily mission challenges Action, Sabotage, and Investigation mission in Kaidan now include appropriately-themed Story and Story Repeat missions.
• Added daily challenge: Nightmare Dungeon in Kaidan.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
General

• Dungeons will now instantly reset once all players have left the zone.

The Manufactory

• The Manufactory (Nightmare) is now available!
• Manticore Tank - AEGIS Restoration Sequence will now properly restore all of a target's valid AEGIS shields.
• Drone Amalgam - Corrected an avoidable AoE attack's warning preview not matching its area of effect.
• Drone Amalgam - Unstable AEGIS Payload Drones should no longer be capable of exploding multiple times.
• Drone Amalgam - Improved the usability of deathcams.
• The Mitsubachi - Improved the usability of deathcams.

The Slaughterhouse

• Psychoassailant and Obyekt 279 will no longer retain 10k Volts after a group wipe.

Eidolon of the Outer Dark

• Fixed visual preview for Personal Pain.

LAIR BOSSES
The Abyssopelagic Horror

• Adjusted the radius of Deep Blast to better match its visual effect.

Bunica Padurii

• Reduced the radius required for a Padruii's wisp to re-link with its master. This should make it easier to move a Padurii once its wisps are hindered and have started to cast "One with the Forest".
• Bunica Padurii's wisps should no longer randomly remove their buffs from Bunica Padurii while still alive and linked, and no longer randomly leave their buffs on Bunica Padurii after death or returning to the forest.
• Bunica Padurii has exhausted her infinite supply of wisps. She will now summon only the intended number of wisps.

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GENERAL

• Added a new vendor to Venice named Council Mystery Augmentor. This vendor sells items which grant a random blue or better augment of a specified type: Damage, Healing, Support, or Survivability.
• Added a new vendor to each faction's headquarters. This vendor sells pure materials and is located near the Contrivance and Compound vendors.
• Once the Mark of the Pantheon cap (either weekly or total) has been reached, players who gain more Marks of the Pantheon will instead gain bonus Black Bullion. The amount of Bullion gained scales with the difficulty of the activity. For example, defeating the final boss of the Polaris while at the Mark of the Pantheon cap will award 30 Black Bullion instead of the normal Mark of the Pantheon reward.

GUI

• Fixed an issue that could cause a client to stutter when approaching mission giver NPCs.
• Fixed a typo in the description of the Orochi Scorpius-Mini pet.

ITEMS

• Fixed an issue where some Custom talismans were not able to be upgraded.
• Removed the Signet reward bag from the list of items sold by the Envoys of Ca' d'Oro. This item is now sold by the Council Mystery Augmentor in Venice and no longer requires any purchased Issues to purchase. A PAX cost has also been added to this item.
• Nanite Control Amulet talisman from The Manufactory dungeon is no longer incorrectly labeled as a Custom talisman.

MISSIONS
General

• The raid missions for Manhattan Exclusion Zone, Agartha Defiled, and N'gha-Pei the Corpse-Island no longer have the Nightmare overlay to better convey that these are Elite raids. The difficulty of these Elite raids has not been changed.

Kaidan

• The Bank Heist - "Catch me if you can" achievement is now awarded to everyone in the group who qualifies for it instead of a single person.

CHALLENGES

• Reduced the number of Marks of the Pantheon gained from Daily Dungeon challenges to 10.

COMBAT
General

• Changed the formula for diminishing returns on Attack Rating and Heal Rating. Higher values of Attack Rating and Heal Rating past a certain threshold will now provide a consistent increase to overall damage rather than a diminishing increase.

Assault Rifles

• Fixed an issue that caused the direct heal from Anima Burst to not be affected by Eagle Eye, Improved Bursts, or other related bonus effects.
• Fixed an issue that caused the direct heal from Anima Shot to not be affected by Eagle Eye or other related bonus effects.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
General

• Increased the number of Marks of the Pantheon that drop from Nightmare dungeon final bosses. Dungeons in the New England region drop 2, Egypt 3, Transylvania 4, and Tokyo 8.

The Facility

• Fixed an issue where Marks of the Pantheon were dropping from the incorrect boss in the nightmare version of the Facility.

The Manufactory

• Fixed an issue that could allow the Drone Amalgam to die without dropping loot or updating the mission.
• Increased the amount of Black Bullion dropped by bosses in the nightmare version of The Manufactory.
• Bosses in the nightmare version of The Manufactory will no longer drop green quality Filth Samples.
• Fixed a typo in the Manticore Tank's Cannon Blast ability.
• Fixed an issue that would mean the achievement "Production Halted (Elite)" was sometimes not awarded on successful completion.

Agartha Defiled

• The health of the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen has been reduced.
• Fixed the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen showing as Nightmare in the UI.
• Adjusted the behavior of the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen while on the upper platform.

SCENARIOS
The Castle

• The snowstorm is no longer visible while on the 2nd floor of The Castle.

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COMBAT
General

• Added basic descriptions for Ultimate abilities.

CHALLENGES

• PAX rewards from challenges will no longer erroneously be shared with team members.
• Rewards will now properly be awarded from daily challenge: 3 Side Missions in Kaidan.
• Marks of the Pantheon gained from challenges will now be appropriately rewarded while dead and will no longer take up inventory space.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
The Facility

• Fixed an issue that could cause multiple bags to drop from the scientists.

The Manufactory

• Fixed an issue that could cause Energy Spheres to stop spawning.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Drone Amalgam and Mitsubachi encounters to not reset properly after a wipe.
• The Mitsubachi will no longer cause Master Planner to fail.

Agartha Defiled

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen to not reset properly after a wipe.

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GUI

• Fixed an issue where the PvP scoreboard could become unresponsive and cause framerate issues.

COMBAT
General

• Fixed an issue that could cause critical healing effects to apply passives when they should not and on targets they should not be affecting.

CHALLENGES

• Fixed an issue which could prevent players from receiving new weekly challenges.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
The Manufactory

• (Nightmare) Fixed an issue where the Cyborg Trio was spawning too weak the first time they emerge.

LAIR BOSSES

• Fixed an issue that could cause Lair bosses to become unresponsive.

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GENERAL

• Added a new currency, the Lucky Coin, which can be used to purchase choice items found in Lucky Bags from Mr. Knickknack, Vendor of Lucky Baubles. Mr Knickknack has setup shop in the Darkside of London.

GUI

• Added a column for Difficulty to the Social UI.
• Fixed an issue that could cause tooltips to occasionally not clean up properly. This may increase game performance over time for some players.
• Fixed an issue where players who had not unlocked elite or nightmare dungeons would be unable to see those difficulties when viewing other players' entries.
• Cleaned up some text in the Challenge Journal to better support French and German localizations.
• Adjusted the sizes of some text fields in the Challenge Journal to better accommodate localized text.
• Filter and Sign Up prompts in the social GUI will now be centered even if your Social GUI has been resized.

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GENERAL

• Made some minor adjustments to the "Stand at Attention" emote.

GUI

• Added a map marker for Mr. Knickknack.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
Agartha Defiled

• The Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen raid encounter will now always drop an Epic quality gadget when defeated.

LAIR BOSSES

• Fixed another issue that could cause Lair bosses to become unresponsive.

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GENERAL

• Fixed an issue that caused some monsters to incorrectly provide Monster race kill achievement credit when they should not have.
• Using the Dismount ability on a premium mount will no longer trigger the global cooldown.
• Agartha - Gaia has granted those who have bested the Gatekeeper access to another Agartha branch, where Nightmare Raid entrances are located. This branch is accessed from the dungeon branch.

GUI

• Tokyo - Orochi Tower - Corrected the ordering of repeatable story missions in the mission pick-up UI at the tower entrance.
• The skills UI has been reorganized to be more in line with the order in which players unlock new skills.
• Added new categories and item types for Cosmetic items, including Clothing, Makeup, Pets, Mounts, Emotes, and Titles.
• Added new search filters to the auction house for the new Cosmetic item categories.
• Fixed a case where the buff UI on team members and defensive targets could become unresponsive.
• Improved performance of buff displays.
• Fixed a case where player's role icons for PvP in the team UI would not appear properly.
• Added The Manufactory: Breached to the Social UI.
• Manhattan Exclusion Zone (Nightmare) has been added to the lockouts UI.
• Updated combat power and healing power in the Character Sheet UI to show the correct values for high values of attack and heal rating.
• Reorganized the Interface Options screen to be easier to navigate.
• Difficulty dropdown is now enabled for Raid activities in the Social UI.
• Fixed a case where skills for aux weapons that had not been unlocked yet would animate strangely in the skills page.

ITEMS

• Increased the amount of Attack Rating and Heal Rating given by epic quality Stimulants.
• Custom items are now tinted with an anima hue in order to make them easier to distinguish from non-upgradeable items at a glance.
• Custom weapons now have a different background color to differentiate them from non-custom weapons.
• Container bosses in Kaidan will now drop Uncommon quality Black Bullion to help prevent accidental looting by team members.
• The Orochi Researcher in Kaidan and the Nightwatch Engineer in faction hubs now sells AEGIS Firmware Upgrade v2.0 kits for Black Bullion and Marks of the Pantheon.
• Nightwatch Engineers in all faction hubs now sell Superior auxiliary weapon upgrade toolkits. These toolkits will allow an Epic auxiliary weapon to be improved in power even further. The toolkit will only upgrade an auxiliary weapon which has been upgraded to Epic.

COMBAT
General

• All weapon and talisman skills now go up to rank 11.
• Friendly spells cast using simple ground targeting will now center on the defensive target rather than the offensive target.
• Made many creatures switch targets more quickly if they hate someone else more.
• Resolved issues with a number of enemy dash abilities that could cause them to incorrectly fixate on a target before casting.
• Fixed an issue which could cause ultimate abilities to be interrupted by movement before they lock you in place.
• Monsters - Onryo - Spirits of Vengeance and Spirits of Sorrow will now be expire when their summoner dies.
• Monsters - Onryo - Spirit of Sorrow's radius of effect has been reduced by 33%.
• Monsters - Deathless - Midnight Mass will no longer incorrectly display a mummy at the center of its effect.
• Monsters - Padurii - Wisps will no longer reconnect to Padurii once the initial connection is broken.

Blood

• Plague and Left Hand of Darkness are now affected by effects such as Blood Offering and Thicker Than Water.

Fists

• Fixed an issue which caused Thrill of the Chase to not trigger if multiple people with the ability equipped attacked the same enemy.

MISSIONS
The Shadowy Forest

• The Man with the Silver Tongue - Spectre ambushes while using the shovel no longer incorrectly show as Nightmare in the UI.

Kaidan

• The Bank Heist - Issue fixed where the mission does not update if you pick up the Droid Arm too early.
• The Right Round - Completing this mission will now provide all three disruptive AEGIS controllers, rather than picking one at a time.
• Tower Defence - Completing this mission will now provide all three disruptive AEGIS controllers, rather than picking one at a time.
• Nightmare in the Dream Palace - Fixed Intoxication.
• The following item missions are no longer incorrectly flagged as Nightmare in the UI:
  
  • Hell of a Blow
  • Population of Filth
  • Chasing Bad Luck
  • Samurai Robots Can Happen to Anyone
  • The Ghost Lord

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
General

• Updated the loot dropped in Elite Raids to include guaranteed weapon and talisman upgrade toolkits.
• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon dropped in Elite raids to 12.
• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon dropped from the final boss in Egypt Nightmare dungeons to 4.

Darkness War

• (Nightmare) Correction made to the tooltip on Wayeb-Xul's Underworld Ward buff.
• The Hound of the Nameless Days is less absolutely intent on killing the first thing he sees after arriving.

Hell Eternal

• Flagellatrix Superior's range has been increased from 5m to 6m to fix an issue where she was visually rubberbanding.

Hell Raised

• (Nightmare) Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon dropped from the final boss to 3.

The Facility

• (Nightmare) Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon dropped from the final boss to 7.

The Manufactory

• Resolved an issue that caused the final fight not to reset properly and therefore not spawn loot on death.
• It will no longer take up to 30 seconds for the loot to spawn from the Mitsubachi encounter.
• Resolved an issue in the minion spawning during the final boss encounter where they could appear too close to one another.

Eidolon of the Outer Dark

• Eidolon of the Outer Dark's decision-making process changed slightly following some of his abilities to make him more manageable.
• The Eidolon's ability "Call to the Depths" is now properly displayed as not being interruptable.

Manhattan Exclusion Zone

• Fixed a case where The Unutterable Lurker's fist pound could deal damage outside of its preview area.
• Fixed several cases where Whisper of Darkness could instantly kill its target when it should not.
• Resolved an issue where multiple people could receive Whisper of Darkness at the same time when entering phase 3.
• Guardians in the final fight should no longer sometimes be invisible during the first 10 seconds of combat.
• It should no longer be possible to be visibly knocked out of a Mouth of Montauk.
• Pure Filth will no longer select a target who is trapped inside of a Mouth of Montauk.
• Resolved an issue where when an ally died, the ally could sometimes become stuck in an invalid state.
• Access to the encounter arena is now restricted while the encounter is in progress.
• Resolved an issue where The Unutterable Lurker would repeatedly cast Final Resort and spam FIFO messages when it should not have.

Agartha Defiled

• Reduced the health of all enemies in the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen raid encounter.
• Improved the loot dropped by the Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen.

LAIR BOSSES
Kenememti the Fear Eater

• Reduced the damage dealt by Kenememti the Fear Eater's attacks: Bling Blang and Horror Unleashed.

Bunica Padurii

• Improved server performance when fighting Bunica Padurii.

The Abyssopelagic Horror

• Reduced the damage dealt by The Abyssopelagic Horror's Deep Blast.
• The Abyssopelagic Horror's Charged Hack ability now only requires a single impair to interrupt.

SCENARIOS
General

• Increased the amount of Black Bullion dropped by bosses in scenarios.
• The rare final boss will now always appear in scenarios when achieving a platinum rating.
• Increased the base chance for a rare final boss to appear in scenarios when survivors have been lost.
• Increased augment drop rates across the board for all difficulties and group sizes.
• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon dropped from the final boss in Nightmare scenarios to 8.
• The final boss in elite scenarios will now drop 2 Marks of the Pantheon.
• The final boss in normal scenarios will now drop 1 Mark of the Pantheon.

The Castle

• Fixed an issue which caused the Elite Group version of the Castle scenario to award the incorrect amount of Black Bullion.

PVP
General

• Equal Footing will now be removed when applying permanent effects which alter Attack Rating, Heal Rating, or Max HP.
• Equal Footing will now take your Auxiliary weapon's power into consideration when applying weapon power increases.
• Attempting to use /reset while in a PvP match will now display a chat message indicating that this command is not possible.
• Increased the weapon power granted by Equal Footing to be equivalent to a QL 11 weapon.
• Reduced the amount of Marks of the Pantheon gained from daily PvP challenges to 10.

Fusang

• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon received from Complex missions in Fusang to 4.

Stonehenge

• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon gained from winning in Stonehenge to 3.

El Dorado

• Increased the amount of Marks of the Pantheon gained from winning in El Dorado to 3.