Test Update 20a - City Guards Beware!Follow

*** City Guards ***

- Guards within Qeynos and Freeport can now be attacked!
- Guards no longer politely banish enemies from their city. Instead, they attack any intruders that they dislike.


*** Desert of Flames ***

- Players who completed "A Final Note" and deleted "Delving Into Darkness" can now get "Delving Into Darkness" again from the Antiquitor.


*** Quests ***

- Players who are not in guilds can now do level 50+ writs.
- The recipe for the Shroud of the Manastone during "Stiletto's Orders Intercepted" now requires a sullied medium quality badger pelt instead of an Etched Hide Plate.
- The recipe for the Dull Granite Tomahawk during "An Axe From the Past" now requires a piece of severed ash instead of an Ash Stave.
- If you delete the Dusty Blue Stone and have not yet started the quest, you can hail Vida again to get another.
- Disciple Telas`velle should now be giving out writs in the same manner as other writ givers.


*** Items ***

- Food and drink should now function and examine the same as they did before Live Update #19.
- Imbued rings no longer have a permanent stat buff effect. They are now all triggered with differing effects depending on the imbue type.


*** Zones and Population ***

- The shortcut teleporter in Solusek's Eye is now functional.


*** Combat ***

- The examine information for Rogue and Predator offensive stances has been corrected. It previously stated that the stances decreased parry, even though they do not.

Assassin changes:
- The stealth effect for Sneak Attack will now trigger much faster.

Brigand changes:
- Amazing Reflexes will break if the Brigand takes damage. Its reuse timer after breaking is 30 seconds.

Paladin changes:
- Ranged Paladin spells can now be interrupted as normal.
- Cry of Conviction has a slightly larger radius.
- Sigil of Heroism will not affect an ally that has a spell from the Amends line on them.

Ranger changes:
- Trick Shot's hate gain no longer increases as it is upgraded, and its duration has been lowered to 5 seconds.
- The stealth effect for Shrouded Attack will now trigger much faster.

Shadowknight changes:
- Ranged Shadowknight spells can now be interrupted as normal.
- Cruel Aura has a slightly larger radius.
- Grim Coil's casting time has been halved.

Swashbuckler changes:
- False Blade's hate gain no longer increases as it is upgraded, and its duration has been lowered to 5 seconds.

Troubador changes:
- Alin's Serenade should no longer produce more than 41% hate reduction.


*** User Interface ***

- /whoraid output is now formatted more closely to /who.
- Examine windows and tooltips have been streamlined for Weapons, Armor, Shields, Expendables, House Items, Ammo, General Items, and Spells & Combat Arts.
- In Single Click Except Attack mode, single-clicking an enemy that already hates you will attack that enemy.
- Added the ability to speed up the timeout on the new instruction buttons
* instruction_close_time <seconds>
* Default is 10 minutes (600 seconds)
* This can be changed in the command line or eq2.ini
- Added the ability to ignore the new instruction buttons
* instruction_ignore_all <0|1>
* Default is false
* This can be changed in the command line or eq2.ini
- The zone you are entering has been added to the onscreen message. You can filter this using Options -> User Interface -> Popup Messages -> Locations
- By popular request, jewelry shows its slot again (examine and tooltip).
- /whochannel will now correctly show off-world channel members.
- Items links will now work correctly in tells sent to other servers.
- You can now set the middle mouse button to toggle auto-run under Options -> Controls -> Movement Keys.
- Many windows have been updated to use the new style tooltips for item icons.
- Characters changing their appearance should no longer be shown in newbie starter gear (unless that's what they're wearing).
- Gamma values should remain constant when switching between fullscreen and windowed mode.

Be nice for people trying to do quests in other cities. Was annoying being thrown out by lvl 20 guards. I might have to go explore freeport and get some free discovery exp. just hope they didn't up the level of the guards.

I'd like to zone into one of the Freeport suburbs and fight my way to the castle steps, just to see if I can make it.

...just need to watch out for that occasional 50^^^ guard dog.

Visions of Paineel are dancing through my head. You could make great money there and the re-pops were quick. Run through the zone killing the guards and by the time you return to your starting point, they had all popped again. Good times.