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b3.1

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Of Special Note
With the new release, we are converting your existing seals to medallions to start the cycle again.

Release Notes for Beta 3.1

Classes

Burglar
ALL Beta Only

Burglar - Many Burglar Legacies have been adjusted.
The cooldowns on the following skills have been reduced
Addle
Improved Addle
Feint Attack
Improved Feint Attack
Lucky Strike
Gambler's Strike
Ready and Able
A Small Snag
Quite a Snag
Hide in Plain Sight
Improved Hide in Plain Sight

Captain

Shadow's Lament now deals Light-type damage
Withdraw and Fighting Withdrawal are now Immediate skills.
[BETA ONLY] Inspiriting Presence now allows the healing from Inspire to be increased from the Gallant Display buff. Using Inspire removes the buff.
[BETA ONLY] Re-introducing Pressing Attack and making Devastating Blow single-target again. Pressing Attack should also benefit from anything which increases the potency of the battle-chain.
[BETA ONLY] Devastating Blow and Pressing Attack should now properly unlock the Defeat Event versions of Rallying and Routing Cry on a Critical Hit.
[BETA ONLY] Many Captain legacies have been re-worked.
[BETA ONLY] Withdraw is now available at level 12. Captains may now summon the Herald of their choice, instead of it being bound to specialization lines.
[BETA ONLY] Rousing Cry now properly gives 1/3/5% extra damage to the fellowship.
[BETA ONLY] Rousing Cry and Penetrating Cry now last 60s.
[BETA ONLY] The cooldowns on the following skills have been reduced:
Rallying Cry
Routing Cry
Time of Need
Muster Courage
Threatening Shout
Improved Threatening Shout
Shadow's Lament
Valiant Strike
Grave Wound
Improved Grave Wound
Withdraw
Fighting Withdrawal
Kick

Champion
ALL Beta Only:

The champion trait Improved Dire Need should now correctly improve the Dire Need Heal magnitude
Unbreakable cooldown is now 120 seconds, up from 30 seconds.
Unbreakable should now properly increase the Champions Max Morale. Instead of Physical Mastery, it grants bonus Tactical Mitigation instead.
Unbreakable's Area Effect skill at max stacks should now properly fire when it becomes available.
Champion's Advantage should now properly apply its buff upon proccing.
Champion's Advantage proc chance has been increased to 20%, UP FROM 10%.
Exchange of Blows cooldown is now 40 seconds, up from 0 seconds.
Fight Through The Pain at max rank should now properly grant the Champion a Parry Response when critically hit.

Hunter

[BETA ONLY]Volley should now properly completely remove the induction of the hunter's next attack instead of just reduce it.
[BETA ONLY]Precision trait will now take effect right away instead of having to switch out of precision and then back

Lore-master

[BETA ONLY]Legendary Skill "Ancient Master" now also causes Fire-lore and Frost-lore to become AoE skills affecting up to 6 targets. Ancient Master Duration increased from 10s-->15s
[BETA ONLY]Removing Induction from Base Version of Blinding Flash
[BETA ONLY]Skills - Lore-master - Sign of Power: Command debuff balanced to 15% Attack Duration from 20% Attack Duration

Minstrel

[BETA ONLY]Call to the Second Age is now a Protector of Song specialization skill
[BETA ONLY]Call to the Second Age no longer requires Dissonance to be used
[BETA ONLY]Set Bonus “Improved Call of the Fellowship” is now “Improved Call of the Second Age”, which adds -10% Attack Duration and -10% Induction Duration to the buff
[BETA ONLY]Specializing in Protector of Song will now allow you to stack 2 Anthems at Once
[BETA ONLY]Soliloquy of Spirit is making a return as a specialization skill for Watcher of Resolve
[BETA ONLY]The Minstrel Legendary Set Bonus will now allow you to stack up to 3 Anthems at once
[BETA ONLY]Base cooldown of Anthems increased to 15s
[BETA ONLY]Anthem of Prowess Attack Duration bonus reduced to -5%
[BETA ONLY]Protector of Song Trait “Vocal Stamina” no longer increases Anthem Duration
[BETA ONLY]Traits - Increasing Duration of Inspiring/Emboldening/Bracing Finish from 8s to 12s
[BETA ONLY]Traits - Increasing Base Application Chance of Inspiring/Emboldening/Bracing Finish from 10% to 20%
[BETA ONLY]Traits - Increasing Application Chance Bonus from Inspiring/Emboldening/Bracing Finish Traits from 5%/10%/20% to 10%/20%/30%
[BETA ONLY] Removing Ground Targeting from Inspiring Echoes and Cry of the Wizards
[BETA ONLY]Traits - New Trait in Warrior Skald, “Concussive Shout” grants Piercing Cry a 5s stun on crit, 25% crit chance for Piercing Cry
[BETA ONLY]Traits - Improved Chord of Salvation now has two additional Ranks which increase the potency of the Fellowship Heal

Rune-keeper

[BETA ONLY]Cleansing Flame Fire Affinity trait set bonus should properly increase the fire damage of all fire based skills.
[BETA ONLY]Rune of Endurance should now properly increase the healing over time of Rune of Restoration.
[BETA ONLY]Empowering Flames should now properly reduce inductions instead of increasing them.

Epic Battles
All Epic Battles now require the previous instance to be completed on solo difficulty

Glittering Caves:

The Spider Area is now blocked off until that objective is triggered
Gamling stays at the ballista.
Crystal not attackable until spiders is active.
Orc shaman now look like Orc Shaman.
Adjusted final DBU paths to get them timed up better.

Solo:

Side Objective Trigger VOICE OVER hooked up.

Helm's Dike:
Solo:

Unguided tutorial hooked up
Side Objective Trigger VOICE OVER hooked up
Added Trigger, Completion, Failure billboards for all side objectives
Added mark/medallion rewards for completion
Fixed a case where a preset ballista would shoot into a wall
Guarding the watchtower cleanup

Deeping Wall:
Solo:

Side Objective Trigger VOICE OVER hooked up
Moved the respawn telepad to a friendlier location
Victory, Failure, Bestowal Billboards for side objectives
Bestowal VOICE OVER for side objectives
Marks and Medallions for side objectives
Mapnote disabling for side objectives
Boosted health of War-troll Brutes
Lots of polish work on the enemy army
Secondaries trigger earlier in both waves
Adjusted billboard language to add desperation and a sense of pending retreat
Adjusted retreat patrol paths and timing

The Hornburg:

Exit setup once all 3 waves are defeated
Enemies animate through the windows for entrance

User Interface

[BETA ONLY]The Epic Battles UI will now be mapped to Shift B by default.
[BETA ONLY]Medals related to quests for Big Battles now have tooltips explaining the quest.
[BETA ONLY]You will now see an option to interact with the new Big Battles interactable objects, when you target them and then right-click on their vitals.
[BETA ONLY]Added a display of the “percent completion” of Epic Battles quests in the Quest Tracker, to help explain why you are currently at a given medal level.
[BETA ONLY]Added some examination for the three branches in the Battle for Helm's Deep Advancement tree. Hover over “Engineer”, “Officer”, or “Vanguard” to see a description of the role and the number of points spent in that role
[BETA ONLY]Tooltips for interactable objects in Big Battles will now more clearly state which requirements to use them are related to the condition of the object itself or to the condition of the player.
[BETA ONLY]Fixed display of colors for descriptions of battle primary quests in Epic Battles medals UI.
[BETA ONLY]Added tutorial hints to explain each tab of the Epic Battles UI.
[BETA ONLY]When the Epic Battles summary UI is shown, it will also display a tutorial hint explaining itself.
[BETA ONLY]Added a tutorial hint to explain the basics of medals and objectives when joining a Big Battle.
[BETA ONLY]Fixed some vendors that were missing greeting text in Rohan.

Quests

Added some clearer quest rings to the III.12.5 instance
Complete VOICE OVER added throughout the III.11.3 instance, 'Theoden, Son of Thengel,' as requested by players in Beta.
VOICE OVER added to the quests for Epic Book 11, Chapters 1-6
Fixed the problem where you weren't properly returned to your own body after the last Interlude.
More Quest Guide adjustments for III.11.6.
Fixed a client/server issue in the III.10.15 instance
Fixed the incorrect VOICE OVER for the Provisioner inVoice Overlved in III.10.6
Mithril Coin teleport location added for Halbarad in I.3.4, 'The Dwarves Shall Come'
Fixed the placement of mounted riders in some of the III.5.4 instances.
Fixed Golodir's orientation in the I.8.5 instance. Now he'll properly face the action!
Changed Ethryth's belongings to a crate instead of a sack, and fixed the animations for carrying it.
Adjusted the pathing during III.12.9 to account for the new deco in the cave.
Fixed the physics in the III.13.5 instance to keep players from getting trapped
Adjusted the placement of a concerned citizen in Aldburg, for III.12.3