Update 11.2 Undocumented Changes

Please post here if you notice something new in game that was not in the Patch Notes for update 11.2 (July 24, 2013):

Here goes what I've found so far:

1). You can now complete The Road to the Lonely Mountain quest (I think this is new? If not, let me know)

2). More cosmetic shared storage available from the store (I know, it was in the Store announcement but not he Patch Notes).

3). Two Enedwaith titles that I'd been missing (a situation similar to what happened to the Wildermore titles this time around) were finally bestowed to me 2+ years later.

That's all I've found so far....

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Originally Posted by Rhino-Man

2). More cosmetic shared storage available from the store (I know, it was in the Store announcement but not he Patch Notes).

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Store items never are (with rare exception). That's why the Store team has their update, so they are very well documented.

1.) I can confirm this is new.
3.) Was the same kind of change as the Wildermore title fix, and thus was expected, but its nice to see it confirmed =)
4.) Certain Quest items, no longer show floating names with 'floating names' turned on. Even when selected [Notably the 'Find Items' quest in the Keg-Arena.

I completed the Road to Lonely Mountain quest a couple weeks ago. I did notice that I had picked it up a couple months ago and it got removed from my log at some point mysteriously, so I had to pick it up again, though I hadn't started working on it at that time. Kinda disappointing that there's zero reward for it though.

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Originally Posted by Rhino-Man

Please post here if you notice something new in game that was not in the Patch Notes for update 11.2 (July 24, 2013):

Here goes what I've found so far:

1). You can now complete The Road to the Lonely Mountain quest (I think this is new? If not, let me know)

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Not new. I did this several weeks ago on 7 characters, it was added with either U11.1 or U11.

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2). More cosmetic shared storage available from the store (I know, it was in the Store announcement but not he Patch Notes).

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Seems new to me.

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3). Two Enedwaith titles that I'd been missing (a situation similar to what happened to the Wildermore titles this time around) were finally bestowed to me 2+ years later.

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Definitely new.

Also, the cosmetic of Reveller's Gilded Caparison has accidentally been replaced with Festive Azure Caparison.

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Originally Posted by Vilan

I completed the Road to Lonely Mountain quest a couple weeks ago. I did notice that I had picked it up a couple months ago and it got removed from my log at some point mysteriously, so I had to pick it up again, though I hadn't started working on it at that time. Kinda disappointing that there's zero reward for it though.

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Noticed the same 'mysterious disappearance' of this quest. Had it progressed or completed on 3 chars, except the 'completion' may end at a different level ('waiting' when only 3-mans were available, then after the 6-man, or after the raids). Worked differently on every toon, following the rule that there is no rule. This quest is a complete mess.

I think those types of quests, similar to the ITA-one and the RoI-one, have some meaning only for not scalable content. Otherwise they can't give reward, are useless, and - as in this case - broken. This can be completely removed from the game without any consequences whatsoever. That is, if you managed to take the quest in the first place, because hanging with Gandalf in the Pony at lvl 85 doesn't exactly come natural to you.

Their purported "fix" to the "Enter the last world" non-issue was to completely remove it from the launcher for some people, there's details in another thread how to get it back (either edit an .ini file or go through Options and select something unrelated...tricky with no checkmarks displayed for anything).

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Originally Posted by RJFerret

Their purported "fix" to the "Enter the last world" non-issue was to completely remove it from the launcher for some people, there's details in another thread how to get it back (either edit an .ini file or go through Options and select something unrelated...tricky with no checkmarks displayed for anything).

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The only change to the launcher I can see is that they broke more of it and made it even more unstable. Time to get a new programmer working on this Turbine, the current one obviously doesn't know what they are doing. I've been writing software for 30 years and have never seen something done this poorly.

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Originally Posted by BirdofHermes

Also, the cosmetic of Reveller's Gilded Caparison has accidentally been replaced with Festive Azure Caparison.

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I'm getting this too - its rather irritating.

Another undocumented change, one that I find to be quite important, is the fact that your war-steed starts with half stats (half-morale and half-power) any time it is mounted. Whether you've been in a town and are now heading out or whether you've been duo'ing Bugud or Rottenheart or another raid warband, if you dismount or get dismounted, you start with only half stats upon remounting.

Why? Probably because people run out of war-steed power (even when their own character is full of power) and have to dismount and remount in the heat of battle just so they can keep going. Why is that? Because the power-regen skills can't compensate for some classes. Oh, the RK, mini and LM won't have a big trouble here. But what about our power-sucking classes? My guard sure can't regen enough power to keep going in the long fights. Neither can my hunter last I checked.

Some might say, "So what's so bad with that? At least you get some morale/power back." Well, the problem is when you encounter warbands like the dreadful Conog, who spams his dismount skill pretty much every other second. In a duo (my guard, my questing buddy's minstrel) I literally spent the majority of my time being stunned and dismounted. I eventually gave up trying to remount because I would only be on my mount for a split second before being knocked off again. But let's say you charge into battle with full stats and a larger group? Conog dismounts you but his attention is immediately caught by another player. You are free to remount without having to worry about being dismounted immediately. Unfortunately, 1 second ago you had full stats. Now you get to mount up in-combat (and thus with the reduced regen) and fight with only half your stats. All because you were unlucky enough to be dismounted by that rotten Conog.

My power-sucking warsteeds with little or no regen skills are not happy. -.- I have fought warbands duo that take a good 5-10 minutes to defeat. With little or no regen skills, I have had to remount repeatably just to survive and keep going. Now I will have to remount twice as often and hope I don't get critted with my reduced stats upon remounting.