Magic
July 8: The Y'ntrel Sechra spell (Warrior Mages) is now released to all players.(it lowers armor hinderance, more mana used, the longer it lasts and less hinderance)
July 19: The following fixes and changes have been made:
- The Hands of Lirisa duration bug is fixed.
- Multiple Ethereal Shields no longer reveals stalkers.
- Ice Patch no longer awards experience when cast at other players or on creatures which aren't standing.
- Spirit Healing may now be self-cast, though no experience is earned from doing so.
- Fire Rain no longer affects non-corporeal undead creatures.
July 19: The following Warrior Mage spells have been changed:
- Dragon's Breath has been tweaked to do more damage when cast upon a creature.
- Swirling Winds has been tweaked so that if you cast it upon someone who already has the spell upon them, the spell upon them will be replaced by the new spell.
July 20: More minor changes:
- Arc Light no longer gives experience for casting at other players. (No offensive spells are supposed to reward that kind of usage. If there are others, please let us know, as it's a bug.)
- Cleric power perception now allows them to see the number of favors a dead person has without using APPRAISE. If they have no favors it reveals whether they've made a habit of going without them.
July 20:
- Tingle no longer gives experience for casting at other players.
- There is now a forced delay between casts of Shadow Scribe, to help prevent people from scrolling it. It's awarding more experience per cast however, so it's less necessary to do so.
- Protection From Evil offers some protection against spells cast by certain evil creatures.

Skinning-
During the next two weeks, SKINNING will be undergoing a variety of changes. As always, we will be monitoring these modifications closely and will adjust when necessary. Please direct your comments to the DragonRealms message board. If you don't have access to the message board, please use the BUG command to get your comments to the GM monitoring the system changes. Please do NOT use REPORT or ASSIST to discuss general observations about the modifications.
The changes you can expect to see implemented over the next couple weeks are:
Decreased skin weights
Increased roundtimes for skinning
Adjustments to skin prices
A knife will be required to skin (no more skinning with spears, axes, etc.)

TEST verb:
USAGE: TEST
Use this command to turn on/off certain test features as they are made available.
OPTIONS:
TEST NEWMULTI will turn on and off the new multi opponent logic that will eventually replace the current multi opponent logic. The test will last only 10 minutes before it automatically turns off. You will need to TEST NEWMULTI again to make it back on. To turn this off before 10 minutes is up, type TEST NEWMULTI.
What you can expect: When the new multi opponent logic is on, you should notice that fighting multiple opponents is tougher and might actually be very much tougher. Depending on your multi ops skill this might occur with your second opponent or with the third or fourth. No one currently in the game should be able to defend against four creatures at one time.
A new way to handle experience gaining for multi ops will be live while you are testing the new multi opponent logic. The amount awarded is based specifically on how high your penalty is for the specific creature attacking you.

BATTLE-NEW MULTI OPPONNENT TEST (7/23): You can test the upcomming new multi ops logic before it goes live on July 30th. Type TEST for more information.
DOH! (7/19): The current GM test code for the new Multi Ops was mistakenly allowed to go live on 7/17. It's not been returned to the older code. This explains why you were having more trouble from fighting multiple critters this weekend.
MULTI OPS Exp (7/17): Has been down tweaked by half temporarily until the combat multi-ops bug is fixed. The multi-ops bug currently makes fighting with more than 100 in multi-op skill grant a bonus to defending against rear and flanking opponents. A full explanation of the bug and the fix will be posted here when it's ready to be made live.
> RETREAT Updated (07/15): Retreat is using some new logic. It now checks for stunned and webbed, etc. creatures properly when determining retreat success. Retreating in rooms that don't allow fighting is now automatic. This alteration also allows retreating while hidden. It also uses a different method to determine retreat success. You should not normally see a difference in being able to retreat except from multiple creatures. New options for retreat are in the works, including an option to try and flee or break through when normal retreat doesn't work.
NOTE: until 6pm CDT 7/15, Retreat was mistakenly using the old code to calculate player ability to retreat, thus making it very hard to retreat. The correct code is now live.

DRAW Attack: Has been tweaked to better reflect the true nature of this attack type. This attack is meant to cause extra slice damage by drawing the weapon across the body of your foe. It is a very poor way to cause puncture damage or impact damage.

RANGERS also have their baby wolves now... i'm trying to find out more, also that Song of Tears helps group evasion i heard.. as always it helps to read Wren's Nest as well

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