Master of Arms

February 2012 - Announcements Page
* Patch Date: 21 February 2012
* Patch Size: 10,637k (Client: 4,632k)
* Hot Fix: 276k (24 February)
== Weapon Skill Update ==
Weapon skills have been revamped. See Weapon Skill Changes for details.
* Weapons have been updated to use the new combat skills. Many weapons were also rebalanced.
* Any item with a weapon skill spell and/or cantrip will be updated to one of the new skills.
* Weapon Mastery was introduced and all new characters will now start with a weapon that matches their skill and weapon mastery combination.
* New spells have been added for the Shield, Recklessness, Dual Wield, Dirty Fighting, and Sneak Attack Skills.
* All Creatures have also been updated to use the new skills.
* Base damage of quarrels significantly increased.
* Increased maximum damage of loot two handed weapons to compensate for the one handed melee damage increase.
* Multi-Strike weapons should now be able to be tinkered (only the new ones).
* Rare gems added for the new Shield, Recklessness, Dual Wield, Dirty Fighting, and Sneak Attack Skills.
* Loot-generated Thrown Weapons no longer mention the Strength attribute
* Upon logging in, existing players will be able to receive a free Quest Weapon from a selected list on a vendor and 6 tokens to purchase Foolproof Salvage and other special weapon tinkers, refer to Weapon Augmentation Stacking for further details.
* New skill spells can now be found on Cloaks.
* Added rare gems for the new Shield, Recklessness, Dual Wield, Dirty Fighting, and Sneak Attack Skills.
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== Crafting Updates ==
* All Gearcrafting interactions and spells have been migrated over to Item Tinkering.
* All Players who had specialized Gearcrafting will receive a refund of the experience spent.
== User Interface Updates ==
* The Character Info Panel now displays which masteries your character has above Luminance.
* There is a New +10 Skill Up Button that can be used to add 10 points to a Skill at a time.
== Other Changes ==
* Cloaks with the chance to reduce incoming damage by 200 have been reduced to 100 for PvP circumstances.
* The Luminance cap has been increased from 1 million to 1.5 million.
* Mana Forge Chests now drop 1 additional item (A Total of 7). The number of items in the MFK chests increased from 6 to 7 and the profiles changed slightly. Weapons were changed to Finesse, Light, Heavy and Missile. Also the Shard Mana Forge Equipment Chests were removed and replaced with additional Weapon chests.
* Grand Casino Chest loot quality has been adjusted to match Mana Forge chests.
== New Events ==
* 02/26/12 - HG - Lady Tairla Mhoire Attacks
** Lady Mhoire attacks near Dryreach. The Lady is dev controlled and assisted by Pyre Skeletons and Wights.
** Rewards| Hero Tokens, a chest that gives you a Mana Forge Key and a Luminance Wisp that awards 5,000 Luminance.
* 02/26/12 - Wintersebb - Corrupted Pyre Oak
** A Corrupted Pyre Oak spawned near the town of Ayan Baqur together with many Pyre Skeletons, Pyre Champions and Pyre Minions.
** During the attack and afterwards, a chest giving you Mana Forge Keys, a Luminance Wisp which awarded 5,000 Luminance were present. Also Mana Forge Keys kept spawning on the ground
** Afterwards, Hero Tokens spawned on the ground, the chest and the Wisp stayed around for about 15 minutes total.
== Updated Quests ==
* The Legend of the Tusker Paw - New statues for the new skills, also statues added for Void Magic and Two Handed Combat.
* Bandit Hilt Quest - Retired. Multi-Strike weapons are now found in Loot.
* Silifi of Crimson Night Quest - Completed weapon now has Crushing Blow instead of Biting Strike.
* Monthly Explorer Society Quests
** 27 days: Frore - Return the Glowing Box to Mairisa bint Fuda in Plateau Village
** 13 days: Olthoi Chasm Quest
** 6 days: Bleeargh's Gratitude (just need to deliver the Necklace of Leerargh)
== New NPCs ==
* Emissary of Asheron (Free Weapons)
* Emissary of Asheron (Weapon Imbues)
* Emissary of Asheron (Melee Rares)
* Free Weapon Vendor
* Weapon Imbue Vendor
* Melee Rare Vendor
== Updated NPCs ==
* Changer of Innate Abilities - Racial skills retired and all NPCs removed from game.
* The NPC Alex Brummel who supplies the Tristra's Essence augmentation was removed from game.
== New Items ==
== Updated Items ==
* See Quest Weapon Updates for a list of all quest weapons changed.
* See the Special:WhatLinksHere for this article for a list all articles linking here.
== New Dialog ==
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== Related Articles ==
* Release Notes
* Teaser
* Weapon Skill Changes
== Media ==
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