Aaaaand Update 2.0.6 is finally here! It’s that “small little update with tweaks” promised early in the summer that’s been rotting (or perhaps cooking…) on TL for a long while. A lot of additional tweaks have been added – basically it’s about total rebalancing of the Thoth-Amon’s Stronghold encounters (T3 raids). Some other stuff (like the possibility to utilize some of the Khitan trophies in a more meaningful way or nerfing the OP “interrupted comboes” of the rangers) has been changed as well. All in all a nice little patch that will no doubt anger PVPers anyway since it doesn’t really cater to most pressing PVP issues (aside from the rebalancing of single-hit comboes and forcing rangers to actually use upper/lower strikes bonuses). Full notes below!

CLASSES

Rogue Archetype

* Cheat the Reaper should work more reliably now.

Assassin

* Cover of Dusk will now be removed if a soldier switches to frenzy stance.

* Cover of Dusk should no longer affect characters that have Distraction running.

Demonologist

* Cursed by Hell should be more reliable now.

Necromancer

* Chill Rank 6 can now trigger Set’s Pestilence, as intended.

Ranger

* Hunting Hawk should now properly go on cooldown.

* Reduced the proc rate of the Shred Armor feat.

* Exhausting Traps will now refresh the duration on any running debuffs in PvP, while keeping the same mechanic with one debuff per Ranger in PvE.

* Rebalanced all ranger combos, lowering damage on most combo lines. The combos should now also properly reward those who get the upper and lower attack bonuses.

COMBAT

* All one step combos have had their damage rebalanced.

RAIDS/GROUP INSTANCES

* Significantly increased the AA XP gain for killing Tier two and Tier three raid bosses.

Crow’s Nest

* It is now possible to choose between Normal or Epic mode when going back to Tarantia Commons using the ladder.

Den of the Crowmen

* The Royal Hatchling will now drop loot in Trial of the Godslayer mode.

General Sheng

* Reduced the radius of several large AoEs, increased the time between aura pulses, and increased enrage timers.

* Increased the time it takes before the second wave of enemies aggroes.

Enigmata of Yag

* Fixed an issue which caused the quest “Unraveling the Undone” to not update in Trial of the Godslayer mode.

Leviathus

* Fixed an issue which caused the “Sanguinary Guardians” to not despawn correctly.

Thoth-Amon’s Stronghold

* Reduced the health of trash mobs.

* Grim Demonic Lancers should now properly despawn after a wipe.

* Reduced the chance of Thoth-Amon spawning hazards on trash pulls significantly.

* Made the trash slightly more vulnerable to melee attacks.

* Renamed certain spells in the tier 3 crafting encounter.

* The target of “Set’s Curse” will no longer be teleported for the “Mark of Acheron” event.

* Arbanus : Blood Draw cast time has been increased by 1 second.

* Favored of Louhi : Unholy retribution proc rates have been adjusted.

* The Hollow Knight will no longer target pets

* Shawabti in Thoth-Amon’s Stronghold now sells a very rare shard in exchange for simple relics.

* The Keeper of Artifacts:

o The singing swords will now despawn after killing the boss.

o Reduced the HP of The Keeper and the Hollow Knight.

o Made it less likely for the same type of artifact to arrive two times in a row.

o Increased the damage of Bore.

o Decreased the DPS of Searing Armor, Searing Heat, and Blaze.

o Demolish now ignores line of sight.

o The Hollow Knight should now correctly display target’s target.

o Hollow Knight’s target now receives a stamina regen buff if the target can’t use stamina potions.

o Increased the Singing Sword melee vulnerability.

o Fixed a bug which caused the Demolish particles to not be visible.

o Reduced the power of Demolish.

o Fixed an issue that prevented The Keeper of Artifacts from summoning his artifacts.

* Thoth-Amon:

o Acheronian Soul is now immune to fear and charm.

o Adjusted the health and resists of the Acheronian Soul.

o Reduced the health of Thoth-Amon.

o Decreased the spawn rate of the adds.

o Reduced the amount of adds players need to take down to trigger the next phase.

o Thoth-Amon is now slightly more vulnerable to melee attacks.

o Added particle effects to better visualize the next phase triggering.

o Added particle effects to better visualize where the adds spawn.

o Reduced the range of the adds spells.

o Thoth-Amon will now teleport to his target.

o Reduced the amount of pressure plates in the encounter.

o Thoth-Amon now loses some health when you solve one of the puzzles.

o Fixed an issue which caused the puzzles in the Thoth-Amon encounter to not reset properly after a wipe.

GENERAL

* Corrected several issues with collision that could result in the player becoming stuck, and issues that were impeding gameplay.

* The Trader of Fortunes now offers Simple Trophy Receptacles in her shop.

* The Trader of Fortunes can now exchange for Marks of Acclaim as well.

* Increased the drop rate on all combo/spell books.

FACTIONS

* Faction quests in Kara Korum and Paikang have had their amount of Mark of Acclaim tokens increased.

* The amount of faction gained from faction quests has been increased. Higher ranked quests will give even greater amounts.

QUESTS

* Chosain Province: “Neglected Duty” quest will now update after setting fire to the tents.

* Tarantia Commons: For the quest “The Tarantia Tea Party”, all of the barrels should now be located on the Tarantia Commons side of the river.

* Players with Insurrection quests completed can now progress with RotG storyline quest ’Allied against the Darkness’.

NPCs/MOBS

* Brutish Jang’s Iron Skin will now be removed by the Finely Honed ability.

GUI

* Readded command parameter expansions (%t for current target and %m for player name) to the following commands:

/afk

/ignore

/invite

/petition

/reply

/target

/tell

/who