Update 29 Patch 1 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 29 Patch 1, released on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016.

News and Notes

Enhancements

• Cormyrian Knight Training's Tactics DC bonus is now more consistently applied when using a shield, or when two-weapon fighting with one sword and one non-sword.

Feats

• Master of Knowledge's Mental Honing effect no longer applies if the character has Enlightened Spirit's Eldritch Aura active.
• Players with Construct Exemplar are now healed by tavern food and drink.

Items

• Legendary Green Steel damage-over-time effects now have cooldowns. Acid damage now has a half-second cooldown, and magma has a quarter-second cooldown.
• Legendary Green Steel Call Kindred Being now summons its appropriate creature.
• Legendary Green Steel Augment effects are re-applied to the player when logging in.
• Legendary Green Steel damage effects general no longer scale with Spell Power.
• Legendary Green Steel skill bonuses that incorrectly indicate an Enhancement bonus type are now Competence bonuses.
• Items with Concentration benefits now list their proper bonus.
• Ability Score Upgrade Tome Bundles are no longer considered ingredients, and will no longer go into ingredients bags.
• Armor and shields should no longer gain weapon-specific effects (like Keen).
• Raid Rune trade-in recipes for new Update 29 shields now show their items' names.
• Blinding Fear now properly blinds its targets.
• Numbered versions of Deception found on non-weapon items now properly proc their Bluff on-hit effects.
• Fixed the description for Insightful and Quality Sheltering.
• The proper level of Tome rewards will now appear in high-level content.
• The text for Riposte and Parry has been fixed.
• Skills now state their proper Competence bonus instead of calling it an Enhancement bonus.
• Several Spell Critical effects now have their correct names.
• The Scarab of Protection has returned to the treasure table.
• Randomly-generated loot will no longer sometimes appear "blank".

Monsters

• The stun from the Inevitable's Thunder Punch is now properly considered a Stun for the purposes of Stun immunity.
• Magefire Cannons no longer express their love for "Pirates of the Thunder Sea (Epic) when they hit you.

Quests and Adventure Areas

• Most non-boss and miniboss monsters in Legendary Elite raids now do somewhat less damage.
• Legendary Shroud
  • There is no longer an extra chest in part one of The Shroud.
  • Arraetrikos now uses Delayed Blast Fireball much more frequently than Meteor Swarm.
  • Hit Points and Damage Reduction have been reduced for the portals in part one.
  • Raid groups must now have done all of the prior quest objectives before looting a chest in The Shroud.
  • A certain object in The Shroud no longer has physics.
• Tempest Spine
  • Sor'jek now has his proper healing and wards in Legendary Tempest Spine.
  • The Opilar, Nular, and Talen Runes now drop on dungeon exit.

Spells

• Implosion, Deconstruct, Mordenkainen's Disjunction, and Storm of Vengeance now work with the Embolden Spell metamagic feat.

Known Issues

Known issues are now available:

• Here for the copy here on the wiki
• click here for the copy on the official forums ^{ARCHIVE ME!}

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Source: Official U29.1.0 release notes on DDO.com