About That Patch This Morning:   
from Sanya Thomas    
2002-04-10 14:25:14    

Check out the things we snuck in while we were doing server maintenance.

OBJECT FIXES

- Level 43-50 quest Bard specific items now properly buff charisma instead of empathy.

- The Friar robes from Df should also now have the proper armor type. It had been set to a bad armor type and was not usable by Friars.


SPELL NOTES

- Warden haste buffs are currently not working correctly. We'll have a fix for that up this afternoon.

"Shout" Explanation

Recently some Warden spells were changed to "shouts", which has caused some confusion over the difference between a chant, a normal spell, and a shout.

"Chants" are any pulsing effect that doesn't require an instrument and can either be cast as a spell (like the Warden effects were previously), or cast as shouts (like Paladin chants). Normal spells require exiting combat and can be interrupted, while shouts instantly cast the chant and cannot be interrupted.

The only change that was made to the Warden chants was to make them "castable" in combat like Paladin chants. They are not intended to be duration buffs, except for the Ferocity of Nature line, which was explicitly changed to be a self buff (and was documented in the patch notes as such).