La 1.4 e' arrivata

[PaolOh]

Stanno caricando la 1.4 sui server americani, probabilmente a noi tocchera' stasera... appena ho le patch notes definitive le carico.. queste sono le ultime patch notes provvisorie dal server di test:

[spoiler]PTS 1.4 In-Progress Notes #4 - 7/29/11
 Bunch more catchup from this week, including new feature callouts/descriptions:

DROWNED HALLS - NEW SLIVER
 * A new Sliver location has been reported to be intersecting with present-day Telara in the region of Lord's Hall in Scarwood Reach.
 * High Priestess Hydriss attempts to break through from a twisted reality, bringing her Abyssal army to claim the Ascended's Telara for Akylios. Enter the Sliver to fight her back on her own turf before she can bring her future into ours!
 * Drowned Halls is positioned as an entry-level 10-person raid instance, with unique new loot to help gear for more difficult challenges.
 * Several new costume items can be obtained from the Drowned Halls sliver and Achievements.


PVP RIFTS - NEW
 * The armies of the Ascended can now open special PvP rifts at Rift Raid locations. Opening these rifts secures sourcestone for your faction, but also leaves you open to attack from enemies! Keep the rift open as long as you can to gain the most rewards - or close your enemy's rift for additional bonuses!
 * See Girdoom in Meridian and Templar Zin in Sanctum to obtain the Ascended Powers needed to open these new Rifts, purchased with Favor (Lure of the Unseen and Lure of the Eye).
 * PvP Rifts can be opened at Raid Tears in Shimmersand, Iron Pine Peak, and Stillmoor. Only one per zone can be opened at any time, for a total of three active PvP Rifts at a time.
 * Contribution to objectives or to PvP activity in the region of the opened Rifts triggers rewards.
 * PvP Rift activity will be broadcast in the new World Defense chat channel.


WATER SAGA STORY QUESTLINE - NEW
 * After the appearance of Akylios, Guardians take a trip through madness while Defiants learn the story of the Faceless Man and help determine his future. The Abyssal have a hand in all of it.
 * The Water Saga is intended for higher-level characters in solo and small groups. You don't need to raid to complete it though you may need to bring some friends for some portions.
 * Start the story after completing either Standard or Expert Abyssal Precipice. Defiants speak to Faceless Man inside the Abyssal Precipice instance itself, while Guardians need to see Cardinal Visc in Sanctum after completing the instance once. Pre-1.4 completions of Abyssal Precipice DO count!
 * New item rewards are available while completing the questline, and rumor has it that finishing the series grants the player a sweet new mount type. CROCNARD!


ALTERNATE WARFRONT: WHITEFALL STEPPES - NEW
 Whitefall Steppes - Escalation
 * In their fight for dominance, the Guardians and Defiants have deployed massive rune cannons to the Whitefall Steppes. Their Ascended armies battle to collect and return Soucestone to fuel these powerful weapons.
 * Capture three Sourcestone from the field and hold them at your base to win. Beware though; Sourcestone can be stolen directly from your base by the enemy.
 * Alternate-mode Warfronts appear on weekends and are highlighted in the Warfront queue UI when available. These Warfronts grant double awards while available.
 * Daily quests for the standard version of Whitefall Steppes can still be completed in the Alternate Mode.
 * Achievements related to Whitefall Steppes must still be done in the standard version.


CROSS-SHARD LOOKING FOR GROUP
 * The Looking for Group tool now includes queues from the other shards within your battlegroup when forming instance groups.
 * Cross-shard players are indicated the same way as in Warfronts - Name@Shard.
 * Cross-shard groups cannot contain more than 5 characters but can still be 'converted to a raid' for the UI change.
 * The ability to ignore players cross-shard is currently being worked on.
 * You cannot trade items or coin to players from another shard. This includes Bind on Pickup items under the 30 minute trade window after looting.


RIFTS AND INVASIONS
 * Rift consumables now drop in only three ranks rather than five. The first comes from Rift content from levels 1-29, and the other two drop from level 30+ content and are based on player level. Characters of level 30-39 receive the second rank of consumables, and 40-50 receive the third.
 * Puresource containers have also been changed so that Rift and Invasion content drops higher level versions as you gain levels relative to the content.
 * Rifts from the Plane of Life and Plane of Water have been spotted in new locations all across Telara!


COMBAT
 * Taking certain actions on the Pet Bar - changing pet aggro status, toggling abilities to use - no longer dismounts you.
 * Fixed a bug causing pets to sometimes lose passive effects.
 * Fixed synergy crystals sometimes not applying their bonuses when switching roles after they were equipped.


COMBAT
 * Fixed an incorrect calculation of weapon damage when swapping weapons to a different hand.
 * Corrected some ability and effect tooltips where they displayed an incorrect value for a percent of health healed.

SOULS
 * Calling abilities are now categorized in the ability panel and sorted alphabetically.

 ARCHON
 * Fixed a bug where Burning Purpose would trigger the Dominator ability Quick Thinking.

 CABALIST
 * PTS ONLY: Lurking Decay: Tooltip now indicates the 1 hour duration.

 CHLOROMANCER
 * Void Life: The channel duration is no longer affected by damage. Fixed an issue where the last tick of damage would be delayed longer than intended.

 DRUID
 * Rage of the Fae: Fixed effect tooltip to match current ability functionality.

 TEMPLAR
 * Echoes of Ascension: The cooldown now begins counting immediately rather than waiting for the effect to trigger.


 PVP/WARFRONTS
1.4 will introduce a number of changes to make acquiring PvP gear more enjoyable. Players will now be able to upgrade PvP store items more frequently without needing to hoard Favor to purchase high rank items.
 * Converted the costs on rank 3/4 and 5/6 Armor and Weapons to use Marks of Retribution and require the previous set's items to purchase the upgrade.
 * Changed the overall cost of purchasing all of rank 1 through 6 sets to equal the previous cost of purchasing a rank 5 or 6 set.
 * Completing weekly PvP quests now grants additional Marks of Retribution, and closing PvP Rifts have an additional chance of rewarding these.
 * Marks of Retribution are obtained for 1600 Favor from PvP vendors in Meridian and Sanctum.
 * Lost Hope, Incapacitate: Cannot be used to interrupt other players while they are immune to interruption effects.
 * Break Free [All PvP Souls]: Now removes the Disarm effect.
 * Usable objects that will flag you for PvP now have a unique mouseover cursor.


ZONES

 CHARMER'S CALDERA
 * Updated Charmer's Caldera population to address a farming issue.

 STILLMOOR
 * The Past: Should be able to complete this quest more consistently after subduing Tigram Stillstep.



 CRAFTING
 * Apothecaries can now salvage Planar Essences. These break down into planar dusts as well as new ingredients used in Augment recipes.
 * Salvaging Artificer-crafted rings that contain gemstones now yield more Iridescent Powder, Gemstone Fragments, Clear Crystals, and Glimmering Fragments, and these items appear much more frequently.
 * Apothecary recipes using consumable items from Rifts have been updated to reflect the changes to the ranks and level ranges of these items.
 * PTS ONLY: Corrected pricing of Ethereal Flux, Magical Oil, Enchanted Lacquer, and Endless Dust. They should sell for 4 Platinum 20 Silver from vendors.
 * PTS ONLY: Updated the cooldown for new crafting recipes to 20 hours from 24.
 * PTS ONLY: Fixed a bug where new recipes were being crafted instantly.
 * PTS ONLY: Rare and Epic Essences can now be salvaged properly.


ITEMS
 * Healing Potions and Tonics from Apothecaries are now on a separate cooldown from Mana Potions and Tonics.
 * The following items are on the same cooldown as Mana Potions and Tonics now, and won't be triggered by Healing items: Olde Tablet, Ageless Tablet, Elder Tablet, Timeworn Tablet, and Ancient Tablet.
 * Dark Shadow Tunic: Renamed to Dark Shadow Leggings so you're not trying to wear a shirt as pants.


MACROS AND COMMANDS
 * Characters can now have up to fifty macros each.
 * A slash-command glossary has been added to the Macro window to better explain some of the many slash commands in the game.


 UI/SETTINGS
 * Auction House: Fixed a bug in the Usable Only checkbox so that auction results are displayed correctly (less blank pages and half-filled pages all around).
 * Optimized the Guild Roster pane to handle showing offline members for very large guilds without breaking things. I'm looking at you, Epic.
 * The Achievement window now properly updates for exploration achievements when entering new areas.
 * Added a button that allows you to "take all attachments from all mail items" in your inbox.[/spoiler]