Update 10-28-18

[*MimiFearthegn]

Hello everyone! We will be updating the server shortly. A big thanks to DM Bloodlines, who has done most of the updating! Bloodlines has graciously volunteered to help with updates going forward; hopefully we can get changes to the main server faster in the future.

Today's changes include:

Area Changes:
- New Slags area(s), now for levels 6-10 (MimiFearthegn)
- The ethereal demiplane has vanished, but a suspiciously similar tower now sits in the slags (MimiFearthegn)
- The undersigil area under the Hive has been reworked and expanded (MimiFearthegn)
- Player house updates
- Replaced the event ship area with a new and improved version (Bloodlines)

Monster Changes
- Rebalanced mobs in Carceri depths (Bloodlines)
- Rebalanced epic frost giants, sahuaguins, stone scorpions, karasuthra vile trappers, mechanus factory mobs (Lucadia)
- Buffed crystal golem and astral construct (Lucadia)
- Frost giants and clerics: no longer absurd hp/ab and higher exp pay out for the very short epic area (Lucadia)
- Shahaguins: These should do less damage to players now when they crit, removed uncanny dodge so they can be sneaked (Lucadia)
- Stone Scorpions: Flat damage reduction and ab reduced for the area range  (Lucadia)

Crafting
- Gem mines should now tell you they are exhausted before they go away (MimiFearthegn)
- Reworked gem probabilities within color pools (MimiFearthegn)
- Removed gem carats; gem size is now a flat small / medium / large. Old gems should be compatible with new gemcutting script. (MimiFearthegn)
- Gem quality is now rolled separately from gem cutting; gems should no longer auto-cut to flawless on high appraise rolls (MimiFearthegn)
- Monsters should no longer only drop Andars (MimiFearthegn)

Fixes
- Mystic Theurge Eldritch Adept fix (Rapsam)
- Meditative Strike  (Edmaster)
- Palemaster Deathless Mastery (Rapsam)
- Smite Infidel is now on a cooldown (Rapsam)
- Unholy Blight fix for Outsiders (Edmaster)
- Racial Weapon Strike Fixes (Rapsam)
- Fellblade's Curse / Cursemaster (Rapsam)
- Shadow Dragon Breath (Edmaster)
- NPC statues in Gymnasium replaced by placeables (Bloodlines)
- Death Knight "Create Undead" Synergy (Rapsam)
- Arcane Trickster (Warlock) Eldritch Master at prereq at level 10 (Rapsam)
- Half Outsider ECL fix (Rapsam)
- Arcane Trickster's Prism of Mirrors will spawn less clones (Edmaster)
- Scroll merchant in Baha should no longer buy scrolls for too much (MimiFearthegn)
- Changed portal keys for grey wastes and plane of fire to not be old gems (MimiFearthegn)

Miscellaneous Additions:
- Shale now sells Gloves of Weapon Handling again. (Bloodlines)
- Minerva sells Magic Electrifiers (Bloodlines)
- Spellcasting "Dummy Feats" added for spellcasting qualifications (Rapsam)
- New quest in the first Undersigil area (Bloodlines)
- Tarion now has new buffs to offer players for gold with longer durations (Lucadia)
- Spirit Shaman summons should be more in line with other summons (Lucadia)

In other news, Krampus has left us, to return another day.

[*MimiFearthegn]

Two more things I forgot!

- New placeables have been added for builders. 
- Portrait pack has been updated

There will also be a hotfix active after next reset which should address some debug text and gem vfx issues.