Finally read through the Release Notes for Book 12, and discovered something I’d not read before.
Many Fellowship and Small Fellowship quests downgraded in difficulty to be Solo or Small Fellowship. Several Instance and Escort quests reviewed and modified to be less difficult for solo players
Reading on, I saw that — as Margie had noticed last night when we finally went back to do it — the “Rescue by Moonlight” (rescue Avorthal from the boat in Khelondim, I believe it is) mission is among them (it’s now classifiable as doing by a solo level). “Hey,” she said, “they’re showing up as Normals, not Elites.”
We rocked.
Other nice QoL in the new Book is an option in the UI to “Always Loot All.” It makes the visibility of looted treasure a bit less — no icons, just text in the General tab — but it certainly speeds thing up.
Other things worth noting (or that I’m taking particular note of):
- Reorg of the costume screen to support the new costume slot options — but with nice new buttons to allow toggling bits on and off.
- You can ranged auto-attack while moving (just at a hit minus). Hunters can move slightly further with reduced focus cost (1 focus per 3 seconds instead of per 1 second).
- Hunter melee skills damage up. yay!
- Lots of Scholar recipes moved from Loot to Novice Scholar trainers. Hrm. Oh, and there are now difference sizes of Glass Phial (which I noticed inadvertently the other night).
- Lots of stat increases on quest reward items.
Thirty-odd pages of release notes (though a lot of that is long lists of items). Worth reading if you’re a player.