Today's Test Server Patch (lots of good stuff)

[Koutarou]

Usual disclaimers about whether it comes to live or not (usually 90%+ does), but trimming out the probably-unimportant stuff:

*** Highlights ***
- Modified the functionality of prestige items so that armor or weapons with prestige augments inserted do not become prestige.
- Made numerous changes to Tier 3 and Tier 4 Veil of Alaris raids.
- Most items with activated spell effects can now be triggered from within your inventory.
- Maxed tradeskill trophies now produce a 24 slot tradeskill component bag in addition to the 12 slot general carry-all.
- You can now create an Extraplanar Trade Satchel using Extraplanar Silk.
- Corrected an issue where players who had completed non-repeatable tasks in the past were not receiving achievement credit.

*** Items ***
- Nearly all items that previously needed to be equipped in order to activate their spell effect should now be useable from your inventory if you are capable of equipping that item. These changes intentionally exclude a number of quest and bane items.
- The Rod of Alsa Thel can now place it in your bank.

*** Tradeskills ***
- Maxed tradeskill trophies now produce a 24 slot tradeskill component bag in addition to the 12 slot general carry-all.
- You can now find Extraplanar Silk in Veil of Alaris and House of Thule zones. To find instructions on how to use it to craft an Extraplanar Trade Satchel, visit Bookseller Shoden in Argath or Sherin Matrick in the Plane of Knowledge.
- Looted cultural crafting components now have appropriate coin and tribute values.
- Added a coin or tribute value to many looted poison and jewelry tradeskilling components.

*** Quests & Events ***
- Time and Tides raid - Lowered the initial DPS of High Priests within the raid.
- Time and Tides raid - Those who are currently on top of a High Priest's hate list should no longer receive a whirlpool emote.
- Time and Tides raid - Increased the amount of time characters have to respond to the whirlpool emote.
- Time and Tides raid - Decreased the radius of the whirlpool effect.
- Two Sides of the Stone raid - Significantly lowered the amount of HP Vision or Decay will heal when a condition is "failed".
- Two Sides of the Stone raid - Characters who are dead and unable to follow the "jump" emote will no longer trigger the fail condition.
- Two Sides of the Stone raid - Characters now have a little more time to execute their "jumps" and remove "filth".
- 13th Anniversary quests - There is no longer the option for 1 AA point as a reward. The quests now grant a small amount of experience upon completion.
- 13th Anniversary quests - Lowered the re-use time of the mining pick used in "Responsible Mining".
- 13th Anniversary quests - Corrected a few issues with "Ferocious Feralings" and "Rumor Has It...".
- 13th Anniversary quests - Added an achievement related to the missions.
- 13th Anniversary mission - The AA reward has been increased to 5 AA points, but may now only be selected once.
- 13th Anniversary raid rewards - Players who have already completed the raid should be granted a reward set via their raid achievement. The reward set allows you to select either augmentation that drops from the event. This choice is only granted once. Subsequent victories will allow you to choose between a receiving factions or experience.
- Quests granting reward sets that offer faction gains will now adjust opposing factions accordingly.

*** Spells ***
- Enchanter - Increased the damage on Mana Reiteration Strike and Mana Repercussion strike.
- Magician - Exigent Minions and Exigent Servants have discovered a new ability that will only work against certain raid targets.


*** NPC ***
- Geniveve, the Tribute Master in Crescent Reach, will now accept the tribute of any race, not just Drakkins.

*** AA ***
- Enchanter - Mesmerization Mastery is now restricted to single-target mez spells only. Area-of-effect spells are not extended.


*** Achievements ***
- To complete the "7th Anniversary Tasks" achievement, you now only need to finish one of the three tasks.
- Added a list of tasks to the Alaran Language Master achievement that shows the language points for the completion of various task groups.
- Corrected an issue where players who had completed non-repeatable tasks in the past were not receiving achievement credit.

*** Mercenaries ***
- Bloodbone Skeleton tank mercenaries will now keep the attention of their targets more reliably.
- The following caster DPS mercenaries now cast slightly faster and generate less hate - Amygdalan, Aviak, Bloodbone Skeleton, Dragorn, Gingerbread Man, Girplan, Hadal, Marionette, Rallosian Ork, Sarnak, and Swinetor.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Made it so that members that do not have access to prestige items will no longer be able to insert a prestige augmentation into an item.
- Modified the functionality of prestige items so that armor or weapons with prestige augments inserted do not become prestige.
--- The item slot now appears purple when an item has an augment that is prestige (but the item itself is still enabled).
--- When examining the item, the item name will appear purple and any augments that are disabled as a result of being prestige appear red.
--- If the item itself is disabled as a result of prestige, then prestige augments are factored into the item display stats.
--- If the item is not disabled, then disabled prestige augments are not factored into the item display stats.

[Xslia]

AMEN to Rubak. While the RT raid is easy in concept - just failed emotes were the issue for the most part, RT was Nasty (yes with a capital N!). The amount of Damage a tank takes then to get the frigging whirlpool emote were brutal.

[Zephur]

Hmmm... the new bag sizes are backward i hope. The ones from the trophies are 24 slot (1 lore bag per 7/7 trophy), but the Extraplanar Trade Satchel ( http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=67633 ) are 32 slot and NOT lore.

Both types ONLY carry TS items, other stuff wont fit.