WildStar Updates for February

Here are some of the details coming out of the latest patch to WildStar. The main parts of the class updates can be found here.

General

• Players now have the option of setting the client up to remember and trust their IP address so that they won't be prompted for two-step verification every time they login.
• We have updated the way Renown is earned from Veteran Shiphands and Veteran Adventures. Players will now earn bonus Renown from Medals, Daily Quests, and using the Random Queue. We've also added a new currency called 'Glory' to Veteran Dungeons and Raids. This currency will be used to purchase Veteran Dungeon and Raid quality gear. We have removed many of the progression-based rewards from the Elder Gem vendor and moved them to Renown and Glory vendors. Elder Gems will now award mostly cosmetic items such as Dyes, Costumes, Mounts, and Customizations.
• Players will now receive additional money, Renown, Glory and Prestige from using the random group finder queue for Veteran Shiphands, Veteran Adventures, Veteran Dungeons, Practice Battlegrounds and Rated Battlegrounds.
• The speed at which players travel on roads across Nexus has been given a slight boost.
• New overhead icons for tradeskill trainers, quest givers and stations have been added to the game.
• Character realm transfers should no longer be blocked based on mail the player can't see.

Character

• Grit will now increase health by 18 per point, up from 14, and Grit mini-milestones will now increase health by 250, up from 150.
• Players can now customize their existing character's physical appearance in-game. Look for the customization vendor in major towns (Hint: it's the same as the previous Dye/Costumes vendor).
• Players must now enter their character name to confirm a realm transfer. This is to avoid accidental transfer of the wrong character.
• Players may now preview low, medium and high level armor on each class while they are creating a new character.

Emotes

• A new emote is available: /makeitrain

Item Specials

• Replenish
• Now procs on receiving Critical Heals.
• Hemorrhage
• Damage no longer stacks.
• Damage has been increased to 153 up from 51.

Items

• Three new costume sets are available! The Clean Hazmat Suit, the Sawbones set, and the Intractable set!
• The renown vendor now sells four different titles.
• Item tooltips now include the power level of an item.
• The following items from Stormtalon's Lair have been updated with different stats: Stormzapper Treads, Sliver of Aethros, Stormrender, Electrostatic Mantle.
• Base Health stat has been reduced by ~22% on all items.
• The Renown vendors in Thayd and Illium now sell Inventory Bags, Dye Bags, class AMPs, Runes, Rune Fragments, and Class Upgrades.
• The Renown Vendors in Thayd and Illium no longer sell tradeskill Resource Bags
• Renown Vendor Pricing has been adjusted.
• Adjusted Assault Power and Support Power rewards from imbuements to be in line with overall Assault Power and Support Power balance changes.
• Gadget - Caretaker's Sanction - Fixed an issue in which the tooltip did not state the proper range of the bonus nor the proper number of party members that it will affect.
• The Bag of Infinite Frustration no longer uses auto-salvage.
• New items are now available for purchase at the Renown vendor.
• Fixed an issue with the tutorial dye collection 'Protostar Promotional Collection' where the item was not set to have an auto-salvage option.
• There are new Costumes and Inventory Bags available from the Renown Vendors in Thayd and Illium.
• Renown purchased flasks have been updated to allow stacks up to 99 and are no longer unique.
• Gadgets that use the Dissolve special have been reduced to 25% Armor Pierce down from 60% Armor Pierce.
• All heal potions and boosts can now be cast while casting and will no longer trigger a GCD.
• Removed erroneous level requirement for material bags (which can be purchased for Crafting Vouchers).
• The "Plasma Galactium Laser Sight" is no longer restricted to Spellslingers.
• Focused Surge Rune set now procs off "Using a Spell Surged ability".
• When adding or rerolling a rune, the soulbind warning text will now not display if the item is already soulbound.
• Boosts and Field Techs have had a 10 second cooldown added.
• Travel to Thayd and Illium to find new vendors selling Veteran Dungeon and Raid quality gear for Glory!
• Veteran Adventure and Dungeon Item Imbuements have been adjusted to be easier to complete.
• Item set 'Haste' bonus will no longer show up in the buff window.
• Fixed an issue that caused the purchase price of some items to appear twice.
• Fixed wording on items to give players a clearer idea of how they function.

Art

• Added, fixed, and adjusted many animations and tightened up the graphics of many things on Nexus!
• We've made a great deal of adjustments so that various pieces of gear fit better on characters.
• Fixed multiple clipping issues that were occurring, especially with player character armor. We also fixed many open-world clipping issues as well.

Audio

• Fixed, added, and adjusted Audio and SFX for a multitude of things on Nexus. So keep your ears open!

This was followed a day later by a Hotfix:

Hotfix

General

• Made some server stability fixes.

Items

• Items which were previously unintentionally soulbound, will be reversed.
• The AMP point and Ability Tier Unlock upgrade items on the elder gem vendor now use the correct prerequisites for purchase.
• Technologist boosts and Cooking meals should once again be tradeable.
• Rune fragments should once again be tradeable.

Creature Combat

• Scorchwing
• Re-balanced values, and addressed issues with scaling that caused some of Scorwing's attacks, and the attacks of the adds to be devastatingly high.

Economy

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from selling C.R.E.D.D. for more credits than their character had.

User Interface

• Fixed an issue that prevented the "Sell Orders" tab in the Commodity Exchange from showing all of the items the player could sell.
• Corrected an issue with CS ticket submissions.