The following updates have been made to the Elemental Confluence hunting ground:

-The former strict restrictions on teleportation/location magic within the Confluence have been relaxed: You can now use location magic to view other players within the same portion of the Confluence as yourself, and the Confluence now has a special "out-of-realm" vision in Locate Person (116) to better allow pin-pointing where exactly someone is. You can now use teleport magic within the Confluence though, if you are not attuned, there is a chance for an elemental backlash to cause damage and disrupt the teleportation attempt. Further, general return magic (like Spirit Guide (130), Symbol of Return, etc) will attempt to return you to within a room or two of a point of elemental tranquility.

-Confluence portals will be much less likely to spawn on the trails between towns and will not intermingle Confluence portals from different towns in the same area. This should greatly reduce/eliminate the issue where someone could enter a portal near Icemule and, upon exit, find themselves close to Solhaven. It will take a few days for the portals to fully adjust to this new spawn scheme.

-The breath weapon maneuver attack of the air elementals has been adjusted to not inflict RT even if the maneuver is successfully resisted. Cold damage now slows down air elementals temporarily.

-Earth elementals should no longer be falling on players when they are already prone.

The previously mentioned treasure and UCS updates are still pending.

Coase

Great updates so far! Thanks for working on these and making it a more 'possible' place for me to hunt.

I'd love to see a "common area" where rescues could go and possibly all confluence's merge together. Something like that of Idolone. You could branch out to different places, but rescues would bring you back to the center. Maybe a central confluence void? And once you leave it you're back out into the confluence you started in? Or, maybe there's permanent tranquility point within the central confluence void as well as random ones within each confluence.

Just be a little nicer for those of us who enjoy rescuing.

This all seems positive.

Especially the rescue and air elemental updates.

Thanks, Coase.

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>Confluence now has a special "out-of-realm" vision in Locate Person (116) to better allow pin-pointing where exactly someone is

Can anyone confirm that this is working?

I could be wrong about this, but my experience with out-of-realm Locate Person is that it shows images pertaining to the location of the caster, not the target, so the additional line for being inside a Confluence area is not helpful in finding out where the target is (in fact you'd only get that line for trying to locate someone while you are in the Confluence, regardless of where the person you're trying to locate happens to be).

>This is a plain.

Nah, it's not unfinished. That's just Elanthia's Kansas.

<<I've been searching in this forum for 10-15 minutes and I've failed to come upon any mention of treasure or UCS updates other than some gripes. Could someone let me know what's under discussion? (I'm interested in the treasure part.)

If I remember correctly, no details have been announced/mentioned. So they'll come when it is announced fully I imagine.


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Or maybe it's Maybelline.

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Thanks, Coase (and other staff unnamed)!

This is very very much the kind of thing I was hoping for:

>-The former strict restrictions on teleportation/location magic within the Confluence have been relaxed: You can now use location magic to view other players within the same portion of the Confluence as yourself, and the Confluence now has a special "out-of-realm" vision in Locate Person (116) to better allow pin-pointing where exactly someone is. You can now use teleport magic within the Confluence though, if you are not attuned, there is a chance for an elemental backlash to cause damage and disrupt the teleportation attempt. Further, general return magic (like Spirit Guide (130), Symbol of Return, etc) will attempt to return you to within a room or two of a point of elemental tranquility.

I hope a couple questions for clarification are okay! When you say the same "portion" of the Confluence, do we mean the same instance of the Confluence and the same hot/cold side? (That's my reading.) So, finding the pit and leaping across is might be necessary. And since there is no relation to which elemental instability we enter and which side we end up on, we still have the 50/50 chance to enter a different side. That's all okay for the moment, these are just queries and not meant to read as complaints. I'm assuming the 116 messaging could tell me which side of the Confluence someone is, etc.

I'm also very curious to play, but how about Planar Shift? For that, we need, some way or another, to get a rune, even for the "gold ring" version. My thought is that this may work similar to a gold ring generally. Find a tranquility point, and turn your ring or SENSE PATTERN (no rune book in hand). Of course, I don't know what'll happen if the layout shifts (I'm not asking for all the spoilers), but supposing the layout doesn't shift until the use of open 740, will this work? Namely, 130 is okay when it gets me to a safe place but I'm not sure barfing on the floor of the Confluence is really what I want (so, I can make the choice to use 740 if I already found a Tranquility). And if 130 works to bring someone near a tranquility, 1620 should do that, too (self with enough lore ranks, or to another corpse normally), yes?

I'm also assuming that Planar Shift is only going to work from within the Confluence. Though how this could be coded (to allow me to get a rune, but prevent me from Shifting in from outside the Confluence with nice chalk if I bothered to write that rune in a book) I'm not sure. Not that I think paying 27k in chalk to get into the Confluence is gonna be some over-powered feature if it was allowed, but I'm just hoping Planar Shift works in some manner with the Confluence. Any easy method could be to only allow the "gold ring" version of Planar Shift, which sounds great to me at the moment...

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I also had some friends in River's Rest asking about bandit tasks, etc.

>Alanna says, "I'm sorry Kaldonis, but I don't seem to have any tasks that are suitable for you. ...

Wouldn't be a bad thing if she mentioned something about a soulstone for certain level ranges. Only a minor fix but, might be appreciated! (I knowz how to uze my zoulztone!)

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checked gold rings:

>You turn the ring on your finger and feel a little pulse in it.

checked planar shift:

>You have difficulty aligning your senses with the mana flows in this area.

Would definitely appreciate if Planar Shift worked within the Confluence.

Thanks!

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Super late but I do not believe that Sigil of Escape follows the same teleportation rules as 130 or Symbol of return. Unlews im missing something I have not been able to use Sigil of escape (the normal version) to get within a few rooms of a tranquility.