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New Zombie Chick Pet & Gameplay Improvements

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The 2022-03-09 update for Neverwinter introduces a new Zombie Chick vanity pet, gameplay improvements, and various bug fixes across events, combat, items, and UI.

  • New: Zombie Chick vanity pet added to the April Fowls event vendor.
  • Fixed: Defender chickens now leave when healed so the same defender cannot be repeatedly healed for quest credit; loadout swapping no longer incorrectly unequips Companion Powers; a client crash in the powers system has been addressed.
  • Fixed: Sewers Most Fowl dungeon flow refined; player combat pull issue in Protector's Enclave addressed; lag issues during events improved.
  • Updated: Mount powers (Coastal Flail Snail, etc.) now hit a maximum of 10 targets; Astral Lockbox tooltip updated in all locales.
  • Updated: Draconic Key Ring Bundle now grants Viridian and Cerulean Helms instead of Emerald and Azure; title "Valindra's Foil" moved to General category.

Events

April Fowls

  • A new Zombie Chick vanity pet has been added to the event vendor.
  • Daily quests: Defender chickens now leave when healed, so the same defender cannot be healed repeatedly for quest credit.
  • Daily quests: Since these objectives are map-wide, they no longer try to take Quest Path priority in Protector's Enclave.
  • Fewer groups of chickens should spawn in Protector's Enclave. In testing, this shouldn't make daily quests significantly more difficult on average, and this should hopefully improve gameplay performance.
  • Players should no longer be unexpectedly pulled into combat while in Protector's Enclave. However, we were unable to consistently reproduce the issue and, as a result, this fix attempt may not have been comprehensive.
  • Sewers Most Fowl: The central grate of the final arena should now be a little clearer about whether an attack warning is over it.
  • Sewers Most Fowl: The flow of the objectives in this dungeon has been refined, but should overall play similarly to before.
  • The icon for Bird Feathers has been changed to be more visually distinct from Bird Seed at all appropriate display sizes.
  • We believe we've resolved the issue where Protector's Enclave grows increasingly laggy over the course of the event. However, as we were not able to reproduce this issue internally, it's still possible that we may need to restart Protector's Enclave every other day like in previous years.

Combat and Powers

Mount Powers

  • Coastal Flail Snail, Mossy Flail Snail, Arcane Whirlwind, and Infernal War Machine now hit a maximum of 10 targets.

Items and Economy

General

  • Astral Lockbox: The tooltip has been updated in all locales to describe its current contents.
  • The Draconic Key Ring Bundle now grants Viridian and Cerulean Helms, instead of Emerald and Azure. Players who have purchased the Draconic Key Bundle can claim one of these new helms for free from the Reward Claims Agent.
  • The title "Valindra's Foil" is now in the "General" Category instead of the "Quests" Category of Titles.

User Interface

Loadouts

  • Swapping loadouts no longer incorrectly unequips Companion Powers.

Performance and Stability

General

  • A client crash in the powers system has been addressed.

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