GROVES
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- New Trans Skill: CREATION
- New Skill: WHISPER
- New staff artifact power: absorb_sunlight - Increases the amount of
sunlight a staff can hold by 15% at level 1, 25% at level 2, and 50%
at level 3.
- Grove Call will summon entities to the same elevation you are at now.
- I have changed discharge damage quite a bit. The basic damage amount
is not as much as maul, however the damage type is different, so it
will have different uses in combat.
- Portability will now work for ALL players with the groves skill when
that player in the arena. This was put in place so all druids can
fight in the arena.
- Grove Preservation now takes balance.
- Grove Preservation now last 12 months from when you use the skill
instead of wearing off at the new year.
- Grove Preservation will reset the 12 month period every time you use
the skill.
- Grove Tend will last 12 months from when you use the skill instead of
wearing off at the new year.
- Dead, Blackwinded, and Phased players can no longer follow players to
Isolation.
- Fixed a couple of instances where watching the local forest would
display worldwide forests.
- Forest watch displays movement to the trees elevation as well.
- Bee Swarms are no longer affected by critical hits.
- Grove Eyes will only show people on the same plane now.
- Grove Eject give the ejected player a message now.
- Eject will no longer work on blackwinded or mistformed players.
- Porting a grove in the arena will no longer destroy your staff.
- You can now LOOK IN grove gates and portals.
- Fixed some problems with grove thorns not clearing off properly.
- Fixed some problems with grove thorns not showing up in status.
- Movement should properly cancel grove channelling now.
- Those with a plinth will no longer lose your bonus when channeling
sunlight into your grove.
- For those of you who have earned the Grove Sunlight skill, the bug
that kept that from working has been fixed.
- Changed some of the grove return messages based on your elevation.
- When leaving the arena, most of your grove abilities will be turned
off.

Penned by my hand on the 4th of Chakros, in the year 219 MA.