Dofus Beta17.2b— patch notes (2004)

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List of the main fixes brought by v17.2b:

  • Bug that prevented placing items with a quantity of 1 on the ground

  • Bug that allowed placing items with a quantity of 0 on the ground

  • Dofus eggs and hats now appear in trades

  • No more invisible spells in the spell inventory

  • No more item duplication

  • Improved chaining of actions in combat

  • Dofus egg ranking

  • Fixed bug where characters would run infinitely if you clicked on a tile you're not allowed to go to

  • Improved chat window (repositioned at the bottom when expanded)

  • Extended the double-click detection time for inventory items

  • Certain maps no longer allow the use of teleportation runes (such as Kanojedo), which is entirely normal and intentional on our part ... it's not a bug!

  • Some map links have been deliberately removed (while leaving the markers on the ground), here too this is normal.
    08/05/2004 09:52 message edited by Bo

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Non-exhaustive list of the changes made:

NPC
  • Kelog Kroflex now trades water for Ash wood
GENERAL

  • Scrolls that boost characteristics are fixed; they now give boosts matching their description

  • Team XP has been increased as follows:

1 player: normal XP 2 players: normal XP + 40% bonus (instead of 10% before) 3 players: normal XP + 50% bonus (instead of 20% before) 4 players: normal XP + 60% bonus (instead of 30% before) 5 players: normal XP + 70% bonus (instead of 40% before) 6 players: normal XP + 80% bonus (instead of 50% before) 7 players: normal XP + 90% bonus (instead of 60% before) 8 players: normal XP + 100% bonus (instead of 70% before)

These changes are made to encourage team fights)

  • The spelling of the word "autoriser" has been corrected.
SPELLS

  • The Cras' Frozen Arrow spell is fixed at level 5 for its critical hit.

  • The Fecas' Blur spell is fixed; it no longer removes AP at the start of each player's turn.

  • The Xelors' Time Theft spell is fixed; its critical hit now works properly.

  • The Blocker summon no longer attacks.

  • The Eniripsas' Stimulating Word spell has been fixed; it now only affects allies and the caster.

  • The Xelors' Flexion spell now returns the AP loss.

  • The Xelors' Devotion spell gets a higher chance of reflecting spells.

  • The description of the "Thorn Word" spell is fixed.

  • The Ecaflips' Perception spell is fixed.

  • The Spell Reflection spell is fixed; it no longer reflects every spell 05/08/2004 15:13 message edited by lichen

Unofficial sources

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Dofus v17.2b — Dofus History's beta changelog table

Per Dofus History's beta-changelog table, v17.2b came with at least four successive waves of fixes in early August 2004. The first fixes item-dropping bugs (quantities of 1 or 0 mishandled), makes Dofus and hats appear in trades, removes phantom spells lingering in the inventory, and prevents item duplication, while improving combat action sequencing, Dofus ranking, and the chat window; some map teleport-rune links are deliberately removed, not a bug. The second fixes a stun spell that triggered twice in a row, broken stat-boosting scrolls, summons getting stuck mid-combat (like Arachnees summoned by Abraknydes), random disconnects, and an Enutrof spell. The third fixes a turn-skip bug at the end of a fight and normalizes spell-reflection odds. The final wave, dated August 6, fixes disconnects when ending a turn while still moving, summons wasting their turn on a trap, unfairly low solo-player XP, and confirms a team XP bonus reaching up to 200% at eight-against-one.

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Dofus v17b — Dofus History

After further research, it's possible that a v17b version was released before v17.1b (which would have been released the following day), however I unfortunately can't confirm this.

Dofus v17.1b

Officially the last beta version, version v17.1b was released on July 30, 2004; the news about the switch to this version is available here. This update adds the Dofus eggs and various balance changes. On undocumented elements, this update adds monsters as well as new maps — part of southern Amakna is added (porcos, gelees, scaraleafs), the tree house is moved, Amakna's cemetery island arrives, and for the rest of the new maps I don't know exactly. There's also the addition of Dofus eggs obtainable via drops; I have information that the Minotoror dropped the purple Dofus egg and had a fairly long respawn time — it appeared in the fields of Amakna and in the scaraleaf plains. Another addition is teleportation runes, which allowed traveling anywhere — I don't have more information about these runes, but the system was much more flexible than the zaap system.

Dofus v17.2b

A second version of this beta came out; this version fixes the issues from v17.1b and was released on August 4, 2004, its changelog can be viewed here. There are a lot of changes, I'll only cover the most interesting ones.
Let's start with the teleportation rune nerf, removing the ability to teleport to certain maps. The biggest changes are on the server side, with the addition of AI for summons. There's also mention of characteristic scrolls, which could explain the appearance of Loopine — the scrolls are described as having a bug that got fixed, so it's possible they were added with v17b. Obtaining these scrolls is treated as quests.

On August 6, 2004 the server was updated and added the XP bonus for group fights, up to 200% at 8 players.

Screenshots from these versions

You can see this screenshot which was taken on the last versions of the beta (presence of NPCs and the bug icon on the right). This screenshot shows the game just before the end of the v17.2b beta. Another screenshot shows the characteristics interface with trades; this screenshot was taken between v15b and 1.0 but I don't know exactly when.

A world map is available here but beware, some of the map images come from version 1.0 (Amakna's bank, for example). Finally, the world map roughly corresponding to this version is available here; the cursed forest area may have already been available, however at the time it was "forbidden" to spoil the path, so there's no information on it.

Flash Player

On this forum page there's a thread called "New features at the Flash Client v17b level" — from what I know, Dofus versions from v17b to 1.13 need a version of the Flash player between version 7 and 9; maybe v17b is the first to require the switch to Flash Player 7 without fully using all its features.