Note: Official Publish 43 Information has been released. You can read it here.

Oct 14, 2006: Update: See bottom of this page for Publish 43 details.

Even though it’s not out yet, it’s never too early to start gathering information.

What we know:
- Thieves might see some hiding/stealth fixes
- Bug Fixes
- Siege and Mugen players can exchange Character Transfer and Advanced Character tokens for Unblessed 7th Anniversary Items
- Character Transfer Service will be limited to once a day.
- It rolls out at the end of October.

What we can guess:
- It’ll probably support be the main Publish to support the UO 9th Anniversary Collection

October 14, 2006: Updated from Ano in the Developer’s Corner at Stratics.

Pub43 Details

Below is the list of what you will see if you log on to Test Center. Keep in mind that this is a preliminary list, and anything listed here is subject to change before Pub43 goes to production shards.

Note: You may notice the login message has now changed. Follow the instructions in the new gump for information on how to obtain the new tokens and receive entitlement to test the new housing tiles

9th Anniversary Collection Features:

* Crystal and Shadow housing tiles (Type: “9ac” to temporarily entitle account)
* Crystal and Shadow furniture (Type: “give tokens”)
* Heritage Items
* Personal Attendants

For more information about these features, see the 9th Anniversary Collection page on UO.com

Additional Features / Bug Fixes:

* 6th Month Reward: +5 stat cap bump for all characters on accounts that are 6 months or older and did not receive the AOS stat increase. (Note: TC9 has been setup so that all characters will receive this)
* Fixed a bug that was preventing Paladins to be capped at FC2 if they have 70 or more Magery skill as was originally intended
* Corrected the damage range on legacy Ornate Axes, Talon Bites, and Taskmaster weapons
* While in Vampire form, using a spell from any source (scroll, LRC, arcane clothing, spell) that normally would use garlic now damages the caster
* Fixed a bug that allowed players under the affects of Vampiric Embrace to life steal from casting spells (as opposed to doing damage via weapon)
* Fixed incorrect leech properties from Pub42 on certain weapons that had SSI
* Corrected the resists for the Helm of Spirituality, which had been accidently reduced
* Increased the range that the Exorcism spell will affect around a champ spawn
* Added an NPC to Siege and Mugen that will redeem players’ transfer tokens for 7th Anniversary Tokens. These new 7th Anniversary weapons / armor will not be blessed.
* Pet Protection now works with summoned pets
* Fixed an issue with Pet Protection that could cause a dead player who logged out to lose a dead bonded pet. Added a message telling players that they need to resurrect themselves and log back in in order to reclaim dead bonded pets.
* Different characters on the same account should now all be able to use a vet reward cannon placed locked down in their house
* Character Statues will no longer lose their Sculpted By name (existing statues will need to be resculpted)
* Male characters can now restore female Character Statues that are wearing female armor without issues
* Reduced the maximum number of unicode characters that could be typed on an item being engraved to prevent the property from wrapping to the next line
* Personal Attendants will no longer go invisible when their owner hides. This was removed because it was causing problems for Heralds placed inside of houses and was not an essential feature
* Players will now only receive one Herald message total per minute, with exception of the owner who will always see the Herald’s bark
* Fixed a bug that was causing Heralds to bark their announcement more than once after having their options changed multiple times while in a house
* Fixed an issue that could allow players to sell their Personal Attendant deeds on their vendors
* Personal Attendants are now removed if the character that they belong to is deleted
* Fixed the error message that was displayed when a player tries to place furniture in another person’s house
* Increased the chances that an NPC mage vendor would sell 2nd-4th circle magery scrolls.
* Verite and Valorite Elementals will no longer do extra damage to certain types of artifacts that were being destroyed too quickly before
* Removed spawns of non-tamable Dire Wolves that started appearing after ML, except for one intentional group located in Gnaw’s Cave
* Added some new properties for EMs to use on event items
* Limited character transfers to once a day per account

Wilki has added additional details (Stratics):

- Evasion duration will scale with your Bushido skill. Range is 3-6 second duration, with a 2 second bonus if your bushido is above GM and both tactics and anatomy are GM or better.
- Evasion parry modifier will scale with your Bushido skill. Range is 16-40%, with a 10% bonus if your bushido is above GM and both tactics and anatomy are GM or better.

The evasion bonus is multiplicative, not additive. So let’s say you have a 30% base chance to parry, and you have GM Bushido (42% evasion parry modifier). When you activate evasion, you don’t get a 30+40 = 72% chance to evade. Instead, it’s 30*1.42 = 42% chance to evade.

Also, the current duration is a flat 7 seconds, not 6. Though, I’m not sure why you think lowering the duration is somehow beneficial for the player evading.

Keep in mind, in order to get the full benefit, you’ll need to sink 301 skill points into bushido, tactics and anatomy. That alone will give you a 12% chance to evade. If your bushido is 120 (321 skill points), you have a 15% chance to evade.

If you max out bushido and parry, and have gm tactics and anatomy (440 skill points), then evasion gives you a 52% chance to evade.

Oh, forgot to mention… parry once against scales with dex below 80, just as it did after Pub25.