Concerns regarding Dark Souls, PSN and XBox LIVE

[Euphoria14]

-Newcloud- said:
What does the update do?

and to answer your questions
1. Yes (from what I heard)
2. Dont know
3. No, dont have a 360 anymore

 

The patch notes (Translated from Japanese):

Magic Changes:

• Pyro Glove nerfed from 270 to 230.
• You can see resonance signs now.
• Vow of Silence range increased.
• Homing Soul Mass and other pursuit style spells nerfed.
• Magic Shield and Strong Magic Shield duration lowered.
• Tranquil Walk of Peace and other Slow duration reduced to ~10 secs. Effect supposedly changed from 100% encumberance to 50%.
• Iron Flesh effectiveness nerfed.

Status Changes:

• Initial weight increased
• Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210
• Medium roll recovery faster? (unclear and unconfirmed)

Equipment Changes:

• Reported some weapon scaling gets improved at higher normal upgrades (+15 uchi dex scaling goes to A)
• Some scaling reported as changing from A to S with higher upgrades
• Normal upgrade path buffed by ~10%
• Lightning path nerfed slightly (~5%)
• Grant scaling changed?
• Gold-hemmed nerfed, still un-upgraded
• Dust skirt nerfed hard
• Silver Knights, Sun, Hollow Soldier’s Shield and other medium shield stability nerfed to ~70 at max upgrades to improve Great Shield viability.
• Crystal Ring Shield scaling drastically nerfed. Does around ~200 +-50
• Dragon Greatsword buffed from 360 to 390.

Combat Changes:

• Lock-on acquisition range increased.
• Lock-on changing/switching got easier.
• Ring of Fog users can now be locked on.

PVE Changes:

• Damage reduced on some mobs?
• HP lowered on some mobs?
• Bosses drop Humanity and Homeward Bones
• Ghosts and Skeletons give souls now.
• Twinkling Titanite drop rate improved.
• Some mobs may have added drops (Pyromancer dropping Lantern? Unconfirmed).

Online Changes:

• You can see resonance signs.
• Some invasion restrictions possibly changed? Darkwraith upperlimit confirmed as unchanged.
• Amount of souls the Master of the game gains changed.
• Cracked Eye Orbs no longer get consumed on failure. Confirmed

Other Changes:

• Official Guide nerfed.
• Lowered requirements for Sunbro covenenant (requirements moved from 50 to 25. 3/4 assists should do the trick)
• Fixed some freeze issues
• Lvl up screen displays souls needed properly now
• Dragon-head glitch, snuggly, and magic shield glitches fixed.
• Fixed a bug where your inputs come out 1 second later.
• Fixed a bug where the second solaire event wont progress.
• Fixed a bug where feeding frampt a titanite stone then going over 99 resulted in having zero.
• Fixed some specific map areas where you’d get stuck or be unable to progress.
• Changed some english subtitles on the overseas port.

Merchant stock updates:

• Male Undead Merchant: Also sells bottomless box
• Female Undead Merchant: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
• Andrei: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
• Domnhal of Xena: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Master Key
• Giant Blacksmith (Fapsmith): Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Titanite Shards, Large Tit Shards, Twinkling (8000 per, inf amount), Green Shards, Repair box, upgrade boxes
• Vamos: Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Tit, Large tit, Repair box / upgrade boxes
• Inglwood: Sells Transient Curses