Shattered Kingdoms

I am interested how necromancers fare after this update. I still doubt that animates will be much use since they cannot use their special touch skill unless unarmed but do almost do damage while unarmed. Even with weapons they are very awful.

Because dig performs dig, the answer is yes.

From help kick:
Kick damage is based on the same hand to hand skills known by the fighter, such as self defense and brawling [and wild fighting, although there's only one kind of barbarian who knows how to kick], but a kick will be more powerful than a punch delivered in the same style.

This is answered in help restoration.

Not directly comparable. But horseshoe weapons are available for centaurs and minotaurs.

What is happening should be obvious from whatever message you received. As the thing you are describing does not appear to have been announced as part of the update, I will not be discussing it further here.

How does juggling interact with ranged weapons and auto fire? Does auto fire apply at all to thrown weapons when your hands are full?

Juggling basically enables auto fire while your hands are full (assuming you keep making your skill check).

As normal, ranged combat ends if you get into melee combat. Juggle doesn't change that.

Let me rephrase that: if I am firing a crossbow as a bard, or firing two hand crossbows as a swashbuckler, and throwing daggers at an opponent at the same time, what will happen? I rather assume that I will get a full round of crossbow attacks plus one thrown dagger per throw command, and not a full round of crossbow attacks plus a full round of thrown daggers.

No question, just wanted to say nice work on the help files.