February 24, 2011 Update Notes

The EQ2 Update Notes for February 24, 2011 include a variety of fixes and tweaks, and a couple of nerfs. Check them out after the jump…

UPDATE: These are actually the Update Notes for February 24th.

GENERAL

• Made some optimizations to help with lag at server startup.

• Advanced shader options Depth of Field, SSAO and Sunshafts should be fixed.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

• Fixed a display issue with calendar events during Daylight Savings Time.

USER INTERFACE

• Spell effect icons in the target window will now sort beneficial spells at the top.

ZONE PROGRESSION

• Experience values for all Velious zones have been increased slightly based on their intended challenge.

Forgotten Pools

• Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar has returned to defending the Forgotten Pools.

Hole (Contested)

• The Hole contested dungeon has had its xp multiplier reduced to a value that is more appropriate for the challenge.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

• Tserrina should no longer treat players as having lost the aide of Advisor Svartmane when they haven’t.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

• Narmek Berreka’s armor pieces should all be aggressive and assist nearby aggressive creatures.

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

• Tserrina should correctly fall back to her previous strategies if players fail to remove her curse in a timely manner.

Kraytoc’s Fortress (raids)

• The minimum number of people needed to zone into the Kraytoc’s Fortress raids has been lowered to 1.

TRADESKILLS

• The power of tradeskilled resist jewelry has been tweaked to follow an appropriate progression path.

• The distinction between the cannons that you make for Aggi and for Mikk should now be clearer.

ITEMS

• Fixed an issue where some brawler quest rewards had item set bonuses that they should not have had.

• Fixed an issue where some brawler overland quest rewards had stats that were higher than they should have been.

• Fixed appearances on a few armor pieces.

QUESTS

• Kael Drakkel: The quest, “A Big Entrance” should now update properly for all group members.

• Adventure City writs for all cities should once again grant experience.

• All brawler 1 handed weapons should now have a delay of 4 seconds.

• Fixed an issue where many mage items were giving the wrong skills.

• Fixed an issue where some items were giving the wrong primary attribute.

EVERQUEST 2 EXTENDED

• Fixed a bug where Platinum members would be put into the login queue when the queue is enabled.