In Testing: Tinkerfest — Will Go Live July 29~August 8th

From Kaitheel on the EQ2 Forums:

Tinkerfest has been activated on both Test and Test Copy.

Like clockwork, Tinkerfest has returned! Take up your favorite wrench and celebrate all things gnomish, be they metal, combustive, mathematical, experimental, or a combination thereof! Adventures, rewards, buyables and crafted items await you, both new and familiar. You won’t want to miss all of the fun at Gnomeland Security, your headquarters for all things Tinkerfest, in Steamfont Mountains.

New features for ’11:

• Added an in game mail to announce event.
• Event quests now have associated map regions marked.
• For those that have completed “Great Balls of Fire” at least five times Blantsworth Coggington III in Steamfont Mountains will offer the new quest, “If They Only Had a Brain”.
• The quest “Friendly Competition” is now offered directly by Jon Jeffas in Steamfont Mountains and is repeatable once, per year.
• The quest “Tinkerfest Cheer” is now being offered by Tomker, in Steamfont Mountains.
• The quest “The Legend of the Geargobbler” is now the only quest offered by Didyma in Steamfont Mountains.
• New rewards on returning quests.
• Myron, Tinkerfest Merchant, has new house items and two new recipe scrolls for sale.

The event is currently set to run 7/29/2011 through 8/08/2011 on the live servers.

Please assemble any feedback and bugs that you may find in this thread. Thank you, everyone!

~Kaitheel

Note that to avoid some conflicts, the Dragon Ring rebuilding event has to be disabled while Tinkerfest is being tested. The Wizard Spire rebuilding in Eastern Wastes continues.