Update Notes: Thursday, June 20, 2013 – Whole Lotta Disruption (and Ministration) Goin’ On

Written by Feldon on . Posted in Art, Appearance, Housing, Game Updates & Maintenance, Itemization, Raiding

From the EQ2 Forums:

PLAYER HOUSING

  • Added a new window, “Housing and Leaderboards”. This window, which can be accessed via the EQII menu and from the main menu bar, allows easy access to many housing related features. It allows you to manipulate all your current houses, browse and buy new houses, visit houses associated with the current zone you are in, and view the current housing leaderboards.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Furnace of the Ages [Challenge Duo]

  • Fire Thief now has custom text to clarify how the effect works.

and after the jump, almost every class’ has had at least one ability adjusted to use spell skills like Ordination, Disruption, Subjugation, and Ministration…

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
Cleric

  • Radiance will now get the effects of Ability Modifier when used above level 70.
  • Divine Castigation will now use Disruption.
  • Divine Guidance, Equilibrium, Immaculate Revival, Sacrifice and Perseverance of the Divine will now use Ministration.
  • Divine Recovery will now use Ordination.

Inquisitor

  • Hersey, Smite Heretic, Repentance and Chilling Vengeance’s damage components will now get the effects of Ability Modifier.
  • Repentance, Hersey, Chilling Vengeance and Smite Heretic’s damage components will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Fanatic’s Protection and Chilling Invigoration will now use Ministration.

Templar

  • Sanctify will now use Ministration.

Druid

  • Wrath of Nature will now use Disruption.
  • Faith of the Fallen, Protective Instinct and Howling with the Pack will now use Ministration.

Fury

  • Lightning Siphon and Stormbearer’s Fury will now use Disruption.
  • Force of Nature and Natural Regeneration will now use Ministration.

Warden

  • Clearwater Current, Winds of Growth and Cyclone will now use Ministration.

Shaman

  • Rabies II will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Totemic Protection, Spirit Aegis and Ancestral Channeling will now use Ministration.
  • Avenging Ancestors will now use Disruption.

Defiler

  • Defile will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Wraithwall, Phantasmal Barrier and Soul Ward will now use Ministration.
  • Malicious Spirits will now use Subjugation.
  • Spiritwrath will now use Disruption.

Mystic

  • Barrier of Spirits and Ancestral Support will now use Ministration.
  • Slothful Spirit’s damage component will now gain the effects of spell skills and Ability Modifier.

Enchanter

  • Psychic Trauma will now use Disruption.

Coercer

  • The damage of Spell Curse, Ether Balance, Mindbend and Destructive Mind will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Asylum’s on expiration damage component will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Coerced Intensity will now use Ordination.

Illusionist

  • The damage of Prismatic Chaos and Theorems will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • The on expiration damage component of Brainburst now will gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Chromatic Illusion will now use Disruption.
  • Illusionary Vigor will now use Ordination

Conjuror

  • Planar Burst will now use Disruption.
  • Blazing Energy will now use Ordination.

Necromancer

  • Death Grip will now use Disruption.
  • Rot Flesh will now use Subjugation.
  • Necrotic Lifeforce will now use Ordination.

Sorcerer

  • Static Discharge and Blast of Devastation will now use Disruption.
  • Ethernere Chains will now use Subjugation.

Wizard

  • Hail Storm’s on expiration effect will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Frozen Detonation, Frozen Rain and Hellfire will now use Disruption.

Warlock

  • Occult Bolt, Caustic Detonation and Toxic Assault will now use Disruption.
  • Aura of Pain’s damage component will now gain the effects of spell skills.

Bard

  • Cadence of Destruction, Deadly Dance and Dexterous Sonata will now use Ordination.

Dirge

  • Wail of the Banshee’s on expiration effect will now gain the effects of spell skills.
  • Eulogy of the Fallen and Battle Cry will now use Ordination.
  • Echoing Howl will now use Disruption.
  • Exuberant Encore will now use Ministration.

Troubador

  • Energizing Ballad and Bagpipe Solo will now use Minsitration.
  • Reverberation will now use Disruption.
  • Upbeat Tempo, Abhorrent Verse and Mamba of Blades will now use Ordination.

Crusader

  • Soulclaim and Crusader’s Faith will now use Ordination.
  • Aura of the Crusader will now use Ministration.
  • Zealous Smite will now use Disruption.

Paladin

  • Castigate and Consecrate’s damage will now gain the effects of spell skills.

Shadowknight

  • Life Draw, Essence Siphon and Reaper’s Mist will now use Disruption.

ITEMS

  • Siren’s Grotto: Dissension – [eq2u]Empowered Coral Stone[/eq2u] has had its stats adjusted to be more in-line with the fighter charm. [eq2u]Will of Gen’ra[/eq2u] now has Ability Mod.

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Comments (22)

  • Le Clown

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    +1 title lol

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  • Anaogi

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    Whoa whoa whoa…”Furnace of the Ages”? Where is that zone, exactly? Or is this another Abyssal Aqueduct sort of deal?

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  • Kinya

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    There are 3 challenge Duo zones which you can access by clicking items in Cobalt Scar:

    – The zone for the Jar (found underwater) is called Absymal Aquaduct
    – The zone for the Cog is called Antechamber of the Automatron
    – The zone for the Anvil (found near tents) is called Furnace of Ages

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  • Dullwin

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    Thanks for the info Kinya.

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  • sando

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    i heard it need 460cc ? or is that for raid

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  • Jumpsmoker

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    Any magic based nuke for any class that can be effected by potency increase should use disruption modifiers.

    Any heal for any class should be effected by ministration.

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  • Vortix

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    Troubs finally get an ability using Ministration that gives skill ups. Too bad it’s on a skill with a long reuse; it’s going to take forever to cap.

    2 min recast * 495 skill pts = long time

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  • zijan

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    This takes 5hrs to update? Lulz, Didn’t they just do this week a downtime and an update now this?

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  • Selvaggio

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    Hmm what about swashies? I dont recall any abilities that use spell skills. But might be wrong since im a nub.

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  • Vortix

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    Priests, Crusaders, and Bards are the only ones that use spells.

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  • faB

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    Wanted to add eq2wire to my feedly but there is no RSS Feed. What other solutions do people use to follow this site?

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    • Feldon

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      Wanted to add eq2wire to my feedly but there is no RSS Feed. What other solutions do people use to follow this site?

      https://eq2wire.com/feed/

      I’ll see what I can do to make an RSS feed more visible.

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      • faB

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        Thanks! That one works.

        I’m guessing feedly (and other RSS apps) looks for the “application/rss+xml” tag in the HEAD of the document on the homepage.

        I tend to click through to read articles on the site with their custom looks but it’s really nice to be able to follow sites, especially on tablet apps these days RSS is completely transparent.

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        • Feldon

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          Added RSS and ATOM in the Head tag.

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  • Greygore

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    Mages cast the occasional spell too 😉

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  • Noctew

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    This doesn’t take five hours. The activation of the ProSieben acount system for new Euro customers probably does.

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  • Mermut

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    Ministration only reduces the power cost of beneficial spells. It doesn’t make heals, etc any ‘better’. So the only ‘benefit’ to having more arts use the skill is for skill ups.

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  • twisty

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    What exactly does Ordination do?

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    • Feldon

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      What exactly does Ordination do?

      Ordination is the skill used by all Spells that Protect, whether Self, Friend or Pet. This skill is of particular importance to Priests, Mages and Bards.
      “This is how well you use spells that augment your friends and weaken your enemies.” This skill reduces the full-resist chance of debuffs and affects the power cost of spells that use this skill.

      http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Ordination

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  • karith

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    group with a troubadour that is only running one song the song that increases ministration an ordination skill.then compare being grouped or having the song off and look at the power cost of menstration and/or nation skills you will notice that they cost less power the higher your ministration skill ordinations Skill.

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    • Elderon

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      menstration? Well, to be fair, my wife does tell me it costs her alot of power, but it’s not something she likes to cast.

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      • Babou

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        you’re bad Noodle !!!

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