Feldon Some breaking news for you!
As we’ve reported, in Game Update 53, almost all LEGENDARY and FABLED instance dungeon/raid loot except patterns will be picking up the new LORE-EQUIP flag which, along with the HEIRLOOM and ATTUNEABLE flags will allow instance Fabled and Legendary loot items to be looted and transferred to alt characters on the same account. timetravelling clarifies:
-We do not currently have plans to change the looting options (by adding an Alt Need option between Need and Greed). However, it is something to monitor and we’ll keep an eye on it.
-This change is intended to grab nearly all instance, overland, and contested loots. But not items you can only ever get once such as epics, quest rewards, armor gained from patterns, LoN rewards, Station Cash items, etc.
We would greatly appreciate any feedback y’all have of items that may have been missed or flagged and shouldn’t have been! If you hadn’t noticed, EQ2 has, um, kind of a lot of items and we’d like to be as thorough as possible! =)
I know I’m very excited about this, as are many others. It will streamline what is currently a very tedious logout/login/zone out/zone in/loot process we curerntly do to give loot to alts. However there have been two limitations worth discussing:
Many folks have more than one account. Whether this is husband-and-wife paired accounts, dual- or multi-boxing, or simply because 7 or 12 character slots is just not enough, this is something that has grown increasingly popular. However there is currently no means to transfer any items between accounts. Folks with shared accounts wouldn’t benefit from this new LORE-EQUIP flag.
Second, there is a small and growing market for StationCash and Legends of Norrath items. However these items have always been flagged NO TRADE. In the past, requests to make these items tradeable have not gotten an affirmative from the team.
timetravelling has posted some great news on the EQ2 Forums. Keep in mind that this is future planning and we should not expect any of this in Game Update 53:
Y’all have given some great feedback, and brought up two of the main issues internally and wanted to give you updates:
Linking accounts: I spoke with several of our coders and while there are limitations that prevent us from implementing it immediately, they thought it sounded feasible. We will keep it in mind and hopefully add it at some point in the future. No timetable promises, but hopefully we’ll be able to get the feature in for those of you with multiple accounts. It may even open up the possibility of some other features as a cool side effect!
LoN and SC items: Ye hast swayed us! Or…in less broken english, I am going to be going through our LoN and StationCash items and–where appropriate–adding the Heirloom flag.
A couple of examples of “where appropriate”:
- Items that have charges–such as the potions
- Items that must be equipped–such as appearance armor
- NOT items that can be used from your inventory–such as mounts
As always, stay tuned for more information about these late-breaking developments. 🙂
I was on the forums asking for some kind of account linking feature, so I’m pretty excited that they are at least considering the feasibility. I would even pay extra for that feature. But now I’m wondering what kind of “other features as a cool side effect” they thought up while thinking over the possibility of implementing this feature. 🙂
Making items heirlooms to avoid the senseless games that have to be played to get them to another alt is a big plus. I’d love to see the crafted void shard items also made heirloom. Having to get the recipe books on each toon to make your own armor is painful and time consuming. After all the time and effort spent to get the recipes it would be really nice to be able to make the items for your alts.