Miragul’s Planar Shard Upgrades

Much has been made of the difficulty, and more importantly the limited desirability of the loot that drops in the new raid zone — Miragul’s Planar Shard — which arrived in Game Update 53. Players capable of killing these mobs already have access to far superior gear, and indeed some of these items were not as good as Ward of Elements or even group instance drops.

Significant changes are expected to both the difficulty of the zone and the quality of the loot in tomorrow’s Hotfix. Gninja advises us that further changes to the difficulty of the zone should be expected in the near future:

Just an update for you folks.

The difficulty of this zone is getting toned down slgihtly. More specifically the level of the mobs and the crit chance of the mobs as well as some small tweaks to the AE effects that some of the bosses cast to make it a bit less painful. As you guys noticed with some of the changes above the items were also closely looked at and adjusted to fit the intended difficulty of the zone and taking into consideration the quality of items from similar zone with same difficulty.

You should see these changes do live as soon as we can get them in.

EQ2Wire has logged into Test and done side-by-side comparisons of the loot as it exists on live and what we can expect in Thursday’s Hotfix:

Fighter/Scout
Offensive Instinct Earring \aITEM -388580771 -638695899:[Offensive Instinct Earring]\/a	Crystalline Blade of the Tracker \aITEM -316628234 -923770519:Crystalline Blade of the Tracker\/a	Drape of Ice Knives \aITEM -1560491499 1713236965:[Drape of Ice Knives]\/a
Temporal Bludgeon \aITEM 1014861936 -1849987806:Temporal Bludgeon\/a	Thought Frosted Rhombus \aITEM 1420730539 582560697:[Thought Frosted Rhombus]\/a	Swift Frostlink Boots \aITEM 948554117 804576793:[Swift Frostlink Boots]\/a
Swift Frostlink Coif \aITEM 1280635002 -2030227484:[Swift Frostlink Coif]\/a	Rohop, the Ice Cleaver \aITEM 643973595 1990042517:Rohop, the Icecleaver\/a	Band of Jagged Ice \aITEM 1605011023 1764687837:Band of Jagged Ice\/a

Crusader/Cleric
Superego Sabatons \aITEM 525125006 -1215697349:[Superego Sabatons]\/a	Ego-imbued Coif \aITEM 180032609 1595324054:[Ego-imbued Coif]\/a	Ego-imbued Treads \aITEM 1738261032 79569467:Ego-imbued Treads\/a
Id-infused Cap \aITEM 428078571 -1324929700:Id-infused Cap\/a	–	–

Mage
Sash of Creeping Cognition \aITEM -241257653 460997427:Sash of Creeping Cognition\/a	Dodecahedron of Mispronunciation \aITEM -1690781327 -1801892191:[Dodecahedron of Mispronunciation]\/a	Glaceus, the Ice Comet \aITEM 1124854224 -263555851:Glaceus, the Ice Comet\/a
Glacial Sleet Cherub’s Drape \aITEM -1950366370 -344374835:Glacial Sleet Cherub’s Drape\/a	Black Mindweave Hood \aITEM 1861451831 -1537581143:[Black Mindweave Hood]\/a	Black Mindweave Slippers \aITEM -1150004573 1682610743:[Black Mindweave Slippers]\/a
Mobius Band of the Mind \aITEM -1347628754 1584699148:[Mobius Band of the Mind]\/a	Dangle of Twisted Thoughts \aITEM -1308454009 1556516884:[Dangle of Twisted Thoughts]\/a	–

Priest
Nebulous Loop \aITEM 1222148207 2119916759:[Nebulous Loop]\/a	Hypothermia \aITEM 455426760 -1457104545 -1862364414:Hypothermia\/a	Octagonal Ice Sculpture \aITEM -2059655992 446295863:[Octagonal Ice Sculpture]\/a
Hoop of Hope \aITEM 273246243 890145727:Hoop of Hope\/a	Frozen Font of Life \aITEM 864297868 1608526987:Frozen Font of Life\/a	–