March 11 Hotfix Notes, Guard Level Adjustments

EQ2 servers will come down for a Hotfix on Thursday, March 11th, 2010. This hotfix takes place at 6am PST for U.S. servers and 5am GMT on March 12th for Runnyeye and Splitpaw.

After the Hotfix notes, you’ll find some good news about the Guard levels in Qeynos, Freeport, and Kelethin.

Thursday, March 11 2010 HotFix Notes:

GENERAL

• Wild Swings will now persist through death.
• The switches that open and close doors and barriers on the Vigilant: Final Destruction should now function on PvP servers.
• Killing several Dreadnaught guards in South Freeport will now cause them to learn some respect. The same applies to Thexians in North Freeport.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Effects that can only be obtained on PVP Servers will no longer work in Battlegrounds.

ITEMS

• All raid dropped armor now has red adornment slots.
• Critical Mitigation on many raid dropped armor pieces have been changed to be more in line with TSO numbers.
• Many of the high tier armor sets have been renamed to reduce confusion.
• Brellium resist jewelry items have been improved.
• All raid dropped jewelry now has resists.
• Many raid drop weapons and jewelry items have had additional effects added.
• Some of Waansu’s items have had class restrictions added.

QUESTS

• The quest “Swiping Scrolls” can once again be successfully completed.
• The quest “Shroom Prune” now updates off of killing Coercer Pittles and Shroombis the Coerced.

PERAH’CELSIS ABONIMABLE LABORATORY

• Waansu should no longer appear inside a test tube if he has spawned as an encounter.

Windslasher has also advised players on the EQ2 Forums:

The guards in Kelethin are being downleveled in the next content hotfix, which will probably be Tuesday. The Royal Guards are staying at level 95 but everything else is going back to its previous level.

In the event that the guard was left at max level, I made sure to move them out of the way of quest updaters, so you should be OK after that update. I’ll double check this guard to make sure.The guards in Kelethin are being downleveled in the next content hotfix, which will probably be Tuesday. The Royal Guards are staying at level 95 but everything else is going back to its previous level.

In the event that the guard was left at max level, I made sure to move them out of the way of quest updaters, so you should be OK after that update. I’ll double check this guard to make sure.

Patrolling guards will still be level 95, so you’ll need to stay on your toes, but the vast majority of stationary guards are returning to their previous levels.

I double-checked the one that’s guarding Princess Saphronia. Royal Guard Koruja will be moved into the building, in a relatively out-of-the-way spot so you can sneak past her and update your Raincaller heritage quest [The Casualties of the War of the Fay]. But she’s still level 95 because royal guards ought to be uber. Tread lightly…

We are expecting the remainder of the Itemization changes announced yesterday, including the addition of Yellow adornments to certain Legendary gear in this Tuesday hotfix.