March 18 Hotfix Notes

Your Hotfix notes for March 18th include tweaks to Tier 3 (raid armor).

NOTE: Make sure your EQ2 client patches before trying to log into EQ2. Due to an oversight, EQ2 servers are allowing out-of-date clients to login, resulting in bugs with the Broker, Group window, etc.

After the jump…

GENERAL

• Brawler Focus: Stances red adornments have been restored to their original values.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Fixed an issue that would cause some players to become stuck when returning home from a battlegrounds match.
• It should no longer be possible to cause your character to become stuck by spam-clicking the cloud mounts in Smuggler’s Den.

ITEMS

• Many of the Tier 3 Raid Boss Armor drops have been improved to be more in line with the challenge.
• Tier 3 Priest sets had some spell reuse added and some casting haste removed.
• Chainmail of Worshipped Will should now have the proper critical mitigation.
• Chainmail of Worshipped Will should now have a red raid adornment slot.
• Greaves of Recollected Vengeance have had their critical bonus returned to their original value of 12.6.
• A few more high-end accessories and armor pieces have been found that did not accept new tradeskill adornments. These have been fixed.
• Frothy Tankard can no longer be transmuted.
• The Soot Covered Illusionary Robe should no longer share appearances with the Academy Junior Apprentice Robes.

PVP

• Warden Root spells should now follow the 8 second duration rule in PVP.

QUESTS

• “Premonitions of Doom” should now update correctly when you consume the mutagenic potion.
• Eva will now correctly update “The Footsteps of Dartain: Ascension” for followers of Tunare.
• An Organic Matter of Fact – The blur effect observed when using the Glomalin Divining Rod has been reduced.
• An Organic Matter of Fact – Certain glomalin deposits that were appearing underground should now be accessible.

SPELLS

• Blaze of Ro should now increase the overtime portion of the spell with each update.

TRADESKILLS

• “Essence of Peel” and “Essence of Peel II” recipes are now correctly named in Alchemists’ recipe books.

GREATER FAYDARK

• Several gathering quests in Greater Faydark have been repaired.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Improved the drop tables for 1- and 2-rune Roehn Theer kills
• The Roehn Theer add Approaching Equilibrium changed:
  • Spawns with a more consistent timer
  • Now only immune to mez
  • Have fewer HP

and an undocumented change…

Yellow Adornments are now level 80 instead of 84.