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It seems that U.S. EQ2 servers are back up after today’s Game Update 56 patch. Once the thread is unlocked, you can post your feedback about GU56: Halas Reborn on the EQ2 Forums. How do I get to New Halas? New Characters: Create a new character in New Halas from the Character Select screen. Existing Characters: To travel to New Halas, take a Gryffon from the Butcherblock Mountains docks. How do I get the new Kitten? Log into EQ2 between May 25th and May 28th, 2010 and type /marketplace to open the Marketplace. The kitten is a free item...
Day: May 25, 2010
The EQ2 Servers are now receiving the Game Update 56 patch. Servers are expected to come back up at 9am PDT. While the servers are down, you can chat with us online! We will be in the EQ2 ZAM chatroom. For instructions on how to connect to the chat using mIRC, Trillian, or other chat client, check out the fantastic instructions at EQ2 ZAM. If you are not able to run chat software at work, or you just want to jump into the chat through your web browser, you can chat here. See you in the chatroom!
It was only a matter of time. Ballads has reported in from EQ2Flames that the Reinforced Slippers of Balance ( \aITEM -1095264150 2115375301:Reinforced Slippers of Balance\/a ) have been nerfed with Game Update 56. Despite being level 70 items, these were the best foot items in the game for tanking certain encounters due to the possible number of stoneskins this item could generate. We had already heard from developers that this item would not be replaced and that the effect would not be copied to other items. Indeed, a nerf was anticipated by players in fall 2009. Current Description:...
Over two years after the introduction of Mythical weapons, Furies and Mystics logging after today’s Game Update 56 will notice a change in their mythical weapons which has neither been documented in any Update Notes, nor commented on publicly by any EQ2 developer. Previously, the Mystic and Fury mythical weapons have added 10% of the character’s Wisdom to the character’s Potency. With today’s stealth change, furies and mystics will instead receive Ability Mod from their mythical weapon. The result of this change, as per several players who have experienced the changes on Test and have thoroughly documented the results...
The Sentinel’s Fate expansion (and its associated Game Update 55) opened the door to each character becoming a master of Tinkering, Transmuting, and Adorning. At least on Butcherblock, this change promptly doubled the price of all transmutable materials on the open market. Treasured weapons and armor, as well as Adept spells are now trading at record prices. As a result, tradeskill societies of all major cities have received a visitor named Londiar Inygad who is interested in offering Adorning work to players. These are daily quests, appropriate to your Adorning level which allow you to make 10 adornments per...
After the jump, we’ve got the complete Game Update 56 Notes for May 25, 2010:
From Kiara: As you know, our game update Halas Reborn, goes live May 25, 2010. This will happen at the usual time of 7am PDT for the US servers and 9pm PDT (4am on 26 May GMT) on European servers. The update notes are available here and the feedback thread will be unlocked for feedback once the update has been completed on the US servers.
EverQuest 2 does not natively support Anti-aliasing, however determined players have managed to enable it by adding “r_aa_blit” to their EQ2 INI file. Unfortunately, players will have to wait a bit longer if they want to experience Shaders 3.0 and Anti-aliasing at the same time. Players attempting to use both will see zones which are entirely blacked out. From Imago-Quem: I just submitted a fix for this. Hopefully it passes QA and can get out to you in a hotfix here soon and you can run AA with Shader 3. And as for the prospect of using CPU Shadows...