Feldon
After posting a promising thread on Friday entitled “Upcoming Itemization Changes (No Nerfs)“, it seems SmokeJumper has gotten egg on his face today. Players logged in after today’s Tuesday Game Update to find sweeping nerfs and huge reductions in the effectiveness of Velious gear across the line, especially Fighter items. In a cantankerous discussion on the EQ2 forums, players linked numerous items which underwent substantial losses in stats and desirability. SmokeJumper initially tried to defend the changes with: Please go back and take a look at my original post. I did say that we were being “intentionally conservative” with...
Day: March 29, 2011
If you are a level 80+ Master Crafter who has completed the Tradeskill Epic, this post by Domino may interest you: Epic crafters, you might want to visit the tradeskill society in your home town while Bristlebane Day is with us. The grand jester has been having some fun with red collectibles for the season… Players immediately noticed that every red shiny was dropping just one item. It seems there’s something else you have to do to get the others.
From SmokeJumper the EQ2 Forums: These itemization changes did *not* happen today, on Tuesday. Instead, they will happen on Thursday morning’s hotfix. Sorry for the delay. Soon!
All U.S. servers will come down for an update at 7am PDT on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The U.K. worlds will have their update at 5am London Time on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full reformatted patch notes are available after the jump….