March 29, 2011 Update Notes

Written by Feldon on . Posted in Game Updates & Maintenance, Grouping, Itemization, Live Events

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….

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATIONTower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Forgotten Pools

  • Creatures found within the zone should no longer critically hit players quite as hard.

Kael Drakkel (Heroic Instances)

  • Critical Mitigation requirements have come down by 10%. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.
  • Hit points have been slightly reduced on overall population. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.

LIVE EVENTS

EQ Anniversary Event

  • The Prodigious Glowing Black Stone now has a required equip level of 40.
  • Chronoportal jewelry items are now Lore-Equip instead of Lore.
  • The “Remnants of the Feerrott” painting from the chronoportal merchant was using an incorrect appearance, and has now been corrected.

QUESTS

Public Quests

  • Improved server performance during public quests.

Kael Drakkel

  • The Throne Room teleporter should now stay activated after completing stage 1, part 1 of the quest, “Triumph in the Temple”.
  • For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, the part of the quest where you click to turn on the teleporter should now update the quest for all members in the group.
  • For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, if the player lagged out or zoned out before getting the quest update by witnessing all orc slaves escape through the portal, he or she can return to click on the teleporter again to re-initiate the event.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

  • Fixing the mirror for the “Mirror, Mirror” quest now updates for the entire group.

ITEMS

  • Contested Kael Drakkel quest rewards have been rebalanced.
  • Added double attack to a variety of fighter items. Overall, fighters should see an increase in the total double attack they can get from full sets of DoV items.
  • Scout/Fighter weapon damage rating has been increased for TOFS x2 and above.
  • Fixed an issue with two TOFS x2 fighter rings giving too much double attack.
  • Fixed the riposte values on raid tank breastplates.
  • Rebalanced mage raid gloves to be more appealing.
  • Added crit bonus and potency to tank gloves.

These notes do not include changes we’ve been hearing about from Windslasher and SmokeJumper, so time will tell. Those changes include: Reduction in overall zone populations in the Velious dungeons. Reworking of the entire fight in Storm Gorge with mobs grouped into larger encounters to reduce server lag.

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Comments (6)

  • Crash

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    “Rebalanced mage raid gloves to be more appealing.”

    Does this mean focus fusion is out?! on the wizard gloves and something of actual value is in? If so what? please don’t make me wait til I can log into night.

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  • Crash

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    Anyone got an update for me on the wizard gloves?

    Pretty, please. Am I a little too anxious?

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  • Eschia

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    I think for the anniversary event it would be cool if they would hide an Easter Egg. Sorta like give us an updated version of a legendary heritage item that is in both EQ and EQ2. Sorta like take the journeyman’s boots in with you, find a quest to make them speedier and level 90. or some other item that was in both games. That way if you participate, you get a rare item nobody else will ever get. 🙂

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  • Eschia

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    @previous poster
    WOW. I’m glad I’m still in my TSO raid gear for the time being. My raid force is still trying to take out the last expansions hard mode encounters so we aren’t doing DoV yet. Personally I’d rather wait on it anyway until it’s polished.

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  • Eschia

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    TSF i mean not TSO. lol i would be gimp if i was still in that stuff

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