Dethdlr Here are your updates for May 10, 2012. The quest All You Need is Time in Withered Lands should now be fixed as well as the ratio of Tier 10 precious metal rares.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Withered Lands
- Hexapola: players outside the raid should no longer cause the raid to reset if they agro raid insects.
Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode
- Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse.
- Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or more of them present in the zone.
Skyshrine: the Underdepths
- Sevalor’s Deathless now has a 35 second duration, rather than permanent.
Skyshrine: The City of Dracur
- The Dracurion mender will now buy your unwanted wares.
Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened
- Arreken’s Skystorm should only affect the player who does not cure it.
Shadow Odyssey
- Shard chests should award only a void shard when opened by players above level 90.
ABILTIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
Shadowknight
- Death Cloud should no longer heal the targets while Death and Destruction is active.
TRADESKILLS
- The rare harvest discrepancy for t10 precious metal nodes has been corrected.
ITEMS
- Scout boots focus effect now properly applies to swashbucklers.
- Restorative Counter II, III, and IV should now trigger heals on the target of the proc instead of the caster.
- Pantaloons of Runed Silk should now correctly have their set bonus applied to them so they match the rest of the set.
- Cleric Forearms now have the correct focus effect.
QUESTS
Withered Lands
- The book “A Romp Through the Withered Lands” should now be available on the Shady Swashbuckler if you have completed the quest “Techgnical Difficulties”
- The quest “All You Need is Time” should correctly update.
- The quest “Removing the Corruption” should now update the group when you remove the corruption from Kerr.
Dracur Prime
- While on the quest Gate Uncalling, it is no longer possible for the golem to shut down until all 3 portals have been closed.
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I don’t like being a grammar nazi, but why would you only make these changes for challenge mode? Why wouldn’t you also fix these announcements on EM?
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uhhh…. don’t they mean level 80?
Raenarys,
No. TSO dungeons are wired up with loot for level 81-90.
Scout boots focus effect now properly applies to swashbucklers.
Took them long enough.
Uh…oK, what was happening at 91-92? was it not giving shard or equivalent?
It was giving nothing. Empty chest. Remember scaling TSO zones give different rewards based on your level or no reward if you “grey out” the zone.
Meanwhile on the test server: players may now set the preferred autoattack mode with /setautoattackmode
Remarkably, it seems to be working on all three of my toons.
They have completely messed up the game that i love. Me and my wife have played EQ2 for over 6 years and I am sad that it is ending. It is pretty unbelievable that they raised the level cap two levels, made DoV part 1 obsolete and left so little content for end game. Unbelievable!
@ reignshield
Is this a whine-bot or a real person. Cross posting irrelevant gripes is something I’m surprised Feldon didn’t go delete happy on.
more on topic, if the auto attack preferred mode thing works for rangers AND the wands, I’d be very pleased.
nothing much more than patch and soe announcements lately with some fairly outdated adorn finder data; is this a sign that you guys are enjoying PLAYING more these days?
It’s a sign I’m traveling Europe rather than responding to faff. 🙂
I still firmly believe that skyshrine is nice content but not enough to be the “only” level 90+ content til December. It would have made a great companion to DoV. Also the raid content is dead easy.
Also the raid content is dead easy.
I’ll take it. DoV1 was way too script- and event-heavy, and the round robin Charlie Foxtrot that was progression showed it. I’m enjoying all things Skyshrine far, far more. That goes for the instances too, which backed away from the ‘x1 raid’ mentality that reigned previously.
Dov1 should have been dialed down and tuned over time. Instead the mobs stood unkillably broken for months. Then Skyshrine is killed by the top 25 guilds inside 3 weeks.
It’s wild swings instead of smartly balanced content that is adjusted over time to match player progression and expectations. It’s total overreactions 3-6 months after players have already moved on. The EQ2 team needs to be agile and adaptive.