EQ2 Gets XL Thursday Afternoon Update

From EQ2’s Twitter:

The US Servers will come down on Thursday, December 6, 2012, at 4:00 pm Pacific* for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. [Dexella]

— EverQuest II (@everquestii) December 6, 2012

Time Zone Conversions

• PST: December 6 @ 4-5:00pm
• EST: December 6 @ 7-8:00pm
• GMT: December 7 @ 0:00-01:00
• CET: December 7 @ 01:00-02:00

Full Update Notes after the jump…

Update Notes for Thursday, December 6, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

• Clicking “Loot All” from a chest containing three reward granting items, such as the Crate of Etheral Goodies, will now reward properly.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• The achievements for defeating the Ancient Sentinel in Sleeper’s Tomb: Unearthed should now be properly awarding to players.

DUNGEON MAKER

• You must now be adventure level 20+ to enter a Dungeon Maker Dungeon.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Chains of Eternity

• Wurmbone’s End Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.
• Wurmbone Crag Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.
• Dreadcutter Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.
• Temple of the Faceless Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.. The quest zone remains unchanged.
• Throne of Fear Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.
• Chelsith: The Ancient Vault Solo and Heroic zones have had their quest requirements for entrance removed.

Obol Plains

• A new house object can be purchased from the Steward in Obol Plains if you have completed the Signature questline that can be placed in a house or guildhall for use in transportation to various areas in Ethernere.
• A heirloom key can be purchased from the Steward in Obol Plains which will unlock access to Harrow’s End and allow for the gathering of Spirits and Obols.

Throne of Fear

• Adds during the Planar Manifestation fight should no longer drop loot or give exp.
• A portal should spawn that can take players back to the entrance of the dungeon once the boss has been defeated.

Temple of the Faceless

• Venekor (solo) has increased slightly in difficulty
• A portal should spawn that can take players back to the entrance of the dungeon once the boss has been defeated.

Wurmbone Crag

• A portal should spawn that can take players back to the entrance of the dungeon once the boss has been defeated.

Wurmbone’s End

• A portal should spawn that can take players back to the entrance of the dungeon once the boss has been defeated.

Chelsith: Ancient Vault

• A portal should spawn that allows players to leave the dungeon once the boss has been defeated.

Harrow’s End [Raid]

• Fitzpitzle should no longer have a chance of disappearing completely when he tries to run away from the group.
• Bastion should now drain his pillars of energy slightly faster
• Once Bastion has been triggered into Challenge Mode on subsequent attempts players will have the option of switching him to challenge mode once he is between 40 and 50% health. They will not have to wait until the pillars have all completely drained.
• Bastion should now properly reset once he has defeated players in challenge mode.
• Drinal will no longer activate his life until he is brought to 50% health.
• Drinal should no longer attempt to fight you while the lift is moving.
• Drinal will now cast lesser version of his curse “Power Over Death” in 1 or 2 soulwell versions.
• Oligar will now reattempt to fortify his defenses if either the white or blue golems are defeated.
• Drinal will now drop his trophy in all versions of the encounter.

Harrow’s End [Heroic]

• Fitzpitzle should no longer keep the group locked in combat after that encounter has been defeated.
• Fitzpitzle should no longer have a chance of disappearing completely when he tries to run away from the group.
• Drinal will no longer activate his life until he is brought to 50% health.
• Drinal should no longer attempt to fight you while the lift is moving.
• Gehein adds spawned during the Drinal encounter will now despawn when Drinal is defeated.

Altar of Abhorrence

• The Enraged Imp should now call out those that fail to react to his script.
• The Enraged Imp should no longer spam the raid with messages.
• The Enraged Imp should now echo all his scripted messages to main chat and to the appropriate targets.
• The spell “Spinning Fury” should no longer hit players who are trapped in Fear-Touched Grasping Vines.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

• All prestige abilities that grant castable abilities should now have distinct icons.
• All prestige abilities that enhance a profession or AA ability should share the base abilities icon.
• All prestige abilities that enhance another ability should share their parent abilities backdrop color.

All prestige abilities that proc or grant persistent effects should have the appropriate backdrop on the effect:

• Yellow for self buff
• Orange for targeted buff
• Purple for group buff
• Red for single target detrimental
• Green for encounter detrimental
• Blue for area detrimental

TRADESKILLS

• The Gathering Goblin is once again a toggled ability.
• Blessed and Imbued procs have been added to appropriate woodworker weapons from level 93+ recipes.
• Lore-Equip flags have been removed from tradeskilled weapons from level 93+ recipes.
• Tinkered items now have level requirements suitable for their power.

ITEMS

• Items that drop with adornments in Leader Only looting will now show what adornment they contain.
• Primal Velium Blocker now has block chance added to it.
• Buckler of Borrowed Time now has block chance added to it.

QUESTS

• Taming of the Tuatara: Gathering glisten frill roots will now update for everyone in the group.
• Constructing Cardin Wardens: Gathering arcane geodes now updates the entire group.
• Out of the Fire: Gathering twilight fern seed pods now updates the entire group.
• Arcane Repercussions Unknown: Gathering teleportation soil samples now updates everyone in the group.
• Desired Siphon Components: Gathering shambler seedlings now updates the entire group.
• Gehein Some, Lose Some: Gathering Amhenti’s teleportation spire notations now updates the entire group.
• Tourbillion Interruption: Destroying the tourbillion augmentations will now properly update everyone in the group.
• Connecting Ether Threads: Using the Ethereal Mender to bind broken ethereal threads now updates everyone in the group.
• Convenient Conversion: Returning to Venox Tarkog after cleaning the tattered robe and collecting enough silver spider silks will now result in the entire group receiving a Convert of the Silver Reaper Robe.