Feldon From the EQ2 Forums:
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Siren’s Grotto: Alluring Embrace (both versions)
- Shyneera will no longer become unkillable.
Oakmyst Forest
- Using escape in Oakmyst now places the player at the Oakmyst Forest dock.
Steamfont
- Mort Gimblesquee, an ammunition merchant, has set up shop in Gnomeland Security in the Steamfont Mountains.
Eidolon Jungle
The following mobs should now drop their treasure loot again once they are defeated:
- Theethox
- Aklon the Ethersplicer
- The Abominable Shimmeroot
Plains of Obol
The following mobs should drop their treasure loot again:
- Tirunos the Soulmonger
- Glomer the Surveyor
- Leukos the Despoiler
MERCENARIES
- Mercenaries should no longer be as dominant in PVP.
ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT
General
- Click-to-cure should now work for trauma, noxious, and elemental for Mage spell Cure Magic.
- Fixed a bug where low level pet buffs such as Antagonize would apply at the level of the pet instead of the level of the spell.
- Pet Auto-Assist in Pet Options should now work properly.
Brigand
- Exacting Venom’s damage should properly stack when applied from multiple players.
- Blinding Dust’s base damage in PVP combat has been reduced by 33%.
Druid
- Rebirth no longer costs power. You should now be cast it if you die with very low power.
Sorcerer
- Manashield now decreases the lethality of the caster by 125 to 4375 based on the caster’s level.
ITEMS
- Items that cannot be experimented on will show NOT-EXPERIMENTABLE when you examine them. NOTE: This will not show on the tooltip, just on the examine.
- Fitzpitzle’s Ethereal Hover Platform can now be turned into a house item and back into a mount.
QUESTS
- Salton the Undying will now properly become attackable when approached.
- Breaking Bones – The Barrier of Bones should fall much easier now.
- When on A Salty Farewell,Osh(by the shore) will now speak to you if you are on the first part of Merrik’sMission.
- Find Pythus the Rogue – Elma Lowe at the Jade Tiger Den now advances the quest.
- On the quest On Edge, you will now properly receive quest credit even if an othmir defender strikes the killing blow on the assaulting ulthork.
UPDATE: These changes went in for Siren’s Grotto: Dissension but did not appear in the patch notes. This was posted by Kander:
- Caella’s Siren Controllers spawn every 54 secs instead of 48 secs
- Denerva’s adds check to see if player is dead before locking to them
- Gen’Ra now calls out who didn’t make it to the pool in time to remove Aquatic Portent.
- Persecutor Barid’s Knockback procs half as often
- Entrancer Lisha – Acidic Burns from the Enslaver Eel’s blood pools are now elemental so they won’t be confused with other Nox spells.
So much for a fix for the gifts of prexus.
Speaking of Osh I had to mention that during the quests when you go back to Fina’s Retreat to get the offerings to bring back to Osh in Cobalt Scar I popped in to see if Osh was still in his original position – and he was. Couldn’t some sort of script be used that knows when Osh is supposed to be in CS and stops you seeing him in Fina’s Retreat?
When will Tavalan in the Grotto be fixed? As it is now, you need a perfect group with raidgear and about 2 million dps to kill him in Normal Mode. The lesser bosses are also very hard. As a result almost no one plays the new dungeons. I don’t even want to know what kind of uber-raidgear one needs to do the HM version of this heroic dungeon with pretty crappy loot.
Maybe they couldn’t fix Gifts of Prexus… too complicated? I think they were having trouble reproducing the bugs, as well.
No time to fix quest bugs, must ninja nerf drop rates.
All the plat/SLR/raiders vs casuals OMG controversy makes for good theater, anyway. 😛
I actually have all of my red slot gear, I just feel sorry for the poor bastards who are only now hitting 95. What chance do they have for anything better than Stewards? “Real” raid loot now drops more often and goes for less in /auction than many of the samhain/primal items that used to drop far more often.
It doesn’t really affect me, but just another bit of evidence of Sony’s poor communication. They choose to remain silent on an obvious nerf because they think they can rise above the controversy. They should just come out and say what they did and why and let the chips fall where they may.
I agree. I don’t have any COE red slot gear, and the odds of me getting any are pretty much nil. I have a set of steward gear, but that’s going to be it for me (I can’t dedicate time to raid atm due to RL schedules). Since I am one of those who isn’t swimming in platinum, I have to budget my cash. Makes me pretty much not want to log in right now, especially with the broken quests.
I was waiting until today to even continue to the quest lines, given how they were bugged for many of my guildies, and the fact that I am stuck on the “kill only one baddie” quest atm.
I love this game, but it’s gotten very difficult to love it as much as I used to.
My sentiments exactly. I am trying to find reasons to actually log in after all the nerfage’s er bug fixes depends on who you ask.. lately
Since this update, i have been in 3 different groups in the Heroic version of Siren’s Grotto (Alluring Embrace) and have not been able to kill the first name Shyneera.
We get all of the little beams off and she comes out raging at us and then simply disappears mid fight… Cannot move on.
Anyone else experiencing this?