Feldon Hopefully today’s update will finally and completely put the EQ2 Platocalypse to bed:
COST ADJUSTMENTS
- Drinal’s Steward has significantly reduced the Platinum price to purchase his wares.
- Superb Green Adornment Dislodgers have been reduced in cost to 25p.
- Superb Prismastic Adornment Dislodgers have been reduced in cost to 250p.
- Trichromatic Adornment Dislodgers are now created with common materials instead of rares.
- All reforging costs have been reduced by 33%.
- Might Elixirs no longer use dropped components and use common materials instead. Completing a combine now rewards 1/5th as many elixirs.
- Acerbic Elixirs no longer use dropped components and use common materials instead. Completing a combine now rewards 1/10th as many elixirs.
- The plat costs for purchasing and upkeeping a guild hall have been reduced.
- Mercenary hire and upkeep costs have been reduced.
- Guildhall Amenity plat costs have been reduced by 50%.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
General
- CoE heroic bosses now have a greater chance of dropping Greater Spirits and their essences.
Sirens Grotto: Dissension
- The urchins in the Genra fight are now dazed in both challenge and normal modes.
- The Arcane Disruptor adds in the Priestess Denerva fight do less damage per melee attack.
- The siren spell “Song of the Sea” should no longer stun and the power drain has been reduced.
Siren’s Grotto: Tavalan Abyss [Challenge Heroic]
- Overlord Talan’s Scorching Faith no longer has numerous ticks of damage.
Siren’s Grotto: Tavalan Abyss [Heroic]
- Overlord Talan’s cloned version of himself now has less hitpoints.
Dreadcutter
- The music in the zone should now be able to be controlled by volume sliders.
Plane of War Raid
- The power drains in the Commander and Eriak fights have been lessened.
MERCENARIES
- Vishra no longer requires you to own Age of Discovery in order to hire him as a quest mercenary for the quest “Tears in the Grotto”.
ITEMS
- Title reward, “the Renowned” is now spelled correctly.
- Drinal’s Steward now carries upgraded armor and weapons.
QUESTS
- Eyes of the Forest- Gathering Gather thistlebloom roots now updates for the entire group.
- Health of creatures in the “Tears in the Grotto” zone have been reduced.
AWESOME changes!!!!
As much as I am glad to see the game wide cost coefficient being lowered to match the new lowered income flow, I’m estatic about them fixing the hardcoded DC music finally.
I give it 3 months before they bother fixing the Everling “singing” in Drinal’s Basement that does the same “f’k your sound sliders” logic
Ms. Everling was annoying when she was in Nek Castle and she’s still annoying people now. Seems consistent with the lore …
Well at least they are trying to do something about the prices of things. First they put all this into game to take out the plat, then the go about fixing what was bring a lot of plat into the game, now they have to make adjustments.
I am glad they finally decided to do something about some of the cost of living.
Agree with the cost changes, except for:
This one just makes no sense at all. These prices were set long before people started abusing RoK zones for plat farming. Guild halls should be expensive to keep. They are, after all, effectively miniature cities.
I’m excited about the Elixirs… now if they could just do it for the food/drink.
Nice patch, allow everyone to see greater spirit/obol could be nice. Perhpas removing the heirloom from the key so it could be sold on broker… I still feel something is wrong in group when everyone do the same job but some are better rewarded.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know anything about the “upgraded” Steward’s gear? What exactly does that mean?
old steward gear + 2 greater spirit = armors and weapons 187 stats still no red slot so less good than solo zone.
Well thank god its an upgrade situation for alts with existing Steward’s gear. Can’t really complain too much about that.
Guild Hall price should be adjusted to the number of members guild has.
many people like to have GH’s for their alts with just 1 player basically paying the upkeep. More members = GH upkeep goes up! 🙂
Alts having GH’s is good cause it drains plat out of the game.
But I am more annoyed by the Status points upkeep than play, esp. for the flag that you can plant somewhere. 20 mill to buy, 1 mill. SP per week upkeep? WTF?
Give an inch demand a mile.
Nothing else needs to be done so everyone in Norrath can have their own guild hall and load it up with all amenities.
so 1 banyan root to make 20 elixers going to make the price of banyan roots to go way up 😛
and they called it common