Feldon From the EQ2 Forums:
GENERAL
- Level range chat channels have been retired; in their place, General, LFG, and High Level chat channels have been added. The High Level channel is available starting at level 80.
HEROIC CHARACTERS
- Heroic Characters that did not receive their heroic gear after logging in should receive it the next time they log in that character.
- Resolved an issue when trying to create a Heroic Character with a name that is invalid or already taken.
ITEMS
- [eq2u]Superior Metallic Hoop of the Void[/eq2u] should now trigger properly.
- The [eq2u]Superior Djinn Bracelet of the Sky[/eq2u] now has an additional 275 Ability Modifier, 26 Focus, Disruption and Subjugation and 2% Doublecast.
Gah! Now I have to rework all my chat channels again! Why can’t I just get one chat profile for all toons without micromanaging the files… 🙁
After this, you will. Instead of up to 10 channels depending on level, you’ll be able to use a single set for everyone. The only one that’ll vary is High Level, and if it’s there when you do a /load_uisettings for a toon that’s not high enough it’ll just be stripped out as the settings are loaded. If you did like I did and put your level chat channels above all the rest you won’t even need to renumber anything. I reserved 1-9 for custom and generic channels, level chat started from 10 for 1-9 and worked up so I didn’t have to renumber after a new tier was added.
Wish I had any faith in that, I have channels repeating in my listings all the time. It’s a mess. I may just go and hand-edit all the files to get it same on all.
Go to this folder:
C:\Users\Public\Sony Online Entertainment\Installed Games\EverQuest II
Then pick the file of the UISettings you want to fix (or do it on all of them):
Freeport_Mytoonsname_eq2_uisettings.xml
Then scroll down to the bottom where you see:
<ChatChannels joined=”true” version=”2″>
And copy/paste the following items to replace that list so the new channels get ordered in the number you want:
<Channel index=”1″ name=”General” />
<Channel index=”2″ name=”High_Level” />
<Channel index=”3″ name=”LFG” />
<Channel index=”4″ name=”Auction” />
<Channel index=”5″ name=”Crafting” />
<Channel index=”6″ name=”Traders” />
<Channel index=”7″ name=”Help” />
<Channel index=”8″ name=”Newbie” />
There are some other ones you might consider:
Good (alignment)
Erudite (racial)
Wizard (class)
Antonia_Bayle.Homeshow (cross-server decorator channel)
MyguildParse (guild parse channel to prevent raid spam)
I’ve done it before, it just keeps shifting and duplicating. I’ll just take 10-15 minutes tonight to straighten my army out. Again.
One thing: the channels appear in two places in the XML: under the ChatTab elements within the main chat window block, and under the ChatChannels element you’re quoting from. You need to fix both places or things get weird. Search for the element names and you should find them.
Strangely, my channels were automatically populated in ChatTab just by signing in. They also don’t seem to have any order to them. I believe this section is just to index specific channels on the chat window you want them assigned.
Great change with the chat channels, should have been done around DoF launch.
Looks like they remembered to remove us from 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, and 90-95.
If you need help adding/removing/managing chat channels, go here:
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/index.php?threads/how-to-fix-the-unable-to-enter-level_90-chat-bug.2062/
Could someone give me a link to the ToV itemization updates? Those two items are insanely powerful by CoE standards. 396 sta on the mythical item?!?
Wooot 🙂 Posting suggestions on the forum actually works 😯
In theory this means we should be able to hide general chat when it becomes spammy and still see the usual LFM.
Mayhaps the goal is to broadcast the groups created in the new Dungeon Finder “advanced” mode to this channel?
Very exciting news.
In practice the LFG channel is silent and everyone is LFG/Ming in General.
It took a while to get auctions moved to Auction.
Auctions is now LFG, General Chat and Auctions. General just lowers my IQ when I watch them talk…. Freeport is still the same
still no guild recruiting channel? o.0