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For the third time in two days, the EQ2 servers are going down, this time for an emergency fix of some sort. It’s been called a hotfix, but we all know that a hotfix means no interruption of service. This is a cold fix. Here are the update notes for this afternoon (4pm PDT) fix which include an exploit fix: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Prismatic Touch should now trigger off heals as well if not protected by a fully leveled Tear of Veeshan green adornment. Prismatic Touch now properly persists through deaths. Cer’matal the...
Day: May 14, 2014
For the last eight hours or so, players on EU servers including Storms, Valor, and Splitpaw, have been unable to login to EQ2 as they receive this message: Login Rejected:The Clients version does not match the Servers. please rerun the patcher. The issue seems to have been caused by the game Launchpad receiving updated files (via a Manifest file) hours before the Server has been patched. This Manifest file is supposed to be updated only after the game server is ready for the updated client. This has nothing to do with ProSieben and originates with Ops/Platform at SOE HQ. We...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: The Dreadscale’s Maw Zoning a raid force into the zone should no longer put players into their own separate instances. Izshrah’Khar: Stratum of the Protectors Shazzak now only spawns five Fragments per phase in order to address an issue that was causing certain characters to crash to character select. The Fragments’ damage has been increased to compensate for fewer Fragments. ITEMS Experience gain on the Tear of Veeshan Spiritstones [ed. note — green adornments] has been tripled.