Feldon From the EQ2 Forums:
All US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on July 1st, 2014 at 7:00 AM Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately two hours. EU servers will come down beginning at 9:00 PM PT (6:00 AM CET July 2nd, 2014) for the same update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately two hours.
WEEKLY FEATURE
- The city status merchants now have many new items for sale, including special house guests, as well as many upgraded adventuring items.
- Consumables purchased from the status merchant are now stackable items.
- Status merchants no longer require players to have a particular guild level or be in a guild to purchase their wares.
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
The Fabled Deathtoll
- Basepop encounters will only drop treasure in Deathtoll once Yitzik the Hurler has been slain.
- Basepop encounters will now drop a random number of Shards of the Doomwing instead of a Dessicated Armor Crate.
- Fitzpitzle’s Discombobulate spell now has a slightly longer cast time.
- Some of Yitzik the Hurler’s abilities are now affected by Swipe.
- Stacks of the Absorption buff on the Amorphous Drake are now less deadly.
- Sundered morasses now become invulnerable as soon as their heal has been triggered.
- Sundered morasses and boss corpuscles no longer auto-attack players while still loading into the world.
Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw
- The Dreadscale’s Maw is now a 5 day lockout. Max duration remains the same.
HOUSE ACTORS
- Added several tradeskill animations, as well as salute animations.
- Moved the Actor’s Greeting Message to the “NPC Say” Channel.
- Added the ability to set the range House Actors will greet players and play their actions when that state is enabled.
TRADESKILLS
- Reduced the components required to craft recipes from Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume I, and Volume II.
ITEMS
- Foil of Necrosis can now be upgraded by the Eye of the Deathguard.
- Scouts are now able to wield the Blade of the Consumer that has been upgraded by the Eye of the Deathguard.
- Spiritbreaker and Spiritbreaker, Eianosheoll’s Folly may now gain a cerulean adornment slot via the Eye of the Deathguard.
- Superb Prismatic Adornment Dislodger available from Tysthak in the Cardin Ward and Mattrim Axios in Falinpol is now much less expensive and will remove all adornments.
- Superb Purple Adornment Dislodger has had its Etyma and plat cost reduced.
Tuesday, July 1st
Thanks for the update. BTW, it is Tuesday. 😉
Sorry, I just copy-pasted.
I still believe that the status prices for the majority of the items added, 37 million is way too high…I also have yet to find the hidden shinys (on Beta) after running around for 3 hours 0.o
I haven’t seen the items on the vendors yet as I didn’t hop on the test server to look, but I do hope in the future they put some additional items on the vendors for normal amounts of status and coin. Something that the average player would want and afford.
Being a decorator person, I would love love LOVE god plushies in a home. That would complete many people’s shrines. However, 37 million is such a mind-boggling amount to people who don’t raid or grind writs and HQs constantly. My only hope would be to do rush orders, which at top level give ~25k status. To obtain 37M status, I would need to do 1,480 rush orders.
I appreciate the gesture but most people really don’t have 37M status to drop unless they aren’t trying to keep a guild hall afloat.
*** If you have no idea where I got “god plushies” from, it’s on the In Testing & Test Server Updates forum.
Well, anyone else who thinks the prices are too high, join in on the SOE forums. I started a post in General Game play about the prices being too high, and all I’ve gotten so far is a bunch of elitist raiders saying they like the prices the way they are.
Awww c’mon. Just because someone wants things to cost enough to remain uncommon and chooses to disagree with you publicly doesn’t make then “elitist raiders”. It makes them opinionated, perhaps fascist and maybe even tactless (depending on approach), but not “elitist raiders”.
Perhaps they are simply gamers that enjoy the pursuit of the goal as much as achieving it, or maybe they lack the strong sense of entitlement so many display across the forums. Maybe they ARE elitists who raid, but they could just be trolling.
No those reasons does not make them ‘elitist raiders’ go and read the thread they are elitist raiders they just happen to be using those reasons.
Oh my stars and garters…that mount…300mil…that mount…
brb, running infinite writs 😯
Not infinite writs. Just 18,000.
Under 12k actually. Ran the numbers. Not gonna do it.
This will not be good for guilds who need SPs to support guild halls.
I only have 500k status at level 95. Apparently SOE does not want solo or casual players to own any of these items.
Yeah, apparently they want you to bust your ass to buy them.