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One thing that made it into yesterday’s Update was a change to how loot drops in the Chains of Eternity Advanced Solo zones. Previously, after killing flattening laying to rest the boss of each zone, 1-3 Mystery Crates would be granted to the player, containing either Legendary jewelry, Fabled armor (very rare), or consumables like Research Reducers, temporary Adornments, or Food. Because the items were in a Mystery Crate, the items could not be traded to other players, even if you had done the zone with 2 players (rather than 1 player and a mercenary). Players reported a very...
Game Updates & Maintenance
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now put a true/false parameter on the /hide_illusions command to force hide or force show instead of toggeling the hide illusions option. If you don’t use a parameter it will just toggle as before. The /hide command will once again default to /hide_illusions instead of /hide_guild_achievements. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Wurmbone’s End: Nox Incessit Prime Temple-Blocker Grudk now gives more time to kill his spider adds. Adds have less health. Wasp and bug encounters have been lowered in number to help reduce lag issues. ITEMS The experience required to increase the level...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We are scheduling a second maintenance for our Russian Harla Dar and Barren Sky servers tomorrow at 5pm PST to improve performance. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) February 28, 2013
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Sleeper’s Tomb: The Forgotten Catacombs The Eternal Sentinel now only needs to trample the smaller gargoyles once each to knock them over. Wurmbone Gulch (Crag) [Heroic] – Merglok the Slasher gives you more time to move away. He will give a message every time he is going to go into “Clawed Storm”. Clawed Storm has had its damage reduced. [Advanced Solo] – Merglok the Slasher will give a message every time he is going to go into “Clawed Storm”. He claws slower now and Clawed Storm has had its damage reduced.
Some of the big features of this week’s Game Update 65.5 were a number of class tweaks in PvP combat, the expansion of PvP’s Blue Adornments to other items (cloaks, charms, etc.), and the addition of PvP Set Bonuses on certain items. While the first two have been well-received, it seems that the new PvP Set Bonuses were bugged on Test and Beta and are now bugged on Live such that they are not effective at all. But perhaps the bigger issue is, some of the PvP Set Bonuses grant stats which even the most poorly-geared player has already...
The Advanced Solo zones in Chains of Eternity drop some amazing loot, including a full set of jewelry upgrades as well as (somewhat controversially), the basic raid gear that drops in Chains of Eternity raid zones. This has been nice for players who are either tackling them with a mercenary or a second player. However due to the way the loot in these Advanced Solo zones drop (in one or three mystery crates), most players end up with an item they cannot use. Worse, the items cannot be traded with group members. And more maddening still, the loot table...
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Fixed an issue with the adornments Prime Fortified Soul Trap, Nexus of the Bastion and Nexus of Flame. Unfortunately, this fix is not retroactive to those already missing their adornments. Please submit a customer service ticket for reimbursement of any lost adornments.
From the EQ2 Forums: NEW RAID ZONES New x2 raid zone Wurmbone’s End: Nox Incessit (with normal and challenge versions). Entrance located in Jarsath Wastes. New x4 raid zone The Dreadcutter: The Pirate Kings. Entrance located in Obol Plains on the dock. NEW BAG SORTING, SWAPPING AND DUMPING FEATURES Bag Sorting: Open up the Bag Options window from the button on each bag to access the filters that you’d like to set for a respective inventory bag. After setting your options, hit the “Sort” button on your Character window. This will send a command up to the server with...
Within the same time window as tomorrow’s content update, there will be a maintenance window as well. From the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific on February 26, 2013. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 2 hours. This will impact the following services: Account management will be unavailable. Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable. Login for all SOE forums may be affected, you may lose permissions and experience occasional disconnects. Players who are already logged in may be disconnected and unable to log back in....
From the EQ2 Forums: The update on February 26th was discussed in Podcast #143, as well as in articles about the PvP Updates and Bag Sorting Abilities. Now, it’s time to take a look at two more major features that round out the update: new raid content and guild achievements! X2 and X4 Raids
image courtesy Suzita Star Shadow Are your bags out of control? Do you spend hours each week just sorting your inventory? Next week, we’ll be getting some tools which will greatly facilitate this drudgery. From EverQuest2.com: Colette “Dexella” Murphy talks with Kenneth “Terrogaunt” Roecks about the new inventory abilities that will be launched with the update! Colette “Dexella” Murphy: Players have already heard a little bit about bag sorting during the Podcast, but let’s recap. How does the new bag sorting feature work? Kenneth “Terrogaunt” Roecks: The sorting process is essentially grabbing all of the items from your inventory and...
On February 21st, SOE Podcast #143 was posted and it includes a brief interview between Colette “Dexella” Murphy, EQ2’s Community Manager, and Kyle “Kander” Vallee, EQ2 Lead Designer, Brian “Omougi” Ferguson, EQ2 Systems Design, and Kenneth “Terrogaunt” Roecks, EQ2 Programmer. After the jump, we provide a transcript of the EQ2 part of the Podcast including: Wurmbone Crag: Nox Incessit [x2 Normal and Challenge Raids] Dreadcutter: The Pirate Kings [x4 Challenge Raid] Bag Sorting — one-click sort bags by Level or Name into 14 categories PvP Balance — continued tweaks PvP Blue Adornments — new slots PvP Guardian — buffed! confirmation...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The Legends o Norrath store should be functioning properly again. Fixed an issue where false duplicates of items could appear in the claim window. ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow’s End [Raid] Fixed a zone crash that could happen when a raid force wiped to Drinal.
Although we’ve already been advised that the era of “Pre-Adorned Items” isn’t coming to an end any time soon, we can look forward to a new vendor being added next week in Game Update 65.5 which will allow us to purchase some of the more run-of-the-mill Red and Yellow Adornments for [eq2u]Obol[/eq2u] and [eq2u]Greater Spirit[/eq2u]. Greater Spirits -> Obols If you happen to have an abundance of [eq2u]Greater Spirit[/eq2u] but are running short on [eq2u]Obol[/eq2u], you’ll be able to trade them in. A [eq2u]Crate of Obols[/eq2u] will also cost 7p and 1 Greater Spirit in exchange for 18 Obols....
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has posted on the EQ2 Forums: Hello again intrepid Norrathians, We are inching closer to our February 26 Update and we have some news to share. In my Producer Letter in our forums on Feb. 5, I listed the features we had planned for our Feb. 26 update. One of them I referred to as a Loyalty Program that centered around daily, weekly, and monthly objectives. We have been working on the feature and don’t feel it’s up to snuff yet. We want more time for testing, feedback, and iteration to ensure it’s fun. That in...
From EverQuest2.com: A mini-game update is coming on Tuesday, February 26. Included in this update are a number of tweaks, changes, and updates coming to PvP! Colette “Dexella” Murphy chatted with Brian “Omougi” Ferguson about what players will see and experience after the update. Colette “Dexella” Murphy: In her Producer’s Letter, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale mentioned new blue adornments. How will these blue adornments work? How will they differ from other adornments? Brian “Omougi” Ferguson: We are adding blue adornment slots to Imperial PVP charms, necklaces, cloaks, belts, and weapons. New blue adornments to fill these slots will be available for...
UPDATE from Gninja on February 21, 2013: Yes the crash is still happening though it seems to happen a bit less often we will check the logs in the morning and see what we can find. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Wurmbone Crag [Advanced Solo] Using the portal on the final boss platform should no longer teleport players under the world. Harrow‘s End [Heoric] Players should no longer become gated if they kill FItzpitzle extremely fast. Harrow’s End [Raid] and Sleeper’s Tomb [Raid] Fixed some issues that could cause these zones to crash. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: I’m excited to announce we’ll be updating the hardware on the Russian Harla Dar server on Thursday, 5 pm PST (estimated at 3 hrs) ! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) February 13, 2013 We are working on the hardware upgrade for Harla Dar. The goal is by end of next week without a snafu. I will keep you posted! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) February 12, 2013
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where NPC death animations would not play correctly. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow‘s End Fixed an issue that was caused by players reviving before the encounter tried to teleport them out of the room. Drinal should now teleport players who are far away from him when he begins his fight instead of teleporting players after the encounter resets. Befallen: Cavern of the Afflicted and Royal Palace ofErudin Respawning NPCs in these zones will no longer give out XP, treasure loot, or corpse loot. Wurmbone’s End [Advanced Solo] Necromunger Garrkk’s adds come...
UPDATE: This article has been corrected to state that this is not Game Update 66, which is expected later this spring, but a mini-update which is internally being called Game Update 65.5. From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Senior Producer of EverQuest II on the EQ2 Forums comes news of a game update which we can expect on February 26th, 2013. Greetings Norrath! It’s been an exciting time for us since EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity went live. We are charging full steam ahead with creating more rewarding, memorable experiences and have redoubled our efforts to tell stories better than any other game....
From the EQ2 Forums: ABILITIES Player strikethrough can now go over 50%. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Chains of Eternity Raids Basepop armor tables have been weighted to drop less leather, priest chain. Scout and Mage drops should be slightly higher. Tallon’s Stronghold Raid This zone now rewards the proper amount of adventure XP. ITEMS The HEIRLOOM tag has been added to all items flagged APPEARANCE-ONLY from the adornment removal process. Planar Mender’s Aura now increases ward values properly. Drinal’s Castle: 4 Soul Drinal Ethereal Breastplates have had their effects improved. Amalgamon: Totality of Elements – Weapons dropped by Amalgamon...
If you’ve been flopping, leashing, or feign deathing past the second and third-from-last named encounters in Wurmbone’s End [Advanced Solo] to save time on your way to the boss of the zone, you’ll be seeing a change today. Now, you must kill at least 2 names before the final named will spawn. The popularity of this zone, specifically the last named (Prime Magnate Mrelg), derived from the fact that, when allowed to go into Challenge mode (by not clicking on his smoky “breath”), he drops three loot chests when killed. This was not an unexpected change. The bigger inconvenience/bummer...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with casting bars on heroic and raid enemies. ITEMS Fixed a bug where Will of Thorns proc could work in reverse. [eq2u]Fist of the Unrivaled[/eq2u] now has 18% Block Chance. [eq2u]Torque of Soulful Revival[/eq2u] now gets melee benefits from its effect rather than caster benefits. The effect Eternal Damnation now supplies strength and agility in its effect. Resolution of Heated Battle can now trigger when using combat arts. [eq2u]Necklace of Isabella’s Flame[/eq2u]: This item’s passive effect now grants caster stats as opposed to melee stats.
This was posted about 90 minutes ago on the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 2:00 PM Pacific* on January 25, 2013. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games may be affected, but players who are already logged in and remain logged in will not be affected Login for all SOE forums may be affected Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, may be unavailable Account management may be unavailable We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected...
After 2 weeks in Miami, it seems Drinal has returned to the Ethernere for more afterlife mayhem. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow‘s End (Raid) Targets marked with Transfiguration by Drinal should no longer be affected by Exhaustive Souldrain. Drinal should now be awarding the correct achievement for killing him in any soulwell. Drinal should no longer occasionally drop an empty chest. Drinal should once again reset properly when he defeats players. Corrected an issue that was causing a zone crash when Drinal defeated players.