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GENERAL x4 raid mobs who heal themselves by 2% when they kill players now only heal this way to 45% of their max health. They will no longer heal at all if they kill players and the mob’s health is above 45% already.* MUNZOK’S MATERIAL BASTION During the final Munzok fight, Elemental Augers will no longer cast Icy Storm (instead they cast two weaker spells). Munzok’s AOE spell Void Inferno no longer clears players’ targets, and Ripping Voidforce does slightly less damage to players who are close to Munzok himself. PALACE OF THE ANCIENT ONE Void Rippers on the...
Game Updates & Maintenance
ITEMS The Meathook from Sinking Sands is now a piercing weapon. Illusionists: The Shifting Visions 6-piece set bonus properly adds damage to Dynamism again. The Stick of the Sootfoot Boomer now triggers correctly off of offensive spells. The Great Horn of Drelakor can no longer be wielded by priests. The Purple-Saddled Mistrunner Horse can now be turned into a house plushie. KURN’S TOWER Kurns Tower (x2) has been tuned a bit and the bosses are not so stingy.* Ilenee’s Despair and Betrayal now teleport less frequently. Kurn now has an additional spell to help make transitions between controllers smoother....
Some of us who have made significant progress in Ward of Elements and have wanted to sink our teeth into some new x2 content have ventured into Kurn’s Tower x2 raid zone and found the challenges to be formidable, but the rewards not so much. Perhaps the biggest concern about the zone was that no set patterns dropped. Timetravelling has chimed in with some big news. He has made substantial changes to the loot table including: The common items from the first 3 bosses have been removed and moved to a basepop (trash) table Ione can now drop up...
EQ2 Devs are quick on the draw and have already remedied some issues that were present in the July 28th Fan Faire Feedback update and made some other cool changes as well. Each of the items in these two updates may appear small, but they are almost all from player feedback and make the game better. It’s great to see. General Choosing a bad name when using the CTS token should now give an appropriate error. The Scroll of Smoldering Tactics and Scroll of Smoldering Blessing now properly display their bonuses in the Persona window. The Abyssal Carpet mount...
With apologies to Dylan Thomas, it appears that the instant no-carry cast-anywhere torch which we have all been granted (press Alt-L) does not always respect the wishes of its owner. It seems that its flame will not remain quelled for long, and folks have reported spontaneous re-ignition of their torches at the least opportune times. I’ve heard this makes PvP quite a bit more interesting. A hotfix is expected soon.
Fan Faire Feedback Update At the most recent Fan Faire, many of you presented us with a ton of useful feedback. We’ve tried to address many of your great ideas and suggestions in the below changes. Thanks to everyone who attended and provided feedback and to those of you who provide feedback through all the other channels! GENERAL There is now a flight post from the Bellywhumper camp out to the Dragon’s Rest Shallows for easier access to the Order of Rime camp. Those who have achieved some faction with the Order of Rime can now use the Order’s...
Tinkerfest is here!! The gnomes of Norrath have resurrected their holiday from more than 500 years ago. This celebration of all things gnomish will bring you new gnomish house items, new shinies to collect, and lots of fun! Look for signs of celebration in gnomish hangouts – Gnomeland Security in Steamfont Mountains, Temple Street in Freeport, Baubleshire in Qeynos! The festivities will run from 12:01am July 24th until 11:59pm August 3rd PDT. See you in Norrath!! Read More Tinkerfest at EQ2Traders
The Thursday July 16th Hotfix corrects two issues I discussed yesterday. First, being unable to use the Automated Character Transfer Service (available by purchasing a Character Transfer Token through StationCash) due to ‘ghost mails’ stuck in their mailbox. Second, the Research Assistants not granting the spell if you are logged out of the game or not in the same zone as a Research Assistant when the research completes. Here are the July 16th Hotfix Notes: GENERAL The “/clear_mailbox” command will now allow players to delete all mail, including ghosted mail from their character. NOTE: After using the command the...
Research Assistants Many players are reporting that their Research Assistants which they hired paid quested for coaxed hailed to get Master spell upgrades are being rather possessive with the results of that research and not giving up the spell. Rothgar shed some light on the issue, specifically that this problem will occur only when you are logged out of the game when the research completes, and you change zones, or login and out without immediately claiming the spell. In other words, unless you are either logged in, or camped in a zone where you can retrieve your researched spell...
Before I start the notes, July 14th marks the availability of the Automated Character Transfer Service. For $25, you can transfer your character from one server to another. Check out the “Station Marketplace” within EQ2. I don’t have a current link for you as far as this announcement, but I can confirm that the items appeared on the Station Marketplace for me this morning. July 14th Update Notes GENERAL The Firiona Vie statue distributed to Fan Faire attendees is no longer a LORE item. EMPEROR’S ATHENAEUM 4 Warriors are no longer control immune. Enchanters, show us what you got!...
Fan Faire 2009 presented a lot of ideas and plans for the future. A scant few were nailed down to a specific time frame. We know that we are getting the Shard of Love and Miragul’s Shard in Gu53, as well as the amazing Shaders 3.0 graphics tweaks. However the rest of Gu53 and any part of Gu54 remain a mystery. You’ll be happy to know that the AA XP Slider is slated to be contained in Gu53! Obviously there is still some time between now and September, so this may change, but this is certainly good news that...
July 7, 2009 Hotfix Update Notes EMPEROR’S ATHENAEUM 4 Warriors in Emperor’s Athenaeum should reset less frequently. 4 Warriors have fewer buffs—especially defensive ones. FENS OF NATHSAR Kaluhm the Northern Lord now drops his treasure correctly. Pulnil the Haggler is less confused about the quests he can offer and advance for those that have completed the quest “Everyone Loves a Snitch”. GUILD HALLS Players at trustee or higher access can change the appearance of mailboxes placed within their guild hall. ITEMS Focus: Lich III on necromancer item sets will now function properly. Focus: Bane of Warding V should now...
The bug that was preventing the Tradeskill Bonus XP in certain instances such as Guild Halls has been corrected. In addition, this July 4th weekend has been changed to award a +50% bonus to Combat XP, Adventure XP, and Tradeskill XP. Although EQ2Players and the forums were accurate, an e-mail that went out could have been interpreted to suggest that Combat XP was getting a bonus this weekend. Thanks Rothgar (source)!!!
Several folks are reporting that bonus Tradeskill XP is not working in certain guild halls or instances but only on outdoor crafting tables. Check your Tradeskill XP bar carefully to see if you are getting the bonus. Note that the e-mail notifications that went about were vague and suggested that July 4th weekend was offering bonus XP for adventure and tradeskilling. In fact this is the first AA bonus XP weekend ever offered for EQ2, along with Tradeskill. Combat XP is not currently getting a bonus this weekend.
For the first time ever, EQ2 will be having a Bonus AA XP weekend. Tradeskillers will also get some XP love as well. 🙂 Posted by Kiara on the EQ2 Forums: To commemorate the holiday weekend, we’ll be turning on bonus AA and Tradeskill exp starting at 4:00PM PDT tomorrow Thursday, July 2nd and running until 10:00AM PDT Monday, July 6th. For the UK servers it will run from 12:00AM (midnight) Friday July 3rd until 8:00PM Monday, July 6th for folks residing in London (presuming I did my conversions correctly). Thanks and happy gaming!
Thanks to Coniaric for these snapshots of the Shard of Love from Fan Faire. This zone will be going into Gu53.
EQ2 is getting an Achievements system! Much like the systems on XBox where you get points for completing certain tasks in certain games, EQ2 will recognize certain in-game achievements. To avoid any confusion, the Alternate Achievement system in EQ2 is officially being renamed “AA”. If you’d like to read more about the upcoming Achievements system and give feedback or suggestions, check out Rothgar‘s thread on the subject.
Thanks to Ke’la who has posted a video captured from the Shaders 3.0 presentation at Fan Faire 2009. The snapshots are from Nek Forest and show a dramatic improvement in lighting. This should appear in Game Update 53. Once you see the screen snapshots, you realize just how flat, grey, and unrealistic the lighting in Nek Forest has been. Check it out: EverQuest II Shaders 3.0 Video As soon as I get screen snapshots, you’ll see them here on EQ2Wire. 🙂
I present the EverQuest II Expansion & Game Update News from Fan Faire in a rollup post. This is partly based on the Fan Faire 2009 Consolidated News by Kalyyn. I started with Kalyyn’s great writeup and have built upon it, adding dozens of new details and minor corrections based on everything I observed at the 2009 Fan Faire EQ2 event in Las Vegas. I’ve archived the individual news posts I submitted over the weekend. If you still want to read them, they’re [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] And now, without further ado,...
Parsing Gravitas, Cures, CoB, etc. Will consider it. Determining where guild rally flag is located? Some coming has already been done for this. Auto mentoring – hail an npc and mentor to a level in 5 level increments. Old quest completion missions. Probably not on PvP. Daily double shard zone in Welcome window or MOTD? Possible. Achievements (like CoH or Xbox Live) like 500 kills, 20 heritage quests, etc. In a new tab in the quest window. Current tier upgrades are coming for bone clasped gridle. Not so much for the bloodthirsty choker. 🙂 Streamling buffing for classes. Buffing...
GENERAL The Order of Rime illusion no longer has a minimum level for use. Fang the direbear has received some additional defensive bonuses. The Eggstractor should now only work on its intended target (which is, of course, eggs). There is a new EQ2VoiceService.exe from Vivox that should resolve some crash issues that players were experiencing. ACHIEVEMENTS Coercer Coercive Healing will once again apply properly to reactive heals. KURN’S TOWER A cinematic event when slaying Ione (with a quest requirement) has been turned on. Fear Kraytoc’s wrath! MUNZOK’S MATERIAL BASTION The void sapper adds associated with Ozyk in Munzok’s Material...
Moonlight Enchantments is a new recurring World Event in the forests of Norrath which will only be available the 20th of every month. I apologize for not getting this information up before June 20th, but it should be available for the 20th of every month hereafter. This event is now known as Moonlight Enchantments (formerly known as the Enchanted Grottos of Norrath). Essentially, there is a mushroom ring in each of the forests of Norrath which can be entered once per month (on the 20th) to visit five unique hidden instances. Each has purple shinies and quests to be...
If your guild has been experiencing heavy lag in Palace of the Ancient One and perhaps noticed that you are seeing combat logs from another guild that is in their own instance ‘leaking’ into your combat logs for this zone, you’re not alone. There is an amusing screen snapshot that shows partial combat logs that demonstrate this ‘cross-talk’. It seems likely this is the cause of some of the lag in this zone. There is also another issue with regards to adds continuously spawning, to the point of hundreds of adds appearing if the zone bugs out. It’s being...
EMPEROR’S ATHENAEUM The final bosses no longer ambush players. Players should get experience from each location discovery within the zone, instead of just the first. Drago’s Boar’s Eruption does less damage. Added a clue to help decipher the floor-set vault lock. Master of the Embalmers summons adds much less frequently. The Curator teleports less frequently. KURN’S TOWER Ilenee’s Betrayal and Despair no longer heal after they teleport and no longer can teleport to the same room. VOICE CHAT EQ2VoiceService.exe should now run on Windows 2000. Players should no longer show as talking intermittently when their push-to-talk key is not...
GENERAL Players experiencing problems customizing Wood Elf males should no longer have any issues. Persistent instances should no longer boot players out when they were not committed to the previous instance. EMPEROR’S ATHENAEUM The final bosses should no longer despawn if players died next to their spawn locations.