From the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue with Guild Halls.
• Fixed an issue causing the streaming client to use old assets.
• Fixed an issue which could cause the streaming client to crash on startup.
• Fixed a disconnect bug where some characters would get dropped to character select upon login.

Players will now be prompted for a one-time, free item unattuning:

• If you answer yes, all items will be immediately unattuned.  Any equipped items will be popped into overflow.
• If you answer no, items will not be unattuned and you will not be asked again.

After weeks of testers reporting getting stuck in their Guild Halls, or being unable to zone into their Guild Halls, especially Tier 2 halls in South Qeynos, this bug went live with Game Update 61, and was not corrected with today’s update.

Your only recourse is to file a Petition with Customer Service with a status of “Stuck” and see if they will Reset your Guild Hall instance. Good luck!

If you’ve been keeping your Burynai house pet (from the Kunark Pre-Order) on a steady diet of fertilizers and letting the shinies roll in, you’ve probably noticed that they have had no luck producing any of the collections from Odus (Sundered Frontier, Stonebrunt Mountains), Velious (Great Divide, Eastern Wastes), or associated dungeons. It turns out, a new Guild Hall amenity has been added for these Tier 9 zones. Here’s Gninja to explain the new Herbalist Hirelings which accept fertilizer items in exchange for collectable rewards:

.. Right now you should be able to feed the “Herbalist Hireling” any combination of the three items and get a collectible from it. The [older] Burynai will only accept items up to tier8. Combinations using the Tier9 [materials] will not work with the Burynai.

Today we explore something near and dear to a growing number of crafters — the ability to “break out” of houses and build truly unique structures.

Rhyme‘s Mid-Century Modern house on Guk (More Screenshots)

Today’s hotfix refunds the purchase cost of Research Assistants, adds 200 house item slots to The Mistmoore Crags Estate and a few other things.  Read the full hotfix notes after the jump.

First mentioned just after the introduction of Guild Halls, many players have been hoping to place tapestries in their guild halls which display the guild’s chosen heraldry. At Fan Faire, we were told that the artwork was essentially done. Domino on the EQ2 Forums has indicated:

If all goes well, you can expect to see this around February…

Also, apparently merchant Nin Yung in the Stonebrunt Highlands was supposed to offer furniture items for players with Ally faction. Domino informs us:

Seems that at some point between Sentinel’s Fate beta and launch, a shipment of Hua Mein furniture intended for merchant Nin Yung in the Stonebrunt Highlands fell off the back of the truck and went MIA.

Happily, the furniture has now been recovered, and should be showing up in Nin Yung’s merchandise in the next available hotfix, if all goes well. (At ally faction.) Merchant Radi in the Hua Mein camp in the Sundered Frontier also managed to get his hands on a new statue for the tradeskill allies of that encampment.

EQ2Players has a preview up about the housing in New Halas.   Andres Rodriguez is the artist responsible for designing the new houses and he took the time to answer some questions and share some pictures.  The houses will be available in two, four and six room layouts and there will also be access to T1 guildhalls.  They will include some built in bookshelves and even a fireplace.  And all the houses in New Halas will include windows with a view to the sea.

New Halas Housing @ EQ2Players