EverQuest 2 Game Update Blog

From the EQ2 Forums:

The US servers will come down on June 29, 2010, at 7am PDT for a hotfix.

Runnyeye and Splitpaw will be patched at the usual 9pm PDT (4 am GMT on June 16, 2010, provided that Kiara’s gnomish time zone converterizer didn’t lie).

Here are your hotfix notes for June 29, 2010:

GENERAL

• Large damage amounts will now display correctly in overhead combat feedback
• Customization Window will now customize normal appearance when illusions are hidden.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

• Waansu will now leave a corpse when defeated in challenge mode.
• Waansu: Players with Fungal Spores on them standing at the appropriate distance from the dragon will trigger an explosive reaction to hellish flames even if the hellish flames aoe itself is blocked.

MERCHANTS

• The Sublime Cestus is now available on the El’Arad merchant for purchase.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

• Regulus/Regulas must stay within sight of one another for a longer period of time before they will receive Sympathetic Power.
• Regulus/Regulas will refrain from casting arcane vexing/debilitation for a period of time after the death of one of the pair.
• A new respawn spot had been added in Underfoot Depths in the exploration area know as Traitors’ Hall. Triadic bosses: Uthgar, Aaskas, and Maakat will need to be defeated first in order to be able to use this new respawn location.
• Several item drops have been changed to be more desirable.
• The Energized Taehric Construct (challenge mode) will now leave a corpse when defeated.
• Vaclaz Released (challenge mode) will now leave a corpse when defeated.
• Master Yael will now leave a corpse when defeated.
• Vaclaz: Players now receive a warning prior to being hit with Crippling Nausea.
• The third wing in this zone can now be opened.  To access this area Vaclaz Released, and the Energized Taehric Construct must have been defeated on your server.  Additionally one of the other two wings must have been cleared in your current instance (either normal or challenge mode) to break the barrier blocking player entry into the final wing.

SPELLS/ABILITIES

• Lethargy III now increases the effectiveness of Lethargy III, rather than reducing it.
• Stream of Arrows now has a 50 meter range and should no longer randomly say the target is out of range.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Altered match settings to make Smuggler’s Den and Battlefield of Ganak pop more often for battlegrounds.
• In the Smuggler’s Den, teams can now top off the progress on points they control.

DRUID RING EVENT

• The mysterious Kurista now responds to players who have assisted in her ritual. Hail her to learn her background.
• When all the rings are restored, Kurista will offer an exciting new quest, revealing long-forgotten secrets of Norrathian lore.
• This quest will be offered to anyone who has completed more than 10 reconstruction tasks.

ITEMS

• Sentinel’s Fate mounts should now follow the ‘No Transmute’ rule for all mounts.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

• Trash in the zone have had their health slightly reduced.
• Eggs for the Hoarfrost Pyreflyte encounter should spawn more reliably at the beginning of the encounter.
• Footwraps of the Iced Hide should now correctly require the champions boot pattern instead of forearms pattern.
• The house item “A hanging ornamental sword” should now have the correct appearance.
• Time between forming golems for the Ice Maiden D’Ina encounter have been increased slightly to match her spell casting.

THE OUTER VAULT

• The pets in Outer Vault can no longer be summoned outside of the Outer Vault using Dimensional Storage.

ROYAL PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Challenge-mode Theer (both Order and Chaos) should both attempt to cast their Charged-soul and Inevitable Annihilation spells upon players in their general vicinity instead of anyone engaged with them
• Players that die during a Challenge-mode Roehn Theer encounter should now be teleported to either the Order or Chaos rune—whichever is closer to their corpse.