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March 31, 2011 Update Notes

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Mar 312011

Today’s Update Notes for March 31, 2011 bring those Itemization changes we’ve been hearing about, a redesign of the Storm Gorge Public Quest, and the Aether Races flying event has now been folded into City Festivals, starting with Antonica. From SmokeJumper:

There will be a new track for each city until we start looping around again. Each city’s track will only be available during the City Festival and you can earn festival coins and titles when you race.

We might trot them all out at once at Tinkerfest or something, but they’ll usually be linked individually to the City Festivals now.

The full update notes after the jump…

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends (Challenge)

The Imperator Koskeggr fight has been adjusted, the strikemages now spawn much closer to the center of the room.

LIVE EVENTS

City Festival

A new Aether Race has been added to Antonica, for the Qeynos City Festival!

QUESTS

Public Quests

Storm Gorge has been extensively restructured to improve performance and playability.

Great Divide

The ROI’s for the quest, “Complex Rime” should be more accurate now.

Heritage

Cara Omica’s spirit for the quest Beauty’s Only Skin Deep should reliably spawn upon Cara’s death.

ITEMS

Dungeon dropped loot has had its power increased.

Dungeon shard armor has had its power increased.

Raid items have had their power increased.

The gap in power between easy and challenge mode raid items has been increased.

Multi attack on fighter and scout charms has been increased.

The power of a few War Runes has been increased.

Added item set to easy mode fighter earrings.

An unpack-confirmation dialog window has been added to Armor Patterns and War Runes.

Monk Runes that gave Focus: Inner Calm VII now give Focus: Inner Focus.

Added neck drops to easy and challenge mode raids.

Added wrist drops to easy and challenge mode raids.

Fixed a problem with DoV bows that would not allow them to be adorned.

Test Update Notes: Thursday, March 31, 2011(0)

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Mar 302011

TEST COPY BUFFER

Lady Luck now provides armor to paladins too.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Fixed a bug where NPCs could fight other NPCs when they shouldn't.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

Deception has lost its ability to become immune to damage.
VhalSera should no longer heal below a specific threshold.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

Tserrina’s damage output has been slightly lowered.

Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire

The Barracks doors within The Fortress Spire should open more reliably when returning to the instance.
The Abelbrow the Bookie should once again accept bets if returning to the zone.
Bouont Crushingfist should no longer attack members of his own encounter.
Rime Illusion items found around the docks have been made 1 charge. If you lose the illusion and need it again at any time you can return to the docks to get a new one.

LIVE EVENTS

City Festival

A new Aether Race has been added to Antonica, for the Qeynos City Festival!

ITEMS

Multi attack on fighter and scout charms has been increased.
Void Warped Wood is now Battle Warped Wood. This wood will now drop from Velious raid bosses.
Added neck drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
Added wrist drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
Added item set to easy mode fighter earrings.
Fixed a problem with DoV bows that would not allow them to be adorned.
Elemental Detonation can no longer critically hit.

Update Notes: Thursday, March 31, 2011(0)

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ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends (Challenge)

The Imperator Koskeggr fight has been adjusted, the strikemages now spawn much closer to the center of the room.

LIVE EVENTS

City Festival

A new Aether Race has been added to Antonica, for the Qeynos City Festival!

QUESTS

Public Quests

Storm Gorge has been extensively restructured to improve performance and playability.

Great Divide

The ROI’s for the quest, “Complex Rime” should be more accurate now.

Heritage

Cara Omica’s spirit for the quest Beauty’s Only Skin Deep should reliably spawn upon Cara’s death.

ITEMS

Dungeon dropped loot has had its power increased.
Dungeon shard armor has had its power increased.
Raid items have had their power increased.
The gap in power between easy and challenge mode raid items has been increased.
Multi attack on fighter and scout charms has been increased.
The power of a few War Runes has been increased.
Added item set to easy mode fighter earrings.
An unpack-confirmation dialog window has been added to Armor Patterns and War Runes.
Monk Runes that gave Focus: Inner Calm VII now give Focus: Inner Focus.
Added neck drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
Added wrist drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
Fixed a problem with DoV bows that would not allow them to be adorned.

Velious Ranged Items Cough Up Adornments

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Mar 302011

Players logged in yesterday morning to find that their Ranged items, including bows and thrown weapons, had rejected their adornments. Those adornments ended up back in the Overflow slot.

Rothgar responded:

This appears to be a bug related to some item changes. Our QA department is working on it now and we will have the items fixes asap.

Test Update Notes: Monday, October 04, 2010(0)

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GENERAL

Fixed an issue where taking damage in certain ways would cause the zone to crash.
Fixed an exploit where players could get infinite items in their house moving crate.

USER INTERFACE

Fixed a bug where click-to-cure wouldn’t work on the last member of your group.

PLAYER HOUSING

The houses that have been increased in physical size (with balconies, etc.) also now have a higher allowed house item count.
Outdoor areas added to the following housing layouts:
Qeynos: 2 Bayle Court, 4 Bayle Court, 5 Erollisi Lane, 8 Erollisi Lane, and 5 Karana Court

ITEMS

Fixed a bug with player-written book text not saving correctly in some situations.
Aviak mastery items now drop from all bird-men everywhere, not just the ones in Kingdom of Sky zones.
Consuming Auras will now work with the mythical spell activated.
“Pestilential Rain” will no longer crit nor will it be modified by potency.

PvP ITEMS

New PvP round shields are no longer able to be equipped in ranged.

POPULATION

Added flavor text to rangers in South Freeport.
Fixed North Qeynos inquisitor spawn.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

Illusionist

Time Warp now has a 120 second reuse and applies to the group.

Troubador

Benefits from AAs that enhance Aria of Magic, Elemental Concerto, Arcane Symphony and Ballad of Warding now properly apply to group members.

Dirge

Benefits from AAs that enhance Dead Calm, Cacophony of Blades and Noxious Symphony should apply properly to group members.

MERCHANTS

Sublime 2-handed weapons have been added to the Arad merchant.
The Sister of War weapon merchant should now have the right pricing for the new bows.

DARKLIGHT WOOD

New named creatures have been added to Darklight Wood to bring it more in line with other newbie areas.
Respawn times on pre-existing named have been standardized.

GREATER FAYDARK

New named creatures have been added to Greater Faydark to bring it more in line with other newbie areas.
Respawn times on pre-existing named have been standardized.

TIMOROUS DEEP

New named creatures have been added to Timorous Deep to bring it more in line with other newbie areas.
Respawn times on pre-existing named have been standardized.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

Many bosses in the Underfoot Depths now have Flawless Victory and Shorthanded Victory achievements!

DEATHTOLL

You no longer need to have the Marked Flameshield of Scale in order to deactivate the flame machine in the first tunnel in Deathtoll.

Notes are not final until the update goes live, and are therefore subject to change.

Ranged AE Autoattack & Flurry, Bow Changes

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We’ve been hearing about some ranger love for about 3 expansions now, but at Fan Faire, we heard the first concrete info. Xelgad has elaborated on just what we can expect in an update falling between GU57 and GU58 (hopefully 4-6 weeks from now:

Greetings, Mighty Forces!

AE Auto-Attack and Flurry are indeed on the way for bows. We’re also removing the 20% damage penalty for bows, and we’re increasing the damage rating on all 81-90 bows (along with throwing weapons) by about 10%. The intent is to allow you guys to get full benefit from buffs and gear, not to make the class entirely focused on Auto-Attack.

You know how you get more auto-attack damage from your melee weapons in many cases than from your bow? These changes should fix that, unless your melee weapons are simply of much higher quality than your bow. At most, your auto-attack may jump from ~20% of your parse up to ~30% on raids, but I’d be surprised if many people end up with it higher than that.

Thanks for all of your feedback.

You can join the discussion on this issue in the thread What’s this all about? (bow changes) on the EQ2 Forums.

Velious Wieldables

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May 242010

In a recent post on the EQ2 Forums, Dave “Covic” Brown brought us news that he’s been able to bring on an apprentice to help with character design. Covic has now elaborated on what that will mean for the Destiny of Velious expansion:

I have an apprentice working on wieldables right now. His stuff is awesome. We are really trying to have every drop you get from the next expansion be new geo (geometry). There will be re-textures of the new geo, but little to no use of old geo if we can help it. He has already made items for 1h swords, 2h swords, 1h crush, 2h crush, pike, spear, shields (bucklers and round), and daggers. He still has to do some bows, and I think he has done some staffs already.

No word on crossbows or nunchucks just yet.

March 30, 2010 Update Notes

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Mar 302010

Here are your update notes for March 30, 2010, after the jump:

GENERAL

Guild status has been added for Heroic zone boss kills and raid boss kills.
Personal Supply Depots can no longer be “returned to owner”.
New Mounts are available for purchase in North Odus (Scions of the Deepwater Knights), South Odus (City of Paineel) and from horse merchants in the cities of Kelethin, Freeport, Neriak and Qeynos for 90 level guilds. In addition, a chance to obtain a mount is available in both the group and raid portion of Erudin Palace.

BATTLEGROUNDS

You will now automatically unmentor when a battleground match ends.
Going to a battleground and returning should not change the setting of roleplay or anon on your home server.

ITEMS

Red Adornments are now Heirloom.
Yellow adornments are now flagged heirloom.
The Erollisi Day crafted masks, Face of Love and Mask of Passion, are no longer Lore, or No-Trade.
The Runed Victim’s Skull has had its resists lowered.
The minimum block chance on the Brawler Enervated weapons has been moved to the mythical spell.
The Venomous Chain Legs of the Plague now have Torrent II rather than Fatal Lifetap II.
Rune of Blasting can no longer critically hit.
Many raid dropped bows have been changed from short bows to longbows.
Two new bows have been added to drops for hardmode raid encounters.
Resists added to many accessories.
A small number of accessories had a higher-than-intended amount of spell reuse. The amounts have been lowered to be in line with non-BG items
The resists and physical mitigation on the Indomitable jewelry set from Battlegrounds now only applies in PVP Combat.
Merchant of Discord and Sisters of Battle items have been updated to match their Battleground or Open PVP counterparts.

SPELLS

Berserker “Whirlwind” now persists through death.
Monk “Dragon Rage” should function in PVP combat as a target lock.
Torrent and Pestilential Rain effects should no longer break Mesmerize.
Brawler’s Tenacity has a slightly longer duration.
Deathward can now crit and can now be cast on the Defiler.

QUESTS

The final encounter in the Heritage quest, “A Source of Malediction” will now reward AA experience.
Players are no longer required to be inside the Necrotic Asylum when reading Dread Exarch Mordek’s journal to progress the quest.

KALADIM

Gonga barrels cause much less damage now, an appropriate amount for the dungeon.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

When a player summons Sherra everyone in the zone should now get a message telling you who summoned her.

ROYAL PALACE OF ERUDIN

The disc associated with Gloom Chevalier Faris should no longer occasionally stop working if players leave the instance and return later.

THE HOLE: DEMITRIK’S BASTION

Demitrik should no longer get stuck with his heal buff on if players spam click the machine before he teleports. This was also causing him to call his buffs at the incorrect times.
The trash mobs in the zone have had their hitpoints reduced slightly. This does not include the specters in the first area although they have been made easier to pull without having to clear the first area.

THE HOLE: SPIRIT’S RESONANCE

Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer possess players quite so many times and should have slightly more hitpoints so players fighting him can work on lowering his health while the possessed player worries about the books.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer set his class to the same class as the person who he copied. This is to avoid some potential damage loops causing the fight to bug out.
The Possessing Spirit of Kyrenna should no longer resurrect her minions or herself more than twice. Her health has also been adjusted.
Players doing the quest “Entomologist Ally” can no longer target the Gargantuan Graveyard Stinkbug so the key can be looted.

VASTY DEEP

The zone to Vasty Deep is now a clickable zone portal and no longer a zone line. You will need to click it to enter!

Game Update Notes – 03/30/2010

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GENERAL

Guild status has been added for Heroic zone boss kills and raid boss kills.
Personal Supply Depots can no longer be “returned to owner”.
New Mounts are available for purchase in North Odus (Scions of the Deepwater Knights), South Odus (City of Paineel) and from horse merchants in the cities of Kelethin, Freeport, Neriak and Qeynos for 90 level guilds. In addition, a chance to obtain a mount is available in both the group and raid portion of Erudin Palace.

BATTLEGROUNDS

You will now automatically unmentor when a battleground match ends.
Going to a battleground and returning should not change the setting of roleplay or anon on your home server.

ITEMS

Red Adornments are now Heirloom.
Yellow adornments are now flagged heirloom.
The Erollisi Day crafted masks, Face of Love and Mask of Passion, are no longer Lore, or No-Trade.
The Runed Victim’s Skull has had its resists lowered.
The minimum block chance on the Brawler Enervated weapons has been moved to the mythical spell.
The Venomous Chain Legs of the Plague now have Torrent II rather than Fatal Lifetap II.
Rune of Blasting can no longer critically hit.
Many raid dropped bows have been changed from short bows to longbows.
Two new bows have been added to drops for hardmode raid encounters.
Resists added to many accessories.
A small number of accessories had a higher-than-intended amount of spell reuse. The amounts have been lowered to be in line with non-BG items
The resists and physical mitigation on the Indomitable jewelry set from Battlegrounds now only applies in PVP Combat.
Merchant of Discord and Sisters of Battle items have been updated to match their Battleground or Open PVP counterparts.

SPELLS

Berserker “Whirlwind” now persists through death.
Monk “Dragon Rage” should function in PVP combat as a target lock.
Torrent and Pestilential Rain effects should no longer break Mesmerize.
Brawler’s Tenacity has a slightly longer duration.
Deathward can now crit and can now be cast on the Defiler.

QUESTS

The final encounter in the Heritage quest, “A Source of Malediction” will now reward AA experience.
Players are no longer required to be inside the Necrotic Asylum when reading Dread Exarch Mordek’s journal to progress the quest.

KALADIM

Gonga barrels cause much less damage now, an appropriate amount for the dungeon.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

When a player summons Sherra everyone in the zone should now get a message telling you who summoned her.

ROYAL PALACE OF ERUDIN

The disc associated with Gloom Chevalier Faris should no longer occasionally stop working if players leave the instance and return later.

THE HOLE: DEMITRIK’S BASTION

Demitrik should no longer get stuck with his heal buff on if players spam click the machine before he teleports. This was also causing him to call his buffs at the incorrect times.
The trash mobs in the zone have had their hitpoints reduced slightly. This does not include the specters in the first area although they have been made easier to pull without having to clear the first area.

THE HOLE: SPIRIT’S RESONANCE

Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer possess players quite so many times and should have slightly more hitpoints so players fighting him can work on lowering his health while the possessed player worries about the books.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer set his class to the same class as the person who he copied. This is to avoid some potential damage loops causing the fight to bug out.
The Possessing Spirit of Kyrenna should no longer resurrect her minions or herself more than twice. Her health has also been adjusted.
Players doing the quest “Entomologist Ally” can no longer target the Gargantuan Graveyard Stinkbug so the key can be looted.

VASTY DEEP

The zone to Vasty Deep is now a clickable zone portal and no longer a zone line. You will need to click it to enter!

Update Notes: Tuesday, March 30, 2010(0)

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GENERAL

Guild status has been added for Heroic zone boss kills and raid boss kills.
Personal Supply Depots can no longer be “returned to owner”.
New Mounts are available for purchase in North Odus (Scions of the Deepwater Knights), South Odus (City of Paineel) and from horse merchants in the cities of Kelethin, Freeport, Neriak and Qeynos for 90 level guilds. In addition, a chance to obtain a mount is available in both the group and raid portion of Erudin Palace.

BATTLEGROUNDS

You will now automatically unmentor when a battleground match ends.
Going to a battleground and returning should not change the setting of roleplay or anon on your home server.

ITEMS

Red Adornments are now Heirloom.
Yellow adornments are now flagged heirloom.
The Erollisi Day crafted masks, Face of Love and Mask of Passion, are no longer Lore, or No-Trade.
The Runed Victim's Skull has had its resists lowered.
The minimum block chance on the Brawler Enervated weapons has been moved to the mythical spell.
The Venomous Chain Legs of the Plague now have Torrent II rather than Fatal Lifetap II.
Rune of Blasting can no longer critically hit.
Many raid dropped bows have been changed from short bows to longbows.
Two new bows have been added to drops for hardmode raid encounters.
Resists added to many accessories.
A small number of accessories had a higher-than-intended amount of spell reuse. The amounts have been lowered to be in line with non-BG items
The resists and physical mitigation on the Indomitable jewelry set from Battlegrounds now only applies in PVP Combat.
Merchant of Discord and Sisters of Battle items have been updated to match their Battleground or Open PVP counterparts.

SPELLS

Berserker “Whirlwind” now persists through death.
Monk “Dragon Rage” should function in PVP combat as a target lock.
Torrent and Pestilential Rain effects should no longer break Mesmerize.
Brawler’s Tenacity has a slightly longer duration.
Deathward can now crit and can now be cast on the Defiler.

QUESTS

The final encounter in the Heritage quest, “A Source of Malediction” will now reward AA experience.
Players are no longer required to be inside the Necrotic Asylum when reading Dread Exarch Mordek’s journal to progress the quest.

KALADIM

Gonga barrels cause much less damage now, an appropriate amount for the dungeon.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

When a player summons Sherra everyone in the zone should now get a message telling you who summoned her.

ROYAL PALACE OF ERUDIN

The disc associated with Gloom Chevalier Faris should no longer occasionally stop working if players leave the instance and return later.

THE HOLE: DEMITRIK’S BASTION

Demitrik should no longer get stuck with his heal buff on if players spam click the machine before he teleports. This was also causing him to call his buffs at the incorrect times.
The trash mobs in the zone have had their hitpoints reduced slightly. This does not include the specters in the first area although they have been made easier to pull without having to clear the first area.

THE HOLE: SPIRIT’S RESONANCE

Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer possess players quite so many times and should have slightly more hitpoints so players fighting him can work on lowering his health while the possessed player worries about the books.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer set his class to the same class as the person who he copied. This is to avoid some potential damage loops causing the fight to bug out.
The Possessing Spirit of Kyrenna should no longer resurrect her minions or herself more than twice. Her health has also been adjusted.
Players doing the quest “Entomologist Ally” can no longer target the Gargantuan Graveyard Stinkbug so the key can be looted.

VASTY DEEP

The zone to Vasty Deep is now a clickable zone portal and no longer a zone line. You will need to click it to enter!

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