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In Testing: Tinkerfest — Will Go Live July 29~August 8th

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Jun 082011

From Kaitheel on the EQ2 Forums:

Tinkerfest has been activated on both Test and Test Copy.

Like clockwork, Tinkerfest has returned! Take up your favorite wrench and celebrate all things gnomish, be they metal, combustive, mathematical, experimental, or a combination thereof! Adventures, rewards, buyables and crafted items await you, both new and familiar. You won’t want to miss all of the fun at Gnomeland Security, your headquarters for all things Tinkerfest, in Steamfont Mountains.

New features for ‘11:

Added an in game mail to announce event.

Event quests now have associated map regions marked.

For those that have completed “Great Balls of Fire” at least five times Blantsworth Coggington III in Steamfont Mountains will offer the new quest, “If They Only Had a Brain”.

The quest “Friendly Competition” is now offered directly by Jon Jeffas in Steamfont Mountains and is repeatable once, per year.

The quest “Tinkerfest Cheer” is now being offered by Tomker, in Steamfont Mountains.

The quest “The Legend of the Geargobbler” is now the only quest offered by Didyma in Steamfont Mountains.

New rewards on returning quests.

Myron, Tinkerfest Merchant, has new house items and two new recipe scrolls for sale.

The event is currently set to run 7/29/2011 through 8/08/2011 on the live servers.

Please assemble any feedback and bugs that you may find in this thread. Thank you, everyone!

~Kaitheel

Note that to avoid some conflicts, the Dragon Ring rebuilding event has to be disabled while Tinkerfest is being tested. The Wizard Spire rebuilding in Eastern Wastes continues.

Test Update Notes: Friday, May 20, 2011(0)

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May 232011

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Estate of Unrest

It is no longer required to look the bones from the shards of Garanel to activate the suit of armor in the final boss room. It is still required to kill them.

EVENTS

Dragon Ring and Wizard spire Events

A few new house item rewards have been added to the events merchants!

PvP MENTORING

Any enemy player who is mentoring, or grouped with a mentor will show the dragons on his name above his head like a raid monster would. Let it serve as a warning because fighting a mentoring player is a difficult fight.

BATTLEGROUNDS / PvP MERCHANTS

Battleground merchants have been summoned away from their previous locations but can be found within the Champion’s Respite. The portals to enter the Champion’s Respite are located in Freeport North, Qeynos Harbor, Halas, Gorowyn, Kelethin and Neriak. The Scions of Discord remain in the world to grant your daily challenges. Open PvP Merchants have moved as well to be near the portals within the starting cities.

Test Update Notes: Tuesday, March 29, 2011(0)

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Mar 292011

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Ascent

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Hold of Rime: The Fortress Spire

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.
Doors and bridges should correctly save based on named encounters defeated if players leave the zone and come back.

Forgotten Pools

Creatures founded within the zone should no longer critical hit players quite as hard.

Kael Drakkel (Heroic Instances)

Critical Mitigation requirements have come down by 10%. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.
Hit points have been slightly reduced on overall population. Temple of Rallos Zek Heroic Challenge is unchanged.

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.

TRADESKILLS

Tradeskill group dungeon rewards now include a chance at two new recipe books, allowing tradeskillers to craft armor from primal velium shards at a reduced cost.

LIVE EVENTS

EQ Anniversary Event

The “Remnants of the Feerrott” painting from the chronoportal merchant was using an incorrect appearance, and has now been corrected.

Bristlebane’s Day

The “Totem of the Grand Prankster” no longer has a description fitting Erollisi's Charm when examined.

QUESTS

Public Quests

Improved server performance during 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.

Kael Drakkel

The Throne Room teleporter should now stay activated after completing stage 1, part 1 of the quest, “Triumph in the Temple”.
For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, the part of the quest where you click to turn on the teleporter should now update the quest for all members in the group.
For the quest “A Path to Freedom” in Kael Drakkel, if player lagged out or zoned out before getting the quest update by witnessing all orc slaves escape through the portal, he or she can return to click on the teleporter again to re-initiate the event.

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.
The power of a few War Runes has been increased.

Test Update Notes: Wednesday, March 23, 2011(0)

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Mar 292011

GENERAL

Fixed a client crash issue.
Fixed a bug where some auction channel messages would not be passed through the spam filter.
Fixed a bug that allowed NO-TRADE currencies to be put into the shared bank.
Fixed a bug with linking items in chat.

LIVE EVENTS

Live Event dance spells can no longer trigger procs.
Gnoggin's Bomb is no longer marked as heirloom.

EQ Anniversary Event

Allizewsaur now has all his sounds.
Quillmane’s wings no longer stutter when he descends.
The Prodigious Glowing Black Stone now has a required equip level of 40.
Chronoportal jewelry items are now Lore-Equip instead of Lore.
The Ancient Cyclops in Portal to the Past: Southern Desert of Ro should once again drop his chest if killed after he has defeated players the first time.
Fixed an issue where the Ancient Cyclops could become unkillable.
Path to the Past: Qeynos Ruins should once again give a 18 hour lockout when completed.
Pyzjn should now award AA experience when killed.

ABILITIES

Warrior

Exploding Heart will trigger properly once again.

ITEMS

Contested Kael quest rewards have been rebalanced.
Added double attack to a variety of fighter items. Overall fighters should see an increase in the total double attack they can get from full sets of DOV items.
Scout/Fighter Weapon damage rating has been increased for TOFS x2 and above.
Fixed an issue with two TOFS x2 fighter rings giving too much double attack.
Fixed the riposte values on raid tank breastplates.
Added crit bonus and potency to tank gloves.

QUESTS

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls
Fixing the mirror for the “Mirror, Mirror” quest now updates for the entire group.

Upcoming Itemization Changes (Not Nerfs!)

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Mar 282011

If you have run a few Destiny of Velious dungeons (and raids), compared the loot/gear to Public Quests, and said aloud “no me comprende”, this should be a good week.

From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums:

We are bumping up the power of Velious dungeon and raid items. We’re doing this to make those items more competitive when compared with Public Quest items, because instances are tougher than the PQs and deserve better rewards. This does include shard armors.

We are also going to bump up the power of hard-mode raid loot so hard modes are even more rewarding, as they require significant time and effort to beat. NOTE: This doesn’t include war runes since they are already quite powerful.

The net result of these changes makes dungeons and raids a bit more rewarding and also balances things out so that people with a full public quest set will be able to find solid item upgrades in dungeons.

These changes will occur next week sometime. If they happen sooner than that, we’ll let you know.

Chronoportals Event Live (on US Servers)

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Mar 232011

As revealed last night, the 12th anniversary celebration of EverQuest brings an event to EverQuest II which allows players to step into the past and remember encounters from before the Shattering.

What are Chronoportals?

They are instances ranging from level 20-90. Each one is a nostalgic area or enemy from EQ1. Some can be be done solo, others require a small group, and still others require a full 6 person group. You and your group will be automatically mentored down when zoning in.

What are the rewards?

Outside of the Antonica portal is a vendor selling various books, house items, and replicas of the bosses of each instance for 1 Platinum Coin each.
Inside of each zone, the bosses also drop rather exceptional items (for their level). Some of these items are similar in nature to Heritage Quest items.

Where are these portals?

Cyliena over at EQ2 ZAM buckled down and has posted the information about the portals in Antonica, the Enchanted Lands, the Feerrott, Lavastorm, Guk (in the Moors of Ykesha), Sinking Sands, Steamfont, and Thundering Steppes, including hints on how to do them.

A list of rewards on the merchant are shown below:

New 18 vs. 18 Battleground in Game Update 60

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Mar 102011

From Olihin on the EQ2 Forums:

Greetings,

With GU60, a new battleground will be added that will allow for a 18 vs. 18 combat setting.

We are currently working on possible additions to the achievements earned while in a battleground and we would like to hear some thoughts on what you may want to see.

We will also evaluate the current achievements and look for ways to reward those that have earned or are in the process of earning them. We believe that someone that can help control all the towers while at the same time having the highest kill streak should be acknowledged, for example.

Feel free to add your ideas and we will do what we can to make your experience while fighting more enjoyable and rewarding and perhaps even humorous at times…

And addressing PvP changes which were originally planned for Velious but got pushed back:

I apologize for the lack of detail and generalization of knowledge in my previous post.

I am sure not all are aware that we postponed PvP changes until GU60 and I want to make sure that our players know that when I say that there is nothing new to report…it means that nothing has been finalized for me to bring up for discussion or testing.

We did have a meeting yesterday that helped our team narrow down some of the changes we will be trying to make in PvP.

Revisiting FAME and adding new features to improve its function and presentation

Adding new armor and adornments that compliment PvP

Adding a new Battleground

Adding a new faction instead of a new token for purchasing rewards

Doing more for class balance (ongoing always) based on feedback

I cannot go into detail at this time on each of the points, but I hope that this is something to look forward to in the future.

In the meantime, I will start a new thread to get some focused feedback that will help with the planed changes listed above.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding!

March 9, 2011 Update Notes

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Mar 092011

Here are your Update Notes for today, March 9th. Of note, Frost Gryphons acquired by crafters are now usable without being a Guide, and a mysterious note that Critical Mitigation values are being reduced on some items.

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

QUESTS

Great Divide

The Thunderbeard quests in Great Divide are no longer sharable.

Heritage

Kalus Frostreaver will be visible in the Ring War camp if players have completed “Casting a Long Shadow.”

Removing the quest “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” will now delete any related sub-quests from your journal or quest items from your inventory.

Village of Shin

The salt crystals required by the alchemist quest “Spark’s Aflame” can now be gathered along the waterline of the Village of Shin.

ITEMS

Reduced the crit mit values for some items to their intended levels.

The Frost Gryphon no longer requires a guide to figure out how to fly!

The 7th and 8th Coldain rings should now proc correctly.

The Embalmers Skinning Knife should now proc correctly.

All leather armor helmets from Public Quests should now have an appropriate appearance.

A few armor patterns have had their rewards corrected.

The Rhino Hide Voodoo Doll is now mage only.

NPC Crit Bonus/Avoidance Buffs should now be visible on all heroic and epic content.

Herbalist Hireling Guild Amenity Bumps Burnyai for T9 Collectibles

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Mar 082011

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.

Just to go into a little bit of reasoning behind why we did it this way. Updating the Burynai every expansion took a good bit of time to update him. So instead of just continuing to update this feature only a select portion of the player base could acquire we decided to make it a permanent feature in the guildhalls and this way it would be easier to update and everyone could use it. This way it only gets updated in one place and its harder to miss one or the other when it comes time to update the functionality. We plan to keep the Herbalist Amenity up to date going forward.

You can still use the Burnyai, but it will not be updated for future tiers, according to Gninja:

The Herbalist Amenity works for all tiers from tier1 to tier9 and will be updated if/when the tier raises. The Burynai will not update past tier 8. At least that is what has been decided for now.

Adventurers in Velious will find some new Tier 9 fertilizers: large frostbitten bones, tundra compost, and glacial water.

Update Notes: Wednesday, March 9, 2011(0)

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Mar 082011

ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION

Tower of Frozen Shadow (Raid)

Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor

Tserrina may now be damaged while she is in the air biting a victim.

QUESTS

Great Divide

The Thunderbeard quests in Great Divide are no longer sharable.

Heritage

Kalus Frostreaver will be visible in the Ring War camp if players have completed “Casting a Long Shadow.”
Removing the quest “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” will now delete any related sub-quests from your journal or quest items from your inventory.

Village of Shin

The salt crystals required by the alchemist quest “Spark’s Aflame” can now be gathered along the waterline of the Village of Shin.

ITEMS

Reduced the crit mit values for some items to their intended levels.
The Frost Gryphon no longer requires a guide to figure out how to fly!
The 7th and 8th Coldain rings should now proc correctly.
The Embalmers Skinning Knife should now proc correctly.
All leather armor helmets from Public Quests should now have an appropriate appearance.
A few armor patterns have had their rewards corrected.
The Rhino Hide Voodoo Doll is now mage only.
NPC Crit Bonus/Avoidance Buffs should now be visible on all heroic and epic content.

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