Player Poll Results: 65% Favor Self-Rez, Health, Power Potions for Solo play

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May 192012
 

From EverQuest2.com:

In our last in-game poll, we asked players what they thought of us selling health, power, and self-rez potions for solo, group, and raid players.

The results are in! Overall, for all items, there was an average of 65% support for the solo versions in all three categories (and, in fact, there was only a minor variance in the percentages for each item). Group and Raid items averaged at 55%.

As we saw with the EQ2X (Freeport) server, where we sold similar items, these types of items help the solo player have fun while adventuring alone. We also added limitations to these items so they will not affect group or raid players.

Starting on Friday, May 18, 2012, you will see the solo health, power, and self-rez items for sale in the marketplace! These items will be found in the Consumable category, under Combat Skills.

The items are:

Health Potion

  • 3 charges
  • 1 second casting, 5 minute reuse
  • Gives you 100% Health
  • You may only be grouped with mercenaries or not grouped
  • Cannot be used in PvP combat

Power Potion

  • 3 charges
  • 1 second casting, 5 minute reuse
  • Gives you 100% Power
  • You may only be grouped with mercenaries or not grouped
  • Cannot be used in PvP combat

Scroll of Resurrection

  • 3 charges
  • Instant cast, 15 minute reuse
  • Allows player to resurrect themselves
  • You may only be grouped with mercenaries or not grouped
  • This item can be used on PvP servers but not cast in PvP combat

Update Notes: Thursday, 17 May 2012

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May 172012
 

Here are your update notes for Thursday, 17 May 2012:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

  • Mount drops in the Underdepths and Betrayal in the Underdepths have been made less rare.

Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened

  • Sargon the Destructor text messages won’t go to the entire raid anymore, just the person about to be cast upon.  The duration of the red text messages has been shortened.

Dracur Prime: Vyskudra the Ancient

  • The player who slays an energized storm elemental and those closest to the slayer will receive the Elemental Storm Energy Buff.  The Elemental Stormstrike buff will no longer generate hate taunting the elemental stormlords.

Great Divide

  • The Cliff Stalkers in the Great Divide will now grant experience when slain.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

Druids

  • Druids will automatically be granted Spirit of the Bat V at level 91.

Mystic

  • Full Moon will now properly apply its heal to the target.

ITEMS

  • Fixed a bug where “item score” would show in the examine window on some items.
  • The quality of several pieces of Skyshrine heroic challenge mode loot has been increased.
  • Plane of War gear should now have 2 white adornment slots.

The following mounts are now flagged Heirloom:

  • Blue Nightmare with Blue Saddle
  • Grey Cavalry Horse with War-barding
  • Onyx Armored Rhino
  • Russet Warg

Update Notes: Thursday, May 17, 2012(0)

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May 162012
 

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Mount drops in the Underdepths and Betrayal in the Underdepths have been made less rare.

 

Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened

Sargon the Destructor text messages won?t go to the entire raid anymore, just the person about to be cast upon.  The duration of the red text messages has been shortened.

 

Dracur Prime: Vyskudra the Ancient

The player who slays an energized storm elemental and those closest to the slayer will receive the Elemental Storm Energy Buff.  The Elemental Stormstrike buff will no longer generate hate taunting the elemental stormlords.

 

Great Divide

The Cliff Stalkers in the Great Divide will now grant experience when slain.

 

 

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

Druids

Druids will automatically be granted Spirit of the Bat V at level 91.

 

Mystic

Full Moon will now properly apply its heal to the target.

 

 

ITEMS

Fixed a bug where "item score" would show in the examine window on some items.

The quality of several pieces of Skyshrine heroic challenge mode loot has been increased.

Plane of War gear should now have 2 white adornment slots.

The following mounts are now flagged Heirloom:

Blue Nightmare with Blue Saddle

Grey Cavalry Horse with War-barding

Onyx Armored Rhino

Russet Warg

Autoattack Setting Coming to EQ2!

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May 152012
 

Some exciting news for players who have been wanting a setting for Autoattack during combat in EQ2! On the Test server, a new option has been added to the Character/Persona/Inventory window under the Options panel:

This option should allow Rangers to set “Forced Ranged” and never need to use kludgy macros to ensure they are always doing ranged autoattacks. A ranger never wants to be doing melee autoattacks and we have relied on macros with the command /auto 2 for years.

Further, this will be a sigh of relief to Mages and Priests who will now be able to use their choice of either Focus/Ranged ‘Wand‘ items or traditional Symbol items and still choose whether they want to use the new Spell Weapon Autoattack, or stick to Melee combat. This change will be of particular benefit to Enchanters, Druids, Mystics, and Clerics, all of whom have Alternate Advancement lines that require melee combat for their best effects to apply. This will also allow healers to work around a bug with some cures and buffs which place them into ’spell combat’.

From the May 10th, 2012 Test Notes:

COMBAT

Players can now select their preferred method of autoattacking using the /setautoattackmode command (0 for default, 1 for melee, 2 for spell/ranged) or by the drop-down setting in the Character UI options under “Auto Attack Mode”.

Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator – Update

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May 152012
 

A few days ago, I finally got around to doing some updates to Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator.  Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports over the last several months.  I think I’ve gotten all of them taken care of now but there may still be a few in there somewhere.

Also, I’ve added a second white adornment dropdown for each slot since a lot of the Skyshrine items have two white adornment slots.  Some two handers even have three white slots but I didn’t add a third dropdown.  Just use the secondary dropdown for those cases and make sure not to choose reuse speed since that doesn’t work in the primary slot.

If you don’t see the second white slot dropdown when you load the calculator, you’re seeing a cached version.  Try holding down Shift and Ctrl keys and press F5, or click the Refresh button/icon in your browser or whatever button/clicking combination you have to do to convince it to really reload the page and you should see the new version.

I still haven’t added in the public quest adornments or the class specific adornments for beastlords, those are still on the list of things to do.

As usual, let me know if you find anything out of whack.

Dethdlr

Update Notes: Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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May 152012
 

Here are your Update Notes for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine: The City of Dracur

  • Malicor Kehrn will no longer fight his partner in crime Nefari Kwol.

PLAYER HOUSING

  • The Vale of Halfpint Delight door will now display the correct destination.

MERCENARIES

  • When Fall of the Phoenix or any other group feign death spell is used mercenaries will cancel their feign death effect when their owner cancels their feign death effect.
  • Mortal Embrace (Shadowknight) no longer works on mercenaries.

ITEMS

  • The class focus effects on Plane of War armor have been updated.
  • Fixed textures on the black marble house items.

QUESTS

  • Fixed an issue where “Untapped Potential” would not update correctly in certain situations.

EQ2 Server Maintenance — 90 Minutes

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May 152012
 

From EverQuest2.com:

Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific* on May 15, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 90 minutes. This will impact the following services:
  • Login for all our games will be affected
  • Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable
  • Forums will be read-only
  • Account management will be unavailable

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

Time Zone Conversions

  • PDT: May 15 @ 6:00 ~ 7:30am
  • EDT: May 15 @ 9:00 ~ 10:30am
  • BST: May 15 @ 14:00 ~ 15:30
  • CET: May 15 @ 15:00 ~ 16:30

Update Notes: Tuesday, May 15, 2012(0)

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May 142012
 

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine: The City of Dracur

Malicor Kehrn will no longer fight his partner in crime Nefari Kwol.

 

 

PLAYER HOUSING

The Vale of Halfpint Delight door will now display the correct destination.

 

 

MERCENARIES

When Fall of the Phoenix or any other group feign death spell is used mercenaries will cancel their feign death effect when their owner cancels their feign death effect.

Mortal Embrace (Shadowknight) no longer works on mercenaries.

 

 

ITEMS

The class focus effects on Plane of War armor have been updated.

Fixed textures on the black marble house items.

 

 

QUESTS

Fixed an issue where "Untapped Potential" would not update correctly in certain situations.

SOE Community Webcast Tonight: Volunteer Guides

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May 102012
 

From EverQuest2.com:

Have you ever wanted to do more or be more involved with your game? Have you ever wanted to help run events or play as NPCs in-game? If the idea of bringing your favorite SOE world to life excites you, join host Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director of Global Community Relations) as she chats with members of the Volunteer Event Guide Program!

They will talk about what the program is all about, what kinds of fun and exciting events they create and run, and, most importantly, how you too can become a part of the program! Our guests will also explain a bit about how they got involved, the history of the program, and what to expect from it in the future.

Join us on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time* on Twitch TV! The webcast is expected to last about 20 minutes.

Time Zone Conversions

  • PDT: Thursday, May 10th @ 4:00~4:30pm
  • EDT: Thursday, May 10th @ 7:00~7:30pm
  • BST: Thursday, May 11th @ 0:00~0:30
  • CET: Thursday, May 11th @ 1:00~1:30

May 10, 2012 Update Notes

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May 102012
 

Here are your updates for May 10, 2012.  The quest All You Need is Time in Withered Lands should now be fixed as well as the ratio of Tier 10 precious metal rares.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Withered Lands

  • Hexapola: players outside the raid should no longer cause the raid to reset if they agro raid insects.

Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode

  • Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse.
  • Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or more of them present in the zone.

Skyshrine: the Underdepths

  • Sevalor’s Deathless now has a 35 second duration, rather than permanent.

Skyshrine: The City of Dracur

  • The Dracurion mender will now buy your unwanted wares.

Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened

  • Arreken’s Skystorm should only affect the player who does not cure it.

Shadow Odyssey

  • Shard chests should award only a void shard when opened by players above level 90.

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