25 May 2010 ~ Tuesday ~ GU56 ~ BIG update

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FEATURES

NEW HALAS

The city of New Halas, namesake of the original city of the Northmen destroyed by cataclysm and war, sits in the heart of the isle of Erollis, a treacherous land of biting temperatures and aggressive fauna within the freezing waters of the Frostfang Sea. Originally a village of war hardened dwarves, it has since grown due to being blessed by Mithaniel Marr and reconnected with the Shattered Lands of Norrath. Pilgrims to New Halas can find their way there via a griffin at the docks in the Butcherblock Mountains. New characters created for New Halas will start at Pilgrim’s Landing, an encampment near the isle of Erollis, in the zone Frostfang Sea.

THE ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

A new level 90+ x4 raid dungeon with associated quests is aimed to give players an easy to moderate challenge! The pesky Frostfoots have found a new way into the Icy Keep and this time the Ice Maidens are ready for them! Join Snarf, Gerbi and many more in their quest to rid themselves of the newly hatched Ice Dragon, Vrewwx! Consider yourselves warned, however… Before entering you might want to bring 23 of your friends to help you get past his guardians.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

There is a battle raging as powerful elemental forces gather deep beneath the earth. Only the most powerful raiding parties can hope to prevail in the Underfoot Depths.

STORYLINES

A new “Storyline” tab has been added to the bottom of the Quest journal. The Storyline window will help you keep track of the many adventures you encounter as you explore the world of Norrath. Additionally, the Storyline window will help lead you to new adventures as they become available for you to enjoy!
Storylines are color coded by status:
Gold indicates that you have not picked up any quests for this storyline.
White indicates you have made some progress in this storyline even if it is just picking up the first quest in it.
Grey indicates you have completed all quests in this storyline.

TRAVEL REVAMP

We have made several changes to the game in an effort to streamline travel.
Traveling to different locations uses a new interface.
Now when selecting a travel location via teleportation, bell, or sokokar/horse/griffon etc. you will do so through a travel map.
Simply double click your choice, or select it and then press OK to be whisked away.
Mousing over a location when using world teleportation displays a level range and some background information on the area.
Bell/carpet zone travel has been consolidated. Bells on the different continents have all been linked together. This means the bells that were in Nektulos are no longer limited to 6 locations. These bells have been reduced to one bell that is linked to other bells across Norrath. Bells used to travel within Qeynos and Freeport have not been changed except that they now use the travel map allowing for more direct connections to where you wish to go.
Druid portals no longer require the player to have harvested a Blessed Shrubbery.
Blessed Shrubberies have been imbued by Tunare with the power to transport players to any of the other druid rings!
Translocate no longer requires a planar symbol.
Translocate portals were transporting players to incorrect spots in the Bonemire and The Barren Sky. This has been corrected.
Planar symbols have been removed from vendor lists.
Sokokar posts no longer require the Sokokar item. They now check that you have completed either the tradeskill or adventuring version of the quest. This affects the following zones:
Chardok
Jarsath Wastes
Kylong Plains
Kunzar Jungle
Fens of Nathsar
You are no longer required to visit a Sokokar post before being able to travel there. This affects the following zones:
Jarsath Wastes
Kylong Plains
Kunzar Jungle
Fens of Nathsar
The following zones no longer require you to do a quest or go to a location before accessing the inner zone travel option. The quests that were there previously have been reworked so that players can still do them optionally.
Nektulos Forest
Thundering Steppes
Sinking Sands
Pillar of Flames
The flight paths leading to and leaving from Butcherblock, and connecting to Timorous or Darklight, have been modified some to be more geographically appropriate.
The following quests have been modified and had money rewards attached to them:
Griffon Egg for the Nektulos Tower Stations
Griffon Egg for the Steppes Tower Stations
The following zones now have inner zone travel options or have had new locations added to them:
Steamfont
Zek
Feerrott
Enchanted Lands
Everfrost
Greater Faydark
Nektulos
All spires that can be reached through wizard teleportation should now have a static teleporter and they should all now link to the entire network. This affects the following zones:
Greater Faydark
Moors of Ykesha
Kylong Plains
Tenebrous Tangle
Bonemire
Barren Sky
All call spells have had their cast times reduced to 10 seconds. This affects the following spells:
Call of The Overlord
Call of Kelethin
Call of Qeynos
Call of Gorowyn
Call of Neriak
Call of Haven
Call to Guild Hall
Call of Ro
Guild hall bell amenities have been changed:
Since all bells are the same now we have given each one a different look.
The Sinking Sands carpet now acts like a bell but will retain the carpet look for those who like it.

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PVP WARFIELDS (PVP Servers Only)

Antonica and Commonlands have once again become hotbeds of conflict! Will your lands be overrun or will your forces prevail against the siege?
Warfields are Good vs. Evil faction based events, with participation starting at level 10.
Discord Tokens are awarded at the end of each event, with the winning team receiving bonus tokens.
The event will stagger between Antonica and 2 hours later in Commonlands and last for 30 minutes.
The Antonica and Commonlands zones have been CHANGED to 10 level ranges from 4 to allow a wider range of skirmishes.
Event Description (Offense)
Four towers located near the three griffin towers and one near the city gate will spawn 10 minutes before the skirmish.
At the start of the event, the towers will have 5 guardian statues that will need to be destroyed by the invaders. The defenders are not able to interact with the Tower Guardians.
The Tower Guardians are protected by powerful magic but are vulnerable to players depending on their level. Each Tower Guardian has a protection spell and a color particle associated with it.
The Purple Tower Guardian will damage anyone level 31 or higher.
The Blue Tower Guardian will damage anyone level 51 or higher.
The Green Tower Guardian will damage anyone level 71 or higher.
The Red Tower Guardian is attackable by all level ranges.
The White Tower Guardian will be immune until all other guardians at that tower are defeated.
Destroying the White Tower Guardian destroys that tower.
If all four Towers are destroyed, the invaders are victorious! If any Tower Guardian is still active by the time the 30 minutes elapse, the siege fails.
Event Description (Defense)
Prevent the destruction of the Tower Guardians at each of the four towers.
The defenders have 10 minutes to prepare for the siege and must then defend all four towers for 30 minutes.
If at any point during the 30 minutes all Tower Guardians are defeated, the event ends.

PVP GENERAL

When inspecting spells and abilities on PvE servers the PVP checkbox will default to unchecked.
The PVP checkbox will only appear on an item if the PVP description differs from the PvE description.
Moved PVP Crit Mit from its own line in the persona window to part of the tooltip for toughness.
Increased spell-damage in PVP Combat by ~15% for all classes.
New Stat: PVP Critical Mitigation.
This is critical mitigation that works only on attacks made on a player from a player.
Toughness provides a bonus to PVP Critical Mitigation.
Starting at level 30 players can go to 100% AAXP on a PVP server and have no limits on how many AA points they can spend (it used to be 1.5 * level).
Disabling combat experience on a PVP server also disables experience gain from killing players.
The tooltips on mitigations (physical, elemental, arcane and noxious) now includes the amount mitigated from PVP damage as well. Note: players get a slight bonus to mitigations against PVP damage and this percent includes that bonus.
You can no longer /yell to prevent would be attackers from getting PVP credit for your death.

PVP Items

The following item effects can no longer critically hit:
Grave Elemental’s Affliction and its upgrades
Burning Affliction and its upgrades
Magical Affliction and its upgrades
Rune of Absolution now dispels all types of detrimental effects and is 5 charges.
Pumice Stone now dispels all types of beneficial effects.
Torrent and Pestilential Rain no longer have an unlimited range.
Stonewill can only trigger once every 20 seconds when in PVP Combat.
Divine Guidance now has a shorter duration rather than less triggers in PVP Combat.
Stonewill now has reduced amounts rather than a reuse time in PVP Combat.
Combat Expertise on the Grand Admiral’s Chain now includes “Greater” in name to distinguish it from the Admiral’s Chain proc.
Massive Concussive Shock no longer has an unlimited range in PVP.
PVP Spells and Abilities

Assassin

Shadow Step has had its damage reduced in PVP Combat.
Berserker

Battle Frenzy now has 10 triggers when used in PVP Combat.
Cleric

Divine Guidance now only has 10 triggers per person in PVP Combat.
Guardian

Improved Moderation’s PVP effect will now work and cause players you attack to target you from time to time and players attacking your groupmates to lose target from time to time.
Improved Moderation buff now works in PVP on groupmates.
Flat amount damage reduction from abilities like “Battle Hardening” will only reduce a PVP attacks damage by no more than 50% and will no longer be able to reduce PVP attack damage to zero. However, this still stacks with abilities such as “Last Man Standing” so it is still possible to “fail to inflict damage” but it should not happen nearly as often.

PVP Writs

Writs have been updated to be equally rewarding across all levels.
All writs now require 6 kills and grant 5 tokens.
PVP Merchants

Scions of War carrying new wares are now available in all starting cities.
All previous faction merchants have been removed and all their wares have been moved to the Scion of War marked, Discord Vintage Wares.
Prices have been modified to allow a reachable progression in gear acquisition through each level.
Other then some potions, all items are Heirloom.
PVP Tokens

A single token exchange purse has been added to the Priest of Discord for Faydark, Kunark, Void and Odus tokens.
All pre-GU53 tokens now convert to the new Discord token and you can exchange one token at a time as well.
A single currency will be used from now on, the Discord Token.
All other currency can be exchanged using the Priest of Discord.
Currency exchange rate is 1:1 and can be exchange 5 or 100 at a time.
The new token is heirloom and replaces the old Shattered Lands Discord token. As such, there are no exchange bags for this tokens.
PVP Potions

Tear of Discord now provides 3 Accuracy.
Essence of Discord now provides 3 Critical Bonus.
PVP Mounts

Disk of Chaotic Energy is now 70 speed.
Discord's Prescient Disk is now 70 speed.
Discord’s Enduring Disk is now 70 speed.

SHADER 3.0

EverQuest II now supports Shader 3.0 with new vibrant colors and depth processed by your GPU! To enable this feature, on supported cards, check the ‘Shader 3.0’ box in the Performance section of the Display options.
Note: Shader 3.0 does not support 'r_aa_blit 1’ in the eq2.ini and it should be removed if before enabling it.

STONEBRUNT HIGHLANDS

Many new quests have been added to the Stonebrunt Highlands! Seek out Sous Chef Jailaya in Moonfield Hamlet, Damodar in the Mausoleum of Scholars and Felidael in the Kejek encampment.

TRAITS

Character Traits can now be earned all the way to level 90!

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GENERAL

The normal shipping route to the Queen’s Colony and Outpost of the Overlord have been diverted, for reasons the Far Seas Trading Company is not yet willing to discuss. As a result, new players now start in Kelethin, New Halas, Neriak, or Gorowyn.
Qeynos and Freeport have been disabled as starting cities.
Removed stat cap on critical mitigation.
Removed stat cap on potency.
Raid nameds in The Sentinel’s Fate now grant more Alternate Advancement experience when killed.
Fixed an issue where a character would stand on their mount for a brief second if they summoned a mount while wielding a weapon.
Fixed an issue where using a server controlled mount, that was similar to your active mount, would cause your active mount to disappear visually.
Fixed an issue where the client would sometimes crash if minimized during a flythrough sequence.
Fixed an issue where using a group illusion while on a mount could render a character topless.
Fixed an issue causing guild halls to not be available in other copies of the exterior zone if purchased when more than one copy exists.
Increasing your defense, parry, and/or deflection skills to very high levels will no longer cause your chance to avoid attacks to go down.
Looking around while moving backwards with strafe should no longer make you reverse directions.
Corpses and treasure chests will no longer sink to the bottom if underwater.
Bartenders in Norrath’s major cities will once more sell alcoholic beverages to level 90 adventurers, having been persuaded that all rumors of unfortunate high-level drunken raiding incidents are in fact vile slander and in no way explain why Roehn Theer remains undefeated. The bartenders of Norrath encourage the responsible use of alcohol in moderation. This message was not sponsored by Roehn Theer.

USER INTERFACE

The tooltip on avoidance now shows both the normal block and uncontested block value for your character
The tooltip for stamina has been updated to better explain how it affects spell resistance.
Players can no longer change their UI while dead (this would cause the revive window to vanish).
The mouseover tooltip for tradeskill recipes will now properly display the byproduct amounts.
Mouse buttons that are bound to hotbar keys will now have shorter forms of their text displayed according to the hotbar settings.
Added new ‘Render Mounts’ option:
Render Mounts – allows you to determine whether a mount is displayed when you are in combat or not. Also allows you to disable rendering of mounts altogether.
This option is located under the Display: Animation section.

AMENITIES

The Training Dummy Supply Chest guildhall amenity now provides dummies of varying difficulty.
Raid an epic dummy! (Loot not included)
The Training Dummy Supply Chest now offers a set of grouped training dummies.
The guildhall hunter hireling now has a chance to bring back level 70 and 80 meats for provisioning use, in addition to pelts.

ITEMS

All carpets, discs and cloud type mounts should now have glide.
The Bloodgorged Choker now has resists.
Passive pet buffs from items will properly be applied to pets from Possess Essence.
Equipping an item adorned with Focus: Bruiser Stances will now drop your stances so the bonuses will be applied properly when renewing your stance.
Torrent and Pestilential Rain now only have one chance to trigger per round of AE Auto-Attacks.
Level 90 Raid Hats now all have additional effects.
The Crocodile Legends of Norrath pet is no longer attackable and cannot be killed by Area of Effect attacks.
Rockiron Nerves now correctly applies only one damage reduction effect.
Level 90 guild mounts and The Sentinel’s Fate faction mounts have had their speed and buffs increased.
Many rare drops from the heroic Sentinel’s Fate Zones are now available by speaking to Kaliba Des'Sers in Moonfield Hamlet!
All bosses of Sentinel’s Fate heroic dungeons now have new rare drops!
There are new items available for raiders on the El’Arad merchant.
Tracker Coalbear’s Cuffs of the Ursine Threat can now be worn by mages.
Added yellow slot adornments to all level 80+ mastercrafted armor.
Changed the color of the text for the blue adornment slot from dark blue to light blue so it will be easier to read.
Added resistances to all types of level 80+ mastercrafted armor.
Gravity Flux from Gravity, Staff of El’Arad will no longer teleport the target.
Nizara, City of the Nayad - “Necropolis of Lxanvon, Vol. I” pages 1-5 & “Necropolis of Lxanvon, Vol. II” pages 1-5 are no longer no-trade.
Summoning the mount from the Ykeshan Warbear whistle will now work if you are level 80 in either adventuring or tradeskilling.
Bane Warding can no longer trigger if it has triggered within the past second. It can no longer be modified and cannot critically hit.
Ancient Invigoration now regenerates every two seconds rather than every three seconds.
A great many low level items purchased from merchants in starting areas have reduced their prices.
The Brilliant Bladestopper should be more in line with the challenge getting it.
Cuffs of Definitive Power now have Molten Carnage IV.
The Timorous Deep horse merchant now sells the new guild mounts.
The item effect “Rancorous Ire” can no longer be resisted.
Ward of Elements gear no longer requires previous levels of armor to obtain it. Coin costs were added to the previous levels of armor. Patterns are no longer needed, you can purchase the higher level armor with just the mold and Void Shards. If you happen to have a pattern, you can trade it to Assilus to get the corresponding mold back.

LOOT

Drops from Hard Mode Contested fights have been improved.
Many Challenge Mode bosses now have a chance to drop additional items from the normal mode tables.
Maalus Imbued now has a higher chance to drop the raid mount.

SPELLS

Certain cosmetic pets will no longer overwrite Deity pets.
Deity pets can now be cast while moving.

Cleric
Reactive Heal and Damage spells no longer fail to trigger if the spell has already been cast and the cleric is feared, stifled or stunned.

Conjuror
Certain versions of Earthen Avatar have had their appearances changed.

Defiler
Tribal Spirit will now correctly apply the damage reduction.

Enchanter
Paranoia and Medusa’s Gaze now apply damage instantly rather than on termination.

Illusionist
Personae Reflections: Fixed an issue where the reflections would have a random hair style and hair color if a player race illusion was active.

Paladin
Paladins can no longer cancel Divine Favor after it has triggered.

Shadowknight
Death March: “On The March” will no longer fail to apply when the Shadowknight is stunned, stifled or feared.

Warden
You can no longer summon a healing grove into a wall.

ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT

Druid

Tortoise Shell no longer requires a buckler.
Guardian

Improved Moderation will now apply properly in PVE combat on PVE servers. It displays both effects at all times.
Shadowknight

Reaver’s Mania can no longer be modified except by direct means.
Shaman

Shaman now gain Shrink Servant when purchasing Summon Spirit Companion.
Spirit Companion: Active AAs will no longer drop when the character dies and resurrects.
Dazing Bash no longer requires a buckler.
Troubadour

Sonic Interference should no longer reduce the duration of damage spells.
Sonic Interference now deals a small amount of damage over time and has a chance to interrupt the target encounter every 6 seconds.
Wizard

Hail Storm now displays on the target.

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CITIZENSHIP

Players wishing to change their citizenship should now find an Ambassador with the purpose tag <Change of Citizenship> within their respective city who can give clearer guidance on exactly how to do this and where to go.

QUESTS

Henry Overwater should now offer Qeynos adventure writs to players who have betrayed from evil to good.
A Cleansing This Temple Needs: Mobs will now correctly react to the player’s possessed level instead of their actual level.
A Cleansing This Temple Needs: The counter on the quest helper should now update correctly.
Fury Epic: Restored to Glory: This quest should no longer require you to harvest mantrap roots. You should be able to acquire them by any means and the quest will update. Please note: this will only take affect if you are not currently on that stage of the quest.
Troubador Epic: Feeding the Flame of Yore: This quest should no longer require you to harvest Xegonite clusters. You should be able to acquire them by any means and the quest will update. Please note: this will only take affect if you are not currently on that stage of the quest.
Wizard Epic: Of Fire and Ice: A Codex in Crisis: Players who delete the pages of the codex prior to completing the third stage of the quest (shame on you) can obtain the pages again.
Warlock Epic: The Will of Kyrtoxxulous: Warlocks can now purchase, trade or harvest the harvest items required during the seven stage of their quest. Please note this will only affect those who are not yet on this quest stage.
Stonebrunt Highlands: The Erudin Chef: Tasting the stew Chef Bahiyya is creating during and after this quest series should provide players with a temporary benefit!
Butcherblock Mountains: Trozusk’s Challenge: Player should receive the Horn of Challenge upon accepting the quest.
Jumjum for the Soul: This quest has been slightly simplified, and Shakey scarecrow should now be more accessible.
Steamfont: Unearthing the Moon: The Grikbar Crater is less dangerous for those attempting to complete this quest.
Everfrost: Girding of Gunuk: This quest has had its number of kills required drastically reduced.
The Footsteps of Dartain: Observation: The projected erudite will no longer disappear during conversation.
In Search of Lucan: Fyr’remd Lorak should no longer disappear during conversation.
Foomby’s Stolen Goods: The directions in “Bellendis Tempestcall’s” dialog for this quest have been changed for accuracy.
Dockmaster Waulon at the Butcherblock Mountain Docks now offers his quests to adventurers level 17 or above.
Shards of the Eye of Stormhammer: The shards needed for this quest should be significantly easier to find and harvest.
The quest rewards for “Footsteps of Dartain: Ascension”, have been upgraded slightly.
Stonebrunt Frontier: Sundered Simulacrum and Visual Obfuscation should now function correctly.
The Willow Wood: Ayr'Dal who don the illusionary form of other races can no longer fool Daelyn Twinstar! He’s on to you!
It is now possible to do both the tradeskill and the adventuring versions of the sokokar quest lines (from Borbin Happens and Assistant Jones at the dock in Kylong Plains).
Neriak: Divimar G’Zule now offers her quest “The Dreadguard's Extracurricular Activities” to those level 50+ and have completed one of her city writs, even if they have completed the quest “Acts of Heresy.”
Added purpose tags to the NPCs that give out The Hole quests in Paineel.
Players can no longer turn in the daily mark quests to Jael in The Hole: Contested.
Players that exit the The Vigilant: Rescue while on Stage 3 (the escort) of The Captain's Crystal can now speak to Jithir and re-start the escort.
Players doing the Collect Elemental Cores quest will now be able too properly loot the items with group looting options set to need before greed on legendary+ items.
Miragul’s Pylactery: Anathema:
The following quests have had their quest category corrected:
Reminders of Miragul
Making Sense of Miragul, Part 2
Necromantic Neverwhere
Watching the Nasins Further
A Sorcerous Tune

TRADESKILLS

Londiar is seeking assistance from adorners in the tradeskill societies of all major cities.
Iced Pomegranate Ambrosia and Halasian Ice Brew now have stats useful to all archetypes.
The Harvesting Supply Depot and Tinkered Personal Harvest Depot now store live event tradeskill components.
Spirit-blessed arrows now have a slightly different icon.
Void-warped Wood now stacks in piles of up to 200.
Tinkering recipes of all levels now have events to counter.
Difficulty levels of greater and superior adorning recipes have been raised slightly, to give a slightly greater chance of a skill up.
Crafters wearing their Earring of the Solstice may find some more shiny red collectibles around the world.
Mastercrafted items have received an upgrade to put them more correctly inline between treasured and legendary items.
Spotted Whips now require Spotted Leather Pelts to make, as you would expect.
A new introductory crafting quest is available for new players in all 6 home cities or nearby regions (Hate’s Envy in Darklight Wood, the Nursery in Greater Faydark, The Ruins in Freeport, Oakmyst Forest in Qeynos, Gorowyn Island, and on Pilgrims’ Isle outside New Halas.)

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Research Assistants will now mention which spell levels can be upgraded.
Research times at lower levels have been decreased. You should be able to research something before out-leveling it now!

HOUSE LAYOUTS

Layout files now have 8 decimal places of accuracy rather than just 2.
Fix for some items with identical names becoming jumbled when using /load_layout (like guild hall teleporters).
NOTE: This fix upped the version number of house layout files from 4 to 5. So old layout files will not be able to be loaded.

BATTLEGROUNDS

Each tower in Smuggler’s Den now has a unique icon on the map.
Player locations will now be randomized at the beginning of a match (to help prevent players from stacking up on each other).
Joust will cause the flag and murderball to be dropped (like other teleport related abilities).
Players who attempt to pick up the relic while inside a respawn area will cause the relic to reset.
Players on the flying disk in Smuggler’s Den will be returned to the starting spot at the end of the match.
Your group or raid can no longer queue for a battleground if any member is not permitted to queue for battlegrounds.
There will no longer be a message “Player has dropped the flag” when Player captures the flag in the Battlefield of Ganak battleground.
If two teams achieve or exceed the target score for a battleground the match will result in a tie with a tied score.
Battleground icons (flags, relics etc…) will only show on the current zone and will not show when browsing maps other than the current zone.
Setting anon or roleplay on your home server to on will no longer get set to off when returning from a battleground.
Wards now add properly into battleground stats.
Healing credit for wards will only be awarded for damage prevented by wards not for regenerating of wards.
When accepting a battleground match while in combat the accept window should re-appear correctly.
You should now be able to move more freely during pregame of a battleground.
The battleground score window will show when you enter a battleground even if you have moved the window.
Pets will now have the team colors of their owners in a battleground.
You can no longer open the battleground leaderboard window unless there is data to show in that window.
You will now get credit for cliff jumpers in battleground PVP, assuming you are close enough when they die for credit.
The following items have been disabled in BGs:
Bot Made Ice Cream Cart
Mechanized Platinum Repository of Reconstruction
Vhalen’s Tribute Band
Gigglegibber Giggle Giver
Heat Guided Message in a Bottle
Gears of Klakanon, Smuggler’s Den, and Battlefield of Ganak are now available in 10-level increments to all players level 30 or higher!
All participating players will be auto-mentored down to 30 or 40 or whichever ‘base’ level range matches their character.
New battleground armor sets and accessories are also available for purchase every 10 levels to all players level 30 through 80
Additionally, level 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 mastercrafted armor has had limited amounts of toughness added, and should serve as excellent ‘starter’ sets for the battlegrounds. The sets remain otherwise unchanged
Battlegrounds that end in a tie will now reward both teams as though they won
Gears of Klakanon – the relic now resets as soon as it is dropped
1st Campaign armor sets are now available from the Scion of Belamorte! This glimmering golden armor is some of the most powerful yet, and comes with the ability to be adorned with brand new PVP-only Blue adornments!
There are 20+ brand new blue adornments available for purchase with battlegrounds tokens and usable on the new 1st Campaign armor set!
Level 30 -> 80 fabled accessories are now available for purchase from the Scion of Belamorte!
These items for sale include many of the level 80 accessories that previously had their procs disabled in BGs. The procs have had a proc limiter added, and been re-enabled for use!
There are a number of brand new level 90 fabled accessories for sale from the Scion of Belamorte!
Force of Mind and Force of Will now trigger an interrupt + 3s daze.
Capturing points in battlegrounds will now give proper credit for the Usurper achievements.
Slightly lowered the price of existing battlegrounds armor pieces. The new 1st Campaign armor prices remain unchanged
Quests that require specific world events will no longer be removed when going into a battlegrounds match if those events are not active.

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May 27, 2010 Hotfix Notes

GENERAL

* Fixed some proc effects that were not working on spell hits.

ITEMS

* The heirloom Stonebrunt prowler mounts no longer require attuning to your character, and remain tradeable.
* The Reinforced Sandals of Balance now behave the same way as the Reinforced Slippers of Balance.
* The Mark of Manaar version of the Cloak of Crystalline Depths can only be used by priests.
* Herald’s Armwraps of Disdain now have their intended Empowered Minion effect.

QUESTS

* The Nightmare is Over will no longer offer the same rewards as Severing the Head.

ROYAL PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

* Heart of Aniquilacion is now correctly a trauma effect instead of elemental.
* Inevitable Annihilation is once again an incurable curse instead of an elemental effect.
* The ramp leading to Roehn Theer should no longer occasionally become stuck in the ‘off’ state.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

* Perah’Celsis will not charm as many players as in the past. Perah’Celsis will no longer cast any AOE spells while trying to free heroes from their platforms.

[Marina]

Today’s Hotfix (Patch) fixes a bug in the Druid Ring Live Event, and includes tweaks to itemization, the new PvP Warfields, and numerous bugs in the Icy Keep raid zone. We also include the hotfix notes from May 27, 2010 which somehow got left out.

May 27th’s hotfix notes make mention of a change to Procs which were not working on spells. However, this change resulted in certain procs, specifically Pestilential Rain and Torrent, no longer working properly for melee. You can read more about this issue on the EQ2 Forums. Xelgad has responded:

Thanks for all of the information. We’ll take a look and see if we can’t get this working.

Players noticed that the cap on Arcane, Noxious, and Elemental Resists was seemingly lowered from 80% to 75%. Xelgad has clarified this change:

The cap was always 75%. The 80% you all were seeing when your resists were high enough in the persona window was a display error. The display error has been fixed, so it is now showing 75%.

Do note that that 75% is against a target that is your level. A higher level target will require higher resists to reach the 75%. Also, some spells are harder to resist than normal (you should see this effect in the spell’s description) and will need even more resists to get to 75%.

June 1, 2010 Hotfix Notes

DRUID RING EVENT

* The Defender of Growth now ports players from an already rebuilt druid ring to the one that is currently being constructed.

QUESTS

* Recycle Your Minions: Part Three: Players who have completed the quest, Recycle Your Minions: Part Three, but did not accept Damodar’s next quest, Assisting Jaswinda, can now hail Damodar again and gain the quest.

ITEMS

* Shoulderpads of the Black Death now grant the effect Empowered Minion.
* Pendant of the Ice Drake Eye and Mounted Ice Drake Scale Amulet have had potency added to them.
* Icy Keep shoulder items have had potency added to them.
* The Seeker’s of the Dark Truth faction mount should now be 65% run speed.
* Mounts for level 90 guilds should no longer require level 80 to summon the disk.

PVP WARFIELDS

* A new spell effect will now let you know if you will be rewarded for participation in the Warfields.
* · You gain the effect by reporting to one of the towers during the event.
* · The effect will cease being distributed 2 minutes prior to when the event timer ends.
* Additional detriments have been added to the Tower Guardian defense shields that affect those under level 9.

PVP ITEMS

* The Vintage Wares, Scion of War items have been updated to be used by both Good and Evil aligned clients.
* The items shared by Battleground merchants and Open PvP merchants do not require a city alignment for use.

PVP QUESTS

* Players should now be able to complete the Learning the Path, PvP Tutorial Quest by speaking the Scion of War, Vintage Wares merchant.

PVP POPULATION

* You may now obtain PvP writs in Halas by speaking to the Writ Giver near the monk trainer in Halas.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

* Waansu and Arkatanthis have had the damage of their AoE spells reduced.

NEW HALAS

* New Halasian templars can now use their Odyssey spell to return to their home city of New Halas.
* The “Locket of Escape” can now gate New Halasian citizens back to their home city of New Halas.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

* Hoarfrost Pyreflyte should no longer summon as often after he gets under 10% health.
* When entering Captain H’bri’s room a dialog should be triggered that hints at how to successfully split the encounter.
* The Frozen Corrival should no longer leash when the tank gets knocked up into the air.
* Odaufe and Kastus should no longer wipe hate until much later into their fight.
* The quest “Knocked Out Cold” should now update on killing normal or challenge mode encounter of Vrewwx.
* It should no longer be possible to ignore the abominable ice-smashers when battling challenge-mode Vrewwx.
* Vrewwx’s spell Frozen Solid should now correctly cause the victim to lose hate positions.
* When killed Challenge-mode Vrewwx should no longer allow you to retrigger the encounter.
* Some tweaks have been done to the Frozen Corrival encounter to hopefully prevent players from crashing when he splits into adds.
* The Statue of the Snowbeast should no longer continue to fight once he has been killed. Someone gave him the memo he is supposed to be dead…

[Marina]

GENERAL

* Effects can once again proc on an AE autoattack.

DRUID RING EVENT

* Tunarian supply officers will now buy items for coin, like many other merchants.
* The druid portal to Nektulos Forest now lands adventurers closer to the druid ring.
* An issue preventing players from harvesting magiliths after they died has been fixed.
* The bug that prevented looting A Floret of Growth with certain group loot settings has been fixed.

SPELLS

* Ancestral Sentry can once again be cast on raid and group friends. It can no longer be cast on pets or NPCs.

ROYAL PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

* Plane Cracker should no longer occasionally cast if Approaching Equilibrium is slain before reaching Roehn Theer.
* Approaching Equilibrium should now despawn almost immediately upon being slain.
* Void-charged Soul and Star-charged Soul should now correctly be dispelled from both players when they successfully reach each other.
* Void-charged Soul and Star-charged Soul now have a 3s delay after being applied before they begin reacting to other nearby charged souls.

BATTLEGROUNDS

* Hook arrow will no longer cause the victim to drop the flag.

[Marina]

DRUID RING EVENT

* Repeatable quests in the Feerrott can now be turned in to the Defender of Growth.
* While a druid ring is being constructed, a small shrub will appear in its center. Clicking it will show how much progress has been made towards activating the ring.
* Quest journals and dialogs for the "Motes of Growth" and "Chosen Foes" have been edited to be more clear and consistent.

USER INTERFACE

* Deleting a repeatable quest from your quest journal that you have already completed one or more times will now properly remove it from the active quest window as well.

ITEMS

* Adornments should now work correctly on lower level tradeskilled cloaks, and on orbs (tradeskilled or otherwise).
* The 7-piece bonus from the summoner Fiery Destruction set now properly applies to the wearer’s pet.
* The self contained cloud can now be turned into a house item and vice versa.

AMENITIES

* The standard bearer should now have the correct description.

QUESTS

* Players that see Henry Overwater, the Qeynos Representative, and Everian Mossway, the Kelethin Representative, in Paineel, should now also see Lady Vienna Sanditerra, the New Halas Representative.

BLESSINGS

* Grin of the Trickster now requires the caster to have someone else targeted and properly applies the increased avoidance.

PVP WARFIELDS

* Chaos Flag is now a beneficial buff and lasts for 1 hour.
* The call to arms for Warfields now correctly states the zone it is in.
* All eligible players will be rewarded equally for participation in the Warfields.
* A few changes to Most Wanted Posters have been made to remove the focus on the Warfield's reward and back to PvP fights.

PVP MERCHANTS

* Discord’s Prescient and Enduring Disks can be exchanged for tokens through the Priest of Discord for a limited time.

PVP ITEMS

* Discord’s Prescient Disk now grants increased power and toughness instead of in combat speed.
* Discord’s Enduring Disk now grants increased health and toughness instead of in combat speed.
* Discord’s Prescient and Enduring Disks are now available through the Battleground vendors.

PVP WRITS

* Most Wanted Posters now have 20 Charges.
* The reuse timer for the Most Wanted Posters is now 5 Minutes.
* You may still obtain a new writ while in combat.

KALADIM

* Loot of the inappropriate level has been removed from the drop tables for the Kragback Champion and The Master Miner named encounters.

FROSTFANG SEA

* Good aligned players who auto-mentor should now be able to receive all of the level 10-70 New Halas city writs.
* Cordt Metalpatcher, the mender at White Lodge, is now available to everyone, despite their citizenship.
* Agrim MacTosh, the new broker at White Lodge, is available to everyone, despite their citizenship.
* Helfreck Lundgren, the new Housing Goods merchant at Erollis Dock, is available to everyone, despite their citizenship.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

* Fixed a crash issue related to using projectiles during the Frozen Corrival encounter.
* Some tweaks have been done to the Frozen Corrival encounter to hopefully prevent players from crashing when he splits into adds.
* The Frozen Corrival should no longer have a chance of leaving his chest floating in midair after being defeated.
* Kastus and Odaufe should once again combine at 10%. Some tweaks have also been made to keep the encounter for excessively shuffling hate around between random players.
* Ice Maidens within the zone should no longer show as broken encounters.
* All trash encounters in the zone have had their health slightly decreased.
* Coin has been added as a reward to some more difficult named encounters within the Keep.

[Marina]

GENERAL

* Buffs cast on summoner pets like “Howl of the Damned” will persist through pet reloads.

DRUID RING EVENT

* The progress-tracking sign will now show up properly in Sinking Sands and Jarsath Wastes.

TRADESKILLS

* The adorning daily quest giver should now reliably have a quest feather displayed.

PVP ITEMS

* Charm rewards from BG and PvP merchants should now activate if in PvP Combat and with the correct item equipped.
* The Priest of Discord has ceased to offer exchanges for both Discord’s Prescient and Enduring Disks.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

* The two versions of 4-rune Theer should now have slightly different names.
* As long as enough people are alive, the Charged Soul spells and Inevitable Annihilation should no longer cast on the same person.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

* Looting the Rook key from the Frozen Corrival should no longer respawn the encounter.
* The Frozen Corrival should no longer break encounter when pulled the rear wall of his room.
* Vrewwx’s Deathchill Flames are no longer dispellable and also grant players the ability to move while casting.
* Vrewwx should no longer despawn when leaving his platform. Instead he becomes immune to damage until he is returned to it.
* The Cloak of Melting Ice should now be able to be looted by all classes.
* Time between summoning adds for the Ice Maiden D’Ina encounter have been increased slightly.

[Marina]

DRUID RING EVENT

* The druid rings in Feerrott and Loping Plains are now safe destinations for newbies to zone in.
* Kurista, Elwe, Dalarim and Tolla Clorto no longer change appearances every time they zone.
* The Defender of Growth guards are now much more powerful, to better protect the druid rings.
* A couple harvest nodes near the Stonebrunt Highlands druid ring were left floating when the terrain was adjusted. This has been fixed.


PVP WARFIELDS

* Antonica will once again broadcast the call to arms.


PVP ITEMS

* Fallen Foe Charms can now be used by Wardens.


PVP POPULATION

* The Priest of Discord in New Halas now resides closer to the PvP merchants.


UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

* Vaclaz Encounter: Crippling Nausea no longer stuns players. Instead it causes their actions to have a chance to impede those around them. Players hit with keen insight no longer can be hit with crippling nausea. Players with crippling nausea will never be picked to handle the keen insight adds. Roekillik beastmasters now have more health.
* The Taehric Construct and Vaclaz no longer debuff player’s physical and Noxious mitigation levels.
* Rathgar will now hit players with Deathblow once per 55 secs rather than once per 45 secs.
* Master Syfak’s Roekillik Deathbringers will not cast festing plague as quickly as they did before.


The Vigilant: Rescue

* Amahn Prime Nirel now summons flames and fire more quickly during the fight.

[Marina]

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.

[Marina]

POPULATION

Gantrik Hammerstein is once more available to provide the Far Seas Trading Company with city festival supplies in the Isle of Mara.

PVP QUESTS

Learning the Path should now update correctly when completing a PvP Writ.
UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

Energized Taehric Construct (Challenge Mode) : Players now have more time to kill the animated taehric energies before they are absorbed by the construct.

THE HOLE: DEMITRIK’S BASTION

The roekillik sisters “Tiriini and Shirinu” should now only summon one protector per summoning spell if not slain before spell finishes. One sister summoning two protectors should no longer occur.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

Respawn points within the zone have been reworked. Players should now be able to revive a bit closer to where having died.
Normal Mode Vrewwx should more reliably cast his Ice Dragon Freeze spell on those who it should be cast on. Be aware, this means more players will likely get frozen! You might not want to be standing toe to toe with him when he casts this spell!
Normal Mode Vrewwx should no longer knock players who are frozen up in the air.
The Flythrough for either mode of Vrewwx should only play the first time players speak with Vrewwx.
Players who have completed the quest “Knocked Out Cold” should now be able to open the main keep door regardless if they have killed the previous named to unlock the door. This also applies to a new instance.

[Marina]

GENERAL

Many instances from Deserts of Flame and Kingdom of Sky are now persistent. This includes Ancient’s Table, Cazel’s Mesa, Scornfeather Roost, The Halls of Fate, The Blackscale Sepulcher, The Den of the Devourer, The Vaults of El’Arad, and The Nest of the Great Egg.

ITEMS

The Monstrous Stud of Might now procs Rancorous Ire.
The Glowing Rune Covered Tome of Sorrow now additional has Manawell III and is usable by Priests.
The Sublime Cestus has had its proc changed from Rancorous Ire to Scornful Presence II.

LON ITEMS

The Legends of Norrath item “Bottled Breath” should no longer affect the reuse timers of other healing abilities or potions.

POPULATION

The High Council of Gorowyn has noticed a large number of visitors getting lost in their fine city, and has asked the Academy of Logistics to plan some civic improvements. Please do not be alarmed if you encounter any of the Academy’s engineers and surveyors in your travels around Gorowyn.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

Vaclaz Released (challenge mode): Energy clash will only affect at most 6 players every time it goes off, and it cannot be triggered more than once per 20 secs even if Vaclaz and one of his essences have the same target for an extended period of time.
Vaclaz Released (challenge mode): Procs and passive effects will no longer trigger the spreading of the toxic inversion curse.
Vaclaz the Annihilator now drops a 2 handed brawler weapon in addition to his other drops.
Horraastaas: Players on fire, as well as those not on fire, doing damage to Horraastaas will now generate less fungal spores than before.
Horraastaas: Players do not have to wait as long once Flames of the Pyre dies off before being able to immolate themselves again.
The Taehric Construct: Eradication mode will not generate as much spell damage bonus for the construct. It will still grant a massive melee bonus, as before.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

Vrewwx Icyheart should once again spawn correctly.

[Marina]

ITEMS

The Skinbreach Silk Cord should now have resists.
Band of the Corrupter should now also proc 75 Agility.
Icy Keep: Many of Vrewwx’s Drops from the Challenge Mode have been adjusted to be more in line with the Difficulty.

UNDERFOOT DEPTHS

Vaclaz and Vaclaz Released: Non-Priests are now given precedence when choosing who will receive keen insight in order to disrupt the roekillik energymaster adds. A priest will only be chosen for this task if there are no other raid members available.