Friday, April 11, 2008
Love Potion Number One
When I was on my way to Neriak earlier I stumbled upon a kerra questgiver. She was standing next to Dog Trapper Lake in Commonlands (the one closest to the Neriak entrance), not far from the Wailing Caves. She had a quest called "Love potion number one". I looked it up and it was an Erollisi day quest, apparently the only one still in effect (I sure didn't find any others for the Freeport area). I headed over to Antonica and -1380,-39,-877 for the first flower. The waypoints messed up and sent me halfway across the zone in the wrong direction. Then I tried again and it gave me a different location. If you have EQ2 maps it is listed on there, but there are many things noted in Antonica so it can be hard to find. The flowers (only need one) grow along the beach up by ruins of Caltorsis.
Then it was on to the zone the Graveyard for the next flower. I already used up my call of the overlord spell and had 7 minutes left on it so I used my call of Ro instead. Then I just had to zone to Sinking Sands and thereafter choose return to Freeport from the carpet. The Graveyard is located both off Commonlands, and the location of the flower is -25,-9,63.
Then it was time to kill a fairy, I had heard that any of them would work, including the ones in Darklight Wood, so I headed over there. I got the update and the approximate loc for the Sullian fairies is 49, -36, -171.
Next step was to see a fortune teller in the Wanderlust fair in Darklight Wood (you now see why I chose the fairies in Darklight Wood). Waypoint is 246,-19,-1. She wouldn't talk to me and I was wondering if quest was broken, but then I realized that right next to her is where you have to brew the love potion.
Next step was to find Luc in Enchanted Lands, in a tavern close to the docks. It was easy enough to use the carpet to Sinking Sands from the Wanderlust fair, then to East Freeport and then use the ticket to Nektulos Forest for a quick zoning to Enchanted Lands. Yep, he is in the tavern right by the docks and after you speak to him you receive your reward, an Erollisi Mistletoe.
Pretty neat, but oh so difficult to place (at least in my house). There is an option to choose that says stand under mistletoe but it does nothing (and no rent reduction either), guess because I was the only person in my house? I don't know but it was an easy quest (scales to level).
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Please see here
Today someone is posting comments and saying please see here, when I reject the comment they post another one. Why? Because it is a spam link for this useless program called XP antivirus. If you get it on your blog just reject it, don't click on the link. Some people need to get a life, eh?
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What to do with an halasian bearskin rug
I occasionally hear people talk about this and I mention that I have a bridge set up in my house but I doubt anyone ever goes there except some friends. So here is a picture of the bridge along with the examine window for the rug. I'm not sure why there looks to be a rug missing, it didn't look that way when I took the screenshot, maybe my pets were playing tricks on me /shrug.
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Power of Hate quest
There are different places to receive the quest. Some quest info I found said that for Freeport it would be North Freeport (and it probably is) but I found a quest npc that gave the same quest in West Freeport close to the gate to the Commonlands. Reward? A house item called the Fires of Anguish.
As a side note, I'm not sure what they did to the gamma. The last patch said they re-set it. I set my gamma again (I saved the settings of course) and it was fine then I log into today and the gamma looks different. Okay, so I re-set it again but then it looks messed up after I zone anyways. I'll figure it out I guess or maybe they will fix it with the next patch.
Shard of Hate - new zone
Shard of Hate is a raid x 4 zone and you have to be at least level 75 to enter the zone. I zoned in there for a quick look today and the little bit I saw it does look a lot like the old plane of Hate from EQ1 (nicer graphics of course, but still). The mobs at the entrance are level 80^^^ epic x 4.
Word of note, when I tried to double-click on the entrance to Shard of Hate from the Neriak zone (might be same for other access places) it wouldn't do anything. I then right-clicked to see if there were different options. The top choice is examine and the second one is enter the portal.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
EQ2 hotfix for April 10 - names and macro updates
This is what was done today:
Hotfix April / 10 / 2008
TRADESKILLS
The names of the recipes for imbued cobalt brigandine leggings and imbued cobalt plate greaves have been corrected. Imbued cobalt reverent coat now correctly requires a cobalt reverent coat as the primary component instead of raw cobalt ore.
UI
The number of allowed commands per macro has been increased to 24.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Today's EQ2 hotfix - April 9
This is what the programmers fixed today:
Hotfix April / 9 / 2008
GAMEPLAY
Venril Sathir will no longer cast Fatalisis immediately after Toxic Infusion, and the Mysmerian Soulcube should work much more reliably.
ITEMS
Indicolite Breastplate and Edict of the Whispered Word have had their effects altered to protect the user from non-direct AOE spells.
CLIENT DETAILS
Color Profile changes:
• Gamma values are now saved and restored on exit per-monitor (for multiple-monitor support).
• Reset the contrast slider to the default of 1.1, which should help if the game appears washed-out following GU44.
Now time to go look for that warg quest again.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Server down - April 8 - Game Update 44
The EQ2 servers went down at about 7 am PST this morning and estimated downtime is 3 hours. Yep, it is GU 44 being done.
Here is the lowdown:
Game Update #44 April / 8 / 2008
HIGHLIGHTS
The Shard of Hate is now open for high level raid groups willing to try their mettle against the Maestro. The influx of hatred into the world is affecting many throughout Norrath with increased hostility clearly evident.
You can now choose to show off your equipped bow by displaying it in place of your melee weapons.
Two new armored wargs have been discovered. Potential owners should look for the new beasts in Kunark.
GAMEPLAY
Entrances to the Shard of Hate have been activated in Neriak and Nektulos Forest.
Not to be outdone by their Qeynosian counterparts, the Coalition of Tradesfolke in West Freeport have refurbished their headquarters to provide more convenient facilities for crafters.
You can now choose to display your equipped bow instead of your melee weapons by going to Persona->Options and checking Display Ranged Weapon.
The Village of Shin's monk challenges will now scale to provide experience for players above level 70.
Several avatar encounters have been rebalanced to provide a better play experience for players.
LOOTING
Raid Leaders can now create designated raid looters by right-clicking their names in the raid window and choosing add/remove looter.
Designated raid looters are able to assign loot as if they were a raid leader when the group loot method is set to “Leader Only”.
It’s now easier for the group leader to loot an item with the Leader Only loot method.
MOUNTS
There are two new armored wargs now available in Kunark.
Mounts will automatically be removed while climbing a wall and should return once you have reached a flat surface.
Shallow water will no longer scare away your horses, rhinos and wargs.
COMBAT
Ranged ammo has been adjusted to have a minimum level that represents the start of the tier. Ranged weapons will no longer scale down to that level unless the ammo is significantly lower than the weapon. For example, all ferrite ammo is now level 70 to use. Level 80 ranged weapons will use level 80 for calculations now instead of scaling down to level 70. Overall damage of current level 80 items will stay the same.
Combat text will now display if you double attack, flurry, ranged double attack, etc.
Melee hit rates should now be slightly better against orange con mobs.
ITEMS
Strength Imbued rings will now proc from ranged attacks.
Mitigation has been increased on all low fabled raid armor sets. Boots, Gloves, Bracers, Shoulders and Helms have a higher chance of dropping.
Di'Zok Ceremonial cloth armor is now more comparable to tranquil swiftcloth. The poisons Rilissian Vital Stirke, Di'Zok Mental Strike, and Regimental Elixir of Combat are now more effective.
The Collapsible Fishing Pole can now be used from inventory slots.
Collection items that you don't need will now con grey.
The Fabled Eagle’s Talon should do slightly more damage .
The Di`Zok Bow of Flame is now a 7 second delay and should do slightly more damage.
QUESTS
The number of initiates need to update "The Trial of Tynnonium" has been reduced to four.
Increased the drop rate on pages 8 and 9 in “An Old Memoir”.
The Pirate Jones encounter for the Swashbuckler Epic quest should be a little easier.
Those participating in the quest "Once a Marine, Always a Marine!" in Jarsath Wastes should no longer be mislead by quest icons to speak with Necromancer Corporiss at the beachfront.
Deputy Hopple in the Enchanted Lands is no longer trying to take twice as many apple muffins as he had asked for.
Players on exchange servers can now obtain three quests previously unavailable on those servers because they are given out by guides. Seek out NPCs in the Commonlands, Antonica, and Everfrost.
Those that switched sides during the Bloodline Chronicles quest series will now be able to continue on and get the 7th quest in the series from the side you last chose.
TRADESKILLS
Harvesting tool buffs are now activated by using the tool, and can be cancelled. The effects will now persist through death.
The Tradesman Service quest from each crafting society's Grandmaster now also awards a simple cloak (those who have already completed the quest can purchase it from the Grandmaster).
Grandmasters in the five starting cities now offer some new quests for tradeskillers who have assisted them previously.
All handcrafted and mastercrafted chest and leg armor from 50-59 can now be imbued.
A lost recipe for a tynnonium stool has been recovered by carpenters.
Tradeskill Introduction handbooks for each city faction now include information about where to respec crafting professions.
Effects from the provisioner-made drinks The Jester's Cap and The Queen's Masquerade now follow you through zoning
The recipe book can now be filtered by classes that can use the final product of each recipe.
SPELLS
Froglok
Fervor of Marr should now apply properly to the player.
Priest
Priests will receive a new level 80 spell automatically called Cure Curse. Be on the lookout for certain encounters to have special effects that are only curable with this spell.
Guardian
Call to Arms line now includes ranged skill.
Templar
Redoubt line now includes ranged skill.
Ranger
The hawk will no longer break stealth.
The Focus Aim line now has a group component which buffs the groups melee weapon skills and weapon accuracy.
Improved the damage on the offensive stance proc, melee based combat arts and faster reuse ranged attacks.
The Bleeding Cut line has had its duration lowered to 24 seconds.
Trick Shot, double Shot and Leg shot lines have had their casting times reduced to .5 seconds
Troubador
Harmonization should no longer increase the immunity of Jester’s Cap.
Dirge
The Cacophany of Blades line will now proc from ranged attacks
ACHIEVEMENTS
Summoner
Minion’s Warding should no longer break invisibility after zoning.
Guardian
The icon on Lay Wastes was altered so that it’s more apparent that it shares a reuse timer with the Assault line. The prose should mention this as well.
ZONES
Antonica
Evil players should now evacuate near Thundering Steppes all the time.
Commonlands
Good players should now evacuate near Nektulos all the time.
Chelsith
All five boss NPCs in Chelsith now spawn, an increase over the 2 out of 5 that would spawn previously.
Kaladim
A number of Kaladim patrols have had their respawn time increased.
Fens of Nathsar
The Tangrin has been retuned.
Chardok and Sebilis
Adjustments have been made to Chardok’s and Sebilis’ named NPCs Those that were level 85+ were lowered to 84, had their health increased significantly and DPS slightly. Additionally, certain nobles had abilities added to their repertoire. They also have a chance to drop master spells between 71 and 75.
Veeshan’s Peak
The personal treasure of many inhabitants of Veeshan’s Peak has been increased in power.
All Veeshan’s Peak item sets have been given additional focus effects and increased stats.
Venril Sathir’s Lair
Venril Sathir now has a chance to drop first tier armor set breastplates in addition to existing drops.
The Templr of Kor-Sha
The Overking now has a chance to drop first tier armor set breastplates in addition to existing drops.
CLIENT DETAILS
The client will automatically enable a low-memory mode when you are running low on memory. The low-memory mode will downsample far away textures and unload geometry that hasn’t been drawn in a while. The low-memory mode should generally be invisible.
Performance settings were adjusted slightly for better rendering at lower qualities without significantly impacting performance.
Flora will now only be rendered on High Quality settings and above.
Objects will not disappear as quickly on lower settings
The client is Large Address Aware, meaning that you are much less likely to run out of memory if you have 3GB or more of RAM and are running either the 64-bit versions of Windows or have modified your boot.ini to support 3GB user address space.
Color Profile changes:
If you have a desktop color profile configured (or your gamma ramp changed), the client is better about restoring your settings when it exits.
The client no longer overwrites your color profile settings with its own. Instead, the gamma values in the Options -> Display -> Color Correction modify the desktop color profile settings. This means that if all of the client's Color Correction settings are left at defaults (brightness at 0.0, contrast at 1.0, gamma values at 1.0) the client will use your desktop color profile settings.
Crashes should be better about restoring your color profile.
UI
Spell icons should no longer tint during casting or recovery.
Whoah they actually addressed the issue with 64 bit windows too! As you might remember, I used to run Windows 64 bit until it crashed (nuff said) and I couldn't find my disc for it so I loaded up Windows XP for it.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Lore and legend Drolvarg - Karnor's castle
I have done a lot of the lore and legends, but the lore and legend drolvarg was one of the ones I hadn't gotten around to yet. I decided to go there today and although it wasn't a solo zone (at least for me) my intent was to get the lore and legend book and get out of there. Every important mob on the way to the book sees invis. I ran the wrong way once (that waypoint path got all glitchy) and I ran into some skeletons that didn't see invis (but at least I got achievement experience for discovering that area).
I'm not a monk, and although my fd reuse time has been shortened through AA points as much as I could, it still takes about 2 minutes to re-pop. It took me a while to get there, but I made it with only one death (I misjudged how many drolvargs could be bashing on me at one time).
The drolvargs at the entrance are level 72^^^ heroic, but the drolvargs quickly go up to 74^^^ heroic and there are some 75^^^ heroics as well. Close to where the book is there is also a level 80^^^ heroic standing around (I didn't stop to say hi).
The book is located in the Commander's room in Karnor's Castle (located off Kylong Plains) and the book is called "Man or Beast: the Drolvarg". The book is in a small box right next to a bed in The Commander's quarters located at -177, -42, 54. When you put your curser over it, you get a loot icon, double click on box, it will go to "use" and once it is done with that you get the book in your inventory.
So how do you get to the book? Well, this is the best way: enter the main building past the two guards, go forward (straight), go through the first room and then over the moat. After the moat, take a left. This brings you to the Rhino's stables. They are non aggro (good place to fd when you are followed by a gang of drolvargs).
Go all the way up the stairs (at about halfway up the stairs the path might tell you hey it's over here, but it isn't). When you get to the top of the stairs, make a left. At the first junction make a right and go straight until you have to go right. If you see the 80^^^ heroic you know you are close. There will be two level 74s guarding the entrance to the Commander's quarters. As soon as you get through the little hallway, make an immediate left. There is a wandering officer in the room, but you can easily observe his path and avoid him, double click on the box, get the book and port out of there.
Was it worth it? Well the repair bill wasn't that high and there are tons of drolvargs out in Kylong Plains which will make it a whole lot easier to complete this quest.
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