Hotfix Wed Oct 28, 2009

Posted on SOE / EQ2 Fourms by Kiara
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=461649

ACHIEVEMENTS

New Achievements have been added! Test your skill with three new types of Achievements: Flawless Victory, Sense of Urgency and Shorthanded Victory achievements have been added to Rise of Kunark and The Shadow Odyssey zones.
ITEMS

Equipment with pet buffs should no longer experience stacking issues which cause the cancellation of multiple pet buffs when removing a single piece of armor.
Jewelry items purchased from Lavastorm and the Moors of Ykesha are now heirloom attuneable.
The “Blanket of Fog” should now be placed as a red puzzle cube then after placed should retain its fog effects.
The “Blanket of Fog” should now change into a red puzzle box when turned off by the defogifier.
The Necklace of the Plague has been increased to 12% base damage.
Hallow’s Gallows now grants ranged crit.
Frostburn and Mutagenic Burst now give larger gains when stacked.
The appearance of the Ceremonial Robe of the Brethren has been corrected.
MIRAGUL’S PLANAR SHARD

Miragul Encounter (Hard mode) : Miragul’s Arcane impairment now only affects spells. Miragul’s Physical Impairment now only affects auto attack and combat arts.
USER INTERFACE

The placeholder detriment icons were removed from the raid window.
The raid window’s font-size was decreased and the overall window is a little more compact.

 

Kingdom of Skyfilled nights

Well last night i had logged chubby in and really had nothing for him to do, so i went ahead and logged in Cinderbella my lil Shadowknight for some fun and adventure in the Kingdom of Sky zones.

So i was looking to see where my lvl 55 SK could work in without getting her arse handed to her. So i searched Wikia very quickly and found that TT (Tenebrous Tangle Timeline) was right up in my level range 56-60.

Now i am really now looking to gain any levels on my SK i am happy with her at lvl 55 for the time being, my goal has been to take her thru all the zones and finish off the timelines while in that zone, and this is what i was doing last night.

Last nights portion of my journey kept me by the main entrence of TT, there are a few repeatable quest (5) that will provide some decent AA points, and currently i have my slider at 100% for AA. The Quest that i was working on were the following:
1. A Basket Full of Serpents
2. A Basket Full of Tangleflies
3. A Basket Full of Tasty Lettuce
4.A Basket Full of Yellow Jackets
and i will go into more details of these quest in just a few minutes.
So the jest of these quests are to kill X amount of the Serpents, Tangiflies, Walking flower things, & the Yellow Jackets and you will gain X amount of AA and Gold.
In order to get these quest there are baskets thruought the zone and if you scroll over them it was display what they are, Next you click on the basket and it places a basket in your bags at which if you examine the baskets that are in your bags a quest will pop up. Now you have to Accept the quest and start you killing spree. Once you have gathered all the X amounts you needs you can go and turn in to the lil froglok behind the ruins near the front entrence (60, 22, 208). Now i did forget to mention that there is a quest that you need to finish before these baskets will become clickable that quest is “A Meeting With Grumglub” once that is complete the baskets will become clickable and you can do these over and over again.

So i did about 15 sets ofthese and gained 3 AA points, my SK is now sitting at 68 AA and is well twinked out for being a lvl55 Sk.
Also doing all of this and getting coin for completing each quest as well as the trash that i sold to the vendor i made 3 plat and some change, and thats not including the things that i placed on the broker last night either. So i plan on venturing a little futher into TT tonight and see what i can do. Also i almost forgot to mention that i defeated the dragon on top of the ruins and all the Draktoa around that area as well.

Now on to the crashing that i have been having, i have been receiveing memory error and critical errors due to Out of Memory since GU53 went live, i have been researching this to no end and found in the fourms that there is indeed something with the last update that is causing the memory leak, SOE is well aware of this and is in the process of correcting this on Tuesday morning or Wed morning there was a post from Rothgar stating that the memory error has been looked at and has been corrected in the last hotfix which was Wed Morning, i logged in last night and was messing around i went to extreme setting because i was running fine on my machine before GU53 at these settings and BAM with in 5 minutes i crashed. Now i did lower down to Balanced and i did not crash at all last night at those settings so i can say that yes they did correct part of the issue but not all. So i am going to continue to look over the post and see what others are finding.

Also i came across a post on the fourms talking about the new Streaming EQ2 client and was courious about this and was reading it. It is currently only for the test server but it has a faster install time of the game and gives you just the basic areas, as you zone into areas that you’ve never been to before it downloads the zone to your pc, if you are new to the game this will take a while when zoning but once you have that zone you can get back to it without the dl beacuse you already have it now on the pc, they are looking at this becasue alot of folks were complaining about the large download times for the client and this is a fresh start to a new begining, i can agree that this is a great idea, i went ahead and tried it , i was Downloaded and installed and had the basic zones downloaded with in 30 minutes and i am running on DSL 1.5Mb/p/sec. and the UI on this amazing, i truely cant wait till they release this from beta and have it for the live servers.
Kudos SOE on a job well done, you listened to your client base and made some changes..grats now get the rest of the bugs fixed will ya..lol. This is again in beta and can be found on fourms just search for streaming live EQ Client and it should bring up the link.

Over all it was a great time visiting an old zone that i spent alot of time in when chubby was a youngster and now is little sister is visiting these areas and hopefully she will be able to visit other areas that he has not been too.

untill next time, Happy Hunting In Norrath!!!!!!!!!!

~Chubby~

 

Monday Mahem

Well last night was just another night i logged in found that i made 54 gold which is just a drop in the bucket from what i use to make on my shinie farms, which i need to pick back up.

But nothing of intrest was happening, i was mainly the only one on and couldnt get in the grove, i ventured back to Kunark and completed 3 city writs (Razorfangs, Stonegazers, & Succulents) to gain some more status points and some trash and coin.

Took a break to watch the news and thats all she wrote, zonked out on the couch and woke up at 3am to head off to bed.

Tonight i plan on getting something together and running a few zones if any guildies are on, or maybe just shinnie hunt a few zones, i know SS gives good shinies and so does LP, LF, & Steamfont, not to mention butchblock & Kaladim.

But who knows what actully is in store for my toons while in Norrath, only the gods know and my fate is in their hands.

Happy Hunting in Norrath

~Chubby~

 

Weekend Update Oct 23-25, 2009

Well not much was done this weekend, i keep fighting the zone crash (Memory error / Critical errors applications Eq2 ran out of memory) and this happens when i zone, i turned graphics down to balanced and it seems to have slowed the crashing down, i was told this was a problem with eq2 and not my PC but i’m not too sure, i have tried to research this but running into alot of dead ends. If anyone knows please let me know how to fix this problem, i’m running Win XP sp3, i have GTX8800 718mb vid card and i have 3 gigs of RAM on the PC. 32 bit. So if you need other info just let me know and i’ll post it.

But i mainly crafted alot of Nights of Dead items from book I & II and was decorating th guild halls, i also have been venturing to kunark and completeing Writs in JW, just so i can get the status for Chubby, guild is already at 80 and there is no effect on GH level sice we are maxed till expansion. We have several Bone Dividers and hedges for the instance and quest, i have placed scones, coffins, and scraecrow about the place, i did notice last night when i was placing more stuff that we reached our Max limit on items in GH, Damn that might make folks mad, so i am stopping at that note.

Basically thats all i really did this weekend not much going on,
i plan on leveling Cinderbella the next few weeks to make her 80 and working on her tradeskill as well.

So hopefully by mid Nov. i will have 2 level 80’s, i still have alot to work on with Chubby, i need to get his AA to 200 before expansion is out, i need t4 armor, heck i would be happy with T2 armor Full set i think i am 3 pieces away from a full set, darn Shards. and i want my mythical before expansion too, all i need is VP and cant seem to find a raid for it with out paying someone 100Plat.

Well i am done ranting on want needs to be done
Untill next time Happy Hunting in Norrath

~Chubby~

 

Weekend Oct 16 -18 Update

Well Friday night i got to log in on my dads pc and it ran just fine it was a little sluggish but an adjustment to the settings and i was good to go.
i dabbled in some of the Nights of the Dead content added for halloween, i completed 2 haunted houses 1 in Freeport and 1 in Looping plains, i also was able to find the hedge maze in Nek forest off from the docks Hallow Cauldren i think it was called copleted that but need to go back thru and get the rest of the shinies to complete the shiny quest.
I didnt stay on all that long, due to not able to concentrate on things due to lack of sleep.

Saturday I really didnt get logged in, i was spending time with the wife and kids because my brother came in to stay with dad for the weekend.

Sunday i was in briefly to check the broker and that was it.

So not much on the gaming nextwork on my end.
I did grab my pc and it no sits at my dads house but i was having a hard time connectijng it to the intrernet, now i would think i could connect the internet wire into my ether slot and i wuld get connection, yeah not so much, i have no clue i could get the internet to work, so i just hooked his pc back up makes no sense to me.

Anyways untill next time,

Happy Hunting in Norrath !!!

~Chubby~

 

Quick update

Ok so everything is going as planned, mom came out of Surgery ok, sore but ok. She is being moved to a rehab center for her knee today and will be there for a week or until she is able to walk on her own again . So i will be staying at my dads house with him making sure he is alright as well as running between my own house and getting kids to where they have to be and giving my wife a break, Thankfully my older brother will be comiong home tommorrow and leaving Sunday eve, and i will get a small break for it all.

Other than that no gaming this week for me, havent had time i was going to get on last night but could not keep my eyes open and decided to just goto bed at 930pm and still woke up late for work COMON now..lol

I should be in game tonight if all goes well, hopefully the new PC my dad has will be able to run Eq2 at the lowest settings if not i need to run to my house for a video card that will..lol

Untill next time Happy Hunting in Norrath!!!!!!!

~Chubby~

 

RL Catching up with me

Well not much to report over the last week or since i last updated not much has been happening in game, i’ve been falling asleep early and not getting game time in, this may be due to Real Life catching up or the fact that my wife has us running ragged, Mondays both kids have soccer practice, Tuesdays Daughter has soccer practice, Wed Son has soccer practice and Cub scouts right afterwards, Thursdays is Girl scouts and PTO meetings, Friday night is high school football night , Saturday is spent at the soccer field since both kids have games and then usually work around the house and Grocery shopping , Sundays is Church and what ever my wife can find for me to do…So no wonder i have been dosing off at the keyboard or on the couch before 9pm.

Now this week we have a new monkey wrench in the mix my mom is having Knee Surgery and i have to take care of my dad, so this week i am staying in the evenings at his house then going to pick the kids upa dntake them to school then head to work. I just installed Eq2 on dads PC and currently updating all patches as we speak it says i have an hour left but then jumps to 4 hrs so by morning i should be ready so tomorrow night i should be back in game.

So again Real life is catching up with and hopefully after this week i should be back o track, as soccer is over after this saturday then Basketball starts in a few weeks Wooooohoooooooo not.

Untill next time Happy hunting in Norrath

~Chubby~

 

Weekend updated 10/2 -10/5/2009

Well this weekend was alot of fun, i had Cinderbella logged in most of the weekend and was working on getting her geared and her AAA’s whatever they are called now AA, AAA, AAAAA or Ehh??

So Friday night i logged in Cinderbella and was looking over her L&L quest and other quest that she had and where would be a good area to go and grind, i have already disabled her combat exp by moving the slider to 100% on AA because i want to get her AA up before i move to the next area, Also i missed a lot of content on Chubby and want to revisit the zones and work thru each timeline, i figured i can go back and start and work thru each zone. Right now a few others needed to goto Kla’kan on their alts and i was going to join them.

There was only 4 of us in the zone, grabbing all the shinies and finishing up collections as we went along the zone, i also finished up a couple L&L quest i had as well. but we moved thru the zone like it was nothing, we did all the names and was receiving Ornate chest all night long, after 4 hours our foursome from lvl 50-54 clear the entire zone including the final boss. Man was i proud, first time i have ever completed this zone, we came out with Mad Loot and coin to boot. Good job to all that was with us,(Yajee, Mya, Croakin, and myself) grat job gentelmen @ lady.

After our group disbanded i headed back to GH to dispose of my rewards placed items in my house and sold trash to broke, I then logged chubby on and made all of Cinders expert spells / combat arts. after spending about 10 plat on rares she had all her adept III / Expert spells and needed to work on getting her masters , i have a request into the research assistantto start obtaining my masters.

Saturday night, Cinderbella completed the access quest to Shard of Love. The quest is so easy that it didt week like it was muc fun. After she received her access, i logged in chubby and our newly formed group 4 was now 6 memebers a full group but they wanted to do it as a lvl 80 zone, so i logged in Chubby for main event.

Shard of Love seemed very easy once you know what to do and i was giving direction the whole way, i only managed to wipe the group just once.

This time around i was able to gain the 2 quest that i was not able to get before, and we was able to complete all 3 quest, our group consisted of Chubby, Corliss, Twixt, Cecelia, Healyou and Yajee a full grp in Shard of Love and the mobs still took some time but we had agreat hand on things.

After we ended our run of SoL i headed to bed after all i stayed up all night the night before and was kind of tired.

Sunday held the promise of New adventures, but not so much was done, I logged Cinderbella in again and i began searching for items that i will need to make her a twink..lol

I asked my if i bought the rares if she could make my current lvl jewerly, i need to look into the mastercrafted 52 armor since she is supporting lvl 54 for a while. I also begain working on her Tinkering skills and was able to reach her up to 25 out of 270 in tinkering. i my focus more on the tinkering tonight to be able to get her up in that secondary tradeskill.

Also last night saw me grabbing the parts of L&L quest. With the new update we no longer have to go wandering around looking for the books, all you need is a peice of the L&L, and right click and it will dsisplay the started quest. I went thru the entire guild bank grabing as many as i can.

I also searched the Broker for the cheap ones so i could get as many as i could  and complete once i entered those areas.

Also last night i knocked off about 7 different steamfont Mts quest gain a few house items asn L&L updates, these i did solo currently i am working the steamfont timeline and will be untill all quest arecompleted, then i may venture backwards and get as many grey quest done till i am caught up to my current lvl. This will also give me the chance to use the new feature of solo mentoring to the level of the zone, i just need to find those NPC that will lower  your levels by 5’s.

Well Cinderbella is coming along just fine, i am enjoying the game more with the slider feature and catching up on lost and added content. havent farmed shines in a while and the 150 plat that i did have is down to 65.

Tonight i am working on my Tinkering to get it up to at least 75 or 100 then i am heading back to my normal farming areas for about 2 hours of farming.

I have also made a few player-written books, but they are mainly for the guild. One is a guest book for members and visitors to sign, basically they need to email me and i update the book that sits in the guild hall and the other is the History of our guild. i am viewing other books and adding them to my library, once i see what others have done, and get a few ideas i will throw somethings together and get them out there.

Also in a non-eq2 related subject i have been playing an older game that i use to love “Roller Coaster Tycoon 3″ i have all the expansions and simply love building parks and giant coasters. I highly recommend this game to break the monotony of things in the MMO world.

 

POST 100…Wooohoo / Weekend of games 9/25-9/27

Well this my 100 post since end of Dec 2008, woooot wooot.

I would like to thank the Academy, my manager, and ahhhhhhh sorry Miss Tell.

I would actully like to Thank the loyal readers of this blog, if it wasnt for you no one would read my blogs, no seriously i probablly would of stopped a long time ago. This is something that i really didnt intend on doing but thought it would be kind of neat to write of my gaming exp. and hopefully help others in the process, if they are stuck in a certain area, or wanted to know what was going on in the gaming world. I do post about other games that i play weather it is WOW, or some of the Free to play games out there that i have tried or maybe one of the games that i beta, but for the most part my blogs are EQ2 related, since that is my main game of choice, i started out in eq1 and progressed to Eq2 when it launched and i have had a blast. So thank you all for sticking with me for a wonderful 100 post, i look forward to many more years of post on all the games i play.

Now lets get down to the nitty-gritty of this past weekend.

Well Friday night there was not that much going on, i was basically grinfing on the token quest in Commonlands and buying house items to place in my new home in Neriak, also i have located my additional room that they applied with the latest patch, which was hidden behind some fake walls my interior decorator “Twixt” had placed up. it only took me about a half an hour to locate this room and began to place items in this, i have made a L&L wall for all the trophy’s  i have also i have all the tapestry’s in this room and a grave site of where i will be buried..lol i’ll have to post some pics when i get home.

Saturday was much like friday, continued to gain tokens for the house items given at the spires for the repeatable quests they have going on in this past update. i also went and visited some zones to complete some of my collections quest,  and collecting shinies to sell on the broker. This has been  very profitable for me i am well over 100 plat just by selling shinies, but the thing you need to make sure is that you continue to check your prices and outbid others or sell them at the same price, as well as adding more shinies to your broker as the old ones sell. if you follow this method you will have the plat to buy the things you need.

Sunday was not much of a gaming day, went to church and then shopping with the wife and kids and came home to watch the steelers play, Once i was in game i created 2 player written books and placed them in the GH for display. I again went shinie hunting, and visited some zones for pages to complete a few more quest.

Monday i played around on my Alts getting their Racial traits back to where they needed to be and gain went shinie hunting.

Tonight i want to revisit shard of Love and maybe Fear & Hate as well, i can asure you that i will be shinie hunting, and maybe looking up where the other pages i need to finish off some collections, I do need a few more shinies for my Kunark Collection quest so i may try to fit that in some how as well.

Well again thanks for reading my last 100 post i look forward to writing more to share with the players of norrath.

Until Next time, Happy hunting in Norrath.

~Chubby~

 

Shard of Love: Shrouded Memories of Love

Shard of Love at zone in

After we complete the access quest to Shard of Love, we ventured in to see what was going on, when we zones it was beautiful looking zone , but you could feel that something was not right. there are a few mobs in the front of the zone they are for the most part ^^^ or ^^ and at level 80 they con Blue to me. so we took the time just the 3 of us Mya, Corliss and Me (Chubby) wacking away at the mobs, yajee soon logged in and we convinced him to join us, we helped him complete the access quest which only took us 15 min since we knew what to do now, and Once he joined up we had a pretty good small group of guildies exploring the new zone together.

So we cleared out the front of the zone, at the top of the stairs there is a NPC with a quest feather above their head. Talk to Lanielle, to get the quest “Shrouded Memories of Love”. The quest wants you to seek out information and find out what happened to Erollisi Marr.

You will need to make your way thru the zone and locate Arawen & Gwestanna for information, once you have spoken to these 2, go back to Lanielle, and receive your update.

Next Lanielle will ask you to venture in to the Chapel of Love and remove whatever is tainting the sahrd from within. to gain access to the chapel of Love you need to call all the names within the zone to remove the barrier and unlock the door to the Chapel of Love.

In the distance is the Chapel of Love

Named Mobs:

All Named mobs will be equal to the average level of the group (white con).

• Woefullness
• Valoron the Just - Chapel Sentinel
• Thane-Malach – Plagued Essence of Regret
• Willowmeena - The White Fairy Queen

Note: All the named locations are on the latest update of Eq2maps. Also all the Names are ring events, you need to kill all the mobs in that area in order to have the Name spawn. ( be prepared for long battles if there is only 3 or 4 in your group.)

Once you Kill the 1st Named, you will unlock the 4 new Shinies that will be now spawning throughout the zone, those new shinies are the following :

• Satyr Instruments
• Antlers
• Debris
• Wisps

Also there are 2 additional quest in this zone as well :

• No More Mucking Around
• Rekindle the Love

Once you have killed all the Named mobs in the Zone the door to the chapel of Love with be opened and in the Middle of the room is standing Mithaniel Marr <The Sorrowful> (yellow ^^^) he will be 2 levels above your group.

after a short dialog he will begin to attack you, at this point i had so much energy flowing thru me it was unbelievable me and Corliss & Yajee was laying into this god while Mya was healing us and trying not to die. i think he was down to about 50% when all of a sudden he stopped and snapped back to his origional place, at this point i thought this was bugged, but it was part of the quest, he went into another dialog session and walked to the back of the chapel. I am not going to reveal anthing else from this point, basically there is no more fighing , you will complete the quest but if you want to know what is in the back of the Chapel you will have to complete the quest.

I will tell you that you will receive 2 things as you reward to this quest.

• Rewards: Lover’s setee (house item)
• Achievement Title: Love’s Champion

It is a wonderful story and i love forward to visiting this zone again to complete the other 2 quest in here. I think with the Sahrd of Love the Devs did a great job explaining the Story behind the goddess of Love and her disappearance. Good JOB SOE.

you will have a lockout once you have completed this Min is 18 hrs max is 1 day 11hrs.

Once i complete the other quest i will post them here as well.

Until next time, Happy Hunting in Norrath!!

~Chubby~