EQ2 Prowler Mounts & Halas Reborn

Well i know haven’t posted in sometime, i have been very busy with real life and haven’t been with in my Virutal home that much.

As most everyone by this point knows that SOE Everquest 2 has released their lastest update “Halas Reborn”, I too was able to log in very breifly and was able to create a new toon starting in this area, i made a Barbarian Guardian names Oleaxu, so far the quest are just like any starting area, go kill X amount of “CREATURE ADDED HERE” and come back for your reward, Even though they are the standard quest i still find it thrilling that there is a new area as well as new content, the storyteller mode is a bit confusing and i am still trying to figure this out myself, and the i also logged in and obtained my little frost kitty, too bad we cant use the little fur ball for combat.

Speaking of Kittys, i entered a contest over at Ten Ton Hammers website on “Loading….”, the contest was to win a free Prowler mount yest thats right the New Prowler Mounts that are currently on sale on the Marketplace for $25.00 real dollars…i could not pass the contest up after all all you had to do was send a email to a specific Ten Ton Hammer email that they listed with the subject line “Gimme me a Prowlerrrrrr!! and they would draw the winners on Memorial day, well i submitted my email on the Thursday before, and i totally forgot about entering this contest, so i logged into my email on Tuesday because i was camping all weekend for the holiday because thats what we do at this time of the year..lol

But to make a long story even longer, i logged into the email and there was a email from Ten Ton Hammer…CONGRATULATION YOU WON A PROWLER….I thought i was going to fall out of my chair at that point. So i was one of the 5 winners of the contest i was provided a code to redeem which i did already and i am now the proud father of a Prowler Mount which costed me nothing but a email….woot woot

I am still fine tuning my newest toon in the Halas area, i will be reporting more on their adventures as we progress.

So far from what i have seen of this new content it is great, the area looks great, the house items are fabolus, the City festival is currently in New Halas on my server and i have picked up some great items for my house, however i am now going to buy a bigger home.

Well thats all i have to report on for this time,  i will be adding some photos to this post this evening.

Until next time, Happy Hunting in Norrath!!!

~Chubby~

 

EQ2 Update Notes: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

GENERAL

• The difficulty of the Vigilant zones has been adjusted slightly.
• Fixed a bug causing some players to be locked out of the game when harvesting.

ITEMS

• Warbeads should once again be dropping in Ykesha’s Inner Stronghold
• Vest of Divine Equilibrium should now have 20 critical mitigation.
• Band of Stonefom has been slightly improved.

PVP

• Removed legacy mults that reduced player spell avoidance and resist amounts as they were making the new formulas less effective. Overall, players should see their resists be more effective vs spells

QUESTS

• The ring event for King Speleothem should now be respawning properly.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

• Maalus Imbued priest clones have been balanced. Also the demoralization spell it casts on players no longer stifles, and is curable as a normal arcane spell.

PERAH’CELSIS’ ABOMINABLE LABORATORY

• Xilaxis and Arkatanthis have had the range of their AOE spells reduced.  Arkatanthis will no longer have the potential to cast curse of destruction on as many players in a given time period.

 

Everquest II: Update Notes: Wednesday, April 7, 2010

 

 

 

GENERAL

• Unflinching Defiance can no longer trigger when not in PVP combat.
• Mutilation can no longer trigger when not in PVP combat.
• Fanaticism now persists through death.

ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENTS

• Hail Storm should now stack when applied by two wizards.
• Time Warp Immunity can no longer have its duration extended
• Infusion now persists through death and can no longer hit targets that are not in combat.
• Fiery Blast and Rhythmic Overture should now stack properly when used by two different people at the same time.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• Annihilate the Opposition should update correctly now.
• The six pets obtained in the Outer Vault can no longer be summoned if not within the correct zone.
• Players can now move more freely during pregame of the Gears of Klakanon and Smuggler’s Den matches.
• Taking the relic into a respawn area in the Gears of Klakanon battleground will cause the relic to auto reset to the middle of the battleground.
• In the Battlefield of Ganak, taking the flag to a respawn area will cause the flag to auto reset to its home position.
• When a pet kills a player in a battleground the owner will get credit for the kill.
• Fix for bug that was causing players to sometimes not get experience for completing a battleground.
• You can no longer deploy a training dummy in a battleground.

ITEMS

• Balanced Ayr Stones are now Adornments of Avoidance (Superior). They grant Riposte Chance and can only be applied on Neck slot items.
• Rare drops from the Sentinel’s Fate instances received resists.
• The Battleground Emerald-studded Brutallic Bracelet now has Soulsteal II to match the Open PVP version.
• Focused and Specialist’s Reprieve potions can no longer be auto-consumed.
• Lots of Sentinel’s Fate raid weapons and shields have had updated appearances added.
• Stats on the Di’Zok Bow of Flame, Riliss Chicken Foot, and Danak Wishbone have been adjusted to be more useful to all the classes that can use these items.
• Changed the appearances on many brawler fists so they have a different appearance other than the standard spike bronze pot!

QUESTS

• In Her Majesty’s Service for the Qeynos Claymore quest in Tenebrous Tangle should now allow those over 80 to get the quest.
• Necromantic Research – Turbulent Knots, no longer shows Tubulent Knots.

THE SENTINEL: FINAL DESTRUCTION

• Tartan’s Jaws of Death has had the damage drastically reduced.
• The Sense of Urgency achievement is now 90 minutes.

 

EQ 2 Update Notes: Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Ok so there was a update today, here are the patch notes as they appear from the SOE Forums.  Thanks for the info Kiria

GENERAL

• Guild status has been added for Heroic zone boss kills and raid boss kills.
• Personal Supply Depots can no longer be “returned to owner”.
• New Mounts are available for purchase in North Odus (Scions of the Deepwater Knights), South Odus (City of Paineel) and from horse merchants in the cities of Kelethin, Freeport, Neriak and Qeynos for 90 level guilds.  In addition, a chance to obtain a mount is available in both the group and raid portion of Erudin Palace.

BATTLEGROUNDS

• You will now automatically unmentor when a battleground match ends.
• Going to a battleground and returning should not change the setting of roleplay or anon on your home server.

ITEMS

• Red Adornments are now Heirloom.
• Yellow adornments are now flagged heirloom.
• The Erollisi Day crafted masks, Face of Love and Mask of Passion, are no longer Lore, or No-Trade.
• The Runed Victim’s Skull has had its resists lowered.
• The minimum block chance on the Brawler Enervated weapons has been moved to the mythical spell.
• The Venomous Chain Legs of the Plague now have Torrent II rather than Fatal Lifetap II.
• Rune of Blasting can no longer critically hit.
• Many raid dropped bows have been changed from short bows to longbows.
• Two new bows have been added to drops for hardmode raid encounters.
• Resists added to many accessories.
• A small number of accessories had a higher-than-intended amount of spell reuse. The amounts have been lowered to be in line with non-BG items
• The resists and physical mitigation on the Indomitable jewelry set from Battlegrounds now only applies in PVP Combat.
• Merchant of Discord and Sisters of Battle items have been updated to match their Battleground or Open PVP counterparts.

SPELLS

• Berserker "Whirlwind" now persists through death.
• Monk "Dragon Rage" should function in PVP combat as a target lock.
• Torrent and Pestilential Rain effects should no longer break Mesmerize.
• Brawler’s Tenacity has a slightly longer duration.
• Deathward can now crit and can now be cast on the Defiler.

QUESTS

• The final encounter in the Heritage quest, “A Source of Malediction” will now reward AA experience.
• Players are no longer required to be inside the Necrotic Asylum when reading Dread Exarch Mordek’s journal to progress the quest.

KALADIM

• Gonga barrels cause much less damage now, an appropriate amount for the dungeon.

LAIR OF THE DRAGON QUEEN

• When a player summons Sherra everyone in the zone should now get a message telling you who summoned her.

ROYAL PALACE OF ERUDIN

• The disc associated with Gloom Chevalier Faris should no longer occasionally stop working if players leave the instance and return later.

THE HOLE: DEMITRIK’S BASTION

• Demitrik should no longer get stuck with his heal buff on if players spam click the machine before he teleports. This was also causing him to call his buffs at the incorrect times.
• The trash mobs in the zone have had their hitpoints reduced slightly. This does not include the specters in the first area although they have been made easier to pull without having to clear the first area.

THE HOLE: SPIRIT’S RESONANCE

• Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer possess players quite so many times and should have slightly more hitpoints so players fighting him can work on lowering his health while the possessed player worries about the books.
• Nortlav the Scalekeeper should no longer set his class to the same class as the person who he copied. This is to avoid some potential damage loops causing the fight to bug out.
• The Possessing Spirit of Kyrenna should no longer resurrect her minions or herself more than twice. Her health has also been adjusted.
• Players doing the quest “Entomologist Ally” can no longer target the Gargantuan Graveyard Stinkbug so the key can be looted.

VASTY DEEP

• The zone to Vasty Deep is now a clickable zone portal and no longer a zone line. You will need to click it to enter!

 

 

 

EQ2 Hotfix Notes for March 18th, 2010

Your Hotfix notes for March 18th include tweaks to Tier 3 (raid armor).

NOTE: Make sure your EQ2 client patches before trying to log into EQ2. Due to an oversight, EQ2 servers are allowing out-of-date clients to login, resulting in bugs with the Broker, Group window, etc.

Hotfix Notes for March 18th

GENERAL

•Brawler Focus: Stances red adornments have been restored to their original values.

BATTLEGROUNDS

•Fixed an issue that would cause some players to become stuck when returning home from a battlegrounds match.
•It should no longer be possible to cause your character to become stuck by spam-clicking the cloud mounts in Smuggler’s Den.

ITEMS

•Many of the Tier 3 Raid Boss Armor drops have been improved to be more in line with the challenge.
•Tier 3 Priest sets had some spell reuse added and some casting haste removed.
•Chainmail of Worshipped Will should now have the proper critical mitigation.
•Chainmail of Worshipped Will should now have a red raid adornment slot.
•Greaves of Recollected Vengeance have had their critical bonus returned to their original value of 12.6.
•A few more high-end accessories and armor pieces have been found that did not accept new tradeskill adornments. These have been fixed.
•Frothy Tankard can no longer be transmuted.
•The Soot Covered Illusionary Robe should no longer share appearances with the Academy Junior Apprentice Robes.

PVP

•Warden Root spells should now follow the 8 second duration rule in PVP.

QUESTS

•“Premonitions of Doom” should now update correctly when you consume the mutagenic potion.
•Eva will now correctly update “The Footsteps of Dartain: Ascension” for followers of Tunare.
•An Organic Matter of Fact – The blur effect observed when using the Glomalin Divining Rod has been reduced.
•An Organic Matter of Fact – Certain glomalin deposits that were appearing underground should now be accessible.

SPELLS

•Blaze of Ro should now increase the overtime portion of the spell with each update.

TRADESKILLS

•“Essence of Peel” and “Essence of Peel II” recipes are now correctly named in Alchemists’ recipe books.

GREATER FAYDARK

•Several gathering quests in Greater Faydark have been repaired.

PALACE OF ROEHN THEER

•Improved the drop tables for 1- and 2-rune Roehn Theer kills
•The Roehn Theer add Approaching Equilibrium changed:
◦Spawns with a more consistent timer
◦Now only immune to mez
◦Have fewer HP

 

April 7th and 8th HotFix’s in eq2

April 8th 2009 Hotfix

Apparently there was a hotfix this morning but i can not find any info on this yet, once i do i will post it here, below was the hotfix issued yesterday April 7th,2009

 

April 7th 2009 Hotfix.

GENERAL

An issue that was causing UI icons or elements to look blurry and low-quality has been resolved.

An issue that was causing low-quality textures on player characters after switching from third person to first person view has been resolved.

EVERNIGHT ABBEY

Marcus Thex should turn aggro now once all five clan leaders have been slain. ITEMS The Dancing Satyr has learned how to dance and is anxious to show off his new moves.

Bite of the Wolf will now trigger properly and apply to the warden. Restitution Master 1 should no longer drop from spell tables.

The Signet of the Flame Disciple has been changed from +3 spell critical bonus to +3 spell critical to be more inline with the other quest rewards.

Vampire and Void Bane proc stacking has been fixed such that additional pieces of gear will increase the damage and proc rate, but will not add additional procs. This is the originally intended functionality.

The Stone Tower void shard jewelry set now has Deflection Chance as its 3-piece bonus instead of deflection skill. The block and deflection bonuses should now be roughly equivalent.

Corruption of the Elements should now proc on offensive spell casts.

MYSTMYR MANOR

Rhul’maldis should no longer occasionally never respond to the volatile liquid.

PvP An issue that might cause no infamy gain when multiple players are attacking a single target has been fixed.

SPELLS

Tortoise Shell will once again work properly on group members An issue that would cause Surging Tempest to get into an unusable state has been resolved.

TRADESKILLS

The Advanced Armorer Service quest now requires the new improved version of fulginate kite shields. Scholars’ volume 12 books now once again contain recipes for idols, symbols, tomes, and orbs.

Jeweler Far Seas writs now correctly accept the new secondary items. An issue where Adornments would disappear when upgrading or imbuing items through tradeskills has been fixed.

WARD OF ELEMENTS

Najena should respawn when players watch the flythrough then leave the instance and return.

Aiden’s banishes have been re-timed to be closer to the beginning of a land phase, giving players more time to get back to the tower.

Aiden’s adds have been linked into sizable groups instead of all in separate encounters.

Digg should no longer chain-kill players that die and are rezzed during his fight.