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#1 Apr 19 2006 at 9:57 AM Rating: Good
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April 19th, 2006
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*** Headlines ***

- Thank you for participating in the 7th Anniversary events. We hope you enjoyed them!
- Applications for the Itemization Designer position are now closed. Thank you to all who submitted an application!
- A new Monster Mission has been added to the Prophecy of Ro expansion.
- The reuse time on all the veteran rewards has been reduced by 4 hours.
- The stacking issues related to Gift of Mana and Abundant Healing have been resolved.
- We are refunding the Spell Casting Deftness AA to Enchanters.
- Loading to character select should be much faster than it has been.
- You will no longer take damage when you have an aura on you and are moving fast while mounted.


*** Quests

- Added an item reward at the end of the Corruption story arc in Elddar. Turn in the Chalice of Life to Shalowen the Pure when you have finished the arc.
- Changed the second kill element in Bill Whistletop's trade skill armor pattern book quest to include all Stillmoon stone drakes (instead of just the Stillmoon stone casters).
- Fixed a bug with the Become the Vessel quest that would fail to give credit for kills when a pet got the kill shot.
- Further adjustments to some of the tradeskill trophy tasks, especially Fletching, were made. In some cases this was to clarify and fix a bug, in others it was to ease some of the rare items needed by changing the element to another item.


*** NPCs ***

- Widdlethorpe in Stoneroot Falls will now give you Magical Corathus Coral if you wish to continue your practice even if you have already completed the Learning the Power mission. Just tell him you would like to practice.
- It seems that the shipments of wolf blood were missing. You will now find Measure of Wolf Blood on the appropriate merchants.
- Shards of Ro will no longer drop. Instead Powder of Ro will drop at a much greater rate than Shards did.
- The gnomework bankers in Corathus Creep will no longer get involved in any fighting; they just want peace and a bouquet of bolts and gears.


*** Events

- Brazlin the High Priest of Ro has summoned his enforcer to help bring the difficulty of the Corruption of Ro raid more in line with the reward.
- Upped the drop rate of Deathknell key pieces dropping from the Porthio event.
- A new Monster Mission has been added to the Prophecy of Ro expansion. Speak with Oathmir in Devastation for more information.
- The key to Tunare’s Shrine from the Corruption of Ro mission arch will now be placed on your key ring the next time you use it.
- The Guardian of the High Priest in the Corruption of Ro mission will now have a chance to drop a Last Blood augment to bring the reward more in line with the difficulty of the event.


*** Tradeskills ***

- Added a Brewing Barrel to the Bazaar.
- Rejoice, the master tradesmen of New Tannan have found a way to concentrate Celestial Solvent. This concentrated solution will work with three of the same magically imbued items as before in order to make three doses of celestial essence at a time.
- Rock salt can now be ground to fine salt in batches of five or ten.
- Fixed the tradeskill flag on Favor of Druzzil.
- Raised the trivial on Druzzil's Steel Bowstring.
- Adjusted the trivial on the highest end bows from Prophecies of Ro.
- Reduced the yield of Composite Treant Laminating Adhesive to 2.
- The poison Freezing Feedback has had the effect changed to Freezing Feedback (instead of Anemone Feedback).
- Changed the research recipe for Blood of Saryrn to use Saryrn's ink additive instead of Bertoxxulous'.
- Changed the research recipe for Legacy of Bracken to remove the use Ink of the Tribunal.


*** Zones ***

- Changed the teleporters within the bazaar. When going to a "Hall" from the base location, you are no longer facing the teleporter. When teleporting down from the hall, the location has been changed so that you are on the other side of the teleporter with it to your back. This should prevent lag from making you go in a loop.
- There is now an augmentation sealer at the Wayfarer camp in Lavastorm.
- The fungus farm in Kaladim has been re-cultivated.


*** Player Characters ***

- The AC cap and the returns over the cap for rangers and berserkers has been slightly increased.


*** AAs ***

- Refunded Spell Casting Deftness AA to Enchanters. SCD was being overwritten by Quick Buff (a similar AA with superior benefits).
- Reduced the reuse time on all the veteran rewards by 4 hours.
- The stacking issues related to Gift of Mana and Abundant Healing have been resolved. Abundant Healing is once again available to purchase for healing classes and should now work properly if you also have Gift of Mana. You cannot proc both of them with one spell, but should see both of them procing now.


*** Items ***

- Fazzle’s Map of East Wastes will no longer disappear from your inventory if you log out.
- Altered many of the PoR Jewelry. This change was to fix No Drop Items that should have been Attunable, and to fix some statistics inconsistencies. Also, the HP/MANA gained were balanced with some recommended and required levels if the gain is 50 or greater. In some cases this resulted in greater restrictions, in others it actually reduced the restrictions.
- Modified the Tribute and Guild Tribute values of several items that were either Attunable or NoDrop.
- Changed the Tradeskill flag on a few more items.
- The Fabled Baton of Flame now is now 27 damage, and +1 damage to fire, 18 delay.
- The Fabled Flute of the Sacred Glade now has a 3.2 modifier to wind instruments.
- The Fabled Shawl of Perception now has spell shielding and dot shielding instead of combat effects and accuracy.
- Certain Fabled items have their AC increased.
- Changed the Tanned Hides that were brought to my attention that had an abnormally high merchant greed setting to a more reasonable merchant greed setting.
- Reduced the drop rate of the Sister’s Opulent Backstabber.
- Increased the drop rate of the Spiroc Wingblade in Plane of Sky.
- Modified the drop rate of plate, chain, leather, and silk on Rikkukin and Kessdona to better reflect the number of classes that can use the items.
- Caerlyna will now trade an Ethereal Satchel of Gathering for an Ethereal Satchel of Gathering Token and vise versa.
- Fixed many bag tokens that were stating the incorrect size for their appropriate bag.


*** Spells ***

- Several Prophecy of Ro NPC spells have been modified to be somewhat less annoying, like Resonating Screech, Howling, Grappling Roots, Thorny Vines, Sage’s Curse, and Shimmering Silence Dust.
- Fixed an exploit with the buff blocking feature.


*** Line of Sight ***

- Line of Sight issues that were introduced with the last update should now be resolved.


*** Guilds ***

- Newly formed guilds will now be able to get into their guild halls.




-- The EverQuest Team

#2 Apr 19 2006 at 9:58 AM Rating: Decent
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"Reduced the reuse time on all the veteran rewards by 4 hours"


This is Should be Interesting!!

#3 Apr 19 2006 at 10:43 AM Rating: Excellent
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SOE wrote:
- Changed the second kill element in Bill Whistletop's trade skill armor pattern book quest to include all Stillmoon stone drakes (instead of just the Stillmoon stone casters).


Very nice, that is the last part I have to do, to be able to make GM Halfling armor =), of course I also need to get smithing up still at 234.

Otizlee wrote:
"Reduced the reuse time on all the veteran rewards by 4 hours"


This is Should be Interesting!!


So now its 20 hours instead of 24, right.
#4 Apr 19 2006 at 10:46 AM Rating: Decent
funny how they increase the AC on fabled drops *after* the event is over.
#5 Apr 19 2006 at 10:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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*** Player Characters ***

- The AC cap and the returns over the cap for rangers and berserkers has been slightly increased.


Smiley: motz
$$%^$%^%$^$%^ WHY!!!??! ZERKERS ARE OVERPOWERED ENOUGH!!
Why not just delete every rogue and warrior out there then! Smiley: mad

Edited, Wed Apr 19 11:53:11 2006 by fhrugby
#6 Apr 19 2006 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
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can't login yet, doh :-(
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#7 Apr 19 2006 at 11:13 AM Rating: Default
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- The fungus farm in Kaladim has been re-cultivated.


lol
#8 Apr 19 2006 at 2:09 PM Rating: Default
Hope not many chanters had banked aas, if the refund sets you over 30 you lose them. Or so it happened to clerics last time they did a refund. /petition didn't help last I heard.

Seamy
#9 Apr 19 2006 at 2:13 PM Rating: Decent
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Hope not many chanters had banked aas, if the refund sets you over 30 you lose them. Or so it happened to clerics last time they did a refund. /petition didn't help last I heard.
If you have 18+ (limit is 30 aa right?) aa banked are you really going to be bothered about losing a couple.

Face it if you wanted to spend them on something you already would have and aa are easy enough to come by these day that someone with that many AA will have recouped the loss before he got a reply from the GM.
#10 Apr 19 2006 at 2:27 PM Rating: Good
the veterans changes actually make a lot of sense. now you can use them at the end of one play session, and the start of your next play session. it won't increase the number of practical uses, it just means you get a pretty solid chance at being able to use them every day - regardless of minutiae in play schedule.

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Hope not many chanters had banked aas, if the refund sets you over 30 you lose them. Or so it happened to clerics last time they did a refund. /petition didn't help last I heard.

nah, they changed this around the time of the god aa refund. I still actually have a retired toon with ninety some odd aas banked.

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Why not just delete every rogue and warrior out there then! icon

zerkers aren't overpowered as tanks compared to warriors. they're pretty close to rogues in dps, but have a pretty large chunk of aggro more - so, imo, they arent too overpowered in that department, either. they also take a ton of aas to become effective.

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If you have 18+ (limit is 30 aa right?) aa banked are you really going to be bothered about losing a couple.

Face it if you wanted to spend them on something you already would have and aa are easy enough to come by these day that someone with that many AA will have recouped the loss before he got a reply from the GM.

so, it wouldn't bother you in the least if sony deleted a few hours of your playtime?
#11 Apr 19 2006 at 2:42 PM Rating: Decent
Sir Groogle wrote:



so, it wouldn't bother you in the least if sony deleted a few hours of your playtime?

oh you mean a roll back *grins*

nothing important in this patch for me except to see if logins really are faster. now just to get zone times under 10sec so my songs dont drop.
#12 Apr 19 2006 at 3:04 PM Rating: Default
tarv of the Seven Seas wrote:
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Hope not many chanters had banked aas, if the refund sets you over 30 you lose them. Or so it happened to clerics last time they did a refund. /petition didn't help last I heard.


If you have 18+ (limit is 30 aa right?) aa banked are you really going to be bothered about losing a couple.

Face it if you wanted to spend them on something you already would have and aa are easy enough to come by these day that someone with that many AA will have recouped the loss before he got a reply from the GM.


Not necessarily. The cleric I know saves them up to buy a whole set of all levels at a time. I do the same on my pally. And yeah he lost aas in the last refund. They were all earned and shouldn't get nerfed just because SOE decides to do a roll back on an aa that flopped.

Seamy

Edited, Wed Apr 19 16:10:25 2006 by Rodth
#13 Apr 19 2006 at 5:18 PM Rating: Decent
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so, it wouldn't bother you in the least if sony deleted a few hours of your playtime?
I'd rather they did that than say "We know one of your AA's is basicly pointless but we are not going to refund you suck it up".

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Not necessarily. The cleric I know saves them up to buy a whole set of all levels at a time. I do the same on my pally. And yeah he lost aas in the last refund. They were all earned and shouldn't get nerfed just because SOE decides to do a roll back on an aa that flopped.
That has to be the most bazaar and mindless way of going about it i have ever heard.

why buy whole sets all at once when you benefit from each of the levels? mind boggling.
#14 Apr 19 2006 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent
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Not necessarily. The cleric I know saves them up to buy a whole set of all levels at a time. I do the same on my pally. And yeah he lost aas in the last refund. They were all earned and shouldn't get nerfed just because SOE decides to do a roll back on an aa that flopped.
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That has to be the most bazaar and mindless way of going about it i have ever heard.

why buy whole sets all at once when you benefit from each of the levels? mind boggling.

/agree with Tarv

No idea why one would do that.
#15 Apr 19 2006 at 5:37 PM Rating: Decent
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Heh, I spend them as quick as I can.
#16 Apr 19 2006 at 6:30 PM Rating: Good
They also stealth nerfed some twink rings and necklaces. The Round Cut Presditsomethingorother Paladium rings that had 75 hp and 75 mana now have a level requirement of 30-40ish.
#17 Apr 19 2006 at 8:06 PM Rating: Decent
FFATMA wrote:
They also stealth nerfed some twink rings and necklaces. The Round Cut Presditsomethingorother Paladium rings that had 75 hp and 75 mana now have a level requirement of 30-40ish.


i hate ninja nerfs...

also with the AAs yeah when i had toons doing AAs i spent them as fast as i earned them.

only reason i could think to save them might be a toon that is being PLed by a guild or something with the toon on for 24/7 being pulled along just for the sake of getting xp and helping very little as its skills will be cr4p and fizzle/miss will be the number of the day.
#18 Apr 20 2006 at 8:42 AM Rating: Default
tarv of the Seven Seas wrote:
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so, it wouldn't bother you in the least if sony deleted a few hours of your playtime?
I'd rather they did that than say "We know one of your AA's is basicly pointless but we are not going to refund you suck it up".

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Not necessarily. The cleric I know saves them up to buy a whole set of all levels at a time. I do the same on my pally. And yeah he lost aas in the last refund. They were all earned and shouldn't get nerfed just because SOE decides to do a roll back on an aa that flopped.
That has to be the most bazaar and mindless way of going about it i have ever heard.

why buy whole sets all at once when you benefit from each of the levels? mind boggling.


Hmmm, I can't tell a difference if I buy them single level at a time, but I can if I buy the set at once. Just our choice on how to spend, nothing more. I guess like some people sink xp in to aas before they are level 70 and some wait until after they are level 70. Just personal choices. :)

Btw I stand corrected, I did ask again last night, he eventually did receive a refund. Like I said the last I heard he hadn't. My mistake.

Seamy
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