EQ2 Game Updates
08-25-2021, 01:27 AM
Update Notes - August 25, 2021 (http://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/update-notes-august-25-2021.600662/)
The time is near for the great Fortress of Drunder to reveal its true purpose to all. The very bedrock of the Eastern Wastes shudders as a massive portal rips itself open within the fortress walls. The sounds of battle echo through its halls as the Hounds of War prepare their innumerable armies to march across the frozen face of Velious and seize control of the lands of Norrath. The Fortress of Drunder is now available for Kaladim players!
Sabaron?s Palace? and ?Silent City: The Delving Dead? are also now open to Kaladim Players.
ABILITIES
Destructive Mind and Lethal Focus will no longer progress a Heroic Opportunity.
Reduced the damage of Infusive Wrath in pvp combat
Increased the damage of Frozen Waters and Grave Decay by 15% for pets level 117 and above.
Alternate Advancement Abilities will now apply at their effective level (i.e. mentored) instead of the actual level of the character.
CENSUS
Quests from the Chaos Descending, Blood of Luclin, and Reign of Shadows expansions will now export to Census.
GENERAL
Fixed an issue where the player character could get stuck looking up and to the right.
HOUSING
The Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Precipice of the Deep prestige home can now be claimed by players on the TLE servers if they had purchased the Collector's or Premium Edition of the Terrors of Thalumbra expansion.
Recipes from the City of Mist Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit have been modified to match other Collector's Edition building recipes. They will now use level 40 materials in order to make them more friendly to players on TLE servers going forward.
ITEMS
The Minds of Meldrath - House item now stacks
Thug's Pummeling Hauberk has been adjusted
Partisan's Hammered Helmet of the Bladespeaker - Item icon is now appropriate
Corrected icon for Doomwing's Knuckles of Force
Updated the following itemsets to grant ability doublecast instead of spell doublecast at approximately a 1/3rd ratio:
Bloodseal of Damage
Convoker's Aura of Death
Convoker's Aura of Death
Convoker's Aura of Frost
Dark Currents, Destruction
Diabolist's Aura of Death
Offering of the Tomb
Sigil of Damage
Spellsinger's Aura of Death
Spellsinger's Aura of Frost
Warcaster's Aura of Death
Warmage's Aura of Death
Warmage's Aura of Frost
Updated several adornments to grant ability doublecast instead of spell doublecast at approximately a 1/3rd ratio.
The following weapons will now transmute into the appropriate products:
Archivist Earthseed Buckler
Archivist Earthseed Focus
Archivist Henchman Focus
Archivist Henchman Greatshield
Clairvoyant Adjutant Greatshield
Clairvoyant Familiar Buckler
Clairvoyant Familiar Focus
Clairvoyant Familiar Greatshield
Clairvoyant Sylvan Buckler
Clairvoyant Sylvan Focus
Clairvoyant Sylvan Greatshield
Enduring Bewitched Kiteshield
Enduring Experimental Fetish
Enduring Experimental Kiteshield
Enduring Experimental Tower Shield
Enduring Lupine Buckler
Enduring Lupine Fetish
Enhanced Buckler of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Fetish of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Tower Shield of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Tower Shield of the Living Pack
Ensorcelled Fetish of the Eternal Coven
Ensorcelled Tower Shield of the Living Pack
Evanescent Bewitched Buckler
Evanescent Bewitched Tower Shield
Evanescent Lupine Fetish
Farsight Adjutant Greatshield
Farsight Familiar Buckler
Farsight Familiar Focus
Farsight Familiar Greatshield
Farsight Sylvan Buckler
Farsight Sylvan Focus
Giant Cauldron Lid
Glistening Shadow Sapphire
Gore-Covered Censer
Huge Pot Lid
Lycanic Buckler of the Eternal Coven
Lycanic Buckler of the Living Pack
Lycanic Fetish of the Living Pack
Oracular Adjutant Focus
Oracular Adjutant Greatshield
Oracular Familiar Buckler
Oracular Sylvan Buckler
Temporaneous Bewitched Buckler
Temporaneous Bewitched Fetish
Vulgrat's Animator
Witness Confidant Buckler
Witness Confidant Focus
Witness Earthseed Focus
Witness Earthseed Greatshield
Witness Henchman Buckler
The Artifact version of Mounted Ssraeshza Scale Earring is now included in the Linked Shadows itemset
The Coldborne EverPorter now lists Loping Plains: Village of Somborn as a destination.
Corrected a bug that caused Brindian Fordel to stop selling Voidpiercer's Adornments Volumes
Enduring Lupine Hauberk now appears correctly as a chain shirt instead of a robe
Corrected an issue that prevented Mysteries of the Light from granting stats to some characters.
Corrected an issue that prevented the Bone-Clasped Girdle from triggering off of auto attacks that dealt physical damage.
Corrected an issue that caused the Empyral Rune of the Tainted Blade and Void Etched Rune of the Tainted Blade to cap their increase at 35, instead of granting the full 40 and 48 respectively.
Added a second yellow adornment slot to Destiny of Velious mid content items that were lacking a second slot.
Corrected appearance of Adamantine Katana
Removed incorrect examine text from the Heart of Luclin that referenced outdated Fragments of Luclin
Discordian Baffle will no longer list a duration, as it has no persistent effect.
Updated Toil and Trouble weapons to have the correct Reign of Shadows weapon damage ratings.
Corrected several instances where merchants would sell no-value items for 5,000 platinum instead of an appropriate value.
Vasty Deep collectible "Iron Gaul Ink" has been renamed to "Oak Gall Ink"
House item "Pile of Fordel Scrolls" has a new icon so it will not be confused with status scrolls while in your inventory.
KALADIM
Items sold by Fynn in The Great Divide have been updated to require level 90 to equip
MARKETPLACE
The membership claim item "(10 pack) Heritage Crates" will now auto-unpack into 10 individual heritage crates. These individual heritage crates will be tradeable/brokerable after the trade timer expires.
MERCENARIES
Corrected a bug that would cause mercenaries to lose the Grace of Norrath buff when zoning into Reign of Shadows solo zones.
QUESTS
Chitter will now sell Rui's Bird Nets, Miau's Foreign Herbs, and Osh's Bonfire Wood for a more appropriate price.
She's A Little Dinghy - Des Glacierwell now sells Glue Substance for a more appropriate price.
Lasslyn's Quenching Oil - Alaric Clangzback now sells Tok Oil for a more appropriate price.
TARINAX PVP
Daily Hunter/Slayer Missions can now be updated for pvp kills in any of the 3 overland zones, Tenebrous Tangle, Barren Sky and Bonemire.
The number of kills for updating the Hunter/Slayer quests has been lowered.
You can now have all 3 daily missions at the same time.
TIME-LOCKED SERVERS
Time-Locked servers will now auto-grant AA's to players once Destiny of Velious mid content has unlocked on the server.
TRADESKILLS
Recipes from the City of Mist Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit have been modified to match other Collector's Edition building recipes. They will now use level 40 materials in order to make them more friendly to players on TLE servers going forward.
UI
Tweaked house item previews in the dressing room window to fit various sized items more reliably.
Increased zoom speed for house items in dressing room window.
ZONES AND POPULATION
Reduced the health on destructible statues within Drunder zones
Completing Vasty Deep missions with Dr. Arcana now rewards Coins of the Cabal
Removed tier based combat mitigation buffs from Destiny of Velious basepop encounters.
New Halas
Envoy Tami Swifthammer has agreed to reduce the price of several items.
Forgotten Pools
Added double loot event treasure to Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar
Savage Weald: Chaotic Caverns [All Versions]
The Brutal Bloodbath should more reliably enter combat when appropriate.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [All Versions]
Liches no longer drop sulfuric rags
Viktor Vodlak reaches new heights through teleportation instead of riding his broom. This also fixes a bug in heroics where Mortal Coil could not be dispelled if someone died while he flew off on his broom.
The Abandoned Labomination now has full damage reduction if you do not have the correct "Incubation" buff. While the correct buff is active, you will inflict normal damage, regardless of the damage type of your weapons and/or abilities.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic I and Solo]
The Abandoned Labomination's Wrath of the Math reduces potency instead of crit bonus.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic II]
Fixed a bug that could cause The Abandoned Labomination to apply multiple damage reduction buffs.
Fixed a bug with Nogrovska Vodlak's curse, Grave Reminder, that could cause her to choose an invalid ordinal number.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic I and II]
Mortal Coil can be dispelled from Wretched Francine if someone dies during her cauldron delivery event.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Solo]
Nogrovska Vodlak's galvanic golem and The Abandoned Labomination's crawler queens are now immune to indirect AOEs.
The solo daily mission will now be granted on entry if qualifications are met.
Vex Thal: Beyond the Veil [Challenge Raid]
Corrected an issue that would cause encounters in the zone to heal to full when they weren't supposed to.
Corrected an issue that would cause the Va Dyn Shadow Striker and Scrapper to become unable to be killed after their master has been slain.
Corrected an issue that would cause Emperor Ssraeshza to dismount players when his death event is started.
Vex Thal: Edge of Oscuris [Challenge]
Hunaga will no longer disarm ranged weapons against Rangers.
Hunaga's "Static" events will occur less often.
Hunaga's lasher adds no longer apply the Furious Fangs detriment.
Moonlight in Shadows will drop 100% of the time, every time.
Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone [Challenge]
Statue of Rallos Zek:
Escalation of War HP has been Reduced by 40%
Greater Warboar?s HP reduced by 40%
The Automaton of Escalation?s HP has been Reduced by 50%
Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends [Challenge]
King Tormax:
Diaku Warmongers HP has been reduced by 20%
Phantasmal Remnant?s HP has been reduced by 50%
View on EQ2players.com (http://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/update-notes-august-25-2021.600662/)
The time is near for the great Fortress of Drunder to reveal its true purpose to all. The very bedrock of the Eastern Wastes shudders as a massive portal rips itself open within the fortress walls. The sounds of battle echo through its halls as the Hounds of War prepare their innumerable armies to march across the frozen face of Velious and seize control of the lands of Norrath. The Fortress of Drunder is now available for Kaladim players!
Sabaron?s Palace? and ?Silent City: The Delving Dead? are also now open to Kaladim Players.
ABILITIES
Destructive Mind and Lethal Focus will no longer progress a Heroic Opportunity.
Reduced the damage of Infusive Wrath in pvp combat
Increased the damage of Frozen Waters and Grave Decay by 15% for pets level 117 and above.
Alternate Advancement Abilities will now apply at their effective level (i.e. mentored) instead of the actual level of the character.
CENSUS
Quests from the Chaos Descending, Blood of Luclin, and Reign of Shadows expansions will now export to Census.
GENERAL
Fixed an issue where the player character could get stuck looking up and to the right.
HOUSING
The Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Precipice of the Deep prestige home can now be claimed by players on the TLE servers if they had purchased the Collector's or Premium Edition of the Terrors of Thalumbra expansion.
Recipes from the City of Mist Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit have been modified to match other Collector's Edition building recipes. They will now use level 40 materials in order to make them more friendly to players on TLE servers going forward.
ITEMS
The Minds of Meldrath - House item now stacks
Thug's Pummeling Hauberk has been adjusted
Partisan's Hammered Helmet of the Bladespeaker - Item icon is now appropriate
Corrected icon for Doomwing's Knuckles of Force
Updated the following itemsets to grant ability doublecast instead of spell doublecast at approximately a 1/3rd ratio:
Bloodseal of Damage
Convoker's Aura of Death
Convoker's Aura of Death
Convoker's Aura of Frost
Dark Currents, Destruction
Diabolist's Aura of Death
Offering of the Tomb
Sigil of Damage
Spellsinger's Aura of Death
Spellsinger's Aura of Frost
Warcaster's Aura of Death
Warmage's Aura of Death
Warmage's Aura of Frost
Updated several adornments to grant ability doublecast instead of spell doublecast at approximately a 1/3rd ratio.
The following weapons will now transmute into the appropriate products:
Archivist Earthseed Buckler
Archivist Earthseed Focus
Archivist Henchman Focus
Archivist Henchman Greatshield
Clairvoyant Adjutant Greatshield
Clairvoyant Familiar Buckler
Clairvoyant Familiar Focus
Clairvoyant Familiar Greatshield
Clairvoyant Sylvan Buckler
Clairvoyant Sylvan Focus
Clairvoyant Sylvan Greatshield
Enduring Bewitched Kiteshield
Enduring Experimental Fetish
Enduring Experimental Kiteshield
Enduring Experimental Tower Shield
Enduring Lupine Buckler
Enduring Lupine Fetish
Enhanced Buckler of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Fetish of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Tower Shield of the Eternal Coven
Enhanced Tower Shield of the Living Pack
Ensorcelled Fetish of the Eternal Coven
Ensorcelled Tower Shield of the Living Pack
Evanescent Bewitched Buckler
Evanescent Bewitched Tower Shield
Evanescent Lupine Fetish
Farsight Adjutant Greatshield
Farsight Familiar Buckler
Farsight Familiar Focus
Farsight Familiar Greatshield
Farsight Sylvan Buckler
Farsight Sylvan Focus
Giant Cauldron Lid
Glistening Shadow Sapphire
Gore-Covered Censer
Huge Pot Lid
Lycanic Buckler of the Eternal Coven
Lycanic Buckler of the Living Pack
Lycanic Fetish of the Living Pack
Oracular Adjutant Focus
Oracular Adjutant Greatshield
Oracular Familiar Buckler
Oracular Sylvan Buckler
Temporaneous Bewitched Buckler
Temporaneous Bewitched Fetish
Vulgrat's Animator
Witness Confidant Buckler
Witness Confidant Focus
Witness Earthseed Focus
Witness Earthseed Greatshield
Witness Henchman Buckler
The Artifact version of Mounted Ssraeshza Scale Earring is now included in the Linked Shadows itemset
The Coldborne EverPorter now lists Loping Plains: Village of Somborn as a destination.
Corrected a bug that caused Brindian Fordel to stop selling Voidpiercer's Adornments Volumes
Enduring Lupine Hauberk now appears correctly as a chain shirt instead of a robe
Corrected an issue that prevented Mysteries of the Light from granting stats to some characters.
Corrected an issue that prevented the Bone-Clasped Girdle from triggering off of auto attacks that dealt physical damage.
Corrected an issue that caused the Empyral Rune of the Tainted Blade and Void Etched Rune of the Tainted Blade to cap their increase at 35, instead of granting the full 40 and 48 respectively.
Added a second yellow adornment slot to Destiny of Velious mid content items that were lacking a second slot.
Corrected appearance of Adamantine Katana
Removed incorrect examine text from the Heart of Luclin that referenced outdated Fragments of Luclin
Discordian Baffle will no longer list a duration, as it has no persistent effect.
Updated Toil and Trouble weapons to have the correct Reign of Shadows weapon damage ratings.
Corrected several instances where merchants would sell no-value items for 5,000 platinum instead of an appropriate value.
Vasty Deep collectible "Iron Gaul Ink" has been renamed to "Oak Gall Ink"
House item "Pile of Fordel Scrolls" has a new icon so it will not be confused with status scrolls while in your inventory.
KALADIM
Items sold by Fynn in The Great Divide have been updated to require level 90 to equip
MARKETPLACE
The membership claim item "(10 pack) Heritage Crates" will now auto-unpack into 10 individual heritage crates. These individual heritage crates will be tradeable/brokerable after the trade timer expires.
MERCENARIES
Corrected a bug that would cause mercenaries to lose the Grace of Norrath buff when zoning into Reign of Shadows solo zones.
QUESTS
Chitter will now sell Rui's Bird Nets, Miau's Foreign Herbs, and Osh's Bonfire Wood for a more appropriate price.
She's A Little Dinghy - Des Glacierwell now sells Glue Substance for a more appropriate price.
Lasslyn's Quenching Oil - Alaric Clangzback now sells Tok Oil for a more appropriate price.
TARINAX PVP
Daily Hunter/Slayer Missions can now be updated for pvp kills in any of the 3 overland zones, Tenebrous Tangle, Barren Sky and Bonemire.
The number of kills for updating the Hunter/Slayer quests has been lowered.
You can now have all 3 daily missions at the same time.
TIME-LOCKED SERVERS
Time-Locked servers will now auto-grant AA's to players once Destiny of Velious mid content has unlocked on the server.
TRADESKILLS
Recipes from the City of Mist Home Builder's Kit and the Dhalgar Home Builder's Kit have been modified to match other Collector's Edition building recipes. They will now use level 40 materials in order to make them more friendly to players on TLE servers going forward.
UI
Tweaked house item previews in the dressing room window to fit various sized items more reliably.
Increased zoom speed for house items in dressing room window.
ZONES AND POPULATION
Reduced the health on destructible statues within Drunder zones
Completing Vasty Deep missions with Dr. Arcana now rewards Coins of the Cabal
Removed tier based combat mitigation buffs from Destiny of Velious basepop encounters.
New Halas
Envoy Tami Swifthammer has agreed to reduce the price of several items.
Forgotten Pools
Added double loot event treasure to Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar
Savage Weald: Chaotic Caverns [All Versions]
The Brutal Bloodbath should more reliably enter combat when appropriate.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [All Versions]
Liches no longer drop sulfuric rags
Viktor Vodlak reaches new heights through teleportation instead of riding his broom. This also fixes a bug in heroics where Mortal Coil could not be dispelled if someone died while he flew off on his broom.
The Abandoned Labomination now has full damage reduction if you do not have the correct "Incubation" buff. While the correct buff is active, you will inflict normal damage, regardless of the damage type of your weapons and/or abilities.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic I and Solo]
The Abandoned Labomination's Wrath of the Math reduces potency instead of crit bonus.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic II]
Fixed a bug that could cause The Abandoned Labomination to apply multiple damage reduction buffs.
Fixed a bug with Nogrovska Vodlak's curse, Grave Reminder, that could cause her to choose an invalid ordinal number.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Heroic I and II]
Mortal Coil can be dispelled from Wretched Francine if someone dies during her cauldron delivery event.
Vasty Deep: Toil and Trouble [Solo]
Nogrovska Vodlak's galvanic golem and The Abandoned Labomination's crawler queens are now immune to indirect AOEs.
The solo daily mission will now be granted on entry if qualifications are met.
Vex Thal: Beyond the Veil [Challenge Raid]
Corrected an issue that would cause encounters in the zone to heal to full when they weren't supposed to.
Corrected an issue that would cause the Va Dyn Shadow Striker and Scrapper to become unable to be killed after their master has been slain.
Corrected an issue that would cause Emperor Ssraeshza to dismount players when his death event is started.
Vex Thal: Edge of Oscuris [Challenge]
Hunaga will no longer disarm ranged weapons against Rangers.
Hunaga's "Static" events will occur less often.
Hunaga's lasher adds no longer apply the Furious Fangs detriment.
Moonlight in Shadows will drop 100% of the time, every time.
Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone [Challenge]
Statue of Rallos Zek:
Escalation of War HP has been Reduced by 40%
Greater Warboar?s HP reduced by 40%
The Automaton of Escalation?s HP has been Reduced by 50%
Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends [Challenge]
King Tormax:
Diaku Warmongers HP has been reduced by 20%
Phantasmal Remnant?s HP has been reduced by 50%
View on EQ2players.com (http://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/update-notes-august-25-2021.600662/)