4/28 Patch message

[grobsmashprexus]

Since ezboard is down I figured I would post the patch message for the people at work that can't find it.

April 28th, 2004
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Headlines!

- A new storybook has arrived! Make sure you read it to find out what Tondal is up to now.
- A new adventure zone is live on Stormhammer!
- A new adventure zone has moved from Stormhammer to Live!
- What are the "HOT SPOTS"?
- Plane of Knowledge open to everyone!


New Adventure Zone goes to Stormhammer
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- We have added a new adventure zone which should be a challenge for 2 groups of about 50th level.
A party of adventurers is missing and was last seen working with the undead. Will you brave the catacombs to find them?


New Adventure Zone moves to Live
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- The adventure zone currently on Stormhammer will move to live servers. You can visit the Lost Pyramid of Galuuk Korr. This midlevel adventure zone will allow you to explore a monument from the lost elvish city of Takish Hiz! Now you must find what was left beneath the sands. Good luck.

Hot Spots
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Try out the new Hot Spot zones which give a boost to Experience while adventuring in them, in a similar manner to Paludal Caverns. The current Hot Spots are:

- The Castle of Mistmoore (20th to 30th level)
- The Lair of the Splitpaw (35th to 45th level)
- Dulak's Harbor (40th to 45th level)
- The Tower of Frozen Shadow (30th to 35th level)
- The Gulf of Gunthak (35th to 40th level)
- Hate's Fury (55th to 60th level)
- The Crypt of Nadox (50th to 55th level)
- The Torgiran Mines (45th to 50th level)

These Hot Spot zones are generally aimed at characters level 20 to 51. The Hot Spot zones will shift from time to time, so watch for messages giving clues as to where the new ones may be.


Plane of Knowledge
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All EQ characters can now access the Plane of Knowledge whether they have purchased Planes of Power or not!

General
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- We have decreased load times when zoning.


Gates Sewers and Vxed
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- Rare NPCs in the Gates sewers and Vxed will not spawn at the creation of the expedition zone. They will now spawn after the zone has been occupied for some time.


Items
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- Skill percent-mods now work for Ammo slot items.
- Grand Tunic of the Oracle and the Grand Robe of the Oracle have had a type 7 augmentation slot added to them.
- Lungi of the Forbidden will display a robe graphic once again. Monks and Beastlords will be able to swap the robe in for a leather looking BP with the same stats by visiting Garath the Trader in East Wastes. You will be able to swap the items back and forth with Garath for your desired look. (Lungi? Lungi? What is a Lungi?)


Spells
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- Characters in illusion form can again be targeted.
- Bull Rush is now a magical resist. Please do not use in a china shop.
- Balance of the Nihil has had its Mana and Slow percentage increased.


Tracking
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- More NPC's in Qinimi now leave tracks for trackers to find.


Firiona Vie
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- The Shuriken of Eternity and Ton Po's Mystical Pouch are now no-drop.


I am not sure how I feel about the "Hot Spots" I like the fact that it is going to get people to go to zones they probably have not been to but on the bad side n00bs are going to leveling even faster.

[salandius]

death to anyone not 65 yet!!!!!



eh, good for them, with incite, WA aa's, anger augments, most content is trivial for us at this point. (READ: us doing our jobs holding agro... healers job of keeping us up is a bit different) i think newbs being added to the game at the rate that they are adds a challenge to overcome, fun, and excitement.

[Gasmaster]

Originally Posted by grobsmashprexus

- Plane of Knowledge open to everyone!

Yay just what I wanted, let everyone in PoK to be mge for plat and handouts! I made it a point to avoid bazaar because I could no longer zone in without getting a tell asking for plat or gear. I guess SoE saw around my sly trickery and had to make PoK open to all the beggers who can't afford to buy PoP.

[Batem Tuhates]

SWew , ... And here I thought It was the Puzziepallielezklutterdawarrierbordwitbs.exe patch. I'm glad its not, sweeeet....


Ya Im drunk off my azzzzz

[Dreiden]

anyone know how to get to this new addy zone?

[Warfust]

I love how most of the "Hot Spots" are in the expansion that wasn't an expansion (LoY).



And no named on zone creation for Vxed and sewers sucks. Going to take forever to get spells for guildies now.

[Galdaen]

If I had to guess I would say that it is off of Oasis or in the desert area of NRo or SRo. Oasis is where the zone in area for the Takish LDoN adventures is located, so somewhere in that area?

[salandius]

keep in mind its an instanced LDoN advendure zone, you gotta get the right adventure from the camp 1st...


GL

[Findra]

- The Shuriken of Eternity and Ton Po's Mystical Pouch are now no-drop.

/blink

/blink

I can't believe they actually responded to this so fast. It took them about 2 months to figure out 90% of the players on FV had Grandmaster Satchels way back when.

Grats to those that got a Shuriken cheap before the patch (heard they were going for under 10K in the past week or so).

[Brutul]

If they get people to go to LoY more that's good IMO. I leveled my 2nd warrior in LoY and they really are great zones for the people they're designed for. If I was gonna level a new char now I would live in LoY, even without the "hot spot" exp bonus.

Making PoK free is nice, although I kinda doubt there's that many people that don't have PoP by now.

[Gasmaster]

Not sure if this was a bug or what, but a few weeks ago I was in Gunthak with my lil wizzy twink soloing some skellis and zombies when some skellys that I didn't recognize the name of spawned, now for the life of me i can't remember what they were called, but they gave 12% xp per kill at level 37, there were only about 3-4 of them and I haven't seen them since then. Has anyone else had anything like this happen before?

[Surlok]

Nice to see them implementing bonus XP in some old world zones.

Paw was my favourite place to level as a lower level,and I had some good times in Frozen Shadow to.

While I agree that the loy zones are nice to lvl in I would have liked if they would have done some XP bonuses in some other old zones rather than only just 3 then a bunch of loy zones....

[NinjaBurger]

Great another place to PL twinks.

[Hyardgune]

Woot! More PL zones for the idiot train.

Somehow I think EQ would have been a better game if ZEMs had never been introduced at all.

[Binnamar]

- The adventure zone currently on Stormhammer will move to live servers. You can visit the Lost Pyramid of Galuuk Korr. This midlevel adventure zone will allow you to explore a monument from the lost elvish city of Takish Hiz! Now you must find what was left beneath the sands. Good luck.

I like how they can add more LDoN, and are adding more LDoN for free.

We have decreased load times when zoning.

Is always good.


And

I am not sure how I feel about the "Hot Spots" I like the fact that it is going to get people to go to zones they probably have not been to but on the bad side n00bs are going to leveling even faster.

I think that it won't really make "noobs" level faster. Most of these places take work to get to, as you may forget. Billy the Barbarian isn't going to like it when dervishes kill him outside of ToFS because he can't find the entrance. /shrug