EQ Drops Flagging/Key reqs from Kunark to Prophecy of RO

[Ridah]

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4/10/2008

*** Test Server Update ***

Here is a list of some of our more visible changes that have been made with this update.


*** Highlights ***

- The 10th Veteran Reward, Summon Resupply Agent, is now available!

- Type 3 augmentations are now available. Check your local Faydwer faction vendor!

- Alternate Advancement experience has been accelerated significantly for those with fewer AAs spent and will scale back down to the normal rate as more AAs are earned.

- The experience gained formulas have been modified to present players with a much smoother increase in the number of kills required to progress through a level as they gain more levels. This change has the side effect of reducing the number of kills required to gain a level in certain scenarios between levels 50 and 75.

- All keyed zones from the Ruins of Kunark, Scars of Velious, Shadows of Luclin, Planes of Power, Gates of Discord, Omens of War, Depths of Darkhollow, and Prophecy of Ro have had their key/flag requirements modified. All players that have obtained the key/flag will still be allowed entry into the zones, as will players that have met minimum level requirements for the zones. The minimum level requirements are as follows:

Required Level 46

The Howling Stones
Old Sebilis
Skyshrine

Required Level 55

Veeshan's Peak
Vex Thal
Locked areas of the Temple of Ssraeshza

Required level 57

Bastion of Thunder
Halls of Honor
The Temple of Marr
Tower of Solusek Ro
Drunder, The Fortress of Zek

Required Level 60

Plane of Water
Plane of Air
Plane of Fire
Plane of Earth
Ikkinz
Uqua
Yxtta
Kodtaz

Required Level 62

Plane of Time
Inktuta
Qvic

Required Level 65

Txevu
Tacvi

Required Level 68

Anquish

Required Level 70

Dreadspire
Demiplane of Blood

Required Level 72

Theater of Blood
Deathknell
*** Items ***

- The engineer steamworks that work within the guardian have developed devices that help them move within the beast. Fortunately for adventurers they can be a bit absent minded about them and adventures can find them lying about.
- A vial of raging heartblood is not as vile as it was previously.


*** Spells ***

- Secrets of Faydwer's Talisman of the Puma has been renamed to Talisman of the Cougar.
- Cast time on Quellious' Word of Tranquility has been reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.
- The Adrenal Boost focus effect has been changed to Life Line, which is a mana cost reduction on Pure Life.
- The Closefisted Claw focus effect has been changed to Ethereal Breath, which is a damage increase on Ethereal Conflagration.
- Breastplate worn effects that enhanced one rank of a spell or discipline now enhance all three ranks.
- Reuse time reduction bonus on Assassin's Efficacy, Impenetrable Body, and Fit of Berserking Rage have been set to 25%.
- The Rage of Tri'Qaras effect triggered from Bulwark of Tri'Qaras is now a damage bonus that stacks with other effects.
- The recourse from the Challenge for Honor line will now appear in the bard buff box.
- The Vinelash Ensnare effect triggered from Vinelash Cascade will no longer overwrite Entrap.
- The efficiency of Secrets of Faydwer direct damage spells now scales up on higher ranks of the same spell.


*** NPC ***

- Halima in Crescent Reach can now be found in the find window.
- Henrik O`Danos no longer sells Hypericum twice.


*** Quests & Events ***

- Rylin Coil will now show and give all three tinkering mastery books for the tinkering mastery quest.


*** AA ***

- Increased the range of the Wrath of the Wild AA line to match other Damage Shield spells that Druids have.
- Increased the hitpoints and resists of all "Wards" for all classes to make them better able to resist ambient damage while performing the tasks the abilities were created for.


*** Miscellaneous ***

- Hidden corpses should now be hidden properly when entering proximity.
- The 'pop in' delay of hidden corpses when entering proximity should no longer exist.
- /who corpse should now properly display player corpses in zone.
- Changed NPC summon behavior to summon the player right in front of their current heading at 1/2 their melee range. Calculations used to determine when the NPC should summon have been made a bit more accurate. Please let us know if you experience any odd behavior when being summoned, either problems with being placed in geometry or some other location that seems incorrect. Also let us know if an NPC summons when it still seems like you are in its melee range.
- Pet Hold should no longer prevent the pet from attacking when it is ordered to attack.
- Iksar should now be able to receive a cap increase after purchasing AA.
- Corrected a problem with hate generation from skill attack abilities such as Hail of Arrows and Decimator's Volley. They were generating considerably more hate than they should and have been returned to their previous, lower hate generation.


- The EverQuest Team

I may revisit EQ now!

[Neric]

That is actually quite interesting and one may make a sightseeing tour through the expansions just for the fun of it.

[Grizzlebeard]

They left Sleeper's key requirement in after all.

I can imagine the nerd rage over on the o-boards now.

[Zuuljin]

Give me a viable way to solo and i'm back. All this shit is 4 years too late.

[Grave]

Can't wait for this patch to go live. More for the AA change than the flagging though.

[Kevincheese]

What the fuuuuck. We just spent another 15 hours camping signets for my friend.

/rage

[Scorp]

Nerd rage on official forums is so LOL worthy.

Gwyddon is going to QQ.

[Rathmort]

Did any guild on test ever manage to get Ikkinz 3 done? Pretty sure we were the only ones to do #2, but I might be mixing the two up.

[ismaris]

Very promising...I wonder how much quicker 50-75 is going to be.

[tikkus]

I, for one, am fucking stoked.

[Twobit Whore]

Too bad it's 5 years too late. They should have dropped key requirements for expansions as soon as the next higher-end one was released.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Too bad it's 5 years too late. They should have dropped key requirements for expansions as soon as the next higher-end one was released.

Yeah then if you ahd the key you could turn it in for a viable reward like xp pot or free AA...etc etc.

[Suineg]

Or you could turn it into a title every other patch.

[Jait]

Originally Posted by Suineg

Or you could turn it into a title every other patch.

Yeah. There's lots of better ways to reward people than with xp. I was pretty pissed at PoP to turn in most of my old planar gear for next to nothing.


Either way, I still say I deserve something for my 3 Befallen keys!!! All that work and after 9 years...for nothing! /qq /wrists


Annoying. Good move by SoE, better late than never.

[Scorp]

Glad I'll be able to AA in PoFire without getting flagged~

Always was one of my favorite zones in the game.