Patch - Feb 15, Dragons of Norrath release
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** Welcome to Dragons of Norrath! **
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A series of events has transpired across the world of Norrath and the familiar faces of Firiona Vie and her nemesis Lanys T’Vyl return to find themselves at the forefront of the events. Unbeknownst to them, a dark influence has seeped into the world of Norrath causing new tensions to arise and conflicts to intensify as the dawn of a new age emerges. The Age of War is upon the people of Norrath and heroes return in this ultimate, unending battle between good and evil.
Prepare for EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath and return to the lands between Halas and Lavastorm as you seek out the Nest, the ancestral birthplace of all dragons, long sealed away and hidden from the eyes of Norrath. But beware, if the Nest is exposed too early during the Brood Dawn, all dragons and their eggs will be cursed for eternity and death will storm down on all Norrathian's not in their service.
Featuring new lands with enhanced graphics, bold new storylines, and updated creatures including goblins, drakes, dragons and the ominous Frost Giant! EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath is the next great expansion pack for the fantasy saga that is EverQuest. Make ready with new features such as the interactive world map, use your potion belt to access magical items quickly, and swap between weapon sets using the bandolier. Plus, with the all new guild hall you can easily get your guild ready to encounter anything that comes your way! EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath is bursting with new adventures and intense battles for players of all levels.
** Features **
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* Bandolier *
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To open the Bandolier window use the 'B' key.
The bandolier will provide you with a quick and easy way to wield your weapons in different predefined combinations. When a weapon set is activated, the bandolier switches the currently equipped weapons with as many of the weapon set items it can find in your inventory. To add a bandolier, first click on the slot that you want to fill. Then click the add button. You can name each set. The weapon set that will be saved as the weapons you currently have in your inventory (primary, secondary, range, and ammo slots). You can make hotbuttons out of the weapon sets for easy, quick swapping.
* Potion Belt *
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To open the potion belt window use 'shift P'.
The Potion Belt allows for quick use of inventory items, such as potions or magical devices. To add a potion belt enabled item to the potion belt, simply put the item on your cursor and click in one of the belt slots. Then simply right click on the item to use it. Please note that not all clickable items are usable from the potion belt.
* The Barter Zone *
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The entrance to the Barter Zone is in the western section of the Plane of Knowledge. The default in-game map has the location marked on it (this may not be true if have a custom map). To setup your character as buyer, use the /buyer command to bring up the Buyer Barter Window. When you’d like to sell an item quickly without heading to the bazaar, use the /barter command to bring up the Barter Window. Please refer to the context tips or the manual for more information.
* The Guild Lobby and the Guild Hall*
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The entrance to the Guild lobby is also in the western section of the Plane of Knowledge. The Guild Hall entrance is at the back of the Guild lobby accessible by active guild members.
Guild Lobby:
- Looking for Guild and Looking for Guild Member tool: You can use the looking for guild tool or the looking for a guild member tool by clicking on the note boards. In the Guild Lobby use your map to find the note boards.
- Corpse Summoning: Speak to a Disciple of Luclin. This Disciple can sell you a level appropriate soulstone. Take the soulstone to a nearby Priest or Priestess and they'll summon all of your existing corpses in Norrath directly to your feet (except those corpses that are in Shadowrest). Be sure you loot your corpses quickly because they won't be there long!
Guild Hall:
- Guild Portal: The guild portal is activated by speaking to the gnome in the Guild Hall. You will need to purchase a focus stone from him and then hand it back in order to focus the portal on a specific location. Once the portal is focused, step on the crystal platform to bring up a yes/no dialog box. Clicking yes should teleport you away.
- Mana/Health regen pool: Walking into the back right room in the Guild Hall will cause you to regenerate health, mana, and endurance at twice your normal rate. You should see a text message when you enter the area of the pool as well as a particle effect on your character.
- Buff Timers: Buff timers are paused while in the Guild Hall.
- Guild Tradeskill Objects: Various tradeskill tools are located in the Guild Hall for easy access by guild members.
* Missions *
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Mission givers for Dark Reign and Norrath’s Keepers can now be found in Lavastorm. These mission givers offer quests for groups of 3 to 6 players that take you into the Dragons of Norrath. Only a few missions are available at first, but as you gain faction and earn their trust, more missions will open up. Missions make use of a new shared task system that shares space with the Task window (Alt-Q). You can manage the players in your shared task from the new Shared Task tab in the Task window.
Successful completion of a mission will reward you with crystals that can be redeemed at mission vendors in the two camps. Each side has their own crystals that they award and their mission vendors will not accept crystals from the opposing side. You can create stacks of crystals for trading to other players by clicking on the crystals display in the inventory window. The reclaim tab under the crystals display will add any crystals you have in your inventory. You can only spend crystals that are listed in the display, so be sure to reclaim before visiting a vendor.
** Live Patch Information **
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The EQ Mail System!
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EQ players now have the ability to send persistent messages to players who are not logged in! To use this new feature, take a look at the new icon that has been added to the window selector. This icon will change color when you have unread messages. It also blinks for a short period of time when new mail arrives. To open the mail window, click on the icon or use CTRL-M. Here's a few other helpful hints.
Sending Messages - To send a message, press the "Compose" button. Enter the character name of the recipient in the "To" field, a subject and the message itself. Press the "Send" button and mail icon of the recipient will start blinking! Please be aware that you can currently only email one recipient at a time.
Receiving Messages- If you are online, new mail is delivered to you immediately without delay. When you open the mail window, the number of unread messages is put between square brackets close to the "Inbox" list title. In the mail window, your messages usually appear sorted by date. You can click on the column header to change the sort type and order. You can also resize the width of a column with the mouse, just click and drag a column header separator.
Viewing Messages - To view the body of a message, select it in the list. The message text window displays the message fields in a different color, followed by the text of the message.
Managing Messages- When a message is selected you can reply to the sender or forward the message to another player by pressing the corresponding button. An appropriate default subject will be inserted for you and a copy of the original message is added to the mail composition window.
Deleting Messages - You can also delete messages, in which case they will be placed in your "Deleted Items" folder. To select multiple messages for deletion you can use SHIFT-click and CTRL-click. The "Deleted Items" list is where your deleted messages go. The total number of messages in that list appears in the title. Two additional actions are available to you when managing your deleted messages: you can restore deleted messages using the "Undelete" button, and you can permanently delete all the messages by click on the "Empty Trash" button.
NOTE: You can send a message to yourself. You can also send a message from the command line using the "[mailto" command. Syntax: [mailto If the subject contains whitespace, you must enclose it in double quotation marks. Example: [mailto LadyCandy "You are so sweet!" Dear LadyCandy, etc. etc.
- The "M" key now opens the map.
- Fixed the following Omens augmentation combines:
Aug Inlay Titanite of Quickness
Aug Inlay Brilliant Titanite of Quickness
Aug Inlay Radiant Titanite of Quickness
Aug Inlay Titanite of Pure Quickness
Aug Inlay Brilliant Titanite of Pure Quickness
Aug Inlay Radiant Titanite of Pure Quickness
Aug Inlay Tourmaline of Quickness
Aug Inlay Brilliant Tourmaline of Quickness
Aug Inlay Radiant Tourmaline of Quickness
Aug Inlay Tourmaline of Pure Quickness
Aug Inlay Brilliant Tourmaline of Pure Quickness
Aug Inlay Radiant Tourmaline of Pure Quickness
- Modified the Hammer of the Dragonborn so that it has an instant casting time, but a 10 second recast.
- Dagger of Evil Summons now has a 120 second recast time.
- Increased the range on Blood Pact.
- Pristine Purifying Sapphire is now no-drop.
- Assistant Researcher’s Symbol now has the focus Quickening of the Anuek. The Hit Points, mana and end have been adjusted to 285. Added +20 attack, 2 hit point regeneration, 2 mana regeneration. Added +3 to combat effects, strikethrough, and accuracy.
- The following Anguish armor pieces have been upgraded:
Gladiator's Plate Sleeves of War
Faithbringer's Armguards of Conviction
Dawnseeker's Sleeves of the Defender
Bladewhisper Chain Sleeves of Journey
Duskbringer's Plate Armguards of the Hateful
Everspring Sleeves of the Tangled Briars
Fiercehand Sleeves of the Focused
Farseeker's Plate Armbands of Harmony
Whispering Armguard of Shadows
Ritualchanter's Armguards of the Ancestors
Blightbringer's Armband of the Grave
Academic's Sleeves of the Arcanists
Glyphwielder's Sleeves of the Summoner
Mindreaver's Armguards of Coercion
Savagesoul Sleeves of the Wild
Wrathbringer's Chain Sleeves of the Vindicator
- The low level quests in the new Lavastorm had their requirements lowered. They were previously set to high for their intended level.
- Lowered the agro range on NPC’s in Lavastorm.
- Certain NPC’s in Lavastorm will no longer assist each other.
- The Goblin runner in Lavastorm should no longer run past the zone line into Nektulos Forest.
- The Goblin Messenger in Frontier Mountains should get stuck in the geometry and disappear much less often now.
- Moved the spawn location of Valorian Guardian Florik in Halls of Honor A to an easier to get to location. He was previously spawning in a location that was harder than the intended level of the quest.
- Shifted the focus on the Bladewhisper Chain Wristband to the Bladewhisper Chain Boots.
- The focus on the Paladin Epic 1.5 is no longer restricted to only group heals.
- The Wand of Wintergrip can no longer be equipped in the secondary slot.
- The click effect on the Beastlord and Magician epic's has had its duration increased to 20 minutes.
- Kraylor Nalsiv in Plane of Knowledge no longer requires you to hand him your epic to receive your title. He now responds to dialogues instead of item turn-ins.
- The Mirrored Mask from Anguish now has a half second cast time and an 80 second recast. Reflective skin also now has an 18 second duration. This should make the mask easier to use when used correctly.
- Fixed a bug with the Zun Muram in Txevu. Previously he was not dropping his signet for the alternative access to Tacvi 100% of the time, due to a bug. This has now been corrected.
- Karsor the Mad returns.
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new features are discribed in this pdf.
http://everquest.station.sony.com/drago ... manual.pdf
New guild halls are cool. Buff timers freeze, setable guild port ( 209 pp to set WoS though, only need to pay to change setting, as low as 10pp for karanas ) guild bank, regular bank.
New bazaar is total crap layout. as is the new barter zone. There is a find trader path button but it's a very very sucky place. ( indoor i.e. cant sow inside )
presently there is a 20min timer on ressing/looting summoned corpses before they poof to the archived corpse zone (no ress then) and for lvl55+ costs 157pp
Missions and new zones were not unlocked yet on Veeshan last night but should be by now. ( minor server quest )
Reports from some servers said the missions were ok, others couldn't get them ( probebly not unlocked yet)
Rewards for missions seem ok but offer little for CD and such other than perhaps the new lvl 61 spells. ( perhaps the item/skill unlocked after max facton gained from a side may be ok, not sure what it is yet. ) Not sure if the new lvl 69 spells are from here either.
The new map atlas is very nice and all zones except Umbral planes and VT are presently available. ( the overall atlas and continent maps could use some work though.)
Tanks loved the bandolara for equiptment swaps ( except returning stuff to old bag locations)
The potion belt needs some work. you can place potions such as invis potions in a slot that psudo stacks in the belt but dosen't really free up inventory slots. You can the just click on the potion in the belt to use one instead of dragging to inventory slot. However the belt icon poofs on zoning nor does it have any transparency.
So the features seem good for the most part ( except Bazaar spazmocity )
Not sure on content yet.
http://everquest.station.sony.com/drago ... manual.pdf
New guild halls are cool. Buff timers freeze, setable guild port ( 209 pp to set WoS though, only need to pay to change setting, as low as 10pp for karanas ) guild bank, regular bank.
New bazaar is total crap layout. as is the new barter zone. There is a find trader path button but it's a very very sucky place. ( indoor i.e. cant sow inside )
presently there is a 20min timer on ressing/looting summoned corpses before they poof to the archived corpse zone (no ress then) and for lvl55+ costs 157pp
Missions and new zones were not unlocked yet on Veeshan last night but should be by now. ( minor server quest )
Reports from some servers said the missions were ok, others couldn't get them ( probebly not unlocked yet)
Rewards for missions seem ok but offer little for CD and such other than perhaps the new lvl 61 spells. ( perhaps the item/skill unlocked after max facton gained from a side may be ok, not sure what it is yet. ) Not sure if the new lvl 69 spells are from here either.
The new map atlas is very nice and all zones except Umbral planes and VT are presently available. ( the overall atlas and continent maps could use some work though.)
Tanks loved the bandolara for equiptment swaps ( except returning stuff to old bag locations)
The potion belt needs some work. you can place potions such as invis potions in a slot that psudo stacks in the belt but dosen't really free up inventory slots. You can the just click on the potion in the belt to use one instead of dragging to inventory slot. However the belt icon poofs on zoning nor does it have any transparency.
So the features seem good for the most part ( except Bazaar spazmocity )
Not sure on content yet.
Pride of nationality depends not on ignorance of other nations, but on ignorance of one's own.
I tried to talk to the mission guys. But the evils wont talk to me (apprehensive I think) and the good guys attack me. So no idea how I would get the appropraite faction up to do missions.
Bazaar.. No idea why they changed it to look like the Barter zone. I don't really spend a lot of time there so it's not a big deal to me. If they were going to change them to look the same they should have just merged the two into one zone.
Bandioler has some issues. For example when I switched between two sets it would (appear to) throw range items. I know for some people it activated their epics. It looks like you're limited to 4 sets for now, which is better than nothing, but I wouldn't mind seeing that upped to 6 or 8.
(Edit - I guess you get faction by wayfarer tasks. I hope you can raise both factions instead of one always going down when the other goes up. But I doubt it)
Bazaar.. No idea why they changed it to look like the Barter zone. I don't really spend a lot of time there so it's not a big deal to me. If they were going to change them to look the same they should have just merged the two into one zone.
Bandioler has some issues. For example when I switched between two sets it would (appear to) throw range items. I know for some people it activated their epics. It looks like you're limited to 4 sets for now, which is better than nothing, but I wouldn't mind seeing that upped to 6 or 8.
They opened up last night around 12:30EST or so. I could get to Broodlands from Lavastorm. However, the reverse was not true. Apparently it didn't open the other side because I couldn't get back to Lavastorm from Broodlands. Big ole rocks in my way!Missions and new zones were not unlocked yet on Veeshan last night but should be by now. ( minor server quest )
(Edit - I guess you get faction by wayfarer tasks. I hope you can raise both factions instead of one always going down when the other goes up. But I doubt it)
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Well with the size of the world today, and the reduced server population, it's sorta nice. For example if you die in Western Wastes these days good luck trying to get a cleric out there to res you. Or someplace where you need to get a summon and a res.Voronwë wrote:lol...corpse summoning to your feet.
Sorta takes some of the risk/challenge away I guess. But it also removes some of the frustration to people in that situation.
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Aslanna wrote:I tried to talk to the mission guys. But the evils wont talk to me (apprehensive I think) and the good guys attack me. So no idea how I would get the appropraite faction up to do missions.
They opened up last night around 12:30EST or so. I could get to Broodlands from Lavastorm. However, the reverse was not true. Apparently it didn't open the other side because I couldn't get back to Lavastorm from Broodlands. Big ole rocks in my way!Missions and new zones were not unlocked yet on Veeshan last night but should be by now. ( minor server quest )
(Edit - I guess you get faction by wayfarer tasks. I hope you can raise both factions instead of one always going down when the other goes up. But I doubt it)
Yesterday when servers came up on Maelin, there were lots of people in my guild doing that newbie quest thing to clear the rocks and make way for the zone into Broodlands. The rocks finally dissappeared and as soon as they were gone I could zone in to Broodlands and back to Lavastorm, so I don't know why the other side was blocked for you and you couldn't zone back in.
With the new task systems though, if you took on a good or evil deity upon making your character you are stuck to helping either Norrath's Keeper's ( good ) or Dark Reign ( bad ) unless ofcourse you pledged Agnostic, then you have the opportunity to go either way. The NPC's marked Task or Recruiter wouldn't talk to me yesterday even after the rocks were cleared, but the guys that have the (Mission) tag below their name would. Looks like for the good and bad side they give the same 2 first missions. When you complete them you get a stone that proves your worth and alliance to either one side or the other, then you can recieve more missions...I think. Someone in guild yesterday said that one of the Task guys they talked to asked for 4 Scrolls of Wisdom or Knowledge. When I was killing through Thundercrest yesterday lots of mobs were dropping those scrolls. So I don't know if you really have to collect those then turn them in to the guys to raise faction, or if you just have to continually do the missions until you raise enough faction with them.
On another note, did anyone notice the new class charms that go with this expansion? For clerics the charm information says " Becomes more powerful when less people are in the zone with you." So I am guessing that it becomes more powerful in a "wipe" situation?? Who knows. But there are different charms for all the different classes so I guess I shouldn't keep working on my Wayfarer's Charm anymore. If anyone finds out anything else about the task people I would love to hear it, I'm looking forward to unlocking some of that stuff on my alt , so I can cheat and go around the elemental gearing phase for her
And I am looking for Sony to nerf the Bandolier belt with some quickness, people are screaming about class inbalance now, A rogue with an AM sword and Demerix only switching to epic for backstabs can add almost 300 more dps parsed...Enjoy it while you can
Last edited by Lynnsie on February 16, 2005, 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
what if you killed your god and took her loots?Lynnsie wrote: With the new task systems though, if you took on a good or evil deity upon making your character you are stuck to helping either Norrath's Keeper's ( good ) or Dark Reign ( bad ) unless ofcourse you pledged Agnostic, then you have the opportunity to go either way.
Back in the day, we could train lower guk dead side and create enough chaos that the zone would be a mess for hours! I remember those three damn wizzy frogs on the guk bridge always making my nervis huge.
Hand to Ass!
Which reminds me of one big time raid OG had where we had like 30 people crammed in the Lower Guk Hand room for the big kill!
Hand to Ass!
Which reminds me of one big time raid OG had where we had like 30 people crammed in the Lower Guk Hand room for the big kill!
Lynnsie wrote:And I am looking for Sony to nerf the Bandolier belt with some quickness, people are screaming about class inbalance now, A rogue with an AM sword and Demerix only switching to epic for backstabs can add almost 300 more dps parsed...Enjoy it while you can
They could always do this anyway, with the epic on their cursor just left clicking it in.
Rogues are overpowered.. But that's a debate for another thread.
Bummed abou tthe Good/Evil thing though. I should be able to choose which side even though it would mean more faction work instead of being forced into Evil. The manual makes it sound like you can.. But all the tasks I got from the Wayfarer camp only raised evil faction.
I also don't know why I have to build up faction to begin with. If I'm evil then just let me use the evil camp without me needing to do 100 lame tasks to build faction just so they will talk to me.
Bummed abou tthe Good/Evil thing though. I should be able to choose which side even though it would mean more faction work instead of being forced into Evil. The manual makes it sound like you can.. But all the tasks I got from the Wayfarer camp only raised evil faction.
I also don't know why I have to build up faction to begin with. If I'm evil then just let me use the evil camp without me needing to do 100 lame tasks to build faction just so they will talk to me.
Because I was on Veeshan. It wasn't like that tonight but it was yesterday. I had to gate out of Broodlands.Yesterday when servers came up on Maelin, there were lots of people in my guild doing that newbie quest thing to clear the rocks and make way for the zone into Broodlands. The rocks finally dissappeared and as soon as they were gone I could zone in to Broodlands and back to Lavastorm, so I don't know why the other side was blocked for you and you couldn't zone back in.
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Spang wrote:i like it too!
i'm liking this whole expansion though. cept for this one mission. you had to kill an elusive kirin. this kirin was too elusive. our group couldn't find the fucking thing.
We had the same problem....we did that stupid thing for 3 hours and finally gave up and went to bed at 4am fucking ridiculous shit, he was too gd elusive
that was Disco and a froglok ostiery!!Winnow wrote:Back in the day, we could train lower guk dead side and create enough chaos that the zone would be a mess for hours! I remember those three damn wizzy frogs on the guk bridge always making my nervis huge.
Hand to Ass!
Which reminds me of one big time raid OG had where we had like 30 people crammed in the Lower Guk Hand room for the big kill!
if your train wipes out Magi (or originates from there) you might be able to train the hand out of that area, but i still bet he goes to lord next, hell its even hard to get him to frenzy let alone to ass!
but back to the "raid on Seb"
....and then the following threats of deguilding of the guy who won the RANDOM on an Arbiter's Combine Greatsword.
that should have been the red flag right there that would have changed the fate of the entire server
Well, two weeks since DoN has been released. Still enjoying it so far.
And there's a lot of misinformation above about faction. Whether you are good or evil you can choose the camp you want to affiliate yourself with. Evils are not locked into doing evil tasks/missions any more than non-evils are stuck with not being evil. If you choose to go the opposite of your normal nature it will cost you more time to work on faction but that's about it.
And there's a lot of misinformation above about faction. Whether you are good or evil you can choose the camp you want to affiliate yourself with. Evils are not locked into doing evil tasks/missions any more than non-evils are stuck with not being evil. If you choose to go the opposite of your normal nature it will cost you more time to work on faction but that's about it.
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