When you mentor someone and the two of you kill an NPC and get experience that is considered combat experience, so it will get the bonus experience modifier for this weekend.

Separate from this bonus experience weekend, there is a mentoring bonus that will be in place for the entire month on July that is currently on.  This bonus is for the person who mentoring down, not the mentoree.  You can see the full writeup and details on that here:

     http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...ws&locale=en_US

 And yes they all do stack!

- K

- K

According to SOE... any mob with a x2 or X4 indicates that the strength needed to kill the mob is 2 groups. ANYTHING more than 1 group is considered a raid and therefore any mob with a x2 designation by SOE's designation standards is considered a raid mob. (obviously you cant do this in a single group instance) but the designation is such. Such indication of an "Epic" encounter should result in MUCH better loot then the legendary garbage that is on his loot table. Its simply risk vs reward and a chance of a fabled drop is not in line with its designation. I think what is going on is that the zone was played up to be something its not.

And just to clarify I think all mobs designated with an "Epic" title should have MUCH better gear than the rest of the loot in the instance but this is almost always NOT the case. The itemization in this zone is nice for the most part and I have appriciated the fact the FINALLY SOE has listened to us and made ALL named mobs in this zone drop ornate in the least. It was at least a step forward. Now if they would do this with the other zones it would be a bigger step forward but im not going to hold my breath.

Traditionally in EQ1 mend was a self-only heal. I don't exactly view it as a spell. Like intercede, it kind of makes sense that you have to be close to your ally to help them out. A monk's heal is kind of an emergency last-hope patch, so the range problem presents an interesting challenge. I guess I'm on the fence about upgrading the range of mend given the role of the class.

When are Carpenters going to get a few more things to make?

thajoka wrote:

Out of 6 runs only 1 has not dropped a master.  One of those runs we got 4 master chests and on another one we got 2.  I have seen a fabled drop at the end 3 or 4 of those times.  Seen 2 fabled cloaks I believe.  Get a guild group and the zone takes 30 min or so.  Zone is just fine the way it is.

Im going to have to call Shanangins on this one.... I dont know anyone that is running RE2 in 30 min. An hour I could believe if you have a well tuned & well geared group. but 30min is a big stretch! Also you have gotten incredibly lucky. Most groups are only seeing 1 exquisite every 3 runs or so. We got lucky in 1 each run until the couple of times. I personally think that the end named should always drop an exquisite chest given his x2 Status.

Aeralik wrote:

Cudgel of Obviation ( Mystic )

• The mythical version?s Spirit Tap will only trigger by the mystic?s group members.  Also the heal and power bonuses have been reduced.

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Cudgel of Obviation ( Mystic )

• The mythical version's Spirit Tap will only trigger by the mystic's group members.  Also the heal and power bonuses have been reduced.
• Spirit Tap will not get resisted that easy anymore.

Is there anyway to adjust the codec we are using?

Question:

Will you be able to disable voice invites as you can with the other invites? (group, raid, etc)

Look for the update notes for GU 47 soon!

*edit* too early for me to be posting. heh

With GU 47, expect to see a few more named, no more place holders (except for Keelo, he is unchaged due to Epic updates.)

I also took all the treasured drops off the named, they should only drop ornate or better.

As to the master drops, the percentage is the same, we have not changed it.

70% of the time a Master chest dodges the smart loot code.  Making it more like "mostly dumb" . . . loot code.

Personally, I think the rarity of Master chests should be more than adequate already, and that Smart Loot should impact more like 80% of the chests.

Unfortunately, I am not going to fix the master issue with one zone. It was never the intention.

Minor thing, probably doesn't really matter, but if I quit EQ2 without first leaving the voice chat channel, EQ2 crashes rather than closes (error box with "...has encountered a problem and needs to close/send error report" stuff in it).  Again, since this is when closing the game (no problem when switching chars) it probably doesn't really matter, except for Microsoft getting a slew of error reports they can't do a thing about anyway.

 Be nice

 - K

Woah. De Ja Vu topic. :p

RaphaNissi made this very topic a few days back.

 

I can't wait for Rodcet Nife to finally become a worshipable diety. I wonder what kind of diety pet he'll have? with any luck, it'll be a face hugger or a head crab. :p

Ennia wrote:

for people who notoriously go afk, can you guys add some sort of AFK flag to voice users window? greying out a name? making taht little chat bubble red? something like that, so that rest of the folks in channel can see the afk person probably didn't hear them ( since you cannot scroll up and relisten to  voice chat like you can scroll up and read what you missed in text chat

Seconded. Have /afk change the bubble a muted red (or dark purple or black) would be great.

 - K

 Edit:  I really meant to type Thursday not Tuesday, sorry about that.

You do realize that you'd reach more of your player base if you put this in-game when you first log in.

In fact, you should put a general bulletin board type system of announcements in-game that a player can read when they log into the game.

As much as I love the forums, most players don't come here to read anything and end up missing out.

We did do a MOTD last week for the xp weekend, but it got wiped after the restart so I'll be keeping an eye on that this time.

Posting on the forums goes through a lot faster than a MOTD since I have to get that translated into several languages before putting it up, but you should see that coming soon.

We won't be changing quest XP this weekend but I have been hearing this request a lot lately so we will be discussing it for future events.

- K