Everquest 2 – Quacker Yig brings forth the June 10th 2010 patch notes

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It's Quacker Yig!!!

Oh, Quacker Yig. Your name speaks of formless and ancient horrors from beyond time and space, but you’re so cute! What is your purpose amongst us? Do you mean us harm, or are you here to guide us to wisdom? Do you desire to devour our souls, or just a few morsels of moistened bread? Such are the mysteries of Quacker Yig.

As half of the EQ2 servers are down for 7 hours or so for extended maintenance (though not mine, which is just down for about an hour for the patch), let’s have a quick peek at today’s update notes!

The important change for me in today’s update is the Halas Writs. Until now, they’ve had a very small level range, meaning you would only ever be offered one at once. This meant that if you only used the chronomancers for automentoring, their five-level steps were too wide for you to be able to get all the writs. That’s being sorted, hopefully giving new players a bit more of a choice of writ.

A shrub which shows your progress on the Druid Circles event is also useful, but comes too late to be much help to most servers. This is not the first time that a progress counter has been added long after the start of an event. Something to keep in mind for the next one.

The full notes are after the leap:

DRUID RING EVENT

* Repeatable quests in the Feerrott can now be turned in to the Defender of Growth.
* While a druid ring is being constructed, a small shrub will appear in its center. Clicking it will show how much progress has been made towards activating the ring.
* Quest journals and dialogs for the “Motes of Growth” and “Chosen Foes” have been edited to be more clear and consistent.

USER INTERFACE

* Deleting a repeatable quest from your quest journal that you have already completed one or more times will now properly remove it from the active quest window as well.

ITEMS

* Adornments should now work correctly on lower level tradeskilled cloaks, and on orbs (tradeskilled or otherwise).
* The 7-piece bonus from the summoner Fiery Destruction set now properly applies to the wearer’s pet.
* The self contained cloud can now be turned into a house item and vice versa.

AMENITIES

* The standard bearer should now have the correct description.

QUESTS

* Players that see Henry Overwater, the Qeynos Representative, and Everian Mossway, the Kelethin Representative, in Paineel, should now also see Lady Vienna Sanditerra, the New Halas Representative.

BLESSINGS

* Grin of the Trickster now requires the caster to have someone else targeted and properly applies the increased avoidance.

PVP WARFIELDS

* Chaos Flag is now a beneficial buff and lasts for 1 hour.
* The call to arms for Warfields now correctly states the zone it is in.
* All eligible players will be rewarded equally for participation in the Warfields.
* A few changes to Most Wanted Posters have been made to remove the focus on the Warfield’s reward and back to PvP fights.

PVP MERCHANTS

* Discord’s Prescient and Enduring Disks can be exchanged for tokens through the Priest of Discord for a limited time.

PVP ITEMS

* Discord’s Prescient Disk now grants increased power and toughness instead of in combat speed.
* Discord’s Enduring Disk now grants increased health and toughness instead of in combat speed.
* Discord’s Prescient and Enduring Disks are now available through the Battleground vendors.

PVP WRITS

* Most Wanted Posters now have 20 Charges.
* The reuse timer for the Most Wanted Posters is now 5 Minutes.
* You may still obtain a new writ while in combat.

KALADIM

* Loot of the inappropriate level has been removed from the drop tables for the Kragback Champion and The Master Miner named encounters.

FROSTFANG SEA

* Good aligned players who auto-mentor should now be able to receive all of the level 10-70 New Halas city writs.
* Cordt Metalpatcher, the mender at White Lodge, is now available to everyone, despite their citizenship.
* Agrim MacTosh, the new broker at White Lodge, is available to everyone, despite their citizenship.
* Helfreck Lundgren, the new Housing Goods merchant at Erollis Dock, is available to everyone, despite their citizenship.

ICY KEEP: RETRIBUTION

* Fixed a crash issue related to using projectiles during the Frozen Corrival encounter.
* Some tweaks have been done to the Frozen Corrival encounter to hopefully prevent players from crashing when he splits into adds.
* The Frozen Corrival should no longer have a chance of leaving his chest floating in midair after being defeated.
* Kastus and Odaufe should once again combine at 10%. Some tweaks have also been made to keep the encounter for excessively shuffling hate around between random players.
* Ice Maidens within the zone should no longer show as broken encounters.
* All trash encounters in the zone have had their health slightly decreased.
* Coin has been added as a reward to some more difficult named encounters within the Keep.

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