Today’s Rift patch notes had an interesting line:
Tracking abilities no longer trigger global cooldown, which also reduces their effect on Rift contribution.
Rift’s Contribution system is something I’ve been meaning to address. During an invasion or rift closure, your contribution is measured against that of the other participants, with you competing for the best rating, and thus the best rewards. Warhammer had something similar, and if you’re a longterm reader you’ll know that I had more than a few […]
My Aether Racing video finally uploaded! I wrote about this short-lived flying mount race event yesterday, and you only have a few more hours to catch it if your interest is piqued! The event has been, in this correspondent’s opinion, a massive success! It was well designed, and played extremely well as a race game. I now want a track in every large outdoor zone!
The video will blow up into 720 HD if you use the button along the […]
Today is the day of the EQ2 Aether Races! When you hear a bell ring, that’s the sound of a Ratonga getting his wings.
Ordinarily, you don’t unlock the Velious flying mounts until you complete a chain of level 85 quests, which come in adventuring and tradeskill varieties. Little Maltheas is a ways off being able to do either, so he has had to watch from the ground as his comrades took to the air. That changes today, briefly, as […]
Just thought I’d mention that I turned up like a bad penny over at Csicon’s “Claims of the Normal” podcast this week, and you can find it here!
Rift’s Guardian tutorial area has quite a large number of books to find, and they may be missable if you don’t pick them up, given that I know of no way to get back there once you leave.
That being the case, I’ve knocked up this little map, which will hopefully come in handy for anyone having trouble finding the location of the last one or two. I’ve also marked the location of certain relics of the Gods of the […]
For today (actually yesterday, but it’s still going as I write) only, a free Othmir illusion item is available in EQ2’s marketplace. Technically it only has 50 charges, but as neither death nor zoning removes illusions, it is sufficient to last anyone who wanted to permanently be an Othmir.
Cheeves is pretending that he isn’t impressed.
If I had any spare character slots I’d probably create a little ranger or shaman, just to play as an Othmir. Of […]
MMO players have an embarrassment of riches this week. Of course Rift will be opening up early access on the 24th, but the latest EQ2 expansion, “Destiny of Velious”, launches today, with an 8 day extravaganza of events.
On top of that, DDO will be having it’s 5 year anniversary, with an all-new piratey event recycled from the original tutorial island. I’ll try to catch some of that, though I hope it’s more enjoyable than the Halloween event, which I […]
|
|
