lu 42 testupdate notes

[jjlo69]

<p>wow alot a decent stuff but still missing epic information like are they in and was also wonderig if he radar stuill has power as far as arrow machinacs go for rangers since there has been no new news on that for way too long.now.</p><p>morzerk </p>

[Snowdonia]

Link? Cuz I'm not finding where you guys are reading these notes. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[tanus]

Brawler Str AA usable with Epic Weapons yet? Hmmm.

[Emperors]

<p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=404401 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...id=404401 </a></p><p>Charasis: the Maiden's Chamber<i>Bilithu of the Old Ways:</i>Summons of the Feaster is no longer affected by mana draining spells and abilities.Bilithu's power pool has been reduced.</p><p><a href="http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-population/15637-help-maidens-chamber.html#post346482" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-popu...html#post346482</a></p><p>Illucide: </p><p>What!? Someone put in a reason to burn down a mob's power pool? MADNESS!/snicker</p><p> What the heck SOE!  Thanks for making power drains useless again.  It was nice to have a few options when trying to killing this mob.</p>

[Rijacki]

<cite>Eeannan@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=404401 " target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...id=404401 </a></p><p>Charasis: the Maiden's Chamber<i>Bilithu of the Old Ways:</i>Summons of the Feaster is no longer affected by mana draining spells and abilities.Bilithu's power pool has been reduced.</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-population/15637-help-maidens-chamber.html#post346482" target="_blank">http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-popu...html#post346482</a></p><p>Illucide: </p><p>What!? Someone put in a reason to burn down a mob's power pool? MADNESS!/snicker</p><p> What the heck SOE!  Thanks for making power drains useless again.  It was nice to have a few options when trying to killing this mob.</p></blockquote>It was nice having an actual purpose behind the power drains on nearly all of the coercer's spells (given as a reason for why their damage and utility  is so much lower in comparison with an illusionist.*sigh*Well, having power drains work on even ONE mob in the whole entire game was nice while it lasted, I guess.

[Agaxal]

<cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Eeannan@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=404401 " target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...id=404401 </a></p><p>Charasis: the Maiden's Chamber<i>Bilithu of the Old Ways:</i>Summons of the Feaster is no longer affected by mana draining spells and abilities.Bilithu's power pool has been reduced.</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-population/15637-help-maidens-chamber.html#post346482" target="_blank">http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-popu...html#post346482</a></p><p>Illucide: </p><p>What!? Someone put in a reason to burn down a mob's power pool? MADNESS!/snicker</p><p> What the heck SOE!  Thanks for making power drains useless again.  It was nice to have a few options when trying to killing this mob.</p></blockquote>It was nice having an actual purpose behind the power drains on nearly all of the coercer's spells (given as a reason for why their damage and utility  is so much lower in comparison with an illusionist.*sigh*Well, having power drains work on even ONE mob in the whole entire game was nice while it lasted, I guess.</blockquote>Summons of the Feaster is where he ports you.Twin-Tail Thrash is what does the nasty AOE *after* you get ported.If you can keep him at 0% at most you should just get ported.  You shouldn't get the AE.  If this is the case, no big deal.agressiv

[Aule]

<p>Yeah could we maybe get an official response on what the point / purpose / goal of mana drain effects on spells and items is intended to be?  I'm failing to see The_Vision(tm) here.  </p><p>Maybe we could hope one day in the distant future, 4 or 5 years from now when there are 4 servers left because people have all moved on to other games, when we can see a patch message that says:</p><p>"Mana draining effects have been removed from all spells and items.  Coercers have had their spell damage increased to compensate for the loss.  We apologize for the inconvenience."</p>

[XeroXs84]

<cite>jjlo69 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>wow alot a decent stuff but still missing epic information like are they in and was also wonderig if he radar stuill has power as far as arrow machinacs go for rangers since there has been no new news on that for way too long.now.</p><p>morzerk </p></blockquote>There was alot more promised for LU42, including a lot of PVP changes... which arent in those test notes either.So my guess would be that we see a second update note tomorrow (or soon anyway) and maybe even a 3rd.. like they do quite often.

[Ilyatha]

Hopefully they forgot to add in adding heal crit to the Thuuga ring for healers, and adding the reward that the dev promised over a month ago for the Veeshan's Feast quest.

[Snowdonia]

nm, found em.

[xpraetorianx]

Yeah no kidding, whats the point of Mana Draining spells anyways.. just a false sense of accomplishment?*OH YAY I DRAINED ALL THIS MOBS POWER HE CANT DO ANYTHING NOW!*YOU ARE HIT by ARCANE STORM FOR 8k MAGIC DAMAGE!* ...dammit soe.And what about PuppetMaster SOE?  I like the idea of the spell, dont get me wrong but for one its useless on raids because some mobs still heal when it kills anything or mobs get an effect put on them when they kill something so that spell is rendered pointless, and the damage is next to nothing anyways.  Its useless really for a raider, maybe you could consider tossing a EPIC clause into that spell, for example increased damage when used on a EPIC MOB... or something.I like some of the changes but then again, some changes really just make you ask WHY are you thinking such things.... which you never get a reply to why really.... so, you make the entry mob harder in a zone and the last mob easier...? 

[Powers]

Can this update go live....  like, NOW?  So many cool features!One note, though:<ul><li><span class="postbody">Seared Bandolier and Buz'zard's Shortbow should no longer move to your overflow after zoning.</span></li></ul>This also affects Arrell's Bow of Alacrity.  I know it's no longer attainable but my Ranger is still only level 24 and is using it.I've /bugged it but we all know how those sometimes get missed.Powers  &8^]

[Krontak]

YOU MISSED FIXING THE SLIEGHT OF HAND SPELL!

[feldon30]

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[Obadiah]

<cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite><blockquote>In case anyone didn't figure it out, yesterday's update is NOT GU42.</blockquote>How do we know that? Looks like GU42 to me, just sans Epics. I assumed Epics would be going live without hitting Test first to avoid giving anyone an edge and having half of the walkthroughs published on eq2wikia before they're live. Wish I had a Carpenter on Test though. For some reason I'm insanely curious what those recipes at 60 and 62 are. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[feldon30]

This is GU42? Lordy...

[Bramwe]

You know MC sucks [Removed for Content] the way it is for a PUG.  This just makes me want to go in there even less with a PUG between this mob now and Drusella...

[Rijacki]

<cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is GU42? Lordy...</blockquote>It may only be part 1 of GU#42 and, as someone else pointed out, there may be somethings left off of Test (i.e. the epic quests) in order that everyone start with them with the exact same level of knowledge when they hit Live.

[Rijacki]

<cite>Agaxal@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Eeannan@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=404401 " target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...id=404401 </a></p><p>Charasis: the Maiden's Chamber<i>Bilithu of the Old Ways:</i>Summons of the Feaster is no longer affected by mana draining spells and abilities.Bilithu's power pool has been reduced.</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-population/15637-help-maidens-chamber.html#post346482" target="_blank">http://www.eq2flames.com/zones-popu...html#post346482</a></p><p>Illucide: </p><p>What!? Someone put in a reason to burn down a mob's power pool? MADNESS!/snicker</p><p> What the heck SOE!  Thanks for making power drains useless again.  It was nice to have a few options when trying to killing this mob.</p></blockquote>It was nice having an actual purpose behind the power drains on nearly all of the coercer's spells (given as a reason for why their damage and utility  is so much lower in comparison with an illusionist.*sigh*Well, having power drains work on even ONE mob in the whole entire game was nice while it lasted, I guess.</blockquote>Summons of the Feaster is where he ports you.Twin-Tail Thrash is what does the nasty AOE *after* you get ported.If you can keep him at 0% at most you should just get ported.  You shouldn't get the AE.  If this is the case, no big deal.agressiv</blockquote>That is the way it works -now-.  After this hits Live, no one will be able to drain him to 0% because he will be immune.

[Oxanda]

<cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>That is the way it works -now-.  After this hits Live, no one will be able to drain him to 0% because he will be immune.</blockquote>It's nowhere said that he will be immune to power drain (it only says that his "<span class="postbody">Summons of the Feaster" spell doesn't get affected by power drain, not the mob itself</span>). At the current state the mob can't use any of his abilities at 0 mana. With the upcoming change he will be able to port despite the power drain but still not casting his massive AoE. Let's see what the people from Test report <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Efour EQ2]

There is really no need to nerf amazing reflexes further and further into oblivion.Who the hell decides these things?  IS it the same person that gave us the useless lvl 80 ability ?Please reconsider

[SaraBH]

<cite>Fizzie@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>jjlo69 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>wow alot a decent stuff but still missing epic information like are they in and was also wonderig if he radar stuill has power as far as arrow machinacs go for rangers since there has been no new news on that for way too long.now.</p><p>morzerk </p></blockquote>There was alot more promised for LU42, including a lot of PVP changes... which arent in those test notes either.So my guess would be that we see a second update note tomorrow (or soon anyway) and maybe even a 3rd.. like they do quite often.</blockquote>Why would we see PvP updates on Test? Not like they can test it there. Come on guys dont start jumping the gun yet.

[Vorlak]

Great news on conj pet perstantcy... What about fixing out pets? Problem: Air Pet (Scout) at T8 is a Monk (Fighter) which does crushing damage, yet the AA's only help with slashing and piercing. Resolution: you got 2 options - change the guy to use leaf blades at app1-adetp3 and samuri sword at M1 or add crushing to the AA line for Air Pets... Fire Pet (mage) Problem(s): 1.probem: forgets to cast, even if directly under the mob have to resummon to fix. solution: fix your logic of LoS or something... 2. Stomp sounds ruin game play, you guys spent all this time to develop this lovly combat music which i would listen to but cant because i turn off sound when im on my conj to avoid that annoying noise it makes. soluiton: remove the walking noise from the pet. (add in casting sounds again) 3. Look & Design of pet, (really really really sucks) - why didnt get an elemental drake or spirit of some sort hell ball of lava the wizards have fits more in line with casting over this cheep knock off from t7. solution: change the value of the npc summoned to something more casterish and add the fire skin to it. (or just make it to where we can summon a fire elemental spirit of what ever we target from lvl 50+)

[Tomanak]

<cite>Efour@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>There is really no need to nerf amazing reflexes further and further into oblivion.Who the hell decides these things?  IS it the same person that gave us the useless lvl 80 ability ?Please reconsider </blockquote>aye, probabaly a dev who plays a swashie and is jealous <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />