A First Look at GU52

[Calthine]

<p>So! Game Update 52 is on Test and your faithful ZAM staff are out there getting the goods!  Kain brings us a first look at the update which includes Research Assistants, spell naming changes and the modifications to Shards and Hearts.</p><p><a href="http://eq2.zam.com/story.html?story=18246" target="_blank">Read more at ZAM!</a></p>

[Bloodfa]

<p>Any reason it's a link to that Void earring? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Kiara]

<p>Because it wouldn't be a Calthine post without an edit <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Fixed!</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Bloodfang@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Any reason it's a link to that Void earring? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>*BLUSH*</p>

[Bloodfa]

<p>Dontcha just love Mondays?  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Bloodfang@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Dontcha just love Mondays?  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>And it's been one!  That my only booboo...  so far....  /goes to check her posts.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>FYI Calthine, Conjuror and Necromancer mythical pets are unchanged. The damage they did pre-GU52 is the same damage they do post-GU52. A simple Possess Minion cast confirms this. So the only thing changed is that they no longer read as Master IV, but Grandmaster; simply cosmetic.</p><p>The number of days the Research Assistant takes to research a Master scales directly with level. Level 20 and below is 24 hours, Level 80 is 30 days, and it's a linear progression between those two points (level 50 is 15 or 16 days).</p>

[Kain-UK]

<p>No point telling Calthine, she hasn't got a Conjy.</p><p>I'm the one that wrote it.</p>

[madha]

<p>next time can you spend more then 10 minutes logged inbefore you attempt to do a first look. </p><p>I mean there is a iceberg in fens by kurns tower, that be worth a first look.</p><p>A few screen shots of the zones, i dont know anything more the spell name changes and the RA. Overall i give this a 1 out of 10 for a first look post.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>madhatr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>next time can you spend more then 10 minutes logged inbefore you attempt to do a first look. </p><p>I mean there is a iceberg in fens by kurns tower, that be worth a first look.</p><p>A few screen shots of the zones, i dont know anything more the spell name changes and the RA. Overall i give this a 1 out of 10 for a first look post.</p></blockquote><p>No one said it was the LAST look <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Kain-UK]

<p>That's not a first look.</p><p>That's a "i'll teleport halfway across the currently known world to go check stuff out" look. :p</p>

[Xalmat]

<p><cite>Kain-UK wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>No point telling Calthine, she hasn't got a Conjy.</p><p>I'm the one that wrote it.</p></blockquote><p>Fair enough. Shows what I know.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Xalmat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kain-UK wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>No point telling Calthine, she hasn't got a Conjy.</p><p>I'm the one that wrote it.</p></blockquote><p>Fair enough. Shows what I know.</p></blockquote><p>*nod*  I wouldn't even begin to presume I could tell any of the squishy class anything.  My only squishy lived on Queen's Colony for a way to farm T1 harvestables.</p>

[feldon30]

<p>I really want to be polite here, but logging in to Test for 10 minutes and posting it as a 'first look' is not really all that helpful. The most egregious mistake in the article is that the spells were not 'renamed to their T8 equivalents'. There were polls created in all 24 class forums for each of the spells for folks to vote on their favorite names. Also, the Research Assistants appear in all the suburbs of Qeynos, Freeport, plus are available as a Guild Hall Amenity.</p><p>I guess I better get off my butt and do an extensive writeup.</p>