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Kiara

07-01-2009, 03:29 PM

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Deson

07-01-2009, 03:40 PM

Does the pushed back schedule and focus on Live mean that classes will actually get full work overs before the expansion launch? There are many aspects across a large swath of classes that are broken or otherwise useless and have been for years (e.g. rogue wis line, troub power drains,inquis reactives, melee priests needing to invest xx AA points before really being such, unusable summoner utility...). While it's understood class balance and fixes are a continual process, it would seem based on the announcements from FF that class balance and fixing the "junk" should now have a much larger focus.

mr23sgte

07-01-2009, 04:22 PM

MONK CLASSSince the Fighter revamp was scrapped and many of the fighter changes were actually positive for Monks. When will we see Fighter Revamp 3.0 or any changes to the monk Class ??Something that would make Monks more viable in a raid would be the ability to Cure Curses - since this seems to be a big part of raiding and sometimes the healers curse cures are down. Of course I don't want to be a cure bot, but just throwing another idea out. I guess desperation is setting in as TSO has been rough on Monks with the lack of AE aggro abilities. Don't be shy - come visit the Monk forums.I'm hoping for changes before the next expansion.

azraelteir

07-01-2009, 04:44 PM

With the announcement of the Summoner/Predator changes at FanFair, specifically with regards to the debuff changes. Will these changes be a part of the Feb. 2010 X-Pac or will these changes be tested and released as a part of an upcoming GU? I would hate to think they would only be available for testing in Beta prior to release.Thank you.

Xalmat

07-01-2009, 04:45 PM

Can we get deity altars to drop off of TSO raid bosses?

Anestacia

07-01-2009, 04:59 PM

The whole diety system had a lot of potential but there just doesnt seem to be too much emphasyis put on them any more. Are there any plans to give the dieties more importance or will it just be something that fades away like the Arenas?

Mirander_1

07-01-2009, 05:10 PM

Can we expect a new race to go with Sentinel's Fate and New Halas?You don't have to say what the race is, if you want to keep it a surprise, just whether or not we're getting one.

Talver

07-01-2009, 05:24 PM

Can we expect a level cap increase with the next expansion?

urgthock

07-01-2009, 05:33 PM

<cite>Talver@Befallen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Can we expect a level cap increase with the next expansion?</blockquote>Let me help the devs out here.<cite>Kalyyn@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>I put together a summary of all the news I have managed to find from Fan Faire for my guildmates (not having attended myself, most is from the various feeds and others notes) and thought it might be handy to post it here for everyone else.You can watch the first of the webcasts >> <a href="http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=32136171" target="_blank">HERE</a> << (the main EQ2 stuff, including some video of the new expansion area, is about 55 minutes in)You can see a short video of the new area >> <a href="http://www.onlinegamer-portal.de/vB/showthread.php?p=14183" target="_blank">HERE</a> <<New Expansion<ul><li>The new expansion will be entitled Sentinals Fate </li><li>It will be based around the old EQ1 continent of Odus </li><li>There will be a level cap rise to 90 </li><li>It will be released in February 2010. </li><li>2 large overland zones, 1 large contested zone, The Hole (simliar to Sanctum of Scaleborn), 12 group instances. </li><li>Guild level cap to 90. New amenities and limits. </li><li>No new deities with expansion. </li><li>Group and raid zones will scale to level, to some extent, and have a difficulty level choice (e.g easy, normal, hard). Some mobs will have a difficulty level set by the manner in which you start the encounter (i.e a boss may have a narrative, depending on your choice, you may get 'easy mode' where he sends his minions, or hard mode where boss fights for his life) </li><li>XP>AA slider , when earning xp, you will be able to set a ratio that is earned as aa instead. </li><li>AA cap to 250. New abilities are going to be added in the KoS and EoF tree's, below what is now the end abilities, these will be passive, in the most part, and used by casting a specific chain of other abilities. The cap for all 3 tree's is being raised. RoK and EoF 20 more points, TSO 10 more points</li><li>Erudin and Ratonga Lore </li><li>Mythicals will not be the 'No.1' weapon, but will have another, important, use. </li><li>grouping, Soloing, Questing all viable and equal leveling options. </li></ul></blockquote>

Dasein

07-01-2009, 05:42 PM

With critical types being consolidated, what will happen to AA lines which increase specific crit types? For example, crusaders can increase spell crit and melee crit via different AA selections, with spell crit being substantially higher than melee crit. What will happen to these AAs after the crit consolidation?

Lohkei

07-01-2009, 05:44 PM

Why??? Will mythical weapons will not be the ‘No.1′ weapon. Why will they be usable as a clicky item to get the unique class-defining abilities, or equippable in a charm slot.People have spent hundreds if not thousands of man hours doing and back flagging there guildes to have in the end what looks like a mythical charm? [Removed for Content]

Talver

07-01-2009, 06:37 PM

<cite>urgthock wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Talver@Befallen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Can we expect a level cap increase with the next expansion?</blockquote>Let me help the devs out here.<cite>Kalyyn@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>I put together a summary of all the news I have managed to find from Fan Faire for my guildmates (not having attended myself, most is from the various feeds and others notes) and thought it might be handy to post it here for everyone else.You can watch the first of the webcasts >> <a href="http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=32136171" target="_blank">HERE</a> << (the main EQ2 stuff, including some video of the new expansion area, is about 55 minutes in)You can see a short video of the new area >> <a href="http://www.onlinegamer-portal.de/vB/showthread.php?p=14183" target="_blank">HERE</a> <<New Expansion<ul><li>The new expansion will be entitled Sentinals Fate </li><li>It will be based around the old EQ1 continent of Odus </li><li>There will be a level cap rise to 90 </li><li>It will be released in February 2010. </li><li>2 large overland zones, 1 large contested zone, The Hole (simliar to Sanctum of Scaleborn), 12 group instances. </li><li>Guild level cap to 90. New amenities and limits. </li><li>No new deities with expansion. </li><li>Group and raid zones will scale to level, to some extent, and have a difficulty level choice (e.g easy, normal, hard). Some mobs will have a difficulty level set by the manner in which you start the encounter (i.e a boss may have a narrative, depending on your choice, you may get 'easy mode' where he sends his minions, or hard mode where boss fights for his life) </li><li>XP>AA slider , when earning xp, you will be able to set a ratio that is earned as aa instead. </li><li>AA cap to 250. New abilities are going to be added in the KoS and EoF tree's, below what is now the end abilities, these will be passive, in the most part, and used by casting a specific chain of other abilities. The cap for all 3 tree's is being raised. RoK and EoF 20 more points, TSO 10 more points</li><li>Erudin and Ratonga Lore </li><li>Mythicals will not be the 'No.1' weapon, but will have another, important, use. </li><li>grouping, Soloing, Questing all viable and equal leveling options. </li></ul></blockquote></blockquote>Thanks for the research. I must have missed it in the forums and such.

Vraeth

07-01-2009, 07:02 PM

will old zones be made persistant?

SaberShadowKat

07-01-2009, 08:27 PM

Will it ever be possible to have guild transfers to different servers?

Xeblikaa

07-02-2009, 12:30 AM

Will there ever be a mass storage available for collectable items (and maybe Lore and Legend) ?Either a huge box or something akin to the supply depot would be great.Currently it takes huge amounts of space to store both of these.

Carpediem

07-02-2009, 01:46 AM

Can the devs please look into an option to select whether you ranged auto attack, or melee auto attack in between CA's? I know you can create macros for /autoattack 2 etc. after a melee CA, but the lag in raid zones really messes it up, and it gets very frustrating as a ranger for my auto attack to switch back to melee auto attack every other time I use a melee CA.

Ghouti

07-02-2009, 02:44 AM

Will the traits get revamped, currently they still only run to lvl 50 and are very minor only. (Not talking about the racial traditions or the grandmaster choice but the one in between ... keep forgetting the name)

Foolsfolly

07-02-2009, 03:36 AM

Can anything be done about group members showing as Anonymous in the target window? I hate having to mouse-over everyone's name in order to figure out what class they are.

Stonestrong

07-02-2009, 08:32 AM

Can we please have "Stonewall" the TSO Paladin endline ability improved? It very underpowered compared to Shadowknights Furor. I know you guys are looking to balance things out so you can just fix this now and thank me later for doing my part to help out.Stone

Davngr1

07-02-2009, 09:21 AM

can we expect major overhauls to happen with the new expansion or will these matters be implemented in the comming months before the new expansion?

Thoral

07-02-2009, 09:30 AM

Can we get a check-box on the guild window that turns the comments under people's names on and off? I'd love to turn them off some times so I can see more names on the list at one time.

Kigneer

07-02-2009, 09:43 AM

Will the developers revisit the fighter classes so that each of the 8 will have a more specific role (not clones of each other -- e.g., Paladins becoming mini-Guardians but without the benefits of one, and seriously underpowered in comparison to dps or even mitigation a single-class Guardian would have).

Carteeg_Struve

07-02-2009, 12:01 PM

Could I get an option to view Guild advancement in the 'Adventure/Tradeskill/AA' experience bar and/or get the ability to have more than one bar on the screen at a time?Thanks.

Clav

07-02-2009, 02:31 PM

Given that the heirloom tag seems to be applied with the assumption that all characters can make use of it, are there any plans to either allow exiles to use the shared bank (especially since the shared bank has been extended to characters of opposite alignment), allow heirloom items to be mailed, or allow exiles to return to their old city without giving up all their skills? Those such as myself who made the choice long ago to live in Haven had no way to know that the game would be changed, forcing us to choose between a sudden new lack of functionality or losing all our master skills.

daeaorn

07-02-2009, 04:20 PM

Will more NPCs find thier voice in future updates and the upcoming expansion?

Tanan

07-02-2009, 04:31 PM

Is there going to be emphasis on making Everquest 2 more of its own game or are the devs going to just pull ideas from other games to try and increase subs? Some of the changes are good but it just makes EQ2 feel more like every other game that is out there. Stop trying to compete. Advertise a little.

liveja

07-02-2009, 04:36 PM

Could we get a Producer's Letter, or something, in which we're better introduced to what the devs have in mind for the future of this game?

GrunEQ

07-02-2009, 07:29 PM

With the introduction of a new starting city, Halas, could it be possible to get another character slot?

Evandirse

07-02-2009, 08:50 PM

What is the damage rate of the Befriend Animal line in Ranger AA? A tripple heroic befriended animal gets ground into the mud by a regular, two levels lower mob. Shouldn't the damage rate be equal to that of its level?

Powers

07-02-2009, 10:27 PM

Is the Dev team intentionally putting Erollisi devotees through the wringer? I realize Shard of Love is coming, but there seems to be no indication from the Dev team that Erollisi will be worshippable any time soon. Of the remaining unreturned gods who were worshippable in EQL, Erollisi is by far the most popular; very many of us built EQ2 character concepts around Erollisi worship and have been waiting patiently for years as nearly every other deity made his way back to Norrath. We want to know when our long religion-wide nightmare is going to end. We fear there will never be any resolution for us, doomed to wander the proverbial desert forever as must the Halflings, Dwarves, and Gnomes who wish to regain their homelands.Powers &8^]

Tikku Lilledrum

07-03-2009, 04:36 AM

With the auto mentoring system coming, will level caps be removed from quests that still have them? For instance Quartermaster Berlon in Stormhold or perhaps even the adventuring and tradeskill writs be doable at higher level? Please?

Maroger

07-03-2009, 05:01 AM

Could the items from LON loot cards be put on the Station Store -- I know for some the price will be very high -- but please think about it. Especially the mounts.

ke'la

07-03-2009, 08:32 AM

It was anounced at Fan Faire that the next LU will include a 4x zone with the new select a level system, as well as a 2x zone... Will there also be a Group zone or solo quests added as well...and wich type will the Shard of Love Fall under?

Katanalla

07-04-2009, 02:12 PM

CHANGED QUESTION--Can we have a cloak with a rabbit design theme to it?<img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg285/Katanallama/bunny.gif" />

Rocc

07-04-2009, 04:44 PM

Why, for all that is holy, can we STILL not delete certain quests in our journal? Why?

ZUES

07-04-2009, 04:54 PM

Are there any plans for an Everquest 3?

Gennifer

07-04-2009, 09:12 PM

I was wondering how you decide to make things in the game. For instance, do you have someone who is in charge of making all of the mobs? Or does one person make all the trees or lakes in the game? Thank you.

Spyderbite

07-04-2009, 10:31 PM

Will guild halls transfer, intact, during the merge of Nagafen and Venekor? There hasn't been a server merge since guild halls were introduced. So, inquiry minds want to know if this has been looked in to or if we're just making a leap of faith with our investments on Venekor.

Giral

07-05-2009, 02:52 AM

any plans to merge some normal servers and add in a progression server and a hardmode server.then eq2 would have , rp servers,pvp servers, normal servers,exchange servers,progression server and a hardcore server <-- game for all playstyles <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" />i know alot of people will dissagree with a hardcore server, but it helps in 2 ways ,1 ) it lets people who want eq2 to have a stricter death penelty(shard loss and reduced stats for each lost) ,have achievements that aren't diminished becuase they make the game easier overtime,to have to travel everywhere possible by mount(except to places you cant like KOS or TSO), want to be in a group nearly everywhere(yes make outdoor zones 90 % herioc mobs) , have grey mobs still agro you , no mentoring, etc etc etc ,,, all the things that make an MMO more like a living breathing virtual world(danger at every turn, and high costs for your mistakes, but reap the benifits when you succeed). 2 ) on normal servers any raiders that want to brag and belittle casual players can be told to go play on the hardcore server if they are so Uber : )since the trend is to try and follow WoW, and make everything easier , and nerf things down overtime so everyone can achieve/buy nearly anything in the game . the hardcore players are left bored/burnt out on eq2 and so they go play othergames,and then they get bored of those games/burnt out becuase there is no game they can just sink thier teeth into(like they did in eq1 back in the day) and always have a challange to rise to when they log in, that will never be made easier overtime,a place they can play in for 10+ years on just one character.yes vanguard could have been that game, but meh that game has been left to rot. and instead we just have 2 Eq2's.

circusgirl

07-05-2009, 10:19 AM

Why does the brawler defensive avatar chestpiece (Wu's Enlightened Chestwraps) have HALF the critical mitigation of all other avatar BPs? This bug made it live when the nerfs planned with GU51 were reverted, and it has persisted for months with no word from the devs.

migelini

07-05-2009, 04:32 PM

This may not be the right thread but couldn't find a better one. I would like to see a 3rd sub-class crafter, idea: a Harvester class, this would be a class that would be used ie. a farmer (obviously can't use that nmae..LOL)They would plant flowers and food to harvest, food would benefit provisioners, flowers would benefit all, to expand on each...the food would be any of the harvested food u would find in the shrubs and would be able to plant and have a bounty available through planting them, the flowers however would be somewhat rare and able to be planted and if upkeep is excellent and planted correctly to each other be able to create a hybrid which could be used for an adornment specific to resists since the class is using nature in general. These would be either an additional adornment that could stack or a significant resist result vs. 100+ at T7/8 which is nothing. This incorporates the ww or carp in making sm/med/lg garden or planter boxesfor this class to use...also it would be nice for them to get some sort of harvesting bonus even possible rare harvest boost! And thoughts on maybe expanding fisherman maybe??? Haven't put any thought to that quite yet.Also, would like to see playable tables ie. card, chess etc...that can be used in homes and halls, to include portable ones that can be used for down time while camping...NOT Farming!Last but not least...for the love of god can we allow status reduction for halls?!?Thank you, that'll be all.MIG<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" />

Aule

07-05-2009, 05:16 PM

At the fan fair some developers were heard referring to TSO as "The Shadowknight Odyssey", are there any plans to work on any of the other fighter classes prior to the expansion?

Orthureon

07-05-2009, 05:37 PM

<cite>Aule@Guk wrote:</cite><blockquote>At the fan fair some developers were heard referring to TSO as "The Shadowknight Odyssey", are there any plans to work on any of the other fighter classes prior to the expansion?</blockquote>They should take a look at ALL classes imo. With that being said, are there any plans to bring classes of the same archetype in-line somewhat. Also to fix class abilities that are useless, or even when buffed with AA that remain VERY situational. Here is a small list. Inquisitor only, as I cannot speak from another healers perspective sorry.<ul><li>Inquisition: It gets resisted a lot AND uses the mobs heal crit. Absolutely useless in PVP as it heals the opponent aswell, and is curable. What other heals are curable?</li><li>Enhanced Fanaticism: It should no longer carry ANY penalties, to have to spend 5 points to get that, not to mention the points you must spend before that to open the AA up.</li><li>Maladroit: Who even uses this??? Perhaps change it to lower ALL of the opponents detrimental effects by 25-50%.</li><li>Damage reactives: Nearly useless in PVE. they get resisted FAR too much in PVP, even when the target is debuffed and using M1 debuff, M2 damage reactive. Please change them to be castable on self or group friend and proc off of the same conditions.</li></ul>

Silerua

07-05-2009, 05:58 PM

If you guys implement more titles for us players to get, can they please be grammatically correct? *cries* I will write up a small guide for reference if that's what it takes! d:

Garnaf

07-05-2009, 07:24 PM

Will raidwide buff behavior ever be changed to allow multiple copies of the same buff to exist at once but not stack (like grp buffs do now)?It's sort of unfair that the SK 6 piece TSO bonus works on their raidwide 'buff', so if you have multiple SKs with the set bonus in a raid only one of them can actually use it. (Not to mention the annoyance of having my Lucan's Leadership master constantly canceled due to some idjit with Apprentice or Journeyman...) Note: In spite of me mentioning SKs specifically this affects ALL fighter raidwides, it's just most annoying to SKs cause our 6 piece gives us 5% Mitigation while we have Bloodletter active (I don't see any OTHER class with a set bonus that's unusable if there are 2+ members of that class on a raid...)

Hyst

07-06-2009, 04:34 AM

In the future, will you introduce small group instances like 3 men instance?

kelvmor

07-06-2009, 01:43 PM

Are there any plans for a Skorpikis illusion?It'd make a perfect Nights of the Dead illusion.

Fendaria

07-06-2009, 03:16 PM

Are their any plans to help out slow casters (Wizards/Warlocks) against heroic content that dies in under 4 seconds?With the high auto attack damage and low CA speeds, running through some of the TSO instances and only having time to cast two spells on a mob isn't a lot of fun.Fendaria

Rashaak

07-06-2009, 06:52 PM

Any chance of enhancing Rescue to be an AoE Taunt rather than just another encounter Taunt. Basically any mob whether in the encounter or not that is within a 5-10 meter range gets hit with this AoE taunt.

Azxira

07-06-2009, 07:19 PM

Conj pet -Could we get some kind of speed buff like in EQ1 so my pet keeps up with me? My lil gnome butt keeps getting kicked because I'm riding a 65% run speed mount and my pet can't keep up.

Katanalla

07-07-2009, 12:28 AM

mm updated my post on page 3

Alienor

07-07-2009, 04:08 AM

In AoC there is not only a friend list, but also a maybe-soon-to-be-friend list, ie. you group with a completely stranger for something and you will get the next few days notifications about logging on etc. If you do not group with them again or put them in your real friend list their name will fade away. Do you think this could be a valuable addition also for eq2?Edit: Oh, and thank you for answering last months summoner question! Although I am not yet totally convinced that the planned fix is the best one, I highly appreciate the knowing that I am not the only one thinking something is broken with us summoners <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Yandail

07-07-2009, 07:56 AM

Will the announced Filters for Voicechat be added ? CheersYandail

ashen1973

07-07-2009, 08:24 AM

Are there any plans for some fun, not to difficult, scaleable content for x2,x3 or x4 groups? I.e expand upon the guild-city-raids. Something where 12-24 guildmates can get together, regardless of level, playstyle, experience, gear and have fun together. making the current city-raids scale to 3 or 4 groups and adding to them would be great. Rewards dont have to be amazing or even that great, just make the instances fun.

Tuppen

07-07-2009, 11:04 AM

Since the last GU, racial illusions give a random appearance--they no longer seem to be tied to your character's base appearance. Many people use illusions regularly and liked knowing that their characters always looked the same when using a particular illusion. Are there plans to make racial illusions behave as before? If so, when will it be implemented?

Kikiriki

07-07-2009, 11:46 AM

Will there EVER a possibility that we'll be getting tintable clothing like EQ1 had? Appearance items are all the rage these days, as is pretty apparent. I loved dying my armor the perfect shade of forest green on my halfling cleric way back when in EQ1. I could see it being implemented here. I remember coloring your unmentionables at the character select after EQ2 launched (even though it was kind of silly, as you'd only see it if you weren't wearing any armor!) I could see making a completely white armor texture on an old wireframe with the ability to tint the color with an RGB picker, such as when you pick your hair color, etc. You'd probably have to restrict the hot magenta and eye-searing lime colors to save our eyes though! <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Even though it doesn't affect gameplay and it's just for the sake of being able to make yourself look totally frickin sweet, everyone loves creating their own unique characters and the more options available, the more immersed we'll feel!

Gormak

07-07-2009, 06:47 PM

we've been told the upcoming expansion will have "difficulty scales" for raid zones. Does this mean that we will see say, 2x and 4x versions of all raid zones? or are the difficulty settings applicable to the same raid base (ie, 2x zones will have 3 settings, and 4x zones will have 3 settings)?

LordPazuzu

07-08-2009, 12:45 AM

In RoK, my Monk could tank just about anything allright. Now, in TSO, she crumples like a bad suit to Deep Forge trash and she's got T1 and a bit of T2 armor. What happened? All of the brawlers in my guild have given up and rolled new mains.

Kinvore

07-08-2009, 09:57 AM

Would it ever be possible to give us a secondary guild hall call spell? For instance if we have access to a guild hall that we don't belong to, and putting it on a 30 or 60 minute recast. This could be useful for those of us who have toons in more than one guild, or who want a call to a city other than where we're guilded with. It may seem superfluous but I think many would find it handy once they try it out.

Nero

07-08-2009, 10:14 AM

Will Shadowknight's pet be back?

GreenArmadillo

07-08-2009, 04:06 PM

D'oh, my similar question was answered by Domino last month, but her answers got accidentally left off of the Q&A, so I didn't see it until after posting this. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> I'll edit with a replacement question if I think of one. Replacement Question: The Fan Faire reports suggested that we will be seeing new lore for Erudites, Ratonga, and presumably Barbarians (since they're getting their city). I don't suppose you'd be willing to reassure a budding alt-a-holic that you're not planning to roll out Better Barbarians, Extra Erudite Erudites, and Radical Ratonga races in the expansion, making me regret making new alts of the current versions?

shadowgate

07-08-2009, 05:02 PM

With the increase of level cap to 90 what will happen with the experience bonus for number of 80's you have? Will it stay at 80 or move up to number of 90's you have?

CorpseGoddess

07-08-2009, 08:34 PM

For those of use who are lucky enough to have the 5-room house LoN card, will it be possible to choose which city we're based in? Right now, as a baddie, when I used the card I had to move to Freeport from Neriak. It would be nice to have options as to where this house is based.Thanks!

GrunEQ

07-09-2009, 06:53 AM

The only options are Qeynos and Freeport. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" />

Hathahrk

07-09-2009, 07:39 AM

i really like fun spell , especially on some class like the coercer , being able to make other player dance or laugh is really fun but i think it's to bad that the spell who influence other player need the caster to be at least 1 lvl above the targetfor example if a coercer 80 is grouping with 5 other 80 , his fun spell won't work , same with the fun spell of the templarcould you modify this to make it work also on target of the same level ?and also do you plan to create some new fun spell ?thanks <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

ValleyKing

07-09-2009, 10:20 AM

Hiya all from the Russian EQII community! Once again we would love to thank the dev's team for the last month's answers and post some new questions.<ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">What is the future of the game economy? There's a growing disbalance between more and less populated servers - buying the same purchasable item can be a piece of cake on one server and almost just a dream on another with much fewer players and where one's income is very limited. Can we expect any changes?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Can we have more usable icons for macros please?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Any news about the guild alliances that were discussed some time ago?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Can the rally flags display the name of the guild to which they belong?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Are there any plans to make the following changes for fury spells that would allow better soloing:</li></ul><dl><dd><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Back into the Fray (52) and Return to the Pack (72) could be applied to the fury itself</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Porcupine (50)Urchin (70)Hedgehog(80) and Call of Storms (65)Call of Karana (7<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> would work better is the stun effect is removed</li></ul></dd></dl><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Is it possible to change the recipe window and split it into two parts so the right panel would display the materials needed for craft and the crafted item?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Could you please dot all i's and cross all t's regarding the GU51 fame changes. The question is pretty simple - are there plans to change the fame mechanics (or may be even roll back to pre-GU51 state) or no changes are planned for a certain period of time.</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">What other types of non-tradable items can get the "HEIRLOOM' tag in the future?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">What are the plans towards old pre-TSO zone loot? Will the items get a revamp to mach those from TSO?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">When can we try on a Fae or an Arasai illusory image? Seems those two were left aside as we have available most of the other race illusions.</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Shell the players get an option to choose themselves which fun illusion or buff illusion to apply?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">All in-game robes have a common apearance stile now - can we expect and varieties?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Avatars have gotten a huge nerfs over the time and now are easier than some of the raid mobs. Do you plan any tweaks to make avatars again really powerful and hard to kill?</li></ul><ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Do you plan to change the current AA cap for the mid-levels (max AA = 1,5*lvl) and make the curve more smooth?</li></ul>Tinkerers:<ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">What changes will see tinkerers in the coming updates?</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Shell the tinkerers get some recipes for armor items?</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Do you plan to give the tinkerers a recipe for a mount? That could be a mechanoraptor for example <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Could you give the tinkerers an ability to craft a mass restoration device and group fake death?</li></ul>Russian specific<ul ><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">There are still some problems with Cyrillic texts in the Russian EQ2. That seems to be not only the localizator's headache but a deeper issue that they can't resolve themselves. Is the tech team going to look into that? The issue became even more hot after the LU52 and user created books.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Could you please comment the situation with STATION PLAYERS for the Russian community. We've heard that the service is not available due to the current agreement conditions and the future is dependant on the localizator's plans. As the feedback from the company was last time given over a year ago we are completely unaware of the current state of the matters.</li></ul>

07-09-2009, 10:34 AM

Are there any plans to tackle the issue of 'ghost towns' in eq2 by actually giving people a reason to visit the cities again? See this thread for ideas!! <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=454246" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=454246</a>

Kiara

07-09-2009, 02:29 PM

Thanks for all your questions, folks!We'll be compiling these and posting the answers at the end of the month.