Tinkerfest is here!!!

[Amnerys]

<p align="center"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/tinkerfest/tinkerfest_550_crm.gif" width="550" height="236" /></p> <p>Tinkerfest is here!! The gnomes of Norrath have resurrected their holiday from more than 500 years ago. This celebration of all things gnomish will bring you new gnomish house items, new shinies to collect, and lots of fun! Look for signs of celebration in gnomish hangouts - Gnomeland Security in Steamfont Mountains, Temple Street in Freeport, Baubleshire in Qeynos! The festivities will run from 12:01am July 24th until 11:59pm August 3rd PDT. See you in Norrath!!</p> <p><a href="http://everquest2.com/news/read/072009/3179" target="_blank"><strong>Read more!</strong></a></p>

[Xalmat]

<p>Best. Video. Ever.</p>

[xeyda]

<p>Yay!  Thank you for confirming the rumors.</p><p>My only regret is that this wasn't announced earlier.</p>

[Kiara]

<p><cite>xeyda wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yay!  Thank you for confirming the rumors.</p><p>My only regret is that this wasn't announced earlier.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=455449#5079149" target="_blank">7-20-09</a></p>

[Barq Bandit]

<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I've watched the video about twenty times now.  First time around I literally fell out of my chair laughing.  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Well done!  This video gets the <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Tock Seal of Awesome™</span>!  I usually reserve it for especially well done decorating jobs on the Norrathian Homeshow Forums, but since this video featured some pretty hilarious use of cogs in player housing (especially the "I <3 Cogs" <em>made</em> out of cogs), I think it's well deserved!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">*STAMP*</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y122/iesmeh/TSoA02.png" /></p>

[Dragowulf]

<p>DUDE who did the voice?!?!1  Majors props it was funny.</p><p>EDIT: I was looking forward to Tinkerfest until I went in and couldn't get any of the quests or updates because of getting rolled by Onyx over and over and over and over and over again. =/ Oh well that's PvP for ya.</p>

[Leavitt]

<p>Is this annual or how often does this come about?</p>

[Barx]

<p><cite>Xerxia@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Is this annual or how often does this come about?</p></blockquote><p>Annual.</p><p>I got a chance to play with it a bit this morning before work. Looked great so far. The only thing I'm disappointed is that the cogs only show up in the city-type zones and not in the other places that it is celebrated (ie bonemire, sol eye). That and the fact that cogs had an approximately 3 second lifespan...</p><p>*Sigh*. I have a feeling it is going to be rather painful to collect all the cogs I am going to need.</p>

[GlitterPaws]

<p>GREAT Video! Won't be able to look at a cog again without chuckling. Snort, snort!</p><p>Ran through Tinkerfest during the wee hours this am with my sarnak as I figured her size would be a liability once folks woke up to the Tinkerfest announcements. Got my purple shineys and love the reward. Have a nice stash of cogs (snort, snort) too.</p><p>There were quite a few peeps up and about in Gnomeland and the Gnome evil burb.</p><p>Great fun was had by the lumbering sarnak trying not to squash the really teeny critters on really, really teeny wrags.</p><p>Thanks a bunch to the devs for this event!!</p>

[Firecracker]

<p>Frist of all I have to say I loved the video for it it was funny. I love the new house stuff. The only thing that was really lacking was there was only 2 quest's??? I felt like there should of been more considering how many zones are celebrating. I agree there should be more zones with cogs even at 12:05 am there was a mad rush to get them and that was a minor crowd comapared to day time I bet for I havn't even log in yet. </p><p>If there is more quest's for this event other then the 2, can someone let me know?</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p><cite>Dragowulf@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>DUDE who did the voice?!?!1  Majors props it was funny.</p></blockquote><p>I recognize who it is. Only one person on the internet has that voice and sense of humor: Stuttering Craig from screwattack.com</p>

[Arbreth]

<p>LOL!!</p>

[Jaargen]

<p>Does this mean Rocktoberfest is just around the corner?  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p>

[KerowynnKaotic]

<p><cite>Cinnimon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Frist of all I have to say I loved the video for it it was funny. I love the new house stuff. The only thing that was really lacking was there was only 2 quest's??? I felt like there should of been more considering how many zones are celebrating. I agree there should be more zones with cogs even at 12:05 am there was a mad rush to get them and that was a minor crowd comapared to day time I bet for I havn't even log in yet. </p><p>If there is more quest's for this event other then the 2, can someone let me know?</p></blockquote><p>Well .. technically there are (3) quests for Tinkerfest but good luck getting the 3rd .. it's a Guide Quest.  A Tinkerfest Catalog quest.   But, it's like any other Annual Live Event, it will grow each year to include new things.  Next year we might get a new quest added or just new rewards .. *shrug*</p><p>I did /feedback at least (3) times when it was on Test to include the !/? at the other celebration areas as well as giving Steamfont a zone wide harvesting area for them ... but ... *shrug* .. I'll /feedback again and encourage everyone else as well because yah even at 2-3am pst on Perma, there were always at least 4-8 ppl trying for them and it was rare for anyone without 45-68% runspeed to get anything.  I avoid primetime but I bet it's abit of a mad house.</p><p>And, I *snickered* to notice that "internet friendships <strong></strong>don't matter when it comes to getting that !/?"  I can only imagine the lag and back-biting there must be on AB, the most popular server, at Primetime for this thing.  heh.</p><p>Who knew Cogs would be so popular with non-gnomey folks .. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" />  </p>

[Cele]

<p>The Tinkerer's Companion pet is sooooooo adorable.  All his emotes crack me up and I love having him set off fireworks.</p><p>I am going to do the repeatable ad nauseum to get as many gnomish spirits drinks as I can.  the animations on the weaving are too funny</p><p>Also plan on collecting a bazillion cogs so I can make this stuff all year.</p><p>Over all really fun event.</p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">Couldn't get the video to display for me. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></span></p>

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I can't get video to display, only a green screen. sigh*  I don't know what to do to correct it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">However, I'm having fun doing Tinkerfest.  I like the pet you run into giving announcements in various zones that give you new fireworks.....Love them.  The bot wars was sooo funny.  I like that you made transportation pretty easy for folks.  The only thing is the "wall" hanging weapon, is actually a floor item.  I don't mind this at all, as I display it as a kind of cooking untinicle.  Nice job all around and very popular and crowded most times on my server.</span></p>

[Barq Bandit]

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">For those who are having trouble playing the .wmv file, here's the video on Youtube!</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZXAum7wL0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZXAum7wL0</a></p><p><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iGZXAum7wL0&hl=en&fs=1&" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><[Removed for Content]"application/x-[Removed for Content]" width="560" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iGZXAum7wL0&hl=en&fs=1&" ></embed></object></p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">Snicker! Ok after I upgraded GOM I was able to see it. Hehee</span></p>

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many thanks, Tock!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Don't know why I can't get videos anymore.  It was after one of the recent updates, and just won't work, gets a green screen and audio only.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" /></span></p>

[Xdatinelia]

<p>Just a BIG thank you for Tinkerfest, it was enjoyable!</p>

[Talazar]

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[Adiene]

<p>squeee~! My friend and I have been waiting for this since test hehe  Sadly no one will talk to him or give him quests now that it is live <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> /wahhh  I am super sad panda now. </p>

[KerowynnKaotic]

<p><cite>Adiene@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>squeee~! My friend and I have been waiting for this since test hehe  Sadly no one will talk to him or give him quests now that it is live <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /> /wahhh  I am super sad panda now. </p></blockquote><p>Make sure your friend has the Gnome Language.  Quest givers are a bit stuck up.</p><p>btw .. did anyone notice this thread was from last year?</p><p>heh.  I figured it out after I came across my post in the 1st page .. I was like .. hrm, I don't remember seeing much less posting in this thread recently.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Adiene]

<p>ROFL yeah he is fixed now and we can enjoy to the fullest! hehe Thanks hun <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>lol I didn't notice when it was posted till you pointed it out haha!</p>

[Amnerys]

<p>Oh noes, necro post of doom. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> hehe</p><p>Closing this one and redirecting you to the current year's post to avoid mass confusion. The dates on this thread are a day (and a year) off.</p><p>2010 thread: <a href="list.m?topic_id=483134">Tinkerfest Returns to Norrath, July 23 – August 2</a></p>