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Kaitheel

03-03-2011, 10:22 PM

I apologize that could not happen earlier, but with today’s update to test came… Brewday Festival 2011! It has been activated on both Test and Test Copy. Grab a stein and celebrate Brewday! The shouts of rowdy patrons located near every player city will lead you to The Bar of Brell where adventures and crafts await those thirsty and foolhardy enough to enter. Meanwhile, the Avatar of Below has returned to Antonica. Help him find the best sampling of drinks from all around. And as you're crawling through the bars and drinking holes throughout Norrath, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for special items of interest to collect! New features for '11:<ul><li><div>“Thurgadin Ice Brew” a new quest is being offered by Oldar Foambeard within the Bar of Brell</div></li><li><div>New Halas is celebrating Brewday Festival! </div></li><li><div>Thurgadin Harbor in Great Divide is also involved in some of the Brewday activities. </div></li><li><div>Balin Copperfoot in the Bar of Brell has some new items for players to buy, including new tradeskill recipes! </div></li></ul> Returning features:<ul><li><div>In-game mail to announce the event and summarize location of quest givers. </div></li><li><div>Bountiful Brewday gardens can only be seen when wearing the "Ale Goggles" head equipment. They spawn in Commonlands, Antonica, Greater Faydark, Darklight Wood, Timorous Deep and Frostfang Sea. </div></li><li><div>Tradeskill recipe book "Brewday Accoutrements to Craft" sold by Balin Copperfoot in the Bar of Brell.</div></li><li><div>Rasel Alechaser's quest "Brell's Everlasting Brew" is repeatable by those that have completed it in years past, and has a new reward choice. </div></li><li><div>Gilin Rockbreath's quest "Ale Goggles" is repeatable by those that have completed it in years past, and has a new reward choice.</div></li><li><div>Snoogle Blitzed's quest "Snoogle's Presentation" is repeatable by those that have completed it in years past.</div></li><li><div>The Avatar of Below's quest "Beers for Brell!" is repeatable by those that have completed it in years past.</div></li><li><div>Valla Brewhammer's quest "Valla Brewhammer's Special Brew" is not repeatable.</div></li><li><div>Brews Across Norrath (Brewday collection found at different bars and drinking holes throughout Norrath) is not repeatable.</div></li></ul> The event is currently set to run 3/10/2011 through 3/21/2011 on the live servers.Unfortunately, the event had to be pushed off a day to allow for the last few bug fixes to be hotfixed. The event is currently set to run 3/11/2011 through 3/22/2011 on the live servers. Please assemble any feedback and bugs that you may find in this thread. Thank you, everyone! ~Kaitheel

kelvmor

03-04-2011, 12:19 AM

I would like to point you devs to this. <a href="http://lorelibrary.com/?page=book&bid=177">http://lorelibrary.com/?page=book&bid=177</a>Quote, from the Norrathian Code of Trade Standards, a clickable book in every city library:"The Starpyre Calendar Days of the Week:The days of the week got their name through the work between the academy think tank and the local trade organization.....Day 9. BREWDAY: With most exports gone the only work left involves a local business. Much of this day involves work related to preparation of Feastday."Brewday is a day of the week. So, shouldn't we call this festival Brell's Day? He invented ale, after all.

tkia

03-04-2011, 12:20 PM

There seems to be an issue with the portals in Commons and Gorowyn. I went to Commons first and the portal was invisible. It was there and worked fine if you knew where to mouse over to see the tooltip, but the portal itself was not showing. I zoned out of the bar to Gorowyn and found the portal invisble there too. Went off and checked Antonica, Halas and Kelethin - all of those were fine. Checked Commons and Gorowyn again and still nothing. The Commons one finally showed up for me when I ran all the way from Darklight entrance to check it, rather than just zoning out from the nearest gate. Checked Gorowyn again after that by bouncing through the bar and still nothing. I went upstairs, did a bunch of banking, then came back down and the portal was finally visible. Sooo, seems like visibility on those 2 is a function of time in zone before they load up the sparklies? I've never had this issue with either in previous years.

Kaitheel

03-04-2011, 02:43 PM

I have no idea what the issue is Tkia, with the portals being viewable sometimes and sometimes not. it's all the same object. We had the same issue crop up during Frostfell this last year, too. I ended up having to change out the portal art, despite the fact that it's worked fine in all of the years previous.~Kaitheel

Aerfen

03-04-2011, 02:51 PM

Ok, I haven't had time to run the quests yet - but I wanted to pop in and say the itmes to craft...in particular, the distilleries, are AWESOME!!I also love the two items added to the merchant and hope to see more stained glass like that in the future!!

Kaeliara

03-04-2011, 02:58 PM

<cite>Aerfen@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ok, I haven't had time to run the quests yet - but I wanted to pop in and say the itmes to craft...in particular, the distilleries, are AWESOME!!I also love the two items added to the merchant and hope to see more stained glass like that in the future!!</blockquote>Stained glass? Oh I like the sound of that! Can't wait to see <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

ianilu

03-04-2011, 03:20 PM

Ive ran all the quests and purchased the new recipie books but havent found the 2 special items required to craft the distilleries . Not sure who i should talk to so i can aquire them. Are they quested,harvested anyone know?

tkia

03-04-2011, 05:09 PM

<cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite><blockquote>I have no idea what the issue is Tkia, with the portals being viewable sometimes and sometimes not. it's all the same object. We had the same issue crop up during Frostfell this last year, too. I ended up having to change out the portal art, despite the fact that it's worked fine in all of the years previous.~Kaitheel</blockquote>Yes, my first thought was missing art assets but then it showed up for the next 3. Running round some more they had been appearing fine on both toons I was using until I zoned out of the bar to Gorowyn and found that one gone again. And it's still gone having come back via the bell.If I can figure out the pattern I'll let you know ...

Soresha

03-04-2011, 05:23 PM

For Thurgadin Ice Brew:Tetda Rockstein says to wrestle with her... I killed her extremely easily, resulting in a corpse on the ground which despawned a minute later. This seems to go a bit beyond a wrestling challenge, is she supposed to "yield" and reset at zero, or are we really supposed to kill her? When I returned shortly afterwards she had respawned. Love where the Ice Brew put me.. in a cog in Steamfont. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Now... with the greatest of respect (because I really like your quests in general Kaitheel!), I have to be honest at this point and say how much I loathe "mystery" quests in EQ2. Why? Well I'm certainly not averse to a bit of a search or thinking about something, don't get me wrong. But I'm a relatively new player, and despite levelling one character to 90 through a variety of zones that does not give me the knowledge of ALL the zones in the game that you need to do these kinds of quests. There is simply too much content in the game to expect newer players to have experienced all the zones in their first year, or even two. It is not fun to be forced to look up locations on a wiki or ask others for the answers ingame, because you don't have a fighting chance of working it out or finding something you've never heard of amongst the vast amount of content areas in EQ2. And it's not friendly to newer players at all, because these kinds of clues are totally dependant on the player knowing about the location already. Making heritage and signature quests this way is bad enough, but this is supposed to be a fun, holiday event. Please, at least give the name of the zone to narrow it down. Just saying "in Antonica" gives enough of a clue to go looking for a lighthouse somewhere in the zone. I'm all for a search... if you give me some real direction as to where to start! And yes, I know I'll probably get flamed by the vets for giving this feedback, but I've sat on this issue long enough. This has happened to me again and again since I started. I've been playing for maybe 9 months now, Antonica is not one of the zones I've quested in, and I didn't know the lighthouse existed. It just makes you feel like these quests aren't meant for you. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Soresha

03-04-2011, 05:26 PM

<cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite><blockquote>New features for '11:<ul><li><div>Thurgadin Harbor in Great Divide is also involved in some of the Brewday activities. </div></li></ul> </blockquote>I like the tie-ins to Velious and the coldain. I found shinies in the bar area of Thurgadin, but your post suggests there should be something more? Am I missing something?

Zabjade

03-04-2011, 06:11 PM

This reminds me will Thurgandin become a Wet City now? all of the bartenders so far have only sold provisioner items.

ChrisMarchant

03-05-2011, 07:32 AM

On the recipes for the distilleries, one of them asks for a small thurgadin distillery, we can't craft that, so where do we get that from.Also the portals appear to be a flat surface, so I can only see them from the flat side, and have to be very close before they appear. I'm running High quality graphics by the way.Another point is that the avatar only appears when you get quite close to the area he's roaming in, he is definitely not visible from most of the fields.One other point, emerald clover is rather rare on the harvesting.Other than the above, a very enjoyable experience for my first Brewday.

Senya

03-05-2011, 08:23 AM

<cite>ChrisMarchant wrote:</cite><blockquote>One other point, emerald clover is rather rare on the harvesting.</blockquote>Emerald clover is kinda like the "rare" from those harvests and, to the best of knowledge, that was intended. It was used in only a few recipes last year. One of them was the brewday backpack.

shadowscale

03-05-2011, 09:14 AM

kind of disapointed we cant actualy do anything with the distilerys, would love to click them for drinks.

ChrisMarchant

03-08-2011, 02:29 PM

Don't know if it's related to Brewday as such, but might effect a lot of players.I collected the shield in SS, and heading to Moors for armour. Took the airship. However on zoning to Moors, my char disappeared. Had to camp to get her back.This has now happened on 3 different chars, and on the last char, the ship nearly left me behind in midair, had to run back onto the ship.

ChrisMarchant

03-08-2011, 02:50 PM

Just ran a char from SS to Moors on dropship, the only Brewday quest she has is the Beers for Brell one.Straight after zoning, my char disappeared, but her undead knight still was there.So could be Brewday related , but not new quest related.I did bug it, so hopefully will be fixed before Brewday goes live.

NiamiDenMother

03-08-2011, 05:36 PM

{falls over laughing}All this time, and I never noticed before today that the band in the Brewday instance have their mandolins backwards - they're strumming the backs of them! Silly drunken revelers - they're supposed to wait until *after* the performance to get that drunk!

Firecracker

03-08-2011, 05:51 PM

Have to ask why, why not have a crafting recipes for clothes like pink/green outfit similar to the ones that Frostfeel have for the girls who like pink for this event?and while your at please add recipes for the outfit/cloak the Erollis npc has that exchanges for coins?I know it's to late to add in it in time for this, but how about adding them in for exsisting recipes? just an idea

Whilhelmina

03-08-2011, 06:43 PM

I liked the new quest and the crafting part is awesome.I would like to second the request from Soresja even if I had no troubles finding the zone: as you (SoE) saw fit to disable Qeynos and Freeport as starting cities, players who started playing after New Halas have absolutely no reasons to go questing in Antonica and Commonlands and so, knowing that you'll find gnolls and a lighthouse in Antonica is not something very easy for them.The special ingredients used for crafting the distilleries are found in :1/ the new quest in Bar of Brell2/ Tradeskill faction merchant in Qeynos, Freeport and Thurgadin3/ Tradeskill faction merchant in Kelethin, Halas, Neriak and Gorowyn

Lera

03-08-2011, 10:34 PM

<cite>Whilhelmina@Storms wrote:</cite><blockquote>I would like to second the request from Soresja even if I had no troubles finding the zone: as you (SoE) saw fit to disable Qeynos and Freeport as starting cities, players who started playing after New Halas have absolutely no reasons to go questing in Antonica and Commonlands and so, knowing that you'll find gnolls and a lighthouse in Antonica is not something very easy for them.</blockquote>All the more reason to restore Freeport and Qeynos as starting cities.

Zabjade

03-09-2011, 12:04 AM

<cite>NiamiDenMother wrote:</cite><blockquote>{falls over laughing}All this time, and I never noticed before today that the band in the Brewday instance have their mandolins backwards - they're strumming the backs of them! Silly drunken revelers - they're supposed to wait until *after* the performance to get that drunk!</blockquote>Yup they are doing that all of the time I've bug'd that before, they do it down in their regular spawn area as well in the Qeynos Sewers Instance. Also in the Sewer instance (Name escapes me but it s Bar for Rogues and Fippy IV is there) they make no sound.

Whilhelmina

03-09-2011, 08:28 AM

mmmh, you may have upped a bit too much the number of hit point of Tetda. My 46 necro is a bit undergeared but with master spells and I went oom while she was only at 50%. It was a very hard fight.EDIT: ok, I tried it with a well geared 31 touba and got killed pretty fast (she didn't get under 80%). This mob is wayyyy too hard now or not scaling properly at all.

Cyliena

03-09-2011, 01:43 PM

<cite>tkia wrote:</cite><blockquote>There seems to be an issue with the portals in Commons and Gorowyn. I went to Commons first and the portal was invisible. It was there and worked fine if you knew where to mouse over to see the tooltip, but the portal itself was not showing. I zoned out of the bar to Gorowyn and found the portal invisble there too. Went off and checked Antonica, Halas and Kelethin - all of those were fine. Checked Commons and Gorowyn again and still nothing. The Commons one finally showed up for me when I ran all the way from Darklight entrance to check it, rather than just zoning out from the nearest gate. Checked Gorowyn again after that by bouncing through the bar and still nothing. I went upstairs, did a bunch of banking, then came back down and the portal was finally visible. Sooo, seems like visibility on those 2 is a function of time in zone before they load up the sparklies? I've never had this issue with either in previous years. </blockquote>I checked today and I could not see the portals for Commonlands, Timorous and Greater Faydark.Also, I'm curious--why does Darklight Wood not have a portal? (or did I miss one?)

Kaitheel

03-09-2011, 03:13 PM

There's a few changes that are upcoming:<ul><li>Betsy [A Mighty Fine Heifer], in Thundering Steppes, can once again be tipped for the quest "Brell's Everlasting Brew".</li><li>Tetda should now reset correctly if encounter is broken by leashing or feign death.<li>Tetda is back to being easier to fight.</li>Thank you all for your help and feedback!~Kaitheel</li></ul>

JoarAddam

03-09-2011, 04:46 PM

What, no drunken aerial races?

Kaitheel

03-09-2011, 05:32 PM

The event is currently set to run 3/10/2011 through 3/21/2011 on the live servers.Unfortunately, the event had to be pushed off a day to allow for the last few bug fixes to be hotfixed. The event is currently set to run 3/11/2011 through 3/22/2011 on the live servers. ~Kaitheel

Cyliena

03-09-2011, 06:35 PM

<cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite><blockquote>The event is currently set to run 3/10/2011 through 3/21/2011 on the live servers.Unfortunately, the event had to be pushed off a day to allow for the last few bug fixes to be hotfixed. The event is currently set to run 3/11/2011 through 3/22/2011 on the live servers. ~Kaitheel</blockquote>Thanks for the update. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Whilhelmina

03-09-2011, 07:17 PM

Thanks for the update and for the fix on Tetda.I had no real problems earlier with Betsy but she has always been tricky to tip.

Whilhelmina

03-09-2011, 07:18 PM

Thanks for the update and for the fix on Tetda.I had no real problems earlier with Betsy but she has always been tricky to tip.Any plan on getting the buckler to be used as appearance for all classes?

Eveningsong

03-09-2011, 09:47 PM

<cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite><blockquote>The event is currently set to run 3/10/2011 through 3/21/2011 on the live servers.Unfortunately, the event had to be pushed off a day to allow for the last few bug fixes to be hotfixed. The event is currently set to run 3/11/2011 through 3/22/2011 on the live servers. ~Kaitheel</blockquote>Thanks for the update <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> So who is responsible for updating the dates in the in-game calendar? <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Kaitheel

03-09-2011, 10:47 PM

<cite>Eveningsong wrote:</cite><blockquote>Thanks for the update <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> So who is responsible for updating the dates in the in-game calendar? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Our very own tradeskill goddess, Domino, has lovingly taken that under her wing. It should reflect the change after tomorrow's hotfix, too.She's so good to us!~KaitheelEdit! It's not looking so good for this. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> She tried her best though, and for that we thank her!

Pijotre

03-10-2011, 03:34 PM

Do you want to tell me that you need to push out a hotfix just in order to correct any dates on the calendar? If this is true then how can the calendar ever be used for things such as guide events as it was advertised by Smokejumper.

Kaitheel

03-10-2011, 07:08 PM

<cite>Pijotre@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote>Do you want to tell me that you need to push out a hotfix just in order to correct any dates on the calendar? If this is true then how can the calendar ever be used for things such as guide events as it was advertised by Smokejumper.</blockquote>As long as the event has been entered BY a guide on the server it can be edited by them (and only for that individual server). When it was coded into the calendar to appear on ALL servers, and be translated for any international ones, too, then it must be edited via file. ~Kaitheel

EndevorX

03-11-2011, 09:38 AM

How do i get a keg backpack? ;o

janmystique

03-12-2011, 03:52 PM

The Brewmeister's Backpack is a crafted item (artisan level 2 I think). You get the blueprint for it from the quest "Beers for Brell".