What all did I miss?

Twilight86 · 07-02-2009, 09:46 AM

Ok, due to a crap pc and money issues, I have missed a lot of this game's life, and was wondering if anyone would be willing to give me an update on the major things that have come out since I left. When I was forced to leave, I do believe it was around 6 months before the launch of TSO. All I really need are tha major highlights and anything that applies to rangers.

I've seen the CA/Spell update...very wowish, but still good. Also heard that Conjies finally got some pet love, which models were changed? The last specific thing that I'd like to ask about are manequins. I thought I saw mention of this...did they give us manequins to display our past armor on? Or is this just one of those things that was such an awesome idea that SOE would never do it?

Thanks ahead of time.

feldon30 · 07-02-2009, 10:34 AM

Spell Damage and Spell Crit no longer work for Rangers and Assassins. Other than that, just DPS as normal. ;)

Mannequins? Yep.

TSO added 20 new dungeons, most are heavily scripted like 6 person raid zones.

It's summer, so every guild is recruiting like mad but a few slots short.

Let's see, last weekend was Fan Faire so we know what's coming in the next expansion which was pushed back to February 2010. It's Odus if you played EQ1.

Twilight86 · 07-02-2009, 11:16 PM

Ok...so no more crits on my poisons...lame. But, does increasing my int still increase my poison damage, or can I ditch some of the items that I got because they have int on them for other stats?

Also, more on the Conjie pet thing. I have never played one, but having a necro, I have also felt the pain of my summoner cousins. Necros had always seemed to get most of the attention in my eyes, and I was a strong advocate for getting their rock mage, basilisk and ghost monk changed.

I saw that the rock mage is now a djinn, something that was in my massive suggestion thread on the Oboards, but I am unsure of the basilisk and monk fates. The most popular suggestion for the monk was to make it a valk of some sort. A modified valk with cloud wings and two swords would have been sick to the maximum degree, if you ask my humble opinion.

Ariven · 07-03-2009, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Twilight86

Ok...so no more crits on my poisons...lame. But, does increasing my int still increase my poison damage, or can I ditch some of the items that I got because they have int on them for other stats?

Int still boosts poison and proc damage.

No more crit on poisons or item procs, i.e. the 4 masters charm no longer crits now.

Vuetee · 07-04-2009, 05:39 AM

nothing that major - just new content where your shard armour is the bees knees (as is everyone elses).

If you're coming back @ lv 80, get running the new instances for void shards and pick up your T1 + T2 shard armour and run WoE to try and get the t3 stuffs.... if you're planning on raiding, most raid guilds have all players with 2/3 pieces of the t4 so you should get that easily...

apart from that, it's still majorly the same game

Twilight86 · 07-04-2009, 03:48 PM

No info on ze Conjie love? I believe in a game being fair to all the classes, and for the longest time, conjies were getting the short, and spikey, end of the stick shoved up their collective arse holes in regards to pet graphics. I see that the necro graphics for their tanks are now much more...progessive as far as models go. Though, the unarmed ice skelly and old school froglock kind of...blow.

And, I never got why SOE always seemed to believe that ghost = air. Clouds can equal air, though they are really more water than anything. A swirling dust cyclone holding weapons can be air. An invisible model with a few wisps of air revolving around it while holding weapons is air. Something that appears to be a ghost does not equal, in any way, an air based creature.

I still stand by my idea for a Valk with cloud wings being the rok tier (think it's 8 or 9 now?) scout pet.

feldon30 · 07-06-2009, 10:27 AM

You can also read The EQ2 Wire

Diknak · 07-06-2009, 01:53 PM

Conjies haven't changed since RoK. We got better gear itemization with pet mod gear in TSO, but nothing mechanical has changed. Yeah, some appearances have changed, but nothing really worth mentioning. If you read the EQ2 wire, it gives info about what they are planning for the summoners. We will remain T2 dps, but we are going to be doing some debuffing as well.