The Best of Everquest 2 GU 37
On Friday July 20, the test update notes for GU 37 were added to the Everquest 2 forums. There is so much to look forward to in this update. Here are the highlights.
Broker Changes:
- You can now sell items on the broker with more than one character!
- All characters on an account can list items for sale at the same time.
- Items remain listed as long as you log in with any of your characters at least once every 7 days.
This is the best change. I am so tired of having to transfer all of my loot to my mule. Additionally, you can put up a lot more stuff now.
Travel Changes:
- Griffon travel services are now being offered in the Butcherblock Mountains. Mount stations can be found near the docks, Greater Faydark and Lesser Faydark.
- Horse rentals are now available in the Greater Faydark to reduce your travel time. Hitching posts can be found near the Old Kelethin Acorn lift, Crushbone Keep and the Butcherblock Mountains.
- Citizens of Neriak may now use the power of the Sea Gate to travel to the Nektulos Forest and Thundering Steppes docks. Check it out at the Neriak docks.
The griffons in Butcherblock are much needed. It takes forever to travel from the docks to Greater Faydwer.
These traveling options are great. Many comment that quicker travel makes a game less immersive, but I think that it just increases the accessibility of the game. I do not play MMOs to simulate real life. I play them for fun. Are long travel times fun? NO!!!
Quest Changes:
- More quests in Antonica, Nektulos, and The Bloodline Chronicles now grant Achievement Experience.
- Items now show in their tooltip and examine windows if they offer or update a quest
- The first time you complete a repeatable quest it will now grant achievement experience.
It is so annoying when you turn in quests and they don't give AA. Now more will this is a great change!!
The tooltip addition is also nice.
Achievement Changes:
- You can now respec your achievements and spend the points in another tree.
Next to the broker change, being able to respec your AA and spend the points in either tree is the best change. When I start a new class, too ofter I regret starting with one AA tree and not the other. Now I will not have to worry about this.
Tradeskill Changes:
- Crafters now gain tradeskill experience from completing tradeskill writs.
- Crafters who have respec'ed their crafting class and wish to exchange their crafting tool from the Village of Shin quests can now speak to Rai Faela Nurwin near the Village of Shin brokers.
These changes are kind of funny, because (i) I did not know the tradeskill writs did not give tradeskill xp and (ii) I did not know that there was a quest to get a crafting tool. Now I know!!
UI Changes
- You can now re-purchase your 10 most recently sold items at the same price.
- No time limit!
- Even after logging out or zoning!
- The intro movie will only play once when the game is installed. There is a new ‘View Intro' button at the character select screen to allow viewing of the intro movie.
These two changes are great. It is so frustrating to realize that you just sold that legendary item for 1g. It is also frustrating to have to click through the into movie. Finally this has been removed.
Hopefully all of these changes get implemented into the actual game update. For some additional commentary about these GU 37, check out Stargrace's blog.
2 Responses to “The Best of Everquest 2 GU 37”
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Jora Says:
July 28th, 2007 at 7:13 amBy the way… about some quests not giving exp/AA exp, is kinda sad. I am thinking about those players that has done most of the quest and never got nor will get anything for it.
Im glad I have’nt done most of the Bloodline…
but I feel that SOE takes way to long to implement changes that should be done long time ago.It would be even better if SOE could make some kind of retroactive function that would at least give some extra exp to players that finished/killed nameds before they implemented the new changes… I guess it is way to much to keep track of and calculate backwards, but I am sure they could do it if they wanted to.
Kindly
Jora – Lord of Hidden Shadows / Nagafen Guild
July 28th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Hey Buddy
First of all I would like to say that Your doing a great job =)
About the movie when You start eq2, it has been possible to set a param in eq2.ini to disable it, but I guess most players don’t know about it.
Here goes, add a new line in Your eq2.ini: cl_movie_enabled 0
Thats it =)
See You online and keep up the great work.
Kindly
Jora – Lord of Hidden Shadows / Nagafen Guild