Updated Items: Frozen Spider Eye ; Brittle Yellow Stone ; Shard of Faint Power ; Dingy Grey Stone ; Petrified Holgresh Eye ; Stone of Power ; Regurgitated Crystals ; Frozen Kodiak Claw ; Blue Flecked Rock ; Piece of a Petrified Dragon Eye ; Shard of a Petrified Dragon Eye ; Shard of Power ; Petrified Dragon Eye ; Worn Kromzek Insignia ; Corrupted Ruby Amulet ; Frozen Crystalline Eye ; Runed Petrified Dragon Eye ; Glyphed Petrified Dragon Eye ; Ornate Petrified Dragon Eye ; Polished Kromzek Insignia ; Gleaming Kromzek Insignia ; Gleaming Kromzek Insignia ; Pristine Petrified Dragon Eye ; Pristine Petrified Dragon Eye ; Minor Coldain Historical Seal ; Lesser Coldain Historical Seal ; Coldain Historical Seal ; Greater Coldain Historical Seal ; Golden Crested Coldain Historical Seal ; Platinum Crested Coldain Historical Seal ; Diamond Studded Coldain Historical Seal ; Pearlthread Drape of the Silverwing ; Oiled Cloak of Dissolution ; Song: Shield of Song ; Blue Diamond
New Quests: Achievement: Et tu, Kebaber? ; Achievement: Seven at One Blow ; Achievement: Gifts Unopened
Updated Quests: Grannus of the Cleansing Steam ; Grummus! ; Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ; Group: Anashti Sul, Enslaver of Souls ; Achievement: Vanquisher of Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay
Updated Recipes: Recondite Blessedbond Breastplate
Bestiary Updates: Guard Korik ; an expedition guard ; Vluudeen ; The Fabled Gorul Longshanks ; a Dark Mistletoe guard ; Fleurmielle ; Father Frostheart ; Elder Gnarled Pine ; a gangrenous grabber ; a mangy rat
Updated Items: Two Handed Sword ; Rusty Mace ; Short Sword ; Battle Axe ; Axe ; Regrua Claws ; Bifurcated Coin ; Feather of the Lady ; Shimmering Quill of the Lady ; Peacock Feather of the Lady ; Lifekeeper of the Lady ; Anashti's Lightest Feathers ; Anashti's Feathers of Protection ; Anashti's Dancing Feathers ; Feathered Cloak of the Lady ; Lady of Life's Memento
New Quests: Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Lady of Life
Updated Quests: Watcher Torches ; Group Expedition: Anashti Sul, Lady of Life ; Grannus of the Cleansing Steam ; Grummus! ; Group: Anashti Sul, Enslaver of Souls
Bestiary Updates: a clockwork weaponsmith ; Lashun Novashine ; Anashti Sul, Lady of Life ; Hero's Coffin ; an honored soldier ; Lifeblood Golem ; an honored healer ; an honored spell caster ; Lord Spiderbraid ; Tremble Ravensong ; Orran Cragstone
Why we need a whole bunch of pics of items in the new item window...
The old item window was really cool (personally loved this UI for the look of it):
However, we need a pile of submissions of items with the newer item window:
Here's the why:
1. There was a big game update to items in 2008, user Oxgoad ran literally thousands of items through the item collector and basically everything I have checked so far means that Lucy entry from 2008 doesn't match all the data on the old item window. Example: races usable by, slots used in --though the big change must have been something more mundane to impact that number of items. Also, the modern item window just shows more information.
2. Item collector has been down for some time. 6000 items recently had quest tag added to them. Getting these pics would make that known here (while the item collector is currently being worked on).
3. Most of the impacted items are junk in current era (and some were junk in Kunark and even classic era). So we are talking stuff that is rarely posted about, run through the item collector intentionally, or has pics submitted for. Except see #2...
Don't worry, if we have a pic in the old item window, we'll keep it too!
Also, we need pics of people wearing the equippable items that show for a lot of old items. There is an overlap in that we tend to need both kinds of pics for the same items (except most robes... we seem to have lots of those pics, usually for multiple races). Splintering Club was a "need both" until Drewinette took care of the item window part.
Lots of people could dabble in this in mission, if interested. Basically pick a zone from Luclin and prior content (though some PoP stuff I have peeked at might need this attention too) and kill/loot some stuff. Take some pics and submit them. Hopefully some are willing to give this a whirl.
Updated Items: Chips of Granite ; Glyphed Rune Word ; Blood Red Gem ; Spectral Parchment ; Iron Cudgel of the Clairvoyant ; Spell: Reckoning ; Servant's Staff ; Tarnished Warhammer ; Splintering Club
New Quests: Achievement: Whispers of Kunark
Updated Quests: Force the Forceful
Bestiary Updates: Dragoon T`Vem ; Peregrin Rockskull ; A Rock Monstrosity ; A Stone Heap
Updated Items: Dark Feral Ravagers ; Neglection Flayer ; Shield of Rainbow Hues ; DawnFire, Morning Star of Light ; Frigid Pike of Isolation ; Triumphant Mask ; Darkbrood Mask ; Emblem of the Crystalwing ; Hotof's Gem ; Bifurcated Coin ; Cast-Iron Warhammer ; Dusty Marrow ; Rough Defiant Plate Gauntlets ; Exquisite Gold Embossed Rune ; Makeshift Binding Powder ; Petrified Bloodgill Eye ; Raw Fine Hide ; Sunshard Dust ; Exquisite Platinum Embossed Rune ; Sarnak Recruitment Letter ; Rusty Warhammer
Updated Quests: Aviak Talons ; Infiltrating the Hive ; Beginner Alchemist Test ; Grummus! ; Raid Expedition: Wither and Decay ; Raid Expedition: Vim and Vigor
Bestiary Updates: Deldryn Splendyr ; a Sarnak adherent ; a Sarnak legionnaire ; an umbrous toiler ; Illusionist Zimix ; a drachnid mindspinner ; Lashun Novashine
Updated Items: Icebelt ; Bone-Clasped Girdle ; Grotesque Girdle ; Bile Etched Obsidian Choker ; Skinner's Belt ; Staff of Undead Legions ; Withered Totem of Widdershins ; Monsoon, Sword of the Swiftwind ; Gilded Prodigal Harrier ; Fragmented Felwithe Prayer Beads ; Mangled Medallion of Shar Vahl ; Fractured Spiritstone of Everfrost ; Shard of Cabilisian Diamond ; Shattered Stein of Moggok ; Corroded Mark of Neriak ; Broken Band of Rodcet Nife ; Damaged Idol of Rodcet Nife ; Filthy Cleaver ; Restraining Strap ; How to Safely Dissect a Corpse ; Vial of Vomitous Fluid ; Pristine Unused Flask ; Corroded Beaker ; Sliver of Health ; Bloody Scalpel ; Luminous Bit of Life ; Vivid Piece of Life ; Vibrant Chunk of Life ; Shimmering Scrap of Life ; Radiant Remnant of Life ; Gleaming Fragment of Life ; Shining Sliver of Life ; Glowing Piece of Life ; Bone Shell Mask ; Right Eye of Sul ; Half Face of Life ; Half Face of Decay ; Mask of Immortal End ; Raw Crypt-Hunter's Wristguard ; Raw Crypt-Hunter's Cap ; Formula of Inversion ; Raw Crypt-Hunter's Boots ; Median Essence of Life
New Quests: Collection: Dregs of Decay (Crypt of Sul) ; Collection: Idols of Rot (Crypt of Sul) ; Raid Expedition: Vim and Vigor
Updated Quests: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ; Defenders of the Faith ; Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ; Collection: Shards of Life (Plane of Health)
New Recipes: Mask of Immortal End
Bestiary Updates: Atwin Keladryn ; Zlandicar ; Lyppsenfon Qeyton ; a rotting chest ; a bokon believer ; a viscous pile of rot ; Abroan Drian ; a Blacksail reaver ; Lashun Novashine ; Vim ; Vigor
Spawn Timers: Necessary Evil?
User Shuraz recently updated the Zlandicar entry to let us know that the spawn timer for this NPC appears to be 3 days, 14 hours and change. Contrast this to most modern MMO where the spawn timers on most world-named is rarely more than 10 minutes, dungeon named are usally about 60% show up in an instance (as most games instance dungeons now) and dungeon final bosses tend to be 100% with 1 to 6 hour lockouts on repeating the instance.
What do you think of Everquest's longstanding timesink design with spawn timers? Even group-level dungeons from classic era such as Lower Guk have this in effect (ever camped any of the epic 1.0 named there?).
Should this approach be changed in new EQ content? Should it be changed retroactively? Note that somewhere around Omens of War era they changed something on the NPC side that let's them do the "rare's spawn more often" weekends (and this impacts some older zones haphazardly... I think Velk's is one of them).
I'll keep my personal views out of it, but let's hear from users. Spawn timers: your thoughts?
Updated Items: Star of Divine Tribulation ; Minor Essence of Decay ; Median Essence of Decay ; Lesser Essence of Decay ; Half Face of Decay ; Greater Essence of Decay ; Gorget of the Bottomless ; Glowing Essence of Decay ; Glib Guilded Goldentorc ; Excommunicator ; Echo of the First Schism ; Demagogue's Crutch ; Intact Kobold Pelt ; Brick of Crude Bronze ; Deadeye Matrix ; Crescent of the Other Side ; Catabolic Essence ; Spell: Focus of Yemall Rk. III ; Forging Hammer ; Stained Fine Runic Charta Arcanum ; Smudged Rough Charta Arcanum ; Spell: Focus of Yemall Rk. II
Updated Quests: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay ; Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Damsel of Decay
Bestiary Updates: a Blacksail reaver ; a kobold runt ; a putrid cabalist ; Zealot of Bertoxxulous ; a putrid cabalist ; a putrid cabalist ; Anashti Sul, Lady of Life ; a wooden chest ; an iron chest ; a rusted chest ; a bloated drogan spider ; a diseased baby spider ; a seeker
Updated Items: Synthesis of Sul ; Leather Whip ; Amanita Phalloide ; Legionnaire's Bracer ; Zombie Skin
New Quests: Don't Harass the Dead ; Reading is Fundamental ; Brace Yourself ; Amazing Mushrooms
Updated Quests: It Likes to Kill ; Beetles of the Estate ; SoF Tradeskill Quest #5: Counting Shadows ; SoF Tradeskill Quest #6: Blood for the Cure ; SoF Tradeskill Quest #7: Steamy Revenge ; HoT Rank II Level 89 Spells: Greater Nebulous Dream Fragment
Updated Recipes: Spool of Energized Brownie Hair Thread ; Eron's Geared Jewelry
Bestiary Updates: Atwin Keladryn ; orc legionnaire ; a death beetle ; tormented dead ; Mallagan Vergoo ; a bloated drogan spider ; a diseased baby spider ; Symperbell Moor ; Whisperdell Targon ; Instructor Anom ; Instructor Mussin
Updated Items: Sentio ; Hilt Mold ; Dagger Blade Mold ; Large Brick of Mithril ; Silk String ; Oak Bark Tannin ; The Scent of Marr ; Small Brick of Mithril ; Hinge Mold ; Container Lid Mold ; Container Base Mold ; Morning Dew ; Oak Bark ; Mixing Bowl; Spell: Flame of Light ; Skill: Champion's Aura ; Ethernere Essence ; Bag of Caynar Nuts ; Damsel of Decay Plate Wrist Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Legs Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Helm Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Hands Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Feet Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Chest Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Plate Arms Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Wrist Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Legs Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Helm Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Hands Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Feet Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Chest Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Leather Arms Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Wrist Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Robe Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Legs Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Helm Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Hands Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Chest Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Cloth Arms Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Wrist Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Legs Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Helm Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Hands Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Feet Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Chest Ornament ; Damsel of Decay Chain Arms Ornament ; Song: Selo's Assonant Strain ; Song: Angstlich's Assonance ; Song: Brusco's Bombastic Bellow ; Song: Cantata of Replenishment ; Song: Denon's Bereavement ; Song: Jonthan's Inspiration ; Song: Kazumi's Preservation ; Song: Largo's Assonant Binding ; Song: McVaxius Rousing Rondo ; Song: Nillipuss' March of the Wee ; Song: Niv's Harmonic ; Song: Selo's Song of Travel ; Song: Solon's Charismatic Concord ; Song: Song of Dawn ; Song: Song of Highsun ; Song: Song of Midnight ; Song: Song of Twilight ; Song: Vilia's Chorus of Celerity ; Song: Cassindra's Insipid Ditty ; Song: Aria of Asceticism
Updated Quests: Blessed Faydark Swiftbolt ; Only The Blind Will See (Level 35) ; Group/Raid Expedition: Anashti Sul, Lady of Life ; The Artisan's Prize
New Recipes: Skill: Champion's Aura
Bestiary Updates: Lord of Loathing [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; a forsaken revenant [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; Balik Wolftrot ; Clazxiss ; a velium hunter ; Gasia S`Kor ; Raz V`Retta ; Razortooth ; a bandit watcher ; a hunting skirth ; High Priest M'kari [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; Maestro of Rancor [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; a Basher captain ; a Champion of Innoruuk ; a Craknek emissary ; a Disciple of Innoruuk ; a Dismal Rager ; a Knight of Innoruuk [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; a Kotiz Ambassador ; a loathling lich [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; Lord of Ire [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ; Triad`s Chest ; a wooden chest ; The Maestro's Trove ; an iron chest ; Niz G`Efia ; Rain S`Tai ; Jerris M`Rekkor ; Jusar D`Unnar ; Hutyn C`Luzz ; Shanez T`Kix