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June 19, 2013, 04:19:15 AM
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written by Hunter | 1000 Views | 12 Replies
Today had ban to someone and all 33 of their accounts.
About half of them were caught afk farming, and the other half of the accounts were found by IP.
If your account got IP linked to this cause a "friend" logged on your character once, then too bad.
Many players witnessed me trying to get a hold of the player (and his alts) in ooc chat while he continued to afk farm. No excuse there.
Before even doing the ooc, I witnessed bot like behavior and basically had already made my descision.
Private instances only prevent other players from using fraps on you. It won't stop me however from making a visit to your private instance which I have written tools for to make it faster and easier to follow players who bounce instances a lot.
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written by Hunter | 1575 Views | 60 Replies
EZ Server is back online!
We had outage today due to ISP, and seems to be fixed now.
There are severe weather in the area of the server for today and tomorrow, so not sure how things will be for next day or two, hopefully no more issues.
Emptied 2 tables that deal with instances. Not sure how this would affect players instances already made. When you enter an instance, it checks the qglobals table for instance id. In the case it tries to use an id that is no longer there, not sure what is going to happen. Worse case scenario is that I'll find a way to mass delete everyones qglobal that is related to instances. Let me know if there are any issues with instances and will see what I can do.
For now we reduced the number of dynamic zones available from 250 down to 150. Also changed duration of instances to be 24 hours. Will see if this helps with players getting sent to each others instances.
An ultimate fix to instances getting crossed over might be to wipe them all in the instance table and qglobals during the regular 6am reboot. Trying not to go that route yet.
New spell file is now available for any of those that want to play with the Ultimate Great Staff. Working with Hateborne to revamp this item a bit. Changes are not final yet. Might increase the staff stats by 25% after next reboot as well.
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written by Hunter | 1194 Views | 1 Reply
Last Name NPC in Surefall updated thanks to some brain storming with one of the players how to re-write the code.
Besides being more compact and more efficient on the server side that nobody will ever see, we can now have last names without underscores for spaces. This should help from MQ2 seeing underscores, just make name with spaces now, instead of underscores.
Numbers and Non Letters will be stripped, etc.
Also can't have a space in the beginning or end of the last name.
You can remove your last name by doing an illegal character, such as:
/say _
/say !
/say $
So after being stirpped the length of the string would be 0 therefore deleting your last name.
Naming policy still applies, no bad names else ban.
Enjoy!
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written by Hunter | 1493 Views | 4 Replies
Caster Guild Skill Trainer will now work for level 71+ Epic 6.0/7.0 and Halloween Pet 'recast type' fixed and should no longer conflict with the other anymore. All Epics should be on same recast timer as other epics, and all Halloween Pets should be on same recast timer as other Halloween Pets. Spell Recipe at http://ezserveronline.com/spell_research/ now sorted by tier, thanks to Hateborne. Updated T5/Abyss to drop Class Inks rare off any of the 100 Bosses. Updated T6/Anguish to drop Class Inks off OMM and Anguished Chest.
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written by Hunter | 1453 Views | 2 Replies
Updated Essence Trader NPC in guildhall.
The NPC will no longer auto assign you to all 9 essence task.
When hailing the NPC it will tell you which task you can accept, based on what you don't have currently active yet.
You will need to accept the essence task before handing in the items.
If you hand in the "100 Essences of ..." token, Magical Blue Diamond, or Superior Lightstone, then the npc should hand them back to you and tell you to use them in the Magic Box instead. Seems some players thought this NPC was some sort of multi quest npc to hand in all components for Ultimate Weapon. This NPC does not craft your Ultimate Weapon. Need to combine final components in the Magic Box instead.
Hopefully the re-written quest and response from hailing or giving the npc will help new players to understand the quest better without losing any items. This quest NPC does log every item, and so far had to help 3 people that lost items. Hopefully this update will help to prevent future problems.
UW X is not created yet. Probably still a month away at least esp since nobody is farming ToV essences yet.
Update:
100 Essences of Temple Veeshan and 100 Essences of Frozen Shadow created, and their icons updated in single component version.
Fixed Beastlord / Enchanter Ink class description via query Hate submitted due to his own copy/paste error lol.
Link on left side of forums for "Spell Recipes" to research custom tier spells. Recipes and Recipe List created by Hateborne.
New Custom Tier!
Most likely this week will be updating the recipes for the Magic Box to include a new tier of armor in Cazic Thule zone.
The order of armor will be Tacvi to Cazic Thule to T1/PoD.
Cazic Thule Patterns already now drop off specific bosses in CT that have been beefed up.
This will help players to break into T1 a bit easier since the HP on the armor will be some what in between Tacvi and T1. For example, the MultiClass Plate will have 1300 HP.
You'll have choice of getting Tacvi Armor off bosses in Tacvi, or off random trash in Cazic Thule.
The drop rate of Tacvi Armor off CT trash should be very good. Possibly easier and faster than Tacvi Bosses.
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written by Hunter | 1591 Views | 8 Replies
Seems Akkadius has made available a server login patch program for EQEmu that is easy and helpful. http://moestaverne.com/downloads.htmlThere are 2 files available for download at version 1.71, seems the smaller one is "portable" or doesn't need to be installed, and the other is a regular install, either will work and basically do the same, so just choose which one you want, if you want to install it, or just have a folder for it as portable. Personally, I had a graphic issue due to my graphic settings in Windows 7, but when running the EQEmu Launcher, it'll auto detect a new version 1.76 available. So just accept their new patch 1.76 when running 1.71 for first time and its all good. During installation, only thing you really need to configure is in options pointing to your eqgame.exe and then the rest of the default choices should work well. Got this in an email just now from Akkadius: Also, the Launcher server moved DNS recently so some people might not see it as 'Up' So far I've only tested this with EZ Server. This program is suppose to allow you to switch between servers and auto patch to that servers files, without having to do it manually for each server each time you switch servers. And when going back to a server again, if any of your files are out of date like the spell file then it'll auto update it. During my test, I removed eqhost.txt, zone_chr.txt, and spells_us.txt files and they were all auto downloaded into my eq directory ready for play, so worked real good. I'm still new to it myself, but looks promising. Post any questions here and we'll work together any issues. For more info, here is post about EQEmu Launcher on eqemulator.org : http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36854Credit to Rumzuck for making this possible!
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written by Hunter | 1326 Views | 0 Replies
Spell file 05-29-13 is now available.Updating quest code for addloot in T7, plus adding a new item drop. See details here : http://ezserveronline.com/forums/index.php?topic=3744.msg48045#msg48045Finished T8 drops as well for addloot. Also changed the icons for T8 armor. Main armor should be brown/black instead of teal/blue. Will make easier to see which armor is upgraded too. The following tier will be back to the teal/blue color with 2 bright dots on it instead of 1, and eventually into an orange/red color in later tiers. In the case it seems your T8 armor is gone, check which client you are using, and that the item isn't 'invisible' from unknown icon. Right click and stat window for the invisible item should come up. The id range for icons used should be ok for Underfoot though. Trying to avoid using the F2P icons just yet. Created UCv3 with 100k HP Rune, 700% spell dmg, and 1200% healing. Components are farmable in T8 zone, but the Task Quest NPC is not created yet.
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written by Hunter | 1410 Views | 3 Replies
Changed Druid Epic Click from Target AoE to self PB AoE.
Anguish Augments from T6 will be non-lore but also non-stack after reboot, since its not end game zone anymore, and we're up to T8.
As always, have a lot on my to-do list for EZ Server.
Haven't created any new recipes yet for T8 via Essences (Shield, Strike Augs, Mana Necklace, UW, etc). With the zone being so new, probably have a month before recipes are needed anyways.
Some players have submitted content that I still need to look at and/or push through to Live. Someone made website leaderboards, and Hateborne made new recipes for spells I think. Also need to implement the new addloot() quest code via plugin for our next double loot event.
Memorial Holiday Double Loot will last until 6am Tuesday morning reboot.
Made a topic about TwitchTV website. Chance to randomly win free EZ Credits by streaming your gameplay on EZ Server. After reboot creating instances will no longer display your login name on the popup window due to streaming on TwitchTV. Let me know if anything else needs to be blocked. If your using credit keys or buying on EZ Rewards, probably shouldn't be streaming that.
As noted/updated on the Trade Console Games topic, do not buy anything from "Gamezone Online" on Ebay of Philippines cause they black listed my address since 3 people mailed stuff to same address making them paranoid or scared. Suggested wish list links may be outdated anyways, and need to research those games or similar. They are just examples.
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written by Hunter | 1883 Views | 5 Replies
Had to do some ninja edits to the Ancient Dragon spawn and fight script due to higher levels afk'ing on top of where it spawns.
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written by Hunter | 1425 Views | 0 Replies
Updated Magelo to show icons that Natedog submitted. Will now be able to see the armor on T7+
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written by Hunter | 2085 Views | 13 Replies
Spell file 05-12-13 is now available.
Some new npc spells added for ToV bosses.
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written by Hunter | 2160 Views | 15 Replies
Revamped the Teleporters and the Level_Up NPC.
The Teleporter now looks at your level and uses that for a flag.
To increase your level, hail the Level_Up NPC. Will get only +1 level per hail due to way code was written, will write it some more later so 1 hail gets all the levels together instead of having to hail it again for each flag/level.
Level 76 is max level, and requires all 14 peices from Loping Plains (7 jewelry/accessory slots + 7 regular armor slots). If you have your back slot in the bank, then get it out so the npc sees you have the item.
Temple Veeshan (T8) is now open for testing, requires level 76 to enter.
NPC damage may need to be adjusted. Most people will probably not survive here unless max all gear.
A few items are place holders, like the mount, or weapon graphics, which will replace/update soon.
New spell file available for download.
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written by Hunter | 2248 Views | 28 Replies
Epic 3.0 Book moved to a new boss in Qvic.
Cazic Thule (cazicthule) zone is now an alternative for Tacvi. Loot drops commonly off random any npc in the zone. Essence of Tacvi is super rare chance. Old loot is on trash as well, for now. Later will edit bosses to have higher chances at loot. Requirement for the cazicthule zone is level 71 which requires all 15 Qvic Tokens Quest. Cazic Thule is now open for testing, and soon will be closing Tacvi when I finish CT.
Level_Up NPC in Nexus is fixed to see both old flag and new flag for when completed Qvic to get level 71. Current max level 75 if flagged for T7, and soon will make level 76 possibly for having all T7 armor.
Closed templeveeshan for now. Going to make it into T8 soon.
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written by Hunter | 1478 Views | 0 Replies
Buff Bot should shout kill a lot less now.
ToFS npc stonewall now has shorter duration (5,15,25 minutes depending on rank) and their heals have longer recast time, and added a casting time so you can interrupt them.
Started working on T8, creating items. Haven't chosen a zone yet.
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written by Hunter | 2093 Views | 10 Replies
Created Ring of the Ages Ranks 501 - 1000 via copy and paste of the first 500 ranks.
Stats should be all set and final except for the clickie effect, which will need to make new spell buff for the rune clickie.
After next reboot will be able to view the items to see if stats copied correctly.
Keeper_of_the_Ages updated quest code is now live.
Final Rank will have 655,000 HP with 218,333 HP Regen.
Required AA per level is a higher curve in ranks 501-1000 as well.
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written by Hunter | 2523 Views | 17 Replies
Spell file 05-03-13 now available.
Added new custom spells created by Hateborne to loot list:
Timeless: Vampiric Thunder T3/T4
Breathless T1
Breathless II T3/T4
Breathless III T5
Breathless IV T7
Gift of Annihilation T3/T4
Coat of Bright Lights T1
Coat of Bright Lights II T3/T4
Euphoria II T3/T4
Black Hole Before T4
Ancestral Grudge Wisdom Spell Vendor
Defensive Boon Research ONLY
Changed Keeper_of_the_Ages NPC to have less spam shouts when doing RoA quest, only every 25 ranks now.
Changed Instances to have 5 day duration instead of 3 days.
Changed how to spawn Terrorantula and gave him some adds. No longer static spawn. Going to remove the Quillmaine npc until I get some feed back on Terror, tweak if needed, then copy similar system to Quillmaine.
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written by Hunter | 1896 Views | 23 Replies
ToFS Floors 4+ now drop only charm upgrade v2 instead of choosing from either v1 or v2.
Shaman Epics now will have cast time of 9 seconds instead of 20 seconds.
Other minor ninja tweaks to spell resistances and priority orders from npcs.
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written by Hunter | 2149 Views | 7 Replies
New Raid Boss in Plane of Dragons!
Plane of Dragons (T1/T2) has a new rare boss spawn. How it spawns will probably be for speculation. It is harder than Kronos via hp/damage it has, but no adds currently. Drops a ton of stuff like Essences for Dragons Minors and Majors, Dragon Class Molds, Charm v1/v2 upgrades, Spell Scrolls, etc. Will make a good raid boss for 12+ players of T1/T2 level.
A high level player could probably kill this within a few seconds. Try not to grief public zone. This raid boss is meant for the T1/T2 players, not for the T5-T7 players to come in and kill steal it from lower levels, which will be a ban offense.
This new raid boss will send a message to zone when it spawns. And it spawns in the big building in bottom left of the map. Has a 2 hour depop timer.
ToFS Updates:
Regular Waypoint will now be 600k for Instance, or free with Free Waypoint clickie.
Npc spells changed their resist checks.
Added charm v2 upgrades to 3rd floor.
Stonewall buff duration on the bosses updated to 30, 45, and 60 minutes depending which boss/stonewall.
Stun and Mana Drain had push back reduced to 1.
Floor 5 with the wedding updated, only family members standing in line plus Head Usher have good chance to spawn key boss.
a_distant_voice should no longer aggro if your AoE's go off on 2nd floor.
Reduced Frozen Poison Rain II from 61k to 41k dmg to help balance difficulty
Buff Bot:
Buff Bot in Surefall and Nexus now have their calculations changed to kill noobs less often. The less noob you are, the less chance it will kill you, but even the most noob players have reduced chances now from before, to be less spammy. Of course you have pets for buffing, and CG/FG Raid Buff Bot which doesn't kill anyone.
HoHonora
Made Avatars in HoHonora to have aprox 33% less HP, less Regen, and less min/max damage to help balance with the new spells they cast.
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written by Hunter | 1982 Views | 13 Replies
ToFS just got easier!
Spell file 04-20-13 now available
Changed NPC spells damage/resist for ToFS and T7.
T5 Abyss Necklace
Basher did the loot list /facepalm
There is a list for 1 of 5 different jewelry items chance to drop at 10% off bosses.
When choosing that jewelry, their individual chances are 50,20,50,50,50 which doesn't add up to 100 (this is the facepalm part)
Updated T5 jewelry to now be 15% chance off bosses. then when selecting which piece has 20,20,20,20,20 chance per item.
This should help speed up getting T5 neck by a lot.
Updated more in ToFS:
Floors
Floor 1 : charm v1 at 1/50 chance, Stone of Resist I at 1/10 chance
Floor 2 : charm v1 at 1/45 chance, Stone of Resist I at 1/10 chance
Floor 3 : charm v1 at 1/40 chance, Stone of Resist II at 1/10 chance
Floor 4 : charm v1/v2 at 1/35 chance, Stone of Resist II at 1/10 chance
Floor 5 : charm v1/v2 at 1/30 chance, Stone of Resist III at 1/10 chance
Floor 6 : charm v1/v2 at 1/25 chance, Stone of Resist III at 1/10 chance
Floor 7 : charm v1/v2 at 1/20 chance, Stone of Resist IV at 1/10 chance
Keys
Bosses on floors 1, 2, 4, 5 should be more common now too.
NPC Root duration reduced from 0.6 to 0.3 minutes
NPC Rain reduced damage by aprox 10-20%
NPC Flux now reduced distance from -4 to -1 for less annoyance of smacking you around lol
NPC Charm now has -2000 MR check. Had zero resistance check before. This zone drops Heroic Stones, so start farming.
NPC Mez now has -2000 MR check as well.
NPC Stonewall I, II, and III:
Reduced to -75%, -85%, and -95%.
Had 50 Duration forumla = never expire, but also had to fade after X damage was taken.
Now duration forumla is same as Heroism (72 minutes?).
Should still fade after X damage taken.
NPC Spell Casting Chance
Cut the values of T7 and ToFS npc proc chance by half (again).
Here are the new values after reboot:
Spell List Name - Proc Chance
T7 Loping Plains Bosses 8
T7 Loping Plains Trash 3
ToFS Floor 7 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 6 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 5 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 4 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 3 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 2 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 1 Boss 14
ToFS Floor 7 Trash 5
ToFS Floor 6 Trash 4
ToFS Floor 5 Trash 4
ToFS Floor 4 Trash 3
ToFS Floor 3 Trash 3
ToFS Floor 2 Trash 2
ToFS Floor 1 Trash 2
Sceptre of Time
Added Heroic Resist from 25 - 250 depending on rank
Special Weapons
BU Weapons nerfed Backstab damage field.
UW capped Backstab values to help not roll over.
Oh yeah, did a ninja edit on hohonora that I been meaning to do for a long long time, finally got around to it.
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written by Hunter | 1654 Views | 1 Reply
ToFS and T7 Updated:
Both have lowered the npc proc chance to cast spell. So they'll attempt to cast spells fewer rounds.
Made most of the T7 spells to have lower damage, and lower resist check. So people without UW can start resisting stuff too if they have other stuff like RoA, SoA, UC, etc.
Added 250 Heroic Resist to UCv1 and 500 Heroic resist to UCv2. Seems RoA, SoA, and Mana Necklace already had Heroic Resist on them.
Added -800 resist check to npc Charm spell in T7 which should allow most players to resist, although only main tank really needs to resist this. Probably require 1150+ resist to magic to resist Charm now.
Removed trash loots from trash mobs in ToFS per request.
ToFS better chance for Charm v1 and v2 Upgrades to drop, from 1/25 to 1/45 depending on Floor.
Created Ranked Item in ToFS called "Stone of Heroic Resistance" which goes up to rank 20. This is an Augment that can be fitted in any slot type you have! Drops in ToFS at around 1/10 chance. To get next rank, combine any 2 stones of same rank to get next rank. Each rank is +5 heroic resist, so rank 20 would have 100 heroic resist. Recipes are made and tested working.
Keys are still some what rare. But you only have to farm it once per char, and not re-farm it like Stone of Descents in LDoN.
Will continue to try and balance the difficulties in ToFS and T7, which is a guessing game that relies on feed back.
Enjoy!
Edit:
Added Top Resist and Top Richest to the Leaderboards, effective after reboot. The top list gets updated when players log in, so we're not going to see anyone from last week or last year.
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written by Hunter | 1617 Views | 0 Replies
SoA Ranks 36-40 changed req level from 74 to 73 cause Abyss people can go to Anguish via group port.
T6 Anguish final boss edited how summons help from other mobs in zone (instantly teleported).
T7 Loping Plains recipes made for HP Augs to be combined up to rank 10, from 2k hp to 20k hp.
T7 Trash and Bosses now have spells they cast on players.
New spell file 04-18-13 now available for download.
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written by Hunter | 1672 Views | 0 Replies
Updated Spell File to 04-16-13
Enchanter (mez) spell Wake of Felicity renamed to Improved Wake of Felicity.
Improved Wake of Felicity updated:
0.8 Cast Time (Previously 4.0)
1.0 Recovery Time (Previously 2.25)
3.5 Recast Time (Previously 6.0)
50 AoE Range (Previously 25)
Works on mobs up to level 99.
Changed the priority order of spells in ToFS mobs so they won't cast rain or AoE first all the time. Now its more random with other spells they have. Hopefully this will help to not get 1-rounded when aggro'ing a group.
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written by Hunter | 1707 Views | 1 Reply
Buff Bot in Surefall and Nexus now has chance to shout kill you depending on how much "noob" you are. Mobs in T5/Abyss will no longer summon. I think this was mostly just the corals. Spell tweaks due to ToFS and PvP: 69 Enchanter: Wake of Felicity (mez) now works on target levels 1-99 and -1000 resist check 70 Enchanter: Ancient: Voice of Muram (charm) now works on target levels 1-99 and -1000 resist check 18 Enchanter | 15 Cleric | 43 Paladin: Calm (pacify) now works on target levels 1-99 and -1000 resist check Druid Epic: Ancient Vine Grasp: Changed MR resist check from -100 to -900 depending on rank For those enchanter spells, still depends if the mob has any anti charm/mez/pacify npcspecialattack codes on it. Not sure the full extent of consequences for making these changes. There may be custom tier zones that were anti charm or mez by making mob levels too high, which would make these spells work now. Also made these changes to make Enchanters more useful in places like ToFS. Heck, even a naked level 70 Enchanter could probably benefit any group of any tier in ToFS by doing crowd control (providing AoE don't kill them). No spell file posted yet, and not needed either except to see / verify these updates. They will still work as intended server side after reboot. I still have some spells from Hate to be made available by recipe or drops when my head isn't spinning We now have Leaderboards NPC in Nexus for HP, Mana, AC, Days Played (Currently Blocked), and Ring of the Ages Ranks
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written by Hunter | 2795 Views | 20 Replies
Updates to take effect after next reboot:
Halloween Weapons have had their damage reduced.
I might temp increase their damage during Halloween Event so they would still be special and help during Halloween. Maybe even add some special bane undead bonus damage to them.
New spells available now that Hate created. Breath of Nature I will be found on Wisdom Spell Vendor in Surefall, and the rest are off bosses.
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written by Hunter | 1607 Views | 0 Replies
As many already know, Lotto bot values were changed to higher values, and is now accidently saying 1 million jackpot when reading 100k, so I added another '0' to the value to fix that. Minor bug I saw while logged in and reading ooc chat. Will be updated after reboot.
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