There are a huge number of changes and fixes going in today, including the removal of spirit shards, and other fun stuff. I've included here some of the items of interest to tradeskillers, but you will want to check out the full patch notes for yourself.

• Rare tradeskill components can now be found on certain named creatures in Desert of Flames. As with the recent changes to the Ruins of Varsoon, Runnyeye, and the Temple of Cazic-Thule, the best place to get the best stuff is inside dungeons.
• - Excellent Quality Scaled Pelts were being obtained less often than other types of level 50 legendary harvested components. They should now be found with the same frequency.
• - Low green recipes should once again award experience.
• - Recipes for Sylvan Touch should now appear in the correct book according to their rarity.
• - Weaponsmith Essentials Volume 21 now contains Carbonite Foils and Carbonite War Axes.
• - The recipe for Shadow Slip should correctly appear in the level 47 Jeweler books.
• - Removed the duplicate recipes from the Advanced Tailor Volume 51 recipe scroll.
• - Added a new recipe for Tin Throwing hammers to Artisan Essentials Volume 6.
• - Minor Ripped Material can now be countered by Fasten, Seam, Tack, and Embellish.
• - The Sage recipe for Vulian Interference is now in the level 38 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - Steel Arrow will now indicate the correct primary component that is required for the recipe.
• - Jeweler Sandcloth Cloth recipe will now correctly use Jewelry special events to match the skills used to make the item.
• - The Sage recipe for Intensify is now in the level 35 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - The Scholar recipe for Stinging Swarm is now in the level 11 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - The Scholar recipe for Symbol of Transal is now in the level 16 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - Changed the name of the 54 Alchemist recipe for Quelling Blow to Quelling Strike to match the name of the Combat art that it makes.
• - Changed the name of the Sage recipe for Transcendent Blessing to Transcendent Grace to match the name of the Spell that is made.
• - Adjusted recipe for Imbued Briarwood Bo Staff to require the correct level of fuel for the recipe.
• - Adjusted recipe for Imbued Briarwood Fighting Baton to require the correct level of fuel for the recipe.
• - Adjusted recipe for Imbued Briarwood Greatstaff to require the correct level of fuel for the recipe.
• - Adjusted recipe for Imbued Briarwood Quarter Staff to require the correct level of fuel for the recipe.
• - Adjusted the level for the recipes for Fulginate and Ebon Greatspears to be a level 47 recipe instead of a 41/42 recipe respectively.
• - The Sage recipe for Suffocating Cloud is now in the level 28 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - The Sage recipe for Dark Pact is now in the level 26 essentials/advanced books to match the level that the spell is gained.
• - Recipes should no longer have a chance of going from conning blue directly to grey.
• - The pristine version of an Imbued Blackened Iron Crescent Axe had its name corrected.
• - The recipe for Summon Shadows has been removed, as there are no upgrades for this spell.
• - The Feysteel Arrows recipe will now indicate the proper primary component.
• - Feyiron Greatspear is now a level 37 recipe.
• - The Imbued Ash Greatstaff recipe now uses the correct fuel.
• - The level 38 Sage recipe for Tellurian Veteran has been renamed to Tellurian Avenger to match the spell.
• - The Imbued Ash Quarter Staff recipe now uses the correct fuel.
• - The Imbued Ash Bo Staff recipe now uses the correct fuel.
• - The Imbued Ash Spellbinder's Staff recipe now uses the correct fuel.
• - The pristine version of an Imbued Feyiron Spear had its name corrected.
• - The Scholar recipe for Smuggler's Talent has been renamed to Stay Low to match the spell.
• - The Carpenter recipe for Bone Cudgels no longer indicates that it is an imbue recipe.
• - Armorer Essential Volume 49 has been removed from the game, as it does not contain any recipes.
• - The Paladin Brazier now has a worked quality product.
• - The following Sage spells have had their levels adjusted. (,): * Blazing Intimidation (27,30), Vile Imprecation (28,31), Flashfreeze (29,30), Accordant Spirits (43,41), Dooming Swarm (43,45), Zealot's Conviction (43,42), Abysmal Fury (44,42), Faithful Ministration (44,43), Feral Tenacity (44,41), Inferno (44,42), Ruinous Imprecation (44,45), Sylph (44,41), Transference (44,41), Baleful Efflux (45,44), Dismay (45,50), Feral Salve (45,43), Flameshield (45,50), Nihilism (45,50), Ravaged Psyche (45,50), Syphon Life (45,50), Truss (45,47), Aspect of Darkness (46,49), Clarity (46,47), Ferine Mask (46,47), Fiery Doom (46,45), FlameStrike (46,43), Heat Convulsions (46,45), Lobotomize (46,45), Ferine Elixer (47,46), and Vulian Gift (49,47).
• - The stats on Tin Tulwar recipe products now increase logically.
• - There is now a recipe for Sylvan Touch in Scholar Essentials/Advanced Volume 15.
• - Adjusted the level and difficulty of the Craftsman recipe for Maple Wand from 12 to 19.
• - Adjusted the level of the recipe for the Spell Cerebral Spasm from level 15 to level 10. It can now be found in the Sage Essentials/Advanced Volume 11.
• - Adjusted the level of the recipe for the Combat Art Shadow Slip from level 33 to level 47 . It can now be found in Jeweler Essentials/Advanced Volume 47.
• - Instill should now successfully counter its corresponding events.
• - The Engraved Leather Skullcup recipe will now indicate the correct primary component.
• - Changed the name of the level 51 imbue line of Geomancy reaction arts from Instill to Implant to avoid confusion with another reaction art with the same name.

November 09, 2005 - Happy Birthday EQII and LU 16

Today is a huge day for EQ - birthday rewards, new SOGA models, and a boatload of fixes and changes in Live Update 16. I'll work on linking in a copy of the massive patch notes as soon as I can get them formatted to display properly, since it looks like the SOE site doesn't even have them up yet.

Edit: It took a lot of hand-formatting, and still isn't pretty, but you can find the ginormous patch notes here.

November 09, 2005 - Viltality potions and other issues

There are currently some issues with the birthday rewards - hotfixes are being planned. I found the following from Blackguard:

There is currently an issue that is calculating the amount of vitality you should be getting incorrectly when you log in. This will be fixed tomorrow, and all characters will receive full Adventure and Tradeskill Vitality at that time. We recommend that you do not use a vitality potion at this time unless you are able to use up all of the vitality it grants you before tomorrow morning.

October 28, 2005 - Last Few Days

Don't forget that there's still a few more days of voting left for EQ's nomination for the Walk of Game Have you voted today?

October 22, 2005 - Today\'s Hotfix

*** Tradeskills ***

• It now takes less tradeskill XP to gain levels as an artisan.
• The bonus previously given to tradeskill XP has been converted into these shorter tradeskill levels.
• You may notice that you are logging in with more tradeskill experience than you had when you last logged out.
• If you have feedback on the somewhat faster pace of tradeskill advancement, please feel free to comment on the General Tradeskill Discussion board: http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board?board.id=general_tradeskill

October 07, 2005 - Update for food/drink

This m*rning's hotfix included the following:

• Crafted level 50+ food and drinks should now have variable durations based upon the stage of the product as well as how many combines go into the recipes. They should be comparable to the duration times of crafted food/drink at other levels.
• Crafted food should no longer stack multiple types of beneficial effects.

October 06, 2005 - Surprise in the Hotfix

I suspect you can figure out which one of these two items from the hotfix notes had me rubbing my eyes and reading it twice. {grins}

• We have permanently increased tradeskill experience gain at all levels by 50%.
• Level 50+ imbued shields now have the appropriate effects.

October 05, 2005 - Forums Down

It seems the server that houses not only our EQ and EQ2 forums, but also the main www.racknine.com site is a bit ill. Because of that, we not only can't access the forums, but we can't put in a trouble ticket on it because the site hosting the ticketing system is down. Blame it on the greml- ... Gigglegibber Goblins!

October 05, 2005 - Live Update Tradeskill Notes

This live update has a lot of information in it, and I recommend that you read it from start to finish. (Once I figure out what's awry with our forums, I'll replace this comment with a link to the full patch notes.) For the impatient types, however, here's the notes of tradeskill interest:

• The needlessly confusing “Are you an artisan or an adventurer?” question has been removed from the Qeynos/Freeport introductory quests. Thanks to the community summit attendees for pointing this out!
• Imbue recipes now exist for level 50+ Armorers, Tailors, Weaponsmiths, Jewelers, and Woodworkers.
• Warring Conviction, Purifying Flames, Wintry Cold, Bolt of Storms, Arctic Flames, and Fuliginous Tendrils are now found in the level 51 recipe books.
• Noxious Bolt is now a level 29 recipe instead of 30.
• Discretionary Flow is now a level 27 recipe instead of 30.
• Nullification is now a level 24 recipe instead of 30.
• Miasma is now a level 25 recipe instead of level 28.
• Dark Emanations is now a level 31 recipe instead of 33.
• The Summoner's Mark line of spells for Summoners, Conjurers, and Necromancers are now included in the correct recipe scrolls for level 28/42/56 Sages.
• Fear should now be included in the level 24 sage recipe scrolls.
• Aqueous Stalkers should now be included in the level 24 Sage recipe scrolls.
• Poisonous Veil should now be included in the level 20 Sage recipe scrolls.
• All Apprentice II, III, IV and Adept III spell scroll icons are now visually consistent for each archetype.
• Broadcloth Yarn and Broadcloth Thread have been removed from Tailor Essentials Volume 30, since they already exist in Volume 29.
• Roasted Rolled Oats and Rolled Oat Malt have been removed from Provisioner Essentials Volume 30, since they already exist in Volume 29.
• Rock Blast is now in Volume 15 of the Advanced and Essentials Scholar recipe books.
• Summoner's Mark is now Volume 15 of Advanced and Essentials Scholar recipe books.
• Consumable pasta has been removed from tradeskill merchants.
• The Spellbinder's Sconce should no longer show appear as a pink box.

October 03, 2005 - Community Leader Summit News

SOE invited a few community leaders this past weekend to meet with them regarding EQ and EQII. While tradeskills understandably weren't the central focus of the summit, they did get some discussion time, both in panels and in side-conversations with various devs, etc. You can read my brief summit notes here.

September 29, 2005 - . . .

. . . !!!

September 24, 2005 - Bonus tradeskill xp

Apologies for not putting this up sooner. Bonus tradeskill xp (for all levels, not just below 50) has been left on until Monday morning, due to some issues with it not behaving for everyone the first time around.

September 22, 2005 - More Small Fixes

From today's patch message:

• Selecting "Artisan" in the Broker window will now show results usable by all tradeskill classes. For example, to get a listing of all advanced tradeskill recipe books, choose "Artisan" from the dropdown.

September 22, 2005 - Small Reminder

Bonus tradeskill xp is turned on in-game until this Friday morning's update. Get your crafting in while you can!

September 21, 2005 - Patch Info ... and a Request

Today's update contains some post-expansion fixes and tweaks for tradeskillers:

• Precious metals and gemstones will now be harvested more often. - Stonehide and Scaled fistwraps should now produce an product at the pristine state.
• - Stonehide and Scaled spiked Cesti should now produce a product at the pristine state.
• - Indium and Cobalt Morning Stars should now produce a product at the pristine state.
• - Cobalt Executioner's Axes should now produce a product at the pristine state.
• - Scaled Leather Cestii will now produce an item when gaining the pristine form of the recipe.

In the week since the expansion, we've had several database submissions for the new level 50+ furniture. Some of it looks really great! Sadly, however, the non-carpenter classes are totally silent with regards to data submissions. If you're a level 50+ crafter, please consider taking some time out from your headlong rush to level 60, and submit recipe and item data to our DoF Data forum. We'd really like to get the database updated with the new information, but we can't without your help! Additionally, we need information on the various crafted spells and abilities that were added or changed with the expansion.

September 20, 2005 - Small Fix

From the patch message today:

• Favor of Innovation should now award level 50 components when performing level 50+ tradeskills.

September 15, 2005 - Path Odds and Ends

From today's patch message:

• The Spellbinder's Sconce should once again appear within homes.
• Breath of the Tyrant can now be found in level 24 Sage recipe books.
• Spiked Earth will no longer appear twice in the level 20 Sage recipe books.
• Tradeskilled food will no longer stack its stat bonus with itself.

September 13, 2005 - Desert of Flames and Live Update 13

Wheeee! It will almost be like being in a whole new world out there! Today marks the release of the much-anticipated Desert of Flames expansion and the combat and spell changes that have been the topic of much discussion over on the SOE forums. There is a lot to absord all in one fell swoop, so make sure to go over the patch message carefully before wandering into the game and getting overwhelmed. For those of you at w*rk who can't read the SOE forums, I've reprinted the patch message here in our forums for you.

This is going to be a VERY busy time for the EQTC/EQ2TC folks, so please be patient with us, and help out where you can. Both EQ and EQ2 released expansions on the same day, and both sites are going to be a bit busier than normal. As with our EQTC site, we've set up a data-only forum that should be used to only report in information from the new expansion that needs to go onto the site (new recipes & harvests, new tradeskill item stats, and suchforth). Your help in keeping this forum chatter- and clutter-free is greatly appreciated and will speed up getting information onto the site in a timely manner. (I don't expect things to be anywhere near as zooey here as it will be on the EQTC site, but am bracing for impact just in case. :D)

September 07, 2005 - Patch Info

Please ignore the earlier commentary about cultural armor. It helps if I match patch notes to the proper site! {blush}

September 04, 2005 - Desert of Flames - New Furniture!

Now that the NDA has been lifted for the Desert of Flames expansion, you'll find various conversations hither and yon regarding all the lovely new features. One of the items of interest to us, of course, is player-made furniture, and eqnews.us has pictures of the upcoming offerings for us here.

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