GU37 hit the test servers last night and it features a ton of new stuff. Patching the test client took about 20 minutes for me using a 2Mbit connection.
Highlights of this game update (GU):
Multiple character broker sale: You can now sell stuff using the broker one more than one character per account. Have a ton of alts? Use them all to sell your stuff. No more transferring all your goodies to the designated broker character.
Persistent raid instances: This feature was actually listed as something new for the upcoming “Rise of Kunark” expansion in November. But now we get it for the Emerald Halls zone with this game update. Tired raiding EH for the whole day? So just call it a night and come back tomorrow to continue your raid. The EH zone is now a persistent zone. You can keep raiding it for up to 10 days or choose to raid a fresh EH instance after 5 days. (This feature is not yet on the test server — at least there is no code for it in the UI .xml files.)
Merchant buyback: Accidentally sold some precious item to the NPC? Just buy it back if it was one of the last 10 items you’ve sold.
AA points are nolonger locked to the tree you’ve originally assigned them: Let’s say you have 50 AAs and spent 30 in the KoS tree and 20 in the EoF tree. Previously theses AAs were locked to the tree but now you can choose to spend e.g. 45 to the KoS and 5 to the EoF tree after a respec. The old rule that you can only spend 50 points per tree is still effective!
Smart Loot: Tired of seeing the same set items dropping over and over and over? All your tanks already have the set item that your recently killed mob can drop but you still get a tank set item? No-more! The loot system is now aware about what et item your raidmembers already possess. If all character but you already have e.g. the set leg slot items that the mob used to drop then the mob will have your leg slot set item in the chest. 100% money back guaranty. Please note that this feature is not yet listed in the patch notes but you can find information in this SOE forum thread.
Traveling in Butcherblock Mountains/Greater Faydark/Neriak: Those zones are huge and you always have to run the same paths to reach your destination. Now the new and improved griffon towers and pony express stations are available for your. Butcherblock Mountains now features a griffon tower at the docks, the Lesser Faydark and the Greater Faydark zonelines. Greater Faydark now features a pony express that will allow your to travel to various destinations within the zone. Neriak the newly rediscovered city of evil now allows players to use the sea-gate to travel to Nektulos forest or Thundering Steppes (for free!).
As always this GU also includes a huge amount of other changes that can be found in the test server patch notes linked at the end of this article. This includes but is not limited to AA changed, spell changes, quest changes, tradeskill changes.
You can find the official test server patch notes at the SOE EQ2 forums.
Please read the whole article for screen-shots of new features.
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