Today i was able to claim my FanFaire 2007 ingame item. A cloak with the logo of the iksar empire.

\aITEM 161910215 442323362:Sebilisian Cloak of the Gathering\/a

It is called “Sebilisian Cloak of the Gathering” and looks somewhat nice and unique. It has an activateable fireworks effect on it with a 4 or 5 minute recast. It is alot better than last years “Shield of the Gathering” that used to be a buckler that noone ever recognized as being something special.

This is what it looks like :

ERRATA: I was referencing to GU39, but ofcourse this is GU38 :-)

SOE Grimwell posted in the ‘Test Patch Notes‘ section of the SOE Forums what is believed to be GU38.

To summarize the patches:

• Dual wield gets dumped. DW weapons are now just one handed that can be equipped as one hand, primary or secondary weapon.
• Bristlebane gets introduced into the world of EQ2. This well known god from EQ1 now returns as the grand prankster he used to be.
• Another Rise of Kunark introduction quest that starts in Qeynos Harbor/East Freeport.
• Some quests got changed, some spells got changed, some item drop behaviour got changed… etc.

PS: I cannot find any reference to Legends of Norrath in the notes ;)
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SOE Gordish wrote here:

Interested in getting into Legends of Norrath beta?

If you’re interested in joining into the Legends of Norrath beta please send an email with the subject LON to eq2beta@station.sony.com , and that email should only contain just your account name.

When you’re sending in account names, please make sure that the subject is LON and the email body simply contains an account name, with no other text or it won’t be processed.

*Please Note* This covers both EverQuest and EverQuest 2 players even though the address says eq2beta.

So go for it ;). My other two accounts already got beta flagged.

Vivere Militare Est went to “The Throne of New Tunaria” last night. After clearing quite some huge trash encounters we managed to get the first named in the zone to spawn — The Harbinger of Absolution. We also got a nice priest wrist set item (Bangle of Polished Marble) from the 2nd trash mob we engaged.

This named is a joke for all the work you have to do to actually engage him. He went down without the slightest chance to wipe the raid — and he dropped a nice tank tower shield (Stoneshield Bulwark).

We also tried our luck on the 2nd named who is said to drop no loot at all.

While the Legends of Norrath release slowly approches I was not only collecting loot cards for some nice server first discoveries, I’ve also built me a nice priest deck and started playing the scenarios that are available. Together with the beta access I got a free Starter Packand 2 Boosters. each week I get additional 2 Booster for free while the beta runs.

These scenarios are divided into 3 chapters and you need to progress through them — some scenarios are marked optional and may be skipped.

After struggeling with all the rulesets — my native language is german and not english — I managed to get quite addiced to the CCG itself.

I finished 2 of the 3 chapters and and approached the end of chapter 3 (see screenshot). One might skip all the storyline that is included with each scenario but please give it a try and read it.

Update: Wow scenario 14 is tough. My opponent quickly takes away my heros with his +3 damage bonus item and I don’t know how to get rid of that. Anyone with some hints?

Yesterday we had a Mistmoore Inner Sanctum raid planned. After entering Mistmoore Castle we were greeted by quite some lag coming from the 96+ players that were ideling right inside at the zoneline.

We proceeded to to the Inner Sanctum Epic x 4 zone and had a smooth run. Eventually we ended up in front of Mayong Mistmoore and this time we managed to take him down in a 19 minute 39 second battle. What a great moment.

We got a nice troubadour and necro set chest item and I was able to get my 3rd templar set item from some other named. (3) Set bonus from the templar set is somewhat superiour to the same bonus from the inquisitor set.

(Templar) Divination Set:

(Inquisitor) Chaplain’s Armor of Piety Set:

Oh, and while we smashed Mayong to the ground we noticed that this would have finally finished our Swords of Destiny questseries. And — yes — we got our Lucanic weapons upgraded to Soulfire weapons from the questgiver in Butcherblock.

Oh — Ogrebears passed 1600 quests on the EQ2 Kithicor server. Well done friend - congratulations.

Meanwhile I stall at my 1694 quests because of saving up all completed quests for the Rise of Kunark release in November. It’s still some time till then but who cares ;)

I guess I can keep my ranking on Valor for some more weeks.

Just in case you want to take a look at these items ingame.

\aITEM 1465474154 -1423130996:Stein of Recollection\/a
\aITEM 1346578867 -90922301:Cloak of Disguise\/a
\aITEM -698202697 -2044064837:a decorated Maj’dul carpet card\/a
\aITEM -1001251406 -1338524721:Magic Infusion\/a
\aITEM 2009832592 -1728707028:Draught of the Skilled\/a
\aITEM -525525534 -1136320280:Lamp of the Djinn\/a
\aITEM -1118208395 -1985810848:Painting: The Rune\/a
\aITEM 950915470 699653865:Legends of Norrath Cloak\/a
\aITEM -1713855536 415750506:Nature’s Wrath\/a
\aITEM 924356072 -2060631326:Recipe: Stein of the Alesmith\/a
\aITEM -1974692711 -195647555:Stein of the Alesmith\/a
\aITEM 1926704815 1455823004:Cloak of Flowing Water\/a
\aITEM -2012359669 -1343299209:a dark warg summoning drum\/a

Enjoy.

UPDATE:

\aITEM -222927082 1272346134:Elaborate Card Case\/a
\aITEM 1245007407 -522009249:Cloak of Chelsith\/a
\aITEM -1771597290 1040568113:Recipe: Card Case\/a
\aITEM 1293580083 -1163223952:Icy Touch\/a

UPDATE2:

\aITEM -304381677 -466575964:Walking Dead\/a

Yesterday my very own version tracking system reported me that the Apache Foundation releaded a set of new versions for their popular Apache HTTPD. The new versions would be 2.2.5, 2.0.60 and 1.3.38

I cannot tell you what changes are included in these versions nor if they are critical, recommended or optional since an hour later I got the following from my version tracking.

Somehow the Apache Foundation revoked the release of these version and they are gone again. Current versions are still 2.2.4, 2.0.59 and 1.3.37