Well, last week EverQuest 2 had their game Update 38. I have to say, there's some things I like about it, and some things I don't. To start off, there's the new "intro" to Kunark, which has you travel on a boat. Definitly kinda neat. Nothing complex or mindblowing, but a nice little tidbit that has you help discover the way to Kunark. If you havn't tried it out, even though you're playing EQ2? Go try it out now ;) It only takes like 10 to 20 minutes to finish it all the way through.
The next piece is something I both like, and don't like. There's a new "Appearance" tab in the game. On this tab you you put stuff you want to appear to be using (but arn't really). You need to really take care though, cause if you try to auto-equip anything, while you last were on the appearance tab, it will try to equip the item there, and will fail if the appearance slot doesn't exist. (Or put it in your appearance slot, not giving you any of the resists/etc). This will cause some confusion I think.
The reason why I both like and dislike it though, is the concept itself. It allows a tank wearer to be an effective tank while appearing to be in rags. "ha ha, funny", well for the first time maybe, but it gets old quickly. I like it, cause now I don't need to switch out my gear if I want to look different, and I can use my Fan Faire cloak as appearance (cause it looks awesome), while using a handmade cloak with stats for the stats.
Then there are the new recipies. If you havn't read about them, I sugest heading over to the EQ2 Traders Corner. They had an introduction about the new rare proffisioner recipies, and other tradeskill related changes over there. One of them I wanted to touch on briefly are the new Adept III spells related to the first Adventure Pack. They have put upgrades in for some of the spells, making them a whole lot more useful at the high level. I still envy the druids though, they get a mana regen spell upgraded!
Well, ofcource there's a bunch more changes. But you'll have to read about them yourself in the patch notes ;)
The second subject I wanted to talk about is the spam blogs receive. I never realized it myself, but blogs are usually open systems that can be spammed easily. Today when I was looking at my admin area, I found that I had 2 comments that had been filtered out because they were spam.
I'm glad Subtext has the anti-spam featured built right in, cause that could become very annoying, if you had a popular blog.
The irony of it too, it was gold-spam. *sighes* Can't get rid of those guys now can you? Well, at the very least they got filtered out, and I had the priviledge to remove them for good!
Well, that's it for now,
- SG