You forgot the SLS requirements.

Yes you can download the zone files.

Also you can sell/trade those essences too.

Actually, the old timers progressed through Qvic - T4 without any UW available to them.

I expected everyone to want one, and try for one, but didn't expect that many people would succeed. Need to learn never under estimate the players.

Its not exactly game changing, its game breaking. Needs to be super rare, and super reward for those that are the most hardcore of hardcore players.

Updated the Ultimate Weapon and Shield of the Ages recipes. The recipe book as been updated as well to view these changes.

I recently checked the database, and there are 121 players with Ultimate Weapons of various ranks. That is a lot more than I intended. Originally wanted around only 5-10% of players have them.

I expect some major butt hurting from the new recipe requirements. I know some will probably quit, and others will say the custom zones require them to survive.

The majority of our custom tiers was created when there was no Ultimate Weapons available. With the right group and other ranked gear, you can still advance through custom zones. There are more items than just the Ultimate Weapons that have lots of hp and damage to it. These Ultimate Weapons do make zones trivial, and should be a lot more rare.

Recipe book will explain the new requirements.

Essence of Platinum can be acquired by giving the Essence Trader npc in Crafters Guild 10 million Platinum.

Essence of Norrath was the Ancient Shield mold that got renamed and new icon.

Created Ancient Shield Template for free on Crafter Merchant to be used instead of the old Quested Mold.

Hopefully that helps in any confusion on the new essences and mold.

Rampage and AoE Rampage has been removed from the npcs so it would be worth doing this quest now on your dps alts as well. So hopefully removing rampage gives the feeling of things more balances out with this change too.

That is what I do, so my default folder is always original and works.

Probably doesn't have a resist check, could probably look into that though, and add one, maybe -3k or -4k resist check

Posted on left side of forums a link to custom map window someone gave me.

Making it available here for everyone else to use too:

http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=get8

Has very few buttons, likc "C" Button for Center yourself on map, etc.

So small, makes a great radar type window to keep up all the time!

You can see the pic below, and the size of it compared to the spell gems:

• Make a copy of your <your install path>uifiles\default\EQUI_MapViewWnd.xml file
• Load the attached file into uifiles\default
• Completely shutdown client and restart

Updated Anguish. Overlord Mata Muram will now depop if other mobs are up. This means he will come back during a repop (Server Reboot, Create/Enter Instance, Repop Instance). Removed the trash inside his circle to help not accidently depop Mata Muram.

Disabled Tacvi. The same armor and molds can be found in Cazic Thule. Then making the Cazic Thule armor after can be optional for now, either make it or skip to T1 armor. Should be easier if you make the CT armor before jumping into T1 zone.

I can maybe delete junk loot later, but not now, not priority. At minimum would like to keep armor and items on the loot list even if obsolete, but might consider actual 'junk' stuff like receipts and tradeskill junk, to delete. I know some people farm material to make bags though. All part of the fun and memories.

I got a few numbers in already, the CT bosses damage is some where in between the Tacvi Boss and T1 boss damages. So seems about right. Much smoother transition rather than huge jump of Tacvi to T1.

Looking for players to confirm, what are the Qvic, Tacvi, and CT mobs hitting for, so I can tweak CT properly.

Adding that to the Gem collector is a horrible idea. What PVP are you promoting? Let me tell you how this really goes down... GEM COLLECTED HAS SPAWNED.... Enter Overthere... /who = no players in zone... attack gem collector... /who 2 players in zone. A minute later... Hey.. how are you? Right click UW, LOADING.... You're kidding me with the promoting pvp right?

What is another way I can give out the item an average of 1 per day? I want this to be rare

Updated original post, did some last minute stuff before going off to bed here.

At 8 hour respawn and 33% chance drop we'll see average 1 max per day, or average max 30 toons per month acquire this. Hopefully being a REALLY GOOD ITEM this will encourage PvP more than the plat gem that drops on it. Also being no drop and limit 1 ip in the zone should make it 'interesting' with the class that needs it in the zone to pvp rather than just your #1 main tank warrior in the zone to farm it for the alt.

There is a bug in the zone with ip...

When you zone in, your IP gets added to the list. This list prevents a 2nd toon in the zone with same IP.

Now if you leave the zone, your ip gets removed from the list, allowing you to come back again.

There is a bug either if you /q or if you /camp, forget which, but one of those removes you from the ip list, and the other doesn't. When that happens, player can't log in again until server reboot that clears out the list.

Also changed rainbow colors to just 1 line white color announcement when Gem Collector spawns, so need to watch more closely.

Considering the 8 hour long respawn time, and pvp efforts that go with it, might consider adding a bunch of loots to this mob, like exp potions, etc, sort of like the uber list of stuff on the #Acient_Dragon spawn in PoD.

Off Topic, but I'd like to make similar big rare boss in each of the tier zones just like AD is in PoD.