The patch today included several things, including the following of tradeskill note:

• The Master Artisan Satchel should no longer display haste effect information when a haste item is placed inside it.
• Made more tradeskill-created spells tradable on Firiona Vie.
• Swapped the Earthen Embrace and Serpent Vines spells back to their proper items.

December 09, 2008 - Frostfell and Patch Notes

Wheee! It is that time of year again and Frostfell activities have begun throughout Norrath! Visit your favorite major city in Norrath and/or Plane of Knowledge to see how you can help make the holidays merry and memorable! (Frostfell will run from Dec. 9 through January 8.)

In addition to lots of other things going on in the patch today, the following tradeskill notes were included:

- "Fine" Inured one handed, non-piercing weapons, and Exalted Nimble symbols had a change in their damage to fix an upgrade path issue. The damage will be very close to what it currently is, just distributed differently.
- Added Paladins and Shadow Knights to the "Fine" maces made via tradeskills.
- All "fine" elegant and stalwart weapons, along with their corresponding sublime and venerable symbols, received an upgrade in overall damage.
- All spells and tomes that are tradable on regular servers should now be tradable on the Firiona Vie server.
- Altered the recipes for Wishka's Favor Rk. II and Tome of Aura of Draconic Runes Rk. II.
- Baublie Diggs, outside of West Freeport, now will give a quest to any researcher, no matter their class.
- Changed Faceted Blue Diamond to Mounted Blue Diamond in the recipe for Fizzlesprocket's Forceful Discharging Apparatus.
- Chronal Resonance Dust has become more common.
- Created a new instruction book for research that can be found on some research vendors.
- Immaculate Silk is now tradable on Firiona Vie.
- Made appropriate changes to the following research recipes: Spell: Aura of the Grove, Tome of Crippling Strike, Spell: Summon Aenda's Trinkets, Spell: Summon Plate of the Elements, Spell: Summon Elemental Armaments, Spell: Nectar of Pain, Spell: Spear of Ro, Spell: Rathe's Strength, Spell: Grave Pact, Spell: Death Rune, Spell: Dark Rune, Spell: Spirit of the Stoic One Rk. II, Spell: Ancestral Bargain Rk. II, Spell: Blacktalon Bite Rk. II, Spell: Terror of Vergalid Rk. II, Spell: Venin Rk. II, Spell: Elemental Symbiosis Rk. II, Spell: Shield of the Crystalwing Rk. II, Tome of Tendon Cleave Rk. II, Spell: Silent Piety, and Pack Shrew (added prayer writing kit to shaman version)
- Modified the recipe for "Spell: Tortugone's Drowse Rk. II" to make it more properly fit the spell research system.
- Some "fine" simple weapons received an upgrade in damage.
- The Drink of Timeless Energy is now made with simmering fairy drake dust, and can also be made with any of the elemental spirit dusts (earth, air, fire, water).
- The level 69 Dragons of Norrath spells and tomes created through research are now tradable on all servers.
- The Researcher Charm can now be used by all classes.
- The slot 12 seals from Crystallos have been made to fit in the seven visible armor slots, and are no longer agnostic only.

You can find a complete copy of the patch notes in this post.

November 03, 2008 - EQTC and Political Ads

With the U.S. elections less than a day away, at least one political group has purchased multiple Google ad banners that are displaying to at least the California residents browsing our sites. Mum would like to remind folks that politics and tradeskills don't mix, and that the positions espoused in such ads may have nothing to do with EQTC's political views. As able, we are blocking any and all political ads as we find them, but such blocks take time to be filtered by Google. We apologize to any who have been offended by such ads - much like the plat selling site spam, political spam is something we have to put up with long enough to see it, grab links and try to block it. ~Mum

October 27, 2008 - EQTC is recruiting!

Applications are now closed! Thanks to everyone who applied!

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We're looking for more database volunteers! See my message board post for details.

October 21, 2008 - Seeds of Destruction

EQ's newest expansion, Seeds of Destruction, launches today. Full patch notes will be linked in sometime later in the day. Meanwhile, here is a bit of silliness from Mum for a bit of lighthearted patch day reading: Building a Better Sausage

Update: Patch notes can now be found here

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