Producer's Letter: Spring 2021 Edition

Please increase the celestial drop rates in PQ and weeklies. I believe the odds of getting a celestial in PQ is about 1 in 350 crates and weekly is at least 1 in 100 weekly missions. It could take a year to get them. PQ used to be bustling with multiple zones open at once. Now they are not so popular anymore.

1. Is Taranax launching with DoF and KoS already open, or is it launching with Vanilla?

2. And will Frostfang and Neriak be in at launch, with Kelethin not open til EoF?

3 Will all races be in at launch?

4. I'm assuming no Channeler or Beastlord will be available on the PvP TL due to balance issues...but that would be cool and extra fun if Darkpaw wants to prove me wrong!

no new familiars?

Anything on Rivervale closure/merge? Thank you!

underwhelming, any word on the changes to mechanics and such expressed by the players in multiple threads on the forums ?

That is still a ways off, we'll talk about it more once we're closer.

This is more of a note than a lettter. I’m also underwhelmed. Whilst lag is slightly bettter, client crashes are worse than ever. I cross my fingers every time I call to my Guild Hall.

No acknowledgement of the many complaints regarding no reason to run heroics or the general loot box dullness of using raid coins to hope the gods of RNG give something nice from the piñata. PQs remain a skill less, joyless time sink.

Dreamweaver remains a lone voice in answering players (and deserves a raise) - though it seems he’s the mouthpiece for other employees whose main message to players who raise constructive points to try and improve he game and encourage people to recruit players is “we’ve read the comments but won’t respond - probably”.

It’s great to hear new players are joining. Out of interest how long are they staying? Unless they want to solo they can’t really be viable in end game without a supreme effort.

Whilst I’m moaning, why were Mercs ruined this expansion. As a paid for feature it’s beyond annoying that I can’t solo zones as Chaotic Leech means my merc can’t heal me. They are simply Pay To Win buffbots now.

How about some info on the actual content?

You've given more info about Overseers than you have about the whole GU....

Solo zones? Heroic zones? Raid zones? How many?

Could have saved yourself time and summed up your letter in;

• GU Next Tuesday
• Overseers Update
• PVP Server Beta April 6th
• Still working on Lag
• Kaladim not switching off yet.

I think JChan's style of leadership and communication is not to overpromise. She would rather pleasantly surprise people with content (action).

People laughed when I basically said "actions speak louder than words" for RoS marketing and beta. But there was fairly good reviews/feedback when the expansion eventually dropped. (The backlash mainly started after PQ drop rates were nerfed).

The update drops on March 30 so I say hold back the criticism until then.

Edit: I do think a video edit of new zones, etc. would be helpful once the content is finalized and/or released. I think new, returning, and inactive players are keen on seeing new content or zones in order to be engaged. If it remains in the view of active players only, the aforementioned groups won't have their appetite whet.

Fallen Gate had DoV unlocked on or about 02/26/19 (prior to this date we were all in Sentinel's Fate). There was no official announcement but the the server had to be taken down the same day the expac unlocked:

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/fallen-gate-downtime-february-26-2019.588656/

Less than a month later on 03/16/19, Kaladim was announced and Fallen Gate became a ghost town. Here's to hoping this launch of DoV goes better this time around.

This really confuses me. I manage to solo zones with my merc ( or molo them, as it is called). My merc seems to heal, cure and rez me just fine. What merc are you using, and is it fully leveled and geared?

1 solo zone, 1 heroic (2 levels), and 2 raid zones. but the updated to several classes - if my memory serves. I think all of these is in the beta forums for the GU.

I want to be positive but there is not much positive to say.

Stop selling overseers and overseer logins as player activity and actual content. It really is not.

Go play on any server for 14 days and notice how dead most servers are. Please do it and then tell us again how the game is growing.

True story - my wife wanted to play the game, started her at 1 and helped her to 65 or so - and then she lost interest. She saw what I am doing for my toon and said - that looks like too much work . She might pick up the game again or not. Will see what she decides.

This was in the past year btw.

It would be really nice if the client crash and client stability problems that have existed for years could finally be fixed.

For example, by offering a 64bit eq2 game client in order to be able to address more RAM than just 3Gb to the EQ2 client.

In my opinion, these client crashes and client instabilities are even more exasperating and annoying than the lags that occur every now and then.

A lot of positive things have happened in the lag issure problematic. In terms of client stability and client crashes, unfortunately, nothing at all since november 2011.

Sorry it's hard to write - because i really love eq2 - lag in raid ist still sometimes just anoying
Depending on lag we still loose 50% of our fun .. not always and i have no idea if you can solve this

so starting overseers whith 3 accounts i have still a chance getting any unsefull item ot of them ?
still had no luck of getting some items like merc

One thing I rarely read about in forums is crafting. I know many people who love crafting and others who have left because crafting never gets any love / innovation. I know I'm not alone in realizing that tradeskill classes have been pretty much irrelevant for quite a few xpacs now. I'm sure if Darkpaw invested some time into innovating and making tradeskilling professions relevant again would be a highly welcomed addition and even draw some who have left back to the game...

I agree that Overseers are not really content. I also never get anything useful. The other thing is that there are no item drops for anyone under level 120 (at least I can see). I mostly get useless trade skill mats or way too many potions that I can't use. I also would love to see Trade Skill content. Maybe those days are past.