The Harvest Festival ends on the 18th of November! If you haven’t won a horse race yet, you may wish to head over as it is nice and quiet now. It has been confirmed that the horse trader will remain available after the festival, so if you are under level 35, don’t worry! Just remember to set aside six festival tokens, that way when you do the horse quest and get your horse, you will be able to trade it in for a Harvest Festival horse.

I’ll be spending a few extra tokens, [More...]

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Pirates of the Burning Sea have launched their second stress test weekend today. They are still taking sign ups on Fileplanet but the stress test ends on the 18th so you’ll have to be quick.

Apparently, the first weekend stress test was an exercise in frustration as the servers fell over within hours of starting the test, although the event was described as an unqualified success as the point was to keep pushing the servers until they broke. Hopefully they won’t break quite so quickly this time!

I suppose I’ll have to tear myself away from Kunark and have a peek.

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First of all, don’t panic. It’s not as dramatic as it looks. If you use a custom UI, check to see if it’s been updated for Game Update 40. If not, then you will need to get rid of it as the underlying system has changed.

EQTraders has a detailed write-up of the changes but the key issues are:

Forget the knowledge book. You now get a single set of reactions for your level which update automatically.

Your hotkeys will not work. You can [More...]

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Our Lore and Legend Guide has been updated with the locations for Drolvarg and Drachnid Lore and Legend books. These are new with the Rise of Kunark expansion.

The Drolvarg book is in Karnor’s castle, a heroic dungeon north of Dreg’s Landing in Kylong Plains which can be entered at 454,60,-390. Once inside, you need to get upstairs to the upper level and head towards the back to get Man or Beast: the Drolvarg in the Commander’s Room -175,-41,58. The mobs are 73 ^^^ and see through invisibility: going with a group is advised.

The Drachnid book is in the caves east of Dreg’s Landing in Kylong Plains. Head up and around the Drachnid hill to the entrance to the Den of the Widow Mistress at 377,73,93. Follow the caves to the west. You’ll find Mayong’s Cruelty: The Drachnids on a cocooned corpse at 412,65,192. Don’t forget that harvesting the book will make you lose sneak/invisibility.

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The first thing to do upon your arrival in Kylong Plains is to sort out your access to the Sokokar posts. Until you do this quest line, you can not “add” posts for fast travel. There is a separate quest line for tradeskillers to use the travel options but for the moment, here is the quest line for adventurers.

Start the quest line by speaking to Borbin Happens, Dreg’s Landing Lieutenant. He’s standing at /waypoint 835,13,255, at the beginning of the dock for the boat to Antonica. [More...]

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Hurray! Finally the Rise of Kunark expansion is imminent!

I didn’t finish my list of things to-do but I got a lot done and I’ve cleaned out my inventories and my quest journals and have my characters in position to rush over to the new lands.

Antonica

The Maiden’s Grace travels between the Antonica dock and Kylong Plains every five minutes.

Commonlands

The Overlord’s Edge travels between the Commonlands main dock and Kylong Plains every five minutes.

Butcherblock

There is a griffon tower on a ledge south of the docks, /waypoint 224,85,74. To get there, take the ramp up from the beach at /waypoint 275,25,229. The griffon takes you to Gorowyn, the starting city for the Sarnaks. The Sarnaks are apprehensive to good aligned characters, so it is safe for goodies to enter Timorous Deep this way.

Timorous Deep is a low level starting zone and does not connect directly to Kylong Plains, which is 70+.

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My plan was simple: do the Lore and Legend books that still count for experience at level 70 and study the last body part after the expansion launch. I’m only interested in Lore and Legend quests where the cap is level 60 or higher because the point of this is to get experience quick as soon as the cap is lifted, rather than the Master Strike reward. This means keeping an eye on things to make sure I don’t accidentally study the last piece and complete while I am level capped!

The Completing Lore and Legend Quests guide on this site has all the current Lore and Legend mobs with the location of the book to start the quest and the level cap for the quest. I found eleven Lore and Legend quests with a cap of 60 or above which would give experience at level 70:

• Aviak
• Brownie
• Bugbear
• Cyclops
• Djinn
• Drakota
• Droag
• Harpy
• Naga
• Ravasect
• Werewolf

Aviak, Drakota, Droag and Ravasect are all even cons quests (that is, they don’t cap until level 70 at least) so it made sense to head over to Kingdom of Sky and do those first. In addition, all but Drakota are popular mobs so I hoped I could buy droppable bits cheap on the broker. First I picked up all the books:

Then I looked at the various locations [More...]

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The Rise of Kunark expansion goes live on the 13th and everyone is waiting. For those of us at the level cap, keeping ourselves busy until it is finally available is not that easy! But there’s a lot to be done to get organised for a new expansion.

This weekend I have a list of things to do to make sure I’m ready.

Collections

I’ve been meaning to finish some of these off for ages; especially [More...]

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This site is truly under construction! We’re just sorting out the scaffolding and finishing off the painting.

OK, really, we’re obsessively playing the Kunark beta instead of finishing this off. But pop by again on the 13th once we’ve had a chance to tidy up and we promise there will be something to see.

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This is great! I laughed aloud: [angry-sounding thread title]

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