As we found out earlier, Bruce "Froech" Ferguson is no longer the producer for EverQuest II. Before he left though, he penned one last Producer's Letter to the community to discuss some changes to item procs that will be coming with Game Update 52. It seems that items from The Shadow Odyssey that proc damage were getting a little out of hand, and a few nerfs will be applied to keep things under control.
There are two main changes that will be made: firstly, critical damage will be removed from an item's base proc; secondly, the values of procs will not be subject to most modifications any more, meaning that generic bonuses will not make the procs bigger. Ferguson says that if these things are fixed, then items can be introduced later with intentionally large procs without fear of them growing too big through the aforementioned mechanics. In relation to these changes, some Predator spells will also be adjusted.
Aside from item proc issues, the letter still does not tell us where Froech will be headed next, apart from confirming that he will remain in the SOE family.
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Posted: May 21st 2009 6:18PM (Unverified) said
The new producer is Brenlo. Here is the update/link:
http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=3096§ion=News&locale=en_US
Also, there are a lot of raiders who are very unhappy about this update. Its seemingly going to be nerfing dps by 20-40% across the board in some cases. This will be a huge impact on high end raiding if implemented. Here is the discussion about it:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=451255
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http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=3096§ion=News&locale=en_US
Also, there are a lot of raiders who are very unhappy about this update. Its seemingly going to be nerfing dps by 20-40% across the board in some cases. This will be a huge impact on high end raiding if implemented. Here is the discussion about it:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=451255
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