#EQ2 EXPLORING THE SCOURGE WASTES SOLO PATCH#
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Unlike WoW's Horseman, the EQ2 version is a contested, non-instanced boss on a 2-hour timer first group to hit him by spamming AOE on his spawn point gets the loot. Like WoW's version, he drops halfway decent loot, and therefore has been highly in demand. There's also the obligatory Headless Horseman boss. In this case, the grizzled evil Overlord Lucan D'Lere, who looks kind of funny when you put his head atop a female fae. Unlike the infamous masks that spoiled the WoW expansion, EQ2's Halloween masks physically replace your head with the subject. I wish WoW would allow similar flexibility, but they have instead chosen to tie many of the more onerous meta achievement goals to cosmetic outfit pieces which would be a bit too shareable if they were heirlooms. You can get something like 3-4 random pieces of the black cosmetic plate armor set on each run-through, and they're all helpfully flagged with the heirloom tag so that you can run the dungeon on the character of your choice. The other nice touch is that the new haunted hedge maze includes mini-bosses who drop heirloom cosmetic armor.
#EQ2 EXPLORING THE SCOURGE WASTES SOLO FULL#
They haven't quite given players the full set of world-building tools, but they've allowed for some pretty impressive decorating. Most of the NOTD rewards appear to be cosmetic - things you need to make a haunted house in your player housing, perhaps, or costume pieces. I'm looking to run each of my characters through once for fun and profit.
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Some of these may have required a group in years past, but now they scale to the player's level and are tuned for a single player. In particular, NOTD features three solo instance - haunted houses and a new hedge maze - that feature some serious puzzle-solving. NOTD has been around for a few years now, but I've never seen it before, so it adds up to a lot of new content for me.
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EQ2's Night of the Dead event is up and running.