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WELCOME TO THE INFO CENTER!

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Welcome to the Milquetowst Info Center, your one-stop in-game EQ2 reference window! Here's what you'll find under the various tabs....

(1) "Misc": Links to useful Web sites, a basic hunting guide, lists of classes, character traits, racial traditions and languages, a breakdown of faction levels, an overview of religion in Norrath, an explanation of heroic opportunities, a list of available mounts (mostly horses), "Game Update" patch notes, the famous "Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier" message from the official EQ2 forums (now completely updated), and finally, a guide to optimizing the game's graphics settings.

(2) "Spells": A complete list of spells and combat arts for every class, along with a list of the "fun" spells available to members of each class.

(3) "HQs": Complete walk-thrus for all the heritage quests in Norrath.

(4) "Writs": Breakdowns by city and tier of available writs (a.k.a. city tasks), notes about status items, and a list of city faction rewards. (The latter list also appears under the "Houses" tab, since many of the rewards are house items.)

(5) "Collect": Information about the collection quests available throughout Norrath.

(6) "Quests": A list of access quests, an overview of lore and legend quests (a.k.a. creature mastery quests), and walk-thrus for a few of the more interesting access, signature and "lore" quests in Norrath.

(7) "Harvest": Complete lists of the items which can be harvested from various zones, as well as an overview of which artisan classes have a use for the various types of harvested material.

(8) "Cookbook": An overview of how food and drink work in Norrath, and complete lists of all provisioner recipes. And for non-provisioners, there's also a handy list of food and drink items with the maximum possible (five-hour) duration.

(9) "Alchemy": Extensive information about potions and poisons.

(10) "Houses": A list of housing prices, a list of furniture items that can help to significantly reduce the status cost of your home, a list of placeable books, a list of house items you can obtain by completing newbie racial quests, some notes about carnivorous houseplants, notes about consignment containers, and lists of guild status and city faction rewards (many of which are house items).

(11) "Socials": A list of all social commands (a.k.a. emotes) in the game, arranged according to which ones are voiced and/or animated. You can have your character perform an emote simply by clicking it on the list.

(12) "Notes": Whatever you want to have available for your own reference while you play, that isn't already included somewhere else, can be added here!

Obviously, no single person can compile the amount of information included in the Info Center single-handedly. I owe an incredible debt of gratitude to the many people and Web sites from which I've stolen -- er, "borrowed" -- information. :D

As well, of course, many thanks go to all those who are using the Info Center, without whose input it wouldn't be nearly as useful as it has become!

Inevitably, there will be errors and omissions in the data presented here. If you notice anything that needs to be corrected or updated, or think of anything that's not here that really ought to be, then by all means, let me know! You can post suggestions or comments to the "Milquetowst Info Center" forum thread at eq2interface.com, mail them in-game to either Rainbeau, Fayberry, Gnaudwicke or Grapefruit (all on the Permafrost server), or send them via real e-mail to burgdorf@awsd.com. Thanks!

And if you happen to have characters with too much money on the Permafrost server, feel free to send a plat or three to any of my characters! :D

-- Darryl C. Burgdorf (Milquetowst)

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*** R.I.P. Milquetowst Anseriel (March 22, 2005 - October 6, 2006) ***

Born a ratonga, died an ogre. (It's a long story.) Left Norrath to make room for a fae. Dirge, armorer and packrat of renown.

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VERSION HISTORY:

070301 - UPDATE - Updated "Game Update" notes to GU32. Updated various text files with GU32 changes. Updated TIWIKE. Replaced "Credits" page with "Links" page. Added walk-thrus for several signature quests. Updated the "minimize" function so that the window retains its original size when minimized and restored, rather than returning to its default size.

070213 - UPDATE - Belatedly updated "Game Update" notes to GU31. Updated the list of character traits and the relevant TIWIKE page to reflect the changes to how enemy mastery abilities are gained. Completed (well, almost completed) the Kelethin writs lists. Added actual lists of furniture items at each level to the player-crafted status furniture page. Tweaked various and sundry other files. (No XML changes.)

070104 - UPDATE - HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TO THE INFO CENTER! :D Added lists of blessings and miracles to the page listing the gods. Updated EoF collections info. Added walk-thru for "The Staff of the Observers." As usual, tweaked various and sundry other files. (No XML changes.)

061220 - UPDATE - Updated "Game Update" notes to GU30. Updated the mount list. Updated TIWIKE again. Tweaked and updated various other files throughout the Info Center. Added walk-thru for the "War and Wardrobe" heritage quest. (No XML changes to the Info Center itself.) SPECIAL BONUS: Added an eq2ui_mainhud_startmenu.xml file to the download in order to add the Info Center to the EQ2 button menu.

061123 - UPDATE - Added pages with basic information about religion, the gods and secondary trade skills. Blocked out pages for new signature quest walk-thrus. Added walk-thru for the "In Honor and Service" heritage quest. Updated various and sundry other files with EoF data.

061115 - UPDATE - Updated "Game Update" notes to GU29. Updated TIWIKE. Fixed the dozen or so text files which contain ampersands, since raw ampersands no longer display correctly. (No XML changes.)

061111 - UPDATE - Blocked out pages for info on Kelethin writs. Updated bits and pieces of info elsewhere in preparation for the release of EoF.

061105 - UPDATE - Updated spell lists. Moved collection quests to their own tab. Added major EoF zones to the hunting guide and to the harvest info pages. Started adding (or at least blocking out space for) additional EoF data elsewhere throughout the Info Center.

061022 - UPDATE - Added more information to the new and improved TIWIKE. Updated and expanded the information on tome collection quests. Tweaked various and sundry other minor things.

061007 - UPDATE - Updated "Game Update" notes to GU28. Restored the now-updated "Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier," this time as a submenu under the "Misc" tab. Moved the info on heroic opportunities to the "Misc" tab. Added the "Alchemy" tab.

060917 - UPDATE - Finally updated "Game Update" notes to GU27. (I haven't been playing recently, and so never bothered at all to update to GU26 last month. Sorry.) Updated information regarding tradeskill writs to reflect GU27's changes. Added walk-thrus for the "Carpet" quests. Corrected a few errors/omissions that have been pointed out by users over the past two months. Removed "Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier," as it's now so far out of date as to be all but useless, anyway.

060715 - UPDATE - Added walk-thrus for "Blood of the Brood" (a.k.a. Hoo'loh's Hat Quest) and for the "Peacock" and "Claymore" quest series.

060714 - UPDATE - Added notes about the new consignment containers to the "Houses" tab. Changed references from "Live Updates" to "Game Updates." (The official nomenclature has changed. LU24 was followed by GU25.)

060713 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU25. Expanded information on status items. Tweaked a few more files, making various minor corrections and additions. (No XML changes.)

060704 - UPDATE - Added "Character Traits" and "Racial Traditions" lists. Fixed various minor errors and omissions.

060621 - UPDATE - Finished updating the cookbook. Updated T6 harvest info. Replaced "WORTS" page with "Harvestables: Who Uses What?"

060618 - UPDATE - Updated T1-5 cookbook info. (Added T1 foods list.) Further updated harvest lists. Updated status furniture list. Added walk-thru for "Words of Pure Magic" language quest.

060614 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU24. Removed T1-6 info from the cookbook, as it was no longer valid. (Updated info will be added as soon as possible.) Updated lists of harvestable items. Updated access quest info. Made other miscellaneous corrections as pointed out by various users over the past month. (No XML changes.)

060503 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU23. Added walk-thrus for the Cauldron Hollow access quests.

060426 - UPDATE - Updated the L&amp;L book locations list. Added walk-thrus for "A Calling in the Forest" and "Operation Green Hood" (the Nektropos Castle and Deathfist Citadel access quests, respectively), and for the "Everling Lockets" quest. Updated the carnivorous house plant notes. Replaced social command text buttons with real buttons. Updated various XML files at Zonx's request to make reskinning the Info Center easier.

060413 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU22. Added more KoS collection quest info, including KoS collectable tome page locations. Completed T7 Qeynos writ list. Revised "raid performance" display profile to allow things to be seen from a somewhat greater distance without seriously impacting performance. (No XML changes.)

060325 - UPDATE - Moved hunting guide from "Quests" to "Misc." Finished T7 cookbook.

060323 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU21. (No XML changes.)

060322 - UPDATE - Moved house and furniture info to new "Houses" tab, and added list of newbie racial quest furniture items. Updated T7 recipes to level 67. Added live events to the live update history page.

060317 - UPDATE - Added T7 spells and some KoS collection quest info. Tweaked a few other pages. (No XML changes.)

060316 - UPDATE - Added new (KoS) heritage quests. Further updated T7 recipes. Also updated the access quest list, and updated and simplified the hunting guide.

060311 - UPDATE - Updated T7 writs, recipes and crafted furniture info. (No XML files were harmed in the creation of this update.)

060224 - UPDATE - Added the "carnivorous plants," "tome collections" and "credits" pages. Added actual list of T7 harvestables. Also, as usual, tweaked other pages in random minor ways.

060221 - UPDATE - Updated "Live Update" notes to LU20. Updated Freeport T3 writ info to reflect the fact that the old T2 Fallen Gate writs are now available in T3. (Yes, I should have seen that coming.) Also made a few other miscellaneous minor updates. (No XML files were altered in this release.)

060216 - UPDATE - Updated Freeport T2 writ info to reflect the fact that level 15-19 writs now send you to the Commonlands rather than to the recently-revamped Fallen Gate. Moved non-writ quest info to a new "Quests" tab, and added data files with information about collection quests. Added list of city faction rewards. Added number of vault slots to housing price list. Added "minimize" button. 

060206 - UPDATE - Updated the spell lists, thanks in large part to Valdacil, and tweaked a few other data files. (No XML files were altered in this release.)

060203 - UPDATE - Added "Live Update" patch notes, restructured (but didn't actually update) the spell lists to reflect the new "direct to subclass" character progression, and began updating the harvesting and cookbook info to reflect the new "no subcombines" tradeskill system.

060122 - UPDATE - Changed the file name from "eq2ui_mainhud_infocenter.xml" to "eq2ui_journals_infocenter.xml," which allows it to be called from the "eq2ui_journals.xml" file rather than from the "eq2ui_mainhud.xml" file. The download also now includes a modified "eq2ui_journals.xml" file, so that users need not edit any XML files.

060119 - UPDATE - Added the "Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier" message and the list of languages. "Blocked out" space for tier 7 info as it becomes available. Corrected a few more minor errors.

060111 - UPDATE - Added several files: the list of status furniture, the list of placeable books, the list of "fun" spells, and the guide to display settings. Also corrected a few minor typos and errors elsewhere.

060104 - ORIGINAL RELEASE

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