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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": A basic hunting guide, lists of classes, character traits, racial traditions and languages, a breakdown of faction levels, a list of available mounts (mostly horses), "Game Update" patch notes, 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) "HOs": An explanation of how heroic opportunities work, and a breakdown of the HOs available both for soloers and for groups of various sizes and shapes.

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

(5) "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.)

(6) "Quests": A list of access quests, an overview of lore and legend quests (a.k.a. creature mastery quests), notes about collection quests, and walk-thrus for a few of the more interesting access 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) "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, and lists of guild status and city faction rewards (many of which are house items).

(10) "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.

(11) "TIWIKE": The famous "Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier" message from the official EQ2 forums. Though now somewhat out of date, it still contains a wealth of valuable tips on virtually every aspect of the game.

(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. Check the "Credits" page if you'd like to see a list of all the people and Web sites from which I stole -- 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 Milquetowst, Rainbeau, 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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VERSION HISTORY:

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&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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