A. Dirges tend to be in the main-tank group on raids for power regen, stoneskin, agro, and parry songs.  If there are two dirges, the second is best employed in a melee dps group.  
 
A raiding dirge's primary duty is maintaining the buffs and debuffs.  Properly done, this is nearly a full-time job, since the epic-effective debuffs include eight, count ‘em, eight different effects:  encounter-wide slow (Daro's, if you did the right thing at level 44, see below), melee (Clara's), magic (Spell Rebuff), and agi/str (Discante) debuffs; single-target disease (Verlien's/Keen Tactics), melee (Tarven's/Rhyming Curse), side-attack dps (Shriek Whatever), and finally stealth-attack wis (Garsin's/Grim Strike) debuffs.  The buffs include periodic casting of Cacophony of Blades as well as the maintained buffs.  
 
Editorial Note:  You'll have noticed that the naming conventions above are a mess.  That's because the T7 Master spells are generally more effective than the T8 Adept 3s and the T8 Masters are hard to come by.  So I listed ‘em all, more-or-less.  Unless you bought your dirge on E-bay, you've probably figured it out already.  
 
The raiding dirge's second priority is spot-resurrecting over-nuking mages and scouts, the silly things.  Our rez is fast-casting, has decent range, and refreshes rapidly, and the group version can handle heavy-duty near-wipes.  It's better for dirges (and paladins and such) to handle raid in-combat rez duty, that way the clerics can keep the healing going, hopefully limiting the need for more rezzing.  
 
In whatever time and with whatever power is left over from the duties above, raid dirges also contribute as much dps as they can churn out.  Scream of Blood is the most power-efficient of our combat arts by a significant margin, followed in a clump by our higher-damage direct damage abilities.  
 
In order to maintain all this junk, a dirge's first raid priority has to be survival.  There's no point in diving into a lethal AOE to get off Scream of Blood, your direct output doesn't match your indirect contributions in buffs and debuffs.  This takes discipline and self-restraint, and also a certain boredom tolerance as the battle wears on, but if you can master the mandolin, raiding is cake.  
 
I do recommend memorizing all seventeen verses of the Hedgehog Song to sing on the raid channel.  This will make you popular with your guildmates, okay, it'll drive ‘em nuts, especially the manic uber-raiders, but it'll build character for them, and that counts as buffing.  Despite the bloody tedium and the uber-raiding culture of mind-gnawing arrogance, raiding has a weird fascination.  So, all you easily-offended uber-raiders just put a sock in it, OK?  
 
 

L’Aperçu de la mise à jour 48!
 
Quels types de goodies nous avons réservé pour vous?
 
Eh bien...
 
 
Nous avons plein des choses pour nos joueurs de PvP!
 
Avec cette mise à jour vous pouvez maintenant jouer à toutes les classes aux factions. Voulez-vous continuer à être un maître de morts-vivants, mais vous préférez aller vivre à Qeynos?  
 
Maintenant vous pouvez!!
 
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En outre, les guildes seront désormais capables d'attribuer et de tracer les points de membres de la Guilde. Les points peuvent être attribués de différentes manières et de nouvelles permissions de guilde détermineront qui peut recevoir et gérer des points.  
 
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Changements au voyage dans EQII! !  
 
Les cloches pour votre retour ont été ajoutées à Thundering Steppes et Nektulos qui vous ramèneront à Antonica et Commonlands! Également sur la liste des goodies, les tapis à Neriak et Kelethin! Je crois que le mot que vous cherchez, c'est:: Woot!
   
 
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Ni le dernier, ni le moindre...  
 
   
 
L'Armure a également un nouveau look brillant! Pour de plus d'information visitez EQ2 Trader's Corner.

Since our unveiling of Guild Halls at Fan Faire we've heard lots of feedback, over 60 pages worth!  This morning we discussed a lot of this feedback and have decided to make some changes.
 
1. Zone Art
 
One of the issues that concerned you was that the Tier 1 guild hall made use of the existing 5-room house.  Initially this was added to give us another tier that originally wasn't in the plan.  However, we can certainly understand that the effort and cost involved in obtaining your first guild hall is significant, especially for smaller guilds.  Tim "Haohmaru" Heydelaar, our zone art lead, made a huge commitment to guild halls this morning and agreed to building a new 5-room guild hall using the brand new zone geometry and textures that are used in the larger guild halls.  He will also be making changes to the Tier 2 guild halls, adding a new atrium and expanding their size slightly over what we showed you at Fan Faire.  The Tier 1 and 2 guild halls will still be located inside the city.  If you're concerned about travel, see #3 below.
 
2. Pricing
 
For some of the smaller guilds the pricing of entry-level guild halls was a barrier.  We've decided to leave the pricing of the Tier 3 guild halls alone, but have lowered the price of the Tier 1 and 2 guild hall.  Below is the new pricing table.
 
Tier 1
Purchase: 50p (Lowered from 100p)
Upkeep: 50g, 50k status (Lowered from 1p, 100k status)
 
Tier 2
Purchase: 250p (Lowered from 500p)
Upkeep: 2.5p, 100k status (Lowered from 5p, 150k status)
 
Tier 3
Purchase: 1,000p
Upkeep: 10p, 200k status
 
3. Accessibility
 
Many people were concerned that guild halls located in other cities would not be very accessible.  You will have several methods to get to your guild hall very easily, regardless of its location.  First, you'll be able to purchase a house item from the city status merchant that will allow you to port from your personal house straight to your guild hall.  Secondly, we've reduced the cost of the "Call to Guild Hall" amenity greatly.  It will now only cost 1p, 250k status to purchase instead of 10p, 2 million status.  In addition we've lowered the recast timer on Call to Guild Hall so you can use it every 15 minutes instead of once per hour.
 
4. Tradeskill Tables
 
Another concern was having to purchase amenities for each tradeskill table when you already have them available in your personal home.  This made it difficult for small guilds because they'd have to use most of their amenity slots for tradeskill devices.  We've decided to allow you to place your existing tradeskill tables in the guild hall and have removed them from the amenity list.  Now smaller guilds will be able to use those slots for new features like the supply depot and harvester or convenience features like the fuel merchant and writ giver.  Keep in mind that this removes 7 amenities so the original count of 40+ amenities at launch is now around 35.
 
We hope that these changes will have a positive impact and resolve some of the concerns expressed so far.  Smaller guilds should have a much easier time getting into a Tier 1 guild hall and now have an easier upgrade path moving into the Tier 2.  The amount of upkeep required to maintain a guild hall still greatly depends on the choice of amenities you decide to purchase.
 
We're always interested in hearing your feedback so let us know what you think of these changes.

Il faut aussi que tu commences à faire les quetes factions pour le marteau TP au lvl 80