All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, March 31, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The Splitpaw server will have its hotfix at 5am London Time on Friday, April 1st, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours.

The full patch notes are available after the hop.

• The Imperator Koskeggr fight has been adjusted, the strikemages now spawn much closer to the center of the room.

LIVE EVENTS

City Festival

• A new Aether Race has been added to Antonica, for the Qeynos City Festival!

QUESTS

Public Quests

• Storm Gorge has been extensively restructured to improve performance and playability.

Great Divide

• The ROI’s for the quest, “Complex Rime” should be more accurate now.

Heritage

• Cara Omica’s spirit for the quest Beauty’s Only Skin Deep should reliably spawn upon Cara’s death.

ITEMS

• Dungeon dropped loot has had its power increased.
• Dungeon shard armor has had its power increased.
• Raid items have had their power increased.
• The gap in power between easy and challenge mode raid items has been increased.
• Multi attack on fighter and scout charms has been increased.
• The power of a few War Runes has been increased.
• Added item set to easy mode fighter earrings.
• An unpack-confirmation dialog window has been added to Armor Patterns and War Runes.
• Monk Runes that gave Focus: Inner Calm VII now give Focus: Inner Focus.
• Added neck drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
• Added wrist drops to easy and challenge mode raids.
• Fixed a problem with DoV bows that would not allow them to be adorned.

Source: EQII Forums