World of Warcraft news. New resurrection scroll and Padaren female reveal date.

The moment I've been waiting for in Mists of Pandaria news is almost here. The reveal of the Pandaren female model is coming on March 19th. WoW posted a little teaser on their facebook page.

Also there is a new Scroll of Resurrection available. This one gives a flying mount to the person issuing the scroll if the friend you send it to resubscribes. Just for sending the scroll to a friend they will get 7 free days of play time, a free character transfer to the recruiters server, and an upgrade to cataclysm for free. For a limited time they also get the ability to jump a character straight to level 80. Here's all the details.

Rift offers FREE reactivation until March 14th

I haven't played Rift in some time but today I saw a Twitter post from them announcing that if you own the game you can play it for free from March 8th-14th. There seems to be some sort of in game carnival going on as well so it might be fun to pop in and see what's changed. I do have a lot going on in other games though so I might not make it back for this reactivation event. But if you are interested HERE's the link for more information.

EQ2 players pull together to cheer a terminally ill child.

A few days ago an Everquest 2 player posted on the Decorators forum on the EQ2 website, the Norrathian Homeshow, asking for some help. Here is her post...

This is a depressing post but I need some help.  My 6 yr old son has cancer and was recently given 6 - 12 weeks to live.

He has a frog that he likes to run around Tenebrous Tangle Island on; however, it is sparse and he has requested to add trees, fences, stairs, animals and all kinds of  other  items to make his  island fun and exciting.

Are there any decorators out there that would be willing to assist in adding these items (and any others their imagination poses) to help me make the island even more fun for him.  I don't know how much I'll be able to accomplish on my own while still providing him quality time to enjoy it.

The boy's in game name is Ribbitribbitt.

This post was not only read by people on her home server of Guk but also by players of other servers who wanted to help. Many of the Guk players donated items and their time. Players from other servers copied layout files of fun items they had built in their homes and made temporary characters on the Guk server to load those layouts onto the island home that belongs to the young boy. Within two days a whole playground has been erected complete with a tree house, carousel, games, forts, aquarium, rollercoaster and more.

Not only did tons of crafters and decorators help but Adventurers came to help as well. A guild was created for the boy and since yesterday Players of all types have been raiding, grinding writs and whatever else they can do to gain status to help level up the guild in hopes that on Saturday they'll have a Tier 3 guild hall to give to him.

On Saturday the guild hall as well as the island will be presented to him by his parents. They have promised to take pictures and video of his reaction to his incredible play island. At 4pm EST/1pm PST an event will be held on Ribbitribbitt's Tenebrous Island home. There will be donations and duel bets taken to help buy even more stuff for the island and guild hall.

I was happy to put in a few hours today building a rollercoaster on the island and I hope to make the event on Saturday. Please come out and show your support for Ribbitribbitt and his family. HERE is more info on Saturdays event.  If you'd like to read and/or get involved in the decorating aspect of the event please read  THIS thread to find out what's been going on and what items are still needed.

EQ2 Brewday starts today and Newest Marketplace Items include a new fish!

The Neriak City Festival ended yesterday in EQ2 and you'll have to wait 6 months for it to come back. Next month is Qeynos. If you weren't able to get your hands on enough of the blue marble building blocks during the festival and don't want to dish out the plat to buy them off the broker from people who put them up for sale, they have been added to the Station Cash Marketplace. Price is 50SC per item or you can purchase a set of 10 tiles or the set pictured below for 250SC.

Here's the other 2 items added yesterday to the Marketplace. One is a new fish. If you're a decorator like me fish are treasured items. Most of the ones in game are no-trade or can only be obtained one per character so building multiple fish tanks can become difficult unless you have a lot of alts to run the quests for more fish.

Luxurious Fur Cloak- 800SC

Piranah Plushie- 200SC

Also Brewday starts today. It's the celebration of the diety Brell. It's kind of like a St. Patrick's Day or Oktoberfest type event and of course is a favorite of dwarves. If there's ale, they will come. Here's the write ups on the event from 2 of our favorite sites, ZAM and EQ2traders. Although it's called Brew-DAY it does run from the 8th to the 19th of March. Hic!

Aion 3.0 Crafting changes.

According to Massively there's some nice changes coming to crafting in Aion in 3.0 which is said to come out this spring along with the Free to Play conversion. Among the changes are the ability to spend a little kinah and end your current crafting mastery so you can pick up a different one. Also furniture recipes will be added to the game for the new player housing being added in the game update. Here's the whole story.

March Game Changes in EQ2

There's a few changes being added to EQ2. The much talked about removal of critical mitigation will be implemented. This will not effect PvP crit mit. Here's a forum conversation all about that.

Another change is to mob pathing code. Pathing is the path mobs and pets take when they walk.

There will be an addition to the Destiny of Velious signature quest line as well.

A MAJOR change for those who are dungeon grinders is that DoV dungeon timers will be reduced significantly from 18 hours to only 90 minutes.

Several of these changes are still on the Test server but hopefully they all make it in this month. A recent letter from the game's new producer said they're also working on that pesky bug that has been turning quest feathers and other items into white wisps.

There's also several in game events and holidays coming in March but I'll talk about them when they get closer.

Neriak City Festival this week in EQ2

The Neriak City Festival started at midnight and will continue until the 7th. There are some new items at the city fest this time around. Just like last month's Kelethin festival different shaped blocks and dividers have been added to match the Neriak blue marble theme. Along with the blocks there is also a new Neriak roof tile. The festival items are purchased with city tokens which can be earned in many ways. One way is available at any time by doing crafting or adventuring writs. A faster way is to wait until the festival comes around and pick up one of the repeatable quests at the festival. I find doing the crafting quest is the fastest way as I can place a portable stove and keg right at the quest giver. A final way to earn tokens is by doing the aether race. Doing these races in a certain amount of time will also give you a title. Each city has a different one. Here are some helpful links about City Festivals. Have fun.

• General City Festival Info
• Aether Race Info
• City Fest Items
• Neriak Specific Items (newest items not shown)