Throughout the week, Merloc receives questions from various places and answers as many as he can. He wanted to start sharing some of his answers with everyone else so that he wouldn't have to repeat himself.

Here's the Fifth Edition of Q & A from Merloc's Tower.

Q: Can you remove the Solteris augments from the loot tables? They don't seem to be very good.

A: No, they are dropping at the intended rate. They are not meant to be a significant increase over The Serpent's Spine (TSS) raid augments, they are meant to be an upgrade to the weakest augments in your equipment, not the strongest.

Q: Since there is no focus effect on the Solteris Breastplates (BPs) could you add the focus effects from the TSS BPs to them so we don't lose them when we upgrade?

A: Yes, I'll add the TSS BP focus effects to the Solteris BPs.

Q: Every class, except Paladins, who has cleave on their class armor has it on their arms, every class who has ferocity (all melee/hybrids) on their armor has it on their legs. Can you swap these for Paladins to be in line with the other classes?

A: I won't swap these unless there is a strong justification for it. For items like this that are already in game and in use by several players, it's usually more harmful to change it, than leave it as is.

Q: Is the Shadow Knight lance from Solteris dropping?

A: I've checked the loot tables and done some testing, it should be possible for it to drop.

Q: Can you increase stun duration from the effect on TSS and TBS Paladin BPs?

A: I've increased the stun duration to 2.2 seconds.

Keith "Merloc" Turkowski
EQ Designer - Items