So what did they do today? Here are the patch notes:

Hotfix October / 28 / 2009
ACHIEVEMENTS
New Achievements have been added! Test your skill with three new types of Achievements that have been added to Rise of Kunark and The Shadow Odyssey zones: Flawless Victory, Sense of Urgency and Shorthanded Victory.

ITEMS
Equipment with pet buffs should no longer experience stacking issues which cause the cancellation of multiple pet buffs when removing a single piece of armor.
Jewelry items purchased from Lavastorm and the Moors of Ykesha are now heirloom attuneable.
The “Blanket of Fog” should now be placed as a red puzzle cube then after placed should retain its fog effects.
The “Blanket of Fog” should now change into a red puzzle box when turned off by the defogifier.
The Necklace of the Plague has been increased to 12% base damage.
Hallow’s Gallows now grants ranged crit.
Frostburn and Mutagenic Burst now give larger gains when stacked.
The appearance of the Ceremonial Robe of the Brethren has been corrected.

MIRAGUL’S PLANAR SHARD
Miragul Encounter (Hard mode) : Miragul’s Arcane impairment now only affects spells. Miragul’s Physical Impairment now only affects auto attack and combat arts.

USER INTERFACE
The placeholder detriment icons were removed from the raid window.
The raid window’s font-size was decreased and the overall window is a little more compact.

Until next blog post,
Corisu – Kanweienea Kreations

I do prefer shorter downtimes more often than really long ones that still require many shorter fixes after that one. However, I go to log in my brigand. I figure well he’s 80 carpenter and it would make it a lot easier to get some of these cool carpenter recipes if he was more of level for those factions (i.e. 70 plus). He’s 55, and I really seeing now how difficult it is to find a group sometimes. With the shadowknight it really isn’t an issue most times but I see it there too. Okay so I log in and server downtime announced. I wasn’t expecting there do be a hot fix today again, but so there is and here is the scoop from the network status page:

US Scheduled Maintenance – 10/28/2009 6:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

This is a notification that all live EQ2 Servers will be coming down at 6:00 AM PDT on 10/28/2009 for maintenance. The estimated downtime is expected to be 1 hour.
- SOE Operations team

Downtime scheduled – Downtime scheduled 10/29/2009 5:00 AM London Time / 10/28/2009 9:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time

This is a notification that UK worlds will be updated at 4:00 AM London Time on the 10/29/2009. The estimated downtime will be 2 hours.
- SOE Operations team

Until next blog post,
Corisu – Kanweienea Kreations

I missed it again, hisss…. I go to log in to twobox some writs. Trying log in servers 1,2,57… (you get the idea). Hm, I think to myself, are the servers down again? Yep.

Beginning at 3:00 AM PDT on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, all SOE game servers will be offline for hardware maintenance. This includes all of our MMOs as well as TCGs. The estimated downtime is 4 hours and we expect to have all systems back online at 7:00 AM PDT. We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

Now, I can understand they need to do maintenance, just that bleh! did it have to be right now? lol.

Until next blog post,
Corisu – Kanweienea Kreations