Erollisi Day 2010

Still juggling your Frostfell, Kelethin City Festival and Moonlight Enchantments items? Think you have enough house space for all the new house items, at least until the expansion launches in a few short weeks? Think again, as the season of overlapping events is not yet over! {manic grin} Along with another City Festival due at the beginning of February (1st through 7th, we suspect), February 4th marks the start of yet another holiday containing lovely crafted, quested and vendored goodies!
Ah, Erollisi Day - letters from secret admirers, fresh-cut roses to harvest and hand out in abundance, grown men and women making fools of themselves, love notes and candies to snag from unsuspecting mobs, pickup lines to practice, and more -- all in the name of the departed goddess of love, Erollisi Marr. Various quests from past years will return, along with some new ones. Expect to see a new reward from the "Find 'em a Find ..." quest, as well as instructions for continuing on to some new (combat-required) quests that will grant you a couple lovely new house items.

Erollisi Day events will be activated on February 4 and turned off on the morning of February 16th (which is the pre-order launch date for the expansion), but the E-Day events can still be subject to change. As with last year's events, you can continue to craft these recipes after the event has ended, if you have managed to stockpile the love letters and hard candies (which will stop dropping when the events are turned off).

How It Works

Two vendors are found in Qeynos Harbor and East Freeport, named Steven and Douglas. They sell a lot of lovely romantic items at special prices (see below). In addition, Steven sells the level 2 artisan recipe books from past years events: "Romantic Gifts to Craft", which contains 14 recipes for any artisan to craft and 2 tinkered recipes, "Romantic Gifts to Craft II", featuring another 15 items (including one tinkered one),and, last but not least, the brand-new "Romantic Gifts to Craft III" which contains 18 amazing new items to craft. Trust me when I say the art department did a phenomenal job with these, especially considering all the other events on their overloaded plates right now! Like the Nights of the Dead crafting at Halloween time, this crafting will require special dropped primary items as well as common (tier 1 & tier 2) resources.
Yep, once again, you get to run up to intelligent creatures that are cooing happily over love notes and candies ... and kill them so you can have them all for yourself!

Love Notes and Hard Candies

Candy hearts with cute messages on them, Valentine love notes written
on small pieces of paper -- It seems that the intelligent/humanoid
types in EQ2 have some similar ways of celebrating this holiday of
love. Humanoid mobs (the same ones that drop status loot and lore &
legend bits) have a chance drop a love note or hard candy as a body
drop (this means the mob can be grey and still drop it). This year,
however, there's a twist or two!
These little testaments of love have two uses, and this means you
may be at war with yourself over whether you're going on a buying or a
crafting spree. First, you can hand them in to Liannya Heartswell (the
Romantic), for special coins that are used to buy many lovely romantic
items sold by Steven and Douglas. The second use is, yep, you guessed
it, as the primary ingredient for these special recipes.
Since I know most folks want to see the newest items first, I won't torment you any longer. Without further ado ...
Romantic Gifts to Craft III

Basic Info

This new recipe book is found on Erollisi Day vendor Steven for 1g 1s
50c, requires level 2 artisan to scribe, and is no-trade. Recipes are
difficulty level 10, which should be doable by even a beginning
artisan. Completing the pristine bar of the combine on these items will
yield either 2 or 3 items, depending on the recipe. House items include
15 rent status reduction.
(Size comparisons of the items will follow later, as I still have to find time to drop in the recipes to link them to)

Alchemist's Amore	Blushing Star Pillow	Cerulean Calm Bottle
Erollisi Chip Cookies	Honey Botanics Rug	Long Honey Botanics Runner
Lovely Pink and White Candles	Passionate Red and White Candles	Periwinkle Splash Pillow
Rack of Love Potions	Romantic Purple and White Candles	Romantic Music Box
Rose Mystique Rug	Ruby Djinn Bottle	Square Citrine Bottle
Sunshine Harmony Pillow

In addition, there are two crafted masks that can be made: Face of
Love (red bandit mask across eyes) and Mask of Passion (purple bandit
mask across eyes). (The Face of Love is now pictured in the banner at
the top of this page, and the Mask of Passion looks the same, only
purple.)

Romantic Gifts to Craft

Basic Info

The original recipe book, which is returning again this year, is called
"Romantic Gifts to Craft" and it costs 1g 1s 50c from NPC Steven, one
of the Erollisi Day Gifts vendors. It requires level 2 artisan to
scribe and is no-trade. The fourteen artisan recipes are then scattered
across several pieces of crafting equipment, based on item created, and
will be a difficulty level 10 combine. The two tinkering recipes are
skill 30 tinkering combines. Other than the requirement of any love
note or any hard candy (interchangeable), these items will require tier
1 common ingredients and tier 1 fuels. Items created will be tradeable
house items with 15 rent status reduction per item. Yields will be from
1 to 3, depending on item and quality. (The lounges are 1-2, the rest
are 1-3.)
The Items

Click on the images below to see recipe and a size comparison for the item.

Erollisi Marrsipan Stove & Keg	Frosted Erollisi Cookies Stove & Keg	Essence of Amour Chemistry Table
Distilled Devotion Number 9 Chemistry Table	Plush Chaise Lounge Loom	Luxurious Chaise Lounge Loom
Purple Heart-Shaped Pillow Loom	Red Heart-Shaped Pillow Loom	White Heart-Shaped Pillow Loom
Yellow Heart-Shaped Pillow Loom	Pink Roses Blooming with Love Woodworking Bench	Purple Roses Blooming with Love Woodworking Bench
Red Roses Blooming with Love Woodworking Bench	Yellow Roses Blooming with Love Woodworking Bench	Gold Mechanosynthetic Rose Work Bench Tinkering
Silver Mechanosynthetic Rose Work Bench Tinkering

Other Little Details

The two tinkered items can be crafted by nontinkers, but since you will not have access to the tinkering reaction arts, and the difficulty is rated as "very hard", you will have difficulties crafting one of these if you are not a tinker.
The "blooming With Love" roses have a right-click option to make them "bloom", each with a unique particle effect.
Unlike the Frostfell food, you cannot "take a serving" of the cookies or Marrispan.
The cookies and Marrsipan require vanilla bean, a vendor-sold item.

Romantic Gifts to Craft II

(Folks who scribed the book in past years will find it in thier recipe books as "More Romantic Gifts to Craft!")

You
want information on the new stuff, though, don't you? These will be a
lot like the items from the other book, although some will require T2
common harvests instead of T1 commons.

Golden Rug of the Beloved	Golden Tapestry of the Beloved	Loving Cup
Grassy Knoll of Butterflies	Grassy Knoll of Fireflies	Gift of the Libertine
Plush Wood Framed Bed	Luxurious Wood Framed Bed	Metalized Ring of Devotion Tinkered
Love Letters	Love Poems	Love's Gilded Cage
Vial of Passion

No, I didn't miscount, that is only 13 items. The other two items are dress clothing items.

Added Notes

The Love Letters and Love Notes have a particle effect that can
be turned on and off. Click on the icons above to see images of them
with and without the effect activated
The Vial of Passion has a particle effect on it (it cannot be turned on/off)
The dressing room preview of the ring does not show the rust. As
you can see if you click through for a larger view of the item,
however, it is very rusty when placed. Durn gnomes. Also note that if
you are not a tinker, you will not have any available reaction arts
when you craft this item, so don't be surprised if you can't pristine
it without being a tinker.
The rug has a visible bottom, and geometry. This means it will show
a graphic from underneath, if it is raised above floor level, and that
it can/will support players, furniture, etc., even when raised off the
floor
The particle effect on the knolls doesn't display in the dressing
room preview mode, but Kaisha tweaked the icons according to the actual
look.
The tapestry is anchored so that it sticks out perpendicular to the wall instead of lying flat, like most of our tapestries
The Gift of the Libertine has a pink heart particle effect swirling around it when placed

But Wait, We have More Eye-Candy!

Below are the items that are sold on the Erollisi Day Vendors that
require the Erollisi coins. (I'll tie the proper names in with them
later.)