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Thanks to EQ2 traders, I know to be on the look out starting the 20th of every month for the ‘moonlight grotto’ events that will be making their way through EQ2. These are small mini events that reward players with some neat house items and a lot of fun. To read more about the event, please be sure to check out the article here. I’m excited about all the house items (as always) and I’m looking forward to these neat events. The aa experience increase has been VERY nice, despite some people saying that they don’t notice the difference, I think it’s amazing.

Some of the things you can find:

Portals Into Magical Grottos
When the moon is just so, five magical mushroom rings will appear in Norrath. Each time they appear, which will be once a month around the 20th, they will stay for anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.

These mushroom rings will appear in five locations:

* Antonica - Archer’s Woods
* Darklight Woods - the mushroom area up near werewolves
* Nektulos Forest - near the spires to Barren Sky
* Enchanted Lands - near the spires to Bonemire
* Greater Faydark - in the Nursery

Other Important Notes

* Two of the instances require minor combat that should be easily soloable (down-arrow mobs).
* One instance offers a second quest, but you must be at least artisan level 2 in order to obtain it
* Each instance can only be completed once per month per character. Run as many alts through as you wish, but you won’t be able to keep looping the quests and collecting the glowies on the same character. (Since one instance contains two quests, this means you can earn 6 tokens per character per month)
* Each instance spawns one purple glowie, for a grotto-specific collection (5 total collections, 1 from each grotto). This glowie will not respawn, so one glowie available for grabbing per character per grotto. The glowies can be traded, so you can juggle amongst alts, go on broker binges, etc. Remember - if you don’t finish a collection this month, you have a chance to fill in the gaps next month, the month after, etc.
* Each grotto has a vendor with items unique to that specific grotto. Most of these items are furniture items that can be traded, but there are a few exceptions here and there.
* The furniture items each cost 1 Elemental Token apiece (the wearable circlets may cost 2 each)
* This is meant as something small and fun that can be easily completed without a huge time expenditure. While I know the furniture addicts will obsess about getting everything immediately, the event is going to be a regular monthly feature, so if you miss something, there’s always another chance down the road.

Be sure to check out EQ2traders for the rest of the details as well as images of the house items!