*Keep checking this news item, more and more news is coming in and i'm adding them as links !!*

GU55 has been pushed to the test servers, this means some information about the coming changes can finally be told to us non beta testers. Feldon from EQ2wire has been busy straight away writing some articles about the coming changes. As more will come i'll add them aswell:

First two concern changes to primary statistics and consolidated stats:
Primary Stat Changes
Consolidated Stats Changes

Third article concern the changes to Transmuting and one concerning adorning:
Transmuting Changes
Adornment Changes

Fourth article concerns the quest journal:
Quest Journal Changes

Feldon is really doing his best, here is the next article concerning the new filter in your knowledge book (you know the one with all the spells / combat arts you ever got ...:
Knowledge Book Changes

And another one concerning the lockout timers window, not a huge change and mainly interesting for raiders:
Zone Time Lockout Window Changes

We're also getting two new amenities for the guild:
New Guild Amenities

And here is a list of zones with difficulty and the other one is concerning raiding:
Overview of Zones
Raiding in Sentinel's Fate

Then also an article concerning GU55 and what is still scheduled in it ... after all Halas has been delayed ... Shaders 3.0 has been delayed ... Thundering Steppes revamp has been delayed ... so that means a lot of interesting changes arent coming yet we'll have to wait till May most likely.
Things that do made it are extra quest lines in several zones, Kaladim is now a 30+ lvl dungeon !! And for some perhaps not good news but is has now been confirmed on test that grey shard runs is not possible anymore ! Although after the expansion the need for them should be less. Read about the rest in the following article.
Changes with GU55 and Expansion

Well AA extra lines have been added to the test server, next link you can see what they currently do. But do note they will most likely change before they go live !! Regretfully it's only the new lines and doesnt include the changes to the current AA (which i think will be extensive to seeing that crits work differently):
Extra AA Lines

For those of us who managed to get their fabled or mythical weapon, here is an article what will happen to it:
Mythical Weapons in Sentinels Fate
If you read the above you'll know we're getting quest to convert the fabled / mythical weapon into a spell, next links more about that and if you want to know the link to the walkthrough of the quests:
Epic Repercussions

Oh and the NDA has officially been lifted .... so Kai start spilling the beans girl !!!!

EQ2Zam wrote an article concerning the changes to lvl between 20 and 70 to make it more fluently, here's the article about it on eq2wire and directly to EQ2zam:
EQ2wire - The Golden Path
EQ2zam - Changes from 20 to 70

Well in the summer we had our racial traditions revamped ... well this GU they will be "polished" a bit further, read about it at EQ2Zam:
Racial Traditions Changes

EQ2Traders also made a nice summary of changes (mostly concerning crafting) but also interesting to check:
EQ2Traders SF Information

Even more (as if the list isnt small enough) a bit more info about Battlegrounds, they have been put on test so more info is getting known:
Battleground Impressions
Battlegrounds on Test
Battleground Armor

Today Erollisi Day should go live on our servers, no accompanying hotfix with it though. Anyway everyone have fun, don't flirt to much ... although this is the time to do it and give out some nice roses.

Here's a few links to some information:
Introduction on EQ2 Players
Quest help on EQ2 Zam
Crafting goodies on EQ2 Traders

After a lot of rumours it's finally been confirmed by SOE that the new starting city Halas will not be released together with the expansion with GU55, but has been delayed to GU56:

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Brenlo:

Halas is indeed delayed until GU 56. We (read I) were a bit ambitious in our grand plans for the year and despite my constant whipping, we could not squeeze in everything we had on the agenda. Thus we are taking our time to get it right and get it out there in a truly awesome state. Hopefully this will help tide some of you over.

http://tweetphoto.com/10213559

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Personally i find it a big shame, a lot of new people are coming in or back with the expansion hitting in two weeks, and a new starting city would have been a great way to get them started. But on the other side we do have Timerous deep and Neriak which are great starting places already.

From 1 february to 7 february the City Festivals will be in Gorowyn !!! So go check it out, earn City Tokens by doing writs or one of the 3 quests at the city festival (either harvesting, crafting or an errand run). And use the tokens on house items / temporary costumes and more !!

EQ2wire has a short image of some of the items you can get.

Extra: Concerning the previous hotfix which would disable the overuse of macro's i read somewhere that didnt go through although i cant find that post anymore. If i do find it ill update the news item.

The coming hotfix (29 Januari 5:00 AM for our server) will bring some changes with which they hope to get rid of a bit of server lag. Now it does concern people that use a lot of macro's (it is yet unclear how many spells can be put in a macro more about that later ... hopefully). The second means no more sitting still in a instance being afk (so keep that in mind when doing the tradeskill missions etc). 

• Ability commands such as “useability” are now being throttled in an effort to cut down on server lag.  This means that “mega-macros” that attempt to cast many spells will no longer work as expected.
• Housing zones and persistent instances will now automatically shutdown after one hour of inactivity.  Any AFK players left in the zone will be camped back to the character select screen.  You may still AFK indefinitely in overland zones, city zones and non-persistent dungeons.

Also a bit more info about the battlegrounds, they will indeed launch around 16 february with the expansion, at first they will be for lvl 80-90 only ... but it's not intended to be the endgame and they will add lower tier battleground later on with matching gear.