From the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

Fixed a bug where some characters were unable to use free respecs on the prestige tree.

DUNGEON MAKER

Fixed a bug where some dungeons would be listed in the incorrect category. Dungeons that are already published should automatically get changed to the proper category without having to republish them.

QUESTS

The Fallen Swords: Endgame: Rewards have been upgraded.

Withered Lands

For the quest “A Helping Hand”, if the correct creatures are hunted / killed but the scouts do not help, you should now get a different message than if the scouts were to help in hunting the target.

From EverQuest2.com:

In our last in-game poll, we asked players what they thought of us selling health, power, and self-rez potions for solo, group, and raid players.

The results are in! Overall, for all items, there was an average of 65% support for the solo versions in all three categories (and, in fact, there was only a minor variance in the percentages for each item). Group and Raid items averaged at 55%.

As we saw with the EQ2X (Freeport) server, where we sold similar items, these types of items help the solo player have fun while adventuring alone. We also added limitations to these items so they will not affect group or raid players.

Starting on Friday, May 18, 2012, you will see the solo health, power, and self-rez items for sale in the marketplace! These items will be found in the Consumable category, under Combat Skills.

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Here are your update notes for Thursday, 17 May 2012:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

• Mount drops in the Underdepths and Betrayal in the Underdepths have been made less rare.

Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened

• Sargon the Destructor text messages won’t go to the entire raid anymore, just the person about to be cast upon.  The duration of the red text messages has been shortened.

Dracur Prime: Vyskudra the Ancient

• The player who slays an energized storm elemental and those closest to the slayer will receive the Elemental Storm Energy Buff.  The Elemental Stormstrike buff will no longer generate hate taunting the elemental stormlords.

Great Divide

• The Cliff Stalkers in the Great Divide will now grant experience when slain.

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Some exciting news for players who have been wanting a setting for Autoattack during combat in EQ2! On the Test server, a new option has been added to the Character/Persona/Inventory window under the Options panel:

This option should allow Rangers to set “Forced Ranged” and never need to use kludgy macros to ensure they are always doing ranged autoattacks. A ranger never wants to be doing melee autoattacks and we have relied on macros with the command /auto 2 for years.

Further, this will be a sigh of relief to Mages and Priests who will now be able to use their choice of either Focus/Ranged ‘Wand‘ items or traditional Symbol items and still choose whether they want to use the new Spell Weapon Autoattack, or stick to Melee combat. This change will be of particular benefit to Enchanters, Druids, Mystics, and Clerics, all of whom have Alternate Advancement lines that require melee combat for their best effects to apply. This will also allow healers to work around a bug with some cures and buffs which place them into ’spell combat’.

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A few days ago, I finally got around to doing some updates to Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator.  Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports over the last several months.  I think I’ve gotten all of them taken care of now but there may still be a few in there somewhere.

Also, I’ve added a second white adornment dropdown for each slot since a lot of the Skyshrine items have two white adornment slots.  Some two handers even have three white slots but I didn’t add a third dropdown.  Just use the secondary dropdown for those cases and make sure not to choose reuse speed since that doesn’t work in the primary slot.

If you don’t see the second white slot dropdown when you load the calculator, you’re seeing a cached version.  Try holding down Shift and Ctrl keys and press F5, or click the Refresh button/icon in your browser or whatever button/clicking combination you have to do to convince it to really reload the page and you should see the new version.

I still haven’t added in the public quest adornments or the class specific adornments for beastlords, those are still on the list of things to do.

As usual, let me know if you find anything out of whack.

Dethdlr

Here are your Update Notes for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine: The City of Dracur

• Malicor Kehrn will no longer fight his partner in crime Nefari Kwol.

PLAYER HOUSING

• The Vale of Halfpint Delight door will now display the correct destination.

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From EverQuest2.com:

Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific* on May 15, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 90 minutes. This will impact the following services:

• Login for all our games will be affected
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable
• Forums will be read-only
• Account management will be unavailable

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

Time Zone Conversions

• PDT: May 15 @ 6:00 ~ 7:30am
• EDT: May 15 @ 9:00 ~ 10:30am
• BST: May 15 @ 14:00 ~ 15:30
• CET: May 15 @ 15:00 ~ 16:30

From EverQuest2.com:

Have you ever wanted to do more or be more involved with your game? Have you ever wanted to help run events or play as NPCs in-game? If the idea of bringing your favorite SOE world to life excites you, join host Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director of Global Community Relations) as she chats with members of the Volunteer Event Guide Program!

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Here are your updates for May 10, 2012.  The quest All You Need is Time in Withered Lands should now be fixed as well as the ratio of Tier 10 precious metal rares.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Withered Lands

• Hexapola: players outside the raid should no longer cause the raid to reset if they agro raid insects.

Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode

• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse.

• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or more of them present in the zone.

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Here are your update notes for 8 May, 2012.  There is a fix for the quest “All You Need is Time” currently on the test server but it hasn’t made it to the live servers yet.  If you are stuck on that quest, Gninja says to /petition it.  He has given customer service steps on how to fix it.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode

• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse.

• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or more of them present in the zone.

Skyshrine: the Underdepths

• Sevalor’s Deathless now has a 35 second duration, rather than permanent.

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From EverQuest2.com:

We made it! Whew! The Skyshrine Game Update went live and was well tested thanks to the community at large as well as the internal teams. We are all really proud of it and it seems like a good bunch of you are enjoying it too.

While we are still watching Skyshrine and responding to any issues that come up, we are obviously marching onward to our next big projects. Also, as we’ve said many times, we are looking at the existing game and how to make improvements to what we have. We’ve jotted down a few things below that are in progress this month to give you an idea of just some of what we’re working on right now.

We hope to release them in May but won’t until they are ready:

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From the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

• Fixed a client crash that could happen when trying to examine an item in certain situations.

• Skyshrine: the Claws of Veeshan faction will now be in the Destiny of Velious category along with all other DoV factions.

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As players learned last week in an e-mail from SOE, DC Universe Online is now 30-60 days from transitioning its European customers from SOE/Station accounts to Pro7Sat.1 accounts:

An exciting time in SOE history has arrived and we are very pleased to be celebrating it with you, some of the most passionate DC Universe Online fans! As many of you know, SOE has partnered with ProSiebenSat.1 Games to provide and market eight of its games to players in Europe, including EverQuest® II, DC Universe™ Online, Free Realms®, Star Wars®: Clone Wars Adventures™, Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, and PoxNora®, as well as the upcoming PlanetSide® 2 and the next game in the EverQuest® franchise.

Specifically, the above mentioned SOE games will be made available through the ProSiebenSat.1 Games service in more than 40 European territories, including Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Other countries may be added at a later date.

Today, Linda “Brasse” Carlson has come forward with answers to a number of questions which have been outstanding since January when this deal was first announced. Her comments from the EQ2 Forums:

Hello folks,

We are moving closer to transitioning our first game, DCUO, to ProSiebenSat.1 in Europe. This means we are far enough along to clarify a number of outstanding questions, although not all. We thank you for your patience in allowing us the time to ensure the information was accurate and confirmed possible to carry out.

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For two weeks, dozens of Guild Rally Flags and AFK players have adorned the central hub of the City of Skyshrine on each EQ2 server. It looks like that is about to change. From the EQ2 Test Update Notes:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine : The Forbidden City of Dracur

• A Pennant of Skyshrine Loyalty can now be purchased from the Skyshrine City faction merchant once you have earned enough faction with the Claws of Veeshan. This pennant will allow you to return to Skyshrine from any house or guildhall.

Yet another reason to gain +50,000 Faction with the Claws of Veeshan!

UPDATE: The Pennant costs 100 platinum pieces and you must have at least +10,000 Faction with the Claws of Veeshan.

Today’s update notes exclude any fixes for the top Game Update 63 issues. From the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

• Fixed a bug where some characters would not be able to use a free respec on the tradeskill tree.

• Fixed a bug where F1 would not toggle between a beastlord player and his summoned warder if he had a different warder selected in his character window.

PLAYER HOUSING

Prestige Home: Storm Tower Isle

• A weather controller has been added to the home (the carving adjacent to the front door). The zone will always default to a thunderstorm, but now you may change it to a light rain or none at all, when you visit.

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UPDATE from Piestro:

The potions were put in on accident and quickly removed. If we do decide to reintroduce consumables we’ll certainly mention it.

Taking a page from Disney, SOE placed certain StationCash Marketplace items on hiatus a while back into a so-called “Brell Serilis vault“. This type of scheduled demand is intended to drive sales and create pent-up demand when said items are returned to the market. An example is the Prowler mounts first introduced just over 2 years ago.

We paid little attention to the unlocking of the vault announcement as SOE already does a fine job of communicating their weekly StationCash deals, to the exclusion of almost everything else about EQ2.

As a result, we missed two items which were previously EQ2X / Free-to-Play-only which slipped through. Cure Potions that cure 500 levels of any kind of detrimental, and Luck Potions that increase coin drop amounts from mobs by 25% (we are attempting to confirm if this includes or excludes treasure chests containing platinum).

The Brell Serilis Vault items are available until May 6th (we’re not sure if that is May 5th @ 11:59pm PST, or sometime on May 6th). Discuss this on the EQ2 Forums

I received an e-mail from SOE at 12:15am PST this morning notifying players that today is a Triple StationCash day. SOE really has this providing as little advance notice as possible thing down to a science. You can also read this late-day announcement at EverQuest2.com.

We’re going to assume, since it was not said otherwise, that this applies to all StationCash purchased in-game, at SOE.com, or with game cards in Europe, the USA, and now in Canada. Remember, Wal-Mart bonus cards are 1500SC plus 500SC which triples to 6000SC. Not bad for $15. You can get a year’s EQ2 subscription for $30 this way.

*Valid from 12:00AM PDT 4/28/2012 through 12:00AM PDT 4/29/2012.  Excludes purchases of SC made by SMS.

Time Zone Conversions

• PST: April 28 @ 12:01am ~ April 28 @ 11:59pm
• EST: April 28 @ 3:01am ~ April 29 @ 2:59am
• BST: April 28 @ 8:01 ~ April 29 @ 7:59
• CET: April 28 @ 9:01 ~ April 29 @ 8:59

If you’ve bumped into those three new mercenaries in the old Skyshrine city who just won’t give you the time of day, Gninja has some spoilers for you:

The [elite mercenaries] in Skyshrine require a “Key” which you get access to after you have completed the heroic questlines. Through those same questlines, you get a portal to appear in the contested (near the solo zone entrance portal) that will take you back to the city back in time at will.

UPDATE: We have some first-hand player notes from Techno:

• There are 3 “elite” mercenaries in Skyshrine, Inquisitor, Monk (uses black widow stance), and I want to say Brigand, one in each of the districts.
• I say “elite” because they’re a step down from the other elites. Elites cost 30p to buy and 3p every 30 minutes with a 5minute cooldown. The golem “elite” cost 5p to buy, 30g every 30 minute.
• They’re really a middleground between the old ones and the elites.

Being able to travel to the pre-war City of Shyshrine is crucial if you intend to buy items from the Claws of Veeshan Faction merchant. Along with +50,000 faction, you’ll need the head of Dozekar which has been giving players fits due to it being marked LORE. Tip of the hat to Celidur for pointing us in the right direction on these items.

View Claws of Veeshan Faction Weapons & Armor*

*This EQ2U category is missing 3 items which have yet to be discovered.

Continuing a disconcerting trend, SOE Login servers are again having trouble accepting user logins to SOE games including EverQuest 2.

From Piestro on the EverQuest2 Facebook page:

We’re addressing an issue affecting all game logins now. Sorry for the delay, we’ll have it fixed shortly.

The EQ2 Forums are also predictably running slow and throwing random errors. It seems that the SOE infrastructure is literally crumbling before our eyes.

From the EQ2 Forums:

ITEMS

• Scaling dungeons from The Shadow Odyssey expansion should now be dropping loot if the player is level 91+.

• The charm rewards for “The Path of the Crusaders” should now be in line with comparable quest rewards, and have stats that are more appropriate.

• Fixed a bug where Dozekar’s head would not convert to currency properly.

• Fixed a bug that could cause the focus effect for scout legs to stop working.

QUESTS

Skyshrine: The City of Dracur

• The quests “Disc of Binding Ruined”, “Temporal Gem Hunt”, and “Final Item for Jorlak” should now appropriately reward bruisers and beastlords.

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Barx of Antonia Bayle stumbled onto a quest while browsing their EQ2 Achievements window and confirmed its existence by finding a house item from the Claws of Veeshan faction merchant (in the pre-conflict City of Skyshrine) which is not for sale except to those who have completed said quest.

This quest (“Dreadscale Invasion of Dracur Prime“) is mentioned in a quest achievement as being an open quest (PQ?) and is also required to unlock a furniture item at the CoV faction armorer but despite having completed the entire instanced heroic questline I’ve not seen any evidence of it. Google also seems to turn up anything.

Is this quest in-game yet, or is this something planned for the future that didn’t make it live but was left with thise hooks to it?

Alternatively, has anyone complated all the dropped / clicky contested skyshrine starters and gotten to 50k CoV faction and seen this quest perhaps?

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EQ2Wire’s Guide to Game Update 63: Skyshrine has been updated as of April 24th with clarifications and additional information about the Skyshrine heroic access quests, Skyshrine group content, the Flying Drake Mount, Claws of Veeshan faction, and Elite Tradeskill Assistants.

It’s one week since Game Update 63: Skyshrine launched, and overall, the update was rather polished with no show-stopping bugs, especially compared to Destiny of Velious and Game Update 61. There are always going to be a few issues that slip through in an update of this size, and already we’re seeing 2 big fixes today with Class Focuses and 40% Haste on Scout/Fighter/Priest gloves.

We’ll update this list as they are resolved:
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Today’s update adds Haste to quested Scout and Fighter gear in Skyshrine and the Withered Lands, as well as hopefully fixing the Class Focus effects on items. Prior to the patch, if you equip more than 1 item with a “Class Focus”, only the last item equipped has its effect applied.

From the EQ2 Forums:

GENERAL

• You can now properly join group members in Skyshrine instances.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Greater Faydark

• Reanimated Nexus Scion and scorched skeletal wizards respawn reliably now.

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As of 3:00pm PST, EQ2 U.S. Servers are back up 9 hours ahead of schedule. We expect EU servers to be up shortly thereafter. Forums and other services are still down for the time being.