Destiny of Velious Goes Live, For Some

After a 4 hour delayed launch, Destiny of Velious went live this afternoon at 1:00pm PST [4:00pm EST; 9:00pm GMT].

Here is an accounting of various issues players are reporting with today’s expansion…

Splitpaw & Everfrost

However Splitpaw and Everfrost did not come up quite so quickly, and have at press time still had some instability and been down a good part of the day.

Missing Characters

Players on various servers are reporting missing characters despite deleting their cache and launcher cache folders and repatching. Several players reported issues with Station Launcher that were cleared up using either Launcher 3 or the Streaming Launcher.

Delays and Othmir Illusions

From SmokeJumper:

At whatever time we get the servers stabilized, we’ll start running the 24-hour clock for the Othmir potions.

So yes, the offer will be extended. How long it will be extended will be based on how soon we can get the servers stable.

Remember folks, Marketplace -> Expansion -> Nipik’s Gift.

Collector’s Edition Gryphon Not a Mount?

It seems during Beta, the Collector’s Edition Stormfeather Roost Guardian Gryphon Flying Mount was changed from a grounded (until the quest is completed) mount to a gryphon egg. While this makes more sense, lore-wise, it may be confusing to some who were expecting to be have a ~75% runspeed mount until the quest is completed.

Destiny of Velious Pre-Order Payment Issues

Due to the credit card selector for ordering the Destiny of Velious expansion being a drop-down menu only showing the card type and last 4 digits, some players had issues with picking an expired card by mistake. Oddly some players were given a 7 day grace period where others had their order revoked/cancelled.

Also, some players who attended Fan Faire were nonetheless billed a full $59.95 this morning for the Collector’s Edition.

Collections?

Some players are reporting issues with adding shinies to their collections. Some players can attribute this to a custom UI (ProfitUI has an update). Others have not yet deduced the cause.

Cryomantic Armor Leads to Streaking

From covic:

This should all ready be fixed, when you log out and back in, it should be fine.

Freeport [EQ2X] Server Gets Queued

The Freeport [EQ2X] server had issues handling the load of players and so took the extraordinary step if enabling a Login Queue. From SmokeJumper:

You’re seeing a side-effect of a test we were running to figure out what’s going on with the crazy load issues.

We temporarily put a cap on the number of players that could be on the server at one time so we could analyze the behavior of a smaller load.

That mechanism has been in place since the launch of EQ2X but we’ve kept the pop cap number so high that you’ve almost certainly never seen it.

and then from Rothgar:

We going to bring Freeport back up with the login queue enabled so we can better evaluate the performance without overloading the server all at once. We apologize for the issues you’ve experienced over the past couple of weeks and are working hard to resolve them as quickly as possible.

To those insisting that the expansion should have been held back to resolve Freeport [EQ2X] problems, Rothgar had these comments:

I think what you guys are missing in this picture was that the #1 priority was to get the patch out that included bug fixes and performance enhancements. The fact that it was coupled with the expansion didn’t matter. This problem doesn’t occur for us internally, in fact, it only appears to happen on Freeport and none of the other live servers. So before we could troubleshoot it further, we needed to get all existing changes out to the server. It had nothing to do with the expansion being a higher priority than server stability. Server stability is our highest priority, but the changes we made were coupled with the expansion code.

Now that those changes are live, we can get a clearer picture of where the problems are occuring. We are working on that now.

Receiving Zone Info

From Rothgar:

This is our top priority and are working on it.

Do Both Adventure and Tradeskill Flying Gryphon Quests at Once?

From Niami Denmother:

As mentioned, you can do both BUT just to be on the safe side, I’d not be doing both at the same time as it may get confused on the baby stage as to which you’re trying to summon and do the quests for. (I didn’t get enough time to try a simultaneous baby-raising, but got one after I’d completed the other, so I’m not 100% sure you wouldn’t get buggy.)

From Domino:

You can definitely do both, the only thing I’m not sure about is whether you can have both baby gryphon pets up at the same time. That might require some switching back and forth. The storylines may make more sense if you don’t try to do both all at once, and since both questlines are very similar you may occasionally find it confusing which task you’re doing for which gryphon, but it shouldn’t actually break anything.