Just a friendly reminder of our friendly reminder, the Goddess Risen event ends next Monday, February 6th to make way for the upcoming Erollisi Day 2012 event.

If you’ve run Shard of Love a few times to get the Valorous Wings, and figured that’s all there was to the story, you may be surprised to know that there is a followup quest line A Goddess Risen. The quest series takes you to different instances, and culminates in a revitalized version of the Shard of Love. This quest series runs through February 6th @ 11:59pm PST.

If you are into unique Beastlord warder appearances, the emerald cave bats in the Faceless Oracle’s Demesne instance, available only during this event, might interest you.

Image courtesy EQ2 ZAM

On Thursday, 12/29/11 we announced a Bonus Experience Weekend from December 30th – January 3rd. This was an error on our part; it was supposed to end on January 2nd. Because of our mistake, we are extending the Double XP until January 4th at 9:00 AM PST. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience and understand your frustrations. The Double XP is live again so go out there and get adventuring!

This is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums

UPDATE: Double XP has been extended until January 4th @ 9am.

NOTE: Originally, Double XP was scheduled to run through January 2nd.  Apparently it’s now January 3rd.

From Isulith on the Official EQ2 Forums:

This coming weekend, from 12:01 AM PST on Friday, December 30th and ending at 11:59 PM PST on Tuesday, January 3rd, EverQuest II will be running a Double XP promotion (+100% XP). Take advantage of these four days and watch those XP bars fill up!

The bonus applies to AA, tradeskill, and adventure experience gained this weekend. Our French, German, Japanese and Test servers will also be enjoying the increase in XP gain.

Happy New Year and happy adventuring!

Time Zone Conversions

• PST: December 30 @ 12:01AM ~ January 3 @ 11:59PM
• EST: December 30 @ 3:01AM ~ January 4 @ 2:59AM
• GMT: December 30 @ 8:01 ~ January 4 @ 7:59
• CET: December 30 @ 9:01 ~ January 4 @ 8:59

Frostfell has come to Norrath and we’d like to celebrate it with you!

Hang out with members of the EverQuest II Community Relations team on select servers during this merry Frostfell season! We will be greeting players and handing out festive goodies on the following servers:

• Oasis – Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM PST
• Unrest – Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM  PST
• Permafrost – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM  PST
• Butcherblock – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:30 PM  PST
• Guk – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:30 PM  PST

The servers chosen for this event are ones that did not have a Nights of the Dead party back in October.

Have a happy holiday – one and all!

UPDATE: On the servers not listed:

Yes, we’ll open the lounge for the other servers. Check for the portals in Sinking Sands!

Time Zone Conversions

Since the holidays are upon us, we wanted to drop you a note so you could plan.

We’ll be running Double XP days from Dec 30th through Jan 2nd 3rd!

This is way more advance notice than we usually give, but well…we’ll be celebrating the holidays too, so we wanted to tell you now.

Time Zone Conversions

Barring any unforeseen changes, the Double XP weekend would be:

• PST: December 30 @ 12:01AM ~ January 3 @ 11:59PM
• EST: December 30 @ 3:01AM ~ January 4 @ 2:59AM
• GMT: December 30 @ 8:01 ~ January 4 @ 7:59
• CET: December 30 @ 9:01 ~ January 4 @ 8:59

Today opens a followup chapter to the Shard of Love and Erollisi Marr storyline. It takes you to a new version of the Shard of Love zone where many things have changed!

Seek out Aaronolis Swornlove in New Halas to get started on your journey and perhaps learn the truth of what happened to the Goddess of Love, Erollisi Marr!

Behind-the-Scenes Video

Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall (Game Designer II) gives us a sneak peek into the upcoming EverQuest II live event, “A Goddess Returns.” The live event starts today, December 15, 2011 so be sure to check it out!

UPDATE #2 from Bunji approx 6 hours ago:

The US patchers have finished updating. If you repatch you should receive the updated files for this zone. The international patchers are still updating (they may not receive the updated files until their scheduled Hotfix times).

UPDATE from Bunji:

I see the issue with this zone and will try and get it fixed today (should just need a client side update).

Original Post:

• Until a patch can be made, DO NOT ZONE into Shard of Love: A Healing Touch or you will be trapped and unable to zone out without Customer Service assistance (through /petition).

This problem appears to be a missing zone art file, and a few players reported being able to solve the issue by logging in another character and then /camp-ing to the affected character, but others saw no relief. The issue is not tied to either the Streaming or Full Download launchers and is equally affecting both.

Discuss on the EQ2 Forums

UPDATE: Although not included in the notes, some of the Scout war runes have now been flagged to support Beastlords as per this post.

GENERAL

• All Membership levels may now claim Veteran rewards.

• Fixed a bug where expertise AAs would not load properly from a mirror.

• When using an AA mirror to switch profiles you will no longer be spammed with onscreen messages or having icons autopopulate into your hotbars.

• Fixed a bug where the character tree would not show in the respec window when attempting to purchase AA respecs.

PLAYER HOUSING

• Prestige house portals should no longer disappear when placed.

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

General

• The following NPCs now buy back any status item:
• Zula Tazil <Dismal Rage Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Zur <Dismal Rage Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Zargga <Freeport Militia Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Gorga <Freeport Militia Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Karila T’zel <Arcane Scientist Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Brinegaggle <Arcane Scientist Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Zafira <Seafury Buccaneer Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Exmarch <Seafury Buccaneer Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Polycethes <City Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Progenitus <City Merchant> (City of Freeport)
• Aothis Warmbreeze <City Merchant> (Kelethin)
• Celea Warmbreeze <City Merchant> (Kelethin)
• Shulzel Mek’nan <City Merchant> (Gorowyn)
• Ornulf Sweettongue <City Merchant> (Halas)
• Mirva Kilgour <City Merchant> (Halas)
• Peregrine Helgreth Iceweaver <Ravens of the North Merchant> (Halas)
• Phyrra S’Vivirr <City Merchant> (Neriak)
• Jander S’Tryx <City Merchant> (Neriak)
• Acquisitions Expert Kyri Velkyn <Dark Bargainers Merchant> (Neriak)
• Dalion D’Abth <City of Neriak Faction Merchant> (Neriak)
• Lambent <City Merchant> (The Elddar Grove)
• Mirthmire <City Merchant> (The Elddar Grove)
• Trillium <Tunarian Alliance Merchant> (The Elddar Grove)
• Pottsby <City Merchant> (Qeynos Harbor)
• Rabbleson <City Merchant> (Qeynos Harbor)
• Meredeth <Celestial Watch Merchant> (Qeynos North)
• Aldermun <Qeynos Guard Merchant> (Qeynos North)
• Stetts <City Merchant> (Qeynos North)
• Tatterhorn <City Merchant> (Qeynos North)
• Fhara Hanford <Ironforge Exchange Merchant> (Qeynos North)
• Celes <City Merchant> (Qeynos South)
• Jowling <City Merchant> (Qeynos South)
• Shinolio <Concordium Merchant> (Qeynos South)

The City of Freeport

• Guards that are level 95 in Freeport Militia House have been lowered to Level 65.

• Added a provisioner in Freeport Block & Tackle in South Freeport.

BEASTLORDS

• Fixed a bug where you would get the “Your warder has gained a level” onscreen message when the warder did not actually gain a level.

LIVE EVENTS

Frostfell

• Permafrost Crypt: Decorating Retribution – The music has been silenced.

• Permafrost Crypt: Decorating Retribution – The zone is now persistent in the case of disconnection. So, players should be less likely to lose advancement.

• The crafted snappy red, blue & green helmets are no longer heirloom.

QUESTS

General

• Good-aligned characters should be able to speak with the Shades of the Great Truespirit.

The City of Freeport

• Weaponsmith Xass has set up a new place of business within the Coalition of Tradesfolke building.  You can find him near Jonak Harvester.  He’s a bit picky about where he sets up shop, you see.

• The Functional Clockwork used on the quest “Battle of Wits” should no longer attract undue attention.