Month: December 2008

December 18, 2008 Update A ton of changes small and large have been implemented throughout Norrath, “as a special gift from the developers” The master scroll drop rate in Desert of Flames has been increased to more closely match those of the rest of the game. The twin dragons in the Pedestal of Sky now drop 3 pieces of fabled armor. Godking Anuk now drops 3 pieces of fabled armor. When clearing a filter your last scroll location will be restored. Collections can be sorted by: Ready to turn in status (Default) Name Level Category Progress – sorts by...

On December 11th, Allakhazam had a developer chat with the EQ2 development team on Dec 11th. Some relevant quotes: Anon: Is there any plan to at Raid x 2 content to TSO? Ilucide: Yeah, absolutely. Though not necessarily ‘part’ of TSO, we will be adding a pretty nice sized chunk of x2 content in the not-so-distant future. Keep your eyes peeled, it will be part of a larger content release with a new x4 zone, and a whole bunch of new solo content in Lavastorm for level 80ish players. Ilucide: Timetravelling and Kander are hard at work on the...

It seems that a LOT of people have been raising a stink and filing /bugs and /petitions about how easy it is to get void shards in certain TSO dungeons. I will admit that the current situation is exploitable in a couple of different ways. The first exploit that people discovered was the sharing of cleared instances so that other members who had not initially been present during the group could come into the zone and get harvest/clickable updates and get their Void Shard. The first attempts by SoE to close these exploits was to close the Lava Wall...

From http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=144049 First of all wanted to say “what a crazy launch”! Many of the developers have spent countless hours in the Station Wallet design and implementation. Our morning started pretty early (1am) and we wanted to make the downtime as quick and painless as possible. As part of our new update roll out we aim to have the servers back up at 8am so that everyone can jump back into the game after getting a few hours rest I know that Station Cash surprised many of you and I can assure you that we planned it that way! We...

It’s interesting to see this posting from John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment from Dec 22, 2007: I’ve been a regular lurker on this site for a while but I wanted to step in here and dispel something that’s just plain not true – I don’t have my name highlighted here, but anyone that doubts it’s me can email me at jsmedley@soe.sony.com and I’ll happily reply. We aren’t going to be allowing RMT in any way, shape or form on the non-exchange enabled EQ II servers. Period. End of statement. EQ2Flames Posting by Smed He responded today with:...

Here’s the FAQ: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=438343 Here’s the Official Website: http://www.station.sony.com/stationcash/ Conversion Rate for Dec 9, 2008 is $1 (or 1 Euro) for 100 Station Cash. But what I think most people are interested in is the LIST of items. Cosmetic Pets Knight of Shadow’s End Summons a pet shadow lich knight Duration: until Cancelled 400 Zhog, Groz’s Little Brother Summons a pet Zhog, Groz’s Little Brother Duration: until cancelled 700 Equipment Seafury Buccaneer Armor Crate a 7 piece set of statless/appearance armor with only one adorned shoulder. 1000 Tunarian Alliance Armor Crate a 7 piece set of statless/appearance armor (identical...

Although there have been ways to get plat with money (for instance, buying packs of LoN cards and then selling them in-game), selling looting rights to items, and “buying” mythicals, there has been no official RMT in EQ2 other than the Station Exchange servers (which fell under the management of LiveGamer last year). Until now. The servers are presently down and the Live Server has the following Update Notes: Live Update December / 9 / 2008 STATION CASH Station Cash is a new virtual currency from SOE that has been created to allow for the purchase of premium in-game...

Frequent readers of EQ2Wire may be wondering where to buy the Ykeshan Warbears which were teased at Allakhazam last month. I know several folks were looking forward not only to the 65% runspeed but the various buffs available on these warbears. A price of 50 void shards was given by Kiara late in the “Retail vs. Download” firestorm for this bear, but as yet nobody has been able to buy them. Turns out this was a bug. In a future hotfix, they will be available from the Void Shard Miscellania Merchant for 50 void shards. EQ2 Forums: Void Shard...

Frostfell Frostfell appears to be in full testing mode, with some new zones and quests being added. There is supposed to be a group instance similar to the Haunted Mansion during Halloween. Update Notes Mobs in TSO dungeons will have an appropriate number of hitpoints for mentored instances; Tupta, Grobb, and Survival Accord faction merchants require less faction to sell; [Dec 3 2008] Stability update for Windows Vista; [Dec 2 2008] Fix for Repeatable Missions; [Nov 25 2008] As you know, I had further problems with these Repeatable Missions. I was unable to get either the mission for Deep...

Hey folks, I’m back from Big Bend National Park. First up, the bug with Void Shard Missions being unrepeatable was supposed to be corrected on the 25th. EDIT: This is still broken, as I am unable to get missions for Deep Forge or Tradeskill Group Missions. I hope it is properly fixed in the near future. In other news, a bug with the amount of AoE damage being put out by the boss of the Atrocious Amalgam in Miragul’s Phylactery : the Anathema will be corrected in the next hotfix. Thanks Kander! There were reports that the “Daily Double”...