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EQ2 Test Update Notes give a glimpse of what changes we may expect in the future of EQ2. They are always subject to change, sometimes due to player input, sometimes because an item is not ready to go live yet (i.e. Multi Attack over 100%). We nevertheless keep an ear to the ground and an eye on the EQ2 Test Update Notes and occasionally present that information here. The detailed Test Update Notes, which can be found on the EQ2 Forums, contain numerous tweaks and fixes large and small. October 28th’s notes reference the Currency window, Tradeskill Writs, Stonewill...
Month: October 2010
Today’s hotfix notes include the ability to relocate your City Bind Point to any city you are aligned with, more crafted Marks of Manaar equipment, and other changes to live events and raids.
A few players have reported issues with not earning the +50% bonus on Guild XP. I can confirm that it’s working on adventure writs in Kylong Plains, but other players have posted results indicating that doing Tradeskill Rush Orders in instances (Guild Halls, instance ‘tradeskill cellars’, etc.) may not receive this bonus. We strongly suggest checking to make sure that you are receiving a message like this before spending hours doing writs: Your guild has received 1961 status which includes a 50% server bonus! UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, we have learned that several Heritage Quests, writs,...
Is it time to just rip off the Band-Aidâ„¢ and be done with it? Unannounced in this week’s additions to the StationCash Marketplace were the addition of in-game merchant-bought arrows (no great shakes compared to woodworker-made ones) to the StationCash Marketplace. When prompted on the EQ2 Forums, EQ2 Senior Producer Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson had this response: They’re just the basic arrows you can get from merchants. It’s a convenience thing for folks that run out of arrows in the field. and later in a similar topic in the Tradeskills forum: It’s pure convenience. Some players are willing to spend...
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The community team will be hosting a Nights of the Dead Masquerade Ball on the Test Copy server. Go to the docks in Sinking Sands at the proper time and date and take the portal to the community lounge. Find out when, after the break.
From Everquest2.com: Challenge: To celebrate Halloween, we’re holding a Pumpkin Carving Forum Challenge. Carve a pumpkin related to the SOE game you play and take pictures of the process. Upload the pictures to an external site, then submit them to us for review. Now, let’s get to carving! Duration: Submissions for this forum challenge start on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 and end on Tuesday November 2, 2010 at 10am PDT. (PDT is -7 hours GMT: 11:00 am MDT, 12:00 pm CDT, 1:00 pm EDT, 5:00 pm GMT)
A few months back, the frequency of StationCash item introductions was increased from a monthly schedule to a bi-weekly schedule. If EQ2Wire reported on all of these items, then 50% of our articles would be about items that, quite frankly, a lot of our readers aren’t that wild about. There was a time when $14.99 paid the bills, kept the lights on, and paid the staff. I’m not sure when we strayed from that. But sometimes, an SC item is cool enough to warrant mentioning here, especially when it comes with cool art. There is a dearth of cool-looking...
From EverQuest2.com. It’s a Bonus Guild XP Weekend! Starting at 5:00 pm (PDT) on Friday, October 22nd and ending at 10:00 am (PDT) on Monday, October 25th, players in EQII and EQ2X can gain a 50% bonus on guild XP! Get out there and level up, and enjoy hearing those dings come 50% faster. But don’t wait; the weekend will be over before you know it. Enjoy! This promotion will run from Friday, October 22 at 5PM PDT (Sunday 02:00 GMT) until Monday, October 25th at 10AM PDT (17:00 GMT). Discuss this on the EQ2 Forums
As we previously reported, with GU58, the guild XP levels were evened out to get rid of the hell levels. Depending on where your guild was in relation to the closest hell level, you may have gained guild levels or lost progress in your current level. In the grand scheme of getting to level 90, just about everybody ended up better off. In the grand scheme of making it to the NEXT level, which could have been your long term goal, some guilds lost progress. In an effort to make up for this (I assume), SOE has decided to...
Here are your update notes for Thursday, 21 October 2010 after the break:
Here are your update notes for Tuesday, 19 October 2010 after the break:
Initially released in an email message sent out to players and posted on the official forums by Xalmat, word comes to us that the long awaited server merges will begin on 16 November 2010. The following servers will be merged:Â Nektulos merges into Guk Najena merges into Unrest Befallen merges into Oasis Blackburrow merges into Everfrost Mistmoore merges into Permafrost Kithicor merges into Butcherblock Runnyeye merges into Splitpaw (UK) Innovation merges into Valor (DE) More info after the break…
The EQ2 Community Team is hosting a unique decorating challenge for Nights of the Dead this year. Â You create a new character on the Test Copy server in Neriak and post a response in this thread on the official forums. Â The EQ2 Community Team will then give you supplies to work with and PM you when you have your supplies. Â Use the provided supplies to purchase a house at 1 Walk of the Dead and purchase items from a special merchant just outside the house. Â You then have until the 25th at 6pm PDT to finish decorating your new...
SOE wants to know where and when people would prefer to have Fan Faire 2011. Your choices are Vegas or Vegas. Go vote for your prefered hotel and dates.  Amnerys posted this on the official forums: It’s that time again folks! Time to tell us where and when you want to attend Fan Faire 2011! We have two choices for you, both of them in Las Vegas. The first one sends us back to Bally’s, July 7th through the 9th. The other option takes us to the Hilton, August 4th through the 6th. Head on over to the Fan Faire...
Everquest2.com has a news items up anouncing this years Nights of the Dead live event: It’s time to enjoy spooks, frights and other creepy festivities in Norrath! Beginning at at 12:01am PDT Thursday, October 14th and running until 11:59pm Monday, November 8th, the Nights of the Dead celebration brings a bit of seasonal fun to adventurers of all levels! Nights of the Dead summons goblins and ghoulies out of the shadows of Norrath. Those inclined to celebrate the holiday through crafting will find a new book of recipes full of new house items being sold by official event merchants....
Here are your update notes for 14 October 2010 after the break:
Hiding in every Game Update, there are changes that go through that are either undocumented, or otherwise slip under the radar. Some of them appear as a single line item in the Update Notes, but have significant ramifications. Some don’t appear at all. Today, we shed some light on these changes.
If you have been /feedbacking to the EQ2 team for years that you would be ready, willing, and eager to sell family members, limbs, or just pony up a few extra bucks to increase your house item limit, then I have some great news. If, however, you hate StationCash and everything it stands for, and SOE will never get a penny of your money over the $14.99 (or less depending on your subscription plan), then I have some bad news. But first, let’s look at some cool changes to housing in Game Update 58. 😉
Update: This has been pushed to Wednesday.  Unknown if the update notes will stay the same. The current estimated down time is 3:15 PDT with an uptime of 4:00 PDT 12 October 2010. Here are your hotfix notes for the downtime: GENERAL Fixed a bug causing the client to crash when using a third-party UI that hasn’t implemented the mount or currency windows. Fixed a server side crash bug.
SmokeJumper posted this on the EQ2X forums: Silver members can now buy items from the Broker. They still need to purchase broker credits to *place* items onto the Broker, but they now have unlimited capacity to BUY from the Broker. Enjoy!
Wondering why the XP bar for your guild went down with GU58? Don’t worry, you’re actually closer to level 90 than you were before. Rothgar explains on the official forums: Your XP value behind the scenes, which is some number like 183627, did not change unless your level would have gone down. For example, that number may have put you at 54 prior to the change but would now put you at 52. In this case, we added XP to the number to increase you to level 54 but it would look like you lost progress in 54 when...
Prior to GU58, totems didn’t stack. If you wanted to sell large quantities of these, you could get a Jewelry Box and stuff a bunch of them in there to sell. With GU58, new totems now stack up to 100 (old ones remain the same). Because of this, they no longer fit into Jewelry Boxes, they go in Potion Cabinets. DominoDev explained this on the official forums: Due to the new format of the totems (essentially acting like potions, and stacking) they are now considered potions by the sales crates and would now fit into a potion cabinet instead...
Once GU58 went live, some users reported crashing while using Profit UI. Rothgar loaded up Profit to see if he could reproduce the problem. Fairly quickly he came up with a work around. Amnerys posted this note on the official forums: Some players are reporting a crashing issue after today’s update. If you are experiencing this, here’s some info from Lead Programmer, Rothgar: The crash is related to having a UI without the Mount tab. We will have a fix for it as soon as possible but in the meantime, you can delete your eq2ui_mainhud_persona.xml file from your custom...
Amnerys has posted the complete Game Update Notes for Game Update 58: Arcanum Revealed on the EQ2 Forums. Here they are after the break:
Posted on the EQ2 Forums by Kaitheel: The Heroes’ Festival has begun! A call has gone out to all Norrathian adventurers to commemorate the six years of questing, raiding, tradeskilling, house decorating and socializing. Celebrators, happy to share in the festivities, can be found in North and South Qeynos or West and North Freeport. You may spot some odd things, due to the overlap of both the Nights of the Dead and Heros’ Festival running at the same time, right now. But keep in mind that this will not be the case when it goes live. Currently, the event...