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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…
Day: February 22, 2011
Q: How do I get to the new Velious zones? A: Head to Sinking Sands and speak to an Othmir Ambassador. Q: Where do I find the Destiny of Velious Update Notes? A: Destiny of Velious/Game Update 59 Notes Q: How do I get my Othmir illusion with 50 charges? A: Go to the Marketplace, choose Expansion, then Nipik’s Gift. Q: How do I get started on Flying Mounts for adventure, tradeskill, or Freeblood? A: EQ2 ZAM’s Flying Mounts Guide More questions and answers after the jump…
UPDATE: Destiny of Velious is now LIVE after a 4 hour delay. Just 2 1/2 hours late, Destiny of Velious is now LIVE!! False alarms are the pits.
It seems that all has not gone smoothly for the Destiny of Velious expansion launch. We are now +45 minutes with no sign of time estimate on when Velious will make its appearance. No word on Script Rewrites, OSHA Violations (think of the poor gnomes), or Work Visa checks (are those Freebloods from Romania, Hungary, or Druidia?). From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Well…launches always have at least one “gotcha” in them to make sure we’re awake and paying attention, I suppose. We’ve got a missing asset issue that we’re troubleshooting right now. The gates will open as soon...
It seems we’re the only ones calling today’s update “Game Update 59”, but either way, the Update Notes have now been posted!! The patch notes from the EQ2 Forums (after heavy reformatting and cleanup): We are still over 2 hours away from the EQ2 servers coming up with the Destiny of Velious/Game Update 59.
Some players are now reporting that when they patch EQ2, they are getting an 800MB download of new Velious assets. There may be another mini-patch right before or right after servers come up.
EQ2 Servers will be going down in about 10 minutes to commence preparations for the Destiny of Velious expansion. We thought we’d take a quick look around the web to see how other press and EQ2 sites are covering the expansion. Calthine and Cyliena over at EQ2 ZAM have been working their fingers to the nubs catalogging every Quest, NPC, and Item in Velious. They plan to unlock their quest guides throughout the day. Niami Denmother at EQ2Traders has loaded up her site with tons of Tradeskill info about Velious. Karen Bryan at Massively has checked in another edition...
In the last Webcast, we were told to be on the lookout for a trailer for EverQuest II‘s seventh expansion Destiny of Velious. This trailer is now exclusively available for viewing at Massively.com. Watch the trailer at Massively.com and then come back and post your comments about the trailer, as well as your thoughts on what has, to us, been a very low-key (some would say hush-hush!) launch.