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Today’s update notes exclude any fixes for the top Game Update 63 issues. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where some characters would not be able to use a free respec on the tradeskill tree. Fixed a bug where F1 would not toggle between a beastlord player and his summoned warder if he had a different warder selected in his character window. PLAYER HOUSING Prestige Home: Storm Tower Isle A weather controller has been added to the home (the carving adjacent to the front door). The zone will always default to a thunderstorm, but now you may...
Month: April 2012
UPDATE from Piestro: The potions were put in on accident and quickly removed. If we do decide to reintroduce consumables we’ll certainly mention it. Taking a page from Disney, SOE placed certain StationCash Marketplace items on hiatus a while back into a so-called “Brell Serilis vault“. This type of scheduled demand is intended to drive sales and create pent-up demand when said items are returned to the market. An example is the Prowler mounts first introduced just over 2 years ago. We paid little attention to the unlocking of the vault announcement as SOE already does a fine job...
I received an e-mail from SOE at 12:15am PST this morning notifying players that today is a Triple StationCash day. SOE really has this providing as little advance notice as possible thing down to a science. You can also read this late-day announcement at EverQuest2.com. We’re going to assume, since it was not said otherwise, that this applies to all StationCash purchased in-game, at SOE.com, or with game cards in Europe, the USA, and now in Canada. Remember, Wal-Mart bonus cards are 1500SC plus 500SC which triples to 6000SC. Not bad for $15. You can get a year’s EQ2...
If you’ve bumped into those three new mercenaries in the old Skyshrine city who just won’t give you the time of day, Gninja has some spoilers for you: The [elite mercenaries] in Skyshrine require a “Key” which you get access to after you have completed the heroic questlines. Through those same questlines, you get a portal to appear in the contested (near the solo zone entrance portal) that will take you back to the city back in time at will. UPDATE: We have some first-hand player notes from Techno: There are 3 “elite” mercenaries in Skyshrine, Inquisitor, Monk (uses...
Continuing a disconcerting trend, SOE Login servers are again having trouble accepting user logins to SOE games including EverQuest 2. From Piestro on the EverQuest2 Facebook page: We’re addressing an issue affecting all game logins now. Sorry for the delay, we’ll have it fixed shortly. The EQ2 Forums are also predictably running slow and throwing random errors. It seems that the SOE infrastructure is literally crumbling before our eyes.
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Scaling dungeons from The Shadow Odyssey expansion should now be dropping loot if the player is level 91+. The charm rewards for “The Path of the Crusaders” should now be in line with comparable quest rewards, and have stats that are more appropriate. Fixed a bug where Dozekar’s head would not convert to currency properly. Fixed a bug that could cause the focus effect for scout legs to stop working. QUESTS Skyshrine: The City of Dracur The quests “Disc of Binding Ruined”, “Temporal Gem Hunt”, and “Final Item for Jorlak” should now appropriately reward...
Barx of Antonia Bayle stumbled onto a quest while browsing their EQ2 Achievements window and confirmed its existence by finding a house item from the Claws of Veeshan faction merchant (in the pre-conflict City of Skyshrine) which is not for sale except to those who have completed said quest. This quest (“Dreadscale Invasion of Dracur Prime“) is mentioned in a quest achievement as being an open quest (PQ?) and is also required to unlock a furniture item at the CoV faction armorer but despite having completed the entire instanced heroic questline I’ve not seen any evidence of it. Google...
EQ2Wire’s Guide to Game Update 63: Skyshrine has been updated as of April 24th with clarifications and additional information about the Skyshrine heroic access quests, Skyshrine group content, the Flying Drake Mount, Claws of Veeshan faction, and Elite Tradeskill Assistants.
It’s one week since Game Update 63: Skyshrine launched, and overall, the update was rather polished with no show-stopping bugs, especially compared to Destiny of Velious and Game Update 61. There are always going to be a few issues that slip through in an update of this size, and already we’re seeing 2 big fixes today with Class Focuses and 40% Haste on Scout/Fighter/Priest gloves. We’ll update this list as they are resolved:
Today’s update adds Haste to quested Scout and Fighter gear in Skyshrine and the Withered Lands, as well as hopefully fixing the Class Focus effects on items. Prior to the patch, if you equip more than 1 item with a “Class Focus”, only the last item equipped has its effect applied. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now properly join group members in Skyshrine instances. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Greater Faydark Reanimated Nexus Scion and scorched skeletal wizards respawn reliably now.
As of 3:00pm PST, EQ2 U.S. Servers are back up 9 hours ahead of schedule. We expect EU servers to be up shortly thereafter. Forums and other services are still down for the time being.
If there is one thing that must surely keep the producers and designers of MMOs up at night, it’s the pace at which players complete their content. It takes months and months to conceptualize, design, create, populate, and script quality MMO content. The producers and designers always start out with the best intentions of wanting their content to be fun and for the rewards to be commensurate to the challenge. But those goals must at some point take a back seat to the First Commandment of MMO design: Thou shalt make content that lasts!
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The adventure experience bar now includes the requirements to level past 90 if you have not met them yet in the tooltip. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Withered Lands Withered Lands creatures should now award more experience.
Yesterday, the Freeport and Nagafen servers went down unexpectedly and were down for approximately 90 minutes. We are receiving reports that the Freeport server was rolled back and some players lost as much as 18% experience and of course progress in several quests. More as we have it…
From the SOE Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 12:01AM Pacific* on April 23, 2012. This will impact the following services: Login for our games WILL be affected from 12:01 AM Pacific* to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific* Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between from 12:01 AM Pacific* to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific* Account management will be unavailable starting 12:01 AM to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific* Forums will be read-only starting at 12:01 AM to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific* Players who are already logged into game will be able to continue...
From the EQ2 Forums: LEGENDS OF NORRATH Fall of Estarim items are now on display at the LoN Museum. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Updated the login message for alternate advancement point conversion to only show if you actually gained points and how many points you have gained. If you have maximum alternate advancement points and you are not max level, you will automatically be set to 0% alternate advancement conversion rate the first time you gain experience. NOTE: If you set your alternate advancement conversion slider back up after that first time it will stay and not be reset...
Game Update 63: Skyshrine has now been launched on all U.S. Servers. EU servers (Splitpaw, Storms, and Valor) have 14 1/2 hours to wait until they get to play this update. Pay no attention to the Server Status widget and page at SOE which are reporting all servers down.
EQ2Wire is proud to present our Game Update 63: Skyshrine Frequently Asked Questions guide. UPDATED April 24, 2012. After the jump, find out how to reach the Withered Lands and Skyshrine, what kind of solo, group, and raid content is available, a bit more about Prestige Points, and how to get started in Game Update 63 regardless of your play style!
From Piestro on the EQ2 Forums: On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5 AM London Time the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. We haven’t heard of “London Time”, and we’re not sure why only the Splitpaw server is mentioned. Maybe Piestro meant to say: On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5:00 British Summer Time (6:00 Central Europe Time) the Splitpaw, Storms, and Valor servers will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. We apologize for patching the European servers nearly a full...
Cyliena of EQ2 ZAM has once again turned out comprehensive coverage of an EQ2 Game Update. This time around, we get full coverage of the zones and quests that make up Game Update 63: Skyshrine. You’ll find full walkthroughs of the Withered Lands quests and more information on this update. Game Update 63 Coverage at EQ2 ZAM
Here are your official Game Update 63 Update Notes from the EQ2 Forums: The Destiny of Velious saga continues as adventurers breach the barriers of the Withered Lands seeking entrance to Skyshrine, the glorious ancient dragon city! The great citadel of Skyshrine has long housed the Claws of Veeshan dragons behind its massive walls and arcane protections. Now, the unthinkable has happened — it has become besieged by powerful forces. Battle and befriend dragons and their wurmkin in the forbidden city of Dracur. Explore the past to unravel mysterious events that transformed the formidable draconic city into a battlefield...
From the EQ2 Forums: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 AM Pacific* all U.S. EverQuest II servers will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. UPDATE: EverQuest2.com has this update about Splitpaw: Important: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5 AM London Time* the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. LATE UPDATE: Game Update 63 has been delayed to April 18th, 2012 for EU servers!! Time Zone Conversion PST: April 17 @ 7:00am~12:00 Noon EST: April 17 @ 10:00am~3:00pm BST: April 17...
From EQ2Talk.com: Episode #44 – Wind Power recorded on Apr 14 EQ2 Talk is excited to bring you Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EverQuest 2 Producer. We asked her some of the burning questions about mechanics, dungeon finder, the in-game polls, and EQ2 Players. She also gives us a closer look at what the team has in store for players in GU63, offers some insight into the 2-level increase, explains a bit about prestige abilities, and talks about the team’s goals looking ahead. We’ve listened to Episode #44 and here are a few gems: We may get some more detailed information on the...
A new Game Update is upon us, which naturally means that Niami Denmother has been living and breathing Test, reporting bugs, trying out recipes, and preparing a veritable compendium of information for interested crafters! GU63: Crafting Preview @ EQ2Traders “Draggin’ and Puffin'” GU63: Carpenter Recipes @ EQ2Traders GU63: Withered Lands Crafting Quests @ EQ2Traders GU63: Skyshrine Elite Apprentices @ EQ2Traders Commentary Niami’s exhaustive coverage belies the dearth of crafting content in Game Update 63. In fact there are just six quests for each tradeskill class, 4 recipe books (Essentials 91 and 92, and Advanced 91 and 92), and 2...
Tomorrow is the big day for the release of Game Update 63 : Skyshrine. Last week, EverQuest II Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale and Designer Carlos “Gninja” Mora led a number of MMO press sites on a tour of Game Update 63: Skyshrine. It looks like the Press Embargo was lifted at midnight: TenTonHammer — EverQuest II Game Update 63: Skyshrine – A Visual Tour Massively — A land corrupted and a city under seige: A look at GU63 with the EQII team EQ2 ZAM — Preview: EverQuest II Game Update 63: Skyshrine MPOGD — EverQuest II: Game Update 63:...