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From the EQ2 Forums: DUNGEON MAKER When respawning, a player should now be put at the designated entrance set by the dungeon creator. Various issues with the Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Map have been fixed. MARKETPLACE Armor Crates and several other appearance items have been changed from NO TRADE to HEIRLOOM.
Month: May 2012
From Brasse on the EQ2 Forums: Reporting in here to say that Cyliena is right, we have the PR managing the elite infoz. =) I did look into it for you though. PR says that due to unforseen circumstances, the infoz in question will be delayed by a day or two. You guys are also correct that it involves our presence at E3. Can’t sneak anything past you! Unfortunately, I cannot offer any further information, other than I think that you may enjoy what’s coming. I can positively, absolutely rule out any major announcements about EQ Next. That game...
Here are your update notes for today, Wednesday May 30, 2012: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine All Solo instances in Skyshrine are now a 90 minute lock out, same as heroic instances. ACHIEVEMENTS The achievements “Rallos’ Chosen” and “Vindicator Soren’s Demise” should now update for all members of the raid force that kills him regardless of range. This change should also be retroactive if you have ever defeated him and were not awarded the achievement. ITEMS Dozekar’s Head is no longer lore.
Coinciding with the launch of Game Update 63 was the introduction of the Poet’s Palace ‘Dungeon Maker’ layout. Much to the consternation of testers, this layout went straight to the live servers without any player testing. The end result, is over a dozen moderate-to-severe bugs which make using this dungeon layout challenging for designers and hazardous to adventurers. As this dungeon layout is the key to a contest to drum up interest in the lacklustre Dungeon Maker feature, it’s hard not to see this as another stumble towards player-made content. Cyliena has posted a detailed thread discussing these issues...
From the EQ2 Forums: Dungeoneers pick up your tools and get ready to rumble! Dungeons made by EverQuest II players have impressed, inspired and amazed us. We can hardly wait to see what you will do with the recently released Poet’s Palace Dungeon layout. To offer everyone a chance to show off their dungeon decorating skills, we?re pleased to announce the Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Forum Challenge! We have had a lot of fun with Dungeon Maker and hope that you are enjoying it as well! Our team is committed to developing it further over time, with initiatives such...
From the EQ2 Forums: From Friday, May 25, 2012 at 12:01 pm (noon) Pacific through Monday, May 28, 2012 at 11:59 pm Pacific you’ll get an instant rebate for half your Station Cash back when you purchase almost anything** in the EverQuest II Marketplace! Everyone likes having more to spend, and now’s the time to grab that item you’ve had your eye on. As soon as you do, you’ll find 50% of the cost of the item (clearly displayed to you in game) immediately refunded to you… maybe you should look at another item on your wish list! Jump...
The ‘Future of EverQuest II’ webcast has concluded, and we have been left with more questions than answers. The webcast at a glance: the Qeynos Revamp a hint of the Sleeper’s Tomb (GU65) and Kerafyrm (2013) the next Expansion (December?) — more levels, more Prestige Points, includes a totally new area of Norrath rather than revisiting a part of the original EverQuest Play-as-your-Character in Dungeon Maker (using a feature called Level Agnostic Dungeons) On-the-Fly Beta Testing using Quest Items from your Quest Journal instead of fishing around in your inventory the Scope of the Marketplace (even the EQ2 team...
As we first posted here, at long last, an Autoattack setting is being added to EQ2. This will benefit some Mages (Enchanters in particular) and virtually all Priests (Druids, Clerics, and Shamans) whose Alternate Advancement lines heavily favor Melee autoattacks. With this change, players will now be able to equip either Symbols or the newish Focus Ranged “Wand” items and still prefer Melee combat and its inherent benefits. Oh, and Rangers will now be able to set Ranged attacks at all times without the use of kludgy macros. Yay! Autoattack Setting available in the Character/Persona window under Options. Here...
From the EQ2 Forums: Starting at 12:01 pm Pacific (Noon) on Friday, May 25, 2012, and lasting until 11:59 pm Pacific on Monday, May 28, 2012, we’ll offer Double Experience in EverQuest II! Take advantage of these three days and watch those XP bars fill up! Time Zone Conversions PDT: Friday May 25 @ 12:01pm ~ Monday May 28 @ 11:59pm EDT: Friday May 25 @ 3:01pm ~ Tuesday May 29 @ 2:59am BST: Friday May 25 @ 20:01 ~ Tuesday May 29 @ 7:59 CET: Friday May 25 @ 21:01 ~ Tuesday May 29 @ 8:59 Comment: We’re...
In the waning days of May, while we anxiously await the delivery of those May Update Plans, there’s word of an upcoming Webcast tomorrow afternoon/evening with the lofty title “the Future of EverQuest II“. I think we can expect some hints of the upcoming Qeynos Revamp in August, with maybe a screenshot or two, followed by some hints of the November (or December) expansion and/or Game Update. The EQ2 team have played their cards awfully close to the chest since Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson‘s installation as EQ2 Senior Producer and subsequent elevation to EverQuest Franchise Executive Producer, and more recently...
In one of the most puzzling interviews we’ve seen on the EQ2 forums, EQ2 Community Manager Eric “Piestro” Cleaver interviewed tradeskill designer Brian “Omougi” Ferguson about the Tradeskill content in the recent Game Update 63. While it’s expected that a Community Manager interviewing a designer or developer will softball the questions, the lavish praise on this paucity of content has truly raised the hackles of the EQ2 player community. Reaction from the Tradeskill community to Game Update 63‘s blink-and-you-missed-it Tradeskill content has been universal and unequivocal disappointment. Specifically, the Withered Lands “tradeskill timeline” consists of just 6 quests. Meanwhile,...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where some characters were unable to use free respecs on the prestige tree. DUNGEON MAKER Fixed a bug where some dungeons would be listed in the incorrect category. Dungeons that are already published should automatically get changed to the proper category without having to republish them. QUESTS The Fallen Swords: Endgame: Rewards have been upgraded. Withered Lands For the quest “A Helping Hand”, if the correct creatures are hunted / killed but the scouts do not help, you should now get a different message than if the scouts were to help...
From EverQuest2.com: In our last in-game poll, we asked players what they thought of us selling health, power, and self-rez potions for solo, group, and raid players. The results are in! Overall, for all items, there was an average of 65% support for the solo versions in all three categories (and, in fact, there was only a minor variance in the percentages for each item). Group and Raid items averaged at 55%. As we saw with the EQ2X (Freeport) server, where we sold similar items, these types of items help the solo player have fun while adventuring alone. We...
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Here are your update notes for Thursday, 17 May 2012: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Mount drops in the Underdepths and Betrayal in the Underdepths have been made less rare. Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened Sargon the Destructor text messages won’t go to the entire raid anymore, just the person about to be cast upon. The duration of the red text messages has been shortened. Dracur Prime: Vyskudra the Ancient The player who slays an energized storm elemental and those closest to the slayer will receive the Elemental Storm Energy Buff. The Elemental Stormstrike buff will no longer generate hate taunting...
Some exciting news for players who have been wanting a setting for Autoattack during combat in EQ2! On the Test server, a new option has been added to the Character/Persona/Inventory window under the Options panel: This option should allow Rangers to set “Forced Ranged” and never need to use kludgy macros to ensure they are always doing ranged autoattacks. A ranger never wants to be doing melee autoattacks and we have relied on macros with the command /auto 2 for years. Further, this will be a sigh of relief to Mages and Priests who will now be able to...
A few days ago, I finally got around to doing some updates to Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator. Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports over the last several months. I think I’ve gotten all of them taken care of now but there may still be a few in there somewhere. Also, I’ve added a second white adornment dropdown for each slot since a lot of the Skyshrine items have two white adornment slots. Some two handers even have three white slots but I didn’t add a third dropdown. Just use the secondary dropdown for those cases and make sure...
Here are your Update Notes for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine: The City of Dracur Malicor Kehrn will no longer fight his partner in crime Nefari Kwol. PLAYER HOUSING The Vale of Halfpint Delight door will now display the correct destination.
From EverQuest2.com: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific* on May 15, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 90 minutes. This will impact the following services: Login for all our games will be affected Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable Forums will be read-only Account management will be unavailable We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions PDT: May 15 @ 6:00 ~ 7:30am EDT: May 15 @ 9:00 ~ 10:30am BST: May 15...
From EverQuest2.com: Have you ever wanted to do more or be more involved with your game? Have you ever wanted to help run events or play as NPCs in-game? If the idea of bringing your favorite SOE world to life excites you, join host Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director of Global Community Relations) as she chats with members of the Volunteer Event Guide Program!
Here are your updates for May 10, 2012. The quest All You Need is Time in Withered Lands should now be fixed as well as the ratio of Tier 10 precious metal rares. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Withered Lands Hexapola: players outside the raid should no longer cause the raid to reset if they agro raid insects. Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse. Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or...
Here are your update notes for 8 May, 2012. There is a fix for the quest “All You Need is Time” currently on the test server but it hasn’t made it to the live servers yet. If you are stuck on that quest, Gninja says to /petition it. He has given customer service steps on how to fix it. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse. Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s...
From EverQuest2.com: We made it! Whew! The Skyshrine Game Update went live and was well tested thanks to the community at large as well as the internal teams. We are all really proud of it and it seems like a good bunch of you are enjoying it too. While we are still watching Skyshrine and responding to any issues that come up, we are obviously marching onward to our next big projects. Also, as we’ve said many times, we are looking at the existing game and how to make improvements to what we have. We’ve jotted down a few...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a client crash that could happen when trying to examine an item in certain situations. Skyshrine: the Claws of Veeshan faction will now be in the Destiny of Velious category along with all other DoV factions.
As players learned last week in an e-mail from SOE, DC Universe Online is now 30-60 days from transitioning its European customers from SOE/Station accounts to Pro7Sat.1 accounts: An exciting time in SOE history has arrived and we are very pleased to be celebrating it with you, some of the most passionate DC Universe Online fans! As many of you know, SOE has partnered with ProSiebenSat.1 Games to provide and market eight of its games to players in Europe, including EverQuest® II, DC Universe™ Online, Free Realms®, Star Wars®: Clone Wars Adventures™, Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, and PoxNora®,...
For two weeks, dozens of Guild Rally Flags and AFK players have adorned the central hub of the City of Skyshrine on each EQ2 server. It looks like that is about to change. From the EQ2 Test Update Notes: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine : The Forbidden City of Dracur A Pennant of Skyshrine Loyalty can now be purchased from the Skyshrine City faction merchant once you have earned enough faction with the Claws of Veeshan. This pennant will allow you to return to Skyshrine from any house or guildhall. Yet another reason to gain +50,000 Faction with the...