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Today brought the stunning news that the Jethal Silverwing show which has hosted numerous guests from within Sony Online Entertainment including no less than SOE President John Smedley himself, has come to an end. It is hard to imagine the EQ2 Community without his show, his parodies, and his videos. It is also hard to ignore a trend — With this news, Dellmon and Aliscious‘ EQ2Talk becomes the sole EQ2-specific Podcast. Here’s the announcement from Kithicor.org: They say that “All good things must come to an end”. And, so it is with The Jethal Show. It’s been quite a...
Year: 2012
When the EQ2 team came up with the six year Veteran Reward for loyal EQ2 customers, they likely never dreamed that its devilish complexity would haunt them years later. Call of the Veteran is both extremely popular, and frequently maligned for its maddening inconsistency. Although numerous bugs have been fixed with it over the years, the overriding need to prevent exploits has tended to expose strange glitches that take Indiana Jones-level archeology to resolve. At this year’s SOE Live, EQ2 Lead Programmer Zoltaroth made it a point that he wanted Call of the Veteran to operate reliably. A tall...
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale hath tweeted: We’re extending Nights of the Dead until tomorrow night at midnight. We goofed and ended it at noon today (time is hard). Spooky tidings! — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 7, 2012
Showcased above is the new EQ2 Character Select screen set in Eidolon Plains. Screenshots of the two Chains of Eternity: Collector’s Edition mercenaries (your choice of Templar or Paladin for each of your characters), as well as the SOE Live mercenary (a Vampire Shadowknight) which became available early this week can be seen in our previous article EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity CE Items, AoD, and SOE Live. We’ve also posted a screenshot of the Collector’s Edition exclusive Wyvern Flying Mount in Ethernere colors.
This should help with Bronze and Silver players wanting to buy subscriptions via Krono. From the Beta Update Notes on the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Memberships: There will no longer be coin limits on any account types. UPDATE: For those who doubt this is really coming to the Live servers, Massively quoted the news and then the official SonyOnline account retweeted it.
From the EQ2 Forums: EverQuest II is preparing to launch its ninth expansion, Chains of Eternity™! This expansion will take intrepid adventurers into Ethernere. Part of this expansion is the two new overlands in the spirit realm: Obol Plains and the Eidolon Jungle. Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall, Game Designer; Maria Del Casino, Senior Environment Artist; Brandon McDonald, Environment Artist; and Chris Atkins, Character Artist talk about what went into creating the lush environments of Eidolon Jungle and Obol Plains. They may have started with Loping Plains and the Feerrott, but after all the changes, they are almost entirely new zones....
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now summon a chest to you. Right-click the chest and choose summon or use the /summon_chest command. If you have no chest to target, the /summon_chest command will give you a list of chests that you can summon to you.
This was posted earlier this week, but in case you forgot… NOTE: StationCash may not be used to purchase Gold Subscription or Expansions.
As we intimated last month, SOE is finally putting its proprietary forum software out to pasture and moving to modern off-the-shelf forum software — XenForo — which is the creation of ex-vBulletin developers. EverQuest completed their transition to their new forums just prior to their Rain of Fear expansion and now EverQuest II has its own move-in date: November 9th. Timing is Everything But wait, you’re thinking, November 9th is smack dab in the middle of the Chains of Eternity beta! Well the EQ2 team have thought of that, and will be keeping the CoE beta forums up and...
Dethdlr and I were very fortunate to make it to SOE Live this year and further, to present a panel on EQ2U, including the new Achievements feature, and talk a bit about what went into creating this site, what we plan for the future, and how SOE is going to shortly be burying us in a lot more data. 😉 The panel starts with Clif Bate, Director of Commerce Services & Web Presence, and Morgan Bonar Lead Web Developer and Web Producer, PlanetSide 2, and then at the 20 minute mark, we get to the EQ2U bits.
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We are excited to announce we’re adding an amazing Ethernere wyvern mount to the CoE Collector’s Edition! and for SOE Live attendees who have been justifiably balking at the $50 upsell to get the Chains of Eternity: Collector’s Edition, it looks like there may be some movement on that price: Also, our Community and Marketing team has exciting announcement coming this afternoon for SOE Live folks looking to upgrade CoE… Glad to see these two changes based on player feedback. UPDATE: Chains of Eternity: Collector’s Edition is now a $20 upgrade for SOE Live...
Linda “Brasse” Carlson has tweeted some interesting news: #SOE Player Studio has received 78 submissions in two weeks – no mean feat, as creating qualifying items requires serious skills! — Brasse (@Brasse) November 1, 2012 To date, #SOE Player Studio has 12 submissions in process for #FreeRealms, 13 for #EQ2 and an amazing 53 for #EQ — Brasse (@Brasse) November 1, 2012 Final bit of cool #SOE Player Studio info: six of these items have been approved & with Finance pending tax forms – next stop, DEV! — Brasse (@Brasse) November 1, 2012 At #SOELive we said to expect...
From the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 5:00 AM Pacific* on November 1, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 3 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games may be affected Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, may be unavailable Account management may be unavailable We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions PDT: November 1st @ 5:00-8:00am EDT: November 1st @ 8:00-11:00am GMT: November 1st @ 12:00-15:00 CET: November 1st @ 13:00-16:00
From the EQ2 Forums: Last weekend was so great, we decided to do it again! Starting at 12:01pm (noon) Pacific on Friday, November 2 , 2012, and lasting until 11:59pm Pacific on Sunday, November 4, 2012, we’re offering Double Experience in EverQuest II! Take advantage of this limited time offer and watch those XP bars fill up! REMEMBER: Each copy of the Chains of Eternity expansion will include two baubles which you can use to boost two level 90 characters to 280 AAs. So don’t fret about any level 90 characters that are short on AAs, instead work on...
When the Chains of Eternity expansion was announced, the Collector’s Edition goodies were revealed to include Krivix Honorclaw, a Werewolf Mercenary, a healer. Then at SOE Live, players suggested that it would be great to have a choice of healer or tank for the CE, and so the decision was made on the spot to offer a choice of Paladin or Templar for each person who claims the merc. Today, Holly “Windstalker” tweeted a screenshot of Krivok Honorclaw the Templar, who is a new Werewolf-like race, the Lujien:
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So last night, we announced that we had made a snapshot of the AAs for some 150,000 characters which people could view at Beetny.com. We were pretty proud of ourselves until someone asked if that included the Beastlord warder AAs. It didn’t. Beatny doesn’t cover Beastlord warders. So because we try harder, we’ve gone back and made an actual backup of every character’s AAs right here on EQ2U and will hang onto it until well after the expansion. That’s over 416,000 characters. When the expansion hits on November 13th, you now have two backups you can use. The original...
From EQ2 ZAM: To celebrate Nights of the Dead, ZAM has acquired TWENTY-FIVE exclusive Royal Mummy Wrap Crate codes to give away AND some Station Cash! All you have to do is bring us your best EverQuest II Nights of the Dead themed screenshots, and you could be sporting this bejeweled version of the Mummy Wrap with a pocket full of SC! Full instructions and rules are here. But here’s the short version: Register on ZAM. Upload your most awesome Nights of the Dead themed screenshots here. Wait until November 2 when we’ll give prizes out! Feel free to...
From the EQ2 Forums as of 20 minutes ago: Hi Everyone, We are experiencing some issues with eCommerce at the moment, which is impacting how Krono appear in game. We are working on a resolution to this currently, which is why you may be experiencing some delays in Krono showing as available. We are sorry for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as more information is available. Thanks for your patience. ~Dexella UPDATE: As we work on a fix for these eCommerce issues, users may experience problems with game and forum logins and some forum permissions. UPDATE:...
From the EQ2 Forums: Krono is live in EQ2! Buy, trade, sell 30 days of Gold Membership time! To Buy or Use Krono in game, open your Character’s Equipment panel (“C” is the hotkey) and find the Krono interface at the bottom. For more detail, see http://tinyurl.com/eq2krono. The near universal reaction from players to the addition of Krono to the Character/Persona window has been that the UI elements are far too obtrusive. Left: The new Persona window with large Krono “Buy” and “Use” buttons at the bottom. Right: My mockup for a more subdued Krono interface. Clicking the left...
If you watched the SOE Live Keynote/Welcome Reception, or read our notes, you know that today October 29th is the day that Krono are being added to EQ2. This Plex-like currency allows players to trade platinum for a 30-day All Access Subscription (a $17.99 value). At the Business of EverQuest Franchise panel (read our notes), Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson indicated that this new currency would be a safer option for players to bypass the whole nail-biting “handoff” associated with the current SC-for-Plat trading scheme. It would also help cut out gold farmers and fraud.
With the EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity expansion comes new Prestige abilities, and that means an AA reset. In years past, news of an AA reset has seen players scrambling to capture screenshots of their AA tabs or scribbling down notes about where you’ve spent points (and how many) on each tree. This year, we have a better suggestion: Sit back, relax, and let EQ2U do the work for you! On October 28-29th, Dethdlr wrote and ran a script to Backup the AAs of every followed character on EQ2U, plus every single level 90, 91, and 92 EQ2 character...
From EverQuest2.com: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM Pacific on October 29, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games will be affected for the first hour Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable 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 October 29 @ 4:00-8:00 am PDT October 29 @ 7:00-11:00am EDT October 29 @ 11:00-15:00 GMT October 29 @ 12:00-16:00...
From EverQuest2.com: EverQuest II’s ninth expansion, Chains of Eternity™, will be taking adventurers to a realm never intended for living souls: Ethernere. What waits for them there? And what will happen to Norrathians as they cross the barrier between the living and the dead, a barrier that some seers argue never should have been breached?
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL SOE Live: By popular demand, you can now hide flying mounts, unless you are flying. Fixed an issue with copying characters to the Beta server.
So it seems like every year, I mistranscribe at least one thing said in the panels. At the frenetic pace required to cover the content, it’s inevitable, but it still leads to grief for developers and I apologize for that. In this case, with the upcoming Group XP changes (which I am very excited about), somehow I got the impression that if you were not on the hate list (you had not either damaged the mob or healed or buffed an ally) you would get NO xp in the group. This couldn’t be further from the truth. From Terrogaunt...