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UPDATE from Gninja on February 21, 2013: Yes the crash is still happening though it seems to happen a bit less often we will check the logs in the morning and see what we can find. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Wurmbone Crag [Advanced Solo] Using the portal on the final boss platform should no longer teleport players under the world. Harrow‘s End [Heoric] Players should no longer become gated if they kill FItzpitzle extremely fast. Harrow’s End [Raid] and Sleeper’s Tomb [Raid] Fixed some issues that could cause these zones to crash. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE...
Month: February 2013
Enough is enough. It has been three full months since the launch of the Chains of Eternity expansion and the bosses of the expansion are hopelessly broken. During the Chains of Eternity beta, there were warning signs that something was seriously amiss. On one hand, the Skyshrine and Chains of Eternity raiding ended up being so easy that the top 10-15 guilds per server had cleared nearly ALL the content within 48-72 hours of release. On the other hand, Drinal launched essentially unkillable. Not challenging. Not difficult. Broken.
From Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson‘s twitter: EQII player studio: hairstyles, swords and shields will be open soon for players to create! Soon = a couple weeks! — David Georgeson (@Qixter) February 14, 2013
From EverQuest2.com: Today in the Marketplace there are two new Player Studio items available for sale! These two romantic cloaks were created by Stormyheavens E’Clipse. The cloaks both radiate passion, perfectly paired with the current Erollisi Day celebrations! Cloak of Death and Roses
This one comes to us from Arkenor over at Ark’s Ark: I received the following email yesterday. SOE is increasing European prices for a variety of currencies, claiming currency fluctuations. As a result of Sony Online Entertainment LLC’s ongoing commitment to our players to review global pricing and remain in line with exchange rate fluctuations, it is necessary for us to make adjustments to Membership pricing as outlined below. In addition to Membership pricing, some Station Cash® prices will also be adjusted. We are writing to notify you that these price changes will take effect on March 14th, 2013....
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: I’m excited to announce we’ll be updating the hardware on the Russian Harla Dar server on Thursday, 5 pm PST (estimated at 3 hrs) ! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) February 13, 2013 We are working on the hardware upgrade for Harla Dar. The goal is by end of next week without a snafu. I will keep you posted! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) February 12, 2013
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where NPC death animations would not play correctly. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow‘s End Fixed an issue that was caused by players reviving before the encounter tried to teleport them out of the room. Drinal should now teleport players who are far away from him when he begins his fight instead of teleporting players after the encounter resets. Befallen: Cavern of the Afflicted and Royal Palace ofErudin Respawning NPCs in these zones will no longer give out XP, treasure loot, or corpse loot. Wurmbone’s End [Advanced Solo] Necromunger Garrkk’s adds come...
As some of you have no doubt noticed, EQ2U has had some performance issues lately. Usually these outages have been short-lived but last night, EQ2 data updates stopped around 8:15pm last night and only sporadically worked today. According to a recent tweet from John Smedley, PlanetSide 2 will soon be launching its own twice-delayed API service which will enable player-driven PS2 sites just as the EQ2 Data Feeds have enabled EQ2U and other sites. Hopefully they’re just working out the kinks and things will work themselves out over the next few days. Just in the last hour we’ve seen...
Today, along with the Press Release announcing SOE Live, we saw the first blog post by Linda “Brasse” Carlson about the new venue, some of the reasons why it was selected, and things we can look forward to improving and returning such as the Bazaar “phat loot” store and Player Panels. HURRAH! SOE Live 2013 planning is underway! We will release regular updates every month, or even more often as we get closer to the event. Tell us what you want to know about on our forums, on Twitter (@SonyOnline) and on Facebook – we’ll get you the answers. SOE...
News of the new dates and venue for SOE Live 2013 leaked due to a file being pushed early by the SOE Web Team, but now we have an official Press Release from SOE: SAN DIEGO – Feb. 6, 2013 – Sony Online Entertainment, LLC (SOE) today announced that its annual community fan event, SOE Live, will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino inLas Vegas on Aug. 1 – Aug. 4, 2013. An annual SOE-sponsored event, SOE Live is set to be the ultimate gathering for the SOE community, and provides players an opportunity to celebrate their favorite free-to-play...
UPDATE: This article has been corrected to state that this is not Game Update 66, which is expected later this spring, but a mini-update which is internally being called Game Update 65.5. From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Senior Producer of EverQuest II on the EQ2 Forums comes news of a game update which we can expect on February 26th, 2013. Greetings Norrath! It’s been an exciting time for us since EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity went live. We are charging full steam ahead with creating more rewarding, memorable experiences and have redoubled our efforts to tell stories better than any other game....
From the EQ2 Forums: ABILITIES Player strikethrough can now go over 50%. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Chains of Eternity Raids Basepop armor tables have been weighted to drop less leather, priest chain. Scout and Mage drops should be slightly higher. Tallon’s Stronghold Raid This zone now rewards the proper amount of adventure XP. ITEMS The HEIRLOOM tag has been added to all items flagged APPEARANCE-ONLY from the adornment removal process. Planar Mender’s Aura now increases ward values properly. Drinal’s Castle: 4 Soul Drinal Ethereal Breastplates have had their effects improved. Amalgamon: Totality of Elements – Weapons dropped by Amalgamon...
So after we posted Brasse’s tweets about SOE Live news coming next week, some astute readers checked out the SOE Live webpage and discovered the venue and date had already been posted. I’ve done some quick research reading reviews of Planet Hollywood online and while reviews typically trend towards the negative (most people who have a great experience don’t post about it), I saw the same type of comments enough times to warrant mentioning them. Pro: Centrally located Pro: Has a great view of the Strip Pro: Easily accessible to Paris and Bellagio. Has decent restaurants inside. Con: Rooms...
It seems like we just left Vegas and already it’s time to start talking about this year’s event… Well, @brasse has said we’ll know next week, it’s in a new venue, still in Vegas, and NOT in October. RT @notarybyt: when is…SoELive2013 — EverQuest II (@everquestii) February 1, 2013 Also it looks like SOE Live will be operating without Community Manager Donna “Danicia” Prior who was heavily involved in planning the 2012 event. And because people seem to think I make things up: