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The time has arrived at last. The SOE Live 2013 schedule including all the events, announcements, official Developer, AND Player Panels has been released. New Venue, Player Panels, No Problem! Not only is SOE Live taking up a new venue this year at Planet Hollywood (SOE Community and Events team folks were in Vegas this week enduring 117°F/47.2°C temperatures to scope the place out and ensure that the events go smoothly), but this year is only the second year of the highly popular Player-run Panels. Not only is SOE Live unveiling a totally new game — EverQuest Next — but...
Month: June 2013
As first revealed by the ProSiebenSat.1 EQ2 website, this weekend is a 50% Instant Rebate weekend for nearly all Marketplace items. From EverQuest2.com: This weekend the EQII Marketplace will be featuring an Instant Rebate sale where you’ll be able to get deep discounts on most items in the store. With minor exceptions* all Station Cash items in the Marketplace will receive at least a 50% rebate. How does a rebate work? Once you purchase one of the items eligible for Instant Rebate, you’ll receive a refund of 50% of your Station Cash used to purchase an item moments after...
According to ProSiebenSat.1’s new website for EverQuest II, this weekend will be a StationCash Marketplace Rebate weekend. We don’t have any official confirmation if the event will include the US or only apply to Europe, but the ending time for the event is certainly suggestive. 8:59am CEST just happens to be 11:59pm PDT Sunday night… This weekend the EQII Marketplace will be featuring an Instant Rebate sale where you’ll be able to get deep discounts on most items in the store. The sale runs Friday, June 28 – Monday, July 01, ending at 08:59 am CEST. The Instant Rebate Sale...
What can we expect in the upcoming Fabled dungeons in Game Update 67? You’ll recall this announcement from Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums about Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns which included a list of dungeons: 1. Fabled Dungeons: We’ve taken some dungeon favorites from the very first EQII expansion “Desert of Flames” and created additional versions of them with current high-level content and loot. You can experience Clefts of Rujark, The Djinn Masters Prism, Scornfeather’s Roost, and Pedestal of Sky at a high level range! As posted by Kander on the EQ2 Forums: The Fabled zones have been...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The /feedback command should work correctly now. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan’s doppelganger will no longer attack instantly when it is summoned and will delay casting spells for a short duration. The combine elite adds summoned by Overlord Talan memwipe less frequently and are now immune to area of effect abilities unless directly targeted. ITEMS Dulgur Bindmagic now sells armor runes that reduce the resistibility of all spells. The cost of red and yellow adornments sold by Dulgur Bindmagic have been reduced.
Players on Butcherblock and Antonia Bayle, two of the servers which were not supposed to be affected by this morning’s 5:30-7:00am maintenance, were unable to enter housing, group, or raid zones (instances), and began receiving Server Announcements indicating that their servers were coming down at 5:30am: Originally, only Guk, Everfrost, Crushbone, Permafrost and Oasis were scheduled to be brought down for extended maintenance. But it looks like someone didn’t get the memo as now ALL EQ2 servers are down and login servers are not responding: We can only guess that all EQ2 servers will be down through 8:00am PDT (11:00am EDT, 17:00...
From the EQ2 Forums: Most US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, June 25, at 7:00 am Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. The Guk, Everfrost, Crushbone, Permafrost and Oasis servers will have an extended downtime, coming down earlier at 5:30 am Pacific Time. The EU EQ2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, June 25, at 9:00 pm Pacific Time*, and the expected downtime is two hours.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan Challenge Mode: The Psionic Defiler and Psionic Guardian adds have less health. Overlord Talan: Adds no longer do trauma based melee damage, they do arcane damage instead. In all fights the crippling aura/cripped armor debuff is less potent per counter. Overlord Talan Challenge Mode : The Psionic Guardians do less damage. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Enchanter Sever Hate will now properly apply if the target ally is casting a spell when Sever Hate is cast. ZONES Wurmbone’s End: Nox Incessit Overall outgoing damage from zone...
UPDATE Ok folks, we just got word from Dexella on the EQ2 Forums at 11:54am PDT that this is a BUG and will be fixed soon: Hey all, We are looking for a fix to the issue that caused the removal of the countries from the credit card list. In the meantime, you can update your account by using account management on the SOE General site (rather than EQ2-specific). On soe.com, select “My Account” from the top navigation and proceed from there. Thanks, Dexella A number of European EQ2 players who are currently “free-to-play” or otherwise do not have an active credit card...
If you are a member of a Guild, then over the last few months, you’ve gained the ability to pay your rent on all of your houses, visit them with one click, and also visit the houses of friends and guildmates, all without having to venture beyond the confines of your guild hall. Now, these abilities have come to those who are between guilds or simply prefer to adventure on their own. With this new window, you can travel directly to any of your houses anywhere in Norrath as long as you are within a city zone. You can...
From EverQuest2.com: If you’re a Gold Member this summer (June 21 – September 21), you will have access to a special daily spell that provides bonus coin loot (increase of 15%), an experience bump (increase of 10%), and additional mount speed (increase of 5%)! This spell grants these benefits for four (4) hours each day, all summer long! This is in addition to all of the other perks you receive with Gold membership. You will find this spell in your hot bar or in your spell book under abilities. Look for “Gold Rush.” For more about membership levels in EverQuest II, visit our membership matrix. Go...
From EQ2 Zam: POST-PATCH UPDATE: If you are receiving a “MainHUD Map2_clone_0” UI error, it is because you are running custom maps. EQ2Map users can run the auto-updater to fix this error. Other solutions are checking over on EQ2Interface for further updates, /loadui default, or copy the default map UI files to your custom directory. This update is needed to support the new “Instant Travel” functionality which replaces the [eq2u]Portable Globe of Swift Travel[/eq2u] purchasable from the Marketplace. Instead of buying the travel Globes in stacks of 5, now you can navigate to any map in EQ2 and travel to certain demarcation points through...
From the EQ2 Forums: PLAYER HOUSING Added a new window, “Housing and Leaderboards”. This window, which can be accessed via the EQII menu and from the main menu bar, allows easy access to many housing related features. It allows you to manipulate all your current houses, browse and buy new houses, visit houses associated with the current zone you are in, and view the current housing leaderboards. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Furnace of the Ages [Challenge Duo] Fire Thief now has custom text to clarify how the effect works. and after the jump, almost every class’ has had at...
Looks like there might be some update notes for tomorrow’s extended downtime after all. From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Our new housing UI will go live in our update tomorrow! Home sweet home… #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 20, 2013 The new combined Housing / Leaderboards window hit Test on May 15th and received mostly positive reviews, although some players expressed frustration at the addition of another zoning step for touring houses. This extra zoning happens between each house your tour, so touring houses will take twice as long. Still, the rest of the new features have been...
From the EQ2 Forums: All EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Thursday, June 20, at 4:00 am Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime is four five hours. There are no game update notes associated with this downtime. Time Zone Conversions PDT: June 20 @ 4:00-8:00am 9:00am EDT: June 20 @ 7:00-11:00am 12:00pm BST: June 20 @ 12:00-16:00 17:00 CET: June 20 @ 13:00-17:00 18:00 AEST: June 20 @ 9:00pm ~ June 21 @ 1:00am 2:00am
From the EQ2 Forums: Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and ProSiebenSat.1 Games Group will be furthering their partnership with the launch of EverQuest® II on or around June 20, 2013. As we approach the transition, we want to clarify some final points. We have put together an updated FAQ that further addresses some of the most common concerns and questions from our online player community. Importantly, we want to address up front the most common concern that players have had, which is server accessibility. SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games have determined that it is in the best interest of the players...
A tip of the hat to Kinya who pointed out to us this morning that EverQuest II forums have appeared in English, French, and German on the Alaplaya forums.
From the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 7:00 AM Pacific* on June 18, 2013. This will impact the following services: Account management will be unavailable for 30 minutes. Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will fail until 7:30 AM Pacific Time* Pay Pal and SMS Transactions will fail until 9 AM Pacific Time* Login for all SOE forums may be affected. You may lose permissions and experience occasional disconnects from 7 AM Pacific until 9 AM Pacific* Login for all SOE games may be affected from 7 AM Pacific until 9...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with pet auto assist related to click-through targeting. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Gen’ra: Stinging urchins spawn less frequently in the Gen’ra fight. You are no longer able to use the Conch of Reverberating Echo if Gen’ra has been killed in either version. Using the Conch of Reverberating Echo no longer despawns Diviner Gelerin. Normal progression will still need to be maintained as if the zone were a new zone for any bosses after Gen’ra. Challenge Duo Zones You must be grouped with your partner when fighting the...
“Dawn of the Dark Elf” The First Player Studio Item Creation Competition From June 15 to July 15, 2013, Dark Elf-themed items submitted to Player Studio will be eligible to enter our first Player Studio art competition. For EverQuest II, categories could include cloaks, weapons, shields, furniture & house items, hair styles, and even headgear (submitted as hair.) Our Art Director judges will be looking for excellence of technical execution, artistic quality, adherence to the Dark Elf theme, and crowd-pleasing originality. There is no limit on number of entries. All entries must be received by 11:59pm PDT on Monday, July...
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 5 years since EQ2Wire launched. To celebrate, it’s time for a fresh coat of paint and a little remodeling here and there. I hope you find the new site easier to navigate, and still easy find the wall-to-wall EverQuest II and EverQuest Next coverage you have come to expect. This is just Phase One. Phase Two will see the launch of an EQNext site, with cross-posting capabilities, as well as a full live blogging platform. EQ2Wire and our EQNext site will be THE place to be on August 1st-4th as we provide...
From the EQ2 Forums: We are pleased to announce our next Game Update titled “Darkness Dawns” coming on July 30! For our 67th game update we have great stuff in store for you! We are really excited about a new story quest line that will pick up from our last game update in April (GU66: Scars of the Awakened). We can tell you that there is an EPIC event brewing in Cobalt Scar that could turn the world on its head and YOU are the catalyst. SPOILER: At the end of GU66, players uncovered an artifact of power —...
Typically, SOE does such a great job marketing their StationCash deals that they don’t need my help, however for those looking for the best deal on StationCash, this might just be the best yet: From Friday, June 14th through Sunday, June 16th, 2013, GameStop and EB Games locations will be offering $5 off any SOE $15 pre-paid game card. * Offer valid from store opening on June 14, 2013 through store closing June 16, 2013. Valid on SOE pre-paid game cards purchased at participating GameStop and EB Games retail stores in Canada and the USA only. UPDATE from Ashlanne:...
From EQ2’s Twitter today: Congratulations! We reached our goal of 2,000 YouTube subscribers. The Meatbeast will be available this weekend! ow.ly/m1bN6 — EverQuest II (@everquestii) June 14, 2013 Specifically: The Meatbeast will be available from 3:00 pm PDT on Friday, June 14 through 11:59 pm PDT on Sunday, June 16. on June 3rd, this promotion was announced on EQ2’s Facebook: Are you missing the Meatbeast? When we hit 2,000 subscribers on http://www.youtube.com/eq2videos, it will return to the Marketplace for a limited time! Subscribe now and check out lots of great EverQuest II videos! [Dexella]
EQ2Wire Mockup — not indicative of how these will appear in-game If you haven’t read last night’s EverQuest “What’s Next” Show transcript, then you missed out on a number of announcements for EQ2’s as-yet-unannounced Game Update 67. Two items of note: Character Advancement Templates — For players who don’t want to spend 320 AA points one-at-a-time, there will be certain templates which are recommended AA setups for each class. You can click a button and have it spend the points for you, and if you don’t have enough points to get everything suggested by the template, it will remember and...