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EQ2Wire has been providing extensive coverage of EverQuest Next for some 4 years now, ever since its development was hinted in the EverCracked documentary. But now the time has finally come for our coverage of the next EverQuest game to venture out on its own as a dedicated site — EQNWire.com. There are a number of reasons for this division. While the EQ and EQ2 player communities have many things in common, they are still, at their core, quite different. I’ve seen this in the tenor of discussions on the EQ and EQ2 forums, in livecasts, and in chatrooms. There’s...
Month: July 2013
Players noticed earlier today that the SOELive code is no longer working on the special Planet Hollywood registration page. Players may need to investigate other hotels or can choose to wait with crossed fingers to see if PH opens up another room block at the SOE rate. More as we have it…
From Zoltaroth‘s twitter: @zoltaroth: Working on the network / lag issues in #EQ2 as fast as we can Forum thread is here: http://t.co/GCkv4dykHc if you have any tracerts plz post
From the EQ2 Forums: Get ready for our 67th game update, Darkness Dawns, with a Double Experience Weekend! Adventure, Tradeskill, AA, and Guild XP will be doubled from 12:00pm (Noon) PDT on Friday, July 19 through 11:59pm (Midnight) PDT on Sunday, July 21, 2013. Take advantage of this limited time offer and watch those XP bars fill up!
From the EQ2 Forums: What do Norrathians and Superheroes have in common? A truly heroic fashion sense. No matter which world you call home, every hero knows that no outfit is complete without a cape. To celebrate the cape-wearing characters of the San Diego Comic Con, all cloaks in the EverQuest 2 Marketplace are 50% off from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. In addition, cloaks from the Vault of Serillis will be available during the sale, so don’t miss your chance to add these rare items to your collection. And at these prices, you can get a...
From the EQ2 Forums: As any MMO player knows, everything is more fun with friends. With that in mind, Sony Online Entertainment is rolling out their brand new Recruit Rewards program! Station Account holders can earn exclusive items just by inviting friends to join them in their favorite SOE games.* Here’s an overview of how the program works: The Invite: Use the recruiter invite page to generate an email or a custom link that’s perfect for posting on social media (hint!). The message will include all the information your friend needs to get up and running in the game you’ve...
From the EQ2 Forums: If you’re a Player Studio artist (or know someone who is interested in becoming one!), this is a quick call to action for you. If you are creating Nights of the Dead/October-themed items, please get those items submitted by September 2, 2013. You’re welcome to submit earlier, of course, but that’s the cut-off for this year’s holiday. For more information about Player Studio, visit this section of the website. If you’re interested in taking part in the Player Studio discussion, make sure to visit the Player Studio forums. Thanks. Can’t wait to see what you come up with! (personally,...
From EverQuest2.com: Player Studio gives artists in the community a chance to leave a permanent mark on the worlds that they adventure in. In addition, when these items are sold in the Marketplace, SOE shares the profits from the sales of these items with the artist that submitted them. There are three new items available this week in the EverQuest II Marketplace from Player Studio artist CoffeeOutlaw. Not only has he submitted great designs for in-game items, he has created discussion threads on the Player Studio forums detailing the design development for these items so other artists can see these items change...
In a thread which has been going since January, but which has really come to a head in the last few weeks, players are sounding off about EQ2 Server Lag, Routing issues, and overall unpleasantness when trying to play the game. Despite endless trolling from players who have been quick to accuse players of having deficient computer hardware, as well as numerous red herrings about Traceroutes and ISP issues, the reality is, this issue has been affecting a cross-section of players in all forms of gameplay, in different parts of the country, and on top notch PCs which previously...
So a number of players have been raising Cain about various deficiencies and choices made in the “off the shelf” Character Advancement Templates which will be available to players after Game Update 67 goes live. I’ve always believed that players who are interested in trying out different AA specs could avail themselves of Beetny’s AA Calculator to try out different patterns, as well as looking up known characters on either EQ2U or Dragon’s Armory. This leaves players who might not read EQ2Wire (the horror!), might not read the EQ2 forums, and may not be familiar with addon websites like...
At one time, Mounts in EQ2 increased your run speed, oh and they looked nice. Over the years, faster mounts were introduced, then we began to see mounts with some very minor stat boosts to harvesting or weapon skills. Nowadays, it is just expected that ground, leaper, glider, and flying mounts all have some sort of buff which is beneficial in combat situations. Essentially, mounts have become a 25th item slot. Search for Mounts on EQ2U With Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns, we will see the ability for players to store up to three Alternate Advancement profiles on their...
For those folks who read EQ2Wire in Russia (I hope there are a few 😉 ). From Zoltaroth on the EQ2 Forums: We had a hardware malfunction in our data center that required hands-on intervention. The hardware has been replaced and we should be good to go now. and from Kander in a thread about the Siren’s Grotto raid: It sounds like Barren Sky’s harddrive failed over the weekend. I am sure they are working feverishly on it’s repair.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Sabaron’s Palace Harvesting the “?” shiny in Sabaron’s Palace should now give you an item if you are level 90 or above. Poets Palace: Return The ring event on the 4th floor of the zone is now fixed. All NPC encounters on that floor should now spawn as intended.
From EverQuest2.com: He patted the envelope in his left breast pocket. It was still there, as it always was, but old habits die hard. The letter within was penned what felt like ages ago. It was looking likely that he would take as long to send it as he did to write it. There was always something—the wrong time, the wrong place, the wrong mood, the wrong company. Satisfied that the letter was still safe in its envelope, albeit more weathered and wrinkled than it was the day before, Vishra began the process of strapping on his armor. Greaves...
Although vague, we now have a little more info about the EQNext and EQ2 panels at this year’s SOE Live convention. Dexella has posted an update to the SOE Live 2013 Schedule which moves the Maxwell Drake panel, as well as adding names for the EQ2 and EQNext panels… First up, EverQuest II will have panels about the game’s 10th Expansion, Mechanics (Systems), Itemization, Art & Animation, an informal Coding & YOU! panel (ie the Geek panel), and more, as well as two panels that allow players to test a new Secret feature: The EQ II team will be doing a full...
From the EQ2 Forums: PvP COMBAT Attacking a player will now force them into combat. If there are any other changes in this update, we will update this article!
From the SOE.com Community site: SOE Live! It’s the event of the year, our annual family gathering, and we can’t wait to see you! Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director of Global Community Relations) and Jen Belfield (Marketing Services Director) plan to talk about the schedule, the pool party, tournaments, the Costume Contest, the Player Got Talent event, and so much more! They will also share details on how to connect with us during the event via social media and our livestream channels! Join us on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. PDT (8:30pm EDT, 1:30am BST, 2:30am CET) on Twitch TV! This webcast...
From the EQ2 Forums: Get a FREE small Slurpee drink on 7-Eleven Day! All guests visiting any 7-Eleven on July 11th, 2013, between 11AM and 7PM, will get a FREE small Slurpee drink – and this year it’s in a bigger cup! In addition, get a bonus 500 Station Cash when you redeem an SOE Game Card from any participating U.S. 7-Eleven store for Station Cash on 7-Eleven Day. Reminder: You can purchase your SOE Game Card from participating 7-Eleven stores any time before the offer ends (11:59PM PDT on 7/11/13), but you only get your 500 SC bonus...
From Player Studio, to Census-driven player sites like EQ2U and Dragon’s Armory, to the player-made content we’ll be able to create in EQNext using tools from StoryBricks, SOE is showing an increasing interest in player-made content and fan sites. And now, they want to do the same thing with player-made videos! From EverQuest2.com: We have long admired the videos that our players have made. Some make us giggle, some make us proud, and some make us just stare in open-jawed amazement. in short, you guys have become terrific video directors. We just can’t get enough – literally – we come...
Tomorrow’s brief update is starting at the crack of dark as all US servers (and Sebilis in Japan) will come down at 5:30am PDT (8:30am EDT, 13:30 BST, 14:30 CET). Freeport, Nagafen, and Antonia Bayle servers will stay down for 3 hours, while the other servers will be up after the usual hour. Hopefully someone is running Defrag. 😉 From EverQuest2.com: The US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, July 9, at 5:30 am Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime for Freeport, Nagafen, and Antonia Bayle is three hours; the expected downtime for the remaining US...
Not to be confused with today’s GU67 Beta notes, tomorrow we can expect a small update. Here are the notes from the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Furnace of Ages [Challenge Duo] Mastersmith Naghig Dakgu‘s Unmake effect is now more reliable and less streaky. The average effectiveness is unchanged. Antechamber of the Automaton [Challenge Duo] K’zan‘s color attunements now show the icons for a more accurate period of time. The actual functionality has not changed. Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan: Crippled Armor now properly displays the damage reduction it is removing. This is a display issue only,...
Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns has now hit the EQ2 Beta server and here are the Update Notes. Game Update 67 is expected to go live July 23, 2013. Fabled Dungeons Fabled Clefts of Rujark (accessed from Sinking Sands) Fabled Scornfeather’s Roost (accessed from within Fabled Clefts of Rujark) Fabled Djinn Masters Prism (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Fabled Pedestal of Sky (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Three New Contested Avatar Raids: Pit yourself against three new contested avatars in the overlands – Prexus, Solusek Ro, and Drinal! Arena...
There are not one but TWO deals on StationCash this July 4th, and only on July 4th! If you purchase StationCash at SOE.com, or using any of the in-game purchase screens, you get 40% off your StationCash purchase. If you redeem any 1,500SC / 30 day card from retailers like Walmart, EB Games, etc. then you get 1,000SC bonus. So a Walmart 1500+500 card ($15) would redeem for a total of 3,000SC including the bonus. So it’s almost a Double SC day if you have a Walmart handy. From SOE.com: We’re celebrating our players this July 4th! For 24 hours*,...
From the EQ2 Forums: To all beloved Norrathians! We are happy to announce that we are almost ready with GU67: Darkness Dawns, so much so that we decided to launch a week early on Tuesday, July 23! We also thought this would give everyone a chance to play the content before SOE Live (soe.com/soelive) on August 1-4! Not only that, but the once-mentioned Loyalty/Rewards program we were working on earlier in the year is finally where we want it. We expect to be launching that with GU67 if not very soon afterward. That has become a Daily Objectives system...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Want to help out? We are updating our Test server with GU67 content next Monday, July 8! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) July 2, 2013