Update Notes: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 — Heroic Characters, AoD a la carte, Item Unlocks Going Away
Feldon UPDATE:
The EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00AM Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime is approximately 5 hours.
From the EQ2 Forums:
GENERAL
Memberships have changed!
- We’ve removed Item restrictions from Free and Silver accounts.
- Permanent 10% Mount speed and 15% Coin Loot Bonus to Gold membership!
- Destiny of Velious expansion content is now free for everyone too!
HEROIC CHARACTERS & 1 FREE HERO’S CALL OFFER
Heroic characters can now be created! Answer the Hero’s Call!From now until Oct. 15, you can take part in our 1 FREE HEROIC CHARACTER ‘Hero’s Call’ Offer. All existing accounts created prior to Sept. 22, 2013 will have access to 1 free Level 85 Heroic Character! All accounts created after Sept. 22, 2013 will get access to 1 free account per household. These free Heroic Characters will be unlocked permanently!
Beyond the Hero’s Call free offer, we have several options available for Heroic Characters:
1) Try Before You Buy: This option offers one full level of play from Level 85 to 86 – which takes a typical player several hours – with 100 Alternate Advancement (AA) points to test out a class of your choice at a high level. The Free Trial includes a flying mount, armor, consumables, and a few restrictions.
2) New Heroic Character: A full Heroic Character can be purchased at Character Select or while playing as a Free Trial character. It includes level 85, 280 AAs, all items included in the Free Trial, and is unrestricted.
3) Upgrade Existing Character: The Upgrade option allows you to select any existing character at any level and upgrade it to a Heroic Character. All upgraded characters receive level 85 and are increased to 280 AAs, but not beyond. If you are above level 85 and have more than 280 AAs, you won’t receive additional levels or points, but will get a bundle of items that includes the flying mount, armor, and consumables.
For more information, please check the ‘Heroic Character FAQ’ (located under ‘Tutorial’ in the in-game Help menu) and the Producer letter located here:
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2…oducer-letter-about-heroic-characters.539674/AGE OF DISCOVERY FEATURES & 280AA ITEM
Our “Age of Discovery” feature expansion may now be purchased as a bundle or a la carte in the ‘Features’ section of the Marketplace and include:
- Beastlord Class
- Mercenaries
- Tradeskill Apprentices
- Dungeon Maker
- Reforging
Also, an item called ‘Untapped Achievements (280 AA)’ that sets your character to 280 AAs will be available in our Services category and can be used as early as Level 10!
TEARS OF VEESHAN EXPANSION PRELUDE QUEST
- New Channeler Class Prelude: Shadowy creatures have shown up around Norrath. Investigate their incursion, and discover the dark origins of the Channeler.
TEARS OF VEESHAN EXPANSION PRE-ORDERS GO LIVE
- If you pre-order the Tears of Veeshan expansion, it will include immediate access to all the Chains of Eternity expansion content!
ITEMS
- We have a Tears of Veeshan itemization preview live today!
- Upgraded the Djinn Master’s loot to the new system coming in Tears of Veeshan.
- Players can convert their existing pieces to new ones from a vender within the zone.
- Added 2 Ethereal jewelry items to the heroic versions of Wurmbone’s Crag, Wurmbone’s End and Chelsith: The Ancient Vault.
- Added 2 Ethereal jewelry items to the solo versions of Wurmbone’s Crag, Wurmbone’s End and Chelsith: The Ancient Vault.
- The D’Morte insignia band and darkened azure shard are now delivered by in game mail instead of through the claim window.
No option for the extra 20aa?
Extra 20 AA is now included for all players.
They still haven’t said if the 10% mount speed is only ground mounts or not.
It applies to both ground and flying.
Does this mean that only the pre-order will have CoE? Or is it just that if you pre-order it you get CoE along with it and can still buy the x-pack later and get CoE attached?
When you pre-order the x-pack (i.e. you buy it now, but only get it once it is released) you can immediately use the CoE content without having to wait for the x-pack to be released.
It means you can access CoE right now instead of having to wait to have access to it when buying the non-preorder version after release.
Thank GOD for this! This fixes EVERYTHING!
BAH! Hit enter too soon.
Anyway, was this a real problem for people? This came out, when, 2005-ish? What WAS the issue they had to have someone take the time to even NOTICE this was a problem, let alone change this (no matter HOW little time it may have taken) EIGHT years after the fact?
With a new expansion coming, and the recent “Corporate Outplacing” (i.e. staff reduction), THIS is even on the LIST of priorities?
/shrug I just don’t get them sometimes . . .
According to the EQ2 forums here, this is a small part of an almost total revamp of claimed items that they felt was too long of a list of changes to put into the patch notes. “The changes are too lengthy to list in whole” in regards to patch notes is a concept I am having some difficulty comprehending, but at any rate it would appear one of the changes made it into the notes.
Probably there to reach a quota in fixing old issues. This ‘fix’ gives the impression that they are not using a priority based queue though.
I am just curious how we get the 1 free 85 toon. Is it a claim item or something. lol.
FYI, reading is a virtue! With that being said; I’ll give you a hint, Char select is one way.
Your flippant remark is foolish. I read all of it and looked at the item that shows Create Level 85 Heroic. Yes, I know how to read and you can stop being a jerk. With that being plainly said, when you click on the create Level 85 Heroic it gives you a try before you buy option and spend sc option. I was trying to see if it would just give you it without charging or if it would be a claim item to unlock it or what. Thanks for being so unhelpful.
Gland I could help you out. Is there anything else I can help you with?
You can keep your glands to yourself, thanks. 🙂 They have added at the bottom of the create 85 character a create your 1 free option. Still waiting to see if they fix the auto upgrade option that is happening.
And now to add to the mess my son just logged into a character without doing anything and it instantly made it 85 without any confirmation.
Not sure how that happened Kruzzen. I just logged in a level 47 alt who was mentored down and the alt is still level 47 mentored down.
Zoning does not change level nor does camping out and logging back in.
Perhaps your son selected a character and clicked the option ‘Create level 85 Heroic’ instead of play.
They have already brought the servers down once. I expect to see bugs all over. There is already a thread detailing several bugs they have run into.
So looking through the forums and it appears there is an additional button on the main screen that is not being seen by custom UI’s. You can accidentally click it even though it is invis and upgrade without knowing.