Day: October 1, 2013
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A number of players have reported that their Free Heroic Character token (granted for each existing SOE account) is being consumed even while login servers are down, or because a character name they chose was already in use. In addition, the button to upgrade a character seems to be hidden if you are running a UI mod like DrumsUI, ProfitUI, etc. These screenshots by Airos illustrate the issue:
Update from Windstalker on Twitter: Hamsters are slower than we hoped. We’ll give everyone 15-minute notice for the downtime. Should be soon ™. #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) October 1, 2013 From RadarX on the EQ2 Forums: All servers will come down at 1:30 2:00 2:30 Soonish PM PT for a brief update to address an outstanding issue with Heroic Characters. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 30 minutes. In the interim players should avoid completing the Heroic Character quests until this maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions PDT: October 1, 2013 @ 2:00pm EDT: October 1, 2013 @ 5:00pm...
And… Tears of Veeshan is now available for Pre-order… $39.95 for the Standard Edition, $59.99 for the Collector’s Edition. 25% less if you are an All Access subscriber. UPDATE: To avoid any confusion, I have removed the screenshot which showed a $29.99 and $44.95 price for Tears of Veeshan expansion. Those prices are only applicable if you have an All Access account. SOE Live UPDATE: If you attended SOE Live, then you get the Standard edition free, and there will be an upgrade option to get the CE. UPDATE: This upgrade will be $20.
Our invite was once again misfiled, but if you are curious to catch all the info about Heroic Characters, including a few quotes from Holly “Windstalker” Longdale and Dave “SmokeJumper” Georegeson, you’ll want to check out the writeups by Cyliena (ZAM) and MJ (Massively) who endured SOE’s PR firm to bring you the scoop! Heroic Characters Come to EverQuest II @ ZAM Interview expounds on today’s Heroic Characters patch in EverQuest II @ Massively And is it just me, or are the 3 screenshots provided by PR kinda the opposite of what you’d expect to see in marketing Heroics?...
In response to a number of questions by players about Heroic Characters on the EQ2 Forums, Caith and RadarX had some answers… Q (by Errrorr): When will Channellers become available as heroic characters? We don’t have a date on when Channelers will become available as a Heroic option. Q (by Errrorr): Is it possible to have certain long and tedious questlines already completed (For example Speak as a dragon)? Heroic characters are not going to have any quests completed for them. If a quest is so tedious as to be off putting, and is also something that cannot be avoided, I would rather look...