Feldon As one door closes, another opens. While we’re in the final week of the Nights of the Dead celebrations (the event concludes when Tears of Veeshan goes live on Tuesday, November 12th), we’re already looking ahead to the Heroes Festival which this year has new rewards, quests, and a new achievement. While the Heroes Festival event will run from Friday, November 15th until Monday, November 25th, you can test it now by logging into the Beta server!
Here are the Beta notes for Heroes Festival from Kaitheel on the EQ2 Forums:
The Heroes’ Festival has begun! A call has gone out to all Norrathian adventurers to commemorate the years of questing, raiding, tradeskilling, house decorating and socializing. Celebrators, happy to share in the festivities, can be found in the cities of Qeynos or Freeport.
New Features for ’13!
- New Holiday Achievement:
- Badge of Heroics – complete all repeatable holiday quests
- New holiday quests:
- “A Heroes’ Feast in Qeynos”
- “A Heroes’ Feast in Freeport”
- New reward choices have been added to some returning quests:
- “Festive Flames in …” now rewards a Token of Heroism
- “Aggressive Advertising in …” now rewards a Token of Heroism
- “Missing Decorations in …” now rewards a Token of Heroism
- “Shattered Remains” now rewards 5 Token of Heroism
- “A Dream Adventure” now rewards either a Print of Antonia, or a Print of the Overlord
- New Merchant Items for Token of Heroism
- Verdant Crystal Egg – sells for 1 event coin
- Frozen Crystal Egg – sells for 1 event coin
- Burnished Crystal Egg – sells for 1 event coin
- Hero’s Memorial – sells for 3 event coin
- Cryptographer’s Coverings – sells for 5 event coin
- Vibrant Banner of Antonia – sells for 15 event coin
- Vibrant Banner of the Overlord – sells for 15 event coin
Returning features:
- Players are sent an in-game mail to announce the event.
- Collection quest: “Samples of Destiny”. (Quest is not repeatable)
- “Festive Flames in …” quests in Freeport and Qeynos. (Quest is repeatable every 2 hours )
- “Thumore’s Absence” (Quest is not repeatable)
- “Shattered Remains” (Quest is repeatable, once per event)
- “Missing Decorations in …” quests in Freeport and Qeynos. (Quest is repeatable every 2 hours, max is now 20 times.)
- “… Band Aid” quests in Freeport and Qeynos. (Quest is Not repeatable)
- “Aggressive Advertising in …” quests in Freeport and Qeynos. (Quest is repeatable every 2 hours, max is now 20 times.)
- “A Dream Adventure” (Quest is repeatable, once per event)
This event content is currently set to run 11/15/13 through 11/25/13 on the live and Test servers.
As a note, we tend to prefer testing live events on the test server, but unfortunately, testing this event could only accurately happen on Beta due to asset management, and the fact that the event is running after the expansion has launched.