The Embargo on EQ2’s Tears of Veeshan expansion news dropped today at noon, so here’s your opportunity to read writeups (with some interview questions from Holly, Akil, and Carlos) about the expansion by the lovely MJ Guthrie who works hard to keep EQ2 on the front page of Massively and for that we have much respect! Dragons Take Flight in EQII’s Tears of Veeshan today and here’s a writeup by Curse who also got to ask some developer questions… EQ II’s Tears of Veeshan Expansion Takes Wing We’ll be back tomorrow with our EQ2Wire Tears of Veeshan: Frequently Asked Questions article...
Day: November 12, 2013
Dethdlr and I updated EQ2U this afternoon as new information rolled in from the Census data feeds. Here’s what’s been updated: Alternate Advancement data – Completely updated with new spell data. AA: Dragon tab – new Dragon AAs for all 4 archetypes. Channeler class Spells Support for Purple adornments on Character pages. Tears of Veeshan armor now shows gems. Things we are still working on: Tears of Veeshan armor with upgradeable gem slots is not exporting in a way that we can display the number of gems installed. Heroic Endlines Buying a 2nd Heroic endline costs 20 AA points....
EQ2 ZAM has released their full coverage of Tears of Veeshan including an overview of the entire expansion, and extensive details about everything new to explore, as well as detailed writeups of all the new quests! Read Tears of Veeshan Coverage @ EQ2 ZAM
From the EQ2 Forums: Sony Online Entertainment, LLC (SOE) today announced the launch of EverQuest®II: Tears of Veeshan™, the 10th expansion for the hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The Tears of Veeshan expansion features engaging new content, including a compelling storyline to experience, a new overland realm to explore, massive dungeons, dragon-themed Alternative Advancements (AAs), the new Channeler class, and a host of challenging quests and items.
The US EverQuest II servers are back up as of about 10 minutes ago and it looks like Tears of Veeshan is live! No word on when EU servers will be up.
Tears of Veeshan offers new Tradeskill quests, tradeskill collections, recipes, new tradeskill apprentice recipes, purple war runes you can craft, and Gemstones which can upgrade Advanced Solo and Heroic gear as well as many other new features. There’s also a great change to building blocks and a new pack pegasus. From Niami Denmother of EQ2Traders: There is quite a bit going on regarding crafting in the Tears of Veeshan expansion, and since one of the SOE Dev team, Caith, went to the trouble of putting together a master list for us for beta, I am taking that list and...
Here are the Update Notes for the Tears of Veeshan expansion (ie Game Update 68) from the EQ2 Forums: TEARS OF VEESHAN After rediscovering Yelinak, now the steward of Vesspyr Isles alongside other fallen and familiar dragons, players learn of the time/space powers behind the Tear of Veeshan stolen by prismatic dragon Kerafyrm the Awakened. With Kerafyrm’s fearsome power looming over Norrath, players are called upon to shine light into the darkness brought on by the Awakened’s draconic army, and set the stage for a new Age to begin! Features: New class – Channeler! New Dragon-themed AAs AA limit...
From the EQ2 Forums: All servers will come down November 12th, 2013 at 7:00 AM PT for an update to introduce the Tears of Veeshan expansion. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 5 hours and you can find update notes when posted in the Game Updateforum. Time Zone Conversions PST: November 12 @ 7:00am~Noon EST: November 12 @ 10:00am~3:00pm GMT: November 12 @ 15:00~20:00 CET: November 12 @ 16:00-21:00