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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...
Year: 2013
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
Looks like I’m not the only one who was concerned about Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns bumping up against SOE Live. As a fan site operator, I had a number of concerns about trying to report on and cover a Game Update while also trying to keep up with EverQuest II‘s 10th expansion and EverQuest Next which will both be making a splash in Vegas on August 1st through 4th, just 2 days after GU67 was slated to hit. Also, last time we had a Game Update just hours before SOE Live, there were some game issues that couldn’t...
Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns, expected to launch just hours before SOE Live 2013 officially begins, will introduce an indoor “Arena of the Gods” featuring instanced versions of the nine Avatars which have been roaming Norrath since Avatars returned as contested content. These avatars will be of the same difficulty as the open world equivalents, but provide rewards of a reduced quality. Presumably you’ll only be able to defeat one avatar per trip, although it would certainly be amusing if you could do all of them on one visit.
There have been some changes to the SOE Live 2013 schedule, including some reshuffling of LoN, DCUO, and Dragon’s Prophet panels. Most notably, the addition of 3 2 new panels: Friday 5-6pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Session 1 Saturday 2-6pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Sunday Noon-1pm — EverQuest II: Super Secret Testing Feedback Panel
When the SOE Live 2013 schedule was released, I started reading. And reading. Before long, shock set in. Two hours later, I was discovered in the fetal position, mumbling something about sleep and time paradoxes. Despite consultation with a number of scholars, including Dr. Samuel Beckett, Dr. Emmett L. Brown, and the Doctor, as well as consulting the writings of Ray Bradbury, Mrs. Helena Wells, and so forth, I am no closer to a solution to attend ALL of the EverQuest II and EverQuest Next panels. However, I will make every effort. One panel I certainly won’t miss is the “EQ2U...
Here are the update notes for July 2, 2013 from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with the housing and dungeon leaderboards. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan will no longer gain double crit avoidance if he levels up in challenge mode. Antechamber of the Automaton [Challenge Duo] Fixed a bug that would occur when K’zan attuned both players in the duo to a color over the course of the fight. Zone now drops coin. Temp adornments are now 100% drop rate. Furnace of Ages [Challenge Duo] Zone now drops coin. Temp adornments are...
The time has arrived at last. The SOE Live 2013 schedule including all the events, announcements, official Developer, AND Player Panels has been released. New Venue, Player Panels, No Problem! Not only is SOE Live taking up a new venue this year at Planet Hollywood (SOE Community and Events team folks were in Vegas this week enduring 117°F/47.2°C temperatures to scope the place out and ensure that the events go smoothly), but this year is only the second year of the highly popular Player-run Panels. Not only is SOE Live unveiling a totally new game — EverQuest Next — but...
As first revealed by the ProSiebenSat.1 EQ2 website, this weekend is a 50% Instant Rebate weekend for nearly all Marketplace items. From EverQuest2.com: This weekend the EQII Marketplace will be featuring an Instant Rebate sale where you’ll be able to get deep discounts on most items in the store. With minor exceptions* all Station Cash items in the Marketplace will receive at least a 50% rebate. How does a rebate work? Once you purchase one of the items eligible for Instant Rebate, you’ll receive a refund of 50% of your Station Cash used to purchase an item moments after...
According to ProSiebenSat.1’s new website for EverQuest II, this weekend will be a StationCash Marketplace Rebate weekend. We don’t have any official confirmation if the event will include the US or only apply to Europe, but the ending time for the event is certainly suggestive. 8:59am CEST just happens to be 11:59pm PDT Sunday night… This weekend the EQII Marketplace will be featuring an Instant Rebate sale where you’ll be able to get deep discounts on most items in the store. The sale runs Friday, June 28 – Monday, July 01, ending at 08:59 am CEST. The Instant Rebate Sale...
What can we expect in the upcoming Fabled dungeons in Game Update 67? You’ll recall this announcement from Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums about Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns which included a list of dungeons: 1. Fabled Dungeons: We’ve taken some dungeon favorites from the very first EQII expansion “Desert of Flames” and created additional versions of them with current high-level content and loot. You can experience Clefts of Rujark, The Djinn Masters Prism, Scornfeather’s Roost, and Pedestal of Sky at a high level range! As posted by Kander on the EQ2 Forums: The Fabled zones have been...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The /feedback command should work correctly now. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan’s doppelganger will no longer attack instantly when it is summoned and will delay casting spells for a short duration. The combine elite adds summoned by Overlord Talan memwipe less frequently and are now immune to area of effect abilities unless directly targeted. ITEMS Dulgur Bindmagic now sells armor runes that reduce the resistibility of all spells. The cost of red and yellow adornments sold by Dulgur Bindmagic have been reduced.
Players on Butcherblock and Antonia Bayle, two of the servers which were not supposed to be affected by this morning’s 5:30-7:00am maintenance, were unable to enter housing, group, or raid zones (instances), and began receiving Server Announcements indicating that their servers were coming down at 5:30am: Originally, only Guk, Everfrost, Crushbone, Permafrost and Oasis were scheduled to be brought down for extended maintenance. But it looks like someone didn’t get the memo as now ALL EQ2 servers are down and login servers are not responding: We can only guess that all EQ2 servers will be down through 8:00am PDT (11:00am EDT, 17:00...
From the EQ2 Forums: Most US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, June 25, at 7:00 am Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. The Guk, Everfrost, Crushbone, Permafrost and Oasis servers will have an extended downtime, coming down earlier at 5:30 am Pacific Time. The EU EQ2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, June 25, at 9:00 pm Pacific Time*, and the expected downtime is two hours.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] Overlord Talan Challenge Mode: The Psionic Defiler and Psionic Guardian adds have less health. Overlord Talan: Adds no longer do trauma based melee damage, they do arcane damage instead. In all fights the crippling aura/cripped armor debuff is less potent per counter. Overlord Talan Challenge Mode : The Psionic Guardians do less damage. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Enchanter Sever Hate will now properly apply if the target ally is casting a spell when Sever Hate is cast. ZONES Wurmbone’s End: Nox Incessit Overall outgoing damage from zone...