EverQuest II Insider #1 on Twitch — Early Access to Quests/Zones, EQ2 Roadmap, What’s Coming Soon!
Feldon 
On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at 2:00 PM PDT, EQ2’s new community manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn (aka PurrfectStorm), hosted the first EverQuest II Insider livecast on Twitch. This 1 hour broadcast included EQ brand manager Adam Key, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Chris Garlick, Gary Daugherty, and Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall.
Alas, a recording of the livecast was not preserved either by SOE or Twitch (due to a settings glitch), so this episode joins Doctor Who and other vital shows as missing presumed wiped.
That said, a few resourceful players who watched the Livecast were good enough to take notes and so we can paraphrase them below:
- Holly and Akil talked about current topics including Bristlebane Day, as well as previewing some Player Studio items that will be coming soon, including a very nice looking yacht or fishing boat with oars and other gear. Luperza mentioned that Player Studio topics will be covered in their own livesteam.
- We got to hear the ‘April Fool’s intro music’ (archived for posterity on Zam) and the new meatbeast vid was also shown (if you haven’t seen it then look here).
- Holly talked a little about All-Access (subscription, Krono, or Prepaid cards)
- All Access players will get access to new zones / heritage quests 1-2 weeks earlier than other players.
- Those with new All Access account will have double xp weekends.
- More All-Access exclusive items on the loyalty merchants.
- The schedule for updates will be more public so that we can see how Smokejumper’s weekly/monthly update idea is working.
- EverQuest II Roadmap/Blueprint — Upcoming plans for EQ2 with feedback from players.
- Contested HighKeep Previewed
- new skeleton models like crawling, one legged and some even use their head as weapon [IMG]
- quests: drop quests, quests from items, daily missions for etyma (2 mission givers: 1 at entrance, 2nd at the entrance to picklaw part)
- plunderable loot which you can place in your house
- some items might be marked with our name (there is special achievement for marking all of them: Vandal title)
- achievement for killing all nameds in the zone
- hidden rare trophies in the trash – if you gather all you get Body Snatcher (?) title
- new armor appearances
- New High Keep Guild Hall
- Player Studio will open up (later this year) to submissions from Germany, UK, France for players with an SOE Station account.
- Developer picks for Housing Leaderboards — returning soon.
- New Raid zone (ToV Wing 3) — Next Month
- 10 More AA points (requires level 95)– next week.
Thanks to Sambril, Kinya of Babagra Polish EQ2 fansite, and Errrorr for their note-taking!
Thanks for compiling this Feldon! 🙂
Hmm. I’m wondering if that means EVERY weekend will be double XP for gold members…
SgtPumpkin in the thread added this note:
But only if you have newly gotten the “All Access”? Or, will it be all the “All Access” members having a new type of “All Access”?
There will be new All Access plan starting 16.04 and all those who will use it will get some bonuses: https://forums.station.sony.com/soe/index.php?threads/the-revised-soe-all-access-program-faq.11500063040/
Anyone with a gold sub or Kronos will be all access after the changes.
The post from the link above talks abot $14.99 with discounts for various periods. I’m grandfathered at a much lower price, but not with all access on my main account. So, I guess my concern is if I will be “upgraded” and still grandfathered? Or, will my price also be “upgraded”? I have another account that is grandfathered with an all access plan price that is lower than $14.99 and have the same questions about it.
I’m prepaid for a period will into near the end of the year as well.
WTB double xp .. its been ages..
Well, it’s been 3 months since the last one. I think that might be intentional before they start up this new All Access including XP weekends.
I want to add my thanks to the people who took notes on this livecast. I wouldn’t have been able to get much out of it even if it had been archived for later view, as I’m deaf. I hope future ‘casts have a summary like this!
Thanks for the transcription Feldon.
French translation is available on http://www.guerrier-celeste.fr
So the question is those of us who have a multi-month sub, at the end of that sub are we going to have to pick the all access sub, or will they do that for us automatically. I got about another 2 months left on my sub at the reduced rate.
+1 Agree fully with badcat
same question this requires some clarification
By the end of April, you will be an All Access customer. You don’t need to do anything. You don’t need to wait for the end of your prepaid sub.
Holly confirmed on Twitter that the 10 AAs will be in game this coming Tuesday https://twitter.com/WindstalkerEQ2/status/452252444777398272