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From the just-finished EQ2Insider livecast (of which you can read our transcript here), Holly “Windstalker” Longdale confirmed two exciting bits of news. First, Double Etyma has been extended through the end of July. Second, the upcoming weekend will be a Bonus XP weekend from July 11 at noon until Sunday night at midnight. Updated with tweet: Gear Up, Level Up promotion extended thru the end of July! Also, Double XP for Adv, AA, TS experience this Fri noon – Sun 11:59pm PDT! #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) July 9, 2014
Month: July 2014
EQ2Wire is providing a running transcript of today’s EQ2Insider Developer Q&A with questions posed by players on the EQ2 Forums, Facebook, Twitter, and even Google Plus. Present on the panel are EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EQ2 Game Designer Mike “Xelgad” Ganz, and EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee. Today’s livecast started with a hilarious 2D animation of the Age’s End story thus far. Announcing the winners of the EQ2 summer contest. After the jump, the Dev Q&A…
From the EQ2 Forums: Norrathians! Don’t forget! Today (7/9/2014) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT at Twitch.TV/ EverQuest2 we’ll be doing our LIVE July Q&A EverQuest II Insider episode! We’ve compiled your questions from the forums, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus! Can’t make it? Don’t worry! It’ll be up on our YouTube shortly after, so be sure to subscribe to us over there! On today’s show will be EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EQ2 Game Designer Mike “Xelgad” Ganz, and EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee.
UPDATE from Kander: This was an unintentional change. We have a fix coming for it ASAP. This will be fixed on Thursday. We’re not sure if this is just a glitch or an intended change, but every mob killed in Dungeon Maker zones now awards just 1 XP regardless of level or difficulty. Frankly we’re surprised that enough people visit player-decorated dungeons to have noticed this, but we’ve received several reports and there is also an active thread on the forums.
According to a player who goes by Liched on the EQ2 Forums, SOE just registered two trademarks on July 2nd. One, The Altar of Malace, would seem to feed into an existing storyline in EverQuest related to Neriak. The other trademark — The Darkened Sea — may be the name of the upcoming EverQuest II expansion, a whole other game, or just a red herring which doesn’t amount to a released product any time soon. The next EverQuest II expansion, expected to be released this November, will raise the level cap to 100 (as per the EQ2 Insider webcast)...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE New Ethereal or Artifact weapons can now be found within Tears of Veeshan mission Crates. GENERAL Fixed a bug where dev picks would temporarily disappear from the housing leaderboards. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Deathtoll Cruor Alluvium’s Aqueous Attunement spell will now allow players to cast spells and use skills while moving. Cruor Alluvium’s Waning Skill debuff will no longer trigger off of pet deaths. Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Several new accessories have been added to the treasure tables in Dreadscale’s Maw. Bosses slain within the zone should now reward status....
From Kyle “Kander” Vallee on the EQ2 Forums: So everyone knows, we are adding a good amount of new items to Dreadscale’s Maw. These will be similar in quality to the items we put in Deathtoll. Practiced and Uplifting effects, etc. We are shooting to have this stuff in as soon as possible, we’ve been working on it for a couple weeks. No solid ETA yet. Soon. Happy 4th!
From the EverQuest II twitter: Summer Ethereal Weapons are coming SOON! Check out this sneak peek! [Luperza] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) July 3, 2014
It’s been just over a week since Fabled Deathtoll, a level 95 x4 raid zone opened in Norrath. While the zone and enemies may be familiar territory for Kingdom of Sky veterans, the boss battle strategies have gained a few twists. But perhaps most surprising about this revisited zone is the way loot is awarded. The EQ2 team seem to tried out several new approaches, and so far, the response has been mixed. Instead of the typical drops off each named, certain names drop one-use recipe books that create powerful items. Other enemies drop new cyan-colored adornments. I won’t try...
From EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn on EverQuest2.com: With the warmth of the sun and the blessing of Tunare, the EverQuest II Development Team brings you fun summer sales! From July 3rd, 2014 at 12:00 PM PDT until July 8th, 2014 at 11:59 PM PDT, all items except for Heroic Characters and Expansions will be available for a 40% rebate sale. This sale is available to all EverQuest II player (free and members). For those of you who are members, you’ll be provided an additional 10% rebate upon checkout!
Linda “Brasse” Carlson has taken to Facebook to provide an update on some key points regarding this year’s SOE Live event in Las Vegas. Confirmed: increased area of grand ballroom to accommodate 150 more Premium Passes. We will sell tickets online right up to event time (unless we sell out). Confirmed: hotel has “increased nodes” in ballroom in an attempt to improve smart phone access – to be tested at the event! Initial tests by staff are positive, but huge numbers of people do weird things to cell reception. Confirmed: Player Got Talent auditions to be accepted SOON –...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: Good day Norrathians! We’re heading into summer and looking ahead to more entertaining updates and the expansion. Below I’m going to list the update plans like I did last month to keep you in the loop on what’s coming up! For July, including this week: •Status Point Merchant Updates: New items added •Summer Ethereal weapons! And we’ll have Artifact versions of these too! •Aerakyn Lore & Legend Quest •Tinkerfest! •Ages End: The Final Chapter (a X2 instance) And in August: •New Loyalty items •Nexus Duo Challenge instance. (Also SOE Live week!)...
According to Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, this July 4th weekend will not see Double XP as we’ve seen in past years (EQ is having one this year), however we will see a 40% rebate for selected StationCash items. Hopefully the sale will include “service” items such as Character Slots, Spell Research, Age of Discovery features like Mercenaries, or Server Transfers, but we’re not holding our breath. From the EQ2 Forums: No Double XP this weekend, but there will be one very soon ™. We have a big 40% sale this weekend. This is also the last weekend of the Gear...
Not to be outdone by Target, Best Buy is now offering a $5 off promotion for Sony Online Entertainment’s 1500SC/30 day game cards. And unlike the Target offer, these Best Buy cards are available at the $10 purchase price either in stores or on Best Buy’s website. This deal is available today (July 2nd) through July 5th. From EverQuest2.com: Save $5 when you buy a $15 SOE Game Card at Best Buy stores from July 2-July 5!
Tomorrow, July 2nd, SOE’s accounting, commerce, and forum and game logins will be offline for approximately 2 hours. We’re going to assume this is part of the ProSieben migration back to SOE. From the SOE forums: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM PDT* on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take approximately two hours. This will impact the following SOE services: • Account management • Commerce functions, including purchases • Game, web and forum logins (between 6:30 and 7:00 AM) The complete service window could last as long as four hours and...