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EQ2Wire is providing a Liveblog of the 2014 SOE Live Welcome Reception on August 14, 2014. This reception is also being broadcast on Twitch: The #SOELive Welcome Reception and Keynote Address is STARTING NOW!!! http://t.co/LvaL2TCwsb [Hats] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 15, 2014
Month: August 2014
Here’s the Twitch Livestream schedule for SOE Live this year. Keep in mind that EQ2Wire will be recording all EQ2 panels, several Player panels, and even a few EQNext panels if Curse doesn’t show. All times are in Pacific Daylight Time, and all broadcasts are on SOE’s Twitch channel. Thursday, August 14: 7:00 – 9:00 PM: SOE Live Welcome Reception and Keynote featuring President John Smedley Friday, August 15: 9:00 – 10:00 AM: Landmark Keynote 10:00 – 11:00 AM: EverQuest Next Keynote 12:00 – 1:00 PM: EverQuest II Keynote 1:00 – 2:00 PM: EverQuest Keynote 2:00 – 3:00 PM: DC Universe Online Keynote 3:00 – 4:00 PM: H1Z1 Keynote 4:00 – 5:00...
If you read EQ2Wire, can’t live without EQ2U, depend on Dragon’s Armory, or participate in the EQ2 Raid Council, come hang with us at Planet Dailies on Thursday afternoon at 4:00-pm-5:30pm before the Welcome Reception. Dethdlr, Feldon, Dedith, Kander, and Gninja will be in attendance. Time moved to 5:00-6:15pm because I’m a noob! We’ve updated our SOE Live Schedule App for Android, Windows phone, etc. It’s actually quite tricky to get the app to load its new data, as we designed it to not require an internet connection once it’s loaded. I suggest deleting the SOELive Daily app from your home screen and then visit http://dev.eq2wire.com/m/ on...
We did not promote this news at the time, but there are a number of cool fixes on the Test server which should hopefully go live after SOE Live. Chief among these are significant optimization of the EQ2 client so players should get smoother framerates. Also, players had assembled a list of quest starters that, through revamps and NPC shuffling were no longer attainable. These plus many more bug fixes and a few nice convenience features are now sitting on Test. It’s almost like one of the big bug stomps we used to see. Here are just some of...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The Nexus Core [Challenge Duo] Having faced near-destruction at the hands of careless adventurers, The Nexus Core has assembled the ultimate automaton to defend its delicate systems. Great rewards await those strong and cunning enough to defeat him. Certain death awaits all others. Can you outwit the mechanical mind of Mechanoct? This encounter is balanced for two extremely well-geared players containing at least one tank or one healer. QUESTS Age’s End Questline Doomscale crystalweavers will no longer spin when attacked while healing their designated crystal. The crystals will no longer reset to full...
Ashlanne has posted a list of confirmed Vendors at SOE Live this year which may be of interest to attendees wanting to pick up swag for SOE or other similar genre games: Here is the list: The War of Memory Project Shirts on Site Silver Sun Systems LLC on behalf of MilitaryGamers.com Gwydhar Enterprises Sanford Brown College Larry will be at Gencon this year. Due to Planet Hollywood’s busy schedule and our busy event schedule these 2 events unfortunately fell on the same weekend. The SOE Store will also be set up with lots of stuff for purchase including...
Amnerys has posted an announcement on the EQ2 forums about exclusive items which SOE Live attendees will receive. It’s being presented in a rather peculiar way as a “$35 Loot Card” but really, it’s just a way of allowing SOE attendees to get the in-game rewards on the account they want, plus we’ll be able to buy these loot cards for friends. For in-game item for EQ2 players is a 66-slot bag with a Tears of Veeshan appearance. No word on whether we’ll get the EQ and EQ2 expansions for going to Vegas this year. According to the letter...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale’s twitter: We're experimenting with a new Group XP potion on our marketplace starting today. Pricey, but stacks up to 250%! #eq2 pic.twitter.com/LIZYCwZm15 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) August 8, 2014
The Age’s End x2 raid zone, added this Tuesday, is intended to wrap up the long-running Age’s End storyline which dates back to the very first content in the game. However it seems that Kerafyrm will not go down quite so easily! Several threads have been posted by players reporting issues with continuing the quest from before this morning’s update: Skyshrine Tower Crystals Age’s End: Shattered Fate Age’s End x2 Even More Broke Now Players have expressed concern that their Worldwide and Server Discoveries of the quest rewards have been impacted by the quest bugging out for them (but not others)....
This Tuesday’s update included a wonderful, if vague, note about how certain adornment dislodgers had been change to PRESERVE rather than destroy the item. There was some question of which of these were changed, so Bunji has clarified: I checked with the designer, and the change is referring to these crafted items: [eq2u]Basic Prismatic Adornment Dislodger[/eq2u] [eq2u]Advanced Prismatic Adornment Dislodger[/eq2u] Keep in mind that every time you add a Yellow, Blue, Green, Red, Purple, or other gemstone to an item, or if you add a Cyan adornment slot to an item, the item gets unattuned and then you get...
Has it really been another year? Next week, EQ2Wire will be (where else?) in Las Vegas for our seventh SOE Live covering EverQuest II. This looks to be a light year for EQ2, with only 5 events to cover and no Tradeskill, Lore, or Itemization panels this time around. You can read the official SOE Live 2014 Schedule here, but scroll down to see the list of panels I will be attending, with notations of which panels I will be Liveblogging and Filming. Blogging an accurate transcription of a Q&A panel in realtime is almost impossible, so this year I will be focusing on...
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums comes our possibly last update until after SOE Live: QUESTS Age’s End Questline The zone should no longer revert players if anyone lags during an update. Hailing Jorlak will no longer revert quest stages unless it is a new zone. Firiona Vie should now update the entire raid when giving her staff back. Roehn Theer should now update the entire raid when giving his swords back. Players hailing any of the quest NPCs should no longer cause the scripts to trigger more than once. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s...
SOE Live Schedule for iPhone/iPad If you are an iPhone/iPad user and attending SOE Live, then you’ll want to head to the App Store to download Greg “Rothgar” Spence‘s SOE Live Schedule app. Greg developed this iOS app four years ago and, in his extremely limited spare time has maintained it every year for SOE Live. This year, Josh “Autenil” Kriegshauser chipped in to get it updated. The SOE Live schedule app has a “My Schedule” feature which lets you choose which panels should appear on your schedule, as well as tabs about Dining, News, and Travel. SOE Live Schedule for Android, Windows Phone,...
As reported in a number of places on the EQ2 Forums, the Age’s End x2 quest added yesterday has some glitches which are allowing the quest to reset or “roll back” to an earlier state. EQ2 Designer Carlos “Gninja” Mora took to Twitter with a quick update: Taking a look into the update/lag issues with the Age’s End event today. Hope to get a resolution asap! #eq2 — Carlos Mora (@thegninjagnome) August 6, 2014 which he elaborated on here: The issues are being caused by the zone trying to keep everyone updated together and checking if anyone fell behind or...
Wish there was something new to do in the lower levels rather than needing to race to max level? From EQ2 Lead Designer Kander on the EQ2 Forums, we have a tease of something interesting… We actually have some content updates coming for players level 20 to 90. Soon. Yup updates. Plural.
From the EQ2 Forums here and here and here: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM PDT* on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take at least four hours. This will impact the following SOE services: Game servers will be down for the following games: DC Universe Online EverQuest II Landmark PlanetSide 2 Commerce functions, including purchases for all games Game, web and forum logins for all games Thank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance. Time Zone Conversions PDT: August 5 @ 4:00am ~ 8:00am EDT: August 5 @ 7:00am ~ 11:00am...
From the EQ2 Forums: This new battleground set on Roehn Theer’s platform is a brand new match type, with an age old premise: slaughter your enemies. Team size: 6v6 Minimum Team: 3 Time Limit: 10 Minutes Scoring System: There are two ways to gain points, the first being to kill your opponents. The second is to stand on the deadly order tile, which sounds simple. You may find this more difficult than it sounds. Dying or cowering for an extended period on your protected spawn area will reduce your team’s score.
Dethdlr and I are happy to announce that Quests are now available as an Open Beta on EQ2U! Here’s what we’ve added: Quests now appears under the Search menu A Quests tab has been added to the EQ2U Quick Search box on the homepage View your Active Quest Journal for any of your EQ2 characters View a Checklist of all 11,564 quests in EQ2 and see your character’s progress on those quests (Active, Complete, or Never Started) Items which offer a quest when examined now show the quest name and link to it Items which are required by a...
We’re not sure how widespread this is, but it looks like some kind of maintenance is causing login issues as well as accessing the marketplace, /claim, logins, and now the return of the NBE-1013 error. Latest Update: It looks like things are starting to even out on the login situation. Give it a try. Not all are getting in, but many are. — David Georgeson (@DaveGeorgeson) August 1, 2014 Original post after the jump…
From the EQ2 Forums: A large group of you have been sending your status wishes to Tunare, and the EverQuest II Development Team has been working behind the scenes to make it happen. We’re happy to announce the FIRST ever double status experience weekend, starting Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 12:00 PM PDT and ending Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 at 11:59 PM PDT. Enjoy and don’t forget to send us screenshots of your adventures on the forums, Facebook, Twitter andGoogle Plus! From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Countdown to members-only Double Status weekend starting at noon to Sunday at 11:59pm PDT! #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2)...
AT&T Service @ SOE Live Fantastic news for SOE Live attendees who were hoping to blog/text/email/tweet/facebook without having to run out to the hallway every time. This news comes via Brasse: Cell reception at #SOELive – Planet Hollywood has just upgraded their AT&T service throughout the hotel – LET’S TEST IT OUT! — Brasse (@Brasse) July 31, 2014 Shirts Meanwhile, it looks like JiNX may have had babydolls in mind when they sized their women’s shirts for SOE Live as their women’s 2X this year is dwarfed by this year’s men’s XL: @Brasse Good to hear. This picture shows a...