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After some initial confusion, the downtime for tomorrow’s big update for the Altar of Malice expansion has been announced. ALL servers will go down at 5:00am PST tomorrow. Time Zone Conversions — Downtime for ALL SERVERS (US, EU, RU, JP) PST: November 11 @ 5:00am til Noon EST: November 11 @ 8:00am til 3:00pm GMT: November 11 @ 13:00 til 20:00 CET: November 11 @ 14:00 til 21:00 AEDT: November 11 @ Midnight til November 12 @ 7:00am
Day: November 10, 2014
At long last we’ve tweaked and poked and edited together this year’s SOE Live 2014 panel “Leveraging EQ2 Data Feeds”. This panel was hosted by Dedith of Dragon’s Armory, Dethdlr and Morgan Feldon of EQ2U, Douglas “Endymion” from the EQ2 team, and Zoltaroth lead programmer of Landmark. We talk about Quests and Leaderboards and answer player questions and suggestions: We will be working hard tomorrow to support the rollout of the Altar of Malice expansion.
The Aerakyn race will become available for purchase sometime tomorrow and through internal testing, the EQ2 team have discovered an issue affecting hair color and the “hidden personal torch” feature. While this issue might not bother most players, if you’re going to drop $20 or $42 on a race, you might be a little miffed if your character customizations don’t turn out quite as expected. From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Everyone, We want to identify a problem that some players might encounter when customizing your new Aerakyns. The Aerakyn have a VERY broad color palette for hair...
Today is the last day to run the Altar of Malice solo quest lines, heroic zones, or do the tradeskill questline and get rewards for your live characters. You Beta Believe These Rewards are Awesome From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: The Beta server will be coming down tomorrow morning with the game update. It will not be coming back online after tomorrow’s All-Access launch of Altar of Malice.
From EQ2 Senior Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Almost to AoM expansion! Servers will come down about 5am and we are aiming to be live at 12pm pst. Purchasing up about the same time. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 10, 2014 Presumably this means we’ll be able to buy the Altar of Malice expansion around the same time servers come up, but possibly ambiguously sooner.
The 10th anniversary of EverQuest II was this Saturday, November 8th, and it looks like SOE is working on a retrospective documentary! Here’s the teaser video they’ve released.