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From EverQuest and EverQuest II Executive Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: Good day, Norrath! This week, we are starting to beta test class changes for scouts, fighters, and summoners. We have wanted to tackle some high priority issues for these classes for a long time and we’ve been working on solutions. This includes improvements like increasing DPS for scouts and fighters, which goes along with a gear revamp for fighters’ defensive armor that makes playing the game more rewarding (i.e. using abilities will matter more). For summoners, we’ve addressed some lingering issues with pets and implemented...
Month: March 2015
Update: This maintenance seems to be complete as Guk and Sebilis players have been able to login for almost an hour now. Daybreak Games‘ migration of EQ2 servers to EnterpriseDB continues with the Guk, Sebilis, and the StationCash Marketplace servers undergoing their upgrades tomorrow. This is not new hardware, but a substantial software change that will result in better performance and open the door for new functionality such as Cross-Server Dungeon Finder. The new software is also a tremendous cost savings over existing systems which you can read from this article way back in 2007. Good things come to those who...
From the EQ2 Forums: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 9:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 5:00AM London Time on April 1, 2015). Estimated downtime is one hour. Alle deutschsprachigen Server werden um 6:00 CET am 01.04.2015 zwecks einer Serveraktualisierung heruntergefahren. Die vorgesehene Stillstandszeit wird etwa 1 Stunde(n) betragen. Le serveur de langue française sera arrêté à 6:00 CET le 01-04-2015 pour une mise...
We tried to get this posted sooner, but Roshen posted this news last night on the EQ2 Forums: On April 1st, Berry-Fed Bovochs return to the Marketplace for 2250SC. That’s not all! There’s also a version of this mount with wings… Winged Berry-Fed Bovoch Matriarch will be available for 2950SC! Don’t hesitate once these become available in the Marketplace! These are only available for a limited time, and both of these mounts will only be in the Marketplace until 11:59PM Pacific on Monday, April 6, 2015. Also Roshen dropped a reminder about Duck Mounts which we’ll see in April as...
From the EQ2 Forums: The Guk server, the Sebilis server and the Marketplace for ALL servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 2:00AM Pacific* for server migration and maintenance. These are estimated to be unavailable for at least 12 hours. Thursday, April 2: We’ll be taking Antonia Bayle and Everfrost down for server migration and maintenance. We’re looking at the same downtime (offline starting at 2:00AM Pacific* on April 2, 2015 and unavailable for at least 12 hours), and we will update players later next week if this has to change for any reason.
From the EQ2 Forums: Bristlebane Day is a holiday that celebrates mischief of all sorts. Bristlebane Day 2015 starts on Friday, March 27 and runs until 11:59PM Pacific on Thursday, April 9, 2015. New for Bristlebane Day 2015! New Quest – Plethora of Patchcraft Parts New Tradeskill recipe book, “Perfectly Serious Items to Craft VI.” 7 new event items purchasable from “a Bristlebane Day Merchant.”
From the EQ2 Forums: Beginning at 10:00AM PDT* on Friday, March 27th, if you redeem a $20 Station Cash Game Card, you will receive 500 Bonus Station Cash. All $20 Station Cash cards feature artwork from Landmark: These Landmark game cards are available in select locations of the following U.S. retail stores: GameStop, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and Toys R Us. But hurry! The 500 Bonus SC is only available if you redeem the $20 Station Cash Game Cards between 10:00AM PDT on Friday, March 27th, and 11:59PM PDT on Sunday, March 29th. *PDT is Pacific Daylight Time; U.S. West Coast. Convert to your local...
From the EQ2 Forums: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 9:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 4:00AM London Time on March 25, 2015). Estimated downtime is one hour. and from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Corrected an issue that was preventing achievements for Avatars from showing up in Census. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Ossuary: Altar of Malice [Raid] Ritual Keeper V’derin has had his health...
From the EQ2 Forums: The Freeport server will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:00AM Pacific* for server migration and maintenance. This server is estimated to be unavailable for at least 12 hours. Keep an eye on the EverQuest II forums and social media for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed. Here’s the scoreboard so far: Nagafen — migration complete Test & Beta — migration complete Freeport — tomorrow All other EQ2 servers — TBD
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter (at 3:45am PDT I might add!): Nagafen is looking stable, so Freeport server is up next with extended downtime Tuesday from 2am to 2pm PDT. #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) March 21, 2015
Just can’t get enough of the upcoming flying duck mounts? There’s an EverQuest II update on Facebook for you. For the rest of us who don’t use Facebook much, here’s the update…
No update notes yet, but… From the EQ2 Forums: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 9:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 4:00AM London Time on March 20, 2015). Estimated downtime is one hour. Alle deutschsprachigen Server werden um 5:00 CET am 20.03.2015 zwecks einer Serveraktualisierung heruntergefahren. Die vorgesehene Stillstandszeit wird etwa 1 Stunde(n) betragen. Le serveur de langue française sera arrêté à 5:00 CET...
EverQuest just celebrated its 16th anniversary and for the last few years, that’s meant celebrations not only in EQ but in EverQuest II by way of the Chronoportals event. From the EQ2 Forums: Portals to the Age of Turmoil have, once again, opened up in Antonica, Enchanted Lands, Thundering Steppes, Steamfont, Lavastorm, Sinking Sands, Feerrott, and Moors of Ykesha. Will you adventure through these portals to investigate them? The Chronpportals event starts at 12:01AM PDT on Thursday, March 19, and ends at 11:59PM PDT on Thursday, March 26, 2015. New features for 2015 New Quest – Hunt the Past Seek out...
This is it boys and girls! EverQuest II has begun migrating to EDB, and the first server up is Nagafen. If all goes well, then presumably we’ll start see the other servers migrate. From the EQ2 Forums: The Nagafen server will be brought offline on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 2:00AM Pacific* for server migration and maintenance. This server is estimated to be unavailable for at least 12 hours. Keep an eye on the EverQuest II forums and social media for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed. and from Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on Twitter: Nagafen server...
From the EQ2 Forums: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at approximately 5:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 00:00AM London Time on March 18, 2015). Estimated downtime is two hours. and from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue causing NPC name plates to flicker when using the Simple(Frames) selection under Name and Chat Bubble. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Corrected an issue that prevented NPC’s...
This Saturday, EQ2Talk listeners with a Podcast RSS feed setup on their iDevice, Android, etc. may have experienced a bit of a shock as the first new episode in over six months rolled out to their devices! There’s been a lot of history since their last episode, including an expansion (Altar of Malice), a company in transition, and layoffs. Dellmon and Osgz recorded this episode just prior to PAX East and now from the snow-capped mountains of Boston, it’s time for EQ2Talk episode #78! Rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated. Dellmon and Osgz finally once again sit down...
Update from Gninja on the EQ2 Forums this morning: This should be resolved. Let us know if you continue to see this sort of spam happening and not clear up quickly. Thanks for your patience! EverQuest II’s chat spam filter is so effective that when it was first activated years ago, 99.999% of spam vanished within minutes. Developed by Nandy “Zoltaroth” Szots while he was on the EQ2 team, his Bayesian Spam Filter nearly eliminated spam in SOE games and was also released as a white paper for other companies who wished to adopt it on the theory that if all games...
From Roshen on the EQ2 Forums: We’re working hard on database changes for EQ2, and we need your help to make sure they’re awesome! To encourage people to help us, we’ve upgraded the stats on the Blessed Sokokar mount people get as a reward for helping us. This upgrade will go to anyone who has received a Bless Sokokar in the past, and anyone that helps us on the beta server. Starting today and running until Monday, March 16 at 11:59AM PDT, we could really use your help again on the beta server. You can use our Beta Copy feature...
From RadarX on the EQ2 Forums: Attention Players! We will be performing forum maintenance Friday, March 13. While we do not anticipate any downtime, you may notice your posting permissions have changed. After this maintenance is complete, you will need to have logged in to the game on the account you’re posting from in order to post or reply on the forums. If you have logged into the game and are unable to post, you may need to log out of the forums and back in again. If you still are unable to post, please contact your Community Manager....
Another week, and another live event is now on Test awaiting testing and feedback! Maybe we need to space these events out a little bit before we kill senior designer and event wrangler Nathan (Kaitheel), mmmkay? 😉 From the EQ2 Forums: Bristlebane day is active on Test! Jesters, thieves, bards and fans of mischief, alike, are encouraged to enjoy the Bristlebane Day festivities in your city or elsewhere! You never know what laughs and pranks await you during these holy days honoring Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane, The Grand Prankster. Princess Evelynn has a lofty challenge in Sinking Sands, while other celebrators,...
EQ2 Developer Jamiss, who has been trudging the lonely path of migrating a 10 year old MMORPG (EverQuest II) to a new database language, has posted some reflections and updates to this last weekend’s Beta test of the upcoming database changes. If you were able to get into beta and you managed to get 250 updates from killing mobs in overland zones, you got an achievement which awarded a [eq2u]Blessed of Veeshan Reward Bundle[/eq2u] on your live character. Bugs are expected in any beta test, but many players were unable to even get into the beta due to graphical...
From the EQ2 Forums: The Crushbone server will be brought offline on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 4:00AM Pacific* for server maintenance. This server is estimated to be unavailable for approximately two hours. Keep an eye on the EverQuest II forums and social media for status updates and for news if additional downtime is needed.
Today’s ever-so-briefly-tested Harvesting changes (the addition of new rares for Mastercrafted Food/Drink and new Primordial Adornments) needed a little more time in the oven. So in a few minutes, US-based EQ2 servers will be going down for an update. Later, EU servers will receive the same patch. Update: US Servers seem to be back online!
An addition to the StationCash Marketplace today has the Pay-to-Win spidey senses tingling, so rather than having a knee-jerk reaction, let’s break things down and see just where these new Primordial Adornments fall, talk about how desirable they are, and look at just how costly it is to acquire them through gameplay vs. the marketplace. With today’s update, new Primordial Adornments have been added at every tier, with their power scaling to the player’s level. They aren’t like Green adornments (ie Spirit or Soulstones) which gain experience from adventuring. What’s unique about these adornments is not that they exist, but...
We saw the introduction of some new harvestables today for the new Primordial level-scaling white adornments, and for new Mastercrafted food and drink recipes. Some of these components are also available from the Marketplace, but they are also harvests from out in the world. We’re working on a more detailed article, but first, players have been reporting zone crashes since today’s update. From Holly on Twitter: We are looking into the terrain zone crashes since our update. Seems related to new harvestables. We’ll update you as we learn more. #eq2 Update: For the time being, overland harvest nodes are...