Cyliena
The monthly Moonlight Enchantments event begins tonight! The grottos open up on the 20th at 12:01am PT and close on the 21st at 11:59pm PT. The time applies directly with no conversion for all servers. Grotto Zone & Location Collection Quest(s) Brownie Darklight Wood /loc 14, -32, -238 Tree Bark Festive Flowers Strong Brew Root Beer Zygomyd Nektulos Forest /loc -363, 0.42, -682 Mushroom Spores Earthly Tasks Comforting Confections Naiad Enchanted Lands /loc -278, 5, 18 Naiad Scales Naiad Aid Dryad Antonica /loc -696, -4, 621 Dryad Leaves Pollution Problem Fay Greater Faydark /loc -132, -44, -771 Flower Petals...
Year: 2015
Feldon
From the EQ2 Forums: It’s the Gnomeiest time of the year in Norrath (and, yes, Gnomeiest is totally a word) – Tinkerfest has returned once again! Grab your gadgets, wind up your wrenches, and get ready for an EXPLOSIVE good time this summer! Our good friends at Gnomeland Security are ready with new and returning favorite features. Make sure you try this year’s new quest, We Can Rebuild. Look for Tinker Thermald in the Steamfront Mountains to get started. While you’re questing, returning quests will have new rewards this year, and new items are also available to purchase from Myron, the Tinkerfest Merchant....
From the EQ2 Forums: Are YOU ready for the new Time-Locked Expansion servers? Stormhold (PvE) and Deathtoll (PvP) Servers open on Tuesday, July 21, 2015! Play on NEW Time-Locked Expansion servers and get a fresh start in EverQuest II. Be part of a vibrant community from the start and have your voice be heard as you decide each server’s destiny. These are special servers that are only available to All Access members. If you aren’t already an All Access member, sign upand begin your adventures in Norrath… again! Want to get a sneak peek of these servers? Our Time-Locked Expansion...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Kelethin Philosopher Yubee in Kelethin will now give the same advice pertaining to Erollisi Marr, as Philosopher Rhimes. ITEMS Boots from fabled EoF dungeons have had their weapon damage bonus and spell weapon damage bonus corrected. The Wild Divine will proc when Healing Arrow or Healing Barrage are cast. Crafted and Merchant versions of the altar to Erollisi Marr are now available. Hand of Thule’s Avatar now grants stamina, instead of ridiculous amounts of strength. QUESTS Power to the Tower – The damaged core should only be resetting when it is...
Update as of 9:45am PDT: Game and Account logins and Forum access have continued to be sporadically available. Census appears to be down, disabling EQ2U and Dragon’s Armory. More as we have it… Update from Smedley as 5:40pm PDT last night, 29 hours into DDOS: And sorry to say more DDOS. I apologize for the issues we are having. I have to own pissing them off and I'm sorry. — John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 11, 2015 Just sorry they are taking it out on you, our players. — John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 11, 2015 Update: DDoS has once again...
It’s been nearly a year since DDoS crew Lizard Squad flooded the servers of Sony Online Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, PlayStation Network, etc. to a degree that games such as EverQuest II, Planetside 2, League of Legends, and World of Warcraft became inaccessible for several hours. The lizards then doubled down on their felonious amusement by calling in a bomb threat on an American Airlines flight bearing SOE president John Smedley. The flight was diverted to a military Phoenix Sky Harbor airport where the plane was searched and passengers interrogated. Smedley was also doxxed, with personal details including banking information...
From the EQ2 Forums: Want to get a preview of the new Time-Locked Expansion (TLE) servers, and give us your feedback? If so, you’re in luck because the TLE beta servers are now LIVE! Note: An All Access membership is required to access these beta servers. Progress made on the beta servers won’t carry over when these servers go live. When Stormhold (PvE) and Deathtoll (PvP) open to players, these will be fresh servers and all players will have the opportunity to start here together! Your beta feedback is important to us, and it helps us make our game better!...
The Time-Locked Expansion Beta will be opening up soon is now open for ALL ACCESS members. Here are instructions on how to go ahead and be patched and ready to Beta test on the TLE (PvP) and TLE (PvE) Beta servers today. How Do I Get to Beta [TLDR] ? There is no Non-Disclosure Agreement to accept this year, and no separate Beta launcher to run. To access the Time-Locked Expansion Server beta, simply close and reopen your EverQuest II Launcher, click on the Version link in the top left corner (US English for US players), switch the region to “Beta“, click...
After repeatedly being told that a Progression server was unlikely for EverQuest II, today marks the opening of Beta testing for not one but two EQ2 Time-Locked Expansion (TLE) servers. Although a complete rollback to how EQ2 was at launch is not possible — nor desirable for most — these servers will provide a healthy dose of nostalgia for those players who have wished for more challenge and less of those world-shrinking conveniences such as guild halls, flying mounts, expedient travel, etc. Of particular interest to PvP players, the Deathtoll server will have a new ruleset that slams the...
EU servers are now 3 hours late patching and Holly has an update that it will be another 2 hours before EU servers are back up. That’s 2pm PDT, 5pm EDT, 22:00 GMT, 23:00 CET. The #EQ2 Beta servers are up after the EU patch which is delayed by internet funk. We're hoping for about 2pm if all goes well. — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) July 7, 2015 Original article follows…
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: For PvE, Stormhold won! For PvP, the winner is Deathtoll! Thanks for all the votes and feedback. More to come
From EQ2 Forums: Enjoying the summer is more fun when you have friends (or at least a crafty merc!) by your side. From Thursday, July 2 through Monday, July 6, there’s a Marketplace sale to help with just that. Both Merc Crates and Group XP Potions will be on sale for 40% off!All Access Members will get their additional 10% off the sale price. And as an added perk for All Access Members, it’s a Bonus XP Weekend! AAs, Tradeskill, and Adventure XP will all be doubled.
ZAM’s outgoing Managing Editor Cyliena checked in with Holly “Windstalker” Longdale at E3 with questions about Progression servers in EverQuest and EverQuest II. From EQ2 ZAM: E3 doesn’t stop when its doors are closed for the day. We snagged Executive Producer Holly Longdale at this year’s Daybreak after-party (and again this week in a follow-up), chatting about some recent changes that hit EverQuest‘s progression servers as well as the upcoming progression servers and merges for EverQuest II. With EverQuest II, the upcoming progression servers will be a first for the game. In-game voting for time-locked and marketplace options has already come and gone, and for a short...
From the EQ2 Forums: Attention players: we will perform a general maintenance beginning at 7:00AM PDT* on Wednesday, July 1. The current estimated downtime for this maintenance is two to four hours, depending on the service. This maintenance may impact the following Daybreak services across all games: Game logins for all Daybreak games Forum & Web logins for all Daybreak games PLEASE NOTE: This is not a game-specific maintenance. There will be no update or patch notes. Thank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance. ~The Team at Daybreak Time Zone Conversions (assuming 4 hours) Wed July 1 @ 7:00am ~ 11:00am PDT Wed July 1 @...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Fabled Echoes of Faydwer Collectibles in the Fabled Echoes of Faydwer dungeons will now lock you to the instance when looted. The Fabled Crypt of Valdoon [Advanced Solo and Heroic] You can now click Valdoon while he’s giving his speech to initiate combat sooner. Fabled Freethinker’s Hideout [Challenge Raid] The werewolf guards at the entrance should now have the intended amount of health. ITEMS Corrected the spell description for the solo and raid versions of All for One, they now correctly say 48 to 148 potency for the solo version, and...
Despite going end-of-life on April 8, 2014 and no longer receiving crucial security updates, Windows XP continues to serve the computers of a surprising number of EverQuest II players a decade after its introduction. The reasons for running such an old operating system seem to center on inertia (the horror of locating and reinstalling all of one’s software) and budget. Windows 7 is not exactly a free upgrade, and Microsoft has never offered a direct XP -> 7 upgrade path. Also, Windows Driver Model, introduced with Vista and carried forth in 7, 8, and 10, has left behind a mountain...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Acadechism [Advanced Solo and Heroic] Kelzaral the Animator should be much less destructive. The Fabled Freethinker Hideout Drops for The Fabled Freethinker Hideout have had the following adjustments: Moved armor drops from Treyloth to Othysis. Moved accessory drops from Makonis to Treyloth. Makonis will now always drop 2 armor pieces. Precipice of Power [Raid] You can now combine two cruxes from the same boss drop table to form the other from the same drop table by examining the cruxes. ITEMS The effect “Bolstered Block” can now be triggered by...
From EverQuest II Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallée on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Fellow Norrathians! Just stopping in to give everyone the low down on the new Fabled Echoes of Faydwer zones we will be releasing today. People are asking what zones will become Fabled and what play styles will be covered. The answer is we tried to cover as many as possible with this release. We have 3 Fabled Echoes of Faydwer heroic zones: The Acadechism, The Court of Innovation and the Crypt of Valdoon. We also decided to make an advanced solo version of each of these zones...
Downtime Notice US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 3:00PM London Time on June 23, 2015). Estimated downtime is two hours. Echoes of Faydwer Fabled (Level 100) That was fast! After a week on the Beta and Test servers, the Echoes of Faydwer Fabled solo and group dungeons plus a raid zone are patching live tomorrow, providing new content...
As posted by Chrol on the EQ2 Forums on Tuesday, June 16th: Hey all, The following instances from Echoes of Faydwer (expansion 3) are now available on Test and Beta servers as Fabled level 100 versions: The Fabled Acadechism [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Court of Innovation [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Crypt of Valdoon [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Freethinker Hideout [Raid & Challenge Raid] You’ll find the entrance to these dungeons (a door!) just off the dock in Butcherblock Mountains at approximately 724, 24, 581. They can also be accessed individually through their original entrance locations...
To discuss the upcoming Time-Locked Expansion servers, Oakmiser, videographer of the Norrathian Chronicles, has recorded and posted an interview with EverQuest II Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallée.
The requests for player feedback into the Time-Locked Expansion servers keep rolling. This time, we’ve been asked which encounters that have been changed over the years from Heroic or Epic mobs that should be changed back to something with more teeth! From Caith on the EQ2 Forums: What mobs would you like to see returned to heroic (or epic) status in the original game zones for the Time-Locked servers. Example Antonica – Scarecrows
Kander has started two threads on the EQ2 Forums asking players to suggest names for the new TLE servers: Name Your PvP Server Name Your PvE Server Here’s the announcement: What do you want your PvP/PvE TLE-Server to be named? Propose the names you’d like to see for the launch of the Time Locked Expansion Server for PvP/PvE. We will be keeping score and using the top names to poll for final names so post even if your’s is a duplicate. Names must be something within the lore of the EverQuest world. Preferably a notable NPC. Anything that is not...
Next month, we’ll see two new Beta servers open to test PvP and PvE Time-Locked Expansion (TLE) Servers. While we’ve already been informed on several occasions that restoring the EQ2 codebase back to a launch or near-launch state would be nearly impossible, but the EQ2 team want to offer players some of the “uphill both ways in the snow” experience that early EQ2 adventurers encountered. So the team are developing Time-Locked Expansion Servers which will be a sort of hybrid of some of the modern conveniences we have now, but with certain design decisions reverted or changed to provide more challenge...
Legendary actor Sir Christopher Lee passed just over one week ago. To recognize his contributions to EverQuest II, specifically his voicing of Lucan D’Lere, Overlord of Freeport, Daybreak Games shared a brief interview clip recorded in 2004.