Feldon 
Along with Blizzard, and Playstation Network, Daybreak Games seems to be experiencing a DDoS attack. From Twitter:
We are currently investigating a network issue which may impact players ability to login. We appreciate your patience!
— EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 26, 2016
Can we PLEASE just KILL all DDOSers? PLEASE? -.- It really would be an improvement to society, and no one would miss them. Losers have nothing better to do than DDOS, do you think they have actual friends/girlfriends? Pffff yah right!
no nations need to agree over cyberspace laws and jurisdiction so we can all see them go to prison instead of getting a slap on the hand like some DOSers have gotten.
And after relative calmness for a couple hours this afternoon, it’s back and worse than ever.
How annoying. I want to take advantage of the current double this and that plus I’m working on the Newsies questline. Grrrrrr
Now I am receiving a VERY lengthy error message just trying to launch the game.
Only gives me an error when I go through the launcher. Directly launching Everquest 2 works fine.
What GriffonLady said… I don’t hate many things, but I really, really hate the little buggers who disrupt everybody’s gaming. They ought to be permanently banned from EVER having access to the internet again.
Can’t log into everquest2.com nor the forums. I am able to log into the game via the client app.
how do you log in through the client app?
Open your EverQuest II directory and start “EverQuest2.exe” directly rather than running the launcher. The file should be about 17MB.