Feldon
After 9 years, it is time for me to call it quits on this EQ2Wire News site. I feel I have always put players first, and that choice has repeatedly cost me support I might have otherwise gotten from the EQ2 team and Sony Online Entertainment. At the last SOE Live, I was jokingly branded “chief shit-stirrer” by the Community Council for my constant vigilance of issues affecting customers, and my frequent and often uncomfortable requests for accountability. I have often cast a bright spotlight on business and development choices that I felt negatively affect players. Even though all that,...
Year: 2017
From the EQ2 Forums: ABILITES Shadowknight Reduced the lag stat from Death’s Advance. ITEMS Ji’Lum’s Shawl of Greater Wisdom should now give the proper amount of ability modifier. Corrected an issue that prevented Evasive Moves from triggering.
From MJ Guthrie over at MassivelyOverpowered: Did you hear about EverQuest II multi-month Days of Summer reward event? If so, lucky you! Here is an event that was launched with so little fanfare that even though I am playing every week. it completely slipped out of my mind — even after I learned about it the first week! It’s also an event that rewards players with some pretty snazzy rewards if they complete each of the weekly quests, so missing out entirely will make you lose out on a familiar, level 100 gear, housing decorations, a prestige house, and more. So many...
From EverQuest2.com: Ready to spend a rewarding weekend in Norrath? From 12:00PM PT on Friday, September 1, 2017 until 12:00PM PT on Tuesday, September 5, 2017, ALL players on ALL servers will receive Double Bonus XP! Have your eye on something in the Marketplace? If you’re a member, you’ll also recieve 25% off of ALL Marketplace items! Additionally, from 12:00AM PT on Friday, September 1, 2017 to 11:59 PM PT on Monday, September 4, 2017, you can enjoy DOUBLE Ethereal Rewards! Not an All Access member yet? With bonuses, discounts, access to new content, and more, there’s never been a better time to join!
Just another day at work at @DaybreakGames! Took the EQ Franchise teams to learn fencing, archery, and medieval weapons and tactics today! https://t.co/8ciAaNh8KY — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) August 30, 2017 Today was a tough day at the office… pic.twitter.com/HRySkPZWHo — Nathan McCall (@kaitheel) August 30, 2017
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It’s time to stock up on blue marble – the Neriak City Festival returns to Darklight Wood from September 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, appearance clothing, or food & drink. Make sure all your characters have finished the Neriak Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 89 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Fearless Flyer title. WHEN: 12:01am PT on September 1st – 11:59pm PT on September 7th WHERE: Darklight Wood, outside Neriak, /way -554, -53, -74 QUESTS: Special Delivery, Special Order Crafting,...
From the EQ2 Forums: All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours. At the 3 1/2 hour mark, the forums were updated with this notification indicating a possible total 4 1/2 hour downtime: This morning’s downtime downtime is running longer than expected – EQ2 servers should be unlocked by approximately 11:30AM PT. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Isle of Refuge (Free Trade) Random events in the Obulus Frontier are now more common on a Free-Trade server. All waves...
If you were worried that we would run out of Adornment colors in EQ2, have no fear. In the last few weeks, new items have started dropping with a new adornment slot — Grey. That adds to the existing gaggle of adornment colors White, Red and Yellow (both now obsolete), Blue (PvP), Purple, Cyan, Temporary, Green, and Orange. That gives us 6 active adornment colors. With the release of Kunark Ascending, a Black adornment slot was found in the game’s icon files, although no items have yet been found with that slot color. With Grey adornments, that potentially puts us at 8...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with spacing in the group window. PROVING GROUNDS The revive point within Tower of Frozen Shadow will now revive you within the zone. Corrected an issue that prevented the 101st orc from granting the final reward in Scourge Keep Duo Arena. FAMILIARS Mission crates and public quests now have a chance to drop either Season 1 or Season 2 familiars. Corrected the damage multiplier that was granting some season 2 familiars higher damage hits than intended.
From Kander on the EQ2 Forums: To clarify, the Epic 2.0 will not be required for the expansion, expansion access or 99% of the expansion content. It will not be required for any solo or quest content, including the signature line. There will be some specific content, that if you have done the epic, you will be able to participate in. It isn’t required. Alts and new players will have virtually no pre-reqs for expansion 14 content. We’re even going to gear your alts and new players for said content before they begin. The plan is to make the...
From Kander on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Fellow Norrathians! It’s time to start talking about what we have in store with GU 104 on August 22nd , as well as where we are going with some much anticipated changes coming this year! Large Class Balance Pass With GU 104, there will be a rather large balance pass which adjusts the outgoing damage across most classes, focusing primarily on Assassin, Wizard, and the Warlock class but most classes will experience some increase. Further updates have also been made to abilities for some of the support classes. This is by no...
From EverQuest2.com: All of your favorite features from GU103: The Menagerie are getting bigger and better than ever! GU104: Sol’s Summer brings new additions to Familiars, Proving Grounds, and Expert Raids as well as a host of balance changes and more! Familiars: Season 2 New Familiars have found their way to Norrath and Season 2 includes 30 more Familiars to collect! Familiars are unique pets that grant their masters powerful buffs. Some of these new Familiars will be dropped in-game and others will be available to purchase in the Marketplace. Not to mention, all Rare and Ultra Rare Familiars will now be worth status,...
From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS Scourge Keep Duo Arena is now on the Unranked Matches accessor and may be run solo or with a partner. Tower of Frozen Shadow has been added to the Proving Grounds match rotation. Game Type: Race to Completion Players: 6 v Environment Confront the threats within the Tower of Frozen Shadow, defeating each of the mystical threat in any order, though choose carefully as they are known to appropriate the abilities of the fallen. The Battle for Felwithe and Battle upon the High Seas have been removed from the Proving Grounds rotation until...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Vaedenmoor Raids Code has been put in place to prevent players from entering any version of the zone while still locked to a previous zone and/or not passed the minimum lockout time. Players will be banished from the zone if they fail this check regardless of any lockouts displayed on their lockout window. This applies to Vaedenmoor: Heart of Nightmares [Raid] and Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid]. Any previously saved zone instances have been reset. Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid] Noxious Attuned can no longer be resisted. Trakanon should now call out...
After Tony “RadarX“‘s departure from Daybreak Games on July 14th, EQ2 players have been wondering who our new Community Representative would be. Now we know! From DaybreakGames.com: As our company continues to grow, we’re always excited to have new talent join our team. Daybreak’s Marketing department is happy to introduce our new Community Coordinator, although she’s already a familiar face to many at our company. Meet Roxanne “Roxxlyy” What is your role at Daybreak? I spent the last year or so as an intern in the Marketing department here at Daybreak, focused mostly on supporting various PR initiatives. I...
From EverQuest2.com: Yun Zi is back again this week with another quest! The merchant has a fresh list of locations that he’s interested in having you visit for him. For your assistance, Yun Zi will grant you new rewards including ranged weapons and ranged slot adornments, a Fellowship of Stone focus rune, a ring, and an earring. Plus, if you’re looking to decorate your home to match the summer season, he also has a Siren Enchantress Plushie and some Aqua Hanging Seaweed! In order to complete Yun Zi’s new quest, you must have all of his previous quests finished! If...
Our new EQ2 Community Manager Roxxlyy posted an update yesterday afternoon indicating that the issue preventing many players from downloading or updating EverQuest II with the patcher should now be resolved. From the EQ2 Forums: Login and patching issues are believed to be resolved at this time! Please let us know if you are continuing to see any persistent issues.
From our new community person Roxxlyy on the EQ2 Forums: Hey folks, Just wanted to let you all know that the team is very aware of the various issues impacting logins, downloads, and the whole slew of connection problems that many of you are facing. At least one major issue causing these problems has already been detected, and the team is working on a fix for it at this exact moment. I’ll be continuing to update this thread with new information as it becomes available. And We’re continuing to work on the problem, and have made positive progress. Please...
Since Friday, a number of players have reported Socket Errors and a failure to patch two files. This is preventing players from accessing the game according to several threads on the forums.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Added “Camera Shake” option under Display (advanced) “Camera” to enable / disable camera shakes. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid] The reaction time for Prescient Gaze has been slightly increased. The range for applying Noxious Attuned has been removed. The duration of Noxious Attuned has been increased.
From the EQ2 Forums: The Fallen Gate and Stormhold Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 at 4:00 PM PT (23:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 1 hour. From the EQ2 Forums: TIME-LOCKED SERVER CONTENT RELEASE The Sentinel’s Fate mid year content releases on Stormhold. Unseen Arcanum Underfoot Depths Icy Keep The Shattered Lands mid year content releases on Fallen Gate. The Bloodline Chronicles The Splitpaw Saga
EverQuest II attracts a diverse playerbase with different desires and physical abilities. Some players have limited eyesight, the use of only one hand, or other physical differences which require adaptation, special controllers, disabling certain game features such as particle effects, etc. For years, EQ2 has “shaken the camera” to convey the force and effect of certain attacks, the earth moving, etc. However certain players have very negative reactions to this visual such as vertigo, headaches, and nausea. After years of requests, now it looks like those who wish to suppress this jarring cosmetic effect will soon have an in-game...
From EverQuest2.com: It’s time for some summer fun! And what better way to countdown the end of summer than helping out the ambling tradesbear, Yun Zi, to earn yourself some weekly rewards from his trove of inherited treasures. Maybe you’ve been away for a while and need a quick way to catch up to play with your friends or you need a bit of a boost so you can run those expert heroic zones, or perhaps your house is feeling a little stale and needs some redecorating? No matter what you need, Yun Zi has plenty of rewards to...
Our new Community intern Roxxlyy posted this: All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 2 hours. and here are our update notes: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Vaedenmoor: Heart of Nightmares [Raid] Terris-Thule will no longer speed up her casting of her AE spells with the removal of the “Daydream” spell. Corrected an issue that would occasionally cause Saryrn and Terris-Thule to become immune to all damage.
Set your sights on Greater Faydark because the Kelethin City Festival returns from August 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, and more. Make sure all your characters have finished the Kelethin Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 94 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Bixie Barnstormer title. WHEN: 12:01am PT on August 1st – 11:59pm PT on August 7th WHERE: Greater Faydark, Green Knoll, /way 536, 44, 53 QUESTS: Special Delivery, Special Order Crafting, Special Order Gathering ACHIEVEMENTS: Delivery Ahoy, Harvesting Hoopla, Kella...