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From the EQ2Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Werner Thunderleg will now cast Total Domination correctly. F.S. Distillery: Beggars and Blighters [Raid] Kildiun the Drunkard has had his health increased. MERCENARIES Katastra Vilehex now has a more tank focused buff package. ITEMS Corrected an issue with Offensive Focus effects that prevented them from working for some classes. Sigil of Defiance will now grant melee skills and defense instead of casting skills.
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As we reported earlier this week, Daybreak Games President John Smedley recently gave an interview to GamesIndustry.biz which included the following comments: “I firmly believe the days of the WoW-style MMO are over,” Smedley said. “And that means we have to change with the times. Luckily, we were kind of early on that bus as opposed to late. But we’re changing what we’re making. Look at H1Z1. Is it an MMO? Sure, by definition, but I would consider it a session-based online game with a lot of people. And I say that because the average life expectancy in H1Z1...
Here are your update notes for Thursday, 30 April 2015: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION F.S. Distillery: The Rum Cellar [solo] Fixed a crash that would occasionally happen in the rum cellar solo zone. The radius in which some of the guards will see you along the Rum Run and near Kildiun before sending you to jail has been slightly reduced. Portia Rumuffin should no longer be stuck with her secret recipe buff. F.S. Distillery: Distill or Be Killed [Heroic] Any party members still within the sugarcane press will be freed upon defeating Yipnik. ITEMS The Fishbone Earring’s water breathing...
My apologies for this one being a bit late. Here’s the note about today’s downtime: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 9:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 5:00AM London Time on April 30, 2015). Estimated downtime is one hour. *Time Zone Converter Along with today’s update notes: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION F.S. Distillery: The Rum Cellar [solo] The zone entry warning message will now...
Here are the patch notes for 28 April 2015 which include the notes for the new downloadable content (DLC), the Rum Cellar Campaign: RUM CELLAR CAMPAIGN NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE 2 Solo Zones (1 Solo and 1 Advanced Solo) 3 Heroic Zones (1 Heroic, 1 Event Heroic, 1 Event Heroic-Challenge) Raid Zone with 10 Bosses Lots of Loot, including drops of a Rare Elite Mercenary and a Zeppelin Mount New Achievements and Titles New Adornments and a new adornment set bonus tier 30 New Collections Merchant who accepts Far Sea Ferrin (who also sells a Zeppelin Mount!)
Update: “Unlocking US live servers now.” – Bunji Update: Downtime is now expected to extend until Noon Pacific time. However, the link to purchase the Rum Cellar Campaign is now active, so we can pretend that’s the pre-order time window. 🙂 Today marks the launch of the Rum Cellar Campaign which can be purchased here. For those that haven’t been following along, the Rum Cellar Campaign is the first attempt at delivering Downloadable Content (DLC) for a price, rather than through traditional expansions (not counting the old Adventure Packs that were meant to be in addition to expansions, not...
Today, Daybreak Games unveiled the new redesign of their website, DaybreakGames.com. Along with the new site design, they also revealed their new logo and the new name for Station Cash: Daybreak Cash. We are unsure of how long it will be before this gets changed in-game. Here’s a screenshot of one of the five screens that cycle through on the new homepage. Update: As part of the celebration for the launch of the new website and logo, EQ2 players can take advantage of the following: EverQuest II All Access members are in for a boost this week with Double...
MJ Guthrie over at Massively Overpowered has put together a pretty impressive guide to the dungeons available in Everquest II. It shows the different original story lines as well as the “golden path” and includes level ranges and type of dungeon. Certainly worth checking out.
Update: This issue has now been resolved. Having issues loading the non-streaming Altar of Malice Beta? You’re not alone. Starting about 6 hours ago people have been experiencing an error when trying to patch the non-streaming client for Beta. Holly “Windstalker” Longdale just confirmed on Twitter that they are aware of the issue and are testing a fix. She’s also written this on the forums: “True, true. Sorry folks. We are updating a lot of code to handle memory issues better. There were a few unexpected results…which were bad, obviously.” If you can’t wait for the fix, the streaming...
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale announced today on twitter: We’re going to have a Double XP weekend for members this Friday at noon to Sunday midnight PDT! Wee! Update: Windstalker confirmed that this is for Adventure and Tradeskill, but not Guild XP. Time Zone Conversions PDT: Friday, Sep 19 @ Noon ~ Sun, Sep 21 @ 11:59pm (+ 1 minute) EDT: Friday, Sep 19 @3:00pm ~ Monday, Sep 22 @ 2:59am BST: Friday, Sep 19 @20:00 ~ Monday, Sep 22 @ 7:59 CET: Friday, Sep 19 @21:00 ~ Monday, Sep 22 @ 8:59 AEST: Saturday, Sep 20 @ 5:00am ~ Monday, Sep 22 @ 4:59pm
Lets try this again. Update notes from the official forums for 7 May 2014: WEEKLY UPDATE Two tiers of the Restored High Keep Guildhall are now available from the Antonica or Commonlands Guild Bell! To obtain access to the Restored High Keep your guild must earn the Restored High Keep Guildhall Tier 2 or Tier 3 guild achievements by collecting High Keep Heartstones within High Keep Contested: The Bloodless Incursion. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General The chance for heroic zone bosses to drop Ethertouched Rune Patterns has increased from 8% to 15%.
Fairly large update notes from the official forums. Changes to taunts, 350 AAs, PvP updates, and mages say a fond farewell to carrying around a single, special arrow among other things. Read the full notes after the break. WEEKLY FEATURE Players at level 95 can now level up their Alternate Advancements to level 350! GENERAL Mounted combat pets now retain their illusion form after the player lands with a flying or gliding mount. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Respawn and evacuate locations have been added to The Trembling Lagoon, Dythra’s Lair, and Cleansing of the Cove. Previously, respawning...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Guardian’s Edifice Klandicar should no longer cast Chaos Bolt more than intended. Temple of Veeshan: Halls of the Betrayer Corrected an issue that would sometimes cause the doors behind Grendish to not open when they should. PvP Converting a mount to a house item must be done within a house on PvP servers.
Kander posted this on the EQ2Forums: Greetings and welcome to the Tears of Veeshan open Beta! First, let me thank you all for choosing to come and help us. We are grateful for your time, and will see that you are justly rewarded! We have a lot to test with this expansion, and we appreciate all of you who are helping us. You can access Vesspyr: the Eternal Broodlands via the dragon rings or druid rings. All heroic and advanced solo content is accessible directly from specialized entrances in the overland. Here is the zone list: Nexus Core [Heroic]...
From the EQ2 Forums: Hello again, Norrathians! We are all getting ready to usher in our next expansion, EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan (ToV)…and not a moment too soon! Open Beta is being prepared now for Oct. 15 and launch is coming on Nov. 12! In ToV, our next epic chapter unfolds! Kerafyrm, the great, evil prismatic dragon, has stolen a powerful artifact known as the Tear of Veeshan and slain Yelinak – Norrath’s wisest and eldest dragon. The New Combine Army that united Norrath’s peoples is fractured and powerless and it is said that Kerafyrm’s plots now reach...
From the EQ2 Forums (emphasis added by me): Mighty Norrathians! Since SOE Live and Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns there’s been a lot of focus and excitement here about Heroic Characters and this year’s expansion, Tears of Veeshan. We’re well on our way and working hard! To begin with, we have some date adjustments. Our expansion launch date has moved out a bit to mid-November and our Level 85 Heroic Characters are likely coming in the first week of October. We got some great feedback on Heroic Characters and we wanted to polish it up to make it more user-friendly...
From the EQ2 Forums: TRADESKILLS When commission crafting helms of Psionic Shielding the crafter should no longer be able to use their components in place of the commissioner’s materials. QUESTS Corrected an issue where the visual and audio notifications for quest updates would not trigger.
I’ve got big hopes for EQ2 itemization and what we’ll see in the “Everquest II: Itemization Evolves” panel at SOE Live this year. For me, there are several things that go into itemization. It’s more extensive than just the items themselves. Here are a few notes on itemization that I hope will be included in that evolution: Go back to the days when gear was less cookie cutter. The days when you looked at more than just the Stamina stat to see if you were already wearing better. Bring back heroic zone progression meaning make the top level heroic...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with the ticket goblin not spawning correctly. POPULATION Obol Plains The Steward of Drinal merchant is now located in Cardin Ward. Harrow’s End Drinal’s soulwells have returned and should correctly render when it is time to select his challenge level. ITEMS Shift+left-clicking on a green adornment should now properly create an item link in the chat window. TRADESKILLS Upgrades to Bloodbath and Bria’s Entrancing Sonnet are now craftable. QUESTS In Vanishing Act, the visage of fear will no longer attack mercenaries and pets once it is defeated. On Circumstantial Evidence, the...
So last night, we announced that we had made a snapshot of the AAs for some 150,000 characters which people could view at Beetny.com. We were pretty proud of ourselves until someone asked if that included the Beastlord warder AAs. It didn’t. Beatny doesn’t cover Beastlord warders. So because we try harder, we’ve gone back and made an actual backup of every character’s AAs right here on EQ2U and will hang onto it until well after the expansion. That’s over 416,000 characters. When the expansion hits on November 13th, you now have two backups you can use. The original...
Here are your update notes for Thursday, 17 May 2012: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Mount drops in the Underdepths and Betrayal in the Underdepths have been made less rare. Dracur Prime: Sevalak Awakened Sargon the Destructor text messages won’t go to the entire raid anymore, just the person about to be cast upon. The duration of the red text messages has been shortened. Dracur Prime: Vyskudra the Ancient The player who slays an energized storm elemental and those closest to the slayer will receive the Elemental Storm Energy Buff. The Elemental Stormstrike buff will no longer generate hate taunting...
A few days ago, I finally got around to doing some updates to Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator. Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports over the last several months. I think I’ve gotten all of them taken care of now but there may still be a few in there somewhere. Also, I’ve added a second white adornment dropdown for each slot since a lot of the Skyshrine items have two white adornment slots. Some two handers even have three white slots but I didn’t add a third dropdown. Just use the secondary dropdown for those cases and make sure...
Here are your updates for May 10, 2012. The quest All You Need is Time in Withered Lands should now be fixed as well as the ratio of Tier 10 precious metal rares. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Withered Lands Hexapola: players outside the raid should no longer cause the raid to reset if they agro raid insects. Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse. Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or...
Here are your update notes for 8 May, 2012. There is a fix for the quest “All You Need is Time” currently on the test server but it hasn’t made it to the live servers yet. If you are stuck on that quest, Gninja says to /petition it. He has given customer service steps on how to fix it. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse. Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s...
Akil “Lyndro” Hooper has posted a followup to his interview with Piestro on the official forums: Hey folks, I know that much of this is information that you already knew, but we wanted to get everything in a centralized place, so people don’t have to dig around to try and find the answers to these questions. The AA requirement won’t be 320 for sure (We don’t want to require AoD), the bar for earning XP in 90 is going to be 280, because you have your heroic endlines at that point (and I hate large primes so 277 wasn’t...