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EQ2Players.com has a news item up announcing the new 7 year veteran reward, your very own Mistmoore Crag Estate! It looks like it’s going to be quite impressive. More pictures are available at EQ2Players.com. There was quite an amusing thread with several devs posting screenshots and info over the past week about this new housing. All of it false of course but pretty humerous. Definately worth a read. It includes comments like this from Haohmaru like this: Hey all! We’ve decided to give a sneak peek of the Mistmoore Crag Estate. After much deliberating and rock paper scissors, we decided...
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Massively is giving away fifteen 30 day gold subscriptions to EQ2X. Check out the article at Massively.com and post a comment. Fifteen people will be randomly chosen to receive the 30 day gold subscriptions.
The folks over at Massively.com have posted an interview with SmokeJumper. In it, he talks about F2P, comparisons to other MMOs, the possibility of a dungeon finder, and the class balance manifesto. Interesting read.
I remember several years ago preparing to raid Deathtoll. The first thing I did was ride a cloud up on Bonemire and jump off at just the right spot so I could land on the floating island containing Arbiter Selek. But before I could talk to him, I had to speak Draconic. That’s right, first I had to do the quest Speak as a Dragon that started with a raid and then sent me all over Norrath looking for items.
This just in from SmokeJumper on the official forums: We’ve solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.) So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace. Here’s a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions: Slots are permanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever. You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it. Regarding Station Access subscriptions: Character slots sold are...
SmokeJumper is looking for feedback on placing F2P marketplace items on the test server. He posted this on the official forums: Hey, folks, We don’t have a big enough population on the Test server to run two different Test servers (one for EQII Live and one for EQ2X), and we’d like to get your feedback on whether you think it’s appropriate for us to allow the EQ2X marketplace items to show up on Test. Since the items are optional, it shouldn’t make much of a difference in your play style, but it would allow us to test them on a...
EQ2X is no longer in beta. From the ashes of the EQ2 Live servers comes the newly launched F2P server. At least that’s what seems to be implied by the free “Staff of the Rising Phoenix” available for a limited time on the EQ2X server. From Everquest2.com: It’s official! SOE has removed BETA from the logo and is proud to announce the official launch of EverQuest II Extended. To celebrate the launch, EQ2X players can claim their free Staff of the Rising Phoenix from the in-game Marketplace on the Freeport server. The staff is an appearance-only item, depicting a...
First off, my appologies for taking so long to post this information but it took me until a few hours ago to understand what was actually going on. It’s been a bit confusing. Here’s what’s happening. In celebration of Oktoberfest, the EverQuest II Community Team will be hosting in-game parties in the Community Lounge. Come socialize, dance, have pillow fights, drink, and be merry. You’ll also be able to tip the barkeeps for some special trinkets! The international servers Valor, Innovation, Storms, and Sebilis had their parties last week. The US/UK/Extended servers are having parties, but nobody from...
Here are your update notes for 28 September 2010 (since we cover EQII Live and EQ2X, the link is to the EQ2X forums where the full update notes are posted): EVERQUEST 2 EXTENDED Going to Battlegrounds on EQ2 Extended should no longer cause your items to set to 1c sell value. UNDERFOOT DEPTHS There is now a new respawn location right by the entrance to the Underfoot Seal chamber where Master Yael spawns. In order to activate this new respawn location, players will need to defeat fire elemental encounter “Saalax” before it can be accessed.
Search Engine Rankings Internet search engines use many different methods to rank the results of searches. One method of choosing which page to show first is by counting up the incoming links from other sites. The theory is that the more sites that are linking to a given page, the more likely it is to be useful. But what if you just want to show ads on your site and trick people into visiting? How to you get a higher ranking in the search engines? One method is to use programs that go out and post comments on websites...
Remember that contest that SOE held prior to Fan Faire? The one where the winners would get a Bloggie camera to record things? Well SOE has announced the winners and uploaded their footage to YouTube. Details and links after the break.
Domino posted this heads up for the test update notes on the official forums. This is scheduled to go live with GU58: The fuel that I’ve made since joining the team has had more standard names that I hoped would give some direction as to the level range, but the old fuel names were not easy to guess the appropriate level from the name. Although I realize it’s going to require some work updating notes, web sites, and habit, I think it’s worth while in the end to rename the fuel to a standard so that it all uses the same...
The fine folks over at Zam have recently published several really nice guides to make your life in Norrath a bit more pleasant: The Alternate Advancement Guide explains everything a new player needs to know about how Alternate Advancements work, what the trees are, what the slider does, etc. A very good resource for new players. The Lore and Legend Hot Spots is a very nice hunting guide for where to go to kill mobs for L&L pieces. 42 L&Ls are listed in alphabetical order to make it easy to find the best place to hunt these creatures. The...
Here are your update notes for 21 September 2010: ITEMS Torrent and Pestilential Rain no longer gain damage from attributes. PALACE OF ROEHN THEER Roehn Theer will now lock you into your rune choice should you lower his health below 75%.
Everquest 2 is holding a forum challenge for Oktoberfest! An in-game screenshot, modified in-game screenshot, or artwork of your character celebrating Oktoberfest should be submitted by Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 10:00 am PDT. First place submissions will be made into in-game paintings and will also receive the Commemorative Trophy. Honorable mentions will receive the Commemorative Trophy. Full details after the break:
Here are your update notes for 15 September 2010: GENERAL Fixed a bug causing some zones to not be available for zoning. Fixed a bug were Experts and Masters of the previous tier could be automatically overwritten in your hotbar by an Apprentice spell. TRAVEL The Stonebrunt temporal pathfinder will now properly zone you into Sundered Frontier instead of leaving you high and dry in the middle of the sky. ITEMS Ykeshan Spellbears and Warbears can be used below level 80 and no longer can be combined below level 80.
The 9/14 patch notes contained the following note: Fixed a bug with and re-enabled new spells replacing old spells in the hotbar if the new spell is more powerful. Apparently, there was more than one bug. There are reports that it is now replacing the existing spells regardless of whether they are more powerful or not. The good news is that they also snuck in a flag to turn it off. Rothgar posted this on the official forums: We are looking into the issue, it shouldn’t be replacing more powerful spells with weaker ones. In the meantime, you have...
Some people trying to load the game after this morning’s update have been experiencing DirectX errors. Rothgar has posted a temporary fix for this on the official forums and says that an updated file should be pushed to the patcher soon: After this morning’s hotfix we’ve had reports of a few different issues. So far, the issues that we’ve tracked down are related to an upgrade that we performed internally to bring our development environment up to a newer version. Some players have reported a DirectX error when launching the game client. This appears to be caused by systems...
Here are your update notes for 14 September 2010 after the break:
Here are your update notes for Wednesday, 8 September 2010: EVERQUEST II EXTENDED Fixed a bug causing Platinum subscribers to not be able to use the shared bank. USER INTERFACE Fixed a bug that would cause your AA slider to reset to 50% upon zoning. Sort by current zone for the quest journal now properly puts the current zone quests at the top of the list. We have disabled the spells from replacing old ones in the hotbar until we can track down a bug regarding it. SHADER 3.0 Fixed an issue causing parts of some structures in Halas...
Want some Battlegrounds items but can’t stand some of the zones? Having trouble getting into some of them as often as you’d like? If so, then changes may be coming your way soon that will solve those problems. It looks like soon you will be able to exchange your tokens for “Battleground Tokens” which can be used to purchase items instead of the three different types. Bunji wrote over on the EQ2Players forums: Test needs another update before the token exchange will be working correctly. This should be in the next Test update: You may now exchange your Gears,...
From EQ2Players.com: Platinum Memberships are now available for EQ2X players! With the Platinum Membership, players can enjoy a robust experience in the world of Norrath. Platinum members will get full access to all 19 standard character races, all 24 classes, all spell tiers and equipments grades. They can play up the the current maximum level (level 90) and get 10 character slots for making a variety of characters. In addition, Platinum members will have six bag slots, an unlimited coin allowance, and can send and receive in-game mail. This level of membership allows unlimited use of the broker system,...
EQ2Wire reported last week about individual classes and broker access being available for purchase on EQ2X in the near future. The future is now. This just in from Smokejumper on the EQ2X Forums: If you are a Bronze or Silver member, there are two new features available to you! Classes, a la Carte! You can now purchase individual classes for 750 SC each. You can either purchase them in the marketplace or at the time of character creation. All classes outside of the original eight free ones are available for purchase. (Gold and Platinum members, this doesn’t affect you...
For a while now, there have been items that give a bonus to mitigation. These bonuses are shown as the blue stat on gear that says +x% Mitigation Increase. Apparently, for a long time now, there has been a bug with how this bonus is calculated which has been granting more of an increase than intended. A fix for this has crept its way onto the test server which is lowering the mitigation of most tanks. So, on the test server, if you have any of this gear and yesterday you were barely able to survive during a given...
Here are your hotfix notes for September 1, 2010 after the break: