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From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS Defiler Crystallized Soul, Necromancer Dark Heart, Conjurer Shard of Essence and all priest summoned resurrection baubles should now function in Proving Grounds. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION All Raids Minor adjustments to incoming damage to players in raid boss encounters Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid] Corrected a situation where the ritual barrier did not block the “Basilisk Bite” spell. Vaedenmoor, Realm of Despair [Raid] Vhaksiz the Shade should no longer wipe out the raid if the “panic” script is triggered. Vaedenmoor: Heart of Nightmares [Raid] Corrected an issue with Baliath’s enrage timer causing the duration...
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From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS Battle upon the High Seas Cap’n Ketch can no longer be pulled via AoEs unless he’s targeted. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Many boss charm spells have been changed to stuns. Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid] Bursting Spores can no longer be resisted.
Presumably… From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now hide your ‘Not For Sale’ items when at a merchant. You can now filter the broker by Ascension Classes. PROVING GROUNDS Most cleric reactive heals have been increased in the Proving Grounds by 30-40%.
From EverQuest2.com: From 12:01AM PDT (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Friday,May 26th, 2017 through 11:59PM PST (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Monday, May 29th, 2017, all servers will have bonus experience! This will be applied to Adventure, Tradeskill, and AA. If that’s not enough, you will also receive double Tithe and Status as well, so you can level up your Guild or bank some Status Points for a rainy day! Note that for Adventurers, this is 100% bonus XP. If you have absolutely no potions running, vitality, or veteran bonus characters, then that would make it “Double XP”. This bonus XP does not apply to Dungeon or Mission...
We’re going to assume: From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS General The “All Hands on Deck” and “Nature’s Fury” incrementing buffs cast by many of the non-boss NPCs in Battle upon the High Seas and Battle for Felwithe now apply 5.0% strikethrough per increment. Battle upon the High Seas Corrected an issue that granted extra hit points to human Brokenskull pirate’s on the blue side. The number of pirates answering Cap’n Ketch’s calls has been reduced. Turbulent spirits (drakes) will no longer attack groups not engaged in combat. FAMILIARS Five new familiars are now available from different merchants...
From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS Battle upon the High Seas Poxy can now be damaged. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Chamber of Rejuvenation [Raid] The Reet Ritualist should now despawn when encounter resets. The entrance door should no longer require 18+ players to enter. The exit door should now allow use. Basilisk Bite should no longer overwrite itself when attempting to apply it twice.
Any change to Proving Grounds (PvE Battlegrounds?) likely requires patching both US and EU servers, so we’re going to go out on a sturdy limb and guess… Also it looks like EQ2 Developer Snark has now leaked into the update notes. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where guild events may not display the most current events after a server restart. PROVING GROUNDS Increased most heals in Proving Grounds. Each member of the winning team will now receive their bonus tokens after completing the final objective. The final zone bosses are now immune to Verdict. Mayong smiles....
From EverQuest2.com: Earning in game currency can help you pick up great gear and help make Norrath a safer place! This next week you will earn twice as much for each activity completed. This event will begin Friday, May 12th, 2017 at 12:01 AM PDT (07:00 UTC) and end Thursday May 18, 2017 at 11:59 PDT (06:59 UTC). “I’m already a member and get double!” you say? All Access members during this period will get double double meaning instead of 1 you get 4! If you aren’t a member this is a perfect time to join! Be sure to...
From the EQ2 Forums: PROVING GROUNDS Rewards are now granted upon leaving a match if any were earned by completing objectives. When the 2nd objective is completed (on either team), neither teams’ numbers can be reinforced by anyone outside the match. After the first team completes the final objective, the opposing team’s group count will be checked periodically. If their group total falls below 3, the match will end. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid] You should no longer occasionally get spammy messages regarding progression within the zone.
From EverQuest2.com: We’re excited about GU103: The Menagerie, and we want to make sure that everyone that has ever played EverQuest II can join us for this game update! You can redeem a FREE level 100 character boost when you log in before Monday, May 22, 2017 @ 11:59PM PDT.* This is a great time for someone to test out a new character, or for player that have been taking a vacation from Norrath to get to caught up to their friends when joining them on their server. Never played EverQuest II before? No problem! This promotion is also available to new...
All EverQuest II Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 at 7:00 AM PT (14:00 UTC) for an update. Estimated downtime is less than 3 hours. From the EQ2 Forums: NEW KUNARK ASCENDING HERITAGE QUEST Interested adventurers should search within Obulus Frontier for clues on how to begin this new quest. Good hunting! FAMILIARS Experts in the mysterious menagerie have discovered a subspecies of creatures that have been found to increase the master’s ability to channel greater power. You can access the Familiar window via a tab in your character UI. PROVING GROUNDS This update includes...
First of all, I’d like to thank EQ2Wire for giving me the opportunity to rant about…I mean discuss the current situation regarding DPS in EQ2. What I’m going to do here is give 3 rankings and 1 “score” for all DPS classes. Firstly, I will rank where they were. Next I will rank where I expect them to end up after the dust of GU103 settles. Lastly among the rankings, I will include a “value” rank that indicates my opinion of the overall. Finally, the “score” for the DPS classes will be in relation to each other, with the top ranked class being 100,...
From EverQuest2.com: Are you ready to test your mettle in this round of the Proving Grounds? Will you begin the work to form lifelong bonds with mysterious menagerie creatures? Jump in to GU103: The Menagerie – available now! Cooperative Competition Zones For a limited time, get in and compete against other players to fight to the finish first! In our first two Cooperative Competition Zones, two groups of up to six to compete against each other in timed races to see who can complete the challenge first. The fastest times for each round are recorded on a leaderboard. Each time there is...
A large portion of Game Update 103: The Managerie is now available for Testing on the Test server. Please note that it is not possible to COPY characters to the Test server. This will present an obvious roadblock to most for testing level 100 content unless you happen to have one of the 189 level 100 characters which has been active on Test in the last four months. Here are some highlights from the Test Update Notes for May 2, 2017 from the EQ2 Forums: NEW KUNARK ASCENDING HERITAGE QUEST Interested adventurers should search within Obulus Frontier for clues on how...
Here are the chat logs for the two May 1st EverQuest II Developer “Ask Me Anything” in-game chat events. Click a server below to go to that server’s page. April 26: April 28: May 1:
From the EQ2 Forums: All servers will be restarted at 7:00 AM PDT (14:00 UTC) to address a small technical issues. Downtime is anticipated to be less than one hour.
Here are the chat logs for the EverQuest II Developer “Ask Me Anything” in-game chat events. Click a server below to go to that server’s page. April 26: April 28: May 1:
From EverQuest2.com: We’re grateful for your patience as we worked through some technical issues with our servers. While our fixes seem stable so far, we want to take more time to test and verify our changes before launching GU103: The Menagerie. Since we want to ensure that the launch of our next game update is as smooth and stable as possible, we’ve decided to move the launch of GU103: The Menagerie to Tuesday, May 9, 2017. To thank you for your patience and support, we’ll be activating Triple XP (AA, Adventure, Tradeskill) for ALL players and ALL servers starting now. This will run...
From EQ2 Producer Lauren “Mooncast” McLemore on the EQ2 Forums: Yesterday we experienced unforeseen technical issues related to an upgrade to one of our internal services. Those complex changes caused issues with logins and required that we take down our servers. We pushed a fix last night and are monitoring the servers closely to verify the fix and ensure its stability. If you experience unexpected behavior with logins today, please post in this thread. As we monitor the results of this fix, we may determine it needs time to “bake” further before we make any significant updates. This might...
It looks like this morning’s update note of “Updated underlying structure for handling Daily Objectives and Loyalty Tokens. There shouldn’t be any noticeable difference in functionality.” did in fact have a noticeable difference and EQ2 servers are now down for an extended window which could run quite long. From the EQ2 Forums: All servers are currently coming offline to address a technical issue. We do not have an ETA at this time but will provide information as it becomes available. From the EQ2 Forum status notice: Status: 4/27/2017 10:26 PDT – The game is currently down, investigating a login...
Here are the chat logs for the EverQuest II Developer “Ask Me Anything” in-game chat events. Click a server below to go to that server’s page. April 26: April 28: May 1:
The EQ2 developers will be staging Dev Chats in-game in the Public chat channel on each EQ2 server over the next three days. There have been predictions of chaos and troublemakers interrupting the chat, so this could be very interesting or it could go smoothly and lead to enlightenment. Here’s the schedule from the EQ2 Forums: If you missed last week’s letter from the team, we’ll be hosting Developer chats on all servers and answering your questions! Below is a schedule for each server: April 26th – Thurgadin – 10:30AM–11:30AM PDT (17:30 UTC – 18:30 UTC) April 26th –...
From Everquest2.com: Need to catch up or get an alt to max level? From 12:01AM PST (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Friday, April 21st, 2017 through 11:59PM PST (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Thursday, April 27th, 2017, all servers will have bonus experience for All Access Members! This will be applied to Adventure, Tradeskill, and AA. It is our understanding that this does not double Quest or Ascension XP.
From the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Fellow Norrathians! Just stopping by to give everyone some information on what we have coming this year and some insight on the direction we are going. Cooperative Competition: Co-opetition!