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From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with casting bars on heroic and raid enemies. ITEMS Fixed a bug where Will of Thorns proc could work in reverse. [eq2u]Fist of the Unrivaled[/eq2u] now has 18% Block Chance. [eq2u]Torque of Soulful Revival[/eq2u] now gets melee benefits from its effect rather than caster benefits. The effect Eternal Damnation now supplies strength and agility in its effect. Resolution of Heated Battle can now trigger when using combat arts. [eq2u]Necklace of Isabella’s Flame[/eq2u]: This item’s passive effect now grants caster stats as opposed to melee stats.
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This was posted about 90 minutes ago on the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 2:00 PM Pacific* on January 25, 2013. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games may be affected, but players who are already logged in and remain logged in will not be affected Login for all SOE forums may be affected Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, may be unavailable Account management may be unavailable We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected...
After 2 weeks in Miami, it seems Drinal has returned to the Ethernere for more afterlife mayhem. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow‘s End (Raid) Targets marked with Transfiguration by Drinal should no longer be affected by Exhaustive Souldrain. Drinal should now be awarding the correct achievement for killing him in any soulwell. Drinal should no longer occasionally drop an empty chest. Drinal should once again reset properly when he defeats players. Corrected an issue that was causing a zone crash when Drinal defeated players.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Target casting bars will now clear the spell when they fail to successfully cast. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Chardok Queen Velazul will no longer reset if attempted without a group. Wurmbone Crag Greatly reduced the HP on Errlik the Bludgeoner’s gnorgers. His gnorger that casts the Doom Tooth fear is now labeled as “a dooming gnorger” for priority killing. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Sorcerer Sanguine Sacrifice should now apply reliably. GUILD HALL AMENITIES Transport The Magic Carpet to Norrath now includes the Great Divide and Jarsath Wastes destinations. TRADESKILLS Level 91, 93, and 95...
From EverQuest2.com: Player Studio™ has been live for over a month now! We’ve seen some amazing work submitted! Host Dave Georgeson (Director of Development) will sit down with Joe Shoopack (Director of Artistic Development), Sebastian Strzalkowski (Franchise Art Director), and Matt Case (Sr. Artist) to dive in and clarify what SOE artists are looking for when submissions come in. We’ll also talk about the updated guidelines we are releasing soon, our new focus, and more, so don’t miss it! Join us on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time* on Twitch TV! The webcast is expected to last...
A number of players are reporting that their EverQuest II launchpad is trying to re-download the entire 14GB game. Some suggestions: Close and reopen the Launchpad. Click the Tools icon on the lower left of the Launchpad and choose a Full File Scan Validate Game Assets. If all else fails, close the Launchpad, navigate to your EverQuest II install directory and run the EverQuest2.exe application directly. There is no patch today and certainly no reason to re-download gigabytes of the game you already have. Update: We are aware of the issues with LaunchPad and are actively working on a...
What makes people competitive? What makes people want to put their reputation on the line and be compared and judged by others? At the conclusion of any sports event, one team experiences the euphoria of victory while the other is left asking themselves where they went wrong with their offensive or defensive strategies and what they could do better. But while sports are the obvious example, competition can be found everywhere. In academics. In Barbecue. In growing the largest tomato. People will make fools of themselves on national TV just for the chance to win a few bucks. So it’s...
Today’s update is all about Itemization, specifically Group and Raid zones in Chains of Eternity. Heroic Itemization Players have been clamoring for Chains of Eternity Heroic zones to drop items even as good as some of the powerful items found in Advanced Solo zones, and it looks like those sentiments have been heard. (Don’t worry Soloers, the solo zones still drop a ton of loot). Sleeper’s Tomb (Contested) has had a bigger problem as players quickly abandoned it when they found that the loot was hardly better than that from the much easier instanced heroic zones. Pre-Adorned Items After...
From the EQ2 Forums: GUILD HALL AMENITIES Depots You can now set tradeskill access separate from withdrawal and deposit access on each Depot’s UI. Transmuting components are now labeled properly and can be added into the harvest depot by selecting the appropriate choice in the deposit dropdown. Treasured – Fragments and Powders Legendary – Infusions Fabled – Manas ITEMS Augmented Blessing and Augmented Smite no longer stack proc chance. They now increase in effectiveness for each similar effect you wear. Augmented Blessing and Augmented Smite no longer proc in PVP combat. Augmented Blessing and Augmented Smite’s “On Damage Received”...
Even the most jaded player must admit that the EQ2 team have spent a lot of time in the last 18 months tweaking and balancing the classes, both in PvP and PvE situations. Every class in EQ2 now has a role to play, and the tools necessary to play that role, even if that role may not be the most engaging or fun to play. On Friday, Mike “Xelgad” Ganz, EQ2’s Mechanics Lead, posted threads in each of the Class forums seeking feedback not for further balancing, but what tweaks could be done to make each class less tedious...
Due to some family health issues, things have been slow at the Wire the past couple of weeks short of Update Notes. That’s not to say there hasn’t been a slow resurgence in news on the EQ2 forums as the devs come back from winter break…. The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Ever since the first Massively Multiplayer Online game arrived on the market, players have been seeking the shortest route to fortune, glory, and player experience (XP). In EverQuest II, Pet classes (Beastlords, Summoners, and Enchanters) have always had an advantage with the TOS-bending concept of unattended gameplay....
Here are your Update Notes for January 10, 2013 from the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Ammo Conservation adornments have been removed from red and yellow dropped adornment tables. QUESTS Quest items Listenomitron and Voice Modulator now work as quest baubles during their associated quests in the betrayal quests.
Here are your Update Notes for Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now invite another player to create a raid even if they have a mercenary but you do not. You can now fill remaining spaces in your bags from your overflow via /empty_overflow or from right-clicking on the overflowing inventory icon. GUILD HALL AMENITIES The standard bearer should now offer guild markers for use in marking strategic locations within instances. Only those marked as a raid looter can remove these markers. TRADESKILLS The Refine ability icon should now refresh instantly, as the recast...
From the EQ2 Forums: QUESTS Sleeper’s Tomb [Contested] now has dropped and POI quests that can be used to earn [eq2u]Obol[/eq2u], spirits and more! Alma Marigold will now offer Kelethin: Dreadooze on more than one occasion. TRADESKILLS Maker’s Marks should now appear on all items crafted through the Quantity Crafting system. BATTLEGROUNDS You can no longer accept a battleground match while dead.
On the EQ2 Forums, players are reporting login issues with the Freeport server. Reports include players having trouble zoning, looting items, etc.
And so it begins… Double XP Weekend started last night promptly at Midnight (Pacific time) and will run through Tuesday, January 1st @ 11:59pm PST (that’s Wednesday, January 2nd @ 7:59 GMT). EQ2Wire Asks Now that the Group XP penalty is gone and you get as much XP with 6 people in the group as you do solo, will you be leveling different this weekend? How many levels / AAs are you planning to get? After I get the last of my alts to 95, I’ve got a 35 mystic with 180 AAs that I’ll be working on. Since mercs...
I am thrilled to announce that EQ2U now supports Spirit Stones (green adornments) which were added with the Chains of Eternity expansion, and for which we recently received the necessary data. We hope you will find that the progression of stats on this new type of adornment is a lot easier to follow with our choice of presentation/layout. Spirit Stone shown on a character’s equipment with stats appropriate to the Spirit Level.
I’d like to take a moment and express my sincere gratitude to Ferrek who took my We Need Screenshots call to arms as a personal challenge and set out to document every Insect and Arachnid that could be found in Norrath! Every screenshot and note on the Insects tab (as well as numerous contributions elsewhere in the Warder guide) was submitted by Ferrek. I’m happy to announce that our Beastlord Warder Guide now sports 39 Insect appearances. Note: 6 of the appearances are “bone spiders” and right now, charming any of them results in a grey beetle, but hopefully this...
From EverQuest2.com: Today in the Marketplace there are three new Player Studio items available for sale! All of these decorative house items were created by the talented Kyle Michel! First, if you prefer a minimalist sensibility in your home, you might want to place this [eq2u]Eastern Wall Decor[/eq2u]:
From EverQuest2.com: Ring in 2013 with Double Experience in EverQuest II! Starting Sunday, December 30, 2012 @ 12:01am PST until Tuesday, January 1, 2013 @ 11:59pm PST, we’re offering Double Experience in EverQuest II! Take advantage of this limited time offer and watch those XP bars fill up! Double Guild XP? Our understanding is that this will affect Adventure XP, AA XP, and Tradeskill XP, but probably not Guild XP. We’ll update if we get clarification on this! Time Zone Conversions PST: December 30, 2012 @ 12:01am ~ January 1, 2013 @ 11:59pm EST: December 30, 2012 @ 3:01am ~ January...
On Wednesday, a number of players noticed that their Silver or expired EQ2 accounts had been temporarily upgraded to Gold. This turns out to be part of a Winback promotion that is granting players 15 days of Gold subscription to come back and try out EQ2 again. We’ve read through the announcement and broken this Promo down: Former EverQuest II players! Get in the game now and take advantage of FREE GOLD MEMBERSHIP time from 12/19/12 – 1/3/13*. Also, enjoy a FREE Adventurer’s Welcome Pack gift just for getting back into the game.
From the EQ2 Forums: Celebrate the holidays with Triple Station Cash! Buy Station Cash in-game, via your Station Account or redeem an SOE Pre-Paid Game Card and you’ll get Triple Station Cash! But hurry, this offer ends December 21, 2012 at 11:59 pm PST! Plus, don’t forget to login to participating games throughout the SOE 12 Days of Holidays to see what the daily special offer, sale or activity is! *Station Cash offer valid to 11:59 PM PST on 12/21/2012. Excludes mobile/SMS purchases. P.S. Normally I would have posted this days ago, but I’ve been completely consumed with adding support...
The US Servers will come down on Tuesday, December 18, 2012, at 3:00 pm Pacific for a hotfix. The EU servers will come down on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 5:00 am London time. The expected downtime is one hour. From the EQ2 Forums: PLAYER HOUSING Fixed a bug where your house could crash if you tried to take things out of your personal harvest depot.
Hot on the heels of today’s Update which introduced seven new flavors of Guild Depots, it seems a number of glitches have slipped through as well which were not discovered on Test. The first glitch affects smaller in-home Personal Harvest Depots. While players are still able to craft from the comfort of their own homes using said Depots, any attempt to manually remove stacks of harvestables leads to a zone crash, kicking the player from their homes. Meanwhile, players have reported sporadic issues with items disappearing from Guild Hall depots and inability to add or remove items. Windstalker had...
Guilds wishing to stockpile potions, poisons, adornments, lore & legend parts, and other supplies for their members have had little option but to cram all these items into the confines of their Guild Bank. When Guild Halls were added four years ago, one of the “home run” amenities was the Harvest Supply Depot, but it was limited to harvestables, and didn’t have enough slots to hold all adorning materials and other special ingredients. As an early Frostfell present, the EQ2 devs have added not one but seven more Depot types to encompass virtually everything that guildmates might want to...