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From the EQ2 Forums: GUILD HALL AMENITIES Depots The maximum number of different resources that you can store in a Guild Harvest Depot has been increased from 200 to 1000. Several new Depots have been added as guild amenities! Check the “Depot” tab in your guildhall amenity list for details. The maximum number of items in a single depot stack has been increased from 20,000 to 99,999. Set Access now works with storage containers for the purpose of withdrawing items from the containers. Deposit remains open to all. Storage containers will now show the minimum level to use an...
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In addition to a number of other player-requested changes, tweaks, and bug fixes, the coolest thing on the Test server right now may just be the evolution of the Guild Harvest Depot. The changes on Test dramatically increase the capacity and possible variety of materials which can be stored in the Guild Harvest Depot, as well as introducing a number of new types of storage container. With the new Depots, guilds will be able to de-clutter their Guild Bank of Poisons, Ammo, Totems (soon), Cure Potions, Food & Drink, Collectibles, Player-made Adornments, and Lore & Legend parts. These items...
It’s time for a double helping of updates as servers will go down today from 3-4pm PST for a second update. From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Items no longer lose their sale value to vendors when you transfer to another server. Many Brawler weapons have had delay adjust to 4 seconds. Some CoE brawler weapons have had permanent block chance added. [eq2u]Soul-Skiver of Blame[/eq2u] is now a 4 second delay. [eq2u]Claws of the Cursed Soul[/eq2u] is now a 4 second delay [eq2u]Claws of the Cursed Soul[/eq2u] now has permanent block chance added. [eq2u]Soul-Bladed Claws of the Silver Reaper[/eq2u] are...
Frostfell is not the only special occasion in EverQuest II today, as the first two Player-made items will be appearing in-game as well. We can look forward to a Heroic Salesman’s Crate and a Cloak of the North Star. This news comes to us via MJ at Massively who was provided with screenshots of both items. PlayerStudio, announced this October in the leadup to the annual SOE Live Las Vegas developer-player pow-wow, is a program which allows players to design, create, and submit finished in-game artwork and models which are then made available on the StationCash Marketplace. These two...
Whew! With a little over 12 hours to spare before Frostfell 2012 goes live, I finally have the Frostfell 2012 crafting preview done! I bet you folks didn’t think I’d have it done in time – I know I didn’t think I’d finish it before tomorrow! Fortunately, I had some phenomenal help from a pair of SOE Frostfell Elves with regards to most of the images, and I think I caught all the high points. I take full responsibility for the ogress images that make you want eyeball bleach – I thought they’d help keep you from going into...
Here are your Update Notes for Thursday, December 13, 2012. This update is expected to take 2 hours. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Mounts will no longer show the locked icon on them when you can use them. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow’s End x4 Bastion’s pillars should regenerate energy nearly equally as fast as they get drained. The draining should also be slightly lessened. Drinal should no longer be casting his curse repetitively while the curse is already active on a raid member. Drinal’s Power Over Death curse should once again be at the appropriate duration. Oligar should...
So while we’re crossing our fingers that EQ2U will get access to Loot Tables someday soon, I wanted to take our new Item Popups for a spin and put together a collaborative loot article. We’ll be covering loot from Advanced Solo, Group, and Raid Zones, and even Collections as I know there are some good reward items out there. What do I do? Please post item names below and who the item is from (as well as any adornments that are bundled with the item), which zone, and whether it was the EM or HM version. I’ll be reading...
I’m thrilled to announce that the last three weeks of Javascript hell endured by Dethdlr have paid off, as EQ2U is now running totally revamped display code for Item Popups (Tooltips if you prefer). While we were at it, we also took the opportunity to switch our Spells pages to internal popups. This applies both when viewing a Character, and when browsing Spells directly. [eq2u]Chains of the Baleful Soul[/eq2u] | [eq2u]Torrent of Pestilence[/eq2u] | [eq2u]Assassin’s Drape of War[/eq2u] Once I started testing out the new code, and I saw item popups snap into nice neat positions rather than going...
From EQ2’s Twitter: The US Servers will come down on Thursday, December 6, 2012, at 4:00 pm Pacific* for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. [Dexella] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) December 6, 2012 Time Zone Conversions PST: December 6 @ 4-5:00pm EST: December 6 @ 7-8:00pm GMT: December 7 @ 0:00-01:00 CET: December 7 @ 01:00-02:00 Full Update Notes after the jump…
From Dexella on the EQ2 Forums: There are some changes coming to the free pack program for Gold Members of EverQuest and EverQuest II. First, the old “anniversary date” has been completely removed. Starting with the launch of Debt of the Ratonga, free member packs will be awarded on the member’s first log in that month. Furthermore, each player MUST log in during a calendar month to get that month’s worth of packs. Packs will no longer accumulate from month to month. If you skip a month without logging in to Legends of Norrath, you will not receive free...
Dethdlr and I have been patiently (well, Dethdlr at least) waiting for Chains of Eternity data so we can add Experimentation, Refining, and Spirit Stones (green adornments) to EQ2U. Looks like DrumsUI author Drumstix got tired of waiting, broke out a calculator (and some Optical Character Recognition) and has calculated out the max level of every Spirit Stone currently in-game. VISIT: Spirit Stones at Max Level @ DrumsUI If you haven’t checked out DrumsUI, it is one of the best “full replacement” UI themes for EQ2. Virtually every window is nipped, tucked, or tweaked to dramatically increase functionality and...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with connecting to the 90 – 95 chat channel. Mounts and baubles no longer have their usage verbs blocked by your subscription level and can be used regardless. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Boss fights where mobs are summoned and added into an encounter will no longer reset the health of the boss mob.
UPDATE: Servers are back up and the broker issue appears fixed! Whew! We are still looking into the chat issue.It’s an odd one. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 29, 2012 From Holly‘s twitter 8 minutes ago: We are preparing to bring the servers down within the hour to fix the broker bug.Downtime will be 30 to 40 min. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 29, 2012 The 90 to 95 Chat channel fix is eluding us for now and won’t be in this hotfix. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 29, 2012
As awesome as it is that Raiders, Group, and yes Solo players get to experience the entire Drinal Signature Quest line which takes players through the entire Chains of Eternity storyline, the requirement to do this 8-12 hour quest on every Alt character just to gain access to the group zones, as well as loot [eq2u]Obol[/eq2u] and [eq2u]Greater Spirit[/eq2u]s was a bridge too far. From EQ2 Lead Designer Akil “Lyndro” Hooper on the EQ2 Forums: We’re going to remove the entrance requirements from all of the dungeons and raids in the expansion except for Harrow’s End. For Harrow’s End...
Despite alarm bells being raised by the EQ2 Testing community on the EQ2 Forums, in /bug, and on Facebook, Monday‘s Test Update has been pushed to the live EQ2 servers with a show-stopping bug: Any item which cannot be equipped is now nameless on the Broker and cannot be searched for. Items which you have listed for sale on the Broker that cannot be equipped are shown as having no name. This means you cannot search for Dungeon Maker items, Raw Materials, Collectibles, Consumables, basically anything that you cannot equip. You can use Category filters (as shown above), but...
The Thanksgiving holiday falling just after an expansion is always a pain. Just when we need those Tuesday/Thursday updates the most, the fixes start to thin out, or are postponed. But for those who have been waiting patiently (and even if you haven’t), the time is finally here for the post-Chains of Eternity Mega Patch. Tomorrow’s update contains a ton of fixes to issues that have been brought up repeatedly in /bug, here, and on the forums. The updates include: [eq2u]Call of the Veteran[/eq2u] is back working as it was before. Jarsath Wastes Sokokar Trainers are back. Gathering Goblin...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where items that dropped from epic monsters that were pre-adorned were not tradable when they should be. Spellscrolls will now be more accurate when saying whether or not they’re locked [ed. note: Silver vs. Gold account] based on spell tier and account subscription level. Auto-following while on a flying mount will now cancel your flight if the follow target enters combat. Call of the Veteran is now treasured instead of fabled so that all account levels can properly use it. ABILITIES Spells that rely on increments on a target will now...
From Twitter: One Day Only Black Friday Double Station Cash offer for SOE pre-paid Station Cash cards, in-game and online purchases. ow.ly/fuboh — EverQuest II (@everquestii) November 23, 2012
A lot of you out there (myself included) will be on the road in the coming days so I just wanted to wish folks in the U.S. a Happy Thanksgiving. Alas, my well-wishes are a month late for Canadians, and as for Europe, well, the best description I’ve heard is: Thursday: We eat turkey and innumerable harvest foods ’til we want to die Friday: We nearly kill each other while retail shopping for marked down electronics Saturday: We engage in awkward social activities with crazy Cousin Eddie and odd Aunt Edna Sunday: We bid fare-thee-well to in-laws who we...
EQ2Talk Episode #55 — Second Wind This weekend Dell and Ali talked to the producer of Everquest 2, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale. In this podcast, find out which way the wind is blowing, and learn about some of the things behind the making of Chains of Eternity, EQ2’s ninth expansion. Also, learn about what’s in store for Norrath in the coming months and the future. Rumor has it that one of the questions relates to Census, and Holly indicated that the team is fully committed supporting the service and my name was mentioned. 😉 Download EQ2Talk Episode #55
From Kaitheel on the EQ2 Forums: In light of a moratorium on live server updates, the holiday live event schedule had to be rearranged slightly. Here’s the current plan: Heroes’ Festival to be activated on live servers on 11/27/12 (Tuesday) *after game update on 11/26/12 (Monday) to be deactivated on all servers on 12/11/12 (Tuesday) @ 11:59pm Frostfell to be activated on test server on 12/10/12 (Monday) to be activated on live servers with a server update on 12/13/12 (Thursday) to be deactivated on all servers with a server update on 1/10/13 (Thursday)
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale tweeted: We are upgrading the Storms and Harla Dar server hardware today! Barren Sky will follow soon. Been a long time coming! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 21, 2012 Okay, so…I fibbed.Barren Sky and Storms are getting the upgrades today! Harla Dar will soon follow. Hurray in both cases! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 21, 2012 From the EQ2 Forums: Finally, Barren Sky and Storms are getting hardware upgrades! Harla Dar will soon follow.We will be watching performance and hope the game is more fun to play for our Russian and French players!
SOE servers are currently undergoing some unscheduled maintenance which is affecting logins to EQ2 and other SOE games. From EQ2’s Facebook page: We are currently doing some unscheduled maintenance that is affecting logins. We anticipate it done shortly and appreciate your patience. UPDATE: EQ2 Players seem to be able to log back in, however the StationCash Marketplace seems to be unavailable at this time.
From EverQuest2.com: Now is a great time to stock up on SOE Game Cards from your local 7-Eleven retailer. Between 11/16/12 and 11/18/12*, get Double Station Cash when you redeem an SOE Game Card for Station Cash. This promotion is exclusive to cards purchased at 7-Eleven stores in the US. Game Card must be purchased at a 7-Eleven store in the United States and redeemed for Station Cash (not membership time) during the promotional period to qualify. Offer valid only for qualifying Game Cards that are redeemed for Station Cash between 12:01 AM PST 11/16/12 and 11:59 PM PST...
UPDATE: This update was postponed, but servers came down just the same. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow’s End Exhaustive Souldrain should now have examine text that accurately explains what it does. Drinal should no longer think he is using less soulwells than have been consumed. This should correct the issue with him dropping empty chests. Drinal will no longer auto consume the last soulwell if players do not allow him to consume any other soulwells. After all four soulwells have been destroyed he will imbue himself with a random ability and challenge level will be...