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Some players were unable to connect to SOE websites, forums, and services in July 2014 due to an issue with SOE not renewing the SonyOnline.net domain. This problem has long since been remedied. If you are still having problems… The first thing you should try is to open your Start menu, choose “Run…” and type “ipconfig /flushdns“. A black box will momentarily flash. This will make your computer forget all the DNS lookups it has performed, so when you try to access SOE websites, forums, and games, the correct addresses will load and you’ll be able to see them...
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UPDATE: As of about 6:05am PDT, NetworkSolutions.com is reporting Sony Online Entertainment owns SonyOnline.net again. SOE websites and games should start resolving properly for all customers around the world over the next few minutes/hours. To refresh your DNS info, go to the Start menu, choose “Run…”. Type ipconfig /flushdns. Now relaunch your web browser and/or game launchpads. Original article follows: We are in the process of researching this issue, but it looks like the domain registration for the domain SonyOnline.net expired this morning, reverting back to being the property of NetworkSolutions. While SOE did not use the domain publicly,...
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From Bunji on the official forums WEEKLY FEATURE Lore and Legend: Awakened Aerakyn is now available. HOUSE ACTORS House Actors will now save changes made to their greeting distances between loading and reloading a house. ITEMS Colcatoth, Spine of the Leviathan can now be used by all priests PVP and BATTLEGROUNDS Ethereal and Artifact weapons may be obtained via victory daily missions in Battlegrounds. Ethereal and Artifact weapons now grant PvP statistics.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw New items in the Dreadscale’s Maw are now correctly usable by all classes. DUNGEON MAKER Fixed an issue related to experience gain. ITEMS Ethereal Scythes have been changed to crushing weapons. [eq2u]Scythe of the Sun[/eq2u] is now a crushing weapon. [eq2u]Warblister, Scythe of Fury[/eq2u] is now a crushing weapon. Corrected a bug that was preventing the Greater and Superior Redemption of Failure from resurrecting allies outside of the targeted group. QUESTS A new shiny collection ? in Vesspyr Isles is no longer obscured by the giant...
From the just-finished EQ2Insider livecast (of which you can read our transcript here), Holly “Windstalker” Longdale confirmed two exciting bits of news. First, Double Etyma has been extended through the end of July. Second, the upcoming weekend will be a Bonus XP weekend from July 11 at noon until Sunday night at midnight. Updated with tweet: Gear Up, Level Up promotion extended thru the end of July! Also, Double XP for Adv, AA, TS experience this Fri noon – Sun 11:59pm PDT! #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) July 9, 2014
EQ2Wire is providing a running transcript of today’s EQ2Insider Developer Q&A with questions posed by players on the EQ2 Forums, Facebook, Twitter, and even Google Plus. Present on the panel are EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EQ2 Game Designer Mike “Xelgad” Ganz, and EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee. Today’s livecast started with a hilarious 2D animation of the Age’s End story thus far. Announcing the winners of the EQ2 summer contest. After the jump, the Dev Q&A…
UPDATE from Kander: This was an unintentional change. We have a fix coming for it ASAP. This will be fixed on Thursday. We’re not sure if this is just a glitch or an intended change, but every mob killed in Dungeon Maker zones now awards just 1 XP regardless of level or difficulty. Frankly we’re surprised that enough people visit player-decorated dungeons to have noticed this, but we’ve received several reports and there is also an active thread on the forums.
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE New Ethereal or Artifact weapons can now be found within Tears of Veeshan mission Crates. GENERAL Fixed a bug where dev picks would temporarily disappear from the housing leaderboards. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Deathtoll Cruor Alluvium’s Aqueous Attunement spell will now allow players to cast spells and use skills while moving. Cruor Alluvium’s Waning Skill debuff will no longer trigger off of pet deaths. Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Several new accessories have been added to the treasure tables in Dreadscale’s Maw. Bosses slain within the zone should now reward status....
From Kyle “Kander” Vallee on the EQ2 Forums: So everyone knows, we are adding a good amount of new items to Dreadscale’s Maw. These will be similar in quality to the items we put in Deathtoll. Practiced and Uplifting effects, etc. We are shooting to have this stuff in as soon as possible, we’ve been working on it for a couple weeks. No solid ETA yet. Soon. Happy 4th!
From the EverQuest II twitter: Summer Ethereal Weapons are coming SOON! Check out this sneak peek! [Luperza] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) July 3, 2014
It’s been just over a week since Fabled Deathtoll, a level 95 x4 raid zone opened in Norrath. While the zone and enemies may be familiar territory for Kingdom of Sky veterans, the boss battle strategies have gained a few twists. But perhaps most surprising about this revisited zone is the way loot is awarded. The EQ2 team seem to tried out several new approaches, and so far, the response has been mixed. Instead of the typical drops off each named, certain names drop one-use recipe books that create powerful items. Other enemies drop new cyan-colored adornments. I won’t try...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: Good day Norrathians! We’re heading into summer and looking ahead to more entertaining updates and the expansion. Below I’m going to list the update plans like I did last month to keep you in the loop on what’s coming up! For July, including this week: •Status Point Merchant Updates: New items added •Summer Ethereal weapons! And we’ll have Artifact versions of these too! •Aerakyn Lore & Legend Quest •Tinkerfest! •Ages End: The Final Chapter (a X2 instance) And in August: •New Loyalty items •Nexus Duo Challenge instance. (Also SOE Live week!)...
Tomorrow, July 2nd, SOE’s accounting, commerce, and forum and game logins will be offline for approximately 2 hours. We’re going to assume this is part of the ProSieben migration back to SOE. From the SOE forums: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM PDT* on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take approximately two hours. This will impact the following SOE services: • Account management • Commerce functions, including purchases • Game, web and forum logins (between 6:30 and 7:00 AM) The complete service window could last as long as four hours and...
From the EQ2 Forums: All US EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on July 1st, 2014 at 7:00 AM Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately two hours. EU servers will come down beginning at 9:00 PM PT (6:00 AM CET July 2nd, 2014) for the same update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately two hours. WEEKLY FEATURE The city status merchants now have many new items for sale, including special house guests, as well as many upgraded adventuring items. Consumables purchased from the status merchant are now stackable items. Status merchants no longer require players to...
Ever wondered why SOE patches their games at 7:00am Pacific time? Planetside 2 producer David Carey took to the Planetside 2 reddit to answer this question. Keep in mind that his comments relate to Planetside 2, which patches its US and EU servers simultaneously. As we all know, EverQuest II either patches its EU servers simultaneously with US servers or on an ~18 hour delay, depending on whether the update includes new zones, crucial exploit fixes, or sometimes just the direction of the wind, etc. I’ve seen this asked several times, and I’m not sure if we’ve ever given an...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Coming this Tuesday, updated items on Status merchants. Mystery crates and lots more! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 29, 2014
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Antechamber of the Automaton [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours. Furnace of Ages [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours. Abyssal Aqueduct [Challenge Duo] Lockout timer has been reduced to 3 hours TRADESKILLS Corrected the primary component requirement for recipes contained within [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume I[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume II[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume III[/eq2u] [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume IV[/eq2u] ITEMS Decrepit Symbol of Ages Past is now correctly flagged as Mastercrafted Fabled. The minimum level for many...
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Deathtoll Fabled Deathtoll’s minimum lockout timer has been reduced to 18 hours. [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume IV[/eq2u] no longer has a chance to drop from Yitzik the Hurler and Fitzpitzle. Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Adds in the Telkorenar encounter should now despawn when he is defeated. ITEMS Corrected an issue with Primordial Vengence and Voracity that prevented the effects from stacking. Many one-handed weapons have been made usable by more classes. PVP Bruiser Wild Beating should now correctly trigger Vicious Combination in PvP combat....
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We’ll be bouncing the servers tomorrow to reduce the lockout timer on Deathtoll from 5 days to 18 hours. Shouldn’t affect anyone.:( #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 24, 2014
Bunji on the Official Forums posted this week’s patch notes: WEEKLY FEATURE The Fabled Deathtoll A level 95 update of the original Deathtoll raid zone. Unliving horrors await all who enter, and only the most powerful adventurers will survive to face Tarinax the Destroyer himself! HOUSE ACTORS House actors now use double quotes instead of single quotes for their greeting messages. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Tears of Veeshan: Shattered Dreams Spirits will appear for those that require them from slain goblins in High Keep and High Keep: The Pickclaw Depths (both heroic and advanced solo), regardless of the group...
EQ2 has a history of challenging contested heroic zones, and Contested High Keep is no exception. My guild has had some success there and we intend to go back for more. There are some choke points where things are tougher than they should be. First up, certain mobs are immune to specific damage types, requiring the player to equip an item that transforms their damage to spells or melee as appropriate. However these items do not work for Rangers which first and foremost use ranged weapons, so a special arrow type ought to be made available that converts its...
House Actors (placeable customizable NPCs for your house) were introduced yesterday, but now we have a trailer video highlighting this new feature. From the EQ2 Forums: You can now decorate your Norrathian homes with animated characters! Dress and animate your House Actors however you want! Add one or an army to your homes!
Normally we don’t post EQNext or Landmark news here, but a lot of EQ2 players are likely looking forward to EQNext. From the EverQuest Next forums: If you registered for Beta for Landmark, we already have your information and will include you in the pool for EverQuest Next. One Beta application puts you in the pool for both games. As it says on our Beta Registration: “By signing up, you will be put into a pool of beta applicants for each respective program. For Landmark, when we are ready to allow more people into the Closed Beta phase, if you are...
From Bunji on the official forums: WEEKLY FEATURE HOUSE ACTORS House actors are mannequins that can be customized to have a player race appearance. Once the appearance has been selected, the actor can be set to play an action in your home or guildhall! House Actors are created via a carpenter recipe that can be purchased from the loyalty merchant. This recipe requires a unique component that may be obtained from top tier harvest nodes. Editor’s Note: Check out Niami Denmother’s excellent write up on House Actors. GENERAL Fixed a bug where getting 100% rent reduction on your house...
Kinya, webmaster of the Polish multi-game fansite Babagra, has posted a summary and notes of the second EQ2 Insider webcast which was held last Wednesday. What happen recently in EQ2: – weekly updates; – dreadscale maw – new raid; – high keep contested; – June promotion Gear Up, Level UP; – heroic characters are on sale; – discount on expansion if bought in June; – new Loyalty items added to MarketPlace. Team is focused mostly on the things which are coming to EQ2: – fabled Deathtoll (around 20 July); – big unnamed event in July; – new challenge duo...