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Players have discovered an unexpected change in yesterday’s update which introduced Heroic Characters. From GrouchyMouse on Unrest on the EQ2 Forums: As I was in game tonight, there was chat about the NPC at Tenebrous Tangle who’d normally flag a epic’d toon for ER (talk to him and then go to Lavastorm to get the quest) was handing out a “Shattered Weapon“. The person who’d gotten the item hadn’t done the epic for their non-HC [Heroic Character] toon. I meandered up on my HC toon and also received the item. The dialog, however, was near exact for the dialog...
Game Updates & Maintenance
A number of players have reported that their Free Heroic Character token (granted for each existing SOE account) is being consumed even while login servers are down, or because a character name they chose was already in use. In addition, the button to upgrade a character seems to be hidden if you are running a UI mod like DrumsUI, ProfitUI, etc. These screenshots by Airos illustrate the issue:
Update from Windstalker on Twitter: Hamsters are slower than we hoped. We’ll give everyone 15-minute notice for the downtime. Should be soon ™. #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) October 1, 2013 From RadarX on the EQ2 Forums: All servers will come down at 1:30 2:00 2:30 Soonish PM PT for a brief update to address an outstanding issue with Heroic Characters. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 30 minutes. In the interim players should avoid completing the Heroic Character quests until this maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions PDT: October 1, 2013 @ 2:00pm EDT: October 1, 2013 @ 5:00pm...
In response to a number of questions by players about Heroic Characters on the EQ2 Forums, Caith and RadarX had some answers… Q (by Errrorr): When will Channellers become available as heroic characters? We don’t have a date on when Channelers will become available as a Heroic option. Q (by Errrorr): Is it possible to have certain long and tedious questlines already completed (For example Speak as a dragon)? Heroic characters are not going to have any quests completed for them. If a quest is so tedious as to be off putting, and is also something that cannot be avoided, I would rather look...
UPDATE: The EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00AM Pacific Time* for an update. The expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Memberships have changed! We’ve removed Item restrictions from Free and Silver accounts. Permanent 10% Mount speed and 15% Coin Loot Bonus to Gold membership! Destiny of Velious expansion content is now free for everyone too! HEROIC CHARACTERS & 1 FREE HERO’S CALL OFFER Heroic characters can now be created! Answer the Hero’s Call! From now until Oct. 15, you can take part in our 1 FREE HEROIC CHARACTER...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Resolved a common issue that would cause Call of Veteran (and other travel methods) to think players were still in combat when they were not. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Dreadcutter: The Pirate Kings [Raid] The encounter should no longer occasionally reset when witchdoctors spawn. BATTLEGROUNDS Gears of Klak’Anon Damage from the relic will no longer be attributed to the player holding it.
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS When examining a pre-adorned item, the classes that can equip the item should properly display. BATTLEGROUNDS Gears of Klakanon The damage received from holding the relic has been reduced. The relic now gives a toughness debuff that increases in effectiveness over time. The relic now gives a lethality buff that degenerates over time, eventually becoming negative. The amount of points required to win has been reduced to 650.
Players trying to login to EQ2 for the last 3 hours are receiving this error: Login rejected: The client’s version does not match the server’s. Please re-run the patcher. This is being discussed in these threads: https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/index.php?threads/server-downtime-notice-tuesday-september-10-2013.539333/ https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/index.php?threads/login-rejected.539348/ https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/index.php?threads/login-servers-down.539342/ From Piestro at 9:45am PDT: We’re currently involved in investigating the causes of this issue, and will do our best to update you when we have more information. From RadarX at 10:13am PDT: We are currently looking into an issue with the patch and will update this thread as we have more information. Thanks for your patience! and: We understand...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension Pysllon’Ris’ abyssal titan and kelp fiend adds have had their health reduced by 30%. Pysllon’Ris’ abyssal titan and kelp fiend adds should no longer automatically kill certain classes. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT It is now possible to cast abilities whose mana costs have been reduced to zero (either via AAs, the Enchanter ability “Channeled Focus”, or similar modifications) when the caster has zero mana. ITEMS [eq2u]Swallowed Helmsman’s Compass Needle[/eq2u] has been returned to its correct stats. The potency on Perpetual Lamentation now properly stacks with other effects. The...
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From the EQ2 Forums (emphasis added by me): Mighty Norrathians! Since SOE Live and Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns there’s been a lot of focus and excitement here about Heroic Characters and this year’s expansion, Tears of Veeshan. We’re well on our way and working hard! To begin with, we have some date adjustments. Our expansion launch date has moved out a bit to mid-November and our Level 85 Heroic Characters are likely coming in the first week of October. We got some great feedback on Heroic Characters and we wanted to polish it up to make it more user-friendly...
From the EQ2 Forums: TRADESKILLS When commission crafting helms of Psionic Shielding the crafter should no longer be able to use their components in place of the commissioner’s materials. QUESTS Corrected an issue where the visual and audio notifications for quest updates would not trigger.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension [Raid] During the Hydra fight mages & priests can now damage the kelp fiend adds, while fighters/priests and scouts can damage the abyssal titan adds. The Fabled Djinn Master’s Prism The Djinn Master now allows multiple scepters to be active during his fight. He will no longer ignore scepter effect when it is on more than one player. ITEMS Level 90+ regenerating ward adornments will now disable if the owner mentors below level 90.
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Plane of War Rallos Zek now drops his cloaks 100% of the time. The Fabled Clefts of Rujark The encounter consisting of Crushbone Adepts, Gak, Nihx, & Shrakt should now start to respawn again based on its respawn timer under the condition that Ambassador Vuzur is not currently spawned. The Fabled Djinn Master’s Prism Base population Djinns have lower health. Each mini boss now drops a Scepter of Unchained Melodies, all 3 can be activated in the final fight. ITEMS “Power of the Freeblood” is now Lore. The Wurmslayer can now...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Cobalt Scar Yeppa’s Last Stand: The othmir have moved their tradeskill forge to a less exposed location. CHARACTER ACHIEVEMENT TEMPLATES Auto-consume items will now auto-consume after the AA Template is committed. PLAYER HOUSING Mannequins: Resolved an issue where a player would be unable to select an outfit for a hireling after moving items between houses. TRADESKILLS The Hydra Helm recipes can no longer benefit from material conservation effects. ITEMS Dawnbreak should proc much more reliably.
From the EQ2 Forums: ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Fixed an issue related to Wards. Why do I get the impression this is a fix for unintended behavior?
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We are doing another hotfix tomorrow morning (sorry all!) to fix an issue. 🙁 #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) August 8, 2013
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Cavern of the Crustaceans The zone is now on a persistent timer instead of a lockout timer. ITEMS The Sentinel: Rewards from the quest , The Crook Cook, are now tradable. AA respec cards can now be destroyed. [eq2u]Vision of the Tranquil[/eq2u] will now persist through death. [eq2u]The Orb of Theer[/eq2u] can no longer proc in PVP combat. Celestial Motes are now classified as Fabled items.
After some less-than-pleasant debate about how the Avatar Spawn System in EQ2 was changing sans discussion, EQ2 lead designer Kander has now laid the cards on the table, spelling out exactly how (and when) Avatars will spawn in Norrath. This is a continuation of the transparency we first heard about in Kander’s interview on EQ2Talk, and is much appreciated. Sure there are a few folks out there who prefer everything be mysterious, but when you are analyzing what’s fair and what’s not, what’s broken and what’s just maddeningly rare, having some numbers goes a long way to defusing arguments...
From the EQ2 Forums: The US and EU EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, August 6 at 5:30AM PDT (8:30am EDT, 13:30 BST, 14:30 CET, 10:30pm AEST) for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. Guk, Everfrost, Butcherblock, Crushbone, Permafrost, and Oasis will require an additional two hours of downtime. and here are those update notes: CHARACTER ACHIEVEMENT TEMPLATES Basic Leveling Profiles now include Tradeskill Prestige points. Players can now purchase AA points as they are gained in ‘View’ mode, versus always having to build and commit a profile.
The EverQuest II keynote ended just over an hour ago here at SOE Live 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we were given some great hints of things that will be expounded upon more tomorrow in the three EQ2 panels — Mechanics, Expansion, and Itemization Evolves. (please check our list of panels we’re covering) First up, this fall’s expansion is Tears of Veeshan. It’s a high level expansion with a huge overland zone and 9 massive dungeons. Each of the dungeons in the expansion will have quests and storylines. Dragons AA Tab — The Dragon’s tab has 4 lines to...
Character Advancement Templates, as introduced in Tuesday’s Game Update 67, put a lot of powerful functionality into the hands of players, but at a cost. The overall user interface has led to a lot of confusion in the way that it was implemented. But perhaps most importantly, the ability to spend points as they are earned was lost. The system encourages plotting out your entire AA spec, while discouraging making small changes. That said, the new functionality is quite amazing. We have gained the ability to have up to 3 Alternate Advancement trees which we can swap between anywhere,...
From Kaitheel’s twitter: Fans of all things gnomish, and ‘splodey rejoice! #Tinkerfest is now live! New quests, rewards, buyables, and craftables! #EQ2 — Nathan McCall (@kaitheel) July 26, 2013 View the Detailed Writeup and Guide @ EQ2 Traders View EQ2 Zam’s updated Tinkerfest Guide Sigrdrifa is also feverishly updating EQ2 Wikia’s Tinkerfest guide for 2013.
From the EQ2 Forums: CHARACTER ACHIEVEMENT TEMPLATES Gold Rush should reapply correctly after committing an AA profile. DAILY OBJECTIVE SYSTEM The Bag of Platinum has been added back to the merchant. MERCENARIES During a readycheck, if a player is not ready their mercenary will not be included in the not ready list of a ready check. TRADESKILLS Corrected an issue that would occasionally prevent a contested avatar from dropping a tradeskill component. ITEMS Abyssal and Planar Cognizance temporary adornments now grant potency instead of crit bonus. Yellow adornments from Clefts of Rujark can now be traded. As with all...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL If the quest helper is toggled off, completing your Daily Objectives will no longer toggle it back on. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Fabled Clefts of Rujark Corrected an issue that prevented the base population in The Fabled Clefts of Rujark from dropping loot. ITEMS The Fabled Battleborn Bracers can no longer be equipped by scouts. Armbands of the Northlands once again go in the appearance shoulder slot and provide an alternative appearance to the Shoulderpads of the North. The Battle Bred Meatbeast can now be converted back into a mount from its plushie form.
For the last 15 minutes or so, there seems to be an issue affecting station.soe.com and other SOE services and websites. More as we have it… UPDATE: This issue was affecting Station/SOE websites and has since been resolved.