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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...
Game Updates & Maintenance
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...
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.
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...
UPDATE: All servers seem to be back online (pay no attention to the Server Status widget on the right which is missing 1/2 the servers!) after 2 hours 15 minutes maintenance! Hark! The EQ2 team have relented and the Meatbeast will once again be tameable by Beastlords! Apparently there are also some other update notes as well. This update will has been announced to take 2 hours instead of the usual one hour downtime. GENERAL Players in a group of 6 are now capable of getting the solo amount of experience. MERCENARIES Krivix Honorclaw should now be using the...
EQ2Wire answers 20 Frequently Asked Questions about EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity: Help! All My AAs Were Reset! Is there a Backup? What about my AA Mirror? Can I Turn Off the AA Spending Prompt? What is this Chains of Eternity: Touch of the Steward item? Can I get 280 AAs for free? What is the Level cap for Adventuring, Tradeskills, and Guilds? Did they increase the AA cap? Have there been any changes to Adventure XP in this expansion? How come I’m not getting Veteran Bonus anymore for having Max Level Characters? Help I’m not getting any XP!
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with adornments on the broker and in guild banks. The entrance to Harrow’s End now counts towards the Obol Plains exploration achievement.
After several months neglect, I took some time to go back and update EQ2Wire’s Guide to Beastlord Warders. I’ve added the new Insect category and some new Warder appearances. However the most important thing I need is your screenshots! It really helps us if players can take a moment to submit a screenshot to us of new warder types. Just e-mail me at warderphotos (at) eq2wire.com.
From the EQ2 Forums: Chains of Eternity is EverQuest II’s 9th expansion! In Chains of Eternity, adventurers will travel to the realm known as Ethernere in their quest to stop the siphoning of souls from Norrath. Here, the heroes will fight to save not only the mortals of their world, but prevent the imbalance in Ethernere, as well as meet the God of the afterlife, Drinal, the Silver Reaper. They may yet find the answer lies not in fortunes and portents, but deep in Norrath’s past. Adventurers will also uncover all new areas in the mortal realm of Norrath....
When the EQ2 team came up with the six year Veteran Reward for loyal EQ2 customers, they likely never dreamed that its devilish complexity would haunt them years later. Call of the Veteran is both extremely popular, and frequently maligned for its maddening inconsistency. Although numerous bugs have been fixed with it over the years, the overriding need to prevent exploits has tended to expose strange glitches that take Indiana Jones-level archeology to resolve. At this year’s SOE Live, EQ2 Lead Programmer Zoltaroth made it a point that he wanted Call of the Veteran to operate reliably. A tall...
This should help with Bronze and Silver players wanting to buy subscriptions via Krono. From the Beta Update Notes on the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Memberships: There will no longer be coin limits on any account types. UPDATE: For those who doubt this is really coming to the Live servers, Massively quoted the news and then the official SonyOnline account retweeted it.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You can now summon a chest to you. Right-click the chest and choose summon or use the /summon_chest command. If you have no chest to target, the /summon_chest command will give you a list of chests that you can summon to you.
From the EQ2 Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 5:00 AM Pacific* on November 1, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 3 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games 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 services as soon as the maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions PDT: November 1st @ 5:00-8:00am EDT: November 1st @ 8:00-11:00am GMT: November 1st @ 12:00-15:00 CET: November 1st @ 13:00-16:00
From the EQ2 Forums as of 20 minutes ago: Hi Everyone, We are experiencing some issues with eCommerce at the moment, which is impacting how Krono appear in game. We are working on a resolution to this currently, which is why you may be experiencing some delays in Krono showing as available. We are sorry for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as more information is available. Thanks for your patience. ~Dexella UPDATE: As we work on a fix for these eCommerce issues, users may experience problems with game and forum logins and some forum permissions. UPDATE:...
From EverQuest2.com: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM Pacific on October 29, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games will be affected for the first hour Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable Account management will be unavailable We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed. Time Zone Conversions October 29 @ 4:00-8:00 am PDT October 29 @ 7:00-11:00am EDT October 29 @ 11:00-15:00 GMT October 29 @ 12:00-16:00...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL SOE Live: By popular demand, you can now hide flying mounts, unless you are flying. Fixed an issue with copying characters to the Beta server.
So it seems like every year, I mistranscribe at least one thing said in the panels. At the frenetic pace required to cover the content, it’s inevitable, but it still leads to grief for developers and I apologize for that. In this case, with the upcoming Group XP changes (which I am very excited about), somehow I got the impression that if you were not on the hate list (you had not either damaged the mob or healed or buffed an ally) you would get NO xp in the group. This couldn’t be further from the truth. From Terrogaunt...
I don’t want to misquote anyone, so I am transcribing the most clear-cut questions and answers. Anything else will be in the transcript video. Question about tradeskillers making kilts and getting more styles. Q: Freeport and Qeynos lets anyone do writs. Neriak is more picky. Gorowyn is selective as well. Can this be made more consistent? Q: A Krono is $17.99. Why is it more than 30 days sub costs at Walmart for $14.99? A: We don’t endorse the selling of cards in-game, but it’s a completely supported in-game method of trading in-game subs. Q: Are you going to...
From the EQ2 Forums: ZONE PROGRESSION Raid zone timers have been returned to their previous states. Most are 2.8 days minimum and 7 days maximum. Plane of War is again 4.8 days minimum and 9 days maximum. Sleeper’s Tomb Updated shader on golem NPCs to address a crash issue. Players have pointed out that the minimum lockout timer for Plane of War was 2.8 days, so we’re not sure if this is a typo in the update notes, or if SOE is keeping PoW at a longer lockout until they can address the exploit.
From Akil “Lyndro” Hooper on the EQ2 Forums: I have an update! The actual fix is going to be riskier than we expected, and we want to take more time to make sure nothing explodes, so we’re going to roll back the zones to the way they were until we can get the fix to live. We are aiming to have the zones back the way they were on Thursday. Since I know it’ll be the next question, the fix is going to function outwardly the same way things do right now. There are going to be a couple...
From the EQ2 Forums: LIVE EVENTS Nights of the Dead The Troubling Truth – The Scarecrow King now has a reward chest for players level 91+.
According to Zoltaroth, the EQ2 team are looking into alternate solutions that would allow them to return to the soft timers. This would restore the ability to do raid zones in as little as 3 days or as long as 5 (or 7 or 9 depending on the zone). More as I have it…
Less than 72 hours before this year’s SOE Live fan gathering in Las Vegas, the EQ2 team have rushed a ham-handed fix for an exploit that, according to one player, has been present in the game since launch, and players have been exploiting for at least 5 years. From hennyo on EQ2 Flames: This is a bug that has been in the game since day one. The first time I heard of it being used was [Spirits of the Lost], but the first [expansion] I know it was extensively abused was [Echoes of Faydwer]. Even then though, most people...