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Table of Contents So what’s new in the expansion? How do I get started with the new expansion content? What do I get for completing ALL the quests in the expansion not just the Signature line? What is there to know about Tradeskills in the expansion? What’s up with the new Harvesting materials/rares? Help! There was some really important information on the Terrors of Thalumbra beta forums but they’ve disappeared! What itemization changes have there been in the ToT expansion? What are RELIC and PRESTIGE items? What’s up with Weapon Delays this expansion? What is the new Deity window...
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From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue causing houses to think you have less house vault slots than you should. Fixed a bug where the three center deity window abilities would overlap slightly with the gold rings around them. The stack count now shows on infusers in the infusion window. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Thalumbra Aberrants in Thalumbra no longer drop Amygdalan loot.
Tomorrow is the launch of Terrors of Thalumbra, EverQuest II’s twelfth expansion! From the EQ2 Forums: All EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:00AM PST* for the Terrors of Thalumbra expansion update. Estimated downtime is approximately five hours. EverQuest II: Terrors of Thalumbra is scheduled to unlock to players at noon pacific** on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Time Zone Conversions PST: November 17 @ 7:00am – Noon EST: November 17 @ 10:00am – 3:00pm GMT: November 17 @ 15:00 – 20:00 CEST: November 17 @ 16:00 – 21:00 and your Update Notes from...
From the EQ2 Forums: It’s time for the next event in Fall Frenzy! Beginning on Friday, November 6th, Etheral Adorns will begin dropping in Norrath. There will also be DOUBLE Rare Drops! This is the last Fall Frenzy event before the launch of Terrors of Thalumbra. Two important notes: While Ethereal Adorns will start dropping, they will not be double. These events do not take place on the TLE servers. Enjoy these bonuses beginning Friday, November 6th.
From Emily “Domino” Taylor on the EQ2 Forums: In the ancient times of the Elder Age, the god Prexus claimed the mighty oceans of Norrath of his own and filled them with creatures of beauty, power, and terror. Among these early creations are the Aberrant (so called by the residents of Maldura who cannot pronounce the name they call themselves), a monstrous race of chitin-domed humanoids innately gifted in the arcane arts. While some abandoned the oceans eons past and dedicated themselves to Cazic-Thule, those who remain still honor their creator, who they know only as the Ill-Seen Master....
From Emily “Domino” Taylor on the EQ2 Forums: The border between the plane of Underfoot and the mortal realm is often hard to define. Deep within the wilds of Thalumbra, the Stygian Threshold is one of those rare locations where a gate to the Underfoot exists permanently. Such close proximity to Brell’s realm has had strange effects on the adjacent region.
Yesterday, a merchant offering the rare heroic drops from Altar of Malice zones appeared on live servers. Players were quick to report how much was missing from this merchant and how high the prices were. It seems EQ2 Lead Designer Kander agrees, at least on the first part… More rares coming. We missed an entire directory. Sorry all, we are really in full tilt for the expansion and things slipped by. More items soon. and: An update with lots more stuff, rare, bows, etc coming Thursday, September 17th. Apologies everyone, we are marching forth with the expansion.
For the last three years, Player Panels have added another perspective to the expected Developer-led panels at the annual Fan Faire SOE Live conventions. Last year, an EQ2 player named Katanallama presented a standing room only (including two EQ2 devs) panel which cracked the code of EQ2 Macros and Advanced Combat Tracker triggers. The concepts can go deep, but he presents it in a way that any EQ2 player can grasp. During the panel there was a ton of great information shared and useful questions asked and answered. This video has now been posted on Youtube. Katanallama also posted...
From Kander on the EQ2 Forums: Altar of Malice Rare Drop Merchant! Coming soon! More info next week! Short and sweet. Not that Kander is short. Or sweet. Unless you mean the colloquialism “sweeeeeet”. He then added in another thread: Going to say it right now. It will not include the ethereal weapons. Those effects will be readily available in expansion 12 on a new item tier. More info super soon.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL (Full Install only) For those having trouble validating an existing assetslib.vpl file on startup, you can now add ‘cl_force_paklib_create 1’ to your eq2.ini file to force re-creation of this file. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION PvP General Fixed a bug where some guards would get confused when pets start attacking Exiles. Precipice of Power [Raid] Heart Stutter should no longer hit players outside the raid engaged with Cazic-Thule. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Fixed a crash issue related to Charm abilities [on Deathtoll PvP TLE server] Focus Aim should no longer spam requires time locked server....
We have more details now about the upcoming Server Consolidation for EQ2 live servers, specifically which servers are merging where. To avoid confusion or “TL;DR”, we’ve prepared this handy guide to exactly what the server landscape will look like after this change: (updated on October 6th with the new server names) There’s no word on how character names will be reserved, as that is probably still being hammered out, but the most notable news today will likely be that Nagafen is merging into Freeport and Permafrost. This is not really surprising given how few players were logged in even...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where renaming a guild would revert after a server restart. TLE General Fixed an issue where players could visit published houses from anywhere. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Assassin Villainy – Corrected a bug that granted more mitigation than intended below level 80. Ranger Hunter’s Instinct – Corrected a bug that granted more mitigation than intended below level 80.
From the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Norrathians! Here’s a quick update on what’s coming up for EQ2. Server Consolidation EverQuest 2 is best with friends, and in August we’re working on bringing players from different servers together! Our engineers have continued with database work that will allow not only cross-server dungeons and true cross-server battlegrounds, but also server consolidation. It’s a very complicated process, but we are targeting the end of August for US Servers to start testing at the very least.
EU servers are now 3 hours late patching and Holly has an update that it will be another 2 hours before EU servers are back up. That’s 2pm PDT, 5pm EDT, 22:00 GMT, 23:00 CET. The #EQ2 Beta servers are up after the EU patch which is delayed by internet funk. We're hoping for about 2pm if all goes well. — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) July 7, 2015 Original article follows…
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: For PvE, Stormhold won! For PvP, the winner is Deathtoll! Thanks for all the votes and feedback. More to come
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Fabled Echoes of Faydwer Collectibles in the Fabled Echoes of Faydwer dungeons will now lock you to the instance when looted. The Fabled Crypt of Valdoon [Advanced Solo and Heroic] You can now click Valdoon while he’s giving his speech to initiate combat sooner. Fabled Freethinker’s Hideout [Challenge Raid] The werewolf guards at the entrance should now have the intended amount of health. ITEMS Corrected the spell description for the solo and raid versions of All for One, they now correctly say 48 to 148 potency for the solo version, and...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Acadechism [Advanced Solo and Heroic] Kelzaral the Animator should be much less destructive. The Fabled Freethinker Hideout Drops for The Fabled Freethinker Hideout have had the following adjustments: Moved armor drops from Treyloth to Othysis. Moved accessory drops from Makonis to Treyloth. Makonis will now always drop 2 armor pieces. Precipice of Power [Raid] You can now combine two cruxes from the same boss drop table to form the other from the same drop table by examining the cruxes. ITEMS The effect “Bolstered Block” can now be triggered by...
From EverQuest II Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallée on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Fellow Norrathians! Just stopping in to give everyone the low down on the new Fabled Echoes of Faydwer zones we will be releasing today. People are asking what zones will become Fabled and what play styles will be covered. The answer is we tried to cover as many as possible with this release. We have 3 Fabled Echoes of Faydwer heroic zones: The Acadechism, The Court of Innovation and the Crypt of Valdoon. We also decided to make an advanced solo version of each of these zones...
Downtime Notice US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 3:00PM London Time on June 23, 2015). Estimated downtime is two hours. Echoes of Faydwer Fabled (Level 100) That was fast! After a week on the Beta and Test servers, the Echoes of Faydwer Fabled solo and group dungeons plus a raid zone are patching live tomorrow, providing new content...
As posted by Chrol on the EQ2 Forums on Tuesday, June 16th: Hey all, The following instances from Echoes of Faydwer (expansion 3) are now available on Test and Beta servers as Fabled level 100 versions: The Fabled Acadechism [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Court of Innovation [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Crypt of Valdoon [Advanced Solo & Heroic] The Fabled Freethinker Hideout [Raid & Challenge Raid] You’ll find the entrance to these dungeons (a door!) just off the dock in Butcherblock Mountains at approximately 724, 24, 581. They can also be accessed individually through their original entrance locations...
To discuss the upcoming Time-Locked Expansion servers, Oakmiser, videographer of the Norrathian Chronicles, has recorded and posted an interview with EverQuest II Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallée.
Next month, we’ll see two new Beta servers open to test PvP and PvE Time-Locked Expansion (TLE) Servers. While we’ve already been informed on several occasions that restoring the EQ2 codebase back to a launch or near-launch state would be nearly impossible, but the EQ2 team want to offer players some of the “uphill both ways in the snow” experience that early EQ2 adventurers encountered. So the team are developing Time-Locked Expansion Servers which will be a sort of hybrid of some of the modern conveniences we have now, but with certain design decisions reverted or changed to provide more challenge...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Precipice of Power [Raid] Tribunal adds should despawn even if you do not kill the original copy of the Tribunal boss. Ossuary: Cathedral of Bones [Raid] Villadre’s adds should now despawn when she resets or is defeated. ABILITIES Consistent Strike and Consistent Smite will now do damage at low levels. PVP Kylong Warfields will now grant Marks of Bloodshed to players over level 95. BATTLEGROUNDS Battleground of Theer tiles will no longer apply buffs or debuffs to players on the tiles, with the exception of the Order tile which will still...
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS The description for Allied Energy II now correctly lists the maximum increase of 115. Ethereal Weapons will now drop much more commonly. Ethereal drop rate is going to be fixed this time. We promise!
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION F.S. Distillery: Stowaways [Event Heroic] and [Challenge] The curable version of Supply Chain will no longer target mercenaries. MERCENARIES Lady Gretta Cheroon should now be a female when casting illusions on her. and from Kander on the EQ2 Forums: Guys, there is an issue with the Ethereal weapons. Yes, they are dropping but no, its not correctly. This should be correctly dropping tomorrow morning. and from Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Morning update for #EQ2 tomorrow. We'll be increasing the drop rates of the summer ethereal weapons. — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) June...