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All Access subscribers who purchased the All Access expansion have been chugging along working on quests, zones, and more since late Tuesday, and so far there haven’t been too many show-stopping bugs, however a few always creep in and we are collecting them here. Inside: Bugged Kithicor Allu’thoa Menace Far Seas Faction Merchants AoM Heroic Loot Missing Localization text Brokenskull Bay Contested High Keep Contested XP Shattered Seas: Temple of Doom Castle Highhold Bugged Kithicor There are two bugged quests in Kithicor, not required by the Altar of Malice signature quest, which otherwise prevent progress in it. “Sustaining Souls...
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The new Spells page on EQ2U Our EQ2U Players site has been updated for EverQuest II’s Altar of Malice expansion! These updates include: Alternate Advancements/Prestige tree data completely reloaded. We now handle the new “Class Prestige” (Adventure) and “Far Seas Prestige” (Tradeskill) trees. Item, Character, Guild, and Recipe Searches Up to Level 100 Character Spells now go to level 100, support Ancients, and link directly to the Expert and Grandmaster recipe pages! Recipe data extended to include 96-100 recipes Grandmaster recipes reloaded Added Urzarach and Allu’thoa Lore & Legend quests to Lore & Legend tab. EQ2U Signatures are no longer capped at...
UPDATE: EQ2 Servers are back up and accessible after just 40 minutes of downtime. Go play! Assuming we don’t have three hours of company-wide firewall shanigans like we did yesterday… US EverQuest II US Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at approximately 7:00AM PST. Estimated downtime is 1 hour. EU EverQuest II EU/RU/JP Live Servers will be brought offline on Friday, November 14, 2014 at approximately 5:00AM GMT. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. and from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Aerakyn Beastlords will be granted a Reptile Warder when logging in and during character creation.
From the EQ2 Forums: You won’t want to miss the EverQuest II 10th Anniversary Stream, this Friday, November 14, 2014, running from 2-3PM PST. You can watch us on www.twitch.tv/everquest2 Tune in to watch Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, and Ry “Roshen” Schueller as they show off the newest expansion Altar of Malice, and play the new Aerakyn race. The team will also be running a special 10th Anniversary in-game event on the Freeport server that you certainly wouldn’t want to miss! Do you like giveaways? We got them! During this one hour stream there will be goodies that...
This may seem self-evident, but playing the Altar of Malice expansion these next two weeks (November 11-24) prior to the widespread release is a thank you given to All Access subscribers for their continued support. Free-to-Play users will be able to buy and start playing Altar of Malice on November 25, 2014. If you are currently All Access, bought Altar of Malice, and let your All Access subscription expire during the early access, you will be booted to Antonica and not able to access expansion zones until November 25th! My opinion: It would not be fair for people who renewed their...
UPDATE: Today’s Game Update, scheduled to last 1 hour, clocked in closer to 4 hours as an SOE-wide Firewall glitch caused Login servers to be inaccessible for much longer than anticipated. We're back up and unlocked! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 12, 2014 All servers should be up and running! Please let us know if you encounter a problem. [Afista] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) November 12, 2014 From Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson on twitter: Login issues across the company. Firewall problem. Many games affected. They're fixing it now. Sorry, folks. Soon! — David Georgeson (@DaveGeorgeson) November 12, 2014 Original...
EQ2Wire was fortunate enough to interview EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallée for today’s Altar of Malice expansion launch to talk about a broad spectrum of topics including: The building blocks of MMORPG content design and how collaboration between artists, animators, musicians, and designers makes it possible for a cohesive expansion with a strong theme and storyline. The new Altar of Malice zones as they fit into Solo, Adv Solo, Heroic, Event Heroic, and Raid playstyles How Altar of Malice builds on the Itemization bedrock laid by Tears of Veeshan A hint of what we can expect in next year’s content-focused...
From the EQ2 Forums: US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at approximately 7:00AM PST. Estimated downtime is 1 hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at approximately 9:00PM PST. (Aprox. 5:00AM London Time on 11/13/2014). Estimated downtime is 2 hours. and from the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Castle Highhold [Solo and Advanced Solo] Va’Tak Telaris’ relic of power can always be seen once it spawns.
From Endymion on the EQ2 Forums: Hey everyone, We’ve been getting reports of players not being able to see their inventory when in a house zone (including guild halls). We were able to work with a player on the live servers to determine the cause of the issue and hope to have a fix deployed in the next few days after it makes it through QA. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Table of Contents So what’s new in the expansion? How do I jump into the new expansion content? Why am I not gaining levels?! Are the new overland zones and dungeons re-skinned/re-textured versions of existing zones like we got in the past? Is there a new harvest tier for the expansion, or does level 90-100 become a tier? What material do I use to make Grandmaster spells? Are there new Alternate Advancements (AA’s) or Prestige Points in the expansion? What’s up with the new Ancient spells? How much better than Grandmasters are they? What new Contested Heroic zones can...
Altar of Malice launch trailer @ Youtube From the EQ2 Forums: EverQuest II’s 11th expansion, Altar of Malice, launches today for All-Access Members! Are you ready to take up arms and unravel the mysteries of The Shattered Seas? This expansion is packed full of adventure and brings a ton of exciting new features to players! Let’s take a look at some of the things you can look forward to in Altar of Malice.
The Altar of Malice expansion is now available for purchase for All Access subscribers!! Answers to Frequent Questions If you Free-to-Play, or wish to purchase on the Steam platform, then you will be able to purchase the expansion on November 25, 2014. If you attended SOE Live, then you can verify that you have been granted the standard edition of Altar of Malice by visiting this hidden EQ2 Entitlements page and looking for “Entitlement: Altar of Malice“. Some users are receiving the message “You are not eligible to purchase this product. Please check available products below.” If you did not...
From buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums: ALTAR OF MALICE In the service of the monarchs, the bravest adventurers will journey across the mysterious Shattered Seas to face prehistoric deinodons, petite-yet-perilous pygmies, bone-armored lizard men, salty pirates, and other new, unseen creatures. And while there are dangers on the waters, beware the grotesque, thickening plot hidden deep in the Kithicor Woods. It’s so malicious it could make even the undead’s skin crawl… Features: Level 100 for Adventurers, Tradeskillers, and Guilds New Prestige Abilities to 100 15 Heroic zones 6 Raid zones 6 Advanced solo zones 2 Contested zones 2...
After some initial confusion, the downtime for tomorrow’s big update for the Altar of Malice expansion has been announced. ALL servers will go down at 5:00am PST tomorrow. Time Zone Conversions — Downtime for ALL SERVERS (US, EU, RU, JP) PST: November 11 @ 5:00am til Noon EST: November 11 @ 8:00am til 3:00pm GMT: November 11 @ 13:00 til 20:00 CET: November 11 @ 14:00 til 21:00 AEDT: November 11 @ Midnight til November 12 @ 7:00am
At long last we’ve tweaked and poked and edited together this year’s SOE Live 2014 panel “Leveraging EQ2 Data Feeds”. This panel was hosted by Dedith of Dragon’s Armory, Dethdlr and Morgan Feldon of EQ2U, Douglas “Endymion” from the EQ2 team, and Zoltaroth lead programmer of Landmark. We talk about Quests and Leaderboards and answer player questions and suggestions: We will be working hard tomorrow to support the rollout of the Altar of Malice expansion.
The Aerakyn race will become available for purchase sometime tomorrow and through internal testing, the EQ2 team have discovered an issue affecting hair color and the “hidden personal torch” feature. While this issue might not bother most players, if you’re going to drop $20 or $42 on a race, you might be a little miffed if your character customizations don’t turn out quite as expected. From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Everyone, We want to identify a problem that some players might encounter when customizing your new Aerakyns. The Aerakyn have a VERY broad color palette for hair...
Today is the last day to run the Altar of Malice solo quest lines, heroic zones, or do the tradeskill questline and get rewards for your live characters. You Beta Believe These Rewards are Awesome From Afista on the EQ2 Forums: The Beta server will be coming down tomorrow morning with the game update. It will not be coming back online after tomorrow’s All-Access launch of Altar of Malice.
From EQ2 Senior Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Almost to AoM expansion! Servers will come down about 5am and we are aiming to be live at 12pm pst. Purchasing up about the same time. #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 10, 2014 Presumably this means we’ll be able to buy the Altar of Malice expansion around the same time servers come up, but possibly ambiguously sooner.
The 10th anniversary of EverQuest II was this Saturday, November 8th, and it looks like SOE is working on a retrospective documentary! Here’s the teaser video they’ve released.
At SOE Live this year, we found out that of all the internal test servers that the EQ2 team uses to build content, none of them behaves quite like the Live or production servers. EverQuest II’s 10th annivesary is being celebrated with the return of the Heroes’ Festival event and although we understand the event was extensively tested internally, things just did not work as planned when the event was pushed to the live servers. To force the event to run properly, members of the EQ2 team and Customer Service have been empowered to manually start up these events...
From Akil “Lyndro” Hooper on the EQ2 Forums: For centuries, Ssraeshza, the last bastion of the Shissar, loomed forebodingly over the gray plains of the moon, Luclin. During The Shattering, Ssraeshza was among the chunks of Luclin that rained down on Norrath. The temple landed inverted within the Phantom Sea, where it formed the island known as Grim Shales. The shattered walls of the temple created a terrible landscape, treacherous to even the hardiest of explorers. Though the great temple sits in near ruin, a dark force has begun its reconstruction. The Akheva and their subjugated Grimlings have been...
Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the release of EverQuest II. To celebrate this, the annual Heroes’ Festival returns with some new events, specifically five open raid encounters which anyone can participate in and earn credit (like a Public Quest, you do not need to be grouped or even the right level to get credit). UPDATE: The Heroes Festival did not appear on Test or Beta, and so players are reporting a number of issues, specifically that the camps have despawned and vendors are unavailable. UPDATE #2: According to a dev update, the mobs have been respawned, but there...
Ever wondered what goes into making a quest in EverQuest II? Emily “Domino” Taylor walks through the steps of planning and creating a new tradeskill quest in this Twitch highlight video. Note that this is an unofficial video done with permission of SOE and is all shown with Google Docs and in-game, not using the development tools like Designer Dashboard, etc.
EQ/EQ2 Community Manager Ry “Roshen” Schueller interviews designers Jeffery “Extemper” Bard and Carlos “Gninja” Mora as they give us a sneak peek of the stunning The Tranquil Sea and elaborate Brokenskull Bay, two new zones in the upcoming Altar of Malice expansion releasing next Tuesday for All Access members and November 25th for everyone else. The Tranquil Sea is the first overland zone players encounter in the Altar of Malice, and contains the Isle of Refuge, Alla’thoa, and much much more. Brokenskull Bay is a swashbuckling instance styled after Tortuga and will be available in a few different heroic versions, an advanced...