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Today, Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, and Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall took to Twitch for the third episode of the EQ2Insider video show. Notes from Today’s Show Double Guild XP Weekend! July 18 @ Noon until July 20th at Midnight 66 Slot Bag was shown — will be given to everyone at SOE Live A code was given out for free 500SC. Looks like I’m the only one who got to redeem it. Tinkerfest being demoed. Showing off the Tinkerfest house.
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When nobody is happy, that means you’ve reached a successful compromise, right? Some players are upset at the announcement that the Age’s End prophecy, which has dominated EverQuest II’s storyline for almost a decade, will not be directly experienced by solo players. Others are incredulous that it will not be a difficult 24-person raid. EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee took to the forums to give the thinking behind why Age’s End: The Final Chapter is a x2 (12 person) raid and to encourage players to playtest the content: So a few things. We opted to make this an...
So… didn’t we just have an EQ2 Insider? So the original EQ2 Insider Developer Q&A was scheduled for June 19th, but got postponed til July due to scheduling issues. Rather than just lose an episode, the EQ2 team are going to cram in a second helping of EQ2 Insider into July on their original scheduled date. This time, Kyle “Kander” Vallee is joined by Akil “Lyndro” Hooper and Nathan “Kaitheel” McCall. From the EQ2 Forums: This month on EverQuest II Insider episode 3: Cast: Margaret Krohn, Holly Longdale, Akil Hooper, Kyle Vallee, and Nathan McCall! News, Announcements and What’s New? July’s Contest Details Dev Picks: Submit your...
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...
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: By: Margaret “Luperza” Krohn Yesterday, on EverQuest II Insider, the EverQuest II Development Team announced that they are having a double experience weekend for All Access members from Friday, July 11th, 2014 at 12:00 PM PDT until Sunday, July 13th, 2014 at 11:59 PM PDT! This will include adventure, AA and tradeskill experience. In the future, we’ll run more double bonus experience weekends of different types, so stay tuned! Also, the Development Team heard your cries for an extension on the much loved “Gear Up! Level Up!” goodness, so they have extended it throughout the month of July! This...
From the SOE Forums: If you’ve ever attended San Diego Comic-Con before, you know just how crazy the entire weekend can be, and how welcomed any break from the madness is. For those attending SDCC for the first time this year, trust us when we say a chance to slow down and relax is quite appealing after a day on the show floor. Getting away from the crowds and noise, relaxing with friends, and imbibing an alcoholic beverage or two (if you’re of legal drinking age), is the recommended treatment for any weary con-goer according to me…SOE’s own Dr....
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…
From the EQ2 Forums: Norrathians! Don’t forget! Today (7/9/2014) from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT at Twitch.TV/ EverQuest2 we’ll be doing our LIVE July Q&A EverQuest II Insider episode! We’ve compiled your questions from the forums, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus! Can’t make it? Don’t worry! It’ll be up on our YouTube shortly after, so be sure to subscribe to us over there! On today’s show will be EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EQ2 Game Designer Mike “Xelgad” Ganz, and EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee.
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.
According to a player who goes by Liched on the EQ2 Forums, SOE just registered two trademarks on July 2nd. One, The Altar of Malace, would seem to feed into an existing storyline in EverQuest related to Neriak. The other trademark — The Darkened Sea — may be the name of the upcoming EverQuest II expansion, a whole other game, or just a red herring which doesn’t amount to a released product any time soon. The next EverQuest II expansion, expected to be released this November, will raise the level cap to 100 (as per the EQ2 Insider webcast)...
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 EQ2 Community Manager Margaret “Luperza” Krohn on EverQuest2.com: With the warmth of the sun and the blessing of Tunare, the EverQuest II Development Team brings you fun summer sales! From July 3rd, 2014 at 12:00 PM PDT until July 8th, 2014 at 11:59 PM PDT, all items except for Heroic Characters and Expansions will be available for a 40% rebate sale. This sale is available to all EverQuest II player (free and members). For those of you who are members, you’ll be provided an additional 10% rebate upon checkout!
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!)...
According to Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, this July 4th weekend will not see Double XP as we’ve seen in past years (EQ is having one this year), however we will see a 40% rebate for selected StationCash items. Hopefully the sale will include “service” items such as Character Slots, Spell Research, Age of Discovery features like Mercenaries, or Server Transfers, but we’re not holding our breath. From the EQ2 Forums: No Double XP this weekend, but there will be one very soon ™. We have a big 40% sale this weekend. This is also the last weekend of the Gear...
Not to be outdone by Target, Best Buy is now offering a $5 off promotion for Sony Online Entertainment’s 1500SC/30 day game cards. And unlike the Target offer, these Best Buy cards are available at the $10 purchase price either in stores or on Best Buy’s website. This deal is available today (July 2nd) through July 5th. From EverQuest2.com: Save $5 when you buy a $15 SOE Game Card at Best Buy stores from July 2-July 5!
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...
Just in time for the last day of early bird SOE Live 2014 registration, the Official Schedule (minus Player Panels) has been posted! Realize that the schedule is subject to change. You may recall that the Events team moved heaven and earth last year to make sure that EQ, EQN/EQNL, and EQ2 had as few conflicts as possible with each other and panel panels. So as of June 30, 2014, here are your tracks… Selected “Everyone” Stuff Thu @ 7:00-9:00pm – Welcome Reception and Keynote Fri @ 8:00-11:30pm – Zombie Prom Party Sat @ 10:00am – Geek Out with SOE...