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From Calthine at EQ2 ZAM: Good-bye, Domino! Emily “Domino” Taylor, beloved Associate Producer of EverQuest II, announced on Facebook today that she’s leaving EQII. “… today is my last day on the EQ2 team and it’s been nothing but the best times, the best of co-workers, and the best of players, all of whom I’ll miss ridiculously much,” she posted. Emily is best known for being the Tradeskill Developer who took Norrathian tradeskills from a harvesting and creation grind to a playstyle filled with lore, quests, and rich rewards. She made no mention of what she’ll be doing next.SOE...
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From Emily “Domino” Taylor’s twitter: Let it be noted, @domino_eq2 is henceforth known as @pentapod. Same person, new challenges to face on a new game. Much <3 to EQ2 always!
For many, the damage is already done, but here are some updates… From John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment via Twitter: We are working on a plan to insure we don’t split the communities up. More info to follow. From Brasse on the EQ2 Forums: As we approach the weekend, we wanted to share that we are working on a plan to keep our communities together with the ProSieben deal. Again, we thank you for your patience – we’ll provide more information as soon as it is available. From Protagonist, a Manager at Alaplaya, CEO of ProSiebenGames, via...
Eric “Piestro” Cleaver has been named as new EverQuest II Community Manager: Hey Folks, My name is Piestro, and I’m a Halfling. /em waits for the “Hi Piestro.” Some of you may have seen me in an occasional post, Facebook update, or tweet in my role as a member of the SOE Community Team. Previously I was assigned to EverQuest, but it’s my pleasure to announce that I am now taking on the role of EverQuest II Community Relations Manager! So who am I? Well, I’m a long time fan of SOE Games, and an experienced Community Relations professional....
Believe it or not, time marches on and there are still semi-weekly updates to talk about, so… MERCENARIES Mercenaries should do much less damage in PVP combat. This should have no affect PVE combat. ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION Plane of War The Enraged War Boar now stands guard near the zone entry. Vallon’s Tower [Challenge] During the final Vallon Zek fight, The Vallonite Volley Commander will limit the locations he spawns at. You may be wondering what in the world those last 2 line items are about. MMO Design Suggestion: If you are designing a raid progression zone, and...
Even if you don’t personally use Twitter, it’s worth following people in the EQ2 community to get their instant impressions on different subjects… Arkenor: Anyone with a character on a European server has just been sold to a company they’ve never heard of, without their permission. MMOYeti: SOE have once again thrown up the finger to Europeans. Our US guild member who played on euro times can not now join us in eqnext… we now have a US guildie that (if we play) eqnext he will be unable to join us. MMOYeti: @j_smedley Ah you always give me a...
The news that SOE will be dividing the EQ2 community by Region, in order to secure a lucrative distribution deal with ProSiebenSat.1’s Alaplaya gaming division, has gone over like curry-flavoured ice cream. Besides the outrage at splitting up a community whose strength has been players hailing from all over the world, SOE seems to have neglected some of the more mundane technical and historical details. We’ve collected a few: U.S. players who play EQ2 during the daytime have always had the option of grouping with players on Splitpaw (UK) where it’s afternoon/evening. European players paid upwards of 30 Euros...
The ProSieben-Sony Online Entertainment distribution deal announced over six weeks ago has finally got some Frequently Asked Questions answered: ProSieben FAQ in French ProSieben FAQ in German ProSieben FAQ in English Can players still access the U.S. servers? Under the new partnership between SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games, European players of the above mentioned SOE games will be able to play via ProSiebenSat.1 Games’s service and will not have access to U.S. servers. However, existing EverQuest II players in Europe that have played on U.S. servers before the transition will be allowed to continue playing on those servers through their...
Steve Merghart, EQII Senior Character Artist and Chris Myers, EQII Senior Animator, show off Honvar, a dragon who will be appearing in the upcoming Game Update 63 this April. Honvar roamed the Western Wastes in the original EverQuest. Steve and Chris are hoping that someone will make a plushie or maybe show up in costume at Fan Faire as Honvar, or as he seems to have been known internally “Lumpy”. GamesRadar Exclusive: Watch as EverQuest II’s upcoming dragon is brought to life
From new EQ2 Senior Producer “Windstalker“: This is officially making us all weep now. Believe me when I say we are (and have been) looking into this. I’m just on my way over to chat about this with the devs. It’s one of those “OooweeeeoooooOOOo” bugs that has mysterious hamster origins. I don’t want to diminish the issue in any way, but it is bizarre. — Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Producer, EQII
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL This update includes a speculative fix for the issues causing some assets, like NPC quest icons, not to appear correctly. Update: Alas, this has not resolved the problem. MERCENARIES Mercenaries using the spell “Solar Flame” should no longer cause players to not be able to cast “Solar Flare” ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION Fixed a bug where an NPC could “double cast” a spell. Vallon’s Tower [Challenge] During the final Vallon Zek fight, only 2 Vallonite Aces will spawn per wave of adds. Fighters will no longer be hit with Tactical Dilema during the fight. ...
From Zoltaroth on the EQ2 Forums: We have a fix for this coming in the next hotfix. It was supposed to happen this morning but it’s either going to be tomorrow or next Tuesday depending on how things work out.
A few hours ago, Amnerys was kind enough to shoot me an e-mail with much better screenshots of the EQ2Players Sneak Peak from Thursday night. As I was poking around, I had a moment of sheer curiosity and checked what I knew to be the URL for the new EQ2Players site. To my surprise, I discovered that the site was up and running! It’s February 16th, and EQ2Players is LIVE! An Unbiased Review? These days, I’m wearing at least two hats, one as the operator of an EverQuest 2 News & Commentary site (EQ2Wire), and as the designer of...
If nobody in your guild wants to run the Tower of Frozen Shadow progression quests, especially killing Tserinna in the Haunt of Syl’Tor for your access to the Tower of Frozen Shadow x2 raid zone, you’re not alone. The Quests If you aren’t REALLY paying attention and doing things in a certain order, it is almost a guarantee that you will get gated on pretty much EVERY quest in the 3 Tower of Frozen Shadow zones. I spent one night doing all the quest updates in sequence, and we had to repeatedly tell people “Wait don’t click that item...
A fix has been found for the AoE Double Casting that many Velious raid mobs have been guilty of. This required in-depth analysis of the logs which have been generated especially to determine why these mobs were exhibiting this behavior. From Maevianiu on the EQ2 Forums: We were finally able to reproduce this and a fix for it will be in the next hotfix. Thank you for the detailed descriptions when it happened it really helped dig into the logging to find the cause. It was related to people dying and rezzing. Accepting a rez while he is casting...
This news comes to is via EQ2 ZAM who got it from the FreeRealms forums: Sony Online Entertainment will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific on February 16, 2012. This will impact the following services: Account management will be unavailable starting at 6:00 AM to approximately 7:00 AM Pacific. Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between 6:00 AM to approximately 7:00 AM Pacific. Forums will be read-only starting at 6:00 AM to approximately 7:00 AM Pacific. Login for our games will be affected from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM Pacific (players already...
Today, EverQuest2.com has provided the necessary instructions to players so that they can Opt-in or Opt-out of EQ2Players data. And at the risk of Inception, EverQuest2.com also made a point of mentioning our new EQ2U site, our FAQ which talks about the Data Feeds and matters of privacy, and our Transcript of the EQ2Players Sneak Peek Webcast! With a few exceptions, the past few days have been a bit euphoric. Thanks all!
Today, players gain more control over their Privacy for EQ2, EQ2Players, and API-driven websites like EQ2U. Starting today, you can now Opt-in the discovery of your Alt characters when players lookup or search for your Characters on EQ2Players or EQ2U. If you DO NOT WANT players to be able to find/see your Alts, then do nothing. By default, the Link to Alt Characters setting is disabled for all characters. If you want players to be able to find some or all of your Alts, then enable the Link to Alt Characters setting on EACH character that you want to...
So if you caught last Thursday night’s EQ2Players Sneak Peak Webcast, you know that the new EQ2Players site is coming very soon. If you missed it, the video has appeared on Youtube and we have produced a transcript, almost verbatim during the Q&A. Just for you! Linda “Brasse” Carlson interviewed SOE’s Clif Bate (Director of Commerce Services & Web Presence) and Abby Watt (Associate Web Producer) about the upcoming EQ2Players site. The transcript after the jump…
Just 84 hours since EQ2U launched, we have some great news to report: We’ve reached 1,000 registrations! Here are some anonymized statistics about what’s happening at EQ2U: Registered Users: 1,000 Unique Items Looked Up: 39,170 Unique Characters Looked Up: 23,824 Unique Guilds Looked Up: 3,876 Characters Being Followed: 6,167 And no, we won’t be sharing any more specific data than that about our users. We’re not Facebook. 😉
From the EQ2 Forums: ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION Vallon’s Tower [Challenge] Players should get the correct message when entering the blue shielded dome in the Vallon Zek fight. During the final Vallon Zek fight, only 2 Vallonite Aces will spawn per wave of adds. Fighters will no longer be hit with Tactical Dilema during the fight. DUNGEON MAKER Fixed an issue with vitality not applying correctly in dungeon maker instances. ITEMS Gnomish Anti-Camo Goggles can now be equipped by any class. LIVE EVENTS Erollisi Hearts a’Flutter: Antonica – The Essences of Erollisi should no longer spawn within unreachable tree...
Karen Bryan interviews us about EQ2U for Massively: This past week, we got a glimpse of the newly refurbished EQ2Players site, but what’s really exciting is that th EQ2 team has been working with fansites to provide the data feed and allow community figures to create their own resource sites. Morgan Feldon and Dethdlr, who do an amazing job with EQ2Wire, did just that, and on Friday, they officially launched EQ2U. It’s a thorough and regularly updated database of things ranging from character stats, gear, and AAs to spell lists and warder pets. What’s more, you can look up...
EQ2Wire is proud to introduce a new website built on the remarkable new EQ2 Data Feeds API. As a guest, you get all the functionality of the original EQ2Players site such as searching for Characters, Guilds, Items, and Spells in EverQuest II. But we see that as just the beginning. We strongly encourage EVERYONE to take just a few moments and read the Help & FAQs page as it contains answers to a lot of questions you may have about Privacy. Please remember that EQ2U is a Beta site and we have many more features in mind, as well...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Travelling from Great Divide to Eastern Wastes via the Griffon mount should no longer drop players randomly into the water. Travelling to Kylong Plains using the Global Travel Bell should no longer drop players randomly into the water. Fixed a bug where the client could get stuck in a “sending mail” mode making it impossible to send additional mails until restarting the client. ZONE PROGRESSION / POPULATION Vallon’s Tower [Challenge] Adds that spawn during the final Vallon zek fight spawn less frequently and have less health. Warlord’s Fury and Siphon cast during the final...