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When Kander told me that Sunday’s EverQuest II: Q&A panel from SOE Live 2013 had some good questions raised, I despaired that nobody had recorded it. That was, until I found a post on the EQ2 forums from Zictor (who I got to meet at SOE Live!) who had recorded the audio from this panel! Download the SOE Live 2013 – EverQuest II Q&A panel Audio Read Zictor‘s transcript of the SOE Live 2013 — EverQuest II Q&A panel I provide a backup of Zictor‘s transcript of the Q&A panel after the jump…
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The EverQuest II keynote ended just over an hour ago here at SOE Live 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we were given some great hints of things that will be expounded upon more tomorrow in the three EQ2 panels — Mechanics, Expansion, and Itemization Evolves. (please check our list of panels we’re covering) First up, this fall’s expansion is Tears of Veeshan. It’s a high level expansion with a huge overland zone and 9 massive dungeons. Each of the dungeons in the expansion will have quests and storylines. Dragons AA Tab — The Dragon’s tab has 4 lines to...
These were posted just a few minutes ago on the EQ2 Forums: DARKNESS DAWNS The oracles still see chaos and uncertainty on the horizon even with victory for the New Combine army in Cobalt Scar. Join Field Marshal Vishra at Scarstone as he tirelessly guards the newly found Tear of Veeshan – an artifact that could turn the tides of war forever in this time of delicate peace. Is it the key to preventing the end of the world foretold in the Ages End prophecy? Those that have completed “Tear in the Grotto” are being summoned to find out!...
From the EQ2 Forums: PvP COMBAT Attacking a player will now force them into combat. If there are any other changes in this update, we will update this article!
Game Update 67: Darkness Dawns has now hit the EQ2 Beta server and here are the Update Notes. Game Update 67 is expected to go live July 23, 2013. Fabled Dungeons Fabled Clefts of Rujark (accessed from Sinking Sands) Fabled Scornfeather’s Roost (accessed from within Fabled Clefts of Rujark) Fabled Djinn Masters Prism (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Fabled Pedestal of Sky (accessed from the ‘Fabled Dungeon Portal’ in Pillars of Flame) Three New Contested Avatar Raids: Pit yourself against three new contested avatars in the overlands – Prexus, Solusek Ro, and Drinal! Arena...
From the EQ2 Forums: We are pleased to announce our next Game Update titled “Darkness Dawns” coming on July 30! For our 67th game update we have great stuff in store for you! We are really excited about a new story quest line that will pick up from our last game update in April (GU66: Scars of the Awakened). We can tell you that there is an EPIC event brewing in Cobalt Scar that could turn the world on its head and YOU are the catalyst. SPOILER: At the end of GU66, players uncovered an artifact of power —...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Cobalt Scar Kelorek’Dar no longer stuns or interrupts players as a damage shield. He will instead damage player’s power pools slightly at the same frequency. Collections – Collectibles in Cobalt Scar should be more readily available Chelsith Kuom’Ziki will no longer continue to speak when he is dead. Jarsath Wastes Fixed a spawn point for collectible shinny that was below the surface at location -1619 183 1116. Blackburrow The “Sabertooth Champion” should start spawning again. The respawn for him is around 20 minutes. Sleepers Tomb Sleepers tomb raid – challenge mode...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Alluring Embrace (both versions) Shyneera will no longer become unkillable. Oakmyst Forest Using escape in Oakmyst now places the player at the Oakmyst Forest dock. Steamfont Mort Gimblesquee, an ammunition merchant, has set up shop in Gnomeland Security in the Steamfont Mountains.
From EverQuest2.com: All EQ2 Servers will come down on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:00 am Pacific Time* for Game Update 66: Scars of the Awakened. The expected downtime is three hours. Part of this maintenance will occur at the same time as a SOE-wide maintenance. Game Update 66: SCARS OF THE AWAKENED Update Notes Ever vigilant, Norrathians march united under the banner of the New Combine army, deeper into the perilous continent of Velious. Finally, the army breaches the borders of a region known as Cobalt Scar – a majestic, lush, but tormented region. And from within dark passages...
Logo Mockup by EQ2Wire In addition to the new content in Game Update 66, which hits Beta today and will go live on April 30th, there are numerous class tweaks. But instead of class balance (although there is some of that), the overriding theme of the class improvements in this update could best be summed up as “What Bugs Your Class Most?” All those things about your class that drive you crazy, like having to be directly behind the mob to use your biggest hits as a Dirge, or having to be exactly 5 meters from the mob to do...
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Vanquisher’s PVP Armor is now NO-VALUE
From the EQ2 Forums: BAG SORTING UPDATES Bag Sorting: Added Fuel, Food, and Drink filters. Added Tier sorting method “/sort_bags tier”. Added Ascending and Descending parameters for sorting called with “a” and “d” respectively (ie: “/sort_bags tier a”). Bag Dumping: Restored old bag swap functionality. Dragging a bag over another bag in your equipment window will swap the position of those bags (without moving their contents). To dump the contents of a bag into another, open the destination bag and then drag and drop the source bag into the open destination bag’s window. Bag Dumping now supports partial dumping....
Logo mockup by EQ2Wire From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on the EQ2 Forums: To all Norrathians, The Velious saga continues! New lands and adventures will be uncovered on April 30 with Game Update 66 entitled EverQuest II: Scars of the Awakened! Ever vigilant, Norrathians march united under the banner of the New Combine army, deeper into the perilous continent of Velious. Finally, the army breaches the borders of a region known as Cobalt Scar – a majestic, lush, but tormented region. And from within dark passages in the surrounding mountains, the inhabitants of Sirens Grotto beckon to all.
Some of the big features of this week’s Game Update 65.5 were a number of class tweaks in PvP combat, the expansion of PvP’s Blue Adornments to other items (cloaks, charms, etc.), and the addition of PvP Set Bonuses on certain items. While the first two have been well-received, it seems that the new PvP Set Bonuses were bugged on Test and Beta and are now bugged on Live such that they are not effective at all. But perhaps the bigger issue is, some of the PvP Set Bonuses grant stats which even the most poorly-geared player has already...
From the EQ2 Forums: NEW RAID ZONES New x2 raid zone Wurmbone’s End: Nox Incessit (with normal and challenge versions). Entrance located in Jarsath Wastes. New x4 raid zone The Dreadcutter: The Pirate Kings. Entrance located in Obol Plains on the dock. NEW BAG SORTING, SWAPPING AND DUMPING FEATURES Bag Sorting: Open up the Bag Options window from the button on each bag to access the filters that you’d like to set for a respective inventory bag. After setting your options, hit the “Sort” button on your Character window. This will send a command up to the server with...
On February 21st, SOE Podcast #143 was posted and it includes a brief interview between Colette “Dexella” Murphy, EQ2’s Community Manager, and Kyle “Kander” Vallee, EQ2 Lead Designer, Brian “Omougi” Ferguson, EQ2 Systems Design, and Kenneth “Terrogaunt” Roecks, EQ2 Programmer. After the jump, we provide a transcript of the EQ2 part of the Podcast including: Wurmbone Crag: Nox Incessit [x2 Normal and Challenge Raids] Dreadcutter: The Pirate Kings [x4 Challenge Raid] Bag Sorting — one-click sort bags by Level or Name into 14 categories PvP Balance — continued tweaks PvP Blue Adornments — new slots PvP Guardian — buffed! confirmation...
From EverQuest2.com: A mini-game update is coming on Tuesday, February 26. Included in this update are a number of tweaks, changes, and updates coming to PvP! Colette “Dexella” Murphy chatted with Brian “Omougi” Ferguson about what players will see and experience after the update. Colette “Dexella” Murphy: In her Producer’s Letter, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale mentioned new blue adornments. How will these blue adornments work? How will they differ from other adornments? Brian “Omougi” Ferguson: We are adding blue adornment slots to Imperial PVP charms, necklaces, cloaks, belts, and weapons. New blue adornments to fill these slots will be available for...
UPDATE: This article has been corrected to state that this is not Game Update 66, which is expected later this spring, but a mini-update which is internally being called Game Update 65.5. From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, Senior Producer of EverQuest II on the EQ2 Forums comes news of a game update which we can expect on February 26th, 2013. Greetings Norrath! It’s been an exciting time for us since EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity went live. We are charging full steam ahead with creating more rewarding, memorable experiences and have redoubled our efforts to tell stories better than any other game....
Today’s update is all about Itemization, specifically Group and Raid zones in Chains of Eternity. Heroic Itemization Players have been clamoring for Chains of Eternity Heroic zones to drop items even as good as some of the powerful items found in Advanced Solo zones, and it looks like those sentiments have been heard. (Don’t worry Soloers, the solo zones still drop a ton of loot). Sleeper’s Tomb (Contested) has had a bigger problem as players quickly abandoned it when they found that the loot was hardly better than that from the much easier instanced heroic zones. Pre-Adorned Items After...
The Thanksgiving holiday falling just after an expansion is always a pain. Just when we need those Tuesday/Thursday updates the most, the fixes start to thin out, or are postponed. But for those who have been waiting patiently (and even if you haven’t), the time is finally here for the post-Chains of Eternity Mega Patch. Tomorrow’s update contains a ton of fixes to issues that have been brought up repeatedly in /bug, here, and on the forums. The updates include: [eq2u]Call of the Veteran[/eq2u] is back working as it was before. Jarsath Wastes Sokokar Trainers are back. Gathering Goblin...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue that prevented voice overs working with socials. SOEMOTE Added a video input device selection dropdown for SOEmote in the Options (Advanced) – SOEmote. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION City of Freeport Vhishall, Freeport furniture merchant, now offers a selection of paintings for those that have completed particular quests in the city of Freeport. Plane of War x4 Raid In the general Teku fight warboars have less health and run slower, war wraiths will turn to face attackers sooner than before. Eriak the Fetid – Echo of Terror adds will no longer cast...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL An Auto Attack timing window has been implemented into the default UI. You can enable / disable this feature under User Interface – Game Windows – Show The Autoattack Timing Bar. Fixed an issue with the age slider for male / female humans. Fixed some customization issues with Darkelves. Fixed an issue with skirts on humans and elves.
Here are your Update Notes for Thursday, August 9th, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The click to cure section of the group UI should display information more accurately. SOEMOTE Fix for issue where the SOEmote/Voice Bar window would display even after being toggled off with alt+v. SOEmote/Voice Bar window should now retain the toggled state. Added checkbox to show/hide the SOEmote/Voice Bar to the options SOEmote tab under both the SOEmote and the Voice Chat titles. Darkelf female mouth should close completely now. Human female skin tint should be correct once again.
Want to give the Game Update 64 Battlegrounds changes, including Level Agnostic Battlegrounds a test drive and give useful feedback to developers? From EQ2 Community Manager Duxella on the EQ2 Forums: Level Agnostic Battleground testing from 5-7 PST – bring a character below level 35 to the Level Agnostic buffer, set up your character and then get into a battleground! Buffers will be located on the docks in Kylong Plains, and at the Champion’s Respite zone-ins in Qeynos and Freeport. Level 92 testing from 7-8 PST – visit a level 92 PVP buffer, set up your character and then...
For those preferring a more descriptive rendition of just what we can expect in the upcoming Game Update 64 (previously presented as a bullet point list), Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has posted the July Update Plans for EQ2 which largely mirror what we know about GU64. From the EQ2 Forums: Summer is finally here and the team is toiling away! We’ve got a few new faces added to the team and we’re going to introduce them with some awesome headshots. On to what we’re working on… QEYNOS RISES JULY 24 The new Qeynos is rife with intrigue and conflict as...