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Now it’s time for the EverQuest II Systems panel. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Michael “Xelgad” Ganz, Robert “Caith” Fouts, Dave “Maevianiu” Kish, and Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer are presenting. We’re liveblogging this panel as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. Liveblog begins at 1:00pm PDT and ends at 2:00pm PDT on Saturday August 16th. Fix for Stealth and AE Abilities New Spell Qualities All spells go to Grandmaster Certain spells go to Ancient Battleground 6v6 Balance of Theer Deathmatch Penalty for dying Tiles to stand on and get buffs/debuffs
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Now it’s time for the EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion panel with nearly the entire EQ2 team. We’re liveblogging as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. This panel is also being livecast on Twitch. Liveblog began at 12:00pm PDT and ended at 1:00pm PDT on Friday August 15th. Holly “Windstalker” Longdale to the stage. Tim Heydalaar and Dave Brown to the stage. Showing PlayerStudio items.
Looks like Press gets a healthy headstart on posting expansion news for EverQuest and EverQuest II this year. After their private meetings with Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson and EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on Tuesday, they’ve had time to draft their articles and now, they’re available for all to read. My issue is, people at home have more information than those at SOE Live who may not yet have read these articles. Some Press sites (notably excluding Massively and ZAM) get a full boat ride from SOE, paying for hotel and sometimes even airfare, dinners, etc.). EQ2Wire covers EverQuest II all...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The Nexus Core [Challenge Duo] Having faced near-destruction at the hands of careless adventurers, The Nexus Core has assembled the ultimate automaton to defend its delicate systems. Great rewards await those strong and cunning enough to defeat him. Certain death awaits all others. Can you outwit the mechanical mind of Mechanoct? This encounter is balanced for two extremely well-geared players containing at least one tank or one healer. QUESTS Age’s End Questline Doomscale crystalweavers will no longer spin when attacked while healing their designated crystal. The crystals will no longer reset to full...
The Age’s End x2 raid zone, added this Tuesday, is intended to wrap up the long-running Age’s End storyline which dates back to the very first content in the game. However it seems that Kerafyrm will not go down quite so easily! Several threads have been posted by players reporting issues with continuing the quest from before this morning’s update: Skyshrine Tower Crystals Age’s End: Shattered Fate Age’s End x2 Even More Broke Now Players have expressed concern that their Worldwide and Server Discoveries of the quest rewards have been impacted by the quest bugging out for them (but not others)....
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums comes our possibly last update until after SOE Live: QUESTS Age’s End Questline The zone should no longer revert players if anyone lags during an update. Hailing Jorlak will no longer revert quest stages unless it is a new zone. Firiona Vie should now update the entire raid when giving her staff back. Roehn Theer should now update the entire raid when giving his swords back. Players hailing any of the quest NPCs should no longer cause the scripts to trigger more than once. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s...
As reported in a number of places on the EQ2 Forums, the Age’s End x2 quest added yesterday has some glitches which are allowing the quest to reset or “roll back” to an earlier state. EQ2 Designer Carlos “Gninja” Mora took to Twitter with a quick update: Taking a look into the update/lag issues with the Age’s End event today. Hope to get a resolution asap! #eq2 — Carlos Mora (@thegninjagnome) August 6, 2014 which he elaborated on here: The issues are being caused by the zone trying to keep everyone updated together and checking if anyone fell behind or...
From the EQ2 Forums here and here and here: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM PDT* on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take at least four hours. This will impact the following SOE services: Game servers will be down for the following games: DC Universe Online EverQuest II Landmark PlanetSide 2 Commerce functions, including purchases for all games Game, web and forum logins for all games Thank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance. Time Zone Conversions PDT: August 5 @ 4:00am ~ 8:00am EDT: August 5 @ 7:00am ~ 11:00am...
Looks like all servers are coming down today, even though Tinkerfest will not be activated until Friday. From the EQ2 Forums. ALL EverQuest 2 Servers will come down on July 22nd, 2014 at 7:00 AM Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately two hours. WEEKLY FEATURE Tinkerfest begins 7/25! POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Corrected an issue that prevented Aerakyn body drop treasure from dropping if the victim was below level 100. Zordakalicus Ragefire – The target lock cast by Ragefire’s adds, Shock, has been changed. It should cast much less often, is no longer a curse or...
Looks like Age’s End x2 raid, currently on Test and Beta, is being pushed back a bit. From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: Switching schedule a bit for more testing. Moving up Vigilant House Items for Loyalty pts to July 29. Ages End event release Aug 5. #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) July 17, 2014
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...
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: 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 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!)...
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...
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION The Fabled Deathtoll Fabled Deathtoll’s minimum lockout timer has been reduced to 18 hours. [eq2u]Secrets of the Doomwing, Volume IV[/eq2u] no longer has a chance to drop from Yitzik the Hurler and Fitzpitzle. Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Adds in the Telkorenar encounter should now despawn when he is defeated. ITEMS Corrected an issue with Primordial Vengence and Voracity that prevented the effects from stacking. Many one-handed weapons have been made usable by more classes. PVP Bruiser Wild Beating should now correctly trigger Vicious Combination in PvP combat....
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale‘s twitter: We’ll be bouncing the servers tomorrow to reduce the lockout timer on Deathtoll from 5 days to 18 hours. Shouldn’t affect anyone.:( #eq2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) June 24, 2014
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Bunji on the Official Forums posted this week’s patch notes: WEEKLY FEATURE The Fabled Deathtoll A level 95 update of the original Deathtoll raid zone. Unliving horrors await all who enter, and only the most powerful adventurers will survive to face Tarinax the Destroyer himself! HOUSE ACTORS House actors now use double quotes instead of single quotes for their greeting messages. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Tears of Veeshan: Shattered Dreams Spirits will appear for those that require them from slain goblins in High Keep and High Keep: The Pickclaw Depths (both heroic and advanced solo), regardless of the group...
Kinya, webmaster of the Polish multi-game fansite Babagra, has posted a summary and notes of the second EQ2 Insider webcast which was held last Wednesday. What happen recently in EQ2: – weekly updates; – dreadscale maw – new raid; – high keep contested; – June promotion Gear Up, Level UP; – heroic characters are on sale; – discount on expansion if bought in June; – new Loyalty items added to MarketPlace. Team is focused mostly on the things which are coming to EQ2: – fabled Deathtoll (around 20 July); – big unnamed event in July; – new challenge duo...
From the EQ2 Forums: GEAR UP, LEVEL UP (June promotional program from June 3 to July 8) All Access members will receive the following bonuses and discounts: Double-Double Etyma in Tears of Veeshan (4x the rewards)! 25% XP Bonus Tears of Veeshan Expansion discount (15%) 25% Off Heroic Characters Free players receive the following bonuses: Double Etyma in Tears of Veeshan (2x the rewards)! Also eligible for a Tears of Veeshan expansion discount (15%). WEEKLY FEATURE Loyalty items have been added into the Marketplace to make searching and purchasing them more convenient. These items are still for sale on...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The first round of Battlegrounds matchmaker fixes is live! Teams will now be more fair numbers wise. No more 24 reds against 3 blues! NOTE: teams could be a little off if not everyone picked to be on your team accepts the match. However, backfills will go to the lowest team first so as more people queue to fill in the backfills it will work to even up the teams. The getting dropped into Champion’s Respite instead of going straight to your match from your home server is still not fixed. If you...
For the third time in two days, the EQ2 servers are going down, this time for an emergency fix of some sort. It’s been called a hotfix, but we all know that a hotfix means no interruption of service. This is a cold fix. Here are the update notes for this afternoon (4pm PDT) fix which include an exploit fix: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s Maw Prismatic Touch should now trigger off heals as well if not protected by a fully leveled Tear of Veeshan green adornment. Prismatic Touch now properly persists through deaths. Cer’matal the...