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Calthine over at ZAM posed a challenge on the forums. Can you level a character from 1-80 in a day? The surprising response was a demonstration that a character could be leveled from 1-80 in 5-7 hours. Check out this article over at EQ2 ZAM.
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Game Update 54 included a change to the appearance of cure potions. Instead of Arcane, Elemental, Noxious, and Trauma cure potions all having a green appearance, Gninja changed them to use different colors. These aren’t new graphics, as this would require an art build, but the change was much appreciated. However, the four types of cure potions now share the graphics of several other potions in the game. EQ2Wire tinkered around in Photoshop for an hour and came up with some totally new cure potion icons and posted them on the EQ2 Forums to gauge player reaction. There was...
We are getting reports that inactive EQ2 accounts have been reactivated to coincide with the launch of the Will of a Tyrant game update. Folks are reporting that their cancelled accounts are now showing as active for the next 3 weeks. It’s unknown why this has been kept a secret or not communicated, but we thought it would be worth posting.
If you are feeling poetic, you might be able to get bumped to the top of the Sentinel’s Fate Beta list. Head over to EQ2 Forums and check out the contest to write a Haiku and maybe get into beta sooner rather than later!
If you’d like to see a complete chart of all the Chronomage Missions in the order they are given as well as the rewards (house-placeable plushies), check out Elquinjena’s writeup at Kithicor.org.
EQ2Players.com has always had some features locked away behind an optional $2.99/month subscription. The most notable of these features for me have been looking up Alts and Item Discovery information. The rest of EQ2Players.com has always felt rather unfinished to me, especially the oddly formatted Alternate Advancements display. While EQ2Players.com has recently seen renewed developer attention in the last few months (check out the EQ2Players Forum), it’s premium features have always been a bit skimpy to justify the $2.99/month subscription in EQ2Wire’s opinion. So we were impressed by today’s news that, starting December 17th, the extra fee for EQ2Players...
Welcome to the first Reader Survey for EQ2Wire. Depending upon participation and feedback, we’ll hopefully have one per month. This survey will be of particular importance to frequent Twitter users. 🙂 Survey after the jump:
If you attended Fan Faire 2009, you may have watched the Jace Hall production “EverCracked”. It is a humorous documentary about the history of EverQuest, and the slightest hints about EverQuest Next, the 3rd EverQuest game currently in development. Today marks the debut of the epic documentary EverCracked! The Phenomenon of EverQuest, available exclusively on IGN.com. The five-part weekly series, hosted and produced by Jace Hall, chronicles the trials and tribulations leading to the development, launch and success of the genre-defining massively multiplayer online game which celebrated its tenth anniversary in March 2009. EverCracked! celebrates EverQuest’s legacy by taking...
Note: No EQ2 content! I was posting some BBQ recipes for baby back ribs and grilled chicken breast on another forum and thought some folks here might like to read ’em. If you’d like more, post a Comment. Baby Back Ribs & Grilled Chicken Breast recipes after the jump.
Abbreviated quote from Rothgar (EQ2 Forums thread): At 7:00am this morning our export script experienced a crash. We’ve restarted the export process as of 7:00am PST on different hardware and are monitoring it closely. The current impact is an extended downtime for Venekor players of roughly 12 more hours. For Nagafen players, this would mean a delayed maintenance schedule, but hopefully not an extended downtime.
Follow the news of the EQ2 PvP Merge on EQ2 Forums: Farewell to Venekor Nagafen/Venekor Merge!
If you’ve been following the EQ2 Streaming Client announcement thread, you’ll know that Rothgar is very excited about this new feature coming to EQ2. Remember, this is an optional client which will allow players to jump into EQ2 in as little as 5 minutes rather than waiting for a 5-10 hour download. So far, the streaming client delivers the most basic experience. It delivers content to the screen as fast as possible, sometimes before the game is even really ready for it. As soon as there is enough data to draw a zone, the zone appears. However this may...
From EQ2 Forums: We are proud to announce the release of our new streaming client into beta! The streaming client will allow players to get into the world of Norrath faster than ever before. We’d like your help testing this new technology. Please check out the announcement in the Testing forum and let us know what you think! http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/…topic_id=461076 Some of the key points of Rothgar’s posting (please go read the whole thing if you are interested): We’ve recognized for awhile that the current size of the EverQuest II installation (about 10gb) is a pretty large barrier to entry...
Lucan D’Lere is now back up on the previous hardware. Rothgar fills us in: Lucan up! Sorry again for the issues this morning and those of you that lost some progress during the maintenance. We learned a lot from the migration. You can’t imagine how big of a step this is behind the scenes. Well, those of you in IT probably can. We’ll let you know our plan for round 2 as soon as we have the migration process fixed. Commentary Believe me Rothgar, I do. 🙂 Having migrated FeldonCentral from shared hosting, to VPS, to a previous dedicated...
Butcherblock and Nagafen are currently unlocked. They are rolled back to their state at 5am. Any quests, progress, loot, etc. you acquired after this time has unfortunately been lost. Lucan D’Lere should be up shortly. Another attempt will be made to upgrade EQ2 servers to 64-bit platform in the next few days.
It turns out that those Database Upgrades announced for today for Butcherblock, Nagafen, and Lucan D’Lere were in fact complete replacements of the server hardware with 64-bit servers. This is very exciting news, as this has the potential to solve a lot of lag and performance problems. However all has not gone according to plan. Rothgar posted yesterday: All three (Butcherblock, Nagafen, Lucan D’Lere) are getting new hardware, latest DB version and upgrade from 32 to 64 bit. Rothgar reported early today that Nagafen was back in operation: The server is back up and you have new database hardware. ...
From EQ2 Forums: Starting at 5am PDT, tomorrow Thursday October 15th, Nagafen, Butcherblock, and Lucan D’Lere will be brought offline for upgrades to the database. We estimate the downtime to be about 5 hours and servers should come back online about 10am PDT. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for the inconvenience.
And that concludes the EQ2 ZAM Chat. Guests were: Alan <Brenlo> – EQ2 Producer Brett <timetravelling> – Dungeons/Content Nathan <Kaitheel> – Live Events/Quests <Gninja> – Quests, Zone Design, Live Events Greg <Rothgar> – Lead Programmer Paul C. <Frizznik> – Mechanics Paul M. <Cronyn> – Lore, Content, Quests Emily <Domino> – Tradeskills Rough Chat Logs of this event are now available at EQ2 ZAM. Some of the topics that stuck out to me: Brenlo: At the moment we have no plans to (have) LON cards (drop from mobs). That is why we went to giving each active player 5 packs...
Calthine has posted on the EQ2 Forums that it’s time for us to start thinking of and suggesting questions for the next EQ2 ZAM Developer’s Chat today: Y’all are cordially invited to the next exciting EQII ZAM Developers Chat! Members of the EverQuest II Developer and Community Teams will be there, so bring your questions! If you’d like to submit questions in advance, send e-mail to calthine (at) allakhazam.com (subject Dev Chat). Thursday, October 8, 3:00pm PDT <– NOTE this is one hour earlier than usual In the #EQ2 channel on ZAM IRC General chat during the actual event...
Memory Issues Despite the updated EQ2 Client, some players are still reporting issues with running out of memory in EQ2. One workaround users are reporting, is to periodically minimize and then maximize the EQ2 application. This seems to reclaim some memory. The EQ2 dev team continue to search for the cause of these issues and intend to release another updated EQ2 client in the next few days. Chronomage Missions Thanks to Atan for testing out and reporting back on the Chronomage Missions. If you read EQ2Wire, you know that 3 new NPCs have been added in East Freeport (on...
Note: No EQ2 Content So what have I been doing instead of updating EQ2Wire? Why getting ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day. 🙂 How? By going back and playing the Monkey Island games of course! Set in the Carribean, these hilarious point-and-click adventure/puzzle games started in 1990 and have continued since. The latest are Tales of Monkey Island, and the first adventure is available FREE as a gift on Talk Like a Pirate Day. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition came out just this summer and was completely rebuilt from the original 1990 game with 1920 x...
Go Play! Besides, the EQ2Flames server can’t take much more of this. 🙂
EQ2 is undergoing maintenance for a few hours, so here’s a free kitten… Remember folks, EQ2 (and all SoE games) will be going down starting at Midnight (3am EDT) tomorrow for Server Maintenance (This is not Gu53). All games will be down for 12 hours (that’s 3pm EDT). [Read More] However all is not lost, the Allakhazam EQ2 Chat on IRC will be up and running and you might see a few SoE folks popping in from time to time. Check it out! For instructions on how to connect to the chat using mIRC, Trillian, or other chat client,...
An unintended effect of the August 26th Hotfix is that Quest Sharing is now completely broken. With the exception of daily Missions, quests of any kind and any level cannot currently be shared. The window appears for the other player, and they can click Accept, but the quest never gets added to the Quest Journal. UPDATE: This issue will be addressed in a hotfix Tuesday morning.
Little is known of this new project. It’s existence was revealed in the Jase Hall production ‘EverCracked’. Mentioned by Smedley. Platform: PC, PS3, or both EQ1 and EQ2 subscriber numbers are both up so would presumably be a third concurrent game in the series. Project has no official title. Stay tuned!