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All SOE Games, Websites, Services Down Due to Compromise
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All SOE Games, Websites, Services Down Due to Compromise

Feldon May 2, 2011 5:40 am 37
All attempts to reach SOE websites are redirected to http://maintenance.station.sony.com/ EQ2Wire’s interpretation of this announcement is this: ALL Sony servers are now under security review due to the PlayStation Network breach, and in the course of that investigation, flaws in SOE’s public-facing servers were found. We have no reason to believe there has been an intrusion into SOE services, as they are separate from PSN servers. Of course news could come to light stating otherwise, but at this point, it seems that problems were found *before* they were taken. UPDATE: It appears that SOE’s entire customer database, excluding credit...
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Servers Down for Immediate Maintenance
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Servers Down for Immediate Maintenance

Feldon May 2, 2011 5:19 am
We’ve just seen these server messages: Greetings Norrath! The server will be coming down for a brief update at 03:30AM PDT Monday, May 02, 2011. Please find a safe place to log out before the server comes down. For more information on scheduled downtimes (link). and: SYSTEM MESSAGE: Greetings Norrath! The server will be coming down immediately for a update. Please plan accordingly to be logged off during this time. Thank you!
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Login Servers Down?
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Login Servers Down?

Feldon May 2, 2011 4:34 am 4
As of 11:30am CET (2:30 PDT) it seems the Login servers are down or inaccessible. UPDATE: As of 11:50am CET (2:45 PDT), SOE Login servers are down affecting switching characters or logging in. UPDATE: As of 11:55am CET (2:55 PDT), SOE forums are offline.
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Another Reason to Grab StationCash at Half Price: May 2-5th Deals
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Another Reason to Grab StationCash at Half Price: May 2-5th Deals

Feldon April 30, 2011 1:58 pm
As you are enjoying today’s Double XP and Double StationCash event, you may want to take note of deals coming up on May 2nd-5th that could reduce the cost of an Additional Character Slot to just $3.50, a Race Change to just $5, or a Character Copy or Guild Rename to $8.75. Other consumables including a Vitality potion will be just $3.50 if you buy your Double StationCash today. From EverQuest2.com: Sale! Sale! Sale! Item Name Regular Price Sale Price Additional Character Slot 1000 700 Porion of Disgenderment 750 500 Guild Rename Potion 2450 1750 Race Potion 1450 1000...
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Keyring? Quest Items Tab? SmokeJumper Hints…
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Keyring? Quest Items Tab? SmokeJumper Hints…

Feldon April 29, 2011 2:10 am 8
A player asked why the Character Sheet (Persona Window) received yet another revamp with yesterday’s update. SmokeJumper had this tidbit: [While players] didn’t ask for a new character sheet, but they *are* asking for something that will be solved after this change is in place. Here’s what got fixed with this change: Your multiple homes are now listed in the “Housing” pane. (Previous to today, you could only own one house, so a list wasn’t necessary. It is now.) It puts us in a much better situation to add more categories in the near future to take care of...
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In Testing: Game Update 60 Update Notes
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In Testing: Game Update 60 Update Notes

Feldon April 29, 2011 2:04 am 4
Game Update 60 has finally reached Test and there is a lot of content here, including 3 new heroic dungeons, 3 new x4 raid zones, and a new x2 raid zone, a new Battleground, as well as major changes to PvP. Also look out for several changes and tweaks to classes, as well as a hard-to-miss huge nerf to Dirges, with Chimes/Cacophony of Blades no longer interrupting. “The Children of War” The Fortress of Drunder has emptied of Rallos Zek and his armies as they pass into the Plane of War to prepare for their eventual march on the...
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Multiple Home Ownership Now Live in EQII – Extensive FAQ
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Multiple Home Ownership Now Live in EQII – Extensive FAQ

Feldon April 29, 2011 1:49 am 4
There are going to be a lot of questions about how the new Multi-Housing works in EQ2, so I suggest reading the extensive FAQ posted on EverQuest2.com about it. South Qeynos Prestige Home Access
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Prestige Opera House to Get Stairs
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Prestige Opera House to Get Stairs

Feldon April 29, 2011 1:34 am
One concern about the Neriak Opera House prestige house on Test was that the stage did not have any stairs to reach it, requiring feather fall or other floating to reach it. Also, the seats of the theater were oddly shaped, possibly trapping players. Haohmaru has checked in a fix (and provided a screenshot): We have added stairs to each end of the stage. Hopefully we can update your homes before GU60, if possible. We also fixed an odd issue with the lips on each seating rung. You could get stuck under the small overhang for no apparent reason.
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Fan Faire Registration Goes Up to $129 on May 6th
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Fan Faire Registration Goes Up to $129 on May 6th

Feldon April 29, 2011 1:30 am 3
From EverQuest2.com: Time is running out to register for Fan Faire 2011 at the early bird price of $119.00 US! All-Access passes to the expanded SOE Fan Faire are now available for purchase at the early bird price of $119.00 USD which includes access developer forums, panels and roundtables along with goody-bags and giveaways.
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Update Notes: Friday, April 29, 2011
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Update Notes: Friday, April 29, 2011

Feldon April 29, 2011 1:24 am
Today’s update includes just a couple of bugs caught on Test: HOUSING Prestige Home deeds are now Heirloom. Fixed a bug that would cause a guild to lose refund status when moving guildhalls. Fixed a crash bug.
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New Character Sheet/Inventory/Persona Window
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New Character Sheet/Inventory/Persona Window

Feldon April 28, 2011 5:10 pm 3
If you haven’t already heard about the revamped Persona Window coming in Game Update 60, it takes what we got in Velious and polishes it up to a mirror shine. The Velious Persona window seemed half-finished to us and, apparently, to Rothgar. Going live today, the new Personal window is a big improvement over the large paradigm-mixing one we got with Velious. It actually behaves a bit more like 2 separate windows again, with Stats (and all possible traits about your character) in a toggleable sidebar, while your Equipment, Mounts, Faction, and other character progression information now takes up...
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Prestige Homes Advisory: One Type Per Character
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Prestige Homes Advisory: One Type Per Character

Feldon April 28, 2011 5:00 pm
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Hey, folks, We left the HEIRLOOM tag off the prestige homes. (It’ll be added to them tomorrow.) So for today, if you were planning to buy a bunch of one type of house and then transfer it to all your different alts, please don’t do it that way. Or if you do, please realize that the HEIRLOOM tag won’t be present until tomorrow. For today, please just realize that each character can only own one of each type of Prestige Home. If you buy more than that, you won’t be able to use...
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Zoltaroth Update on Server Downtime
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Zoltaroth Update on Server Downtime

Feldon April 28, 2011 3:09 pm
Fr0m Zoltaroth on Twitter: Servers should start opening shortly just finishing up internal smoke testing. Naturally this would be the first batch of servers which were updated.
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Double StationCash – Saturday April 30th Only
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Double StationCash – Saturday April 30th Only

Feldon April 28, 2011 3:08 pm
From Amnerys on the EQ2 Forums: To thank players for their patience during the recent service interruption, we will be hosting special events this weekend across our game portfolio, including a Double Station Cash day on Saturday, April 30th. We are also working on a “make good” plan for players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms.  Details will be available soon on the individual game websites and forums. EverQuest II and EQ2X will also be holding a Double XP day on Saturday, from 12:01am PST to 11:59pm PST. This will affect tradeskill, adventure and AA XP....
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Multi-Housing Now Patching… 2-3 Hours to Go
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Multi-Housing Now Patching… 2-3 Hours to Go

Feldon April 28, 2011 2:16 pm
SmokeJumper has been providing frequent updates on today’s installation of Multihousing into EQ2: Hi, folks, Today’s housing feature has to do a lot of massaging of the house database elements. This takes a considerable amount of time (a bit like a world merge, actually). This means that when we take servers down, they will be down for 2 or 3 hours while we do that process. We should have all the servers up by mid-afternoon sometime (Pacific time). The servers that are currently running are Antonia Bayle, Barren Sky, Harla Dar, Guk, Everfrost, Unrest, and Crushbone. The next batch...
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Update Notes for April 28, 2011
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Update Notes for April 28, 2011

Feldon April 28, 2011 2:14 pm
Here are your update notes for today, April 28, 2011. They include the introduction of Multi-housing. Thanks to Cyliena over at EQ2 ZAM for the formatting: HOUSING UPDATES Each character can now own up to 10 houses of any combination (as long as he or she meets the house prerequisites). House purchases are now based on alignment rather than citizenship. The marketplace house item limit increasers now only apply to a single house. Additionally, the marketplace house item limit increaser will no longer stick with your house as you move from house to house, but it still stacks with...
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Game Update 60 Hitting Test, Test Copy Today
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Game Update 60 Hitting Test, Test Copy Today

Feldon April 28, 2011 11:37 am
It is our understanding that Game Update 60 will be hitting Test and Test Copy today. Domino‘s post is not a confirmation, but taken with other posts, strongly suggests it: Most likely early afternoon (PST) but times may vary depending on a variety of factors. There will be an in-game broadcast to warn you.
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Multi-housing Going Live Today
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Multi-housing Going Live Today

Feldon April 28, 2011 11:35 am
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Hi, folks, Today’s housing feature has to do a lot of massaging of the house database elements. This takes a considerable amount of time (a bit like a world merge, actually). This means that when we take servers down, they will be down for 2 or 3 hours while we do that process. We should have all the servers up by mid-afternoon sometime (Pacific time).
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PlayStation Network Compromised — SOE Not Affected
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PlayStation Network Compromised — SOE Not Affected

Feldon April 28, 2011 5:31 am 3
In the wake of Sony’s PlayStation Network being totally inaccessible for 6 days, following by the news that the entire system had been compromised (all names, addresses, phone numbers, other personal info, and possibly all credit card information on file), naturally players of Sony Online Entertainment games such as EQ, EQ2, PlanetSide, DC Universe Online, Vanguard, FreeRealms, etc. have been wondering if any of their information was compromised. Here’s what we know: SOE’s Account Services and Customer Databases are separate from the PlayStation Network and were not compromised. Double StationCash and other Player Events are being scheduled for this...
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Instant Level 90? Fuggedaboutit
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Instant Level 90? Fuggedaboutit

Feldon April 28, 2011 5:13 am 13
Our most commented post here on EQ2Wire so far has been the “What if?” discussion started by SmokeJumper pondering whether EQ2 should offer some sort of shortcut to level 90. Many players expressed their opinions from one extreme to the other and everything in between. Some players demanded that this take place on another server. Others made the fair point that many players would find themselves at 90 with utterly no idea how to play their class. I fell along the line that since 1-85 has *already* been trivialized due to itemization changes and neglect in the last ~18...
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GU60: Rearranging Hotbars Made Easier?
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GU60: Rearranging Hotbars Made Easier?

Feldon April 28, 2011 4:56 am
In a thread about the new Character Sheet coming with Game Update 60, Rothgar got a bit sidetracked by players asking for a bit easier time when rearranging hotbars and the icons on those hotbars. These changes will take effect when you are in Window Rearranging Mode (press F10): I’m going to make the opacity of the windows 90% when arranging windows so its a little easier to see through them. As far as hotbars go, the icons will be visible but disabled so clicking anywhere on the window will allow you to position the window. If you hold...
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Game Update 60 Locked and Ready to Test
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Game Update 60 Locked and Ready to Test

Feldon April 28, 2011 4:51 am
According to Frizznik on the EQ2 Forums (when answering a question about why certain tradeskill materials wouldn’t go into the Harvest Depot), indicated that GU60 is now locked and thus should be hitting Test soon. With a live date of May 17th, I wouldn’t want to take the odds on 3 raid zones, 3 dungeons, and all the other content of Game Update 60 being bug-free. It looks like the classifications on the Rough Pearl and Rough Nacre should work for recipes that require those ingredients so I flagged those so they can go into the depot. May have...
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Domino Moves Up to Associate Producer, Frizznik to Navigate Tradeskills
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Domino Moves Up to Associate Producer, Frizznik to Navigate Tradeskills

Feldon April 28, 2011 4:35 am 2
If you have been following the posts (and tweets) of Emily “Domino” Taylor, Tradeskill lead for EQ2, over the past few months, you’ve probably picked up on her increased involvement and interaction with the other parts of the EQ2 team. Today’s news that she has stepped up from Tradeskill Lead to Associate Producer then is not too surprising, as she has already produced and contributed to several live events and had a hand in creating increasingly elaborate content beyond that of Tradeskills. Domino has quickly grown from creating new tiers of tradeskill content (for most tradeskill classes, a mostly...
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April 28, 2011 Update — 3 Hours Downtime
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April 28, 2011 Update — 3 Hours Downtime

Feldon April 28, 2011 3:36 am 6
From the EQ2 Forums: All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT [15:00~18:00 GMT] on Thursday, April 28, 2011. The Splitpaw server will have its also have its hotfix the same day at 3pm London Time. The expected downtime for all affected servers is three hours. Update Notes are not yet available.
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DoV Hot Zones not so Hot? Changes coming in GU60!
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DoV Hot Zones not so Hot? Changes coming in GU60!

Dethdlr April 27, 2011 2:12 pm
For me, since DoV came out, the “hot zone” hasn’t seemed to be very “hot”. I’ve said this in a few threads and have seen others chime in with different theories on why they seem that way.  There may be fixes to this coming our way in GU60.  Details after the break.
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