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From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where a character’s backpack appearance would reset after zoning in certain situations. ITEMS Equipment drops from Karnor’s Castle have been brought back down into progression.
The @EverQuestII twitter account posted this news last night: The final set of summer Ethereals is now available so earn them while you can! However we’ve now confirmed that we’re still in the midst of Wave 2 of Ethereals and that Wave 3 won’t start until later this month. From Caith on the EQ2 Forums: The second wave still has a few weeks in it, wave 2 ends and wave 3 begins later this month. False alarm folks! Wave 2 started on July 15th and I believe each wave is supposed to last at least a month.
It looks like the Rise of Kunark expansion, which was up for its third unlock vote on the Stormhold server, has squeaked by with the exact percentage needed to unlock. If the vote had gone the other way, it would be a full three months before the next one. From the EQ2 Forums: The results are in! The community has voted and it looks like everyone is ready to assail Chardok and conquer Karnor’s Castle! The Rise of Kunark expansion will launch at noon PT on August 16th. The final results for those of you interested were 66% of...
From EverQuest2.com: New adventures await you, Norrathains! GU101 is scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 23, 2016, and there’s something in this update for players of all levels. New Fabled Content to Explore From The Fallen Dynasty! These new Fabled dungeons can be accessed through a portal just off the docks in The Village of Shin. This content is intended for level 100 characters, and a membership is required to enter these zones. The Fabled Fallen Dynasty is made up of The Fabled Nizara, City of the Nayad which will have both Heroic and Advanced Solo versions! Also available will be...
The EverQuest II team are working full steam ahead on the thirteenth expansion due to hit this November, but in the meantime, they’re getting ready to drop a whopper of a Game Update which should keep us plenty busy this summer. First up, the much beloved Public Quests first introduced in Destiny of Velious are making a return in current tier content. The EQ2 team have been given new tools to create PQs in weeks instead of months. In addition to faster development, the new tools promise to exhibit less server and client lag as the battles are underway....
The Stormhold Time-Locked Expansion server is back at the voting booth for its third ballot asking whether the Rise of Kunark expansion should be unlocked. The imminent launch of the Race to Trakanon server did little to encourage voter turnout as the last Stormhold vote failed with only 46% voting in favor of unlocking Kunark. Now, for the first time in the EQ2 TLE server’s history, it looks like this server may be stuck on its current expansion for three more months. To unlock an expansion, a supermajority (2/3rds) must vote YES. From the Stormhold server launch announcement comes...
From the EQ2 Forums: ZONES / POPULATION Qeynos The Aerakyn Mentor has had his name changed to Lonce Jellysmots. ITEMS [eq2u]Orb of Concentrated Memories[/eq2u] can no longer be modified by reuse speed. Writ of the Arena Master now has its effect. Undying Champion’s Knuckles now has the correct class restrictions for a fist weapon. Epic Weapons that lost their FABLED tag are once again fabled. Undying Champion’s Dagger can no longer be used by brawlers. QUESTS The unicorn-rump-sitting-cheap-Far-Seas-wine-drinking escaped fabled spirit in The Village of Shin can now also delete your active “Warzone Devastation” quests. RACE-TO-TRAKANON EVENT SERVER Corrected...
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. After a single month on the app store of iOS and Android devices, Niantic‘s Pokemon GO (Pokemon being short for Pocket Monster) has obliterated even the loftiest expectations and entered the national consciousness. Some 80 million people have downloaded and played this new augmented reality game. Despite a few early hiccups, including a spying fear when the initial iOS release requested FULL access to your Google profile before a patch fixed it, the game has been a staggering success. The Pokemon GO juggernaut was strong enough to buoy Nintendo’s...
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Set your sights on Greater Faydark because the Kelethin City Festival returns from August 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, and more. Make sure all your characters have finished the Kelethin Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 94 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Bixie Barnstormer title. Kelethin City Festival 8/1 – 8/7! This is the first time Stormhold has been able to enjoy it in Kelethin! #EQ2 — Nathan McCall (@kaitheel) July 31, 2016 WHEN: 12:01am PT on August 1st – 11:59pm...
From the EQ2 Forums: Starting today, you can purchase transfer tokens to the Isle of Refuge. Find out more details about transfer tokens for EverQuest II in our Knowledge Base!
From the EQ2 Forums: ZONES / POPULATION General Flight is now allowed in the Skyshrine Capitol and Highhold premium guildhalls. Time-Locked Servers The travel bell in Qeynos harbor no longer hates time-locked servers. ITEMS Merchants that sell items for status will now only buy those items back for half of the sell value. RACE TO TRAKANON The achievement Race: Completed 400 Collections is now Race: Completed 355 Collections.
The cogs are oiled and the steam is rolling out—it’s time for Tinkerfest celebrations! The event runs from 12:01am PT on July 21st through 11:59pm PT on August 3rd. This year features one new collection, new quest reward options for “We Can Rebuild”, as well as more merchant items, Tinkering recipes, and Master Tinkerer blueprints. Previous quests will make their return along with the Aether races in Butcherblock, Great Divide, Lavastorm, and Tenebrous Tangle. The new Tinkerfest Jump pack! Niami has posted pictures of the new recipe and merchant items over on EQ2 Traders. The Stormhold TLE server will...
From EverQuest2.com: Look to the Marketplace for new items that are available starting today! Also, members will earn bonus Ethereal coins until Monday, July 25. As of this patch, players now have the ability to display a quiver appearance in-game! Look to the Marketplace under bags > quivers for new items that let you show off your interest in archery! Quivers are priced at 1299DBC. Also, new bags are available in the Marketplace on all servers! 66-slot bags of a variety of appearances are available for 999DBC. Regular 50-slot bags can be purchased for 599DBC. Double Ethereal Coins Summer 2016 Ethereals are...
From EverQuest2.com: Are you ready for another adventure this summer? Have you been waiting to pick up the most recent expansion, Terrors of Thalumbra? Now is a great time to get it! Why? For the first time, Terrors of Thalumbra is available to purchase with credit card or with Daybreak Cash! EverQuest II: Terrors of Thalumbra is now available for $34.99 or 3499 DBC (Standard Edition), $89.99 or 8999 DBC (Collector’s Edition), and $139.99 or 13999 DBC (Premium Edition).
The monthly Moonlight Enchantments event begins tonight! The grottos open up on the 20th at 12:01am PT and close on the 21st at 11:59pm PT. The time applies directly with no conversion for all servers. New items were added to the grottos last month. Check out Niami Denmother‘s preview on EQ2 Traders if you missed it.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue where Aerakyn’s would sometimes show mirrored particle effects at their feet. Fixed a UI related crash in the client. Event Server: Race To Trakanon Tinkering trainers are now available on the Race to Trakanon server! ZONES / POPULATION Lesser Faydark Tunare’s Battleweary ability should not trigger as quickly allowing more time to complete the encounter. Sundered Splitpaw Encounters within Sundered Splitpaw will set a zone lockout timer when killed. Agnostic Dungeons Adjusted difficulty scaling in agnostic dungeons that can scale to level 100. ITEMS Scourge Watchman’s Quiver is now 36 slots....
One of the appearance items which EQ2 players have requested over the years are Quivers. With a ranger as my main character, it’s fine to travel with an appearance bow on my back, but my preference would be a quiver. Starting tonight, the [eq2u]Scourge Watchman’s Quiver[/eq2u] is now available for purchase from the Marketplace for a price of 1299 DBC. It holds 26 stacks of ammo (it currently only accepts arrows but will be updated to hold thrown ammo in a future update). After equipping the quiver, a new option becomes available in the Character Options tab under Back...
As of midnight, it appears that Wave Two of Summer Ethereals have begun! As we wrote about earlier this year, rather than weapons, the new Ethereals are Jewelry and Charms. Here’s a post from two weeks ago giving today’s date from Kander: Wave two starts July 15th. Yes, each wave drops a different item. We will be doing double Ethereal tokens here some time in future also. When asked if we’d still be able to buy Wave One items after Wave Two starts, he answered in the affirmative (quoted for posterity): Yes, With an overnight change in the items...
With the advent of the EQ2 Census service which allows us to build websites like EQ2U and Dragon’s Armory, we’re able to track the progress of players on the new limited-time Race to Trakanon server as events unfold. If you want to check things out as they happen, click on the button below to taken to our EQ2U Race to Trakanon Leaderboards page: The Race to Trakanon server is also included in our EQ2U Leaderboards site which lets you see PvE, Quests, Collections, Crafted Items, Rare Harvests, and other trackables as characters complete them. Check it out!
Not everyone is racing to Trakanon this week, as fastidious EQ2 content testers have taken up live event wrangler and quest artiste Kaitheel on his offer and are now trying out the updated Tinkerfest event! From the EQ2 Forums: Tinkerfest is now active on Test! Like clockwork, Tinkerfest has returned [to test]! Take up your favorite wrench in celebration of all things gnomish, be they metal, combustive, mathematical, experimental, or a combination thereof! Adventures, rewards, buyables and crafted items await you, both new and familiar at Gnomeland Security, your headquarters for all things Tinkerfest, in Steamfont Mountains. While you’re there,...
When asked about Fabled Mara, Kander had this response on the EQ2 Forums: Yes. August. GU 101 + New public quests and some more surprises,
From EverQuest2.com: Norrathians, a new adventure is awaiting you on the first EverQuest II event server,Race to Trakanon, which is available NOW! Remember, on event servers, you can earn rewards based on your achievements that can be claimed on another regular live server! AND if you log in during the first fourteen days (from now through Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 11:59PM PT) and get to Level 10, you will get a SUNBRITE CLOTHWORK PEGASUS! The Sunbrite Clothwork Pegasus will be available to be claimed on each character on your account! This is a limited time offer, so you must log in to the server and get to Level 10 by...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue causing the command /loadui to hang. ZONES / POPULATION Agnostic Dungeons Reduced the damage on several attacks from mobs in agnostic Kralet Penumbra zones. Zek, The Scourge Wastes: The Siege [Raid] Fergul’s Dust Blind spell no longer requires line of sight to Fergul to be cast. AMENITIES The druid ring hireling is now available in the Highhold Guild Hall.
The Race to Trakanon announcement thread has been updated with a new Frequently Asked Questions for the upcoming Race to Trakanon limited-time progression server which will open up next Tuesday, July 12th. When the server closes (it will run for at least three months and there will be 30 days notice before shutting it down), characters will be transferred to the live server of the player’s choice. Competing or participating in the Race to Trakanon server results in Coins which can be used to buy powerful items on the Live servers or the Stormhold TLE server. EQ2Wire will be ready for...
After some initial hesitation to do so, the EQ2 team have released results (with a percentage!) of the Time-Locked Expansion server poll for unlocking the Rise of Kunark expansion. Interestingly the Race to Trakanon server will launch on Tuesday, and all expansions up to and including Kunark will be available from Tuesday. Characters will be rewarded for being first or in the first 30 characters to achieve specific achievements. From the EQ2 Forums: The results are in! The community has voted and only 46% voted to unlock the next expansion so the server will remain on the current expansion....