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Flying Mounts are truly one of the best parts of the upcoming Destiny of Velious expansion. Level 86+ Adventurers can travel to the Goahmari Camp and help a tiny enclave of goat people (no relation to the Gruegach of course). They need your assistance and training to defend against the Order of Rime’s incursions into their territory and they will reward you with no less than a flying gryffon hatchling. Once you have invested a few days training your dragon gryphon, you’ll be soaring across the skies in new and old locales. You are offered a choice of blue,...
EQ2Wire has just received special authorization to share screen shots with you taken during the Destiny of Velious Beta. We’re still waiting to find out about video. You may also start to see screen shots on other fan sites today as well. This is just happening so please bear with us. We would like to thank SOE for changing their mind on this issue. Fan Sites provide an opportunity for us to showcase parts of new expansions and we put a lot of effort into informing players. Thanks for your patience, everyone!
One of the most popular requests during each EverQuest II Expansion Betas is to see screen shots of the Alternate Advancement (AA) Trees. With the dropping of the Destiny of Velious NDA, we thought we’d waste no time and post this information immediately. NOTE: This information is from the Destiny of Velious Beta and thus is SUBJECT TO CHANGE. EQ2Wire AA Browser for Destiny of Velious
In-Game Calendar If you have longed to be able to organize Guild Events into an in-game Calendar, post a Raid Schedule, or get a reminder on which City will be visited next by the roving City Festival, you’ll be pleased to see the addition of a Calendar in Game Update 59. The calendar will be populated with Live Events, possibly Server Events posted by Community Managers, and also your Guild leadership will have the ability to add events (it’s gained a new permission under Guild Ranks). Ready Check! From the Update Notes: Raid Leaders can now initiate a ready-check...
How Many Points, Where Can I Spend? Destiny of Velious increases the number of AAs you can earn from 250 to 300 points, and adds an entirely new “Heroic” tree where additional AA points can be spent. The first row of 3 abilities in the Heroic tree are common to all 24 classes. You can raise your Main Stats, Ability Mod, Health/Power. You must first have spent 200 points in the other trees (Subclass, Class, and Shadows). The second row of 3 abilities in the Heroic tree are also common to all 24 classes. You can increase your Crit...
Big changes to Mechanics and Itemization have coincided with the last 2 expansions and Destiny of Velious is no exception. Today we delve into changes to: Procs (Item Effects) Adornments Critical Chance Critical Avoidance Primary Stats (Stamina, Intelligence, Agility, Wisdom, and Strength) Health Power Melee Range Multiattack Ability Mod
From Rothgar on the EQ2 Forums: The merge process is moving forward on schedule. There have been no issues so far and I’ll update again in the morning.
Calthine over at EQ2 ZAM has posted their Destiny of Velious Preview, sans screen shots.
Here is our list of dungeons and raid zones from Destiny of Velious and some difficulty indicators provided by developers updated with player feedback. Updated for Game Update 62. Destiny of Velious Solo Zones: Great Divide (86-90) Eastern Wastes (89-90) Crystalline Breaks (solo) Instanced Group Zones: Crystal Caverns: Collapse Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors Tower of Frozen Shadow: Umbral Halls Tower of Frozen Shadow: Haunt of Syl’Tor Velketor’s Labyrinth: Forgotten Pools Velketor’s Labyrinth: The Ascent Velketor’s Labyrinth: The Fortress Spire Kael Drakkel: Iceshard Keep Kael Drakkel: Throne of Storms Kael Drakkel: Temple of Rallos Zek (EM) The Fortress...
According to EverQuest2.com, TenTonHammer has scored exclusive screen shots of Destiny of Velious.
EQ2Wire has spent the past several weeks working on articles for release when the Destiny of Velious Beta NDA drops. This includes features on Itemization and Mechanics changes with Developer Quotes, previews of Public Quests, the new Dungeons and Raid zones, new graphics features such as Ambient Occlusion and Sunshafts, as well as an awesome AA browser that lets you browse the new AAs in Destiny of Velious. We have also been preparing a special Destiny of Velious Flying Mounts video which would show you the new flying Gryffons, talk a little bit about the quest to acquire them...
From EverQuest2.com: The Destiny of Velious NDA has officially lifted! If you participated in the Beta test, you’re now free to start talking about Destiny of Velious. We hope you enjoyed the new expansion as much as we’ve enjoyed working on it. Please remember that all posts made on the Beta forums are still protected under the NDA and should not be shared publicly. In addition, screenshots were disabled in the Beta test so any images taken by bypassing the disabled screenshot feature also fall under this restriction. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Beta test. We appreciate...
In a change that has so far received mostly positive feedback, Destiny of Velious will likely alter the methods Tradeskillers will choose to level up most efficiently. While the Destiny of Velious NDA remains in effect, Domino has been allowed to share this change with the community to provide an opportunity for feedback before Velious (and its associated game update which we are calling Game Update 59 — SOE has yet to name it). Most tradeskillers level up by first crafting new recipes (thus receiving a 200% Crafting Pristine Bonus), and then move on to writs (Rush Orders or...
Kerane has brought to our attention some special pricing by DLGamer for past customers and families to purchase EverQuest II: Destiny of Velious at a discount. The official SOE (and Direct2Drive) price for the Destiny of Velious expansion is 34,95 €. EverQuest ® II Destiny of Velious ™ All-In-One X2 (Familly pack) 59,99 €. Two copies of EQ2 for your friends/family. And according to an e-mail received by Kerane: All who ordered the previous expansion from DLgamer can buy Destiny of Velious for 31.99 €“. If you did not receive such an e-mail from DLGamer, shoot them an e-mail...
From the EQ2 Forums: The Lucan D’Lere and Crushbone servers will be taken offline at 12:00am PST on Wednesday, February 16th [Thursday 16 Feb @ 8:00] and will be offline for an estimated 24 hours. The merged Crushbone server should be back online sometime around 12:00 am PST on Thursday, February 17th. The following services will be affected for all EQII servers during this downtime and may experience interruptions: Cross-server chat Chat channels In-game mail Friends Lists We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume all affected services when the merge is complete. and this update: Lucan will be...
From EverQuest2.com: Upcoming Dev Chat Webcast #4: This Friday, February 18th, members of the EQII Development Team will join us again to give an exclusive tour of Destiny of Velious! Friday, February 18 at 4:00 pm PST [Midnight-1:00 GMT on Feb 19]: Live Tour of Destiny of Velious! Join members of the EQII team for a live walkthrough of the new expansion. Producer Dave “Smokejumper” Georgeson and Game Designer Paul “Cronyn” Molina will be on hand to give you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Destiny of Velious. Tune in on Facebook or on Stickam to watch the fourth webcast...
Despite prophecies and predictions declaring EQ2X overpriced and underdelivered, it seems EQ2X’s popularity has nonetheless led it to be a victim of its own success in recent weeks. Several threads on the EQ2X forums about server crashes, instability, and lag have been created which got some reaction from SmokeJumper. Currently, EQ2X runs on but a single server called Freeport. Hmm, lets make SOE notice us.. Sony, you’re going to have to allow Freeport copies to live. Now I keep getting flung back to character select screen…. BING BANG SONY WAKE UP After the jump, responses from SmokeJumper…
I wanted to bring you an update on an issue we raised over the weekend regarding Direct Debit from your bank as a Payment Option for EQ2 Expansions, Subscriptions, and StationCash. Amnerys, EQ2 Community Manager, has raised the issue with the appropriate departments and is seeking an answer. There is no need to panic yet, as no orders have been cancelled or affected. From the EQ2 Forums: I am currently in talks with a few departments so we can get this straightened out. It sounds like the option to use Direct Debit might be removed for purchasing SC going...
Here are your February 15, 2011 Update Notes from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL An issue that stops ambient characters in city zones from wandering has been fixed. ‘Follow’ should once again be an option on group member’s right-click menu. LIVE EVENTS Sister Thog Macgilly will now update the quest “Premonitions of Disaster” even while Erollisi Day is being celebrated. Creatures within the Shard of Love now have a significantly higher chance of dropping love loot while Erollisi Day is being celebrated.
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Of interest to some players who may play both EQ1 and EQ2… SOE has announced that a new time locked progression server for EverQuest 1, Fippy Darkpaw, is planned to go live on Tuesday at 10am PST. The server will use a normal player versus environment rule set. Players will take on challenges to unlock newer expansions, and when unlocked, will have the ability to vote using an in game poll for which expansion will be unlocked next. Various armors and other items will be limited on the server if SOE has determined they would give an unfair advantage....
From Cronyn on the EQ2 Forums: Heya guys! I just wanted to let you know that as I shut down the EXP07 prelude event, I’m adding the books available on it to the merchant lists for the sages in Freeport and Qeynos, so they’ll be available if you didn’t get a chance to run through the event. Also, I FINALLY added part three of the Zul’Urid story to the merchant lists as well – I had meant to do this ages ago, but kept forgetting to do so (I’m old! What’cha going to do?), but it’s up there now....
In an alarmist posting on the EQ2 Forums, Moonflake of Splitpaw has brought to our attention the disappearance of the Bank Transfer and Direct Debit payment option for purchasing StationCash, monthly Subscriptions, and the upcoming Velious expansion. Bank Transfer may seem unusual in the US for a small amount such as StationCash, subscription, or an expansion, but Bank Transfers and Debit cards are both common means of making even small purchases in Europe. Payment Options page in Germany (before the changes) showing Bank Transfer (upper right) and Direct Debit (center left).
Here are some notes from Friday night’s live Webcast of Rich Waters, Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson and Salim “Silius” talking about the upcoming Destiny of Velious expansion, including player-submitted questions. Getting into the mechanics and itemization changes, we get very close to a full transcription as there is a lot of detail and information here. We recommend listening to the webcast to get a complete picture of what was said. Some bullet points: The EQ2 team have the next year of Game Updates planned out with more group zones, raid zones, heritage quests, etc. The first Game Update will add...
Launched in January 2011, this new fan site looks promising for players who would like to track named mobs for alternate achievement progress and keep track of daily missions. EQ2Mission will not only keep track of which named mobs you have killed, but suggest others in a zone that you might have missed. Still a work in progress, the author, Quicktiger on Antonia Bayle, has been steadily growing his database. The site also promises to track items needed, such as master spells and recipe books, as well as the best food and drink choices for your characters. Quicktiger’s site lists...
We now have confirmation that EQ2 Destiny of Velious Beta ENDS Monday February 14 @ 11:59PM PST. This is, to our knowledge, the first time that the EQ2 expansion beta has ended 7 days before the expansion goes live. The Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is expected to lift on Tuesday, February 15th. We will post when it is lifted.