Cyliena
‘Tis the season once again for Santa Glug gifties, ice dragons, crafting binges, and more. Frostfell kicks off following an update on Thursday, December 10th (eta 8am PT/11am ET) and runs through 7am PT/10am ET on Thursday, January 7, 2016. Last year’s content makes a return appearance, and due to my insane finals week I’m going to just point you here for those older guides (the 2014 quest tracker is here). Frostfell won’t be on the TLE servers, but look for Frostfell trees in Freeport and Qeynos, where merchants will be selling seasonal items! Read more here. This year...
Feldon
From Ann “Cyliena” Hosler on MMORPG: The ancient kingdom of Maldura, not heard from since before the Shattering, has made a desperate call for help to those residing aboveground. Their messages, unclear by the time they reached the surface, prompt the heroes of Norrath—those who have achieved level 100—to take action and delve into the unknown. EverQuest II’s 12th expansion, Terrors of Thalumbra, introduces new content for level capped adventurers and tradeskillers. A plethora of new dungeons (13 Heroic, 6 Advanced Solo, and 1 Contested) and four raid zones can be found within the vast underland zone of Thalumbra, the...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The /summon_chest command can no longer be used while on a transport. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Maldura: Palace Foray [Heroic] Dragoon Z’Koz will always drop a treasure chest. Kralet Penumbra: Temple of the Ill-Seen [Advanced Solo] Should now spawn shinies properly. Kralet Penumbra: The Master’s Chosen [Heroic] Necromantic Concentration buff can now appropriately be dispelled.
If you didn’t get your fill of testing during the Terrors of Thalumbra expansion beta, or you just can’t wait until Frostfell arrives on non-TLE servers, you’re in luck. Frostfell has now been activated on the Test server and you can check it out, report bugs, and provide feedback! From the EQ2 Forums: Now that Test has been updated… Frostfell is active on Test! There’s plenty of Frostfell cheer throughout Norrath this season! Gigglegibbers and Frostfell elves are busy celebrating the holiday within the player cities, and encouraging everyone to visit the Frostfell Wonderland Village, accessed through the Magic...
Shortly after SOE’s data breach in May 2011, the company partnered with Vasco to provide security key fobs for its customers. These were made available for purchase as well as being given out to all Fan Faire 2011 attendees. Since then, requests to produce a mobile security app serving the same purpose on iPhone and Android have been numerous. Now it looks like an EQ2 player (SandsMans) has stumbled upon an official Daybreak Defender app on the iPhone app store, apparently published without fanfare on October 24th, 2015, which should theoretically offer the functionality of a mobile authenticator keyfob. iPhone users who...
Dedith, creator of the Dragon’s Armory website, has posted an update regarding his EQ2 fansite. He now supports equipped items which have been Infused, as well as further clarification of which stats are available or disabled on Time-Locked Expansion servers. From the EQ2 Forums: While I do update the news at Dragon’s Armory, I’m certain many folks have their characters linked in directly. So, I am taking the time to post here to let folks know of updates that have recently been applied: Terrors of Thalumbra support I’ve added support to show on each worn item the details of any infusion...
After a six multi-month absence, Dellmon and Osgz are back with another installment of EQ2’s best only podcast EQ2Talk to review the Terrors of Thalumbra expansion. Is there anything in the expansion that Dellmon likes? You’ll have to tune in to find out! From EQ2Talk.com: In this episode Dellmon and Osgz judge the newest expansion for Everquest II, Terrors of Thalumbra. While both hosts struggle in the swimsuit portion, they soar in the talent competition as they both discuss some of the high flying points of the new content and zones. Feathers did get a bit ruffled over just how much...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Maldura A Far Seas Trading Company representative has arrived in Maldura and will now sell Age of Malice blank runes in exchange for Coin of the Grand Artificer (they are still also available for far seas tokens from the original sources). She can be found in the Mushroom Bar and Grill. Maldura: Algorithm For Destruction [All Versions] The electro-charged battery is now automatically placed in your inventory, when appropriate, during the encounter with X-O Arachmech. Kralet Penumbra: Uzulu Deep [Event Heroic] Urzzra-Uzulu’s Thought Graze now drains more power. Urzzra-Uzulu’s Thought Overload...
In my time covering EverQuest II, we’ve had three really great Community Managers — Christine “Kiara” Renzetti, Margaret “Luperza” Krohn, and Racheal “Afista” McKenny. Yesterday as part of their Daily Grind column, MassivelyOP asked “What Makes a Really Great MMO Community Manager?” When Funcom hired new community managers a few weeks ago, some readers questioned why we’d cover it. Big whoop, community managers are glorified retweeters, right? Yeah, not so much. A talented community manager can work a playerbase and keep everyone happy even in dark times. “Sinking, panicking games dump their CMs overboard first, not realizing their CMs are the best...
Faelen Rizzek
Around Thalumbra, there are a number of fun timed quests that can be completed for a variety of rewards! I have seen a lot of people asking about these quests and the rewards, so I decided to make a short guide to how they work and where they are! Now that you know what the rewards are, you might be thinking “This sounds fun! Where can I start these quests?” Here you go! To date, there have been ten different timed quests discovered: Crate Courier (465, 19, 885) (easy) The Lost Miner (446, 85, 366) (easy) ...
EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “Kander” Vallee is not usually one to tweet, but he dropped an interesting note this afternoon! For those thinking that the Time Locked Expansion servers would receive no attention going forward, you couldn’t be more wrong. Now that expansion 12 is out the door, work begins on the 13th expansion. We might also get a spring content update (fabled zones, perhaps?). Today we start planning for TLE tweaks, early spring content [hopefully] and Exp13. Anyone got ideas for where they want to go? I do… — Kyle Vallée (@EQII_Kander) December 1, 2015
Button up that winter coat – the New Halas City Festival returns from December 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, appearance clothing, or food & drink. Make sure all your characters have finished the New Halas Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 104 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Snowflake Chaser title. Be sure to check in with the merchants to see if there’s any new items this month! WHEN: 12:01am PT on December 1st – 11:59pm PT on December 7th WHERE: Frostfang...
Fr0m the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Kralet Penumbra Reduced the random chance to get multiple scouts in Kralet Penumbra encounters which will reduce the overall amount Dark Assault is being cast. Kralet Penumbra: Tepid Depths Reduced the damage on Mental Detonation and Aberrant Assault. Lowered spell dps on Mind-Rippers and Spell-Eaters. Maldura: Algorithm For Destruction [Agnostic] Electro-charged reinforcements now drop electro-charged batteries. X-O Arachmech now drops an X-Electro-charged battery. Maldura: Bhoughbh’s Folly [x2 Raid] When speaking to Bhoughbh to turn in his requested items the quest “G.W.A. Gnemlin With Attitude” should update for all members of the...
From the EQ2 Forums: There will be a brief general maintenance at 5:00AM PST* on Tuesday, December 1, 2015. During this maintenance, logins may be intermittently impacted. PLEASE NOTE: This is not a game-specific maintenance. There will be no update or patch notes. Thank you for your patience. ~The Team at Daybreak
A few months back, Mercenary Packs were made available from the EQ2 Marketplace, giving players a chance to acquire their mercenary of choice. They are made available in packs of 3 or 7. This weekend, these packs are now on sale. From the EQ2 Forums: From 12:01AM on Friday, November 27th through 11:59PM on Sunday, November 29th, all Mercenary Packs will be on sale in the EverQuest II Marketplace for 50% Off! Don’t go into holiday battles alone; have a merc by your side! Read More on the EQ2 Forums, including details of today’s 25% off StationCash sale.
Players who are continuing to soldier on with end-of-life operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista have been struggling to use the in-game EverQuest II Marketplace, especially over this Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend. EQ2 Developer Maevianiu has posted that he will shoehorn a fix in for these operating systems, although they will have some functions limited due to the lack of security offered by these versions of Windows: Vista is no longer supported, but I am working on a fix. Our next scheduled update is Thursday of next week so it should be out with that....
For those rare few of you who got Daybreak Games’ e-mail about the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals (I did not, and one other person I spoke to only got ONE e-mail despite having 7 accounts), this will be old news. For everyone else, it looks like Daybreak Cash will be 25% off on Black Friday (November 27, 2015) and you’ll be able to get three months of All Access for just $29.99 on Cyber Monday (November 30, 2015).
There have been some clarifications posted by EQ2 Community Manager Roshen on the Free Character Transfers which will be usable from December 3rd til the 10th… Some people are asking if our normal rules for transfers can be relaxed during this free transfer window. For our transfers during Dec 3 – Dec 10: Your account must be at least 30 days old A character must be level 5 to transfer You can move more than two characters per day. An account will be able to move up to 100 characters (although each character can only move for free one time). You...
From the EQ2 Forums: CENSUS Added infusion stats to census output. Added prestige flag to census output. Added infusable flag to census output. Added relic flag to census output. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Beastlord and Channeler Trainers have returned to Freeport and Qeynos.
From the EQ2 Forums: Hail Norrathians, Now that server merges are complete, we want to give you the option to move your characters to a server where you can play with your friends. Starting on at 10AM PST* onThursday, December 3, and running until around 12PM PST* (noon) on Thursday, December 10, 2015, players will have the option for one FREE server transfer for each of their characters, between the following servers: Antonia Bayle Halls of Fate Maj’Dul Skyfire How Do I Transfer for Free?
A seemingly random selection of people who have not played or subscribed to EverQuest II in a while are noticing a “Nov15 Winback” entry on their accounts and the granting of 14 days of All Access membership, without receiving an e-mail informing them of this Winback Promotion. Others received the e-mail but have not noticed All Access having been turned on for their accounts. Another hush hush marketing promotion. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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.
Table of Contents So what’s new in the expansion? How do I get started with the new expansion content? What do I get for completing ALL the quests in the expansion not just the Signature line? What is there to know about Tradeskills in the expansion? What’s up with the new Harvesting materials/rares? Help! There was some really important information on the Terrors of Thalumbra beta forums but they’ve disappeared! What itemization changes have there been in the ToT expansion? What are RELIC and PRESTIGE items? What’s up with Weapon Delays this expansion? What is the new Deity window...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue causing houses to think you have less house vault slots than you should. Fixed a bug where the three center deity window abilities would overlap slightly with the gold rings around them. The stack count now shows on infusers in the infusion window. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Thalumbra Aberrants in Thalumbra no longer drop Amygdalan loot.
EverQuest II‘s twelfth expansion Terrors of Thalumbra is now LIVE and accessible to all who purchased it. We are currently working on updating EQ2Wire with an extensive Frequently Asked Questions as well as adding support to our EQ2U Players site for the new features which have been added. Some quick links while you are waiting: EQ2 Wikia: Terrors of Thalumbra EQ2Traders Guide to Terrors of Thalumbra Caith: Deity and Infusing Systems Guide Konofo’s Guide to Infusing A Zone map of Thalumbra created by player Amaitae Dungeon List: Stygian Threshold Dungeon List: Kralet Penumbra Dungeon List: Maldura Harvesting in Terrors of...