Feldon
In its eleven year history, EverQuest II has accumulated a large cache of Tradeskill content. Over the years, various Spreadsheets have been created to track player progress in these quest lines. Even with these tools, a lot of tedious back-and-forth between the in-game Quest Journal and sites like EQ2 ZAM and Wikia is necessary to ensure that every quest has been completed. Until now. For the last two days, EQ2 decorating maven “Jazabelle” of Homes and Tomes and I have developed a new Tradeskill Report feature which allows crafters to track the progress of all their characters on over 270 tradeskill quests at...
Cyliena
This editorial is non-game specific and solely based on insights and opinions from its author. One comment I receive a lot when I explain my job to others is “That’s awesome! How do I get into doing that?!” There is no perfect answer to this query, and despite how awesome working in this industry sounds and really is, it’s hard work and not quite as glamorous as you may be envisioning in your head. Working on a gaming fan/press site requires a lot of dedication outside of game(s). We don’t actually spend most of our day playing these games...
This is a repeat of the previous announcement about tomorrow’s livestream. EQ2Wire will be liveblogging the event as well. From EverQuest2.com: The announcement stream for the 12th expansion to EverQuest 2 will start on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 10AM PDT* and we would like to invite YOU to join us atwww.twitch.tv/everquest2 During this stream, the EQ2 team will share highlights from the upcoming expansion, do PRIZE giveaways, and answer your questions. Don’t forget that pre-orders start on October 1, this day will be full of information on the upcoming expansion. Join us for the stream, and log into Twitch to chat...
It’s time to grab some white marble – the Qeynos City Festival returns to Antonica from October 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, appearance clothing, or food & drink. Make sure all your characters have finished the Qeynos Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 134 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Bridge Buzzer title. Last month’s festival had new items, so check in with the merchants! WHEN: 12:01am PT on October 1st – 11:59pm PT on October 7th WHERE: Antonica, outside North Qeynos,...
So it used to require a subscription for Banned EQ2 players to keep playing on the EQ2 “prison server” of Drunder. Not after today. Alas, there’s no way to get a sense of how many players are on Drunder. Census currently hides this information. SOE’s policy used to be “no Naming and Shaming” but in the last year or so the PlanetSide 2 and H1Z1 teams have no problem drawing attention to banned players, even mentioning them BY NAME in-game using server announcements. The question is, would players banished to Drunder take this as another opportunity to seek attention?...
From the EQ2 Forums: Attention players: we will perform a general maintenance beginning at 6:00AM PDT* on Tuesday, September 29. The current estimated downtime for this maintenance is two to four hours, depending on the service. This maintenance may impact the following Daybreak services across all games: Game logins for all Daybreak games Forum & Web logins for all Daybreak games Commerce and account management for all Daybreak games PLEASE NOTE: This is not a game-specific maintenance. There will be no update or patch notes. ~The Team at Daybreak Time Zone Conversions (assuming 4 hours maintenance): PDT: Sept 29 @ 6:00-10:00am EDT: Sept 29 @ 9:00am-1:00pm BST: Sept 29...
From the EQ2 Forums: As part of Fall Frenzy leading into our next expansion, we have something special planned for players every week as we lead into our launch. Starting noon pacific on Friday, September 25, and going until noon pacific on Friday, October 2, 2015 we’ll have double [eq2u]Far Seas Ferrin[/eq2u] activated in-game. This means double DOUBLE Ferrins for All-Access members! Don’t miss your chance to stock up on Far Seas Ferrin this week! NOTE: As with past expansions, we do not expect any method to convert this currency into this fall expansion’s currency.
From the EQ2 Forums: Until we launch our expansions (read that as Soon™) there will be something cool – some kind of bonus – for most EverQuest 2 players every day! Last week, we kicked off Fall Frenzy with our Double XP week and a 35% off sale on store items on Time-Locked Expansion servers, Stormhold and Deathtoll. Tomorrow, we will continue with our daily bonuses promotion starting at noon PDT when we activate Double Far Seas Ferrins – and that’s Double-Double Ferrins for members! This phase of our Fall Frenzy will last until Oct. 2 at noon when our next bonus will...
The second prelude quest leading up to EverQuest II’s twelfth expansion is now activated on all non-TLE EQ2 servers. This quest appeared on Test servers for several days and the discussion thread may be helpful to those looking for clues how to complete the quest. Interestingly, the quest references the underground cities of Moradhim and Klik’anon which appeared in the now-sunsetted PS2 exclusive EverQuest Online Adventures (EQOA), which predates both EverQuest and EverQuest II. Moradhim and Klik’anon were the player starting cities of the Dwarves and Gnomes, respectively. The good version of this prelude quest is Sundered Ground, an Investigation for the Order of Arcane while the...
It’s now time for the second vote for whether the first EQ2 expansion “Desert of Flames” will go live on each of the TLE servers next month or be held back for another 30 days. From the EQ2 Forums: It’s that time again. Will you vote to unlock the Desert of Flame expansion content on the Time-Locked Expansion server YOU play on? This vote is in-game, and will run on Stormhold and Deathtoll until noon PDT on Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Just look to your mailbox for this vote (and zone or relog if you have any issues having this vote...
From the EQ2 Forums: The announcement stream for the 12th expansion to EverQuest 2 will start on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 10AM PDT* and we would like to invite YOU to join us at www.twitch.tv/everquest2 During this stream, the EQ2 team will share highlights from the upcoming expansion and answer your questions. Don’t forget that pre-orders start on October 1, this day will be full of information on the upcoming expansion. Join us for the stream, and log into Twitch to chat with us and other players! Looking for more info? Check out the Producer’s Letter from Holly talking about what’s coming up...
Two years after abandoning its Twitter and Facebook accounts and four months after an as-yet-unexplained multi-day outage this summer affecting thousands of guild portals for dozens of different MMOs, it seems that GuildPortal has finally and unceremoniously gone belly up. According to DNS records, GuildPortal.com’s domain was marked expired pending deletion on September 19th and there have been no signs they intend to resurrect the site. Now tens of thousands of guilds are left in the lurch, with no access to their DKP and Attendance records, News, Forums, Roster, etc.
From the EQ2 Forums: PvP Fixed an issue where killing players on your recent kill list was not being processed correctly.
From Windstalker’s twitter: Starting now, TLE players in #EQ2 are getting a 35% discount on in-game store items until noon Oct. 1! (Decorators asked….) — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) September 21, 2015 From the EQ2 Forums: Time-Locked Expansion server players rejoice, because you’ll get 35% Off items in the Marketplace until noon PDT* on Thursday, October 1, 2015! What items will you pick up from the Marketplace during this period of huge savings on Stormhold and Deathtoll?
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.
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has announced on Twitter that EQ and EQ2 will receive some kind of bonus every day between now and the release of each games’ respective expansions. We’re going to assume that means October 1st, not November 10/17/whenever. Actually it IS until release! Starting next week, #eq2 and #everquest will get "some kind of bonus" every day until expansions launch. OMGRSH! Stay tuned for deets! — Holly Longdale (@TheWindstalker) September 19, 2015
From the EQ2 Forums: What if we told you that we’re offering DOUBLE EXPERIENCE to our All-Access members for a whole week? The double experience bonus for Adventure, Tradeskill and AA XP will turn on at noon PDT* on Friday, September 18, 2015 and will last a full week! This means you have until noon PDT on Friday, September 25, 2015 to fill up those XP bars! The Double XP bonuses will be available for All Access members on all traditional servers. While the bonus will not be available on Stormhold and Deathtoll, there are still exciting adventures awaiting All Access members on those special servers. Remember,...
Daybreak Games aren’t the only ones doing maintenance today. EQ2U and EQ2Wire will be undergoing maintenance starting at 12:01am EDT and we’re hoping the downtime will be limited to 3-5 hours. An opportunity has presented itself to upgrade to a significantly faster server with the same host at roughly the same price. The first step is a hardware migration. In the coming weeks, we will have additional upgrades that will bring our operating system, database, and web server software up to date.
Update as of 6:30pm PDT: #EQ & #EQ2 players – you should be seeing your membership benefits and entitlements again. Let us know if issues persist. Thanks! — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) September 18, 2015 Previous Update: We’re now 8 hours past the scheduled completion time for today’s maintenance and players are still reporting sporadic issues with having either no Loyalty Tokens or a fraction of what people used to have. Others are unable to login to all their characters as their accounts aren’t showing the full access and character slot count they are supposed to.
EverQuest II’s twelfth expansion, coming in mid-November, will include the Altar of Malice expansion and Rum Cellar campaign. If you have recently resumed playing and can’t wait until then to play all this level 95-100 content, then now’s your chance to grab them at a 50% discount. But perhaps the biggest audience for today’s 50% discount will be those players who missed out on the Striped Savage Pterodon mount, Elite Battle-Mystic Mercenary, 3 Gems of Armor Advancement, Prehistoric House Pet, and Mage Tower teleporter item for your house. If so, then the next two weeks are your last chance to...
Will this fall’s expansion scare the pants off us? It just might!
UPDATE: This maintenance completed after about 6 hours. Update from Twitter: Access/membership issues should be resolved for @LandmarkGame, @DCUO, and @planetside2. You may need to log in again. — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) September 17, 2015 Other games, including @everquestii, are still being worked on. Thanks for your patience. — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) September 17, 2015 Update from Twitter: The teams are aware of issues with account status & membership. They are working on a fix, but we do not have an ETA at this time. — Daybreak Games (@DaybreakGames) September 17, 2015
From the EQ2 Forums: ITEMS Chest of Wondrous Booty will now display the correct items that it rewards.* QUESTS Rum Cellar and Fabled Echoes of Faydwer missions have been added to the Mission Timer Window. *Editor’s Note: This is the random chest which can be purchased from the Altar of Malice Rare Loot Merchant. Also, Kander indicated that several rare items missing from this merchant will be added with tomorrow’s update.
Yesterday, a merchant offering the rare heroic drops from Altar of Malice zones appeared on live servers. Players were quick to report how much was missing from this merchant and how high the prices were. It seems EQ2 Lead Designer Kander agrees, at least on the first part… More rares coming. We missed an entire directory. Sorry all, we are really in full tilt for the expansion and things slipped by. More items soon. and: An update with lots more stuff, rare, bows, etc coming Thursday, September 17th. Apologies everyone, we are marching forth with the expansion.
Last week, the EverQuest II team initiated in-game polls to ask players what their new servers should be called after the upcoming Server Consolidations Mergers. Players on affected servers were provided three choices, all based on various zone names from specific expansions. Not surprisingly, a solid majority of players chose the shortest names offered. One could speculate that, like passwords, people keep things short that they have to remember and use daily. An alternate hypothesis suggests that the idea of sending cross-server tells to characters on a server called Palace of the Awakened was giving players the shakes. From Holly “Windstalker”...