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From the EQ2 Forums: All servers will be restarted at 7:00 AM PDT (14:00 UTC) to address a small technical issues. Downtime is anticipated to be less than one hour.
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All hail the Overlord – the Freeport City Festival returns to the Commonlands from May 1-7! Spend City Tokens on local specialties, generic festival goods, appearance clothing, or food & drink. Make sure all your characters have finished the Freeport Postage Collection, speak to Kella Swampfoot to assist with festival quests, and achieve 119 seconds or less in the local Aether Race to earn the Portal Jumper title. WHEN: 12:01am PT on May 1st – 11:59pm PT on May 7th WHERE: Commonlands, near The Crossroads, /way -563, -49, -427 QUESTS: Special Delivery, Special Order Crafting, Special Order Gathering ACHIEVEMENTS:...
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Hail Norrathians, We’re grateful for your patience as we worked through some technical issues with our servers. While our fixes seem stable so far, we want to take more time to test and verify our changes before launching GU103: The Menagerie. Since we want to ensure that the launch of our next game update is as smooth and stable as possible, we’ve decided to move the launch of GU103: The Menagerie to Tuesday, May 9, 2017. To thank you for your patience and support, we’ll be activating Triple XP (AA, Adventure, Tradeskill) for ALL players and ALL servers starting now. This will run...
Here are the chat logs for the EverQuest II Developer “Ask Me Anything” in-game chat events. Click a server below to go to that server’s page. April 26: April 28: May 1:
From EverQuest2.com: We’re grateful for your patience as we worked through some technical issues with our servers. While our fixes seem stable so far, we want to take more time to test and verify our changes before launching GU103: The Menagerie. Since we want to ensure that the launch of our next game update is as smooth and stable as possible, we’ve decided to move the launch of GU103: The Menagerie to Tuesday, May 9, 2017. To thank you for your patience and support, we’ll be activating Triple XP (AA, Adventure, Tradeskill) for ALL players and ALL servers starting now. This will run...
From EQ2 Producer Lauren “Mooncast” McLemore on the EQ2 Forums: Yesterday we experienced unforeseen technical issues related to an upgrade to one of our internal services. Those complex changes caused issues with logins and required that we take down our servers. We pushed a fix last night and are monitoring the servers closely to verify the fix and ensure its stability. If you experience unexpected behavior with logins today, please post in this thread. As we monitor the results of this fix, we may determine it needs time to “bake” further before we make any significant updates. This might...
It looks like this morning’s update note of “Updated underlying structure for handling Daily Objectives and Loyalty Tokens. There shouldn’t be any noticeable difference in functionality.” did in fact have a noticeable difference and EQ2 servers are now down for an extended window which could run quite long. From the EQ2 Forums: All servers are currently coming offline to address a technical issue. We do not have an ETA at this time but will provide information as it becomes available. From the EQ2 Forum status notice: Status: 4/27/2017 10:26 PDT – The game is currently down, investigating a login...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Updated underlying structure for handling Daily Objectives and Loyalty Tokens. There shouldn’t be any noticeable difference in functionality. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Expert Raids Resolve values for expert raid zones have been reduced. Current combat mitigations remain unchanged. Vaedenmoor: Heart of Nightmares [Raid] Added messaging to the Harrowing Hobgoblin Exploders if they attempt to drop their explosives
Here are the chat logs for the EverQuest II Developer “Ask Me Anything” in-game chat events. Click a server below to go to that server’s page. April 26: April 28: May 1:
The backbone of any MMO is defined by character progression. That character is you, and that character reflects your hard work. Like any MMO that has been around as long as EQ2 has, you need to be creative, and come up with more ways to improve and increase potential with your character. Whether that means all or some of: new gear, new levels, alternative “systems” to increase power (AA’s), abilities, and then of course new areas to explore and quests to complete. These things keep people engaged, something to work on with their character, and most importantly, playing the...
The EQ2 developers will be staging Dev Chats in-game in the Public chat channel on each EQ2 server over the next three days. There have been predictions of chaos and troublemakers interrupting the chat, so this could be very interesting or it could go smoothly and lead to enlightenment. Here’s the schedule from the EQ2 Forums: If you missed last week’s letter from the team, we’ll be hosting Developer chats on all servers and answering your questions! Below is a schedule for each server: April 26th – Thurgadin – 10:30AM–11:30AM PDT (17:30 UTC – 18:30 UTC) April 26th –...
From Everquest2.com: Need to catch up or get an alt to max level? From 12:01AM PST (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Friday, April 21st, 2017 through 11:59PM PST (Midnight)/7:00 UTC on Thursday, April 27th, 2017, all servers will have bonus experience for All Access Members! This will be applied to Adventure, Tradeskill, and AA. It is our understanding that this does not double Quest or Ascension XP.
From the EQ2 Forums: Greetings Fellow Norrathians! Just stopping by to give everyone some information on what we have coming this year and some insight on the direction we are going. Cooperative Competition: Co-opetition!
From EverQuest2.com: Greetings, fair Norrathians! The team has been busier than a pack of Brownies in a bag of catnip! There’s plenty coming up this year, so let’s get right to it, shall we?! First, on Tuesday, May 2nd we are launching the first of our Level 100 Co-opetition Challenges in the Proving Grounds! What the heck is “co-opetition”? Well…Cooperative Competition, of course! In teams, you can compete side-by-side with other groups – and even sabotage their progress – as you mow through baddies so you can win! Why win? For new loot and bragging rights! We will start...
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. Grotto Zone & Location Collection Quest(s) Brownie Darklight Wood /way 14, -32, -238 Tree Bark Festive Flowers Strong Brew Root Beer Zygomyd Nektulos Forest /way -363, 0.42, -682 Mushroom Spores Earthly Tasks Comforting Confections Naiad Enchanted Lands /way -278, 5, 18 Naiad Scales Naiad Aid Dryad Antonica /way -696, -4, 621 Dryad Leaves Pollution Problem Fay Greater Faydark /way -132, -44, -771 Flower Petals...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid] The number of adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter should no longer grow for each successful threshold passed. The number of adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter required to be killed if the script is failed should no longer grow. Deaths in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter still affect add numbers. Respawn speed on adds in the Raenha, Sister of Remorse encounter are no longer affected by reuse debuffs (in players’ favor). All adds in the Raenha encounter now count toward...
From the EQ2 Forums: The votes are in and tallied! 65% of players voted to unlock Sentinel’s Fate which will become available in early May.
Players noticed this event had gone live this morning. Here’s the news from the EverQuest2.com: Hail Norrathians, Are you working to level up your Ascension classes? If so, you’re in luck because you’ll get TWO Ascension Scrolls every time you visit your Ascension trainer until Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 11:59PM PDT. Not sure what an Ascension Class is? Check out the full write up on Ascension Classes here. Not sure where Ascension Trainers are? Chosooth, Thaumaturgist Master – Located in Crusaders’ Cave in Obulus Frontier Miragul, Etherealist Master – Located in Nye’Caelona in Obulus Frontier Najena, Elementalist Master – Located in...
From EverQuest2.com: Every year when the time is just right, Tunare whispers to the world that Spring is here. Magic overflows and the flora and fauna rejoice in this season of birth and renewal. Across Norrath, flowers bloom and animals frolic in exuberant celebration. Inspired by all the spring excitement Beast’r Eggs have started to hatch and explore the world around them. Some of you may already have spied them hiding around Norrath, and if you’re lucky enough to find one, go interact with it and the egg will become your newest cosmetic pet! There are 5 different Beast’r...
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Arcanna’se Spire: Order and Chaos [Raid] Shanaira the Prestigious has had her messaging tweaked for clarity. Vaedenmoor: Realm of Despair [Raid] The Hemorrhage spell should now correctly apply its damage portion of the failure condition during the Setri Lureth encounter. Lost City of Torsis: The Spectral Market [Expert] The doors at the back of The Spectral Market now send you to Crusader’s Cave in Obulus Frontier instead of Kunzar Jungle. ABILITIES Master’s Interpose will now only trigger up to 15 damage reflections before it needs to be recast, and will only...
EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey expansion unlocked on the Stormhold Time-Locked Expansion server on January 12th. Now it’s time for the first vote about whether EverQuest II’s sixth expansion “Sentinel’s Fate” should unlock! From the EQ2 Forums: It’s that time again for the Time Locked Expansion server! The vote is happening right now so if you want to experience The Sundered Frontier or forge your way into Paineel, voice your opinion! Voting will remain open until April 14th. Venser has posted an epic video championing the unlock and asking for your vote:
From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Raids Adds in most tier 4 encounters have had their combat mitigation reduced. Vaedenmoor: Heart of Nightmares [Raid] Adds in the Warden of Nightmare encounters have had their respawn timers corrected to intended values. Corrected an issue that occasionally caused 4 adds per round instead of the intended 3 in the Warden of Nightmares encounter.
It’s time to grab some white marble – the Qeynos City Festival returns to Antonica from April 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. WHEN: 12:01am PT on April 1st – 11:59pm PT on April 7th WHERE: Antonica, outside North Qeynos, /way 6, -14, -61 QUESTS: Special Delivery, Special Order Crafting, Special Order...
From the EQ2 Forums: ZONES / POPULATION Kaesora: Xalgozian Stronghold [Solo, Heroic, Expert Heroic] Over-General Vihgoh should no longer path into the walls when idle and not being attacked. ITEMS Monk and Bruiser TSO raid set 6-piece bonus (riposte chance) now stacks properly with their class focus effects. Warlock TSO raid set 2-piece bonus now grants some additional damage to Apocalypse. Several TSO tradeskill items that had a required level of 82 have been correctly set to level 80. Several items in Kurn’s Tower have had their stats upgraded slightly to match items from Ward of Elements. QUESTS Vanishing...