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Zone previews of EverQuest II: Altar of Malice were released at SOE Live so that we get to see flythroughs of all the zones which the EQ2 designers and environment artists have been working on. We present the best possible version of each of these videos below, edited together with some music from ToV zones…
Here are the slides presented by the EverQuest II team specifically the mechanics/systems guys. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Michael “Xelgad” Ganz, Robert “Caith” Fouts, Dave “Maevianiu” Kish, and Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer were presenting.
Now it’s time for the EverQuest II Systems panel. Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Michael “Xelgad” Ganz, Robert “Caith” Fouts, Dave “Maevianiu” Kish, and Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer are presenting. We’re liveblogging this panel as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. Liveblog begins at 1:00pm PDT and ends at 2:00pm PDT on Saturday August 16th. Fix for Stealth and AE Abilities New Spell Qualities All spells go to Grandmaster Certain spells go to Ancient Battleground 6v6 Balance of Theer Deathmatch Penalty for dying Tiles to stand on and get buffs/debuffs
We’ll be posting videos of the two EverQuest II Q&A panels next week, but here are some cool highlights that we got in yesterday’s panel. We’ll update this article tomorrow when the other Q&A is under our belt. Stored Gear Sets confirmed for @everquestii expansion. Save different gear sets. MT tank, off tank, or appearance. — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014 Wardrobe system for appearance gear next year? “Eats the items” #eq2 — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014 Wardrobe system would not use space in your #eq2 inventory. It becomes like a character flag. — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire)...
EQ2Wire is boots on the ground in Las Vegas and we’ve been covering all things EQ2. Yesterday we reported all the Altar of Malice news. Today, we continue to record panels in HD, including this morning’s Art and Animation panel. We’ll be Liveblogging the EQ2 Mechanics this afternoon. We’re slso recording Q&A panels and will post them this coming week.
Now it’s time for the EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion panel with nearly the entire EQ2 team. We’re liveblogging as well as recording a video of this panel in 720p HD. This panel is also being livecast on Twitch. Liveblog began at 12:00pm PDT and ended at 1:00pm PDT on Friday August 15th. Holly “Windstalker” Longdale to the stage. Tim Heydalaar and Dave Brown to the stage. Showing PlayerStudio items.
Looks like Press gets a healthy headstart on posting expansion news for EverQuest and EverQuest II this year. After their private meetings with Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson and EQ2 Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale on Tuesday, they’ve had time to draft their articles and now, they’re available for all to read. My issue is, people at home have more information than those at SOE Live who may not yet have read these articles. Some Press sites (notably excluding Massively and ZAM) get a full boat ride from SOE, paying for hotel and sometimes even airfare, dinners, etc.). EQ2Wire covers EverQuest II all...
And here’s the super high res logo for EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion. Another logo seems to have been posted on Twitter by the official EverQuestII account, and at least one player thinks the logo somehow relates to Erollisi Marr….
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale has just confirmed the new expansion for EverQuest II — Altar of Malice which comes out November 11, 2014. EverQuest II: Altar of Malice expansion #11 comes out November 11th. #soelive @everquestii pic.twitter.com/XZNcssLZfL — EQ2Wire (@EQ2Wire) August 15, 2014
EQ2Wire is providing a Liveblog of the 2014 SOE Live Welcome Reception on August 14, 2014. This reception is also being broadcast on Twitch: The #SOELive Welcome Reception and Keynote Address is STARTING NOW!!! http://t.co/LvaL2TCwsb [Hats] — EverQuest II (@everquestii) August 15, 2014
Here’s the Twitch Livestream schedule for SOE Live this year. Keep in mind that EQ2Wire will be recording all EQ2 panels, several Player panels, and even a few EQNext panels if Curse doesn’t show. All times are in Pacific Daylight Time, and all broadcasts are on SOE’s Twitch channel. Thursday, August 14: 7:00 – 9:00 PM: SOE Live Welcome Reception and Keynote featuring President John Smedley Friday, August 15: 9:00 – 10:00 AM: Landmark Keynote 10:00 – 11:00 AM: EverQuest Next Keynote 12:00 – 1:00 PM: EverQuest II Keynote 1:00 – 2:00 PM: EverQuest Keynote 2:00 – 3:00 PM: DC Universe Online Keynote 3:00 – 4:00 PM: H1Z1 Keynote 4:00 – 5:00...
If you read EQ2Wire, can’t live without EQ2U, depend on Dragon’s Armory, or participate in the EQ2 Raid Council, come hang with us at Planet Dailies on Thursday afternoon at 4:00-pm-5:30pm before the Welcome Reception. Dethdlr, Feldon, Dedith, Kander, and Gninja will be in attendance. Time moved to 5:00-6:15pm because I’m a noob! We’ve updated our SOE Live Schedule App for Android, Windows phone, etc. It’s actually quite tricky to get the app to load its new data, as we designed it to not require an internet connection once it’s loaded. I suggest deleting the SOELive Daily app from your home screen and then visit http://dev.eq2wire.com/m/ on...
We did not promote this news at the time, but there are a number of cool fixes on the Test server which should hopefully go live after SOE Live. Chief among these are significant optimization of the EQ2 client so players should get smoother framerates. Also, players had assembled a list of quest starters that, through revamps and NPC shuffling were no longer attainable. These plus many more bug fixes and a few nice convenience features are now sitting on Test. It’s almost like one of the big bug stomps we used to see. Here are just some of...
From the EQ2 Forums: WEEKLY FEATURE The Nexus Core [Challenge Duo] Having faced near-destruction at the hands of careless adventurers, The Nexus Core has assembled the ultimate automaton to defend its delicate systems. Great rewards await those strong and cunning enough to defeat him. Certain death awaits all others. Can you outwit the mechanical mind of Mechanoct? This encounter is balanced for two extremely well-geared players containing at least one tank or one healer. QUESTS Age’s End Questline Doomscale crystalweavers will no longer spin when attacked while healing their designated crystal. The crystals will no longer reset to full...
Ashlanne has posted a list of confirmed Vendors at SOE Live this year which may be of interest to attendees wanting to pick up swag for SOE or other similar genre games: Here is the list: The War of Memory Project Shirts on Site Silver Sun Systems LLC on behalf of MilitaryGamers.com Gwydhar Enterprises Sanford Brown College Larry will be at Gencon this year. Due to Planet Hollywood’s busy schedule and our busy event schedule these 2 events unfortunately fell on the same weekend. The SOE Store will also be set up with lots of stuff for purchase including...
Amnerys has posted an announcement on the EQ2 forums about exclusive items which SOE Live attendees will receive. It’s being presented in a rather peculiar way as a “$35 Loot Card” but really, it’s just a way of allowing SOE attendees to get the in-game rewards on the account they want, plus we’ll be able to buy these loot cards for friends. For in-game item for EQ2 players is a 66-slot bag with a Tears of Veeshan appearance. No word on whether we’ll get the EQ and EQ2 expansions for going to Vegas this year. According to the letter...
From Holly “Windstalker” Longdale’s twitter: We're experimenting with a new Group XP potion on our marketplace starting today. Pricey, but stacks up to 250%! #eq2 pic.twitter.com/LIZYCwZm15 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) August 8, 2014
The Age’s End x2 raid zone, added this Tuesday, is intended to wrap up the long-running Age’s End storyline which dates back to the very first content in the game. However it seems that Kerafyrm will not go down quite so easily! Several threads have been posted by players reporting issues with continuing the quest from before this morning’s update: Skyshrine Tower Crystals Age’s End: Shattered Fate Age’s End x2 Even More Broke Now Players have expressed concern that their Worldwide and Server Discoveries of the quest rewards have been impacted by the quest bugging out for them (but not others)....
This Tuesday’s update included a wonderful, if vague, note about how certain adornment dislodgers had been change to PRESERVE rather than destroy the item. There was some question of which of these were changed, so Bunji has clarified: I checked with the designer, and the change is referring to these crafted items: [eq2u]Basic Prismatic Adornment Dislodger[/eq2u] [eq2u]Advanced Prismatic Adornment Dislodger[/eq2u] Keep in mind that every time you add a Yellow, Blue, Green, Red, Purple, or other gemstone to an item, or if you add a Cyan adornment slot to an item, the item gets unattuned and then you get...
Has it really been another year? Next week, EQ2Wire will be (where else?) in Las Vegas for our seventh SOE Live covering EverQuest II. This looks to be a light year for EQ2, with only 5 events to cover and no Tradeskill, Lore, or Itemization panels this time around. You can read the official SOE Live 2014 Schedule here, but scroll down to see the list of panels I will be attending, with notations of which panels I will be Liveblogging and Filming. Blogging an accurate transcription of a Q&A panel in realtime is almost impossible, so this year I will be focusing on...
From EQ2 Buildmaster Bunji on the EQ2 Forums comes our possibly last update until after SOE Live: QUESTS Age’s End Questline The zone should no longer revert players if anyone lags during an update. Hailing Jorlak will no longer revert quest stages unless it is a new zone. Firiona Vie should now update the entire raid when giving her staff back. Roehn Theer should now update the entire raid when giving his swords back. Players hailing any of the quest NPCs should no longer cause the scripts to trigger more than once. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Veeshan: Dreadscale’s...
SOE Live Schedule for iPhone/iPad If you are an iPhone/iPad user and attending SOE Live, then you’ll want to head to the App Store to download Greg “Rothgar” Spence‘s SOE Live Schedule app. Greg developed this iOS app four years ago and, in his extremely limited spare time has maintained it every year for SOE Live. This year, Josh “Autenil” Kriegshauser chipped in to get it updated. The SOE Live schedule app has a “My Schedule” feature which lets you choose which panels should appear on your schedule, as well as tabs about Dining, News, and Travel. SOE Live Schedule for Android, Windows Phone,...
As reported in a number of places on the EQ2 Forums, the Age’s End x2 quest added yesterday has some glitches which are allowing the quest to reset or “roll back” to an earlier state. EQ2 Designer Carlos “Gninja” Mora took to Twitter with a quick update: Taking a look into the update/lag issues with the Age’s End event today. Hope to get a resolution asap! #eq2 — Carlos Mora (@thegninjagnome) August 6, 2014 which he elaborated on here: The issues are being caused by the zone trying to keep everyone updated together and checking if anyone fell behind or...
Wish there was something new to do in the lower levels rather than needing to race to max level? From EQ2 Lead Designer Kander on the EQ2 Forums, we have a tease of something interesting… We actually have some content updates coming for players level 20 to 90. Soon. Yup updates. Plural.
From the EQ2 Forums here and here and here: Attention players: we will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM PDT* on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. We expect this maintenance to take at least four hours. This will impact the following SOE services: Game servers will be down for the following games: DC Universe Online EverQuest II Landmark PlanetSide 2 Commerce functions, including purchases for all games Game, web and forum logins for all games Thank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance. Time Zone Conversions PDT: August 5 @ 4:00am ~ 8:00am EDT: August 5 @ 7:00am ~ 11:00am...