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As awesome as it is that Raiders, Group, and yes Solo players get to experience the entire Drinal Signature Quest line which takes players through the entire Chains of Eternity storyline, the requirement to do this 8-12 hour quest on every Alt character just to gain access to the group zones, as well as loot [eq2u]Obol[/eq2u] and [eq2u]Greater Spirit[/eq2u]s was a bridge too far. From EQ2 Lead Designer Akil “Lyndro” Hooper on the EQ2 Forums: We’re going to remove the entrance requirements from all of the dungeons and raids in the expansion except for Harrow’s End. For Harrow’s End...
Despite alarm bells being raised by the EQ2 Testing community on the EQ2 Forums, in /bug, and on Facebook, Monday‘s Test Update has been pushed to the live EQ2 servers with a show-stopping bug: Any item which cannot be equipped is now nameless on the Broker and cannot be searched for. Items which you have listed for sale on the Broker that cannot be equipped are shown as having no name. This means you cannot search for Dungeon Maker items, Raw Materials, Collectibles, Consumables, basically anything that you cannot equip. You can use Category filters (as shown above), but...
The Thanksgiving holiday falling just after an expansion is always a pain. Just when we need those Tuesday/Thursday updates the most, the fixes start to thin out, or are postponed. But for those who have been waiting patiently (and even if you haven’t), the time is finally here for the post-Chains of Eternity Mega Patch. Tomorrow’s update contains a ton of fixes to issues that have been brought up repeatedly in /bug, here, and on the forums. The updates include: [eq2u]Call of the Veteran[/eq2u] is back working as it was before. Jarsath Wastes Sokokar Trainers are back. Gathering Goblin...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where items that dropped from epic monsters that were pre-adorned were not tradable when they should be. Spellscrolls will now be more accurate when saying whether or not they’re locked [ed. note: Silver vs. Gold account] based on spell tier and account subscription level. Auto-following while on a flying mount will now cancel your flight if the follow target enters combat. Call of the Veteran is now treasured instead of fabled so that all account levels can properly use it. ABILITIES Spells that rely on increments on a target will now...
From Twitter: One Day Only Black Friday Double Station Cash offer for SOE pre-paid Station Cash cards, in-game and online purchases. ow.ly/fuboh — EverQuest II (@everquestii) November 23, 2012
A lot of you out there (myself included) will be on the road in the coming days so I just wanted to wish folks in the U.S. a Happy Thanksgiving. Alas, my well-wishes are a month late for Canadians, and as for Europe, well, the best description I’ve heard is: Thursday: We eat turkey and innumerable harvest foods ’til we want to die Friday: We nearly kill each other while retail shopping for marked down electronics Saturday: We engage in awkward social activities with crazy Cousin Eddie and odd Aunt Edna Sunday: We bid fare-thee-well to in-laws who we...
EQ2Talk Episode #55 — Second Wind This weekend Dell and Ali talked to the producer of Everquest 2, Holly “Windstalker” Longdale. In this podcast, find out which way the wind is blowing, and learn about some of the things behind the making of Chains of Eternity, EQ2’s ninth expansion. Also, learn about what’s in store for Norrath in the coming months and the future. Rumor has it that one of the questions relates to Census, and Holly indicated that the team is fully committed supporting the service and my name was mentioned. 😉 Download EQ2Talk Episode #55
From Kaitheel on the EQ2 Forums: In light of a moratorium on live server updates, the holiday live event schedule had to be rearranged slightly. Here’s the current plan: Heroes’ Festival to be activated on live servers on 11/27/12 (Tuesday) *after game update on 11/26/12 (Monday) to be deactivated on all servers on 12/11/12 (Tuesday) @ 11:59pm Frostfell to be activated on test server on 12/10/12 (Monday) to be activated on live servers with a server update on 12/13/12 (Thursday) to be deactivated on all servers with a server update on 1/10/13 (Thursday)
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale tweeted: We are upgrading the Storms and Harla Dar server hardware today! Barren Sky will follow soon. Been a long time coming! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 21, 2012 Okay, so…I fibbed.Barren Sky and Storms are getting the upgrades today! Harla Dar will soon follow. Hurray in both cases! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 21, 2012 From the EQ2 Forums: Finally, Barren Sky and Storms are getting hardware upgrades! Harla Dar will soon follow.We will be watching performance and hope the game is more fun to play for our Russian and French players!
SOE servers are currently undergoing some unscheduled maintenance which is affecting logins to EQ2 and other SOE games. From EQ2’s Facebook page: We are currently doing some unscheduled maintenance that is affecting logins. We anticipate it done shortly and appreciate your patience. UPDATE: EQ2 Players seem to be able to log back in, however the StationCash Marketplace seems to be unavailable at this time.
From EverQuest2.com: Now is a great time to stock up on SOE Game Cards from your local 7-Eleven retailer. Between 11/16/12 and 11/18/12*, get Double Station Cash when you redeem an SOE Game Card for Station Cash. This promotion is exclusive to cards purchased at 7-Eleven stores in the US. Game Card must be purchased at a 7-Eleven store in the United States and redeemed for Station Cash (not membership time) during the promotional period to qualify. Offer valid only for qualifying Game Cards that are redeemed for Station Cash between 12:01 AM PST 11/16/12 and 11:59 PM PST...
UPDATE: This update was postponed, but servers came down just the same. From the EQ2 Forums: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Harrow’s End Exhaustive Souldrain should now have examine text that accurately explains what it does. Drinal should no longer think he is using less soulwells than have been consumed. This should correct the issue with him dropping empty chests. Drinal will no longer auto consume the last soulwell if players do not allow him to consume any other soulwells. After all four soulwells have been destroyed he will imbue himself with a random ability and challenge level will be...
UPDATE: All servers seem to be back online (pay no attention to the Server Status widget on the right which is missing 1/2 the servers!) after 2 hours 15 minutes maintenance! Hark! The EQ2 team have relented and the Meatbeast will once again be tameable by Beastlords! Apparently there are also some other update notes as well. This update will has been announced to take 2 hours instead of the usual one hour downtime. GENERAL Players in a group of 6 are now capable of getting the solo amount of experience. MERCENARIES Krivix Honorclaw should now be using the...
EQ2Wire answers 20 Frequently Asked Questions about EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity: Help! All My AAs Were Reset! Is there a Backup? What about my AA Mirror? Can I Turn Off the AA Spending Prompt? What is this Chains of Eternity: Touch of the Steward item? Can I get 280 AAs for free? What is the Level cap for Adventuring, Tradeskills, and Guilds? Did they increase the AA cap? Have there been any changes to Adventure XP in this expansion? How come I’m not getting Veteran Bonus anymore for having Max Level Characters? Help I’m not getting any XP!
Like clockwork, Niami Denmother of EQ2Traders has turned out a fantastic guide to crafting in the Chains of Eternity expansion. In this guide, she updates us on Handcrafted and Mastercrafted armor, jewelry, weapons, and so forth which have received a complete set of items (rather than being dragging out until level 100). She also delves into the new set of white Adornments, a new type of green Adornment called Spirit Stones, dramatic improvements to Tinkering, the powerful new Tradeskill Prestige abilities, and an update on the Tradeskill AAs tab which now has its own 40 points to spend. While...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue with adornments on the broker and in guild banks. The entrance to Harrow’s End now counts towards the Obol Plains exploration achievement.
So Dethdlr and I had a heart-to-heart and we decided to take today off and sip mojitos. Just kidding. About taking the day off that is. Dethdlr spent all morning making sure that our backups of almost everyone’s Alternate Advancements worked and wouldn’t be overwritten by the new data. He then reloaded the data for 121 AA trees, 2,882 AA nodes, and 11,193 AA spells. Also, the spell data for all classes has been added for levels 93-95. I’m currently working on adding the Tradeskill Prestige AA tab. By the way, the in-game AA window has undergone some significant...
Holly “Windstalker” Longdale just tweeted: Servers are unlocked! Welcome to Chains of Eternity everyone! #EQ2 — Holly Longdale (@WindstalkerEQ2) November 13, 2012
After several months neglect, I took some time to go back and update EQ2Wire’s Guide to Beastlord Warders. I’ve added the new Insect category and some new Warder appearances. However the most important thing I need is your screenshots! It really helps us if players can take a moment to submit a screenshot to us of new warder types. Just e-mail me at warderphotos (at) eq2wire.com.
EQ2Wire was invited to a Chains of Eternity Fansite Tour (yay! our first since Sentinel’s Fate!) on Friday, November 9th and we’re working on our writeup of that tour. In the mean time, check out some of the other previews which have been posted around the interwebs: Karen Bryan and MJ Guthrie at Massively have been turning in some great writeups of SOE Live and the upcoming Chains of Eternity expansion: The Tattered Notebook: Touring Chains of Eternity with the EQII team EverQuest II’s 8th anniversary: Celebrating a pivotal year SOE Live 2012: EQII’s Chains of Eternity adding tradeskill...
From the EQ2 Forums: Chains of Eternity is EverQuest II’s 9th expansion! In Chains of Eternity, adventurers will travel to the realm known as Ethernere in their quest to stop the siphoning of souls from Norrath. Here, the heroes will fight to save not only the mortals of their world, but prevent the imbalance in Ethernere, as well as meet the God of the afterlife, Drinal, the Silver Reaper. They may yet find the answer lies not in fortunes and portents, but deep in Norrath’s past. Adventurers will also uncover all new areas in the mortal realm of Norrath....
From the EQ2 Forums: We’re just hours away from Chains of Eternity™! All EverQuest II servers will come offline at 7:00 AM PST* on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 to prepare for this content update. We anticipate game servers will be back online before 12:00 Noon PST*. Important: This is an estimate of our anticipated downtime. While the servers are offline tomorrow, make sure you keep an eye on Twitter, Facebook, the Forums, and the website for special countdown activities and updates, including diary entries from our off-duty server hamsters!
From the EQ2 Forums: We hope you are as excited as we are about the arrival of Chains of Eternity, our 9th expansion! CS wants to help you. Below are some common mistakes made and how you can avoid them. AA Slider– Are you 92/320? Make sure your AA slider is set to 0 if you want to start earning towards level 95! Patch New Content – Often Customer Service sees people so excited to start their adventuring they turn in collection quests before the game recognizes they no longer are at cap. Turning in Collections – Before you...
From the new EQ2 Forums: Tomorrow EverQuest II will launch its ninth expansion, Chains of Eternity™! In addition to the two new overland zones (previewed last week here) and many other features, this expansion will include nine new instanced dungeons with unique, exciting encounters and loot! Check out the video for more about these new dungeons! Remember, today is your last chance to pre-order Chains of Eternity™! The Collector’s Edition is available at a special discounted pre-order price. Both the Standard and Collector’s editions include an exclusive Cloak of Mourning for pre-orders as well: Make sure you get your...
Today’s the day that gaming news sites who went on tours of the upcoming Chains of Eternity expansion are able to post their impressions and screenshots. And to go along with these stories is a new video interviewing the talented artists and animators of Chains of Eternity. Commentary I have to be honest. After seeing how energized the EQ2 team were at SOE Live, this video is a bit uninspiring. Everything is given in a flat inflection, and the visuals are mostly slow flythroughs. Where’s the combat? Where’s the epic battles? I’m genuinely excited about Chains of Eternity, and...