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From the EQ2 Forums: LEGENDS OF NORRATH Fall of Estarim items are now on display at the LoN Museum. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Updated the login message for alternate advancement point conversion to only show if you actually gained points and how many points you have gained. If you have maximum alternate advancement points and you are not max level, you will automatically be set to 0% alternate advancement conversion rate the first time you gain experience. NOTE: If you set your alternate advancement conversion slider back up after that first time it will stay and not be reset...
Game Update 63: Skyshrine has now been launched on all U.S. Servers. EU servers (Splitpaw, Storms, and Valor) have 14 1/2 hours to wait until they get to play this update. Pay no attention to the Server Status widget and page at SOE which are reporting all servers down.
EQ2Wire is proud to present our Game Update 63: Skyshrine Frequently Asked Questions guide. UPDATED April 24, 2012. After the jump, find out how to reach the Withered Lands and Skyshrine, what kind of solo, group, and raid content is available, a bit more about Prestige Points, and how to get started in Game Update 63 regardless of your play style!
From Piestro on the EQ2 Forums: On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5 AM London Time the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. We haven’t heard of “London Time”, and we’re not sure why only the Splitpaw server is mentioned. Maybe Piestro meant to say: On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5:00 British Summer Time (6:00 Central Europe Time) the Splitpaw, Storms, and Valor servers will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. We apologize for patching the European servers nearly a full...
Cyliena of EQ2 ZAM has once again turned out comprehensive coverage of an EQ2 Game Update. This time around, we get full coverage of the zones and quests that make up Game Update 63: Skyshrine. You’ll find full walkthroughs of the Withered Lands quests and more information on this update. Game Update 63 Coverage at EQ2 ZAM
Here are your official Game Update 63 Update Notes from the EQ2 Forums: The Destiny of Velious saga continues as adventurers breach the barriers of the Withered Lands seeking entrance to Skyshrine, the glorious ancient dragon city! The great citadel of Skyshrine has long housed the Claws of Veeshan dragons behind its massive walls and arcane protections. Now, the unthinkable has happened — it has become besieged by powerful forces. Battle and befriend dragons and their wurmkin in the forbidden city of Dracur. Explore the past to unravel mysterious events that transformed the formidable draconic city into a battlefield...
From the EQ2 Forums: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 AM Pacific* all U.S. EverQuest II servers will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. UPDATE: EverQuest2.com has this update about Splitpaw: Important: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5 AM London Time* the Splitpaw server will come down for Game Update 63: Skyshrine. Expected downtime is approximately 5 hours. LATE UPDATE: Game Update 63 has been delayed to April 18th, 2012 for EU servers!! Time Zone Conversion PST: April 17 @ 7:00am~12:00 Noon EST: April 17 @ 10:00am~3:00pm BST: April 17...
From EQ2Talk.com: Episode #44 – Wind Power recorded on Apr 14 EQ2 Talk is excited to bring you Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EverQuest 2 Producer. We asked her some of the burning questions about mechanics, dungeon finder, the in-game polls, and EQ2 Players. She also gives us a closer look at what the team has in store for players in GU63, offers some insight into the 2-level increase, explains a bit about prestige abilities, and talks about the team’s goals looking ahead. We’ve listened to Episode #44 and here are a few gems: We may get some more detailed information on the...
A new Game Update is upon us, which naturally means that Niami Denmother has been living and breathing Test, reporting bugs, trying out recipes, and preparing a veritable compendium of information for interested crafters! GU63: Crafting Preview @ EQ2Traders “Draggin’ and Puffin'” GU63: Carpenter Recipes @ EQ2Traders GU63: Withered Lands Crafting Quests @ EQ2Traders GU63: Skyshrine Elite Apprentices @ EQ2Traders Commentary Niami’s exhaustive coverage belies the dearth of crafting content in Game Update 63. In fact there are just six quests for each tradeskill class, 4 recipe books (Essentials 91 and 92, and Advanced 91 and 92), and 2...
Tomorrow is the big day for the release of Game Update 63 : Skyshrine. Last week, EverQuest II Producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale and Designer Carlos “Gninja” Mora led a number of MMO press sites on a tour of Game Update 63: Skyshrine. It looks like the Press Embargo was lifted at midnight: TenTonHammer — EverQuest II Game Update 63: Skyshrine – A Visual Tour Massively — A land corrupted and a city under seige: A look at GU63 with the EQII team EQ2 ZAM — Preview: EverQuest II Game Update 63: Skyshrine MPOGD — EverQuest II: Game Update 63:...
Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson, EverQuest Franchise Director of Development, steps up and hosts the second Game Update 63: Skyshrine Preview Webcast, with guests Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EverQuest II Senior Producer, and Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, EverQuest II Lead Designer. After the jump, notes about the Game Update 63: Skyshrine Part 2 Webcast, as well as hints about Prestige Classes, the Qeynos Revamp, and more!
So if you’ve clicked on this article looking for a transcript of last month’s Game Update 63: Skyshrine Part 1 webcast, we have a last minute change. This won’t be a transcript but a summary. If this seems like bait-and-switch, realize that we tuned into the webcast to see: Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, EQ2 Senior Producer Akil “Lyndro” Hooper, EQ2 Lead Designer Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson, EverQuest Franchise Director of Development and there was a slight change in the guest list to: Kyle “Kander” Vallee, Assistant Lead Designer Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson After the jump, what we were able to take away...
If you have run into the Launchpad problem we reported earlier today, a fix has been rushed through and rolled out today according to Bunji: An updated EXE was pushed out to the US patchers (international patcher updates are still in progress) which should hopefully resolve the issue where you get the pop-up asking you if you want Full or Streaming, but setting you to streaming regardless of your choice. Now if you set your install to full (under ‘Select Game Version', it should stay that way and you shouldn’t receive any pop-ups when launching the client (which would...
This screenshot foretells the coming of Gozer, and a rather unfortunate crossing of the streams. Image provided by Cloudrat NOTICE: This problem has now been resolved. Please run the patcher again, making sure to select “Full Download” in the Game Version setting. I suggest you make a backup of your \EverQuest II\paks folder to another part of their hard drive prior to running the patcher.
We’re a bit late on this, but on April 4th, a new in-game poll was added to EQ2 about the StationCash Marketplace, specifically some items that were previously only available on the Freeport (formerly EQ2X) server. This issue is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums. Here are the contents of that in-game mail: Greetings, Norrathians! Most players spend a lot of time exploring and soloing, or delving into dungeons with a mercenary. There are items that would be extremely useful for these activites that used to be available on the marketplace on the Freeport server. We’d like to hear...
Donna “Danicia” Prior, Social Media Specialist for SOE, has in the past represented Heatwave Interactive, Bioware, and Flying Lab Software at fan events such as GenCon, PAX, as well as the Game Developers Conference. Her most visible change at SOE so far has been the rebranding of the annual Fan Faire event. There has been speculation that the October 18-21, 2012 event will be more marketing and vendor-driven than past events, but otherwise, we are still waiting for all the details of this fan event to be announced. We did take a moment to ask her some questions in...
From the EQ2 Forums: Skyshrine, the ancient city of dragons, will make its way to the EverQuest II world in Game Update 63. In this week’s webcast your host Dave “Smoke Jumper” Georgeson (Director of Development) chats with Holly “Windstalker” Longdale (Producer), and Akil “Lyndro” Hooper (Lead Designer) about the level increase, the prestige system, tradeskills, and more! Do you have questions for our guests this week, this is the place to ask them! Join us on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time* on Twitch TV! The webcast is expected to last about 20 minutes. Be there...
First reported in July 2011 and again in November 2011, tradeskillers have been reporting the disappearance of recipes from their recipe books, making crafting of those items impossible. Players had found various workarounds to get the recipes to (sometimes) appear, but there was no easy fix. Petitioners were informed that even if a GM made the recipe visible again, it would eventually disappear due to the same bug. The issue was raised again in January of this year, and then last week, Omougi, EQ2’s tradeskill developer, indicated that the issue was being looked into. And here’s the latest update...
SOE has made a last-minute announcement of some account services maintenance which is scheduled to start at 2:00am PST and last about 30 minutes. From the SOE Forums: Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 2:00 AM Pacific* on April 11, 2012. This will impact the following services: Login for our games will be affected from 2:00 AM on April 11, 2012 to approximately 2:30 AM Pacific* Session for our games will be affected from 2:00 AM on April 11, 2012 to approximately 2:30 AM Pacific* (this means you may have issues zoning during the maintenance) There will be...
Here is your Update Note for April 10, 2012: DUNGEON MAKER Fixed a crash bug with loading layouts in player made dungeons.
Oh look, another StationCash deal… From a note on the EQ2 Launcher and a promotional e-mail from SOE: In other news, the menu bar and navigation on EverQuest2.com now seems to be totally broken in Firefox 3.6.x.
A Sony Corp. logo pictured at an electronic store in Tokyo. (Yuriko Nakao / April 9, 2012) Although it is my understanding that this has no immediate ramifications for Sony Online Entertainment, which has already undergone two rounds of belt-tightening, and recently signed an exclusive European distribution deal with ProSiebenSat.1 which no doubt had financial incentives behind it, this is news that several people have reported in so I’m reposting it. UPDATE: Sony Corp has revised their expected financial losses for 2011 to $6.4 billion. From ArsTechnica: Sony Corp. is planning on cutting loose 10,000 of its employees in...
Repeating last night’s Login and Launcher difficulties, players are reporting that they are getting stuck at the black SOE splash screen when trying to run the EQ2 launcher. No word on SOE’s Facebook page yet.
We’re receiving reports that players aren’t able to progress past the black screen with SOE logo of the EQ2 Launcher. Anyone who is currently logged in is apparently able to stay in, but otherwise, players are having difficulty getting past this splash screen: In possibly related news, the EQ2 forums seem to be down for unscheduled maintenance. UPDATE from Amnerys on SOE’s Twitter 14 minutes ago: Hey everyone! We are currently having some issues with the Launcher and working on getting them fixed as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience! [Amnerys] NOTICE: Some players have been able...
Looks like Double XP has started at Midnight instead of Noon today. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, here’s the evidence: