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If the options of a Flying Gryphon, Hovering Disc, Cloud, and Pegasus weren’t enough, if flying as a Freeblood Cloud of Bats or Fae or Arasai weren’t enough, the time may have finally come for your flight option. From EverQuest2.com: It’s a bird, it’s a plane..No! It’s your EverQuest II character! Introducing the ground-breaking Flight Wings to EverQuest II. Now you can fly through the air with the attached Pegasus Feather Flight Wings or the Nightmare Flight Wings. Fly through Norrath in style, group with your friends and intimidate all challengers as you swoop into action from above.
Yesterday, SOE President John Smedley issued a series of tweets about EverQuest II: We are seeing some amazing growth in EQ2. 40% increase in daily logins since going f2p. 300% increase in new players. And 200% increase in Item sales. Plus we have added a lot of new subs. All during the time that some really good competition hit the market Some players have opined that a 200% increase in item sales might not be much of an indicator considering the Free-to-Play conversion coincided with an e-mail campaign encouraging tens of thousands of players who had quit to try...
image courtesy Jayne of Kithicor Over the last month, a growing number of players have reported missing Quest Feathers and Quest Books. The feather and book icons are invisible, leaving only the yellow or white wisp appearing above each NPC’s name. People have reported the occurrence of the problem after updating DirectX, while others have reported temporarily alleviating the problem by /camping their characters. This issue is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums.
If you’ve run Shard of Love a few times to get the Valorous Wings, and figured that’s all there was to the story, you may be surprised to know that there is a followup quest line A Goddess Risen. The quest series takes you to different instances, and culminates in a revitalized version of the Shard of Love. This quest series runs through February 6th @ 11:59pm PST. If you are into unique Beastlord warder appearances, the emerald cave bats in the Faceless Oracle’s Demesne instance, available only during this event, might interest you. Image courtesy EQ2 ZAM
Here are your update notes for January 10, 2012 from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed a bug where you would have to recast buffs on group members every time you zone. Fixed random lighting bugs on characters and environments. Players will now receive achievement credit for earning hall of fame status if they are offline when awards are processed. ACHIEVEMENTS Sense of Urgency: Debone Bonewing should correctly update when defeating the zone boss in under 30 minutes from zone in. DUNGEON MAKER Dungeon Maker creatures will no longer temporarily reappear when defeated while under the effect of a tier-adjusting...
First I’d like to wish a Happy New Year to all of you. No doubt many took advantage of the Double XP weekend and squeezed in the last bit of Frostfell magic. In the coming weeks, we should be hearing more from EQ2 developers and their work on the upcoming Game Update 63 coming in February. This update is expected to include new Destiny of Velious content, including dungeons, raids, and more. Here are some issues we’re tracking this week, some of which got a nod from a developer or community: Character Lighting EQ2Players Invisible Mercenary Healers Timorous Deep...
Here are your Update Notes for January 5, 2012: GENERAL Fixed an issue where the client could get stuck trying to load a character into Mok Rent. PLAYER HOUSING The City of Freeport: The Magical Academy housing portal should no longer vanish after being placed in a house. Fixed a bug where loading a layout of an invalid file could cause the house zone to crash. DUNGEON MAKER Mystic Guardian avatar for Dungeon Maker has had the zombie scare attack changed. Fixed an issue with Dungeons being put into the Housing hall of fame.
From Isulith on the EQ2 Facebook page: On Thursday, 12/29/11 we announced a Bonus Experience Weekend from December 30th – January 3rd. This was an error on our part; it was supposed to end on January 2nd. Because of our mistake, we are extending the Double XP until January 4th at 9:00 AM PST. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience and understand your frustrations. The Double XP is live again so go out there and get adventuring!
On December 21st, SmokeJumper announced a Double XP weekend from December 30th through January 2nd. On December 30th, Isulith updated this announcement to include January 3rd, extending the event to 5 days. So it was a surprise to us to login this morning and find that Double XP has ended. Perhaps the server hamsters did not receive the updated schedule. Hopefully, we can get an extra day added at some point. This is being discussed on the EQ2 Forums UPDATE: Double XP has been extended until January 4th @ 9am.
Although the much lauded Dungeon Finder was quickly abandoned by all but mid-level players thirsty for a dungeon crawl, SOE seems confident they can breathe life into this feature with the announcement of upcoming improvements. However none of the announced changes address the core problem, which we will address after the jump. From the EQ2 Forums: Come check out the all-new changes to Dungeon Finder! As of last Wednesday, we announced two new features for the Dungeon Finder system. This should help game play by giving more options for available dungeons and more incentive to use it. So go...
Last Thursday we noticed a curious tweet and Facebook post from EQ2’s Community Manager Isulith regarding the Freeport server and Free-to-Play players: Just as a friendly reminder for Facebook users on the EverQuest II FB page: please do not use the term “freeps”. If you have been playing on PvP servers for a while (especially back when there was more than one) you probably wondered how “freep” could be offensive, since it has traditionally referred to players aligned with City of Freeport faction.
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NOTE: Originally, Double XP was scheduled to run through January 2nd. Apparently it’s now January 3rd. From Isulith on the Official EQ2 Forums: This coming weekend, from 12:01 AM PST on Friday, December 30th and ending at 11:59 PM PST on Tuesday, January 3rd, EverQuest II will be running a Double XP promotion (+100% XP). Take advantage of these four days and watch those XP bars fill up! The bonus applies to AA, tradeskill, and adventure experience gained this weekend. Our French, German, Japanese and Test servers will also be enjoying the increase in XP gain. Happy New Year...
News will be a bit light over the next few days, so we wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Whether you’re spending time with friends, family, or your in-game family, we hope you have a good holiday. EQ2Wire has a huge year planned, including tackling the Dungeon Maker, delving further into Beastlords and Mercenaries, covering the new Velious content in February and May 2012, building a new site on the Data Feeds, and more. Remember Double StationCash is still running through tomorrow and Double XP is December 30th to January 2nd. Frostfell runs through...
If you’ve been wondering just what percentage of StationCash is spent in EQ2 (and FreeRealms) on Mounts, vs. Appearance Armor, vs. other consumables, SOE has released a rare infographic laying out some of these details. We first picked up this story from Massively. Also on Massively this week, Karen Bryan looks ahead to “phase two” of EQ2. Now that the Age of Discovery crunch time has passed, we are cautiously hopeful that the team can step back for a moment and take a look at the bigger issues in the game which are really holding it back. Basic mechanics...
From the EQ2 Forums: Frostfell has come to Norrath and we’d like to celebrate it with you! Hang out with members of the EverQuest II Community Relations team on select servers during this merry Frostfell season! We will be greeting players and handing out festive goodies on the following servers: Oasis – Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM PST Unrest – Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM PST Permafrost – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM PST Butcherblock – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:30 PM PST Guk – Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:30 PM ...
Test Update Notes from the EQ2 Forums: DUNGEON MAKER Mystic Guardian avatar for Dungeon Maker has had the zombie scare attack changed. Fixed an issue with avatar power consumption rates. (also on Live as of Dec 22nd) MERCENARIES Ten new mercenaries can be found within the major cities of Norrath. This includes Freeport, Qeynos, Neriak, Gorowyn, New Halas, and Kelethin! Gaeri Tallspire [Warlock] and Firus Scorchtouch [Wizard] have returned to their normal hangout and can once again be hired! They have been rebalanced a bit to do less spike damage but in some cases might do more DPS on...
Here are your Update Notes for December 21, 2011 from the EQ2 Forums: DUNGEON MAKER Fixed an issue with avatar power consumption rates. QUESTS Beastlord Epic Ralissk should now properly speak to beastlords on all steps of the quest “One Door Closes, Another Door Opens”.
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Since the holidays are upon us, we wanted to drop you a note so you could plan. We’ll be running Double XP days from Dec 30th through Jan 2nd 3rd! This is way more advance notice than we usually give, but well…we’ll be celebrating the holidays too, so we wanted to tell you now. Time Zone Conversions Barring any unforeseen changes, the Double XP weekend would be: PST: December 30 @ 12:01AM ~ January 3 @ 11:59PM EST: December 30 @ 3:01AM ~ January 4 @ 2:59AM GMT: December 30 @ 8:01 ~...
The following graphic appears on the EverQuest II launcher: It looks like SOE is going to double the value of any Station Cash card redeemed between December 24 and December 27, 2011. These are only SOE Pre-Paid Game Cards available in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Time Zone Conversions PST: December 24 @ 12:01AM ~ December 27 11:59PM EST: December 24 @ 3:01AM ~ December 28 2:59AM GMT: December 24 @ 8:01 ~ December 28 7:59 CET: December 24 @ 9:01 ~ December 28 8:59
Here are you last scheduled update notes for 2001, from the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL You may now use the command “/republish_house” to update the name of your currently published dungeon or house. Note: The ability to update your currently published image using this command may not be functioning at the time of this update. BEASTLORD The warder granted Primal “Silent Talon” is now level 30. DUNGEON FINDER Adventuring in a DF group for 20 minutes will now grant you a reward once a day!
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Merry Frostfell, Norrath! The team is about to fly off to their families, great food, and probably a hangover after the new year. But before we go, we wanted to leave you all with a couple more updates (today and tomorrow) with some really good stuff in it. Here’s the goodies, broken down by feature. Dungeon Finder We are adding Contested Dungeons to the Dungeon Finder feature from levels 20 to 89. (Level 90 contested dungeons are *not* being added to DF because of itemization concerns.) You should see a lot more dungeons...
Here are your Update Notes for December 20, 2011 from the EQ2 Forums: DUNGEON / PLAYER HOUSING RATINGS The house and dungeon leaderboards have now been converted from the previous 5-star rating system to a new “Like” system. When visiting a house or completing a dungeon maker zone you now have the option to “Like” the zone in either of the two categories. The leaderboards are now based on the accumulation of likes. Awards continue to work as before and are given to the players at the top of the leaderboard.
From EverQuest2.com: Here is another opportunity to get a great deal on Station Cash! Tomorrow will be the 8th day of SOE’s 12 Days of Holidays celebration! We’re happy to be able to give you double when you buy Station Cash anytime on December 20, 2011. Just buy Station Cash in-game, via your Station Account or redeem an SOE Pre-Paid Game Card and you’ll get Double Station Cash! But hurry, this offer is only valid 12/20/11, from 12:01 AM PST to 11:59 PM PST! Plus, don’t forget to login to participating games throughout the SOE 12 Days of Holidays...
From SmokeJumper on the EQ2 Forums: Starting in the next couple of days (on Test server only) you’ll be able to play any of your characters in a player-created Dungeon Maker instance. This doesn’t invalidate playing as an Adventurer, but you can also play as your regular characters, regardless of level. (Well, okay, you still have to be at least level 20 to play a DM instance, but you can play any characters from 20-90.) We have still code to create, but we’re excited enough about getting this to work that we’re putting it on Test over the holidays...
From RadarX on the EverQuest2 Facebook page: To our valued Steam customers: We sincerely apologize that Station Cash purchased via Steam during our Triple Station Cash promotion today was not properly credited. We are working with Steam and want to ensure those affected that we will automatically credit the additional Station Cash earned during today’s promotion. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Customer Service via http://www.soe.com/en/support/. Thank you again for your patience and understanding. [RadarX]