Last night, the Blackburrow to Everfrost Server Merge concluded. Here are some things you should know from Rothgar:

• Issues with Character Names are being addressed via scripts and Customer Service, so give them 24 hours before petitioning if you have character names with x or xx after the name.

• Titles are being worked on and so will become available in the next few days. Players from the Blackburrow server will be able to have a title of “of Blackburrow“.

• Some characters are reporting issues with Chat Channels and may need to rebuild their chat channel setup.

We’re a bit late on this, but the last update from SOE Headquarters in San Diego on the Blackburrow -> Everfrost Merge was as follows from Rothgar:

It’s 4am and the merge process is going smoothly so far with no surprises. A few steps are running faster than expected, so that’s good news.

and:

I haven’t been to sleep yet, but going to try to catch a cat nap in the next few hours so I can deal with any post-merge issues.

We have a group of very dedicated people from different departments all working together to make sure this goes smoothly. None of them are going to get much sleep tonight and some of them have another 24-hour maintenance to do right after this merge.

More as we have it.

Amnerys posted several messages on the Everquest2.com forums today about the upcoming server merges. The first one happening is Blackburrow into Everfrost which may happen as soon as tomorrow (Nov 16th, 2010). As for the rest of them:

I can definitely tell you that we’re not going to be announcing a full schedule ahead of time.

From this post it looks as though the plan is to do the first server merge tomorrow if they get everything in place in time:

At this time, we are still getting all the I’s dotted and the T’s crossed, and we cannot confirm just yet if the merge will happen on 11/16 or if there will be a delay, but Blackburrow to Everfrost will be the first merge to take place.

As soon as we have official confirmation, I will update this thread and its subject line with a date and time.

It has been asked if at least the order of the merges can be released even if there are no firm dates. We’ll let you know what we find out.

Update:  It doesn’t look like a schedule is forthcoming.  Amnerys posted this on the Everquest2.com forums in response to the the questions about the order of the merges:

We don’t have a schedule that can be shared right now, because we’re still working on things on the back-end, and the details that go into deciding the order could still change. Because this is a very fluid transition, I don’t know that we’ll be posting a master list of order at all. We will definitely announce each one before it occurs, but I’m not sure if we can post an overall sequence.

Also from Amnerys on Everquest2.com:

 The first merger will not be taking place on Tuesday. Possibly Wednesday. We’ll let you know as soon as we know.