From Amnerys on the EQ2 Forums:
UPDATE: January awards will not be delivered until Wednesday. We had a little snafoo on the back-end.
we’ve also been told we can expect a screen shot of the wolf pup pet:
I actually do have new screens of the puppy coming later today!
From EverQuest2.com:
On Tuesday, January 18, qualifying EQII and EQ2X accounts who have met the requirements for Velious Winter Rewards will find a new bag in their /claim window which contains two new items; an Ice Wolf Pup and a Superior Potion of the Advanced.
ICE WOLF PUP
ttobey (EQ2 artist/animator) would like us to know that this is not merely a scaled down Ice Wolf Mount or existing Wolf graphic, nor does it inherit existing animations:
The puppy also isn’t just a shrunk down wolf . He’s a brand new model with exclusive puppy animations.
SUPERIOR POTION OF THE ADVANCED
The Superior Potion of the Advanced grants a bonus to all three types of XP at once; achivement, tradeskill and adventure. This potion will increase your XP gain for all three by 100% for a duration of two hours. The potion is for characters higher than level 10.
If you have been paying for EQ2 with 30-day subscription cards rather than keeping a credit card on file at SOE, you were probably surprised to find that you might not get the December, January, and February rewards. Fortunately, Amnerys has jumped on this issue before it got too far out of hand and gotten this response:
Hey everyone! Checking in to clear up a few questions about today’s rewards.
1. Everyone who is actively subscribed and in good standing will be getting the rewards, including folks who pay with game cards.
2. We just started running the process that grants the items an hour or two ago, and it takes a few hours to run, so before long you should start seeing the bag in your /claim, but don’t worry if you don’t see it yet. It’s a completely different process than what hotfixes do, so it wasn’t going to be visible right after the hotfix.
3. Game card subscribers will be getting their rewards in a second round of item grants, so don’t worry if you’re a game card payer and you don’t see yours when other players say they’ve gotten theirs. The team who grants the rewards is running them in two batches, and a few account types are getting items in the first round, and a few get them in the second round. By the end of the day, everyone who qualified should have gotten the items.
Thanks Amnerys for getting this sorted out. No doubt many players are relieved.
From EverQuest2.com:
On Wednesday, December 15, qualifying EQII and EQ2X accounts who have met the requirements for Velious Winter Rewards will find a new bag in their /claim window which contains two new items; a Coldain Butler and a Scars of Velious in-game painting.
Photos and Details after the jump.
