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A Goddess Risen Starts Tomorrow! [EverQuest II]
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WARNING : The instanced Shard of Love zone for the Captive Heart quest is currently crashing the game and getting characters stuck in it. Avoid zoning in until this is fixed! Bunji updated on the forums: I see the issue with this zone and will try and get it fixed today (should just need a client side update). Aaronolis Swornlove, a Priest of Love in New Halas, is growing more concerned about his sister's emotional state. He's looking for compassionate adventurers who might be willing to help her. Seek him out at the Cairn of the Huntress to embark on a quest to solve Priestess Annalisa's worries. A Goddess Risen is a limited time world event that will begin on Thursday, December 15, 2011. After the jump check out a video where Nathan"Kaitheel"McCall gives us a sneak peek at one of the instances encountered during this event.
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Downtime - December 15, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Friday, December 16, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours. See the full patch notes after the jump. GENERAL All Membership levels may now claim Veteran rewards. Fixed a bug where expertise AAs would not load properly from a mirror. When using an AA mirror to switch profiles you will no longer be spammed with onscreen messages or having icons autopopulate into your hotbars. Fixed a bug where the character tree would not show in the respec window when attempting to purchase AA respecs. PLAYER HOUSING Prestige house portals should no longer disappear when placed. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General The following NPCs now buy back any status item: Zula Tazil (City of Freeport) Zur (City of Freeport) Zargga (City of Freeport) Gorga (City of Freeport) Karila T'zel (City ...
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It's Frostfell Time Again! [EverQuest II]
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The season of giving and cheer will start on Tuesday, December 6, after the downtime that launches the Age of Discovery expansion. Will you create a new Beastlord before running to see Santa Glug , who has added seven new presents to his bag this year? This year Frostfell introduces a new quest : Frostfell Decoration Committee , which is a bit like a crafting mission as you help the Frostfoot goblins decorate Permafrost. The classic Grab'n'Tag game has been retired, and players can play the new Frostfell Candy Grab in Antonica and Commonlands for fun prizes and Frozen Tokens of E'ci! There are also three new recipe books for the craft-a-holics which include such items as the Candy-Stripped Sword Of Doom, a Holiday Candy Bowl, and a variety of floating Fairy Lights! ZAM is pleased to again offer our updated Frostfell Quest Tracker . Print it out and chart up to 15 of your characters'progress! Happy Frostfell !
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Downtime for Age of Discovery - December 6 [EverQuest II]
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All servers will come down at 12:01am PST on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 for the Age of Discovery and Game Update 62 patch. Estimated downtime is currently 12 hours; U.S. servers are anticipated to come back online around 12:00pm PST (noon). Due to the volume of data involved, international servers will experience extended downtime. When patch notes are available we will put them on our Game Update 62 page. In addition, SOE account management and commerce services will be offline for all games during the transition period. Forums may also experience periodic outages. Remember that the EQ2X forums will be locked tomorrow morning at 10:00am PST. All EQ2X forum users should take this time to register anew on the EQII forums ; you can start posting there now! Beginning at 8:00am PST there will be a live webcast, Countdown to the Age of Discovery , on TwitchTV . Various members of the EQII team will be interviewed on the webcast. It is expected to run until 9:45am PST. A producer ...
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Age of Discovery Guides at ZAM! [EverQuest II]
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All EverQuest II servers are currently down for the Age of Discovery and Game Update 62: Freeport Reborn update. Your dedicated ZAM staff brings you our coverage of Age of Discovery and Game Update 62 material to help guide you with the new expansion features! Adventuring Beastlord Class Guide Beastlord Warders City of Freeport Quest Series Freeport Housing (updated for GU62) A Traveler's Guide to the City of Freeport Crafting Tradeskill Apprentices Features Dungeon Maker EQII Share Mercenaries Reforging World Events Frostfell
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EverQuest II: Producer's Letter [EverQuest II]
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Executive Producer Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson has released his latest Producer's Letter which centers around the Age of Discovery expansion, Game Update 62: Freeport Reborn and the Free-to-Play transition. Also mentioned is the relaunch of the EverQuest2.com website, a Welcome Pack of goodies and more. Keep reading after the jump for the full letter! Hello again, Norrathians! It gives me great pleasure to raise the curtain on a new chapter in our game’s history. Today, we stop requiring any sort of payment. There are no upfront download costs and memberships are no longer required. Everything is voluntary now. If we’re doing a good job of entertaining you, then you can help support the game you love with purchases or memberships, spending as much or as little as you choose to spend as you play. We have a fired-up dev team. We believe that EQII is the best MMORPG in existence and we intend to keep making it better so that everyone else has to admit it. What we ...
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Downtime Updates for Age of Discovery Launch [EverQuest II]
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Patch notes are available on our Game Update 62 page! UPDATE 9:48am PST (Dec 7) : Servers are being reported as back up! Go play! PREVIOUS UPDATES: In the comments section is also a very long quoted explanation of the overnight downtime that was posted by SOE's CTO on the EQ2 forums. UPDATE 8:15am PST (Dec 7) : Just caught this on Twitter : "An update from the team. They are very close to completing the maintenance and doing some final testing. Things are looking very good!" UPDATE 8:37pm PST (Dec 6) : We just saw this from Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson on Twitter : "Best laid plans of mice. We launch tomorrow at 10am [PST]. The background data scripts took WAY longer to run then anticipated. Sorry all." 7:40pm PST : Everyone get some sleep! Here's the latest update spotted on Facebook : Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Trolls... We have just evaluated the status of the current update and have come to the conclusion that we can either unlock ...
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Known Issues for Age of Discovery [EverQuest II]
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Now that servers are back up we've encountered several issues. Here's a summary of the known issues and their current work-arounds or status: Characters are showing as"Locked"on character select. Contact Customer Service if this is happening to you. Be aware there might be an extensive wait time at the moment. Submitting a ticket or getting in queue for chat support may be the best options. Your character logs in in the last non-instanced zone they were in despite not camping out there. We're guessing this has to do with accounts being modified, for most people this should be harmless. 99% of crafted Thrown Weapons are only usable by Beastlords instead of"All Scouts". We've personally /bug reported this one, but haven't heard an ETA on it being fixed it. Prestige house portals are poofing when placed. Yup, this again. No work-around, waiting to hear anything else. SOE states that it's related to the Freeport prestige house portal changes. We'll try to keep this updated ...
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Hotfix - Thursday, December 8, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. Servers will come down on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7am PST for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their update at 5am BST on Friday, December 9, 2011. Estimated downtime is two hours. See the patch notes below the jump. GENERAL Gold and Platinum members can once again claim veteran rewards. The preorder reward Cloak of the Truespirit should now be claimable in the /claim window. Fixed a bug where pets would not generate aggro when fighting a locked encounter. You no longer get an"Edit Button"when you enter a house where you have trustee access. Instead, you get a tutorial popup the first time you enter explaining what edit mode is and to use CTRL-E to toggle. Guild hall hireling race and gender should now be customizable and persistent. DUNGEON MAKER Fixed missing appearances on some spawners like the Frost Drolvargs when being placed in Dungeon Maker. ITEMS Circlet of Valor should be equippable ...
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SOE"Grandfathers"Older Characters [EverQuest II]
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In a post today by Dave"Smokejumper"Georgeson SOE announced that charcaters created before the Free-to-Play conversion will not need race or class unlocking. *Every* character that was created before 12/06/2011 at 12:01 am will be grandfathered in without race or class restriction. This means that regardless of your membership level, you will be able to play any character created before 12/6 without paying for race- or class-pack unlocks. Furthermore, SOE will be refunding all race and class packs purchased after 12/06/2011 at 12:01 am and before 12/08/2011 at 4:30pm by players that previously subscribed to EQII Live servers, or as a Gold or Platinum member on EQ2X. See the complete post on the official EQII forums .
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