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The City Festival Starts Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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Tomorrow is March, which means it's time for the Neriak City Festival ! The festival is planned to start on March 1st at 12:01am PT and will run until March 7th at 11:59pm PT. You can find the Far Seas Caravan in Darklight Wood just over the chasm outside of Neriak Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialities and other festival goods , and don't forget to check out the four City Festival achievements (listed under Live Events in your journal). An Aether Race will also be available in Darklight Wood during the festival. Participate and finish the race in 89 seconds or less to earn the Fearless Flyer prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee near Neriak.
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Downtime - Tuesday, March 3, 2015 [EverQuest II]
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US live servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 7:00AM PST for an update. Estimated downtime is one hour. There will be extended maintenance for European servers. EU servers will be brought offline on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at approximately 9:00PM PST for an update. (Approx. 5:00AM London Time on February 27, 2015). Estimated downtime is four hours. The update notes are below. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Brokenskull Bay: Bildgewater Falls [Heroic] The"Barnacle Burst"spell has been made to hit slightly less often and should no longer grow over time. The"Whirling Daggers"spell has been made to hit slightly less often and should no longer grow over time. The"Dangerous Flirtation"spell has been made to hit slightly less often and should no longer grow over time. The"Pirate Spin"spell has been made to hit slightly less often and should no longer grow over time. The"Boatman's Grasp"spell has been made to hit slightly less often. Brokensku ...
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Storybricks Announces Its Closure [General News]
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In a surprising newsletter this evening, Storybricks announced that it will be closing its doors. Mostly known for their recent work on EverQuest Next 's AI with Sony Online Entertainment, the studio cites that the decision was their own and"Sony Online Entertainment (now Daybreak Games) bears no fault for it. Sony Online Entertainment had been up for sale for a long time so our exit had no connection with the Columbus Nova acquisition." The team did try to sell Storybricks to undisclosed interested parties, but no agreement was met. During that time, all affected employees found new jobs. Storybricks states that most of their work was for EverQuest Next and therefore is co-owned by Daybreak Games. Side projects unrelated to EQN they plan to release for free later on in the hopes that"maybe some Storybricks tech can live in other games." You can read Storybricks's full statement here and tweet your farewells to the team over on Twitter. There is one more story to te ...
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Downtime - Thursday, February 26, 2015 [EverQuest II]
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All US live servers will be brought offline on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at approximately 4:00AM PST for an update. EU servers will be brought offline on Thursday, February 27, 2015 at approximately 5am London time for an update. Estimated downtime for both sets of servers is one hour. Both the Antonia Bayle and Oasis servers will be unavailable for approximately four hours for additional maintenance. Patch notes are available after the jump. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Zavith'loa: The Hidden Caldera [Advanced Solo] Pterotrainer Yu'Lua's adds will no longer stifle. Brokenskull Bay: Fury of the Cursed [Raid] Increased the leash range of the Barin and Morin encounter. Ossuary: Resonance of Malice [Advanced Solo] Elder Senistus'"Persecute"spell has had its damage lowered. Ossuary of Malevolence [Contested] Ostiophobe will no longer cast Toxic Ruin constantly. Toxic Ruin may now be interrupted. ITEMS The Silk Coldain Prayer Shawl and Siren Hair for What ...
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Downtime - Friday, February 27, 2015 [EverQuest II]
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US live servers will be brought offline on Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:00AM PST for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU servers will be brought offline on Friday, February 27, 2015 at approximately 7:00AM PST for an update. (Approx. 3:00PM London Time on February 27, 2015). The estimated downtime will be 2 hours. As of 4:30am PT on Friday there were no update notes avalable. To make up for the mission NPCs being down earlier in the week, there will be double currency this weekend : Kander : "Mission givers are back up. We will be running a double Ferrin weekend this weekend for all." Kander :"Oops, my mistake. Its actually a double currency weekend. So everything will be doubled. It will not just be Ferrins."
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Daybreak General Maintenance: February 24, 2015 [General News]
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Daybreak Games has announced a general maintenence affecting all their games: Attention players: we will perform a general maintenance beginning at 7:00AM Pacific on Tuesday, February 24th. The current estimated downtime for this maintenance is up to three hours. This maintenance may impact the following Daybreak services across all games: Commerce functions, including purchases, for all games Game logins Web and forum logins for all Daybreak sites, including account creation Thank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance. Here's our handy Time Zone Conversation Tool to help you plan.
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Patch Notes - February 24, 2015 [EverQuest II]
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Daybreak Games has published update notes for Tuesday, February 24, 2015. There has been no downtime announcement, so until we hear otherwise we are assuming it's concurrent with the general maintenance scheduled for three hours starting at 7am Pacific. We'll update this notice if we get better information. The notes are below. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION General Altar of Malice [Heroic] Dungeons now have a chance to spawn an extra encounter once the zone boss has been defeated. Hit points for all Altar of Malice Solo, Heroic, and Contested zones have been slightly reduced. Ossuary: Cathedral of Bones [Raid] Primordial Ritualist Villandre V'Zher should gain increments of"Malice"at a slower rate when the various adds in the encounter are present. Primordial Ritualist Villandre V'Zher's"Touch of Malice"spell should now properly apply to all engaged players as well as no longer be blocked by line of sight. Once this update has been applied to all servers she ...
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Recent Issues Plague Users [EverQuest II]
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EverQuest II players have been plagued by login and zoning issues recently. Today Justin“Jamiss” Michael , EQII Developer, posted a fix on the official forums. It seems that players who at some time manually edited their hosts file to sidestep some DNS issues might have to revert those changes: Very important! If you are experiencing zoning or login issues, please double check your hosts file (C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) and verify that there are no hosts defined in there for any of our services. There could be web addresses for soe.com, everquest2.com, and more in there. If they are in there, please remove them or comment them out. Our launchpad and game would not have modified these files and we cannot modify them to what they should be. Changing it had to be done by someone at the PC. This was very likely done in response to DNS issues that occurred in July referenced here: http://eq2wire.com/2014/07/15/manually-map-dns-so-you-can-access-soe-games-w ...
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Friday Update Arcade: Episode 18 [General News]
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Lindsay"geektr0n"Ferguson hosts ZAM's latest installment of Friday Update Arcade! Topics discussed include the DJ Sona skin in League of Legends , the company formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, Darkest Dungeon , Ubisoft and the Persona 5 game trailer. Related Links: DJ Sona Goodbye SOE, Hello Daybreak Game Studio Darkest Dungeon on Steam Ubisoft Game Key reddit thread Persona 5 Game Trailer Be sure to subscribe to the ZAMofficial YouTube channel for future episodes of Friday Update Arcade and our other great shows. Give a shoutout to Lindsay on Twitter @lindsaygeektr0n and have a fantastic weekend of gaming!
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Patch Notes - February 10, 2015 [EverQuest II]
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The servers went down this morning at 4am PT to bring you this update: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Ossuary: Choir of T'Vyl [Event Heroic] Legionnaire Spirits should be less punishing. One player in the group should be able to see Ubis the Dagger when he shrouds himself. ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Berserker Destructive Rage (Ancient) will now also boosts strikethrough for raid members. ITEMS Cyan adornments will drop in Altar of Malice contested zones more frequently. Transmutation Stones have been added to the drop tables in Altar of Malice contested zones and Loyalty Merchant. These stones have the chance to transmute into up to 5 Polished Mana. Tier 1 Raid armor (red gem) has been increased in power in almost all cases.
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