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SOE Maintenance Notice August 7 [General News]
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific on August 7, 2012. The maintenance is expected to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games will be affected. Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable. Forums will be read-only. Account management will be unavailable. Here's our handy Time Zone Conversation tool to help you plan.
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EQII Update Notes: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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Here's the EQII update notes for August 7, 2012. Note that there is an SOE-wide four-hour downtime on Tuesday morning, rather than the usual hour EQII usually sees on patch days. SOEmote Your Way SOEmote is finally ready to go live on August 7! After showing the feature at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this year and getting a lot of interest and feedback, we opted to spend more time developing it to make it fit easily into the game experience so it felt fun, natural, and easy. You will find the SOEmote listed in the main EQII menu in game, as well as in the game Options. Some features we added are: Auto-Enable SOEmote with Webcam. To start with, we wanted the feature to be easy to use. If you have a camera set up, SOEmote will automatically send you a message to enable the feature and options when you log in. After that, when you log in with a webcam, you will be reminded that the feature is active. SOEmote Group Window: Included by default if you set up SOEmo ...
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Downtime - Tuesday, July 31, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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The U.S. Servers will come down on July 31, 2012, at 7:00 am Pacific for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU Servers will come down on August 1, 2012, at 5:00 am London Time for the same hotfix, with an anticipated two hour downtime. Patch notes are available below. Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan. GENERAL Options for who to display a casting bar for, as well as special coloration for allied casting bars, have been added. These options can be found under User Interface (Advanced) - Targeting Windows. PVP PvP Hot Zones have been added! Defeating players while in these zones will be more rewarding. You can check the current Hot Zones on the Welcome Screen or use the /gethotzones command. PLAYER HOUSING Concordium Tower Magical Manor home portals will now be visible when placed in a home. BATTLEGROUNDS The minimum number of players required to start Smuggler's Den has been increased. Fixed ...
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The City Festival Has Begun! [EverQuest II]
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The height of summer has arrived with August, bringing us the Kelethin City Festival ! The festival began on August 1st at 12:01am PDT and will run until August 7th at 11:59pm PDT. The Far Seas Caravan can be found in Greater Faydark on the Green Knoll. Sanya Farshore, the General Goods merchant, is proud to feature Bags of Teleportation Pads in her inventory. They cost 20 City Tokens, with each bag holding two Teleportation Pads . Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialities and other festival goods . An Aether Race will also be available in Greater Faydark during the festival. Participate and achieve a time of 94 seconds or less to earn the Bixie Barnstormer prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee inside the city.
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SOEmote to Launch August 7 [EverQuest II]
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According to the EQII August Update Plans , SOEmote is scheduled to launch on August 7! This new feature allows you to animate your character's face using a webcam. You will find the SOEmote listed in the main EQII menu in game, as well as in the game Options menu. Another August feature is"Ethereal Weapons,"which sound a lot like Artifacts. Can these whispers of legendary artifacts be true? If so, whatever spiritual rift that is bringing these weapons into Norrath isn't likely going to last long. Go forth, heroes of Norrath, and see if you can discover one of these powerful weapons before they vanish from our world once again! And random loot for Station Cash? SOE is introducing instanced minigames which will allow you to earn random loot from a chest or reward tokens which can be spent at a merchant. You purchase a ticket to the minigames with Station Cash on the Marketplace. Watch ZAM for more information on these features as it becomes available!
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Tinkerfest Returns to Norrath! [EverQuest II]
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UPDATE, 9:30am PDT on 7/29: Tinkerfest is now active! (confirmed on the Everfrost server) UPDATE, 6am PDT on 7/29 : The only Tinkerfest feature that is currently running are the Aether Races. We'll update with more information as the event is finally switched on. It's time for Tinkerfest , the Norrathian celebration of all things Gnomish! Your EQII ZAM staff has gotten the scoop on all the new additions to this popular live event. Several Aether Races will be activated in Butcherblock, Lavastorm, Great Divide and Tenebrous Tangle. This year also features new recipes, more merchant goodies (including flight wings!) and new rewards. Don't forget to hone your skills in the Gnomish language! Tinkerfest will run from 12:01am PDT on July 29th through 11:59pm PDT on August 8th. If you need a hint or just want a sneak peak before the festivities explode upon us on Sunday, see our Tinkerfest Guide and brand new Tinkerfest Gallery ! For those of you with far too many alts, check o ...
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Station Voice Maintenance Monday July 30 [General News]
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Beginning at 1:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, July 30, 2012, Vivox Operations will be performing maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 30 minutes. During the maintenance there may be periods of time where the Station Voice Services are unavailable.
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Moonlight Enchantments Start Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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The monthly live event Moonlight Enchantments starts tonight! It will turn on July 20th at 12:01am PDT and run until 11:59pm PDT on July 21st. The time applies directly with no time conversion to all servers. Check out our Moonlight Enchantments guide and peek at the rewards !
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GU64 Preview: Qeynos Rises [EverQuest II]
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Welcome, welcome! Welcome one and all to the Qeynos Districts ! This year we have upgraded our city walls and supplied the guards with new, shiny armor! Lucky adventurers can find their racial mentors within the capitol or province districts and put their lives at risk for the good of the Queen! Indulge yourselves and speak with Murrar Shar, who will send you into increasingly more dangerous situations! Meet the mysterious Circle of Ten and discover what life-threatening errands they have prepared for you! Once per Norrathian day you can bask in the glorious orations of Queen Antonia Bayle and her undead kin, Kyle Antihilus Bayle, as they vie for control of the district! Grab your pointiest sword and hurry to the Qeynos Districts, where the adventure awaits ! May the RNG be ever in your favor!* * For those who may be confused by our excess of exclamation points, this article is an homage to Effie in The Hunger Games .
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GU64 Downtime - July 24, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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UPDATE: 10:25am PDT: Servers are now up! UPDATE, 8:53am PDT : SOE just notified that"This morning's server downtime for Game Update 64: Qeynos Rises will be longer than initially expected. We will update you as necessary." All servers will come down at 6am PDT (9am EDT) on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 for Game Update 64: Qeynos Rises . Estimated downtime is 3 hours. Patch notes are now available on our GU64 page . During the downtime you are welcome to join us in the #EQ2 channel of ZAM's IRC chat . Feldon of EQ2Wire also has set up a ZAM IRC java applet that you can use.
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