SOE Maintenance Tuesday July 10, 2012 [General News]
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SOE has announced maintenance beginning at 6:00AM Pacific on July 10, 2012. This will impact the following services: Login for all SOE games may be unavailable from 6:00 AM Pacific to approximately 8:00 AM Pacific. Commerce transactions, including purchases on SOE websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable from 6:00 AM Pacific* to approximately 8:00 AM Pacific. SOE Account management will be unavailable from 6:00 AM Pacific to approximately 8:00 AM Pacific. SOE Forums will be unavailable from 6:00 AM Pacific to approximately 6:30 AM Pacific, and will become read only until 8:00 AM Pacific. Players who are already logged into SOE games will be able to continue to play. However, if you log out you will be unable to log back in. Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan.
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Downtime - July 11, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down at 7am PDT on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU servers will be coming down at 5am London Time on Thursday, July 12, 2012. The expected downtime is two hours. The patch notes are available after the jump. DUNGEON MAKER You can now play as your character in Dungeon Maker dungeons! Furthermore these dungeons are"Level Agnostic"meaning that anyone of any level can group together and do them together! While the dungeons will be a bit more difficult for a lower level character than a higher level character, they will still be able to play together. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine: Betrayal in the Underdepths In the challenge mode Dozekar fight the Magmatic Elemental and infernal assassin adds will not spawn as frequently as before. ITEMS Skyshrine: Betrayal in the Underdepths: Many items that lost strikethrough and AOE auto attack have had these stats restored. Skyshrine: Betrayal in the Un ...
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SOE Discontinues Pre-Paid Game Cards in Europe [General News]
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According to posts on Station.com and other SOE game forums, European customers holding SOE Pre-Paid Game Cards have until July 23rd, 2012 to redeem them. Furthermore, SOE will no longer be selling Pre-Paid Game Cards in Europe as part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Games agreement. Here's the entire notice: To our European customers, We wanted to let you know that SOE will no longer be selling pre-paid game cards in Europe as of 07/20/12. As we begin to transition our games to our European partner, ProSiebenSat.1 Games, customers will be able to take advantage of new methods of payment including pre-paid options, such as PaySafe, via their new ProSiebenSat.1 accounts. IMPORTANT: For the few European customers who have already purchased an SOE pre-paid game card but have not yet redeemed it, please visit www.soe.com/gamecards now to redeem it! You must redeem any existing SOE pre-paid game cards before 07/23/12. If you experience any problems with your game card redemp ...
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The Gorowyn City Festival Has Begun! [EverQuest II]
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The Gorowyn City Festival has arrived in Timorous Deep! The festival began on July 1st at 12:01am PDT and will run until July 7th at 11:59pm PDT. The Far Seas Caravan can be found inside the Timorous Maw while the quest giver, Kella Swampfoot, will be on the docks of Faydedar Watch. 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 Timorous Deep during the festival. Participate and achieve a time of 244 seconds or less to earn the Wind Warden prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee on the docks.
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The Summer Fireworks Festival Has Returned! [EverQuest II]
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Fireworks Coordinators appeared in the cities of Norrath today, once again offering quests to players. Set off the fireworks launchers in celebration of summer and a city-themed launcher for your own house! Don't forget to pick up a FREE sparkler in the Summer Fireworks Festival category of the Marketplace to get started. The cities of Norrath are celebrating the arrival of summer with fireworks displays! Collect your free festival sparkler and visit fireworks coordinators in North Qeynos, West Freeport, Kelethin, Gorowyn, Neriak and New Halas. The Summer Fireworks Festival is in full swing! Remember to check out our festival guide for more information. No end date has been announced yet, but last year the festival ended at 11:59pm PDT on July 4. We'll update once we have an official time.
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Downtime - July 3, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down at 7am PDT on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU servers will be coming down at 5am London Time on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The expected downtime is two hours. The patch notes are available after the jump. GENERAL Updated Awesomium browser files to fix some compatibility issues. Fixed potential crash on exit. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Plane of War x4 Raid Commander Goreslaughter and Corpsemaul– The crystals of death and destruction now have unique appearances and spawn close to the commanders, in 2 sets of 2. There are only 3 diaku war riders per wave and they no longer knockback. Skyshrine: Dracure Prime [challenge] Xerxis Mal'Fyrm has had overall encounter damage lowered. The priest only normalizes health if the difference between Xerxis and himself is more than 35% health. Hammilkor Barka the Undaunted spawns less whirlwind adds and has had overall encounter damage lowered. ...
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Double Station Cash for July 4th [General News]
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Celebrate the 4th of July with Double Station Cash when you redeem any SOE Pre-Paid Station Cash Card or with any purchase of Station Cash! The deal is good from 12:01 AM PDT 7/4/2012 to 11:59 PDT 7/4/2012 only, and excludes SMS (text message) Payments.
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Moonlight Enchantments Have Begun! [EverQuest II]
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The monthly live event Moonlight Enchantments has begun! It run until 11:59pm PDT on June 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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EQII ProSiebenSat.1 Transition in 30 - 60 days [EverQuest II]
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Earlier this year Sony Online Entertainment announced their partnership with ProSiebenSat.1 to distribute SOE games in Europe. Today Eurpoean Everquest II players woke to an email announcing that the EQII PSS.1 transition will be starting in 30-60 days. The letter details the countries effected and the finer points of the processs for non-recurring memberships and All Access accounts. A translation of the letter can be found below. We also recommend the ProSiebenSat.1 Games Group FAQ on the Station Community Forums. UPDATE: This FAQ has since been pulled offline for"significant technical changes". REMINDER Dear Norrathians,An exciting time in SOE history has arrived and we are very pleased to be celebrating it with you, some of the most passionate MMOPRG players! As many of you know, SOE has partnered with ProSiebenSat.1 Games to provide and market eight of its games to players in Europe, including EverQuest ® II, DC Universe™ Online, Free Realms ...
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Patch Notes - June 21, 2012 [EverQuest II]
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Here are the patch notes for Thursday, June 21, 2012: GENERAL The in-game browser files have been updated. If you experience any problems with the in-game browser, help UI, or customer service petition functions please post your details here . POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Plane of War x4 Raid Commander Goreslaughter and Corpsemaul– Warblast spell is no longer as lethal and only affects players close to the commander who casts it. Corpsemaul should no longer specifically seek out the main tank attacking Goreslaughter. Toll of war curse is cast less often during the fight. Skyshrine: Betrayal in the Underdepths Time-phased elemental and infernal salamander adds associated with Malteor flamecaller now despawn once he is defeated. ITEMS Lyceum of the Recondite [challenge]: Items have had qualities improved. Skyshrine the Underdepths heroic [challenge]: Challenge items have had qualities improved. Skyshrine: Betrayal in the Underdepths: So ...
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