Downtime - September 15, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, September 15, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Friday, September 16, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Plane of War Players may now enter the plane of war, once someone on the server has defeated all 3 demigods of war (Sullon, Vallon and Tallon Zek) in challenge mode. Drunder x4 raid zones Players can now enter the challenge mode Drunder x4 raid zones without having killed the previous demi-god in challenge mode. Sullon’s Spire x4 raid [Challenge Mode] Aaranae Acrimae: Her adds have less health. The rage devourer no longer casts the aoe multistrike. Tower of Frozen Shadow Tserrina Syl’Tor should now more reliably react to players attempting to remove her curse. Tserrina Syl’Tor should ...
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Check Out the Thundering Steppes Aether Race [EverQuest II]
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A newer Aether Race track that was created especially for the Community, Customer Service and Guide teams has been activated on most servers today, September 10th. The Freeport server will have the race activated on Friday, September 16th. This course starts near the Thundering Steppes docks and takes players on a crazy fast-paced race through the zone. It will be available until 6pm PDT this evening. There is a Gold C.R.A.S.H. Disk mount, which can be used as a ground mount or an appearance for a flying mount, offered as a reward to this aether race quest ! Continue after the jump for a video we took of this course during its testing phase in July!
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Spotlight: September Events [EverQuest II]
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SOE's" Back to School Bonanza "is still in effect until 11:59pm PDT tonight, September 5th. Players can enjoy double Station Cash on all purchases, excluding SMS, as well as double experience in-game. Qualifying inactive accounts are also invited back to play for free until the bonanza ends tonight. The Far Seas caravans rolled into Darklight Wood on September 1st, bringing their wares for the monthly City Festival . Neriak is proud to feature three new local specialties : Blue Marble Pedestal Table, Winged Blue Streetlamp and Winged Purple Streetlamp. The Flying Freebooters have joined the festivities and a new Aether Racing course is also available this month. The Aether Race and City Festival run concurrently and both end at 11:59pm PDT on September 7th. On the 20th of this month, the phases of the moon will once again be aligned, revealing the secret grottos. Moonlight Enchantments will begin on 12:01am PDT on September 20th and will conclude at 11:59pm PDT on September 21s ...
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Downtime - September 7, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Thursday, September 8, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Pedestal of Sky Fixed the missing geometry in this zone. Foundations of Stone [Challenge] The blink portion of Icy Snap AOE that the Statue of Rallos Zek casts will now only blink players a max of 2m, and will only affect players a certain distance away from the statue, not players close to it. Sullon’s Spire x4 raid [Challenge Mode] Aaranae Acrimae: Her debuff to max health and mana is greatly reduced. Leechweb does less mana damage on its initial hit. Elements of War Bosses in Elements of War are now immune to those with revive sickness. Chelsith Creatures that stopped dropping items should on ...
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Downtime - September 8, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, September 8, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Friday, September 9, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. Here are the patch notes: POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Silent City: The Delving Dead If you have completed all the collection quests for the Delving Dead, you can now find an explorer within the zone that will reward you for your efforts! ITEMS Critical chance should no longer appear on items below level 80. Treasured items between 40 and 69 have been rebalanced. War Runes are now heirloom. Legslot items that did not have a valid appearance should now be less revealing. QUESTS The Essence of Fear and the mass of iksar spirits necessary for the quest"The Name of Fear"should now be visible within the Shard of Fear. S ource: EQII Forums
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SOE Affected by San Diego Blackout [EverQuest II]
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UPDATE: Around 9:30pm PDT John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment, sent out these tweets : @j_smedley : Outage update - we have restored most games. Our AT&T facility in San Diego looks like it lost pwr for a split sec switching to gen. @j_smedley : We have got most things back up. We are working on EQ and some SWG servers. Sorry for the delay in service. All of San Diego is out UPDATE : As of 12:30am EDT, EverQuest servers are back up and running. UPDATE : As of 9:15pm EDT login servers appear to be back online. Some servers are confirmed as up but are assumed to be either EU or east coast based. Power is still out at SOE and it may not be until tomorrow for all services to be restored. A blackout in San Diego this afternoon has brought down Sony Online Entertainment and many of its services. Currently login servers and forums are confirmed as down, though players already logged in seem unaffected. Zoning while in-game may disconnect you. Lin ...
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SOE's Back to School Bonanza! [General News]
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Between September 2 - 5 you can purchase Station Cash in-game, via your Station Account, or redeem an SOE pre-paid game card and receive double Station Cash! Be on the lookout for special sale items or activities in participating games throughout the Back to School Bonanza! Free Realms: 50% off new school items Clone Wars Adventures: Special sale price on a giant fort construction kit EverQuest: Double Experience and a sale on a fun Ruler Ornamentation EverQuest II: Double Experience Pox Nora: 25% off boxes like Ancient Awakenings and Drums of War This offer is valid 12:01 PM PDT, 9/2/11 through 11:59 PM PDT, 9/5/11, and excludes SMS payments. See http://www.soe.com/backtoschool/ for details.
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Players Find Themselves Stuck in Guild Halls [EverQuest II]
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Over the weekend players have had some bad luck with guild halls, which appear to be randomly shutting themselves down and making characters camped inside of them inaccessible. The dev team has brought halls back up several times but this is only a temporary fix. It will hopefully be addressed in the next hotfix, slated for Tuesday, August 30th. In the meantime, if you have any characters stuck in a guild hall, submit a petition under the stuck player category . This can be done via the /petition command in-game or through the SOE support web site (click"View my service history"on the right). The GMs have been moving players out all weekend with an amazing response rate. After your characters are moved out of guild hall do not attempt to re-enter it until a fix is in .
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Downtime - August 30, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. EU servers will have their hotfix at 5am BST on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. GENERAL Fixed an issue with Guild Halls. Fixed an issue causing the streaming client to use old assets. Fixed an issue which could cause the streaming client to crash on startup. Fixed a disconnect bug where some characters would get dropped to character select upon login. Players will now be prompted for a one-time, free item unattuning: If you answer yes, all items will be immediately unattuned. Any equipped items will be popped into overflow. If you answer no, items will not be unattuned and you will not be asked again. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Elements of War Steam Vents should now give you more time to move before being blasted. Foun ...
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The City Festival Starts Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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Tomorrow is the beginning of September, bringing us the Neriak City Festival ! The festival should start on September 1st at 12:01am PDT and run until September 7th at 11:59pm PDT. You can find the Far Seas Caravan in Darklight Wood outside of Neriak. The festival's newest wares were introduced early due to all city festivals being activated in May. You can pick up three newer Neriak themed house items: Blue Marble Pedestal Table , Winged Blue Streetlamp and Winged Purple Streetlamp . Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialties and other festival goods. The Far Seas Trading Company has caught wind of the popularity of the Aether Races and have arranged for each city festival to have one of its own! The newest addition will kick off this month in Neriak and be available throughout the event. Continue after the jump to see a video of the new aether race course.
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