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EverQuest Next Landmark: Founder's Packs [EverQuest Next]
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In an effort to start monetizing EverQuest Next Landmark , Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled the Founder’s Packs . These $20, $60 and $100 bundles enable players to join in on testing the game and provide a wide assortment of rewards. Senior Producer Terry Michaels goes into detail about the Settler, Explorer and Trailblazer tiers you can buy: Given it will be free-to-play, they obviously need to find sources for their revenue stream– but is this much of a fan-friendly approach? It's not exactly made clear how long certain perks will last and paying for the privilege of testing is often a contentious concept. Also, will the perks influence game balance? Perhaps eventually we'll find out first-hand. For a few more bits of info on EQNext Landmark , check out one of these half - dozen previews . Colt" ShdwFlm "Casey Deputy Editor
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Wandering the Tears: Looking Beyond Veeshan [EverQuest II]
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Tears of Veeshan is not the only thing launching on Tuesday, November 12. Game Update 68 is happening at the same time, which will add two new features: Tier 4 Guild Halls and Mercenary Slots. In the final part of our interview with the EverQuest II team we spoke to them about these features, tried to discern some information on the future and briefly discussed Player Studio. Tier 4 guild halls will be a mark of accomplishment: they require not only guild level 95, but also come with a hefty price tag of 1,000 platinum to purchase and 10 platinum, 400,000 status base upkeep per week. Like their Tier 3 counterparts, these halls“are available from the same bell at the docks in Commonlands and Antonica.” This means that there also won’t be much diversity in the layouts.“Tier 4 guild halls have extra space added,” the team told us.“There will be a Qeynos and a Freeport version.” We recently explored one of the Tier 4 halls on Be ...
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Tears of Veeshan: Behind the Scenes Video [EverQuest II]
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Check out some of the work that went into the art, animation and Channeler class in the new Tears of Veeshan Behind the Scenes video!
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SOE Maintenance: Monday, November 11, 2013 [General News]
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Sony Online Entertainment will perform maintenance beginning at 4:00 AM Pacific on November 11, 2013. This maintenance is expected to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services: SOE Account management will be unavailable starting at 4:00 AM to approximately 8:00 AM PST. SOE Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between 4:00 AM and approximately 8:00 AM PST. Login for all SOE forums may be affected, you may lose permissions and experience occasional disconnects between 4:00 AM and approximately 8:00 AM PST. Players who are already logged in to SOE games may be disconnected and unable to log back in starting at 4:00 AM to approximately 7:00 AM PST. Login for all SOE games may be affected during the maintenance.
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The City Festival Starts Friday! [EverQuest II]
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With all the excitement of Nights of the Dead and Tears of Veeshan beta it'd be easy to forget that November 1 will bring us the Freeport City Festival ! The festival is planned to start on November 1st at 12:01am PDT and run until November 7th at 11:59pm PST. You can find the Far Seas Caravan in the Commonlands between the Crossroads and the Freeport Griffon Tower. Sanya Farshore, the General Goods merchant, is proud to continue featuring 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 Commonlands during the festival. Participate and achieve a time of 119 seconds or less to earn the Portal Jumper prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee near the docks.
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Downtime - Thursday, October 31, 2013 [EverQuest II]
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All US servers will come down at 7am Pacific Time on Thursday, October 31, 2013. Downtime is estimated to be approximately one hour. Here is the patch note: GENERAL Fixed an issue related to spells causing lag in certain situations.
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Wandering the Tears: Content, Progression&Lore [EverQuest II]
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Tears of Veeshan is quickly approaching, with less than one week remaining to pre-order EverQuest II's 10th expansion pack. As the launch date of Tuesday, November 12 looms, we took some time to speak with the EQII team about Tears of Veeshan and beyond. So many features and so much content will be included in both Tears of Veeshan and Game Update 68 (launching concurrently) that we wondered if everything discussed during this summer’s SOE Live would still be included or shifted to future updates."Everything is still included in the expansion,"the team replied."We came up with a few ideas that will be implemented next year that build on the content of ToV . And Dungeon Finder updates may come a bit later than the expansion because we want to make sure we do it right." One of the highlights of the expansion is the introduction of EverQuest II’s 26th player class, the Channeler . The ability to play the class"requires the expansion."When asked how the team ...
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Downtime - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 [EverQuest II]
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All US servers will come down on Tuesday, October 8th at 7:00AM Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is approximately two hours. Here are the patch notes: GENERAL The Gold Member buff now gives 10% to flying mounts as well as ground mounts. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Siren’s Grotto: Dissension Psionic Aura no longer interrupts when it does damage.
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Tears of Veeshan Update and Pre-order Item Images [EverQuest II]
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The EverQuest II : Tears of Veeshan open beta will begin next week and now more information about what the expansion will include and the pre-orders are rolling in. Yesterday evening images for all the pre-order items were released and a short time ago Holly"Windstalker"Longdale posted a Producer's Letter, which had a few points of interest in it. Continue reading below for the full details! Producer's Letter Take-aways: Open Beta begins Tuesday, October 15 Expansion launch is on Tuesday, November 12 (so yes, less than one month for a full beta) Overland zone is Vesspyr: The Eternal Broodlands where you'll begin your quest to stop Kerafyrm Vesspyr is the dragon Ethernere Nine dungeons connect to Vesspyr; these are a mix of solo, heroic, and raid instances featuring Shissar, Bixie, High Keep, Nexus, and Temple of Veeshan themes "There’s a lot of quests and missions too that will reveal the local storylines in each dungeon." Channeler class will be released wi ...
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Nights of the Dead Returns to Norrath [EverQuest II]
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EverQuest II's Nights of the Dead event starts Tuesday and your faithful ZAM staff have killed themselves getting the goodies for you! This year we have eight new quest rewards , four spooky achievements , a recipe book full of new items to craft and fun new items on the holiday merchants . There's also creepy candy dropping in more places all over Norrath! You can find all the info in our Nights of the Dead guide . We've updated our popular Nights of the Dead Quest Tracker ! Print out the handy sheet to help keep track of which alt did what! Nights of the Dead is scheduled to run from October 15 through November 11, 2013.
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