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The City Festival Starts Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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Tomorrow is the beginning of August, bringing us the Kelethin City Festival ! The festival is planned to start on August 1st at 12:01am PDT and run until August 7th at 11:59pm PDT. The Far Seas Caravan can be found in Greater Faydark on the Green Gnoll. The festival's newest wares were introduced early due to all city festivals being activated in May. You can pick up three newer Kelethin themed house items: the Kelethin Banquet Table , the Kelethin Leaf Chair and the Kelethin Pedestal Table . 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 Kelethin and be available throughout the event. Continue after the jump to see a video of the new aether race course.
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Downtime - July 21, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Thursday, July 21, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The Splitpaw server will have its hotfix at 5am London Time on Friday, July 22, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. GENERAL You can now use"/camp login"to get back to the client login screen. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Temple of Rallos Zek [Challenge] The Idol of Rallos Zek’s falling debris should work normally now. ITEMS The Heirloom tag has been removed from a few crafted Drunder weapons. The Incandescent Swiftwing is now flagged as heirloom. QUESTS Tower of Tactics The Art of War: It should no longer be possible for one of Vallon’s maps to spawn in a ledge in Lady V’uul’s room that is inaccessible. Source: EQII Forums
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Downtime - July 22, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Friday, July 22, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. There are no patch notes for this update but it will enable the reactivation of the Velious Transportation Event later in the day.
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Downtime - July 19, 2011 [EverQuest II]
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All U.S. servers will come down for a hotfix at 7am PDT on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. The expected downtime is one hour. The Splitpaw server will have its hotfix at 5am London Time on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Estimated downtime is 2 hours. The full patch notes are available after the jump. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Debuffs cast by enemies that inflict health and power damage when casting spells should no longer interrupt the caster or cause certain spells to get stuck in reuse. Eastern Wastes You may now respawn at the bridge in Eastern Wastes if you die nearby. Fortress of Drunder Players should now be able to zone back out to Fortress of Drunder again using the exit door in the following instances: Strategist’s Stronghold Tallon’s Stronghold Tallon’s Stronghold [Challenge] Tower of V’uul Temple of Rallos Zek [Challenge] The Idol of Rallos Zek’s falling debris should no longer tar ...
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Moonlight Enchantments Start Tonight! [EverQuest II]
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The monthly live event Moonlight Enchantments starts tonight! It is scheduled to 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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Fan Faire Recap: EQII Tradeskill&Housing Forum [EverQuest II]
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Emily"Domino"Taylor, Greg"Rothgar"Spence, Nandy"Zoltaroth"Szots and Paul"Frizznik"Carrico presented Tradeskill and Housing changes to the EQ2 community at Fan Faire. The Tradeskill and Housing panel opened up with a recap of prestige housing that has been introduced to the game. Everyone was informed that the multitude of prestige home portals currently in South Qeynos and South Freeport will be changed into a single house directory in those cities from which you can choose a housing destination. Two new prestige houses will be introduced to the Marketplace over the next few months: the Felwithe Mansion and the Tenebrous Island Refuge . In Game Update 61, slated for late August 2011, a House Rating System will be introduced to the game. This feature will allow players to"publish"their home in a directory which other players can then browse and choose to visit homes from. Publishing your home will lock the items so that they cannot be moved and unlisting it will unlock the hom ...
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Rebuilding Event: Velious Spires and Dragon Ring [EverQuest II]
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UPDATE: Following an in-game announcement around 10:20am Pacific time on July 15, the rebuilding event has been suspended while they resolve some issues. Progress will be saved up through 50% completion rate. According to Associate Producer Emily"Domino"Taylor: We're temporarily disabling the event to work out a couple of issues (thanks to those who reported them!) Please see this thread for further details . We'll post in the forums when we have a firmer date for the reactivation of the event, but it won't be this weekend as it will require a hotfix . Watch this space for more information as it becomes available. The Velious Transportation Event will see the activation of the Dragon Ring (druid ring) in Great Divide and the Wizard Spires in Eastern Wastes. Once they are complete players will be able to use them for a method of transporation. According to the in-game calendar, this event is slated to begin at 12pm PDT today, July 14. The duration ...
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Watch the SOE Fan Faire Community Address Live! [General News]
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UPDATE: The community address is over, so check out our full report to see what SOE announced during the event! We're currently at SOE Fan Faire in Las Vegas and our very own Mike B. aka Fony is filming it live with GameBreaker.TV's Gary Gannon! Watch it live here: http://www.stickam.com/sonyonline . Stay tuned to ZAM for much more from Fan Faire!
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ZAM's Fan Faire Community Address Recap [General News]
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SOE Fan Faire kicked off with a bang today thanks to a handful of newsworthy announcements from CEO John Smedley and other members of the Sony Online Entertainment team that were made during the opening community address. PlanetSide 2 was the biggest reveal, followed closely by details on the EverQuest and EverQuest II expansions that are launching this November. Also, SOE is launching new security authenticators to help players protect their accounts. Keep reading after the jump for all of the details we learned during the community address, and keep an eye on ZAM for more Fan Faire news! PlanetSide 2 Smedley and Creative Director Matt Higby unveiled PlanetSide 2 toward the end of the community address, but we'll highlight it first since many players have been anticipating this game for some time. Here's the first gameplay trailer that was released today: SOE is touting PlanetSide 2 as a true MMOFPS that's set in a persistent world. We learned quite a bit a ...
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Fan Faire Recap: Freeport and the Age of Discovery [EverQuest II]
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EverQuest II's upcoming eighth expansion, the Age of Discovery, was announced Thursday night at the Fan Faire community address , and we got some more interesting details during a panel. Departing from the traditional expansion format of a large amount of content with a few new features, the Age of Discovery will be packed with only features while Game Updates will continue to add more content to the game. The upcoming new class, Beastlord, was described more and the Freeport revamp was also touched on during the panel. Continue on after the jump for detailed information on upcoming Game Updates and the expansion! Game Updates and Upcoming Content Game Update 61 will be called The War of Zek , bringing with it the Plane of War and two of the first ever dynamic dungeons, revisiting The Silent City and the Djinn Master's Prism from the Desert of Flames era. Dynamic dungeons will most likely be different each time they are run with different creatures and encounters. ...
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