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EQII Producer's Letter [EverQuest II]
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Alan"Brenlo"Crosby, EQII Senior Producer, discusses hot topics in the EQII Community including Shaders 3.0, Itemization, and New Halas.Â?Also included is news about upcoming raid content, Battlegrounds support, and the Storyteller system we've been hearing about.Â?And what's this - a travel revamp? Read Brenlo's post over on the EQII forums or after the jump. I am going to try something new and try to provide a high level update of where we are headed with EQII.Â?I would caveat that anything talked about as being in the planning stages, e.g. not actually on release notes, is subject to change.Â?That said our next update is planned for the month of May.Â?We have a lot planned for this update, not the least of which is to continue to improve live game performance.Â?Some servers are struggling a bit with the new load created by returning players, Battlegrounds, more items in the database, etc and are not reacting well.Â?This is our engineering teamâ??s number one ...
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EverQuest II Hotfix - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 [EverQuest II]
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The regular Tuesday Hotfix is on Tuesday this week! US servers will come down at 6am PDT; Runnyeye and Splitpaw will patch at 9pm PDT (4am GMT on Mar 31st). This hotfix includes the addition of Guild Status to heroic zone and raid bosses; new mounts in Paineel; some item adjustments; and tweaks to some Sentinel's Fate instances. See the entire Update Notes after the jump. GENERAL Guild status has been added for Heroic zone boss kills and raid boss kills. Personal Supply Depots can no longer be“returned to owner”. New Mounts are available for purchase in North Odus (Scions of the Deepwater Knights), South Odus (City of Paineel) and from horse merchants in the cities of Kelethin, Freeport, Neriak and Qeynos for 90 level guilds. In addition, a chance to obtain a mount is available in both the group and raid portion of Erudin Palace. BATTLEGROUNDS You will now automatically unmentor when a battleground match ends. Going to a ba ...
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The City Festival Starts Today! [EverQuest II]
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Industrious Norrathians have discovered the Far Seas caravans in Antonica, just outside the city of Qeynos! This monthly festival is a place to spend those City Tokens you've been earning doing city tasks on local specialty house items and other fun stuff. Don't forget to pick up a spiffy Festival outfit! For more information on the City Festivals, including the exact location, see our City Festivals page!
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Update Notes: Wednesday March 3 [EverQuest II]
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Today's update includes a fix to an AA Mirror bug, many quest tweaks, and a mechanic to help with people going AFK in Battlegrounds. ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENT Fixed a bug which caused achievement mirrors to not work correctly in some instances on a PvP server. BATTLEGROUNDS You can no longer join a battlegrounds match while possessing a creature. Fixed a bug which allowed group leaders to kick people from group in battlegrounds. We’ve implemented an AFK voting system into battlegrounds in order to report teammates that have gone AFK in a match. A player can only be voted AFK if they haven’t had any recent activity. If they receive 3 unique votes for AFK’ing during a match they will be removed from the match and will not receive a reward. Players removed this way will also receive the truancy debuff. QUESTS Bonemire - The quest"Go back to Vegli"now correctly identifies the name of the gnome you need to return to. It ha ...
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Hotfix - Thursday March 4, 2010 [EverQuest II]
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There will be a hotfix on Thursday to take care of a" rather urgent issue." The US servers will patch at the usual time of 6am PST and Runnyeye and Splitpaw will patch at 9pm PST (5am GMT Friday March 5). Downtime is expected to last an hour to an hour and a half. After this EQII should be returning to the normal Tuesday morning hotfixes. Here's our handy Time Zone Convertor to help you plan. Source: Official Forums
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SOE Fan Faire 2010 Announced [General News]
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SOE has announced the dates and location for SOE Fan Faire 2010! This annual event allows players and developers from all SOE games to mingle and discuss all matters MMO. Fan Faire will be August 5 - 8, 2010 at Bally's Las Vegas . See the official Fan Faire website for details! Source: EQII Official Forums
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Hotfix Notes - March 9, 2009 [EverQuest II]
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This week's hotfox brings us a few changes to Battlegrounds, as well as raid mob changes and minor quest and item tweaks. GENERAL It should be more difficult to get out of PvP combat after engaging someone in PvP combat. You can no longer break PvP encounters by using /yell. All raid mobs have had their damage and melee reduced by 10-20% BATTLEGROUNDS You will now only get a death credit in a battleground if you actually die. Ungrouped members on the same team should be autogrouped after a few seconds. The old group icons are back. So custom UI group icons should work normally now. Russian names now display properly in the battleground leaderboard window. Healing from wards will now count as healing given and healing received in the battleground leaderboard. ITEMS The descriptions for Clarissa's Content Countenance and Criggle's Chaotic Characteristics have been updated to resolve some confusion issues. The following items have been changed fr ...
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Bug Exploitation Results in Bannings [EverQuest II]
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Alan"Brenlo"Crosby, EQII Senior Producer, posted on the official forums addressing the recent Battlegrounds transmuting bug and actions taken against players who exploited it. This weekend an exploit was found on the Battlegrounds server which allowed players to transmute items, and have those items returned when leaving the Battlegrounds. This occured due to a change we made in the code to speed up the return process. While we understand that this was a bug of our creation, some players chose to take advantage of it, knowing it was not meant to work in that fashion. Many players took advantage of the bug, to varying degrees. Some of our community however went to great lengths to abuse the bug. For those accounts that abused this obvious bug, we have taken action. Some have been removed from the game altogether, while others are losing all of the items on their characters. All will face at least some time removed from the game as we s ...
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Raise Your Steins, Brewday is March 11 - 22 [EverQuest II]
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Brewday, the Norrathian holiday celebrating all things beer, I mean, Brell, hits live servers March 11 and will run through March 22. ZAM's own Cyliena has been on Test drinking her way from tavern to tavern and brings us news of a new collection quest and new crafting recipes! It's pretty easy to find the Bar of Brell, there's portals outside major Norrathian cities. But if you need a hint or maybe got started on the ale early, see our Brewday page !
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Hotfix Notes - March11, 2009 [EverQuest II]
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A quick hotfix Thursday morning brought itemization changes and removed effects specfic to PvP servers from Battlegrounds. GENERAL Wild Swings will now persist through death. The switches that open and close doors and barriers on the Vigilant: Final Destruction should now function on PvP servers. Killing several Dreadnaught guards in South Freeport will now cause them to learn some respect. The same applies to Thexians in North Freeport. BATTLEGROUNDS Effects that can only be obtained on PVP Servers will no longer work in Battlegrounds. ITEMS All raid dropped armor now has red adornment slots. Critical Mitigation on many raid dropped armor pieces have been changed to be more in line with TSO numbers. Many of the high tier armor sets have been renamed to reduce confusion. Brellium resist jewelry items have been improved. All raid dropped jewelry now has resists. Many raid drop weapons and jewelry items have had a ...
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