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Frostfell Festivities are Here Again!

2015-12-15T13:34:29Z

Frostfell Festivities are Here Again! New Quest Series: “Deepice Dreams”

In the Frostfell Wonderland Village, seek out Jarith Icewing, a Frostfell Apprentice who has been having strange dreams about a sad gnome girl, and wants your help to cheer her up! “Deepice Dreams” is the beginning of a new quest series which includes five total quests:

Terrors of Thalumbra incomming!

2015-11-17T17:26:39Z

The servers went down for the 5hour update due Terrors of Thalumbra! for the Patch notes see here.
Main features of the expansion:

Subterranean Overland Zone – Overland zone deep beneath Norrath’s surface.
Signature Quests – Special quests for both Adventure and Tradeskill players!
New Level Agnostic Dungeons – Brand new dungeons that scale for players 20-95
Upgrade Your Items – Through the new Infusion system!
New and Updated Deity System
New Relic Item System
Heroic & Advanced Solo Dungeons, Challenging Raid Zones and a New Contested Zone for level 100s!

Level 100 adventurers are to speak with Virun D'Xyafin in Neriak or Dangle Springbolt in Greater Faydark to begin their adventures.

Things you should be aware of:

There is no weekly solo misson, to prevent the camping of the "underland" nameds
Crit Bonus now has a hard cap of 3000.
Weapon Damage Bonus, and Spell Weapon Damage Bonus now have a hard cap of 300.
You may now reforge into Potency
You may now reforge out of excess Crit Bonus, Weapon Damage Bonus, and Spell Weapon Damage Bonus
Most fighter damage abilities, buffs and debuffs have been increased by approximately 15%.
Most scout damage abilities, buffs and debuffs have been increased by approximately 30%.
A small bag of platinum coins now gives 500plat instead of 75plat
The crafted infusers use a raw that is gained my salvage "infusable" gear
Aldaelon Rootbed and Omarin T'Zaana, the Sundered Ground event merchants, have returned to Kelethin and Neriak, respectively, for a limited time. Be sure to trade in any remaining Primordial Malice Baubles you have hiding in your pockets!
You have to do the crafting timeline to be able to buy your new crafting books
You should do the quests that are not part of the signature quests for the faction with the city and kinda nice gear upgrades (better then 2 red gemmed pieces)!
- when your faction is above like 20k or 30k you can use the mender's in Maldura
Mobs in Advanced Solo zones deal less damage if no Healer or Fighter is in the group (merc don't count!), that means it's equal hard for the classes

Darkness Descends and Haunts Await - Nights of the Dead Has Returned!

2015-10-08T18:52:53Z

Don’t miss out on this haunting good time. The spirits will only be hanging around Norrath from Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 12:01AM Pacific through Monday, November 2, 2015 at 11:59PM Pacific.
Darkness Descends and Haunts Await - Nights of the Dead Has Returned!
New for 2015:

New illusions added to the Gigglegibber Goblin’s Unpredictable Illusion
New costume illusions available from Nights of the Dead Merchants
New rewards for favorite returning Nights of the Dead events
New recipe book, Celebrations of the Dead VIII

Sundered Ground Prelude and Double Ferrin

2015-09-25T07:51:19Z

For good aligned players the prelude quest is Sundered Ground, an Investigation for the Order of Arcane and for evil aligned players it's Sundered Ground, an Investigation for The Spurned
Double Ferrin: Friday, Sept 25 - Friday, Oct 2, 2015
- Starting noon pacific on Friday, September 25, and going until noon pacific on Friday, October 2, 2015 we'll have double Ferrins activated in-game. This means double DOUBLE Ferrins for All-Access members!

Expansion 12 and More on The Horizon!

2015-09-16T21:33:30Z

Procuders Letter is on the Forum Expansion 12 and More on The Horizon!, Beta for the Expansion starts on 1. Oct 2015.
Altar of Malice Rare Drop Merchant! got added on 15. Sept. By the look sof it he is missing some items there is a fix comming up on 17. Sept.

Server Consolidation

2015-09-02T16:17:17Z

Acording to Upcoming Server Consolidations - Vote on YOUR New Server Name! it's planned to server consolidation for the following US servers:

Butcherblock, Crushbone, Oasis -> Desert of Flames Theme
Everfrost, Guk, Unrest -> Kingdom of Sky Theme
Freeport (PvE), Nagafen (PvP), Permafrost (PvE) -> Rise of Kunark Theme (PvE Server)

Check out the Server Consolidation FAQ!

Login server problems

2015-08-17T19:09:52Z

By the looks of it the login server of EQ2 seems to have problems atm.
I'm not sure if it's for every server but it's "hard" atm to login into splitpaw. Sadly i could find any note about it.

Update1: Launchpad Issues Prevent Patching, Accessing EQ2 – August 18th UPDATED WITH FIX
Update2: Still Having Launchpad Issues? Solutions Inside Due the Update of the launcher you will have to login again (Accountname and password), but also you have you have to check your Server! i play on Splitpaw and when i tryed to login i got the message "server Splitpaw not found" because i was still set to "us English" after the launcher update.

Will You Help With a Malicious Threat?

2015-08-14T17:37:13Z

A prelude for the next expansion has started and will be there till Wednesday, September 16, 2015.
Good aligned players can do the Malice in the Glade and evil aligned players can do the Malice in the Woods.
Once you completted the quest you can hunt down more "members of the Primordial Malice" to get some nice house items and appearance items.
If you wish you can take an early look at the house items and appearance items at eqtraders

Daybreak Game Servers Affected by DDOS

2015-07-10T17:05:51Z

EverQuest II servers (as well as other Daybreak Game Servers) are currently down due to a DDoS attack no ETA yet for when the outage will be fixed.

Update Notes: Tuesday, June 30, 2015

2015-07-01T10:50:16Z

You may remember the long speech of the final named in Crypt of Valdoon with his "bla bla bla gralic bla bla"?
hurray the mob in the Adavanced Solo and the heroic version changes so can click him to start the fight sooner!
see the full patch notes here

Update Notes: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

2015-06-10T09:34:42Z

ITEMSEdit

The description for Allied Energy II now correctly lists the maximum increase of 115.
Ethereal Weapons will now drop much more commonly.

Update Notes: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Release the Quacken! Duck Mounts are Now Available!

2015-05-06T22:27:52Z

What's quackin', Norrathians?

It’s been a long time coming, but the moment many of you have been waiting for has FINALLY hatched… duck mounts are now available in the Marketplace!

The Quacken (yellow), Waterfowl (mallard), Midnight Waterfowl (black), and Winter Waterfowl (white) can all be found in the EverQuest II Marketplace for 1950 Daybreak Cash.

While the three Waterfowls (mallard, black and white) are permanent additions to the Marketplace.
The Quacken (yellow) that is only available for two weeks till noon Pacific on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

read the full post on the Daybreak Forum

Update Notes: Tuesday, April 28, 2015

2015-04-28T20:54:33Z

RUM CELLAR CAMPAIGN NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASEEdit

2 Solo Zones (1 Solo and 1 Advanced Solo)
3 Heroic Zones (1 Heroic, 1 Event Heroic, 1 Event Heroic-Challenge)
Raid Zone with 10 Bosses
Lots of Loot, including drops of a Rare Elite Mercenary and a Zeppelin Mount
New Achievements and Titles
New Adornments and a new adornment set bonus tier
30 New Collections
Merchant who accepts Far Sea Ferrin (who also sells a Zeppelin Mount!)

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTSEdit

Reduced frequency of UI updates being sent to clients from the server lowering server/client and bandwidth load, specifically during combat.
Improved server memory use.
Various client crash fixes.
Several minor performance improvements on nearly every system in game.
Lowered server/client and bandwidth load for the warder and construct windows.
Lowered the server load caused by player pets in and out of combat.
Made improvements to performance hits caused by census exports.

GENERALEdit

Guildhall Harvesters have had their dialog list shortened.

ACHIEVEMENTSEdit

Removing AAs in the middle of your AA setup without having to roll back is now available for All-Access members! NOTE: That you will only be able to remove AAs in the middle if it does not invalidate your AA build.
The triumphs for Drunder have been reset to clear any issues with them not updating. Some players will be granted this automatically upon logging in.
Achievements related to Sevelak of Storms have been fixed.
Achievements related to youtube uploads have been removed as this feature is no longer available.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENTEdit

General
- All classes now have a new spell called Strike of Consistency or Smite of Consistency that has low damage but no damage variance.
Fighters
- Recklessness has been removed from all fighters.
- Fighter Offensive Stance's now grant potency.
- Fighter Offensive Stance's increase the amount of Potency gained by 20%.
- While in an Offensive Stance the fighter may not benefit from any stoneskin, death prevent, or 100% avoidance abilities. This restriction will persist for 5 seconds after the offensive stance has been removed.
- Forward Stance will now grant 2% crit bonus and strikethrough per tier.
Berserker
- Battle Frenzy may now only trigger once every .5 seconds.
- Blood Rage may now only trigger once every .2 seconds.
- The stoneskin portion of Perseverance may now only trigger once a second.
Shadowknight
- Bloodletter may now be recast in combat.
- The base reuse on Bloodletter is now 8 minutes.
- Shadowknights Furor may be cast while in offensive stance, however the riposte chance portion of the spell will be suppressed while offensive stance is maintained.
Scouts
- Level 91+ Scout offensive stances will now increase the base damage of all scout spells.
Beastlord
- Warder auto-attack and abilities should now hit more reliably.
Swashbuckler
- Marauders Vaunt will now grant final ability damage and has been changed to a temporary raid buff with an 8 second duration and 1 minute reuse.
Clerics
- Divine Guidance may now only trigger five times a second on each target.
Shaman
- Prospective fix for Avenging Ancestors initial hit not triggering in some cases.
Summoners
- Spells and combat arts cast by summoner pets have had their recast time reduced by 20%.
- Summoners can now right click their pet and use the "Change Appearance" functionality. The summoner and their pet must be out of combat. The appearance list is generated based upon the caster's knowledge book.
- Possession is now Flash Cast. For a short duration, the summoner's next primary pet spell will have no cast time, reuse time or recovery time. The second pet summoned will have a reduced cast time. Flash Cast itself has no cast time or recovery time and has a 120 second reuse. It terminates after two pets are summoned.
- Summoner Pets now use a new AI system and cast their spells more reliably.
- All Summoner Pets now gain the effects of Doublecast.
- Summoner Scout pets now are immune to AE Auto Attack.
- Summoner Fighter pets now hold agro more reliably off of the summoner. They are also focused exclusively on encounter damage and effects.
- Summoner Mage pets now focus exclusively on encounter damage.
- Summoner Alternate Advancement priest pets are now single target pets that function similarly to scout pets. They have longer range, reduced damage and heal the group with percentage based heals that do not crit.
- Necromancer Undead Knights can no longer ride horses due to pet appearance changes. And Saddle Sores.
- Spells cast by summoner pets no longer consume power.
- Elemental Toxicity has been changed to be a targeted AE.
- Enhance: Elemental Toxicity has been changed to increase the duration of the debuff component per point and grant an additional tick on the 10th point.
- The base casting time for Unflinching Servant has been reduced to .5 seconds.
- Magician's Aptitude now increases pet Potency.
- Pet Weapon Mastery will now grant parry to fighter pets and crit bonus to scout pets.
Conjuror
- Enhance: Summon Spells will now increase scout pet ability damage and mage pet recast.
- Strength of the Elements will now increase pet Potency by 2% per rank.
Necromancer
- Enhance: Summoned Pets will now increase scout pet ability damage and mage pet recast.
- Minion's Adeptness will now increase pet Potency by 2% per rank.

TRADESKILLSEdit

Ammo has been added to Weaponsmith Essentials Volume 100.
Tradeskillers that have finished Final Assessment in the Altar of Malice tradeskill questline can now fly near Malvonicus' tower.
Far Seas Innovation will now drop level appropriate rares for level 90-95 or level 96+ tradeskillers.
Pack Pony, Gathering Goblin, and Guildhall harvesters will now return less fish, more roots.
Tradeskill progress required for recipes completion has been equalized in most cases.

ITEMSEdit

Far Seas Ferrin will now correctly report when you are at your cap.
Item patterns have been changed to unpackable bags to improve functionality.

QUESTSEdit

Londiar Inygad now offers daily transmuting and tinkering quests.
Once you have completed Ratcheting Up the Danger and Locating the Lost within Cobalt Scar, Acting Supplymaster Grant will allow you to repeat Fuel for the Fire for Mysterious Blue Coins.
Those Who Were Lost - Triggering the Lamias is much easier now for those on a mount.
Those Who Were Lost - The final lamia will now update the quest, even if you accomplish the task within one or two hits.
They Have Searched an Age for a Dark Champion - Yeal Jouse now gives a clue to those players that do not have enough faction with the Residents of Teren's Grasp.
A Martyr's Tale - Quest completion no longer results in "[DEVL] INVALID - No progress texts specified" error.
Saelir's Plan: The Sul Spheres - The desired Sul Spheres are now more easily seen.
Plucked from the Source - The shroomba budlings respawn faster.
None Shall Pass - The "box full of coins" is now removed if the quest is deleted, and is now a quest bauble in the shortcut journal window.
A Thorn of Old - Those that have lost the "Formed Wurmslayer" before crafting the "Blood-Imbued Wurmslayer" can now get a replacement from the Weaponsmith Master.
Endangered species - Nests where you have already placed eggs (and defeated the attacking droags) now give an error message stating as such.
A Stone Like Stars - The star limestone near the Cloister of Growth is no longer floating above the ground.
Building a Fire - The leaves no longer spawn below ground.
A Rat's a Rat's a Rat - The Sir Gnawser Chow is now removed if the quest is deleted, and is now a quest bauble in the shortcut window.
A Rat's a Rat's a Rat - Rat Charm now specifies it is required by the quest.

Update Notes: Thursday, February 12, 2015

2015-02-14T14:53:54Z

Highlights of the Update

Expert Spells of a higher tier will now do more damage than the same spell Master previous tier. For example: Level 91 Faith Strike (Expert) will now do more damage than level 81 Faith Strike (Master).
Altar of Malice and Tears of Veeshan Weekly Missions are now classified as Weekly Missions in the Quest Journal.
Altar of Malice Weekly Solo Dungeon, Weekly Heroic Dungeon and Weekly Raid missions will now award Malice Gemstones.

Servers are down which means Altar of Malice is soon live

2014-11-11T15:39:34Z

Servers are down which means the Expansion Altar of Malice is soon live for All Access Members.
Check out the new solo timeline, tradeskill timeline and Shipwrecked Crafting Timeline.
Altar of Malice is now available for purchase for All-Access members. Please visit our expansion page located HERE.

Update Notes: 26.08.2014

2014-08-26T22:02:19Z

WEEKLY FEATUREEdit

Vesspyr Isles: Pinch Aggregate, the Rare Item Procurer, now offers wares in a secluded location.

QUESTSEdit

Fixed a bug where the Shinies Beneath the Moonlight automatically awarded even if someone didn't complete the proper collections.
Blaisy Bookmaker and Unlucky in High Keep Contested, and Dawper in the Fabled Sanctum of the Scaleborn will no longer temporarily disappear after you've completed Dawper's mission, Blasted Droags!

ITEMSEdit

One player cannot trigger both Practiced Tactics and Practiced Tactics II. The effects will stack when applied from multiple casters. [Fixed on 5/16/2014]
Players may now obtain over 10,000 Draconic Etyma now. Currency caps on all other currencies are unchanged.
The “Customize” option will now correctly appear for House Actors inside a player dungeon.

ABILITIES / ALTERNATE ADVANCEMENTEdit

Priests now will be granted Gather Remains at level 80. This spell can be used to pull the corpses of raid members to the priest's location while out of combat.
The maximum health impairments caused by Rejection, Change of Engagement and Debilitating Strikes no longer stack from multiple casters.

Dislodgers

2014-08-23T23:13:02Z

The following is maybe not totaly "new" since it got changed a while ago:
Adorning & Adorment Removers NPCs sell Superb Green Adornment Dislodger for 2p and Superb Prismatic Adornment Dislodger for 15p.
Both can be buyed for Loyalty Tokens as well, but for 5 Token you can get 75p and buy a lot more dislodgers that way.

Altar of Malice is coming this November

2014-08-16T13:39:28Z

thanks to eq2wire for the following news:
The next expanion is Altar of Malice and coming 11.11.2014.

FeaturesEdit

Level 100 increase for Adventure, Tradeskill, and Guild levels.
14 Dungeons
6 Raids
6 Advanced Solo Zones
2 Contested Dungeons
2 Massive Overland zones created with the new unbelievable Layout Editor. I’ve heard that the new zones are so stunning that players will hardly believe they are running in the EQ2 engine.
- Tranquil Sea: composed of the devastated Isle of Refuge, Deathweave Isle, and the Pygmie-and-dinosaur-inhabited Island of Dichen
- Phantom Sea: composed of the haunted forest of Kithicor, the trading company’s home base Highhold, and Grimshales, an island made from a shard of Luclin
4 new Avatars

Channeler Epic Weapon Timeline got added recently

2013-12-23T01:28:14Z

The Channeler Epic Weapon Timeline got added recently, if you have any information about the quest line let us know!