Update Notes: Tuesday October 1, 2019

ZONES / POPULATION
  • Fabled Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone [Raid]
    • Enraged Flame of War adds in the Supreme Imperium Valdemar encounter have had their maximum health reduced further.
QUESTS
  • Familiars Wild - Monkeys in Sinking Sands no longer believe they are cats for this quest.

ITEMS
  • Lordly Blue Diamond Bracelet is now named Lordly Blue Diamond Girdle, since its big enough to wear as a belt.
  • The Prefix Title: Thraex is now purchasable from the Soldier of Discord

Update Notes: Tuesday September 24, 2019

ZONES / POPULATION

  • Fabled Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone [Raid]
    • Supreme Imperium Valdemar: Enraged Flames of War have had their maximum health reduced.
    • Statue of Rallos Zek: Backlash of War's power drain has been reduced slightly. It should be roughly 25% of power drained and is no longer affected by potency or able to critical hit.
  • Fabled Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends [Raid]
    • King Tormax: Ancient Energy Tap's power drain has been reduced slightly.
    • King Tormax: Diaku Warmongers have had their maximum health reduced.
  • Fabled Kael Drakkel
    • Vindicator Soren's "Vindication of Rallos" spell damage to power lowered.

ITEMS

  • Hunter's Union effects with stat bonus now correctly scale with level.
  • The Power Overwhelming effect now grants Fervor instead of base Spell and Combat Art Damage (potency).


QUESTS

  • Spark's Aflame - Spark Augren will now inform you if you have lost necessary ingredients to make the fireworks.

Update Notes: Tuesday September 10, 2019


ZONES / POPULATION
  • Raid buff packages for avoidance and resolve on raid targets should now be visible in the applied spells window.
  • Cave of Knowledge - You will always find either a Giant Desert Scorpion or a King Cobra somewhere within the cave.
  • Deep Chelsith: Vault of Omens - Once opened, vault door will now remain open, even if player exits zone.
  • Deep Chelsith: Vault of Omens [Heroic] - Corrected a bug that prevented Munchler Shriekenstein from dropping treasure.
  • Soren the Vindicator and other Fabled Kael t4 mythical raid encounters will now drop all of their possible treasure tables 100% of the time.
ABILITIES
  • Corrected an issue that prevented Odyssey from transporting its target back to their bind location.
QUESTS
  • Piercing the Darkness: Carving A Legacy - The "sublime pulverulence" fuel, gathered in The Duality's Vigilant Sanctum is now gathered in stacks.
  • Light Amongst Shadows: The Vault of Omens - Freed D.I.R.T.Y. researchers now update properly for groups.
ITEMS
  • Belt of the Vigilant, Cloak of the Vigilant, and the Girdle of the Vigilant will now transmute and salvage correctly into Chaos Descending components.
  • Removed the erroneous zoom factor from several Fabled Kael weapons.
  • Corrected a bug that caused the Fire Quacker to cast its cure component on the target encounter instead of the group.
  • Corrected a bug that prevented the familiars Emerald Fathomlurker, Ceffyl Grazer and the Construct of Decay from summoning
LIVE EVENTS
  • Mantle of the Vigilant has been renamed "Cloak of the Vigilant".
  • Raw planeshard, annealed ethereal thread, unblemished quadrolite, and sublime pulverulence are all now marked harvested items and can be placed in harvest bags.
  • Astral Transposition Fibril, Metamagic Attuning Prism, Quadrolith Glyph Key, and Luclinite Propylon are all now marked as Handcrafted items.

 

Update Notes: Tuesday August 27, 2019

CARNAGE IN KAEL
Centuries of war against the children of Veeshan have made the Kromzek giants master tacticians and warriors of unrivaled strength, but now the power and ruthlessness of their nation has been magnified by the presence of their god, within their very midst! Intruders to their mountain fortress are sure to be swiftly met with the giants' zealotry and their merciless blades. Could the untold fortunes and celestial blessings that lie behind the frozen walls of Kael Drakkel be worth the bargain of your very life? Do you have the skills and mettle necessary to challenge the infamous giants of Velious?

Storm your way into Fabled Kael Drakkel from the Prophecy Portal Gallery of Myrist, the Great Library, and go toe to giant toe with the Kromzek!

GENERAL
  • The Battleground and Proving Grounds servers have been removed and will no longer be accessible. Any player that was logged out on these servers will be returned to their home server.
MOUNTS
  • The maximum mount level has increased to 20, bringing with it 3 new mount gear type slots, and 2 more barding slots!
FAMILIARS
  • Season Six familiars are now available in game and on the marketplace! With this season a new simplified buff format is being introduced that displays the total stat for that level of familiar, instead of having an entry for the base familiar and the leveled bonus.
  • The top tier of familiars have been re-labeled as Celestial. This is a labeling consistency change, and does not change buff amounts, how much experience a familiar is worth when consumed, or how much they take to level.
TIME-LOCKED SERVERS
  • Desert of Flames hunters missions are now available on Kaladim.
DAYS OF SUMMER
  • Yun Zi has some new and interesting ideas in what it means to be a great explorer, find him in Sundered Frontier to find out what that crazy Hua Mein is up to now.
ZONES / POPULATION
General
  • Removed the numeric values listed in Chaotic Leech as they could be misleading in some expert zones. This removal is temporary while we deploy a new method of dynamically updating the examine information to have the correct values.
  • Removed a flag that could prevent players from entering Chaos Descending Public Quest zones other than the first unless they were grouped.
Desert of Flames
  • A new fabled mount drop has been added to some of the Desert of Flames Instances on time-locked servers.
Anchorage
  • Tile of Foolhardy Tiled Marble has been added to Barrius Nam'terin once all four Public Tradeskill Apprentices have been completed.
  • Tile of Mischievous Tiled Marble has been added to Barrius Nam'terin once all four Public Tradeskill Apprentices have been completed.
New Fabled Zone: Fabled Kael Drakkel
  • Contest the Kromzek’s ownership of their ancestral home from the Prophecy Portal Gallery of Myrist, the Great Library!
Fabled Temple of Rallos Zek: Foundations of Stone [Raid]
  • The infamous Statue of Rallos Zek looms over this temple, followed and worshiped by some of the most fierce of the Kromzek giants! Bring your raiding party and test your determination to acquire new powerful loot. There are five major encounters with some new tricks, ranging from middle-tier difficulty all the way to top-tier in this all new fabled version of the popular Velious raid. You can access the raid zone from the Prophecy Portal Gallery in Myrist, The Great Library.
Fabled Throne of Storms: Hall of Legends [Raid]
  • Do you and your raiding party have what it takes to stand before the mighty King Tormax? New loot and five major encounters with some new strategies await you, ranging from middle-tier difficulty all the way to top-tier in this all new fabled version of the popular Velious raid. You can access the raid zone from the Prophecy Portal Gallery in Myrist, The Great Library.
ITEMS
  • Many more house items can now stack, including ornate spoon, ornate knife, wooden table setting, Teir'dal shot glass, and Teir'dal cocktail glass.

Producer's Letter: Carnage in Kael & more!

Greetings, fair Norrathians!

The first half of the year has been great thanks to you, our amazing players!
We are preparing to bring you Game Update 111: Carnage in Kael on August 27! It wasn’t originally planned for the year, but the team stayed late and snuck in on weekends to give you more content to chew up as we work on the expansion and events! There is a giant-sized tankard of events as we head into our 15th Anniversary and expansion season….

Speaking of expansions, EverQuest II will be raising the adventurer level cap to 120 this year! With that in mind, last year’s Chaos Descending expansion will be on sale at 50% off at everquest2.com/expansions as of August 21. Get ready for this year’s expansion!

About our not-yet-announced expansion, we wanted to give you a hint about the new location you’ll be travelling to this December! WHERE IS THAT?


Also, earlier this year, I talked about putting together a fan event which we are exploring for next year. That said, we wanted to get a feel for how many players would be interested, so we have a survey here: LINK. We want to get an idea of how many players are interested and a couple of other questions. Please participate if you are interested in hanging with your EQ friends and family for a couple of days!

Of course, the 15th Anniversary for EverQuest II coming November 9 and is a HUGE milestone for us! The team managed to carve out time to not only deliver new content for Heroes’ Festival but also a completely new server-wide event on live servers. The dragon-themed event will come with a reward that is a FIRST-EVER for EverQuest II players. We are excited to get one ourselves! Stay tuned.

The team is also planning to launch a new server for the anniversary which will have a unique rule-set. Hints? Start as a Heroic Character with all content unlocked up to the Chaos Descending expansion and live server (normal) experience rates!

We’ll be announcing more details as we get closer to November!

Until then, enjoy the game update on August 27, and dive into our third year of Panda Events, get your mounts up to level 20 with their new level cap, and enjoy a new season of familiars available on the marketplace and in game. Also, look to Labor Day weekend for some in-game bonuses and get ready for Gear-up, Level-up Bonuses starting next month!

You’ll be hearing a lot more from us as we head into fall and prepare for a fantastical winter!
Sincerely, always,

Holly “Windstalker” Longdale

Update Notes: Tuesday August 20, 2019

ZONES / POPULATION
Anchorage

  • The recipe scrolls for "Mischievous Saddle of Spellflurry" and "Mischievous Reins of Experience" on Sprocket should now properly cost Anchorage chits to purchase.
  • Mirt's Illuminating Beam should no longer require status to purchase.



QUESTS

  • Lightning Bolt Shaped Key - Increased drop rate of quest starter "Lightning Bolt Shaped Key".
  • Virtue Belt - Increased drop rate of quest starter "a rusted iron belt".

Update Notes: Tuesday August 6, 2019

ITEMS

  • Corsair Neckerchiefs - Collection pieces are now spelled correctly.



QUESTS

  • The Motley Merchant Manifest - Fippy Darkpaw the 4th now returns to the Crow's Resting Place after his nerves have calmed.
  • Ghost's Lost Score - Quest is now listed in the proper zone category "Plane of Magic".
  • Turn Loose the Ignus - Quest is now listed in the proper zone category "Plane of Magic".
  • Why Don't the Ayriegales Sing - Quest is now listed in the proper zone category "Plane of Magic".
  • Esper in the Deep Dark Forest - Quest is now listed in the proper zone category "Plane of Magic".
  • For the Voice She Once Had - Quest is now listed in the proper zone category "Plane of Magic".