Entries by Feldon

BG: Banishment From the Battlefield of Ganak?

If you’re familiar with the Battlefield of Ganak, the Capture-the-Flag arena for PvP/Battlegrounds, you’ll know that players have demonstrated an uncanny ability to collect the opposing team’s flag and then hide somewhere that the… Read the rest


EQ2X: Races and Broker Access — Flexibility?

EQ2 Extended (Free-to-Play) may seem to be “set in stone”, but in fact, changes are still being made and considered during its Public Beta/Soft Launch. Of particular discussion have been the price of race… Read the rest


What’s on Test? Guardian changes, UI tweaks, and More

What’s on Test this weekend? Here are just a few items:

  • UI: The XP bar will now stay put between logins.
  • UI: Designers of custom UIs can now set the XP bar to

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Protecting yourself from Account Fraud

Players have been advised about The Dangers of Buying Plat and/or Power Leveling services for a couple of years now, including the consequences such as compromised accounts.

However this July, SOE… Read the rest


Bonus XP for Labor Day?

SmokeJumper dropped this hint in response to the question…

*whistles innocently*

Check back Monday’ish.


Possible Improvement to Station Access?

One aspect of the EverQuest 2 Live vs. EverQuest 2 Extended (Free-to-Play) debate has been how Station Access fits into the picture. Many Station Access players are using the account not to play multiple… Read the rest


Hotbar Icons Replacement Issue

As we posted earlier this week, players have been experiencing an issue with hotbar icons being replaced in random ways as they level. Abilities on hotbars have been replaced with different spells entirely, for… Read the rest


SmokeJumper: Fan Faire Feedback Fixes are coming

SmokeJumper posted on the EQ2 Forums:

Hey, folks,

Just wanted to let you know that we recorded all the sessions at Fan Faire, transcribed all the questions, and the team leads

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Implied Target Arrow Feedback Sought

When you target another player (say your group’s tank, or the raid Main Assist) to channel your damage through, it is sometimes helpful to not only see the Target Arrow (who you have selected),… Read the rest


Fix for Roehn Theer Next Week

From Silius on the EQ2 Forums:

Hello again,

I just wanted to update everyone on the situation. We will be unable to get this fix live until Tuesday. Once

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The hits keep coming for GU57, and we don’t mean critical heals. Some quick updates on GU57 from the overnight dev responses all in one handy post…

From Rothgar on the… Read the rest


Patch for GU57 Breaks Palace of Roehn Theer

Players on a variety of servers (in two different threads) have reported that yesterday’s change to how players reach the Palace of Roehn Theer, requiring eachRead the rest


From the EQ2 Forums:

This is a notification that UK worlds will be updated at 5:00 AM London Time on the 08/25/2010. The estimated downtime will be 2 hours.

- SOE

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Olihin Addresses Raft of PvP Questions, Issues

Remember when Player-vs-Player was the red-headed stepchild of EQ2? Remember when there wasn’t even a PvP developer, but instead those tasks were delegated to developers who already had a full workload? Fast forward to… Read the rest


Over Your Character Slot Limit? You Have 1 Week to Fix it!

Players on standard EQ2 accounts with more than 7 characters in a region, or players on Station Access accounts with more than 12 characters in a region were locked out of accessing these “hidden”… Read the rest


Game Update 57 Reactions

If you haven’t read the Game Update 57 Feedback thread, it’s a real eye-opener, let me tell you.

I have always seen players who manage find a silver lining in every… Read the rest


Mastercrafted + Fabled? Why the extra tag?

One of the changes in today’s hotfix was that some Mastercrafted items now also show a Fabled or Legendary tag. Domino gives us further explanation.

Yep, the release

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Feedback Sought on ‘Exile’ Status

EQ2 Lead Designer Rich Waters is seeking player feedback on why players stick with Exile despite the huge disadvantages. He posed the question:

Exiles were definitely a side-effect of

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Brawler Fix: Crane Twirl Gains 20% AE Auto-Attack

From Xelgad on the EQ2 Forums:

As a quick update, internally, we have changed Crane Twirl to grant a total of 20% AE Auto-Attack in addition to the proc it currently grants.


The Permeable Barrier of the StationCash Marketplace

On Thursday evening, a player logged in to discover that one of their gameplay-acquired mounts, a War-Barded Black Cavalry Horse, had unattuned itself. This led to the discovery that a varietyRead the rest


Tuesday Hotfix Expected

Although there are no update notes or official announcement just yet, numerous forum posts from EQ2 devs have indicated that a Hotfix is expected on Tuesday to correct some issues caused… Read the rest


Notable Norrathians Winners

This is reprinted from the original EverQuest2.com article which seems to have gone missing.


Greetings, Norrathians!

We are thrilled to make the highly-anticipated announcement of the… Read the rest



Hotbar Replacement Bug

Game Update 57 added an interesting new UI feature. As you gain adventure levels, newer spells are now supposed to replace the previous tier’s spell on your hotbar. For instance, if you have Roped… Read the rest


More on that Class Reset Quest

It seems that ever since the new Inquisitor trainer in Qeynos prematurely offered the ability to reset any class to Inquisitor, players have let their imaginations run wild with the possibilities of switching between… Read the rest