All U.S. servers will come down at 7am PDT on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU servers will be coming down at 5am London Time on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The expected downtime is two hours. There is also an SOE maintenance scheduled for 6am PDT on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Login servers, forums and more will be affected for around 90 minutes.

The full patch notes are available after the jump.

Sony Online entertainment will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific on May 15, 2012. Maintenance is expected to take approximately 90 minutes. This will impact the following services:

• Logins for all SOE games will be affected.
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on SOE websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable.
• Forums will be read-only.
• Account management will be unavailable.

Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan!

Source: Station Community Forums

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The US Servers will come down on May 10, 2012, at 7:00 am Pacific for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour.  Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan!  You'll find the patch notes below.

The US Servers will come down on May 8, 2012, at 7:00 am Pacific for a hotfix. The expected downtime is one hour.  Here's the patch notes:

POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION

Skyshrine x4 raid zones, challenge mode

• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spam messages about reckless adds unless an add actually spawns due to the Time Vortex Curse.
• Belkreiz Blazeclaw will no longer spawn Ancient Dracurian Seer’s if there are already 3 or more of them present in the zone.

Skyshrine: the Underdepths

• Sevalor's Deathless now has a 35 second duration, rather than permanent.

ITEMS

• “Skyshrine” scout boots focus effect now properly applies to swashbucklers.
• Restorative Counter II, III, and IV should now trigger heals on the target of the proc instead of the caster.
• Pantaloons of Runed Silk should now correctly have their set bonus applied to them so they match the rest of the set.

QUESTS

Withered Lands

• The book "A Romp Through the Withered Lands" should now be available on the Shady Swashbuckler if you have completed the quest "Techgnical Difficulties".

Holly Longdale, in a post at the EQII website today, goes into detail about new stuff planned for the month. And, in case you're paying attention, almost all of it has to do with the Dungeon Maker feature, detailing future plans. It's not quite ready yet, but it's getting there.

All U.S. servers will come down at 7am PDT on Thursday, May 3, 2012. The expected downtime is one hour. The Test and Test Copy servers will be brought down at the same time for maintenance. Their expected downtime is 12 hours.

The full patch notes are available after the jump.