The US EQ2 Servers will come down on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 am Pacific Time for an update. The expected downtime is one hour. The EU EQ2 Servers will come down on Thursday, May 2, at 9:00 pm Pacific Time, and the expected downtime is two hours.
Patch notes are available below.
Tomorrow is the beginning of May, bringing us the Freeport City Festival! The festival is planned to start on May 1st at 12:01am PDT and run until May 7th at 11:59pm PDT and can be found in the Commonlands between the Crossroads and the Freeport Griffon Tower. . Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialities and other festival goods.
An Aether Race will also be available in Commonlands during the festival. Participate and achieve a time of 119 seconds or less to earn the Portal Jumper prefix title! Begin the race by speaking to the referee near the docks.
All servers will come down at 7am PDT on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 for the Scars of the Awakened patch. Estimated downtime is currently three hours. Part of this maintenance will occur at the same time as an SOE-wide maintenance. The patch notes are available on the official forums.
Your dedicated ZAM staff brings you our coverage of the GU66: Scars of the Awakened material to help guide you with the new content!
Sony Online Entertainment will perform maintenance beginning at 7:00 AM Pacific on April 30, 2013. This maintenance is expected to take approximately 1 hour. This will impact the following services:
Account management will be unavailable.
Game Update 66, Scars of the Awakened, launches on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. In this update players visit the vastly changed Velious land of Cobalt Scar and its dungeon, Siren's Grotto.
Adventurers over level 90 can speak to Joren Kalth in any major city or on the Thurgadin docks in the Great Divide to be sent on their way to Cobalt Scar. Players once again work with Osh, who is trying to save his brethern from a corruption that has twisted their native land. After the othmir problem is addressed, the famed Field Marshal Vishra sends word, and the work to assist the New Combine with their various minor issues begins.
Cobalt Scar offers players 45 new quests, four daily missions, and one weekly group mission. Missions will send players who have completed most of the Cobalt Scar quests into Siren's Grotto, but access to Siren's Grotto itself has no requirements. The Scar has several contested heroic and epic creatures, which may drop the Obol currency for adventurers who have completed the Chains of Eternity signature quest series. New collections can be found in both new zones.
While owning the Chains of Eternity expansion will ease the combat difficulty of GU66, it is not required (the Destiny of Velious expansion is required). We recommend that your adventurer at least be equipped in Withered Lands or Skyshrine armor before diving into this update.
EverQuest II's lastest game update, Scars of the Awakened, is right around the corner with new content for Norrathian crafters! Be sure to take your artisan to Cobalt Scar where Acting Supplymaster Grant could use a hand. Along the way you'll help the Othmir, save the day at the main camp, and help a mysterious dark elf. Your reward is a nifty set of gloves handed down the Bayle line. Check out our Cobalt Scar Crafting Series guide and the shopping list so you're not shy on resources.
Level 95 crafters will find that their Apprentices have some new ideas and need new equipment to get the job done. The new researched recipes will use Tier 10 resources and are set up so that while they require more reactants, those reactants aren't as hard to come by as they are in the level 80 recipes.
Tier 10 recipe books are being renamed to be consistent with other tiers. With GU66 all volumes will be available on the usual merchants, although the Advanced once are quite expensive. It's important to note that you can still get these recipes adventuring and questing, and you don't have to buy them from an NPC to obtain them.
Game Update 66, Scars of the Awakened, is slated to hit live servers Tuesday April 30. Be sure to log in this weekend and get some of that bonus experience!
Holly "Windstalker" Longdale just made this announcement:
Wee! Double XP weekend starts 12pm PDT this Friday until Sunday 11:59pm PDT! It includes adventure, AA, tradeskill AND guild XP!
Enjoy double experience on adventuring, alternate advancement (AAs), crafting, and guild (status contributed) experience. The bonus weekend will run from 12pm (noon) Pacific Time on Friday, April 26 and will conclude at 11:59pm Pacific Time on Sunday, April 28.
