EQ2: Bristlebane Day!

With the Chronoportals finally sealed for this year, another festival is upon us in Everquest 2! Bristlebane Day is here, with all the fun of the Master of Mirth himself. Fun and frolic, ho!!!

Maltheas: Bristleybane is the annoyings, always he playing the mean tricks! Why nobody celebrate the gods who is behavings themselves!? Shiny Rodcets, Karana the Freshmaker, or pretty Tunare?

Oh, right. I forgot that Bristlebane is another one of the gods that Maltheas takes a dim view […]

Claims of the Normal Episode 11

I stepped out from behind the curtain again this week to take part in CSICON’s Claim’s of the the Normal podcast. You can hear the result here. Rift, EQ2, Earthrise, and William Shatner were the order of the day.

EQ2: The Chronoportals Cometh

This morning, Maltheas’ mailbox received an important missive. Maltheas’ very favourite sort of letter. An invitation to adventure!!!

Maltheas,

We need your help! Portals to a different time have opened up in Antonica, Enchanted Lands, Thundering Steppes, Steamfont, Lavastorm, Sinking Sands, Feerott, and Innothule. We need you to investigate them. Please make your way to the lighthouse by the docks in Antonica. there you will find one of the portals. I will be nearby, and you can speak to me […]

EQ2: Extreme Questing Update: The Return of the Leaderboard!

When last we cast our eyes over the state of Extreme Questing in Norrath back in January, we were rather badly hampered by the EQ2 website’s leaderboards being completely broken. However, in the last week those leaderboards have made a remarkable recovery, so normal service can once again resume! Normally I like these to coincide with a mighty deed (for the pictures), but I wanted to get this out as soon as I heard we had functionality again.

In that […]

EQ and EQ2 Offer Marketplace Items to Help Japanese Relief Effort

EQ2 added a house item to its marketplace today. It is 500 Station Cash ($5.00), and the proceeds will be going to help with the ongoing humanitarian emergency in Japan.

Called “Memory of Spring”, it is an statue surrounded by falling cherry blossom. It can be found under its own section within the marketplace, marked “Japan Relief Effort”. There is also a similar item available for Everquest.

Memory of Spring

It seemed appropriate for Maltheas to place it […]

City of Heroes to merge US and European Servers!

Woot! This is fantastic news. For those unaware, until now, US and European servers have been completely separate, using different clients. If you wanted to play on both you would need two accounts, and would need to pick expansions and bonuses up for them individually. This was annoying, as I had a European account, unsurprisingly, but most of my friends who play are in the US. I would have been willing to start a new character, but I wasn’t prepared […]

Rift – Dark Moments in Character Building – Dulcien the Shaman

Boss Drum, here we go again Rhythm Eternal from a distant time An echo of long ago Not yet forgotten, No.

Music is Osgard the Saboteur/Bard’s department, but that’s not going to stop this week’s Rift character from coming on, and coming on strong! Take pinch of dwarven doughtiness, and a distinctly undwarven love of nature, add knowing insight to mystical might, and you’ve got Dulcien the Shaman!

Dulcien – Connected to the Powers that Be With Healing […]