Ark's Ark » Everquest I http://www.arksark.org/blog Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, Current Affairs, and Random Stuff! Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 No ETA for SOE MMO servershttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5347/no-eta-for-soe-mmo-servers/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5347/no-eta-for-soe-mmo-servers/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 14:08:08 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5347 Everquest, Everquest 2, Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, and Pirates of the Burning Sea are still unavailable after their surprise shut-down on Monday morning.

We still don’t know when they’re likely to come back. If I hear anything I’ll let you know. Until then, our characters must wait for us in the loneliness of the void.

Maltheas awaits the return of the world.

Yes, that was a short post. I’d love it to be longer, but we’re not being told [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5347/no-eta-for-soe-mmo-servers/feed/ 0 EQ2: The Chronoportals Comethhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5240/eq2-the-chronoportals-cometh/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5240/eq2-the-chronoportals-cometh/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:37:54 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5240 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5240/eq2-the-chronoportals-cometh/feed/ 0 EQ and EQ2 Offer Marketplace Items to Help Japanese Relief Efforthttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5221/eq-and-eq2-offer-marketplace-items-to-help-japanese-relief-effort/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5221/eq-and-eq2-offer-marketplace-items-to-help-japanese-relief-effort/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:55:34 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5221 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 next [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5221/eq-and-eq2-offer-marketplace-items-to-help-japanese-relief-effort/feed/ 0 EQ2 to do the Timewarphttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5200/eq2-to-do-the-timewarp/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5200/eq2-to-do-the-timewarp/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:07:12 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5200 Everquest is due to celebrate its 12th anniversary in the next couple of days, with the return of all the usual events there. I’ll be covering that in a post once it actually starts, but in the EQ site post foreshadowing it, I also saw this rather interesting bit of news:

Grand events are afoot in EverQuest II starting later this month, where mysterious apparitions have been sighted! Portals through time have been appearing around Norrath, linking this age to [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5200/eq2-to-do-the-timewarp/feed/ 0 Everquest – A Fippy Darkpaw sort of dayhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5128/everquest-a-fippy-darkpaw-sort-of-day/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5128/everquest-a-fippy-darkpaw-sort-of-day/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:38:10 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5128 I’ve been playing Rift quite solidly for the last few days, but I fancied a change today. Been getting a little frustrated with the contribution system there, as I mentioned here. Having to run my stable of alts through exactly the same quests is also slightly wearing, so venturing in a land where there is little or no set track for advancement is rejuvenating. Off I trotted to the Fippy Darkpaw progression server!

With Rift running distraction, Zoltoon has not [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5128/everquest-a-fippy-darkpaw-sort-of-day/feed/ 1 An Embarrassment of Riches.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5028/an-embarrassment-of-riches/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5028/an-embarrassment-of-riches/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:04:48 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5028 MMO players have an embarrassment of riches this week. Of course Rift will be opening up early access on the 24th, but the latest EQ2 expansion, “Destiny of Velious”, launches today, with an 8 day extravaganza of events.

On top of that, DDO will be having it’s 5 year anniversary, with an all-new piratey event recycled from the original tutorial island. I’ll try to catch some of that, though I hope it’s more enjoyable than the Halloween event, which I [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5028/an-embarrassment-of-riches/feed/ 2 Everquest: Return to the Qeynos Catacombshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5020/everquest-return-to-the-qeynos-catacombs/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5020/everquest-return-to-the-qeynos-catacombs/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:54:34 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5020 I’m still having fun exploring ancient Norrath again on the Fippy Darkpaw Progression server.

The oddest thing just happened. I was searching for a little information to refresh my memory on the Qeynos Catacombs, when Google lead me to an old post from 2000, THAT I HAD WRITTEN.

The Qeynos Catacombs were always a treasure trove for lowbies, and many of the good folks of Fippy may well be in such circumstances that they could do with a pick-me-up, so [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5020/everquest-return-to-the-qeynos-catacombs/feed/ 4 Everquest: What we know about how Fippy Darkpaw’s Progression Server will work.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5003/what-we-know-about-how-fippy-darkpaws-progression-server-will-work/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5003/what-we-know-about-how-fippy-darkpaws-progression-server-will-work/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:19:00 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5003 I’ve been getting a little excited about the launch of the upcoming Everquest Progression Server, due to arrive tomorrow. I’m not sure if this will survive contact with the actual server itself, but for now I’ve been looking about trying to find out everything I can about how it will work. To reiterate, a progression server returns EQ to as close to its original form as possible, and then slowly the expansions are added as certain requirements are met. This [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5003/what-we-know-about-how-fippy-darkpaws-progression-server-will-work/feed/ 5 EQ2: Maltheas and the Flowing Black Silk Sash – With Video!http://www.arksark.org/blog/4992/eq2-maltheas-and-the-flowing-black-silk-sash-with-video/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4992/eq2-maltheas-and-the-flowing-black-silk-sash-with-video/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:58:27 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4992 The Flowing Black Silk Sash was one of the most sought after of original Everquest items. As it was launch content, rather than expansion, you can be sure that folks will be fighting over it on the new Fippy Darkpaw progression server over the next few months! It will begin in the possession of the level 42 Frenzied Ghouls of Lower Guk, a contested dungeon, so it might take a few weeks, even for the most eager of rushers. The [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4992/eq2-maltheas-and-the-flowing-black-silk-sash-with-video/feed/ 1 Fippy Darkpaw: An Everquest Pilgrim’s Progression Serverhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/4971/fippy-darkpaw-an-everquest-pilgrims-progression-server/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4971/fippy-darkpaw-an-everquest-pilgrims-progression-server/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:11:15 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4971 Everquest has a new Progression Server opening up on the 15th of February.

A progression server is as close to the original launch experience as the developers can get you to without spending a massive amount of time unravelling things. So you do have the updated engine and UI, but all the expansions are turned off. Expansions will be slowly turned on one by one, giving you something approaching the same experience that original players would have gotten through the [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4971/fippy-darkpaw-an-everquest-pilgrims-progression-server/feed/ 3 Two by Two – The Rathttp://www.arksark.org/blog/4884/two-by-two-the-rat/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4884/two-by-two-the-rat/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:40:57 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4884 This is a rather ancient post I made on my original website, long before the days of such useful things as blogs or WordPress. I’ve cleared out most of the posts from that time, and am in the process of tidying the rest away, but I thought this might provide a small amount of entertainment. It was the year 2000, and a pattern had already begun to emerge. Some monsters were ubiquitous. Today you might poke fun at the boars, [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4884/two-by-two-the-rat/feed/ 2 In This Weekhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/109/in-this-week/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/109/in-this-week/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:58:52 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/2006/07/03/in-this-week/ Been a busy week. After the DnL debacle, I was still thirsting for a world based MMORPG to supplement DDO.

I was persuaded by some good friends on the DDO irc channel to give the new Everquest progression server a try. It’s a new sort of server, where each everquest expansion has to be unlocked by the players, usually by someone raiding the nastiest enemies of the previous expansion.

What I found out: That I have no idea why I [...]

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