Ark's Ark » Everquest II 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 EQ2: Dungeonmaker to allow us to use our own characters.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5568/eq2-dungeonmaker-to-allow-us-to-use-our-own-characters/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5568/eq2-dungeonmaker-to-allow-us-to-use-our-own-characters/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:48:13 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5568 Like quite a lot of MMO players, I’m currently in SWTOR-mode, but I could not help cheer this fine bit of news from Everquest 2:

Starting in the next day or two (on Test server only) you’ll be able to play any of your characters in a player-created Dungeon Maker instance.

This doesn’t invalidate playing as an Adventurer, but you can also play as your regular characters, regardless of level. (Well, okay, you still have to be at least level [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5568/eq2-dungeonmaker-to-allow-us-to-use-our-own-characters/feed/ 1 EQ2: Dungeonmaker Frustrations!!!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:49:06 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5554 I’m going to keep this brief. I am considering a proper article on EQ2′s latest expansion, Age of Discovery, but frankly every time I try to write it I become filled with ennui.

So, this picture below will have to speak for me. The situation is this: I’ve just entered a dungeon that another player has made. That underdressed lady is me, as we’re not able to use our real characters in player-made dungeons. The green swirly thing is the [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/feed/ 7 In which I check in with the Ark!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:55:51 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5490 So, in the last couple of months since I last posted, what have I been up to?

I’ve played through both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 on Insanity difficulty. I’d been nagged to try them by pretty much every gamer friend who ever heard I’d not played them, and I’m glad I finally buckled. I’ll definitely be grabbing Mass Effect 3 when it materialises.

I have a terrible habit of insisting I play any game on the hardest possible [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/feed/ 0 EQ2: The Item Revamp Continues and Continueshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:55:18 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5473 My crafted gear continues to have changed every time I check it. This picture gets ever more difficult to read, so you’ll need to click it, then hit the little expand arrow to get a good look. Ignore the yellow numbers and the difference in procs, as they’re just from adornments I plugged in. It’s the green and blue numbers that are of interest. In the latest instalment the shield got better, while the other two pieces got worse.:

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/feed/ 5 EQ2: The Item Revamp Continueshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:43:18 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5452 The native tribes of the Chaos Wastes live in a land so weird and changing that they assume that anything they are not looking at right this moment has ceased to exist.

This is how I feel about itemisation in EQ2 right now. My crafted gear was quite lovely on Thursday after the item revamp, perfect for a templar who likes getting stuck in with his hammer, but I just had another look at it and it has changed again! [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/feed/ 0 Everquest 2: GU61 Item Revamp Previewhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5429/everquest-2-gu61-item-revamp-preview/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5429/everquest-2-gu61-item-revamp-preview/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:40:04 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5429 EQ2′s Game Update 61 (scheduled for Tuesday 23rd of August Update: and delayed til Thursday 25th!) brings with it an item revamp for level 20-90. Intrigued, Maltheas stepped into Zoltoon’s patented Chronobarrel, to see what would be in store. For future events such as these will effect us in the future.

EQ2′s itemisation has been amiss ever since the Stat Revamp rendered all but two stats useless for every class. There has also been a gradual inflation in item power [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5429/everquest-2-gu61-item-revamp-preview/feed/ 0 EQ2 Videopost: Kelethin Aether Racinghttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5411/eq2-videopost-kelethin-aether-racing/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5411/eq2-videopost-kelethin-aether-racing/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:43:51 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5411 It’s Kelethin’s turn to host EQ2′s City Festival this month. Maltheas decided to head along, and go for a spin on the all new Aether Racing track!

It’ll only be around until the 7th of August. The title for this race is “Bixie Barnstormer”, and it looks like you need a time of 95 seconds or better. Fly with luck, and watch out for the bixies!!

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5411/eq2-videopost-kelethin-aether-racing/feed/ 0 EQ2: Beleaguered by Misfortunehttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5388/eq2-beleaguered-by-misfortune/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5388/eq2-beleaguered-by-misfortune/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:32:04 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5388 My friend, Terr, pointed this news out to me this morning. Fortune League, a vaguely EQ2-themed Facebook game, is shutting down:

As of Monday, July 11th this Facebook game will no longer be operational. In the meantime, you may continue to play and redeem prizes until the conclusion of this final season. However, the ability to add Station Cash funds to your wallet will be disabled on Friday, June 24th. Any existing funds in your wallet can still be used [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5388/eq2-beleaguered-by-misfortune/feed/ 2 EQ2 Videopost: New Halas Aether Race, and our equally new guildhouse!!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5378/eq2-videopost-new-halas-aether-race-and-our-equally-new-guildhouse/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5378/eq2-videopost-new-halas-aether-race-and-our-equally-new-guildhouse/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:35:29 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5378 It has been a little while since I made a video, so I thought I would take the opportunity of EQ2′s City Festival being in New Halas to show off the new Aether Race. It’s quite an enjoyable one, with plenty of dodging stormclouds to be done. The title for this track is “Snowflake Chaser”, requiring a time of 104 or less.

While I was about it, I figured I might as well show off the Green Lodge’s newly acquired [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5378/eq2-videopost-new-halas-aether-race-and-our-equally-new-guildhouse/feed/ 2 EQ2: Further Ratongan News. Ratonga love free stuff!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5371/eq2-further-ratongan-news-ratonga-love-free-stuff/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5371/eq2-further-ratongan-news-ratonga-love-free-stuff/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 20:16:14 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5371 Maltheas gave us all some warning about this a few weeks ago, but now ripples of the news are beginning to spread amongst the general populace of Qeynos. Lock up your cheese-board. The Ratonga are coming!

Word is spreading fast among the citizens of Qeynos and its allies: ratonga have begun to openly enter the cities, and the guards are no longer turning them away at the gate. With Game Update 60: The Children of War, ratonga will now be [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5371/eq2-further-ratongan-news-ratonga-love-free-stuff/feed/ 0 SOE announce in-game events to welcome us home.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5359/soe-announce-in-game-events-to-welcome-us-home/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5359/soe-announce-in-game-events-to-welcome-us-home/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 13:23:35 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5359 This has been an aggravating time for any lover of SOE games. We still don’t really have an ETA for when our games are coming back, but SOE has revealed some of what they’re going to do to try to make things up to us.

First and foremost, all impacted players will receive 30 days of game time added to the end of the current billing cycle in addition to one day for each day the system is down. Additionally, [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5359/soe-announce-in-game-events-to-welcome-us-home/feed/ 3 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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