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EverQuest II's Shards of Destiny game update goes live

by William Dobson Sep 24th 2009 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Events, in-game, Patches, Raiding, Grouping, News items

EverQuest II's next game update Shards of Destiny is now live, and that means that players can take advantage of a number of new features. We've summed up the biggest ones just below:

Chronomagic: Visit some new "mysterious erudites" that have moved into Freeport, Kelethin, Neriak, Qeynos and Gorothyn, to lower your adventuring level for a small cost. This allows for grouping with lower levels, and a lot of older content has been revamped with more frequent bosses and changed loot rarities to make this option more attractive. There are also 37 new missions related to going back and seeing dungeons of differing levels.
Achievements: A new way to compete with other players. Most achievements will just give Achievement Points, but some will offer non-stat item rewards. Achievement categories include Exploring, Dungeons, Quests, Raids, Player versus Player, and Tradeskills.
Miragul's Planar Shard: a x4 raid zone and the first in EverQuest II to have a scaled difficulty feature.
The Shard of Love: Choose to help or hinder the Sisters of Erollisi, beginning by visiting either a Disciple of Love or a Disciple of Hate.
Teleportation Spires Event: Rewards are up for grabs for those who can assist the Quellithulians with the reactivation of the Ulterian Teleportation Spires.

Check out the full patch notes here, and before you head in-game, dip past the break to see the official Shards of Destiny trailer.

Tags: achievement-points, achievements, chronomagic, eq2, eqii, everquest-2, everquest-ii, game-update, miraguls-planar-shard, shard-of-love, shards-of-destiny, soe, sony-online-entertainment, teleportation-spires-event

The Daily Grind: Will you be exploring The Shadow Odyssey?

by Krystalle Voecks Nov 17th 2008 at 8:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Expansions, Opinion, The Daily Grind

As many excited EverQuest II players are well aware, tomorrow is an important day. It marks the launch day for EverQuest II's fifth expansion, The Shadow Odyssey. Of course, for those folks who have been thinking about getting into EQ2 but haven't taken the dive as yet, it's a good time for you as well - SOE tends to bundle in all previous games with their expansions so you can check them out without shelling out a bunch of money. The Shadow Odyssey brings in lots of content for players from level 50 to level 80, with the addition of several areas brought forward from EverQuest like Guk, Mistmoore and Befallen. While this expansion doesn't increase the level cap, it does increase the number of Achievement points, adds heritage quests, opens alternate achievement paths - and so, so much more!

Today we wanted to ask - are you heading into the shadowy world of EverQuest II's Shadow Odyssey? If so, what part sounds like the best part to you? Is it visiting places you may remember from EverQuest? The sharded gear rewards? Perhaps you're just looking forward to all those Achivement points so you can really get your character to where you wanted it to be. Let us know!

Tags: achievement-points, befallen, everquest-2, everquest-ii, expansion, guk, heritage-quests, mistmoore, soe, sony-online-enterainment, tdg, the-daily-grind, the-shadow-odyssey