GENERAL
Wild Swings will now persist through death.
The switches that open and close doors and barriers on the Vigilant: Final Destruction should now function on PvP servers.
Killing several Dreadnaught guards in South Freeport will now cause them to learn some respect. The same applies to Thexians in North Freeport.
BATTLEGROUNDS
Effects that can only be obtained on PVP Servers will no longer work in Battlegrounds.
ITEMS
All raid dropped armor now has red adornment slots.
Critical Mitigation on many raid dropped armor pieces have been changed to be more in line with TSO numbers.
Many of the high tier armor sets have been renamed to reduce confusion.
Brellium resist jewelry items have been improved.
All raid dropped jewelry now has resists.
Many raid drop weapons and jewelry items have had additional effects added.
Some of Waansu’s items have had class restrictions added.
QUESTS
The quest “Swiping Scrolls” can once again be successfully completed.
The quest “Shroom Prune” now updates off of killing Coercer Pittles and Shroombis the Coerced.
PERAH’CELSIS ABONIMABLE LABORATORY
Waansu should no longer appear inside a test tube if he has spawned as an encounter.
By purchasing a virtual Child's Play item using SOE's in-game Station Cash players managed to raise $20,000 for the Child's Play 2009 Winter Charity Drive.
Hosting a month-long fundraising campaign to support the charity, SOE pledged to donate $10 each time an EverQuest or EverQuest II player bought a Child's Play virtual item in the MMORPG's marketplaces.
"The ability of our players to make a donation of this magnitude in these tough economic times is beyond anything we could have hoped for," says SOE president John Smedley. "As we continue to diversify with programs like Station Cash we will be able to offer unique items that benefit not only our players, but other partnerships and organizations such as Child’s Play in this case."
Child's Play is a charitable organization founded by the authors of the popular computer and video games-based webcomic Penny Arcade that organizes worldwide toy drives to children's hospitals. Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins founded Child's Play in 2003 to improve the lives of sick children by donating toys and games to hospitals worldwide.
The charity is also seen as a way to refute mainstream media's perception of gamers as violent and antisocial. Through Child's Play, donors have sent over four million dollars in toys, games and books to children's hospitals all over the world.
Last year, the Child's Play charity raised $1,434,377 for the 2008 season.
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Saturday, February 28, 2009 (04:08:20)
Merry Christmas 2008!
Merry Christmas to everyone from The Clenched Fist!
It's been a busy year for the guild, it's hard to believe the guild will soon be starting its fourth year of operation.
The guild continues to grow, adding new members Atreyor, Jenner, Chimara, Revula, Plaria, and Snackpack.
More members reached Level 80, and have joined us on raids with Reckless Alliance, which continues to move upwards to new challenges.
Hamek and Vickie welcome thier second child, Sarah Rose Burger, born Dec 11.
Palmdale, CA records a record snowstorm on Dec 17, dumping 6" of snow on the Antelope Valley and closing all three major freeways.
Happy Holidays to all, and best wishes for the New Year!
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Thursday, December 25, 2008 (19:18:14)
EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey Coming Soon
The Shadow Odyssey, EverQuest II's 5th expansion, is on the way!
Journey through more than 20 new zones, including the new overland zone, Innothule.
Experience nostalgic EverQuest dungeons as you and your friends adventure in the Ruins of Guk, Befallen, Najena, Mistmoore, and more.
The Achievement Point level cap will be increased to 200 to offer new achievements for class-specific lines.
A new Dungeon Delving mission system for players to replay content with new and different experiences.
Five new Heritage Quests with unique rewards.
A new, mysterious group of Erudites with powerful new armor and equipment that they will barter for void shards earned during your encounters.
More deities have returned to Norrath, Rodcet Nife and Anashti Sul.
Guild halls will also be added to the game. There are three tiers of guild halls that a guild may purchase depending on their level. The tier one guild halls will be located in all starting cities of Norrath and will be available at guild level 30.
The tier two guild halls will be located inside Qeynos and Freeport and will be available at guild level 50. Tier three guild halls will have their very own islands off the coast of Antonica or Commonlands and will be available at guild level 70.
The Shadow Odyssey is an all-in-one compilation and will be available via Digital Download and Retail Box for $39.99.
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Sunday, September 28, 2008 (18:36:22)
PlayStation Poorhouse
The PS3 has cost the Japanese electronics giant $3.3 billion since its launch in late 2006 because of "strategic pricing" under which it sells the console at a loss, according to the annual report filed by Sony (NYSE: SNE) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Under this scheme, the system is sold to consumers at a loss, though the idea is that software sales and the fruits of being an eventual market leader would counteract these early-term losses.
"Even if the platform is ultimately successful, it may take longer than expected to recoup the investment, resulting in a negative impact on Sony’s profitability," the report said.
Sony stated in the annual 20-F regulatory filing that the launch of the PS3 drove game segment losses of $2.15 billion for FY07, ended March 31, 2007 (PS3 had been on the market for only about five months at that point). FY08, ended March 31 this year, saw losses of $1.15 billion in the game segment.
It's too soon to tell how the PS3's highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4 will impact June sales.
The year may not even be at the halfway mark, but Sony's luck will have to change if 2008 will end up the year of the PS3. It will now have to rely on its cast of anticipated holiday hits, such as Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet, and the launch of Home, its oft-delayed virtual online community, to drive sales.
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Admin Friday, June 27, 2008 (18:58:53)
Gary Gygax, 'Father of D&D,' Dies at 69
Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. Gygax designed the original D&D game with Dave Arneson in 1974.
Gygax went well beyond the role of game developer and became an icon to gamers, appearing as himself in episodes of Futurama ("Anthology of Interest I") and the G4TV show Code Monkeys and participating in discussions on roleplaying-related message boards.
Gygax had been in poor health for some time, according to his wife Gail. Chenault says he will publish more information, including funeral arrangements, on the Troll Lord message board as it becomes available.
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Wednesday, March 05, 2008 (09:17:29)
Congrats to CF on Level 50!
Once again, the guild makes another big milestone, this time working up to Level 50! Good job to everyone who's been pitching in. Next stop, 55!
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Saturday, January 12, 2008 (14:06:09)
Roster Master Developer Response to the RoK EQ2 Players Release
As you are probably aware by now, on November 12th, 2007, the SOE Web Platform team released a revised version of the EQ2Players website. Titled "EQ2Players RoK Release (3.4)", this new version brought new features, some bugfixes, but also introduced new problems, failed to address several long-standing problems (some of which have existed since the game's introduction in 2004, some three years ago), as well as removed existing features. This is similar to the situation that was created by changes to EQ2Players on November 14th, 2006, on the occasion of the Echoes of Faydwer (EoF) release.
These changes had a marked impact on the Roster Master project (due to missing data and inconsistently formatted feeds that were the result of the changes), but more so had a marked impact on the community. Whether users of Roster Master or just customers of SOE, players were left with unresolved problems ranging from being unable to use the data, to data not being updated consistently or correctly, to the fee-based Advanced Services not working as advertised or being able to access services that were paid for, all the way up to reoccurring problems with billing for those services.
Fortunately, the Roster Master project had been able to recover partially from these changes through the efforts of Dark Grue (RM4DF dev) and Lantis (RMSA dev). By putting our heads together along with other members of the community, the Roster Master Project community managed, once more, to find ways to work around the data format problem, but at the cost of reduced functionality.
"Any Devs Wanna Explain Test->Live Transfers" on the EverQuest II Forums is a post pointing the way to this forum post and this forum post that allege that an entire guild has been transferred from a test server, where gaining levels and items is easier, to a live EverQuest II server in a move SOE has stated was not allowable to avoid harming game balance. The posts not only allege that a game master was involved in the account transfers, but that a GM had previously been a member of that guild and helped it gain loot along the way.
Opinions expressed in the forums range from outrage from those who feel cheated to understanding from those who feel this guild is simply being rewarded for being particularly helpful in testing things. SOE has yet to be heard from on this topic.
comments? | | Score: 5 Posted by Tessil Saturday, December 15, 2007 (06:42:37)
Congrats to CF on Level 45!
Congratulations to the Clenched Fist on attaining Guild Level 45!
Thank you to everyone who's been putting in effort into writs and heritage quests to move us forward. Also, congrats to those who have discovered that those heritage quests acutally give mad XP!
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Tessil Monday, November 19, 2007 (01:29:00)
The logos and trademarks used on this site are the property of their respective owners.
We are not responsible for content posted by our users, the individual user assumes full responsibilty.
You can syndicate our news using the file backend.php (RSS 0.91), news.php (RSS 0.91), or news2.php (RSS 2.0).
Content Menu
Guild
Forums
News
Search
Projects
Community
Members options
Web
Latest: 
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 114
Members: 0
Visitors: 18
Total: 18
Daylight Saving Time Begins
St. Patrick's Day
Moonlight Enchantments Begins
