Any more news on free Heroic chars during Anniversary?

Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Bronk, Mar 9, 2020.

  1. Benito EQ player since 2001.

    I must say, with people staying home due to coronavirus fears, not granting heroic characters to all accounts may be a missed opportunity (to increase pop and upsell).
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  2. Gherig Addicted since Aug 1st, 1998


    March 11, 2020
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    *** Highlights ***

    - Become the Overseer! Gain the loyalty of iconic Agents and protect Norrath from the ever-present ripples of Discord. See below for more information.
    - All Access members who log in to EverQuest during our 21st Anniversary Celebration (between March 16th and May 10th) will receive a claimable Heroic Character! This character can only be redeemed once per account.
    - In celebration of EverQuest's 21st anniversary we have made Veteran Reward abilities available to all players! See below for more details.


    *** Items ***

    - You can no longer combine items using tradeskills when any ingredient contains one or more augments.
    - - Note: Worn visible armor items may have hidden power source augments in them. Unequip your power source before you retrieve the worn item in order to remove the hidden augments.
    - Evolving items with the Claim Reward button cannot be claimed until all augments are removed from the item in addition to any other requirements that are present.
    - Added AC to the guild tribute Aura of Preservation 14.
    - The Claim the Item spells attached to various Iksar, Half Elf, and Dark Elf Heritage Crate items no longer have a spell description that suggests that you will receive a familiar.
    - Corrected an issue that prevented high damage 2-handed weapons from dealing their intended damage.


    *** Tradeskills ***

    - The Faded Velium War Hammer recipe will now give the correct product.
    - Crystallized Precious Velium Ore now has a chance to drop in the chest in the missions Seeking the Sorcerer and Icebound Avatar.
    - - Six months after the release of Torment of Velious there will be an additional chance to gain Crystallized Precious Velium Ore from those two missions, as well as the Griklor the Restless and Restless Assault missions.


    *** Quests And Events ***

    - Tower of Frozen Shadow raid events - Made the following changes:
    - - Increased the health and melee damage of all raid NPCs.
    - - Heart of Frozen Shadow - Fixed a bug that caused the 'It's a No Slow from Me, Dog' achievement to always be granted.
    - - Till Death Do Us Part - Added a speculative fix to address reports that sometimes characters successfully spoke to the usher and were assigned a side yet they still received a dancer.
    - - Tserrina Syl`Tor - Fixed a bug that prevented one of Tserrina's mechanics from working in her final phase.
    - - Tserrina Syl`Tor - Reduced lag in this event.
    - - Tserrina Syl`Tor - Tserrina's corpse will no longer move upon success of this raid event. This will hopefully prevent problems with looting the Key of Trauma.
    - All Access members who log in to EverQuest during our 21st Anniversary Celebration (between March 16th and May 10th) will receive a claimable Heroic Character! This character can only be redeemed once per account.
    - New 21st anniversary quests are available! Speak with the Mechanical Fortune Teller in the Plane of Knowledge and she will guide you.
    - New anniversary items are available at the Special Celebratory Goods merchants in the Plane of Knowledge! These new goodies can be purchased with Commemorative Coins.


    *** Spells ***

    - Beastlord - Corrected the name of Griklor's Feralgia.
    - Enchanter - Fixed a bug preventing Omica's Animation from taunting.
    - Magician - Fixed a bug preventing Riotous Servant, Remote Riotous Servant, and Pyroxenite Bodyguard from taunting.
    - Paladin - Concordant Blessing is now available at level 108 from Fairelwil Amsapi, Median Spellbound Lamps, and Median Spellbound Rings.
    - Shadowknight - Fixed a bug preventing Minion of Drendar from taunting.
    - Shaman - Fixed a bug preventing Grondo's Faithful from taunting.
    - Wizard - Fixed a bug where Daveron's Pyroblade and earlier summoned swords were not immune to area damage effects.


    *** AA ***

    - Rogue - Adjusted all ranks of Etherium Strikes to remove stacking conflicts with the Blinding Speed line of disciplines.
    - In celebration of EverQuest's 21st anniversary we have made Veteran Reward abilities available to all players!
    - - The restrictions that limited the number of characters that can activate these abilities have been removed.
    - - The requirement that your account must be active for 1 to 15+ years has been removed.
    - - On progression servers, these abilities will continue to unlock starting with Dragons of Norrath up through Veil of Alaris.


    *** NPCs ***

    - Sporali in Hills of Shade will no longer cast Chattering Bones XXII.
    - Restless Ice Infection now has a longer duration, instead of re-casting itself every six seconds.


    *** Overseer ***

    - Become the Overseer! Gain the loyalty of iconic Agents and protect Norrath from the ever-present ripples of Discord. Send your Agents on harrowing Overseer Quests, into moments spanning the entirety of Norrath's history, and restore balance where you can. Along the way, you'll gain fabulous rewards and grow in power. You may even draw the attention of Norrath's most famous heroes, and perhaps a few particularly nefarious villains. Do you have what it takes to gain the allegiance of Norrath's elite?
    - Access the Overseer interface via the EQ Menu > Quests > Overseer option, or by entering the command /overseer.
    - A mysterious presence in the Plane of Knowledge is interested in the coin gained through Overseer Quests.


    *** Progression Servers ***

    - Fixed the requirements on the door from Drachnid Hive to Dreadspire. Once Secrets of Faydwer has been unlocked for a month, level 70+ characters can access the zone without needing a key.


    *** Miscellaneous ***

    - Added the /shownpcnames command which toggles npc names on and off like the Option Window checkbox.
    - In the guild bank, if you try to set an item to be withdrawable by Single Member and that character doesn't exist, the item will now be set to Public If Usable.
    - - If the character gets deleted or transferred to another server, the permissions for that item will also get set to Public If Usable.
    - Increased the experience bonus for having other players (not mercenaries) in your group.
    - Increased the amount of AA experience you get in groups of 4 or more and raids of 13 or more.
    - Fixed the spelling of the bartender's name on the map in Timorous Deep.
    - Fast Camping can now be done within guild halls.
    - The surname command now allows the use of a second capital letter and a single accent character.
    - Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to shroud while on a mount.
    - Made the following changes to dynamic zone event replay timers:
    - - When zoning into a dynamic zone you will now be given an event replay timer for each event that has been completed since the zone was launched.
    - - You will not be given replay timers for any event that was already completed when the zone was launched.
    - - If you already have an existing replay timer for an event completed since instance launch, your timer will not be modified.
    - - You will receive a warning containing the list of replay timers you will incur upon zoning into the DZ when you are invited to join the DZ.
    - - You will not be able to loot items off of raid bosses or chests associated with the completion of an event if your replay timer was not received from this instance of the DZ.
    - Changed the way Resurrection Sickness works. It no longer reduces stats. It will now increase the cast time of detrimental spells by 10% and decrease your attack speed by 10%. Both of these values will stack with other spells rather than preventing haste or spell haste effects.
    - Changed the way the PvP version of Resurrection Sickness works. The cast time increase and attack speed decrease have the same values, but these effects will stack with other spells rather than preventing haste or spell haste effects.
    - Changed the way Revival Sickness works. It no longer caps mana and endurance at 4000. Instead it caps at 25% and slowly decreases the cap by 1% every 5 levels starting at 50. For example, the cap at level 85 is 18% and the cap at level 115 is 12%.
    - Improved how the guild message of the day is stored.
    - Improved how fellowship member names are stored.
    - Accessing Dreadspire, Meldrath's Mansion, and Crystallos should no longer refuse entry the first time until you wait or relog.
    - Plane of Knowledge is now listed as a destination of type Priest of Discord from Dranik's Scar in the Zone Connection Guide. This will not always be the destination that the Priest of Discord will send you to, but it should be more correct than the guide not showing a way back to Norrath.


    *** UI ***

    - Corrected an issue that prevented weapon ornaments that can be placed in all slashing, blunt, or piercing weapons from displaying their slot restriction information in the item inspect window.
    - If you zone with the Rewards window open, the rewards now display properly, and no longer require you to close and open the window to see the rewards you have pending.
    - Fixed the neighborhood window to always display the name of the guild in the guild plot section.
    - The Quest Journal quest selections will now persist through opening and closing the window and zoning.
    - Rewards that have a stackable item as one of the reward choices will have a number indicating how many of that item you will receive if the amount is greater than 1.
    - Fixed an issue with the Rewards Window where selected rewards could become deselected.
    - You can no longer modify the compensation for items or toggle items on and off while barter buyer mode is on. In order to make modifications you will need to exit barter buyer mode.


    - Changed -
    EQUI_OverseerWnd.xml


    - The EverQuest Team
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  3. Nennius Curmudgeon

    " In celebration of EverQuest's 21st anniversary we have made Veteran Reward abilities available to all players!
    - - The restrictions that limited the number of characters that can activate these abilities have been removed.
    - - The requirement that your account must be active for 1 to 15+ years has been removed.
    - - On progression servers, these abilities will continue to unlock starting with Dragons of Norrath up through Veil of Alaris."

    And the sounds of cheering will be heard throughout the land.
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  4. Bronk Elder

    Thanks for the update, Clanderso. It was not clear despite what others might have said.
    I look forward to the update tomorrow. Credit card is waiting.
  5. yepmetoo Abazzagorath

    Meh. Keep taking away from the things that set people apart. Boring.

    I get that they changed it 7 years ago so everyone got time entitled, so no big deal, but maybe there should be something to reward true PAYING vets in the spirit of the original. Doesn't need to be power, but something cool or fun =P
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  6. Duality Augur

    Just be careful! Last time they gave free heroics I went from 9 to 45+ accounts
  7. Zerker1231 Lorekeeper


    Really missing the ball on this one.
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  8. Zerker1231 Lorekeeper

    If its not obvious. You should give everyone a heroic. They will have to go all access when they start AAing anyway so you lose nothing there, but maybe you get a few people interested before they have to actually spend $.
  9. Zamiam Augur

    Ya I dont agree with letting everyone all accounts have access to vet rewards with no limitations .. thats what set the true vets apart .. very unhappy about that ..
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  10. Benito EQ player since 2001.



    It is what it is. The best method now would be to purchase Krono in game before prices go up.



    I used to hold that opinion. However, my current main is on a newer account (5 year old account) and my old main is on my original account (18 year old account). I can see where veteran players would want to access those abilities if they've switched mains or want to add boxes.
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  11. Zamiam Augur


    remember that this character will only be avail once so no making and then deleting .. once made that is it . so choose wisely
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  12. Bigstomp Augur

    I have vet rewards. It does not hurt my ego to allow a new player to use the same AA's.
    True vets are either good, or coasting on their vet laurels as a vet for relevance in the game.


    I don't know how many times I've seen a 'true vet' say I've played a (class of choice) for 20 years. I know what I'm doing, and can't figure out how to turn pet taunt off.
  13. Zamiam Augur


    what I meant by true Vet was someone that has been playing EQ for a long time (in my case 21 years) thats what set us apart with our accounts . whether that person knows how to play or not doesnt matter but being able to cast Throne of heroes or pop out a banker, peddler, or whatever was nice when others couldnt ..
    yes im a little peeved .. its not my ego thats hurt and im sure eventually i'll deal with it .. it was just something nice to have that others didnt unless they were playing for a long time..
  14. Skuz I am become Wrath, the Destroyer of Worlds.

    Other than maybe 2 vet aa they are all Quality of life things, I have been playing since '99 (albeit with a large break) 14 years of time in game and I have no qualms at all about new players getting these, they were exclusive to vets for a very long time already.
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  15. Bobokin Augur

    So a bonus for the bot teams that already pay for multiple accounts but nothing to bring in returning players - especially players that mainly play during the summer months.

    This company has laughable marketing.
  16. Moege Augur

    Seen more than one poster claim that the bot teams only subscribe once per year and the rest of the time is F2P. Doubt the bot team owners will care about a free heroic on subscribed account anyway. Now if it was on f2p accounts they may just decide to make more teams.
  17. Velisaris_MS Augur

    I think everyone should get Lesson and Throne of Heroes...all of the other "fluff" rewards should remain locked behind time on the account.
  18. Numiko Augur

    I would think you would want to drop a krono or sub a month anyway if you are going to claim a heroic on a free account.

    The Free to play accounts restricted to 1000 AA's which would leave the character pretty gimped even at 85, Sub and hit auto claim and boom you get 5 or 6K aa's .. run it through Grimbles for a month while it is All Access and you should have a level 110 or so with a pile more AA's.

    Let All access expire at the end of the month and you will get to keep all those AA's and have a fairly well rounded free account character to use.
  19. Bobokin Augur

    Bot teams whined that their alts didn't have vet rewards, so now everyone character does.

    See, whining does help ... for one type of player.
  20. Numiko Augur

    The Veteran awards for everyone sounds more like a JChan decision over something Holly "no casuals shall kill dragons" Longdale would decide to do.