Free-to-Play for all servers and new expansion Dec 2011

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FREE TO PLAY. YOUR WAY. ™
EverQuest® II is the epitome of massively multiplayer gaming -- the ultimate blend of deep features, heritage, and community.

Explore an enormous online world where friends come together for adventure and community. Immerse yourself in the game's exciting locales, mysterious lands, intense battles, exciting quests and amazing achievements. Featuring breathtaking graphics and a vast, beautiful and dangerous game world to explore, EverQuest II sets the standard for MMORPG online gaming. Now, you can experience EverQuest II Free to Play. Your Way!™

Your character, your story, your adventure!

Our Philosophy is simple. Free games. No Commitment. And if you want to buy, it's on your terms.

http://everquest2.com/free_to_play/game_overview

EverQuest II® Age of Discovery™!
This is the eighth expansion of the groundbreaking EverQuest II franchise. Age of Discovery offers several never-seen-before features including new user-generated content and bringing back the classic favorite Beastlord class from the original EverQuest release. Make your mark in-game by creating your very own Dungeon, play as a character class never available in EverQuest II, and hire some much needed help for your heroic battles. This is truly an unprecedented expansion in terms of pure features and valuable in-game items.

NEW AGE OF DISCOVERY GAME FEATURES

Dungeon Maker

Ever wanted to build your own dungeon? Now you can, with the Dungeon Maker system! Locate and collect a variety of floor layouts and styles, decorate your dungeon, select monsters to fill it, and battle through the content you designed to win new rewards!

Beastlords

At last, the Beastlord class returns to Norrath. Seek out new animals throughout the world to train as your warder pet. Work with your warder to build up your strengths and exploit your enemies' weaknesses. In the Age of Discovery, Beastlords will walk the lands of Norrath once again!

Mercenaries

As you travel the lands of Norrath, keep your eyes open for mercenaries who may be for hire. Is your group short-handed? Now you can hire a brave companion to fight by your side, filling a spot in your group or assisting you in a duo. Coin talks, and the mercenaries of the shattered lands are eager to listen. As you travel, be sure to watch out for signature mercenaries who may not normally be available, but who will serve you well and faithfully for a limited time.

Reforging

Ever obtained an item that's just not quite what you wanted? Using the reforging system, you will be able to reconfigure your items to change their stats and even add particle effects!

Tradeskill Apprentice

Claim your tradeskill apprentice and gain your very own minion! Put your apprentice to work researching new recipes for extremely powerful items specific to your tradeskill class. Coach your apprentice to make his or her research more efficient; gain XP and rewards as well as recipes as your apprentice gains in skill.

AA Limit Increase

The AA limit will be increased above the current limit of 300.

[Catnip]

Server's are down for the update and new expansions and for Free-to-play conversion, should be up later tonight (8pm)

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p.s. we are on Splitpaw if anyone wants to say hi :)

[Catnip]

here's a good guide to the new subscription matrix showing what you get for free etc.

http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Membership_Matrix_%28EQ2%29

[ykalon]

So what¨s PL up to in EQ2 nowadays? You doing any raiding?

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http://www.plforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=19059

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Free-to-play is now live, and they are going to make all characters created before 6th December 2011 available to all accounts even if that subscription does not have the relevant class/race pack.

Come back and play all your old characters to lvl 90 for free!!

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=510914

[Banedon]

redling now, had to reget all my usernames lol, lol had 5 of em, 3 have eq2 activated so now to figure out which had the toons, bet non were on splitpaw like

[Catnip]

they moved all from Runnyeye to splitpaw so they should be there, might just have odd names and need renaming

[Catnip]

do a /who all Phoenix and look for anyone in Phoenix Legion for a guild invite, Chilli, Verush or Red can invite but might be on as other names. Guild hall in in South Qeynos

[Yma]

Hey Bane... I'm in Splitpaw too with the funny PL crew, I'm nuking them with babble and questions and the usual afkness, playing as Guardian named Namath (yeah, no Yxxxx) ... come join the madness before they will all quit after my performances :D

[Banedon]

oh ffs lol all my toons are in race locked, and bet class locked aswell, hope that grandfather thing will be soon lol, and none had a name change lol, but there not my nornal names so hey ho,

[Catnip]

I'm on as: Slush, Katnip, Snow, Wadswerth or Allspice

[Banedon]

deleted my assassin so i could play lol wast worried was ony lvl 5, made a mage called banthir as banedon was taken, so once there unlocked ive got garrragos, kraggenskull, banthir and cadfeal.

[Wibbler]

Grr, stupid soe site, hit logon, typed username and password, it then says you must change your password, put in new passwords and it says password incorrect and kicks me out!
When I try "send me my username" it says "this has been used in the last 24 hours" (it hasn't)
When I try "i forgot my password" it says it's emailing me, which never arrives!!!

:(

[Catnip]

:( I know that you can't reset your password more than once in 24 hours, I've got similar issues with SWTOR.

Stick with it, servers were being hot fixed this morning, if you can call support they are actually very helpful.

[Banedon]

well been in and out a bit games good toon now grandfathered in , cant remerb anything on how to play em lol, got a lvl 7 kierra ranger, a dark elf shadow knight, mt kierra warden, and the one i made to use my mage who im using most lol as i can play it properish, just started crafting took the scholar thing for spella but seem i can still make everything so thats confusing.

and still can never get a reply from anyone in pl when i messege em lol. maybe cos i dunno whos who.

spaslord i see, a lot

[Catnip]

look for Redordead/Redwrath she's our deputy GM who does recruitment :), Spaslord is our other Deputy who does f'all and is computer illiterate :)

put your character names here and I'll add them to my friends list :)

[Banedon]

banthir, cadfeal, garrragos, kraggenskull

[Yma]

So far I've only Namath guilded, at least till the 2 trial weeks will be gone, so no chances to mistake me for another one :P

[Chilli]

Hey Banedon, good to see your coming to join us :)

As Cat said, give anyone ingame a /tell to get an inv, Red is on most of the uk day.. look for any toon beginning with 'Red' in the guild, i'm on as either Chillidog, Oathbreaker, Whoyagunna, Fiveoclock or Petpower mostly.. and anyone else if not an officer can refer to one of us.

Catch you ingame.

Chilli