Today we had hoped to be able to confirm that the November event, On Bended Knee, would go live this Wednesday, November 10.

Unfortunately Quality Assurance found a number of bugs in the release candidate that would have required a hotfix had that build gone live.

Rather than bring the game up and immediately take it back down again, we have decided to delay the tentative date of the November event until Thursday, November 11.

We expect to be able to confirm this date sometime tomorrow.

Many of you are familiar with what happened when Reeshan entered Dereth. Read about it from the Burun point of view in On Bended Knee, Part Four.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

Read about the Council's efforts to stem the Burun threat in On Bended Knee, Part Three.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

We've just posted three new articles on the Throne of Destiny website!

The November Letter from the Team, with a status update on the ongoing development process.

A Dev Bio of Steve "Ski-Dawg" Kaminsky, Co-Executive Producer of Throne of Destiny.

The Malika and the Individual, a tale of a Gharu'n book merchant on Ispar.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

We've just posted Part Two of the On Bended Knee teaser.

Read it here!


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

We've just posted part one of the November teaser, as well as four teaser screenshots!

See them here!

Give us your feedback here!


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

Everquest II
Learning from EQII
Arggggg

I had just finished off the Warrior and was running north, towards the Muts. I got a hit on Bandit about one of the two named Tummies. I was not sure which one it was, it had been so long since I had seen either. I was hoping it was the skill guy, but I would also use the drum. Useful item at times.

So I charged in. Being that I’ve put zero xp into magic defense, Olthoi don’t toss spells, I knew there was some danger. I did take a lot of damage, but I was killing them so fast I knew there was no real danger.

I was sitting at about 40hp when the battle ended. I decided to heal before looting, as you never know what nasty thing might spawn on top of you out there. So, to my shock, I found myself in a portal tunnel. I was confused. Did Turbine make a change to something? Is there some new adventure awaiting you after killing this guy?



http://www.crackednuts.com/asheron/index.php3?journal=3

Five years ago, new portals opened from Ispar into Dereth and a wave of adventurers arrived. Since that time we have overcome many challenges and seen our society grow and prosper. In celebration of that day and in honor of the heroes who have found glory and riches, the Council has decreed that fireworks shall be set off at the bronze statues in the cities of Dereth.

We've just posted a new article, The Origins and Current Disposition of Viamont.

Read it here!
Discuss the article here!


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

Special Holiday Prices for AC:DM, AC2FK @ Direct2Drive

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We're very excited to announce that both Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty and Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings can now be purchased at a special holiday rate of $9.99 on Direct2Drive. Act quickly though, as this particular promotion is a limited-time offer.

Participating in this promotion will make available to you the usual 30 days of free play and one Turbine-issued key. As such, these keys will be utilizing Turbine's new billing system and must be registered through Turbine (as opposed to Microsoft's billing).

Stay tuned for other promotions and new ad campaigns in the coming weeks. We'd like to thank Direct2Drive for making the first of these possible.
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Jason 'Aldryth' Carroll
AC1 Online Community Relations

Read the LttP here.

Give us your feedback here.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

Read a quick bio of Jessica Mulligan, the Executive Producer of Asheron's Call here.

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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

Read about a day in the life of a lead artist in this new Dev Diary.

Read the article here.

Give us your feedback here.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

The contest starts Wednesday the 27th and ends Thursday the 28th. Visit our forums to keep your eye out for that contest and good luck!
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Tinker goals
One down, nine to go
Depressing discovery
VoD Adventures
Olthoi Armor
Fists Armor
Non-AC stuff


Mezra had maneuvered the Big Boy behind two trees. Given his size, you can use two widely separated trees for this. The first time he tried that, the Big Boy was able to port back to his spawn site. I’m not sure if Mezra used two different trees, or if the addiction of melee attackers fixed that problem.

When I arrived, Tinquar was hacking away. He looked to be using a staff. At 94 level, and a weak weapon, I was not sure how effective he could be, but he was bravely hacking on him. I joined in the attack.

We had him in a three-way triangle attack. Tinquar and me had him pinned to the trees, and Mezra had the tip of the triangle. He was smartly using wall spells on him. I had read that, because of his size, wall spells are every effective on Big Boy. I was hitting for 150 with 450 critical hits. Given the weapon, I was hitting critical’s more often than not.



http://www.crackednuts.com/asheron/index.php3?journal=3

We've just posted the first look at one of Throne of Destiny's creatures -- the Viamontian Knight.

Check it out here.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

AC QA Positions

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We're looking for some more good AC testers as we ramp up for the expansion pack. These positions are in Westwood, MA, and can't be done from remote.

If you're interested, click here!
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Alex "Ibn" Beckers
AC1 Online Community Relations

Click here for a brief Q&A with the Lead Artist of Throne of Destiny, Shuggypud.


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Alex Beckers
Asheron's Call 1 Online Community Relations
Turbine Entertainment Software

EQ2Stratics and SoE are pleased to announce a house of commons with the developers of EverQuest2 on Thursday, October 21st. It will be at 5pm PDT in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

After the HoC, we will be giving away 10 Beta Invitations, so stick around for a chance to win one of these beta slots

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client, such as mIRC, ircle, xchat, or whichever you prefer. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6667 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6667, USA - Colorado


• irc.glowfish.de port 6667, EU - Germany


• stratics.afraidyet.net 6667, USA - Atlanta


• irc.epaxsys.net port 6667, USA - Colorado

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.