Scheduled EverQuest Server Maintenance – 7/18/2006 4:00am
Downtime Update
All EverQuest servers will be coming down at 4:00 AM PDT (-7 UTC) on Tuesday 7/18/2006 for a game update. Estimated downtime is 6 hours.
EverQuest login servers will also be updated during this maintenance. Users may experience issues logging into the EverQuest Live, Test and Escape to Norrath servers throughout the duration of this maintenance.
The EverQuest Operations Team
Another good turnout (thanks to everyone for supporting the alliance raids). A quick blast through Carprin and Bertox got another few folk that vital step closer to their full EP flags. Good work from everyone staying focussed and our quickest clear yet.
We moved from CoD to Lavastorm, to try our hand for the third time at Volkara. We knew we had the right strat the previous two attempts, but we were a little low on numbers and practice always helps. So we went in tonight with plenty of confidence. This time we set the rampage order nice and deep and when Volkara finally sauntered into our cavern, we jumped and nailed the 8 legged freak to the ground. We were slightly over-run by the last batch of eggs but enough people survived to get us rezzed back in, next time it’ll be even tidier again. The picture on the left is the ‘before’ picture.
And here’s the after … phear my l33t image skills.
After laying waste to Volkara, quite a few folk had to go but we managed to get 3 or 4 groups into the Plane of Earth to go and play with the biggest Crocodile in the Planes. A scrappy fight (we got an add through the door) but a frantic and fun one. Grats to everyone who held on to the end. I dropped to 0% health at the same time that the Croc did, but I regened 1 tick of health and he died 
Grats to those who got loot and thanks for helping us get another key to another door in the long arc of PoP progression.
Sony have released the first teaser for their latest EQ expansion. Check the link on their main site here. Features include a new playable race (Drakkin, some kind of Dragon Hybrid), a level cap increase up to level 75, content in the expansion covering levels 1-75 (never leave the Serpent Spine Mountains!), New Starting City, plus all the usual stuff.
Quickest 3 backflagging kills to-date for TNF, MB / AD and MM dispatched double-quick to complete the EP flags on a few more of our raiders. As mentioned briefly in rsay, TNF is looking at Coirnav and Xegony at some point in the future so we’re just topping up our flags to ensure we have enough to take on those targets when the time comes. Excellent work from everyone.
Tirranun fell to us again, the poor dragon really does stand no chance, and this kill was the smoothest yet (although the last phase was rougher than last time, we came through it to defeat the beast). Late into the raid, when many had to rest we took in Volkara, and were defeated with the spider hanging onto life by only a thread (6%!). Next time she’ll fall and another of the DoN progression targets will be ours.