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Good News for Veteran EQ players!

As part of EverQuest's 6th Anniversary celebration, the game team is giving current EQ players (based on your total subscription length) one special Veteran Reward for every year that you've been an active EverQuest subscriber! This is very good news for six year vets! It means that you'll be getting six Veteran Rewards!

Note: you'll find the Veteran Rewards tab in the game's AA user interface.

Even better news: From April 11th to May 11th, any current EQ player can purchase a one-year EQ subscription for a special price ($99.99) and get next year’s Veteran Reward (based upon total subscription time) at no additional cost! And, for you six year veteran EQ players, this is a chance to get an exclusive 7th year Veteran Reward at no additional cost.

A special note: Veteran Rewards remain with each character for as long as that character exists. For every year that a player has been subscribed, they will be able to claim the Rewards on one character.

Veteran Rewards are as follows:

Year 1
Lesson of the Devoted: A character will gain double-XP for 30-minutes every 24 hours. When this reward is in effect, the character will be surrounded by a special blue-white glow.

Year 2
Infusion of the Faithful: This reward grants increased run speed for 15 minutes once every 24 hours.

Year 3
Chaotic Jester: Once every 24 hours, a character can summon a Bristlebane puppet for 15 minutes. During that time, the puppet randomly casts various spells that provide benefits or minor penalties.

Year 4
Expedient Recovery: Once a week, this "Back to New" reward summons all of a player's corpses back to him, and gives back all XP that was on the corpses.

Year 5
Steadfast Servant: Once every 24 hours, a creature is summoned that stays in the area for a half hour, buffing and healing player characters nearby.

Year 6
Staunch Recovery: Once every three days, a character is healed back to full health, mana, and endurance.

Year 7
Intensity of the Resolute: Once every 24 hours, a character's melee attacks, damage spells and heals are increased for five minutes. When this reward is in effect, the character will be surrounded by a glow of energy.









Confirmed by Kytherea in a thread in vetrans forums that this is for real and going into effect May 11th.

Discuss!

LOL this sounds like an April Fool's thing. Is it for real...FOR REAL?

two devs, including rashere, have posted that it is indeed real.

I hope they mean 24 hours game time. These kinda suck.

Nope, it's obviously 24 real hours. If it were 24 game hours, then you'd get double exp 50% of the time....

how is stuff like this, that we get for free, suck? they sure are better than the 0 of these we have now. they don't take extra grinding to get or anything, and how ever many years you've been playing, you can do each of these for that many characters. so if you've been playing 6 years, you can give all 6 legacy aa's to 6 differant toons. sounds nice to me.

Whats crazy is the game has been around long enough to offer a 7th year reward.

'..one special Veteran Reward for every year that you've been an active EverQuest subscriber! This is very good news for six year vets! It means that you'll be getting six Veteran Rewards!'

- I'm glad they did the sums for us.

I can see it now.......


Oh Noes!!!!! We got screwed by XXXX guild. We were setting up in YYYY zone for the Scooby Doo, and they brought about 50 people into the zone and all summoned their Bristlebane puppets, and crashed the zone!!! We demand the phat loots we were screwed out of, or we will create another 150 post thread griefing them!

Probably just something to make people pay the one year subscribtion because they know the game will die long before that...

"Long" before that? Even with the server contraction, the game has YEARS left on it.

Let's put it this way: Ultima Online still exists.

I agree...EQ will still be around, but it will not be, (and isn't right now i'd think) the juggernaut it used to be. EQ had its time in the sun, now other mmo's will come out to replace it...

Even now, with my retirement, I tire of the doomsayers.

The game is still around and is still vibrant for folks...

Shuddup or put up...

Fandros

Although with Anquish,GOD, and DoN, beat for some of the top end guilds..wonder what Sony has in the works to keep those folks busy!

I'm sure there's still some guy playing UO, still saying how UO will never die and that stupid EQ game can never kill UO.

I like it :)

It'd be interesting to see the activation time on a couple of those.

Can you use the exp anniversary potion with the exp veteran reward and get quad exp? =)

Actually there will more than likely never be a game that made a impact like Everquest did when it was the Top Dog, Why you ask? Everquest had very mininmal if any at all MMo's to compete with.. Market these days are flooded with MMO's i havent even heard of just check out MMorpg.com or whatever there is a huge list.

i cant find where the veteran awward is under aa's .. any help?

Comes with the next patch I think... I would look up the link but I'm too tired. It's Monday and I want to go home.