EverQuest II: A reference
Websites
Resource | Description |
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EQ2i | The most expansive wiki for EverQuest 2, contains information about practically everything. |
EQ2Furniture | An expansive website with information about house items, and a searchable database where you can look up how to craft certain items, or list all items in a given recipie book - complete with screenshots. |
EQ2 Traders Corner | Loads of useful information for tradeskilling, on house items and event quests. |
Tools
Tool | Description |
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EQ2U | Character and item information, directly from the DBG servers. |
Number helper | EverQuest II's numbers for i.e. damage dealt or amount healed have grown extremely large and can be hard to wrap your head around. This tool helps you by breaking down the numbers and allowing you to quickly compare two sets of numbers (ie. old grandmaster spell values vs. new adept). Works well on a phone so you can enter values while in-game. |
Direct links to useful resources
Resource | Description |
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All overseer quests | A list of (almost) all |
Ballads of Zimara timeline | A list and guide for the various questlines in the Renewal of Ro expansion. There are similar pages on the wiki for all expansions and other major questlines. |
Familiars wild wiki page | Contains information about where to find the creatures needed for the |
Game update notes | Lists the latest patch notes for the live game, as well as archives of previous updates. |
List of slash commands | A list of all the various commands you can use in-game, for instance in macros. |
The EverQuest II discord | A discord server frequented by developers and designers, as well as many players. A handy place to find information and ask questions. |
Tradeskill timeline | A list and guide for all of the main tradeskill questlines in the game. |
RoR guide for returning players | Once you have finished |
Terminology, systems and features
Terminology | Description |
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/claim | Your account or character may be entitled to receive certain items, for instance pre-order or /claim or by selecting "Claim" from the EQII menu. |
AA | "Alternate advancement", a way to customize your character by spending points to gain passive and active abilities. |
Adornments | Items that can be applied/socketed into equpment, enhancing their stats. You can remove adornments from items safely using the adornment reclamation ability that you can purchase from any class trainer. The adornments can then be reused and applied to a different item. |
Alternate currency | In-game currency that's not the usual coin. For instance currency gained for doing event quests, like during |
Bonus prestige point | Special |
Breakout [housing] | Breaking free of the usual boundaries of the house. Lets you build on larger areas normally not accessible. |
Broker | Player-to-player selling of items for in-game currency. Equivalent to market board or auction house in other MMOs. Members can access it anywhere from the EQ2 menu for free, non-members need to visit specific Broker NPCs and use broker credits. |
Call of the tinkerer, Orbs of reconciliation | Crafted ( |
Charged overseer quest | A special type of |
Chat channel | An in-game serverwide (or even cross-server) channel that you can chat in. By default you're joined to several, like the frequently useful General channel. |
CoV | Call of the veteran, an item that lets you port directly to anyone (or port anyone to you). Granted as a 6th year |
Companion pet | A pet that follows you around and, in most cases, gives you stat bonuses. Often offered as part of the collector's edition of an expansion. You can hide it from view by right clicking on it and selecting "pet options". |
DBC | Daybreak cash. The in-game currency bought with real money (or gotten as a 500 DBC stipend each month for being a member). Used to purchase items or services from the |
Daily reset | The time your daily quests, objectives and server-defined actions (like the number of |
Dhalgar's Last Call, Stein of Recollection, Stein of the Alesmith | A spell (Dhalgar) and items (Steins) that lets you bind at taverns/bars throughout Norrath, and then use the spell/item to return there. This can let you teleport to zones that don't usually have any way to teleport to. The spell is granted from the meta collection Banners of Thalumbra from |
Epic 2.0 | This is the second "epic" questline, which unlocks a special set of class-specific spells. The questline is no longer required to acquire the spells, you may purchase apprentice versions from the NPC Maesy Colmiter located in either Sanctus Seru or The Blinding once you reach adventure level 120. Higher quality versions of them can be crafted by any crafter that has scribed Awakened Abilities (you must scribe the apprentice version first, and then each subsequent tier to upgrade). |
Epic repercussions | This questline grants you a spell equivalent to the old "Epic 1.0" weapons. In order to complete this questline you need to be able to speak Draconic, which you can learn by completing To Speak as a Dragon. |
Event Slot | An item/character slot added during summer 2023. It is intended for certain special items obtainable through live events. For now only the "plume" items from the 2023 Summer Jubilee (encompassing tinkerfest, scorched sky and oceansfull). |
Faction | What many other games call reputation. Defines how much NPCs belonging to said faction likes (or dislikes) you. Good faction can unlock quests, merchants and other advantages. Bad faction might make the NPCs attack you on sight. Faction ranges from -50K (hates you) to +50K (loves you). The individual steps are -40K (scowls), -30K (threatening), -20K (dubious), -10K (apprenhensive), 0 (indifferent), 10K (amiable), 20K (kindly), 30K (warmly), 40K (ally). |
Familiar | A special pet that any class can summon that grants a buff. This pet can be leveled, most commonly through familiar XP potions that you get from |
Fast travel/quick access teleport | If you are a member, you may teleport to almost any overland zone instantly by clicking the icon in the upper left corner of your map (accessed through the EQ2 menu, or by default by pressing "m"). Free accounts may also use this for a fee. |
Fertilizer treasure | Items that can be exchanged for |
Frostfell | The yule event in Norrath. Usually available in December. |
Guide quests | Quests given out by guides (special players). Usually grants pretty good rewards, but only offered at specific times. Make sure you are in your servers General chat channel, as they're usually announced there. |
Heroic opportunity | A chain of abilities that once executed grants a greater effect than the abilities on their own. In group settings several group members contribute to the same heroic opportunity. Each archetype has their own triggering ability that starts an heroic opportunity: Arcane Augur for mages, Divine Providence for priests, Fighting Chance for fighters and Lucky Break for scouts. |
Housing | Players may own an in-game home (or several), which can be decorated with special house items that you can get from many different sources. |
Krono | A tradeable item bought for real money that once consumed grants 30 days of membership to your account. Can be bought and sold on the |
Loyalty token | A token that you get for completing certain daily objectives. Can be used to purchase house items, appearance equipment, |
Marketplace | In-game real money store, where various perks like |
Membership | A term used to denote people that pay the monthly subscription fee. Unlocks use of the |
Mercenary | An NPC that will group with you and assist you in combat. Can be leveled, opening up item slots where you can use special mercenary gear, or regular gear. The stats on the gear apply to the mercenary. |
Mount equipment | You can level your mount, opening up equipment slots. Stats on these items apply to your character. |
Named mob/Name | A mob that has a non-generic name (ie. "Lucan" instead of "A Freeport soldier"). These are genereally stronger enemies/bosses. |
Overseer | A system that lets you send out minions on automated quests, where they bring back loot to you. See the wiki for details. |
Overseer bag | A separate bag, introduced with overseer season 5 (2023), that can only contain rewards from the |
PQ/Public Quest | A time limited quest in a specific location that anyone in the zone can join and assist in completing, gaining rewards. Somewhat akin to world quests or FATEs in other MMOs. |
Panda quests | The panda quests (a.k.a. the "travels" of Yun Zi) is a catchup questline that grants you, among other things, some mounts, loads of house items etc. If you have flying and a membership this doesn't take long. In the panda store, for 2021 items search "jubilee", for 2022 search "collector", for 2023 search "botanist". |
Plat | Platinum coins, the main in-game currency. |
Prestige [item] | Items that require a |
Prestige housing | Special rent-free houses, usually either bought on the /claim |
Resolve | Resolve is a gatekeeping stat. If your resolve is lower than your targets resolve, then your damage dealt will decrease X% amount and damage received will increase X% amount, where X is the difference between your resolve and the targets. For instance, if your resolve is 1000, and the targets is 1100, your damage is reduced 100%, ie. you do no damage. Having a higher resolve than the target has no benefit. It is primarily a stat that indicates what kinds of dungeons and raids you are geared for, and is mainly useful at max level. |
Set recall point | The ability Set Recall Point is used to change where you appear when using the Call to Home ability (also sometimes called your bind point). You may use this in any location in a city of your alignment to change your call to home to that location. |
Shiny | Shinies are items that you can find on the ground which can then be added to collections, and complete collections can be turned in for rewards. The name comes from the appearance of uncollected items in-game: they are shiny spots on the ground. |
Signature quest | A main story quest that's pretty much required. Equivalent to campaign (order hall, war, covenant), or main scenario quest (MSQ) in other MMOs. |
Veteran rewards | Rewards given out based on subscription time (and, earlier, based on expansion ownership). This has largely been replaced with |
Vitality | A pool of bonus experience that regenerates by around 0.5% each real-life hour. When you have vitality you will gain 200% bonus experience. There are separate pools for adventure and tradeskill experience. There are ways to refill your vitality if you run out, purchased with |
Wardrobe | A special inventory where you can store items for appearance use. The items themselves can not be used as regular items any more, but they do not take up any bag or bank space. Additional slots can be purchased for |
Weekly reset | The time available weekly quests refresh. This is Thursday at 11 PM PST, which is in your local time zone. |
Tradeskill terminology, systems and features
Terminology | Description |
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Adorning | |
Blueprints | The tradeskill blueprint system is unlocked by being a member and tradeskill level 125. It lets you auto-craft recipies that you have crafted previously. |
Bountiful harvest | Increases your chance to get additional items when harvesting. See the harvesting stats guide on EQ2 traders for information on how to increase this. |
Gathering Goblin | An |
Harvest bag | Also known as Artisan's Harvest Stash. A special 44 slot bag that can only contain harvests, but that comes in addition to all your other bags. Unlocked by completing the Planes of Prophecy crafting questline. |
Pack pony | A pony you can summon that can be sent out to harvest for you. Unlocked by completing up to part 10 of the "A gathering obsession" questline. Completing the entire questline upgrades your pony to also gather rares and holiday harvests. Completing up to part 3 of the Planes of Prophecy tradeskill questline unlocks "autonomous harvesting", which lets the pack pony automatically harvest from nodes around you when you're out in the world. |
Rare harvest chance | Increases your chance to get rare items when harvesting. See the harvesting stats guide on EQ2 traders for information on how to increase this. |
Red shiny | Special tradeskill |
Secondary tradeskills | Adorning, tinkering and transmuting. These are tradeskills that all characters can pick up, regardless of which primary tradeskill they have. Antizark gaming has a good video on leveling secondary tradeskills. Secondary tradeskills go up to 5*your highest level (as of BoZ, skill level 650). |
Shadow harvesting | Harvesting of specific shadow nodes. The shadow prospecting skill allows you to harvest the nodes, while Shadowed Staff of Luclin lets you see them. You gain both the skill and the staff by completing the Blood of Luclin tradeskill questline. |
Tinkering | |
Transmuting |
Addons
Terminology | Description |
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DarqUI Unified | A UI addon that enhances almost every UI component. Improves the default UI by a lot. Includes |
EQ2Maps | Adds a huge amount of useful information to your in-game map, as well as maps for zones that don't have any by default. Essential. |
Advanced combat tracker (ACT) | A program that reads your chat log and reacts to events with notifications, for instance about boss mechanics. |
Returning player
Here are some concepts that should get you back up to speed.
Concept | Description |
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Overseer | A system that lets you send out minions on automated quests, where they bring back loot to you. See the wiki for details. |
Familiar | A special pet that any class can summon that grants a buff. This pet can be leveled, most commonly through familiar XP potions that you get from |
Wardrobe | A special inventory where you can store items for appearance use. The items themselves can not be used as regular items any more, but they do not take up any bag or bank space. Additional slots can be purchased for |
Mount equipment | You can level your mount, opening up equipment slots. Stats on these items apply to your character. |
Fast travel/quick access teleport | If you are a member, you may teleport to almost any overland zone instantly by clicking the icon in the upper left corner of your map (accessed through the EQ2 menu, or by default by pressing "m"). Free accounts may also use this for a fee. |
Panda quests | The panda quests (a.k.a. the "travels" of Yun Zi) is a catchup questline that grants you, among other things, some mounts, loads of house items etc. If you have flying and a membership this doesn't take long. In the panda store, for 2021 items search "jubilee", for 2022 search "collector", for 2023 search "botanist". |
Event Slot | An item/character slot added during summer 2023. It is intended for certain special items obtainable through live events. For now only the "plume" items from the 2023 Summer Jubilee (encompassing tinkerfest, scorched sky and oceansfull). |
Ascension classes | "Ascension classes" were added in the Kunark Ascending expansion. They are essentially seperately leveled subclasses that are independent of your primary class, which grants you several new abilities. Max level for ascension classes is 25. The |
Free gear chest | At the beginning of all recent expansions (usually close to the zonein to the first overland zone), starting with |
Reforging/infusion | Reforging has been removed as of the |
RoR guide for returning players | Once you have finished |
Summer ethereals | A summer event where you get a currency for doing daily and weekly quest. Once started the event is usually active until the new one starts the following summer. Even if a new expansion has launched since the ethereal event, it can be useful to get some ethereal currency, as you can buy a mount and |
VoV guide for returning players | On the forums there is an excellent guide called Visions of Vetrovia Guide for Beginners (or Returning Players) that will help you get back up to speed. |
Video guides | Antizark gaming has several useful video guides that can help you get up to speed: stats, leveling tinkering, adorning and transmuting, macroing, DPS, tanking, healing and more. |
DarqUI Unified | A UI addon that enhances almost every UI component. Improves the default UI by a lot. Includes |
YouTubers and content creators
Channel | Description |
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Antizark gaming | EverQuest II video news and guides. |
The EverQuest Show | EverQuest and EverQuest II news and commentary, see also everquestshow.com. |
Live events
Upcoming and ongoing time-limited in-game events.
October 2024 | |
Nights of the Dead | 11 Oct - 05 Nov. |
Moonlight enchantments | 20 - 22 Oct. |
November 2024 | |
Freeport city festival | 01 - 08 Nov. |
Heroes' Festival | 08 - 19 Nov. |
Moonlight enchantments | 20 - 22 Nov. |
December 2024 | |
Frostfell | 03 Dec 2024 - 03 Jan 2025. |
Expansions and adventure packs
This table contains all the EverQuest 2 expansions and adventure packs in release order, along with the most notable changes in the release. Note that features that are no longer relevant (like infusing) are omitted from the description.
Pack | Description |
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The Bloodline Chronicles (2005) | Adventure pack. Added new dungeons and quests. Questlines: adventure. |
The Splitpaw Saga (2005) | Adventure pack. Added destructible environment, new dungeons, raids and quests. The main quest zones scale to the character's level. Questlines: adventure. |
Desert of Flames (DoF, 2005) | Expansion. Increased level cap to 60. Added the continent of the Desert of Ro. Questlines: adventure. |
The Fallen Dynasty (2006) | Adventure pack. Added the the Isle of Mara. Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Kingdom of Sky (KoS, 2006) | Expansion. Increased level cap to 70, added Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Echoes of Faydwer (EoF, 2006) | Expansion. Increased the Questlines: adventure. |
Rise of Kunark (RoK, 2007) | Expansion. Increased level cap (adventure/tradeskill/guild) to 80, added new Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
The Shadow Odyssey (TSO, 2008) | Expansion. Increased the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Sentinel's Fate (SF, 2010) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 90, new Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Destiny of Velious (DoV, 2011) | Expansion. Increased the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Age of Discovery (AoD, 2011) | Feature expansion. Increased the |
Chains of Eternity (CoE, 2012) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 95 and added two zones in the Ethernere (the Norrathian afterlife). Questlines: adventure. |
Tears of Veeshan (ToV, 2013) | Expansion. Increased the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Altar of Malice (AoM, 2014) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 100, new prestige Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Rum Cellar (2015) | Adventure pack. Added a new questline and associated dungeons and raids. Questlines: adventure. |
Terrors of Thalumbra (ToT, 2015) | Expansion. Added level agnostic dungeons, and the area Thalumbra in the norrathian underfoot. Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Kunark Ascending (KA, 2016) | Expansion. Added Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Planes of Prophecy (PoP, 2017) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 110, the ascension level cap to 15, guild level cap to 250, added Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Chaos Descending (CD, 2018) | Expansion. Increased the ascension level cap to 20, increased the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Blood of Luclin (BoL, 2019) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 120, added the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Reign of Shadows (RoS, 2020) | Expansion. Added new Reign of Shadows prestige Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Visions of Vetrovia (VoV, 2021) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 125, added the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Renewal of Ro (RoR, 2022) | Expansion. Increased the Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
Ballads of Zimara (BoZ, 2023) | Expansion. Increased the level cap to 130, added the advanced research system and chrono dungeons. Expanded the Overrealm. Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |
(unreleased) Scars of Destruction (SoD, 2024) | Expansion. Added the Petamorph Key Ring and Weapon Auras. Expanded the continent of Velious. Questlines: adventure, tradeskill. |