EQ2 Chronoportal Event, Moonlight Enchantments, and more

There's a few things going on in Everquest 2 this week. One is the annual Chronoportal Event which starts today and runs until the 28th. This event comes around during original Everquest's birthday. EQ is celebrating 13 years this year. During the event you can hop through portals in 8 different zones which take you to an instance that might bring back some memories of your EQ days. The instances are intended for groups but as an Illusionist I found all but the Lavastorm portals soloable when using a tank mercenary like the Shadowknight. Each instance is a different level and you are automatically mentored down to an appropriate level. You will not however have your level raised should you want to do an instance much higher than your actual adventure level. The instances have an 18 hour lock out after you kill a named. The final boss of each will drop a chest containing 2 platinum coins, an adornment and some gear that is appropriate to the level of the instance. From what I can tell all items are tradeable or heirloom so you can give the items from the lower level instances to your alts. You can spend the platinum coins at merchants in Antonica and Commonlands. They sell replicas of the bosses for your home, books, paintings and a harp. HERE is all the details over at ZAM.

Also today and tomorrow is Moonlight Enchantments. This is the monthly event where mushroom rings pop up in certain zones and you complete quests for tokens to buy house and vanity items. HERE's the post I have written about them in the past.

There will be a new backpack on the Marketplace soon. The devs couldn't keep the news to themselves so they gave us a preview. The backpack called the Heraldry Flag Backpack holds a flag which will display your guild's logo on it. No word on the price yet.

I also missed posting about the latest Marketplace items so here they are...

Shadowforged Cinder Gi- 1200SC

Guilded Vanity Set- 400SC

Dragon Fang- 500SC

Neriak City Festival this week in EQ2

The Neriak City Festival started at midnight and will continue until the 7th. There are some new items at the city fest this time around. Just like last month's Kelethin festival different shaped blocks and dividers have been added to match the Neriak blue marble theme. Along with the blocks there is also a new Neriak roof tile. The festival items are purchased with city tokens which can be earned in many ways. One way is available at any time by doing crafting or adventuring writs. A faster way is to wait until the festival comes around and pick up one of the repeatable quests at the festival. I find doing the crafting quest is the fastest way as I can place a portable stove and keg right at the quest giver. A final way to earn tokens is by doing the aether race. Doing these races in a certain amount of time will also give you a title. Each city has a different one. Here are some helpful links about City Festivals. Have fun.

• General City Festival Info
• Aether Race Info
• City Fest Items
• Neriak Specific Items (newest items not shown)

Moonlight Enchantments 20th-21st

Erollisi Day celebrations are ending tonight but there's always something to do in EQ2 even though I'm a bit late in posting this since it already started, you still have another day left to get your Moonlighting on. If you're unfamiliar with Moonlight Enchantments here are more of those nifty guides on ZAM and EQ2traders.

The event occurs on the 20th and 21st of every month. During these 2 days in Antonica, Darklight Wood, Enchanted Lands, Nektulos Forest and Greater Faydark (exact locations can be found on the guide links) rings of tiny mushrooms spawn. Each ring can be clicked on which zones you into a small solo instance. Each zone's instance is different. There are 1-2 quests in each instance. One of the quests in the Darklight Wood instance requires you to have an artisan level of 2 and asks you to create rootbeer using supplies found in the instance. This quest is repeatable which comes in handy because each quest rewards a token. The tokens can be used to purchase items from merchants in each instance. You can grind out as many tokens as you wish to purchase items from the merchants until your time runs out on the 21st. Most of the items are nature themed house items like trees, grass tiles, flowers and animal plushies though there are a few appearance gear and mount items as well. Each instance also has 1 purple shiny located in it. Only one purple shiny will spawn per instance for each character that month. You can alt hop and get the purple shiny from each instance on all of your characters and hope to complete some of the collections but unless you have a TON of alts and a TON of time it might take the event coming around next month to complete them.

Well that's all I have to say about that.