The Year of Darkpaw: An EverQuest® Celebration started with a bang! There is already a lot going on, and so much more to come! You can read about what’s happened so far in the 2023’s Final Producer’s Letter and the 2024’s New Year Post. Before we go too far, let’s take a few moments to recap what happened at the tail end of last year.  

Now, I would like to mention Extra Life and the amazing job you all did with fundraising and donating to help children in need! You all went above and beyond this year, and as such earned a whopping $174,572. This year’s Darkpaw Games page is already up and ready for sign-ups, I have a feeling 2024 will be another banner year! 

Did we mention we have Year of Darkpaw swag for sale now? Head on over to the and grab some great stuff today, like this T-Shirt,  Mouse Pad, and Poster! 

That’s that, so let’s move along to the 2024 Roadmap.

January: 

February: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Soundtrack Volume 2 released on streaming services
    • Masquerades of Divinity
      • Adding January giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
    • Ask Me Anything forum thread
  • Aether Wroughtlands: The Delves [Raid] unlocked
  • Erollisi Day event returns
  • Varsoon unlocks The Shadow Odyssey Mid-Content
    • The Emperor's Athenaeum, Kurn's Tower, Munzok's Material Bastion, Ward of Elements, Miragul's Planar Shard

March: 

  • Chronoportal Phenomenon event returns
    • HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY EVERQUEST!
  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
      • Adding February giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • Brewday Festival event returns
  • Beast’r Eggstravaganza event returns
  • Game Update 125 Beta opens
  • DirectX 11 API Port on Test Server 

April: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
    • Adding March giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
    • Ask Me Anything responses posted
  • Bristlebane Day event returns
  • Game Update 125 launches
  • Varsoon unlocks Sentinel's Fate 

May: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity Altars
    • Adding April giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • DirectX 11 API Port launches
  • New TLE Server Beta opens
    • This is not a TLE, like Varsoon, this will be a different experience. We will be announcing more details soon
  • Patches of Pride event returns 

June: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
    • Adding May giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • Summer Jubilee's Tinkerfest event returns
  • Summer Jubilee's Scorched Sky event returns
  • New TLE Server launches
  • Varsoon unlocks Sentinel's Fate Mid-Content
    • The Icy Keep: Retribution, Underfoot Depths, Zraxth's Unseen Arcanum

July: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
    • Adding June giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated 

August: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
    • Adding July giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • Extra Life incentives announcement
  • Summer Jubilee's Oceansfull Festival event returns
  • Game Update 126 Beta opens
  • Game Update 126 launches
  • Expansion Prelude begins
  • Varsoon unlocks Destiny of Velious 

September: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Masquerades of Divinity
    • Adding August giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • New Panda, Panda, Panda content 

October: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Adding September giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • EverQuest II's 21st expansion beta + Pre-Order opens
  • Nights of the Dead event returns 

November: 

  • Heroes' Festival event returns
    • HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY EVERQUEST II
  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Adding October giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • Extra Life Game Day
  • EverQuest II's 21st expansion launches 

December: 

  • The Year of Darkpaw
    • Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items
    • Adding November giveaway item for purchase
    • Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated
  • Frostfell event returns 

It’s time we Return to our roots, 

Jenn Chan 
Head of Studio 

 

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