4/3/25 12:00 PM
With a quarter of 2025 already gone, it’s time for a recap and a quick look at what’s coming up!
In mid-February, new Perks were released! All-Access members can choose to add one, all, or a combination of perks to their monthly subscription for a nominal fee and gain access to some great accouterments like a consumable's storage tab, Artisan’s Cache, movement speed buff and more! Be sure to head to the Perks page and take a look at what is available!
I’d also like to pass along a reminder that our Darkpaw Swag Store is still up! If you have ideas or suggestions of what you’d like to see included there, please send them by Norrathian Express to Angeliana.
Fundraising for Extra Life has already started! This year’s Darkpaw Games page is up and ready for sign-ups. Check out our handy Extra Life Guide for more details. Stay tuned for an article detailing our incentives in the coming months. We look forward to surpassing our goal once again this year with your help.
Now, onto what has happened so far this year. We’ve had a bunch of Raid unlocks for Scars of Destruction in January and February. Anashti Sul unlocked Desert of Flames, Varsoon unlocked Chains of Eternity and Cobalt Scar mid-content. Erollisi Day made its yearly appearance with new items, new markables, and a ton of past content! We put out EverQuest’s The Outer Brood and EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansions music together onto streaming services for your listening pleasure!
The Chronoportal Phenomenon returned to help us celebrate 26 years of EverQuest with new content and markables, achievements and a new Raid! Brewday Festival and Bristlebane Day both arrived with all new weapon auras, markables, merchant items, and much more!
January
February
March
There's just so much to look forward to these coming months! Also, later this month, Game Update 128 will launch. As always, I appreciate those of you who took the time to help Beta Test this Game Update and reported bugs to the game team. The launch of the GU will also see 3 new Raid unlocks, so get ready!
Beast’r Eggstravaganza will be coming back; hop around Norrath and gather up all the eggs you can! At the end of May, Patches of Pride will return with new familiars to add to your collection. Anashti Sul will unlock Kingdom of Sky and Varsoon will unlock Tears of Veeshan. And last, but far from least, Summer Jubilee’s Tinkerfest will begin in June and get us ready for summertime!
April
May
June
In Game Update 128: Lure of Darkness (Yyu see what I did there? Bam!) a cult of Void zealots has made themselves known to Norrath, calling themselves the Cult of Vul. They claim to have been inspired by the old writings of a renegade shadowman named Ssynthi. Their numbers swelled recently after Bellengere the Three began influencing the cult's members, claiming power from the Void can be tapped by its members. His message cast a wide net, and gained the attention of the downtrodden, the gullible… and the greedy. The revelation of the Void anchor constructed in the Sodden Archipelago was met with elation by the cult, and they answered in swift numbers. You don’t have to be Lady Najena to know that their excitement could mean our downfall! Will you be the one to stop them?
Lure of Darkness will launch on April 8, 2025 at 12:00 P.M. (noon) PST. Join forces to stop the spread of the darkness and save those who need your help.
In even more fun news, I’d like to take the time to announce a new Origins PvP server coming out this summer! We are taking it old school with the server and starting in The Shattered Lands era with the 2006 balancing and systems. The name of the server will be Dozekar. It'll launch in June with unlocks happening at 4 months up to Kingdom of Sky, where it will remain locked. Beta for this server begins at 12:00 P.M. (noon) PST on May 13, 2025.
Reading this pun will Void all warranties,
(it's too far, isn't it?)
Jenn Chan
Head of Studio
©2015-2025 Daybreak Game Company LLC. All Rights Reserved.