How to get started in Sentinel's Fate

[Kiara]

<p align="center"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/logo/EQSF_logo_300_blackbg_bordered.jpg" width="300" height="163" /></p> <p align="center"><strong>How to get started in Sentinel's Fate</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Odus!</p> <p>To get started exploring, please visit any wizard spire. You will be transported to the Sundered Frontier, which will be the first area you'll wish to explore.</p> <p>Once you step into the Sundered Frontier, there will be representatives from your home cities who will be glad to show you the ropes and get you started.</p> <p>There are also rumors of a very excited gnome near the Sundered Frontier wizard spires who is just as eager for adventure!</p>

[TheSpin]

<p>I find myself wondering if there is any way to get to the Sentinel's Fate zones other than the wizard spire.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>TheSpin wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I find myself wondering if there is any way to get to the Sentinel's Fate zones other than the wizard spire.</p></blockquote><p>Nope!</p>

[andycunny]

<p>There is a druid ring in sundered frontier also, but obviously this requires the bush there to be collected.  the 2nd overland zone (stonebrunt highlands) is only reachable by going through the sundered frontier.</p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">Perhaps the Gnomes will establish an Flying boat ride past Luclin's Daggers and into the Rift to Odus <em>(Sorry fan Idea was thinking of putting it in a fanfiction)</em>. BTW is <span ><span><span></span></span><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=186913�">Talysra’s Paw and the Ebb Chain</a></span></span><span style="color: #00cc00;"><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=186913�" target="_blank"> Islands</a> in Erud's Crossing part of the kidnapped lands or still fate unkown?</span></p>

[Galithdor]

<p>The gnome is way to eager, dont fall for it! He makes you do rigorous tasks for ERUDITES <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>But yeah, you can only get to SF through the spire, until you get the bush anyways.</p>

[Calthine]

<p>Don't forget, there will be a new Spire Guild Hall Amenity.</p><p>BTW, I find the shortest, most agro-free spire to get to is in Enchanted Lands.  It's usually jsut a few short hops to get there and very little agro along the beach to it..</p>

[Finora]

<p>=) I usally use a druid port from a guild hall (there are many guilds that leave theirs open for public use if your guild doesn' t have one) and go to Antonica. Just a very safe climb from the druid rings there to the wizard spires.</p><p>For those that can't/don't want to do that Zek spires are equally easy to get too and 100% agro free (as long as you don't decide to swim and visit other islands). Beware coming to/from the EL spires. I discovered quite by accident over the Erollisi holiday that an agro fairy occassionally spawns between that first tree and the beach. She's in agro range of any one running along the shore there. It's rare (Been playing since launch and don't recall her there in the last 3 years at least when I've come through) but a nasty surprise if you aren't looking for her.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Finora@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>=) I usally use a druid port from a guild hall (there are many guilds that leave theirs open for public use if your guild doesn' t have one) and go to Antonica. Just a very safe climb from the druid rings there to the wizard spires.</p><p>For those that can't/don't want to do that Zek spires are equally easy to get too and 100% agro free (as long as you don't decide to swim and visit other islands). Beware coming to/from the EL spires. I discovered quite by accident over the Erollisi holiday that an agro fairy occassionally spawns between that first tree and the beach. She's in agro range of any one running along the shore there. It's rare (Been playing since launch and don't recall her there in the last 3 years at least when I've come through) but a nasty surprise if you aren't looking for her.</p></blockquote><p>There's three of those agro fairies in the "safe" area, they've been there a couple years.  They're totally avoidable if you know they're there, 'cause they don't move.</p>

[Bariel]

<p><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p align="center"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/logo/EQSF_logo_300_blackbg_bordered.jpg" width="300" height="163" /></p> <p align="center"><strong>How to get started in Sentinel's Fate</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Odus!</p> <p>To get started exploring, please visit any wizard spire. You will be transported to the Sundered Frontier, which will be the first area you'll wish to explore.</p> <p>Once you step into the Sundered Frontier, there will be representatives from your home cities who will be glad to show you the ropes and get you started.</p> <p>There are also rumors of a very excited gnome near the Sundered Frontier wizard spires who is just as eager for adventure!</p></blockquote><p>However, if you play on an International server, please ignore this message as you will either, a) not be able to get the key you have already paid for, or, b) have to wait for your server to be patched despite the fact that the US servers are up and running</p><p>Not having a dig at you btw Kiara - but it is very frustrating</p>

[Despak]

<p>Is there any update on when (if) the other servers will be patched and unlocked?  A rough eta, like this week, next week would be better than "they are on schedule" as that should have meant up at the same time as everyone else.</p>

[Phaedrella]

<p><cite>Bariel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p align="center"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/logo/EQSF_logo_300_blackbg_bordered.jpg" width="300" height="163" /></p> <p align="center"><strong>How to get started in Sentinel's Fate</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Odus!</p> <p>To get started exploring, please visit any wizard spire. You will be transported to the Sundered Frontier, which will be the first area you'll wish to explore.</p> <p>Once you step into the Sundered Frontier, there will be representatives from your home cities who will be glad to show you the ropes and get you started.</p> <p>There are also rumors of a very excited gnome near the Sundered Frontier wizard spires who is just as eager for adventure!</p></blockquote><p>However, if you play on an International server, please ignore this message as you will either, a) not be able to get the key you have already paid for, or, b) have to wait for your server to be patched despite the fact that the US servers are up and running</p><p>Not having a dig at you btw Kiara - but it is very frustrating</p></blockquote><p>But they had lots of data to convey, in borrowed canoes, o'er stormy seas, to Amsterdam!</p>

[Lilaeth]

<p>I'd love to get started in Sentinel's Fate - I even have my key!</p><p>But the server is down for maintenance.  I can't believe that this DL was contracted out to a company which took its server down for maintenance on the very afternoon the download was available!</p><p>We in Europe already pay more for our subs than US players, given SOE's odd way of converting currencies.  Our servers get the second-class treatment at each and every opportunity.  As do we.  It's time that attendance at 'Treating All Our Customers Equally 101' was made mandatory for the clowns running the company.</p><p>Deeply unimpressed.</p>

[Kiara]

<p><cite>Bariel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>However, if you play on an International server, please ignore this message as you will either, a) not be able to get the key you have already paid for, or, b) have to wait for your server to be patched despite the fact that the US servers are up and running</p><p>Not having a dig at you btw Kiara - but it is very frustrating</p></blockquote><p>I totally understand.  We're working on it.  On all of it <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Keep checking my update threads.</p>

[lemey]

i'd rather not kiara, every time i look the news just gets worse <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cordy]

<p>I take it that the US servers are up and running tickety boo!!!!  Latest ETA is </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Update: </p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are extending the ETA for the EU servers to be available to 5pm PST.  We are hoping that we can be up sooner than that.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The information that we are sending to update the client patchers is taking longer than we anticipated that it would.  Ordinarily it only takes 3-4 hours and currently we've been updating for about 9 hours. </p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a high amount of data patching out in three different languages, coupled with a lot of people trying to access the data at the same time. </p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It's slowed the process down far more than anticipated.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll continue to update you as we get more information</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope that we will get some kind of compensation from SOE</p></span></p>

[-=Hoss=-]

<p>With a title like this, I was expecting a little more information.  For instance, where do I enter the key?  When can we start patching, and do we need to key to do that (I turned the patcher on before I left for work this morning, hopefully its getting updated).  Is there a better thread for questions like this, or can someone enlighten me real quick? </p>

[Lilaeth]

<p>And 5pm PST is what when compared to GMT?  See, that's so typical of how things are done - talk about European servers, and give them a deadline in a timezone that means nothing to them!  Yes, it may be a smaller gripe than most of the things that need to be complained about, but it's a telling one!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" /></p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><cite>-=Hoss=- wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>With a title like this, I was expecting a little more information.  For instance, where do I enter the key?  When can we start patching, and do we need to key to do that (I turned the patcher on before I left for work this morning, hopefully its getting updated).  Is there a better thread for questions like this, or can someone enlighten me real quick? </p></blockquote><p>Can't help you with the patching issues, but you can enter your key at <a href="http://www.station.sony.com/">http://www.station.sony.com/</a> .  Login, then go to "my account".  At the bottom of the left-hand side menu, you'll see an option to enter activation codes.  Follow the directions from there.</p><p>Good luck!</p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><cite>Lilaeth wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>And 5pm PST is what when compared to GMT?  See, that's so typical of how things are done - talk about European servers, and give them a deadline in a timezone that means nothing to them!  Yes, it may be a smaller gripe than most of the things that need to be complained about, but it's a telling one!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>PST is -8 GMT time.  So 5pm for us is 1am for you.</p>

[Lilaeth]

<p>Thank you!</p><p>I'm not usually this miserable, but the Sentinel's Fate fiasco, and how it has been so badly mishandled, is just the bitter cherry on top of a very bad month!</p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><cite>Lilaeth wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thank you!</p><p>I'm not usually this miserable, but the Sentinel's Fate fiasco, and how it has been so badly mishandled, is just the bitter cherry on top of a very bad month!</p></blockquote><p>No worries.  I only knew that because my in-laws live in England.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>I understand your frustration---I hope things smooth out soon and quickly for you guys.</p>

[Kiara]

<p><cite>-=Hoss=- wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>With a title like this, I was expecting a little more information.  For instance, where do I enter the key?  When can we start patching, and do we need to key to do that (I turned the patcher on before I left for work this morning, hopefully its getting updated).  Is there a better thread for questions like this, or can someone enlighten me real quick? </p></blockquote><p>Enter the key under My Account --> enter activation code.  Yes you need the key entered in order to begin patching the expansion content.</p><p>You'll have patched the GU 55 stuff.  When you get home and enter the key and start patching then you should get through it fairly quickly.</p>

[Ciara52]

<p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Don't forget, there will be a new Spire Guild Hall Amenity.</p><p>BTW, I find the shortest, most agro-free spire to get to is in Enchanted Lands.  It's usually jsut a few short hops to get there and very little agro along the beach to it..</p></blockquote><p>Ok forgive my ignorance <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" /> but the spire in EL is a low level area. Or is there a surprise for trying to get to the spire? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /> like mobs that are new or something?   Last - am I thinking of the wrong spire?</p><p>*stuck at work for now*  *Order is at Best Buy since I did decide to get it lol*  </p>

[CorpseGoddess]

<p><cite>Ciara52 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Don't forget, there will be a new Spire Guild Hall Amenity.</p><p>BTW, I find the shortest, most agro-free spire to get to is in Enchanted Lands.  It's usually jsut a few short hops to get there and very little agro along the beach to it..</p></blockquote><p>Ok forgive my ignorance <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" /> but the spire in EL is a low level area. Or is there a surprise for trying to get to the spire? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /> like mobs that are new or something?   Last - am I thinking of the wrong spire?</p><p>*stuck at work for now*  *Order is at Best Buy since I did decide to get it lol*  </p></blockquote><p>If you get off the docks and run along the shoreline to your right, staying just inside the water, you should be fine.  There are a couple of aggro fairies that hang around there, but as stated before, they don't move.  If you stay running in the water, you should be fine until you reach the spires, which are nearly at the end of the landmass on that side.  The fairies just by the spires are not aggro and never have been.</p>

[Rairine]

<p><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bariel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>However, if you play on an International server, please ignore this message as you will either, a) not be able to get the key you have already paid for, or, b) have to wait for your server to be patched despite the fact that the US servers are up and running</p><p>Not having a dig at you btw Kiara - but it is very frustrating</p></blockquote><p>I totally understand.  We're working on it.  On all of it <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Keep checking my update threads.</p></blockquote><p>I've just seen the 'good news' about EU servers being able to patch soon, thats fantastic, but Im sorry I still dont have my key because you guys havent got a clue how to handle a bloody launch.</p><p>You keep going on about how you're handling it, did you actually do any checking in all those months of tying up the final pieces before being allowed to notify us of who we could DD from to start today?</p><p>They are keys for god sake, and you didnt give enough? theres no excuse really is there.</p>

[Lilaeth]

<p>Runnyeye appears to be patching now.  1 hour to go!</p><p>But I still can't get my DL because DLGamer is still down.  Think I'll just go to bed!</p>

[-=Hoss=-]

<p><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>-=Hoss=- wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>With a title like this, I was expecting a little more information.  For instance, where do I enter the key?  When can we start patching, and do we need to key to do that (I turned the patcher on before I left for work this morning, hopefully its getting updated).  Is there a better thread for questions like this, or can someone enlighten me real quick? </p></blockquote><p>Enter the key under My Account --> enter activation code.  Yes you need the key entered in order to begin patching the expansion content.</p><p>You'll have patched the GU 55 stuff.  When you get home and enter the key and start patching then you should get through it fairly quickly.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks so much.  You're such a sweetie.</p>

[AbsolutDivinity]

So far I've been able to get one character over to the new area via the spire, but none of my other characters get the same option, including my level 80 illusionist (and yes they are all on the same account). Is there something I'm missing or didn't do?

[Jonnytom]

<p>Is anyone one else having issues with today's update. I have been locking at 35% complete on both of my computers.</p>