ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
Anniversary time, don't hesitate! Get yourself on out there... and Celebrate! - Bonzz
EverQuest started it's run March 16, 1999 and we partied like it was 1999... well... because it was!
And the party is still going!
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Technically, the first Anniversary 'Celebration' was for the Second (2nd) Anniversary. Patch notes read as follows: Two years ago this Friday, EverQuest was launched, forever changing the course of online gaming. Today EverQuest boasts nearly 360,000 active subscribers, and a two-year retention rate of 65%. Peak usage tops 89,000 simultaneous users with average peak usage at roughly 87,000. The EverQuest community continues to grow daily. We've put up a page on the EverQuest website to help celebrate EverQuest's achievement and to thank our loyal fans. Over the next couple of days we will be posting interesting content from EverQuest's humble beginnings, as well as a few surprises. As part of our two-year celebration, we're pleased to announce the release of "The Warrens", a free expansion zone located on Odus. "The Warrens" is a low-to-mid level dungeon and the home of the Kobolds on Odus. You can patch the Warrens by running the "Optional Patch". In addition to filling-out the continent of Odus, "the Warrens" will also serve as a platform to try out some of the new ideas brought forth by members of the team and the public aimed at addressing some common gameplay issues. We would like to see what options might be open to and enjoyed by the players in the future. The first issue addressed in the Warrens is the problem of higher level characters competing with lower level characters for loot on lower level creatures. To address this issue, in the Warrens, a group that "outclasses" a particular foe will not receive any loot that is MAGIC, LORE, or NODROP. All other loot will drop. "Outclassing" a foe is defined as having a group makeup such that no one in your group receives experience from the kill. This can happen if, for instance, the foe is "green" to all group members, or if the group makeup is of such a wide level range that the system determines the fight was unbalanced using regular experience rules. Any time that an NPC would have dropped special loot and does not due to it being outclassed, a message indicating that the combat was "trivial" will be displayed to the group. As time goes on, we will be implementing new gameplay subsets and adjustments in the Warrens. Please be sure to let us know what you think! The Planes of Fear and Hate have been updated as part of our two-year celebration. Adventurers in the Plane of Fear will notice that some high-level foes are now available. Rewards for former "boss npcs" have been moved down to underlings that are roughly as powerful as the old bosses were. The Plane of Hate has also received a large update, but this one also includes the opening of a previously undiscovered part of the zone, now full high-level expansion-oriented content. Much as with Fear, rewards from bosses have been moved. As part of the Plane updates, we've made several adjustments to Epic quests for a number of classes. Previously, questers of many classes were put in direct competition with regular non-questing adventurers for a few coveted spawns. In these cases, a new step has been added to separate the "Epic Encounter" NPCs from the "Epic Quest" NPCs. For those who are mid-quest, all quest requirements have remained the same. In other words, if you turn the same items into the same NPC, the same reward applies. What has changed is that some components may be in a different location from where you expect them. It is recommended that you check with the last NPC in line or other adventurers to find where you need to go next. |
The first 'actual' in-game Anniversary was with the 5th Anniversary of EverQuest, beginning a tradition where new in-game temporary & special Anniversary related events (Quests / Missions / Raids, etc.) are added every year.
These annual events even have their own Achievements.
These events are only available every March / April (and sometimes into May).
The items / awards you can acquire from Anniversary Events are not only unique, but many of them are actually desirable and / or beneficial.
EverQuest activates Anniversary events in two different categorical stages (time frames):
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If you are seeking to earn enough Commemorative Coin to buy any of the unique offerings sold by the anniversary vendor (a jubilant merchant) in the Plane of Knowledge, you will have to do a lot of Modern Anniversary tasks, multiple times over, to do this.
Some of the more attractive items cost upwards of 1K Commemorative Coin, and, unfortunately, many of the Anniversary events only award five (5) to (10) Commemorative Coin at a time.
Only the the anniversaries from the 14th Anniversary (and forward) can award Commemorative Coin.
For the purposes of Anniversary events, the varied events are defined, or categorized below, as follows:
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Download and unzip this file to the 'storyline' folder of your EverQuest directory to have access to a generic, simplified version of these quests, in game, via your Story Window (Alt N)! NOTE: This file can be updated in the event of typo corrections, errors and new events, so you may need a fresh download / install every so often.
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ANNIVERSARY LINKS BY YEAR
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(1 Quest) (2004) |
(1 Quest) (2005) |
(3 Quests) (2006) |
(1 Quest) (2007) |
(1 Quest) (2008) |
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(16 Quests) (2009) |
(1 Quest) (1 Raid) (2010) |
(4 Quests) (1 Mission) (2011) |
(5 Quests) (7 Missions) (1 Raid) (2012) |
(1 Quest) (6 Missions) (2013) |
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(1 Quest) (5 Missions) (2014) |
(1 Quest) (6 Missions) (2015) |
(1 Quest) (1 Raid) (2016) |
(3 Missions) (2017) |
(2 Quests) (1 Mission) (1 Raid) (2018) |
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(1 Quest) (2019) |
(2 Quests) (3 Overseer) (2020) |
(2 Quests) (1 Mission) (2021) |
(3 Quests) (3 Missions) (1 Raid) (2022) |
(3 Quests) (1 Missions) (2023) |
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(2024) |
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Farming Commemorative Coin |
(2025) |
27th Anniversary (2026) |
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To earn enough Commemorative Coin, you will have to do Anniversary events every day while they are active.
Most Anniversary events have a six (6) hour replay timer, so, you can do some when you log in, and, if you play long enough, do them again before you camp out.
If you do the same ones repeatedly, and with some advance preparation, you can get them down 'to a science' and get them done more expediently.
NOTE: Using a Merc and at least one (1) other group member (volunteer, helper, box...) will speed things up in meeting task requirements and / or getting them done.
Here are some tasks that I recommend for 'farming' Commemorative Coins.'
These tasks can earn you up to ninety-nine (99) Commemorative Coin, per round (depending on how dedicated you are to the process).
At Level 110-plus, with a Mercenary (and a pet, if you have one), you can likely do these MOLO.
As new Anniversary's come to pass, and new Levels are added to the game, these will become easier to do and other events can potentially be added into the mix.
If you have at least two other Players (the extra DPS makes them more viable / faster) to help, you can add these to the rotation:
There are others that are 'easy' to do... but the time spent zone hopping and such, combined with the coin reward, may negate the time / effort required to do them. Your call.
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If you note any errors, misspellings, item name errors, misinformation or anything that needs addressing on this page -- PLEASE let me know via an in-game EQ Message (Bonzz on the Bertoxxulous server), or post on Bonzz's Discord Server!
This Page Last Updated March 1, 2025
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