EverQuest II Prima Official Game Guide (Published in 2004)
EverQuest II Desert of Flames Prima Official Guide
EverQuest II Kingdom of Sky Prima Official Guide
EverQuest II Atlas Prima Official Guide
EverQuest II Mechanics (2012 PDF Document)
EQ2 Trial of Isle released February 9th, 2005: https://archive.org/details/redump-id-70194
EQ2Flames (Circa 2008)
forums.mmorpg.com - forum predate release of EQ2, lots of beta tester screenshots/discussion
forums.thedruidsgrove.com - Early forum (quests) information, Lvl 20 armor thread very detailed
EQ2Village - Class, Items, Spawns, Zones resources
Lore Library - Tomes and Quest Dialog Resources
EQ2 Game Pressure - Old maps/quest/npc resources
"EverQuest Guide" on Wordpress - Release screenshots and gameplay details
Official EverQuest II Beta Changelog - EverQuest 2 Changelog taken from beta after NDA was lifted on players.
eq2kb.com - 2005 Furniture Pricing
eq2guru.com - Early Items DB
EQ2Vault - Items, Class Information
eq2.warcry.com - Items, NPCs, Spells, Maps, etc.
clanwhitestorm.com - Lots of early gameplay info
Worthplaying.com - EQ2 in 2003 review with screenshots
game.watch.impress.co.jp - Lot of early game information with screenshots (in Japanese)
4gamer.net - lots of early articles about EQ2 with screenshots and information (Japanese) - special #1 and special #2
https://web.archive.org/web/20041209075637/http://ebonlore.org:80/ewle/betapics/ - Large cache of beta screenshots from October 2004 - not all screenshots survived, but a good number did
Note: use Quicktime Player if colors are washed out: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL837?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Discord took the zips down.. :(
Includes:
eq2_gp_20.zip - Here, Ducky!
eq2_gp_10.zip - Freeport #1
eq2_gp_21.zip - Magic Lessons
eq2_gp_14.zip - Qeynos Harbor
eq2_nightblood_battle_obelisk.zip
eq2_gp_22.zip - From Qeynos to The Baubleshire
eq2_gp_13.zip - Qeynos Colisseum
eq2_gp_19.zip - Freeport & Refuge Montage
eq2_gp_11.zip - Freeport #2
eq2_gp_18.zip - Dusk in Freeport
eq2_gp_17.zip - Cave Combat
eq2_gp_25.zip - Horror of the Wailing Caves
eq2_gp_16.zip - Battle on Refuge
eq2_gp_23.zip - Beauty of the Baubbleshire
eq2_gp_15.zip - Refuge Island
eq2_gp_24.zip - The Forest Ruins
Discord took the zip down :(
Includes:
eq2_gp_28.zip - Visiting the Player Owned Housing
eq2_gp_41.zip - The Graveyard at Dusk
eq2_gp_29.zip - A Little Redecorating
eq2_gp_30.zip - Knee-Deep in the Peat Bog
eq2_gp_34.zip - Combat in the Caves
eq2_gp_40.zip - Exploring the Sunken City
eq2_gp_31.zip - Inside the Academy of Arcane Science
eq2_gp_36.zip - The Beauty of Antonica
eq2_gp_27.zip - Combat Outside the Ruins
eq2_gp_35.zip - Exploring the Caves
eq2_gp_32.zip - Obligatory Hot Wood Elf Video
eq2_gp_37.zip - Fight at Blackburrow Gates
eq2_gp_33.zip - Within the Crypts of Betrayal
eq2_gp_39.zip - A Hot Wood Elf and Her Horse
eq2_gp_38.zip - Above Blackburrow Dungeon
eq2_gp_26.zip - Exploring the Forest Ruins
Discord took the other 2 zips down :(
Find some of these in the EQ2 Trial of the Isle client. Others have to be found on the FilePlanet Archive https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet
VPK Extraction with Python 2.x script: http://www.openrce.org/articles/full_view/16 -- WARNING: THIS DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY TO EXTRACT -- USE VPKTOOL
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