via eq2players.com:

Legends of Norrath™ is a bigger hit than we had ever imagined and we want to thank all of you that have helped by introducing four new loot cards to Legends of Norrath Oathbound booster packs. There will be two new loot cards each for EverQuest and EverQuest II.

Check out the details here:

EverQuest

EverQuest II

These addition to the Legends of Norrath packs will be retro-active to the launch of the game. Therefore, these cards will be added to the collection of every person that opened a pack that would have contained these loot cards had they been included as part of the initial assortment. If you opened a pack that would have received one of the cards, it will be automatically granted to your LoN account.

For more information visit Legends of Norrath website.

I just stumbled upon this:

The new unified Station Launcher seems to be finally available as BETA. Go grab it now!

Station Launcher is a simple one-click application that delivers all your Station games, friends, and community news right to your desktop. Manage your Station gaming library like never before; it’s fast, easy and secure!

I was killing alot of colored mobs this saturday to get hold of at least a few of the new promocards — unfortunately with no avail. Meanwhile I was able to obtain the cards, 4 each, for ingame platin :-).

Here are the item links for the two promocards:

• \aITEM 371226533 819846666:Legends of Norrath Promotional Card: Hatred\/a
• \aITEM 1770258306 1333679661:Legends of Norrath Promotional Card: Switch\/a

After claiming my LoN cards I’ve also noticed the following at my SOE Account subscriptions:

Claiming the cards generates a 99 month non-recurring “pending” subscription to “Norrath Casual Strategy Game”.

Interesting to know is that the two promocards — despite the fact that the cardnumbers are 1P1 and 1P2 — are named #3 and #5 in the subscription details, I wonder where #1, #2 and #4 are hiding :-) :

EDIT 2007-10-01: The Promo weekend is over now. Overall I did not have the feeling that droprates for boosters or even the promo cards got significantly increased — it seemed as low as always. I’ve never hat a LoN ingame drop before so it is 0% chance for me against 0% chance whilst in the promo weekend. According to the broker on my server there must have been quite some promo drops as they are still on sale for a few platin. Even while I already grabbed 4 of each card I might go for a buyout on the broker. You never know if there could be a use for some surplus promo cards someday.

I had no raid today so I was hanging out in Legends of Norrath. Suddenly a system Message announced a test tournament.

Actually the first tournament should have been completed last weekend, but servers kept crashing with 1000+ players in the tournament queue. This time it was more or less unannounced and only about 350 players took the opportunity to attend.

This tournament rewarded 3 booster packs to the first 5 ranks and had no entry fee. It was a constructed best of 8 with chessclock timed matches set at 30 minutes max (15 minutes for each player per match). Winners earned 3 points while the loser still got 1 point for the tournament ladder.

Congratulations to the winners.

PS: I managed to get ranked #147 out of 351 (16 points).

Via eq2players.com:

Calling all EverQuest® and EverQuest® II players! What’s more fun than defeating opponents in your game and picking up Legends of Norrath booster packs, starter decks, and combo packs? Well, how about the opportunity to get even more of them?

Introducing the Legends of Norrath Promotion Weekend beginning at 2PM (PDT) Friday, September 28th and concluding at 11:59PM (PDT) on Sunday, September 30th. During this special weekend, EQ and EQII players will not only enjoy a significantly increased rate of card pack drops, but will have the opportunity to obtain two brand new cards, Hatred (1P1) and Switch (1P2):

For now, these two new cards will only be available during this three-day promotional weekend, so don’t miss out on the chance to get them!

It’s not only a great time for current Legends of Norrath players to score big, but the perfect opportunity for EQ and EQII players to come see what all the buzz is about with this great new addition to the universe of Norrath. It will be a blast – especially with such an increased opportunity to win cards!

So combat those EQ and EQII enemies this weekend and loot, loot, loot! Then use your card bounty to continue on your way to becoming the ultimate Legends of Norrath player!

UPDATE: In case you are having problems reading the cards description:

Hatred:

Card type: Ability (1 Leveltoken)

Card cost: 1 Mana

Card text: “While your avatar is in combat with one or more light combatants, this ability gets +2 defense. (SHADOW) This ability gets +3 defense in combat against one or more light combatants instead.”

Card comment: “Forget all the poetics about stabbing and spitting your hate. I loathe all who walk in the light with the blunt force trauma of a battle hammer and I exult every day I crush their skulls in my hands.”

Cards number: 1P1

Illustrator: Kieran Yanner

Switch:

Card type: Ability (3 Leveltoken/3 Defense)

Card cost: 2 Mana

Card text: “When you play this ability, destroy one of your abilities.”

Card comment: “We cannot see beyond the choices we must make. So choose — wisely! ~Lanken Rjarn, Erudin’s Craftkeepers Enchanter Guild”

Cards number: 1P2

Illustrator: Kieran Yanner

UPDATE: Added “Hatred” card comment. meanwhileI was able to get 4 of each cards for my collection ;-)

I appologise if this is old news for you — otherwise the Legends of Norrath standalone client is available since 2007-09-12.

The file is approx 10MB in size but actually this is just the patcher that will grab all it’s files and download them from SOE.

This is how the patcher looks like:

I finaly got “a warg summoning drum” in a booster and was able to trade it for “a dark warg summoning drum” that fits better for a priest.

I’m a happy dwarf now ;)

SOE Gordish wrote here:

Interested in getting into Legends of Norrath beta?

If you’re interested in joining into the Legends of Norrath beta please send an email with the subject LON to eq2beta@station.sony.com , and that email should only contain just your account name.

When you’re sending in account names, please make sure that the subject is LON and the email body simply contains an account name, with no other text or it won’t be processed.

*Please Note* This covers both EverQuest and EverQuest 2 players even though the address says eq2beta.

So go for it ;). My other two accounts already got beta flagged.

While the Legends of Norrath release slowly approches I was not only collecting loot cards for some nice server first discoveries, I’ve also built me a nice priest deck and started playing the scenarios that are available. Together with the beta access I got a free Starter Packand 2 Boosters. each week I get additional 2 Booster for free while the beta runs.

These scenarios are divided into 3 chapters and you need to progress through them — some scenarios are marked optional and may be skipped.

After struggeling with all the rulesets — my native language is german and not english — I managed to get quite addiced to the CCG itself.

I finished 2 of the 3 chapters and and approached the end of chapter 3 (see screenshot). One might skip all the storyline that is included with each scenario but please give it a try and read it.

Update: Wow scenario 14 is tough. My opponent quickly takes away my heros with his +3 damage bonus item and I don’t know how to get rid of that. Anyone with some hints?

Just in case you want to take a look at these items ingame.

\aITEM 1465474154 -1423130996:Stein of Recollection\/a
\aITEM 1346578867 -90922301:Cloak of Disguise\/a
\aITEM -698202697 -2044064837:a decorated Maj’dul carpet card\/a
\aITEM -1001251406 -1338524721:Magic Infusion\/a
\aITEM 2009832592 -1728707028:Draught of the Skilled\/a
\aITEM -525525534 -1136320280:Lamp of the Djinn\/a
\aITEM -1118208395 -1985810848:Painting: The Rune\/a
\aITEM 950915470 699653865:Legends of Norrath Cloak\/a
\aITEM -1713855536 415750506:Nature’s Wrath\/a
\aITEM 924356072 -2060631326:Recipe: Stein of the Alesmith\/a
\aITEM -1974692711 -195647555:Stein of the Alesmith\/a
\aITEM 1926704815 1455823004:Cloak of Flowing Water\/a
\aITEM -2012359669 -1343299209:a dark warg summoning drum\/a

Enjoy.

UPDATE:

\aITEM -222927082 1272346134:Elaborate Card Case\/a
\aITEM 1245007407 -522009249:Cloak of Chelsith\/a
\aITEM -1771597290 1040568113:Recipe: Card Case\/a
\aITEM 1293580083 -1163223952:Icy Touch\/a

UPDATE2:

\aITEM -304381677 -466575964:Walking Dead\/a