Beast'r Eggstravaganza

Overview
This is an annual live event that begins in mid-to-late March, close to the real-world celebration of the Spring Equinox and/or Easter.

To check the exact dates, log into the game and click the EQ2 button in the bottom right of your screen and choose Calendar from the list of options that opens. Keep in mind that the start date and end of (most) events is midnight PST, due to the location of the main office of Daybreak.

Check your mail for an announcement of this event on Live servers. The event lore, sent via an in-game mail can be found at the end of this page if you accidentally delete the in-game version of the announcement.

Overview
This is a rather brief event (typically five days) that has very simple activities, rather than the complex quests seen with most other live events.

Players can complete an egg-themed collection, capture egg-shaped pets, and pick up some event-themed house items from vendors.

New in 2019

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 * A collection quest that rewards players with Large Beast'r Egg Basket

Capturing Pet Eggs
Rather than quests, this event is all about the hunt!

Hiding within the major home cities (those with player housing) are several egg-themed pets. Without any combat, players can capture these eggs. Grab them before they move!

Players can take any captured egg-themed Fluff Pets to the Eggschanger merchant, where they can be exchanged for House Pets of the same type.

Spoiler: Impatient players can ask a city guard for egg locations using the term "Beast" with mixed results, since it can point you toward the vendors or the activated pets of other players. Asking a guard for "Eggschanger" will send you to the city's event merchant.

Eggschanger Merchants
Players can buy festive items or exchange their captured egg fluff pets (to summoned) for the house-item version of the same type.
 * Darklight Wood
 * Freeport: (In the small merchant courtyard near the guild registar)
 * Frostang Sea (Behind the Carin of the Huntress shrine)
 * Greater Faydark:
 * Qeynos:

Items to Purchase
The merchants exchange eggs pets for can summon to follow you (a.k.a "fluff" pets) for identical Pets, but they also sell faun plushies.

All locations have the Everfrost Faun Plushie, but players will need to travel to a city of the opposite alignment to buy the Corrupted Witherlands Faun or the Witherlands Faun Plushie

Egg Gallery
Whether you are hunting them in the wild, you summon a captured egg to follow you, or place one in your home after visting the Eggschanger Merchant, the Beast'r Eggs all have the corresponding appearances below.

Collection
In order to complete this collection, players must visit several locations to complete it.
 * It's only necessary to visit one of the two locations to per every three shinies. Lower level-characters may want to visit the option that matches their alignment (based on their character's home city) to avoid be attacked by guards.
 * Timorous Deep or Frostfang Sea: Peach Spotted Shell, Blush Striped Shell, Lime Zig-Zagged Shell
 * Darklight Wood or Greater Faydark: Fuchsia Striped Shell, Plum Spotted Shell, Lavender Zig-Zagged Shell
 * Freeport or Qeynos: Lemon Zig-Zagged Shell, Cerulean Spotted Shell, Periwinkle Striped Shell

The reward is a Large Beast'r Egg Basket.

Announcement Summary
Per the official announcement, the lore for the event centers on the theme of Springtime growth:
 * Every year as we enter the season of Growth, Tunare whispers to the animals of the forest to let them know that the Spring season is arriving. In their bubbling excitement, the animals will behave exuberantly as they await the gifts of nature that come to them during the season of renewal. During this time, the excitable critters sometimes leave gifts for the realm of man as a way to share their joy in the coming of spring. 

Retired Items or Quests
This event does not have any retired items as of 2019.