The celebration as it looks in Frostfang Sea. NPC appearances vary by location.
Overview[]
This is an annual live event that begins in mid-to-late March or April, 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.
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, complete achievements to earn fun titles, and pick up some event-themed house items from vendors.
New in 2024[]
- Editors: This section highlights new content added most recently. Please move any info into the main article below when/if newer content is live each year and add a new
New achievement:[]
Ultra Beast'r Egg Hunter to collect new eggs added in 2024 - new eggs are: Twinkly Beast'r Egg, Flashy Beast'r Egg, Sparkly Beast'r Egg, Gaudy Beast'r Egg, Glitzy Beast'r Egg.
New eggs cannot be "eggschanged" for house pet versions until next year.
7 new items added to merchants. Some only available on "good" merchants or "evil" merchants
- Flowering Cactulent fluff pet
- Orange Stained Glass Egg
- Pixie Powder Leaves Tile
- Blue Stained Glass Egg (evil side merchants)
- Floramyst Gorilla Plushie (evil side merchants)
- Pink Stained Glass Egg (good side merchants)
- Floramyst Doe Plushie (good side merchants)
Overseer Quests: Dryad Danger[]
Ambrosis offers this Overseer questline in Darklight Wood ( 516, -40, -227 ) .
- Starting quest is Overseer Quest: Dryad Danger - Hemponia in Everfrost.
- Second quest is Overseer Quest: Dryad Danger - Nettelia in Withered Lands.
- Third quest is Overseer Quest: Dryad Danger - Save the Flutterwasps.
- Notes: As with all holiday Overseer quests, starting these require:
- The account has purchased Blood of Luclin (and therefore has the Overseer Feature)
- The character has completed the "Welcome, Overseer." achievement (found in Quests / Overseer Quests section)
- No other character on the account is currently working on the Dryad Danger quest line.
Capturing Pets 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.
Egg Hunting Spoilers[]
A Beast'r Egg Hunting Guide was created for players who are completionists looking to attain the Achievements (and titles) or those who collect fluff and/or house pets. It lists common egg locations and has other hunt tips.
Impatient players can R click on any named, epic city guard and select the Find NPC option to ask them for help. If an egg is nearby, the guard will mark the map (press M to open it) and a waypoint might lead to an egg location if no one else has collected it or the egg hasn't run away again. Ask the guard using the NPC name, "Beast" but expect mixed results, since it can point you toward the vendors or the activated pets of other players. The most difficult location to hunt eggs in is Greater Faydark, because the guards are rather close to the merchant and they will point you to the same location many times over. Asking a guard for "Eggschanger" will send you to the city's event merchant.
Eggschanger Merchants[]
Above: all three faun plushies as of 2019.
Players can buy festive items or exchange their captured egg fluff pets (from summoned) for the house-item version of the same type. The collectible event "shinies" (glowing in purple) are found near the NPCs for this event.
- See the Beast'r Eggstravaganza Merchant Items page for a list of items to buy. Some items are offered only on "good" side merchants, some only on "evil" side merchants. Good side being Qeynos Province, Frostfang Sea and Greater Faydark. Evil side being Freeport, Darklight Woods and Timorous Deep.
- You will have to go to at least 2 merchants to buy all available items. Frostfang and Timorous Deep merchants are easy to get to for low level adventurers without fear of being killed by guards.
- Darklight Wood: ( 519, -38, -230 ) (Down the road from the Griffin Tower in this zone)
- Freeport: ( -82, -37, 8 ) (In the small merchant courtyard near the guild registrar)
- Frostfang Sea: ( 86, 145, -63 ) (Behind the Carin of the Huntress shrine)
- Greater Faydark: ( 197, 111, 143 ) (Near the bank in Old Kelethin)
- Qeynos Province District: ( 626, -14, -348 ) (In the Eldar Grove area, rather than the city)
- Timorous Deep: ( 2215, 55, 1094 ) (near the Gorowyn Beach Station)
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 visiting the Eggschanger Merchant, the Beast'r Eggs all have the corresponding appearances below.
Collection[]
The reward for the collection
Players must visit at least three locations and collect three location-limited shinies (nine total) to complete each collection Colorful Egg Shells and Stained Glass Egg Shells. The shinies are all located near the same area as the merchant and celebrating NPCs. See the section about merchants for general locations.
The shinies are grouped by location with three found in the same general area. Players can hunt shinies based on the locations' alignment, but it's only necessary to visit one of the two locations in the table below to collect the three shinies found there.
For example, visit Freeport or Qeynos, NOT both of those locations, as they have the same shinies available.
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.
Achievements[]
This event has 4 achievements as of 2024
- Beast'r Egg Hunter for finding each of the five original eggs, with a title-reward of Eggcellent Adventurer
- Accomplished Beast'r Egg Hunter for finding six newer eggs, with a title-reward of Eggceptional Adventurer
- Master Beast'r Egg Hunter for finding all sixteen eggs, with a title-reward of Eggcentric Adventurer
- Ultra Beast'r Egg Hunter for finding all five new eggs, with reward being a Suffix Title: the Eggcited Adventurer
Added in 2023:[]
- Stained Glass Egg Shells - New Collection Quest
- Soot and Smoke Kitten - New Fluff pet
- Snow Hare - New Fluff Pet
- Amethyst Lumpwocky Plushie - New Plushie
--New House Items--
- Lush Grass Tile
- Lush Grass with Purple Leaves Tile
- Tan Beast'r Basket of Sweets
- White Beast'r Basket of Chocolike Sweets
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.
Sources[]
General Info and Announcement[]
The official Daybreak event announcement for 2023.
Shiny Locations and Guard Hints[]
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