Rays of disintegration = annoying for enchanters
Will be reconsidered as a more Mage-centric spell

Scripting completely changes for certain mobs like on ‘normal’ will send underlings instead of killing the actual boss

Might use new Achievement system to say you cleared the zone on hard

Miraguls planar shard in gu53 will have scaling

Final boss plays completely different depending on the choice made on pull.

Smart loot
Lock boxes in mistmyr already have mini smartloot for each person that loots

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End of the void storyline

What happened to the Erudites and Odus

Ratonga lore

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Contested dungeon
The Hole
82+

3 different wings. Spawn in the middle.

Brenlo directly addressed Gage about rumors.

Raid mobs in new zones will have a choice of difficulty so no zone will be completely unbeatable

Some mobs will have multiple loot tables

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No new deities with expac
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Guild level 90
More amenities and more slots

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2 overland zones
1 contested zone similar to sanctum of scaleborn by twice the size
12 group instances

Level by grouping or soloing
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Back to linear raid zone progression. Be able to clear raid zones and then progress to the next zone.

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New Halas free download gu55
Streamlined new player experience
Rework thundering steppes as next logical zone after Halas for 20+ characters.

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Will see Erudin and Paineel explained in new expac
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Shouldn’t be any one class that is required to raid

Swash and brigands pick up some of each others class abilities.
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Halas starting race — Barbarians? Not 100% confirmed

Friznik is back on dev team.

Gu53 shaders 3.0 graphic upgrades to eq2 engine.
*moved to GPU for any shaders 3.0 card
*3,000 shaders upgraded so far
*Same performance at high res
*Higher framerate at lower res
Flora displacement on GPU performance getting further tweaks
*textures are not changing, So it won’t be a large download. just the old 1.0 shaders (bump mapping, reflections, item/gear glows, etc. are being batch replaced.

Nek Forest looks awesome now. The whole idea of a torch in the darkness, lighting up trees, rocks, and enemy mobs, rather than a flat pea soup grey haze and flat colors on everything.

When eq2 devs say first screenshots, they thought it was another game.

Metal armor with glow effects is particularly striking.

Would like to move particles to GPU but due to some design decisions, particles are tied to animations. Will have to go back and separate them out.

Torch slot on the to do list
Would like to do HDR in a future update

Ore nodes will respawn as ore nodes
Gem nodes will respawn as gem nodes

Summoner dumbfire pets will just be a spell with a debuff, won’t be something that has survive.

Heal over time is third place behind wards and reactive heals, so Druids are getting another component to heal over time.

Plan to keep mythicals relevant in T9 without 1.5

Questions
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Rangers — would like to re evaluate stream of arrows. Originally intended as a fillin between auto attacks, but auto attacks are so big now.

No immediate plans to adjust auto attack damage.

Drag, thought snap are so overpowered we have to disable them or mobs are trivialized

Raids that take advantage of enchanters

Conjuror mythical pet will reach cap in mid-80s so limited effectiveness in exp6 as currently designed. Will evaluate further.

Summoner pet survivability will be addressed

Will look at swarm pets

End abilities at bottom of eof and kos trees will be combinations instead of additional buttons

Aa xp slider

Spell ranged melée heal taunt crit merged to just crit
Double attack and RDA merge to just DA
Each class has crit coefficients
Same gear adds diff crit % for diff classes

Reduce mitigation types to
Physical. Elemental. Nox. Arcane

Consolidate common self buff lines

Gear scaling system — old gear scales down

Druid heal over time with expiration heal for groupmate
Druid should be viable healer

No need to bring 8 support classes
Raidwide buffs for chanter and bard
Illy time compression 4 ppl – 1 per group

Summoner debuffs spell dmg
Rogue debuffs melée dmg

All of these changes will be on test for a long time
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Rare Loams are going away for T9

Ore nodes and gem nodes
Demand is unbalanced for loams

Gem nodes
Mage, fighter, jewelry

Can be both Tinkerer and transmuter.
Would like to completely overhaul adornment system.
Most new adornments recipes will be made by muter only rather than 9 main tradeskills.

February 2010

All Fan Faire attendees get Beta and The Expac
*Level cap to 90
*Self-mentoring System
*EQ2 Achievement System (20 HQs, 5,000 orcs, etc.)
*gu55 (feb 2010) New Halas good starting city
*gu53 shard of love zone — Erolissi Marr

FreeRealms
3.9 million players
Streaming system allows them to add content any time
A story line/lore
Guilds
Soccer this Summer