Feldon 
(left to right) Greg Agius [EQ2 Brand Manager] interviews Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson [EQ2 Senior Producer] and Salim “Silius” [EQ2 Developer, Itemization], about the upcoming Destiny of Velious expansion including reader questions.
Download Destiny of Velious Webcast #1 MP3 for January 29, 2011.
NOTE #1: The first minute of introductions, etc. are missing due to recording issues.
NOTE #2: This is not merely an off-air recording of the Webcast. Silius’ mic was rather low, so we have done substantial volume adjustment to improve listening quality across the board.
EverQuest II, Destiny of Velious, and the contents of this webcast are copyright Sony Online Entertainment.
Excellent coverage as usual Feldon. Thanks!
They make it sound like a rocking expansion, seemed like they were winging it a little on the gear, raid questions though.
We’re all hoping this “critter” turns out good. hehe
Really too bad they broke this into two releases, i think a huge explosive release “possibly” could have saved this game.
I think it’s going to come down to how engaging the dungeons are. If Kael Drakkel is the best contested dungeon. If Tower of Frozen Shadow delivers. If If If right? 🙂
I want to just login and grind dungeons and play the heck out of the game. And the Public Quests (I’m guessing they’ll be a bit like Rift) might be a good way to fill in some blank spots on gear.
Yea i’m sitting here watching Space Chimps 2 (woohoo, lol) with the little one and i keep thinking about Public Quests, and for the first time in a long time i’m having an urge to log in. lol
Yea you never know maybe they will pull this off. So you have any info on these public quests and how they work? /interested
Its just a pity about the factions… one thing thats always bugged me about eq2 is that you can build up maximum faction to multiple groups… its just illogical?
@primuioz – not really illogical. You can build up max faction with multiple groups of the same alignment. Makes perfect sense to me?
primuioz – think of it like politics. A senator can say he is for the worker and pro union. While at the same time taking loads of campaign money from big anti-union companies. They are essentially raising faction with two opposed groups.
Pretend that the different factions are like voters. They are really too disinterested to look really close at the adventurer and tell that he is not all he says he is. The faction groups just want to get back to watching the arena matches and don’t really have time to care.
Clearly the server merge timing was no coincidence. Public quests work best with more people. Now to see if Aussie time zones can get enough involved during our prime time to harvest the big loot!
@primuioz just think of yourself as a double agent.