Feldon From EverQuest2.com:
Pre-Order EverQuest II – Age of Discovery Today!EverQuest II – Age of Discovery is now available for pre-order! This exciting new expansion to the world of Norrath will be released on November 30, 2011.
Digital Collector’s Edition $59.99
The Digitial Collector’s Edition is a Station Exclusive and is specially priced at $59.99 for pre-order only. This version includes the base game, all seven expansions, a Cloak of the Truespirit, Dungeon Maker Unique Monster Spawner #1, Dungeon Maker Unique Monster Spawner #2, Armored Flying Pegasus Mount, Unique Beastlord Warder Pet, Lavastorm Prestige Home, Custom Dungeon Maker Map Layout, and a Robe of the True Spirit. New accounts will also receive a free 30-day subscription.
Please note that after the pre-order period ends, the price of the Digital Collector’s Edition will increase to $89.99.
Standard Digital Edition $39.99
The Standard Digitial Edition includes the base game, all seven expansions, a Cloak of the Truespirit, and a Dungeon Maker Unique Monster Spawner #1. New accounts will also receive a free 30-day subscription. The cost for the Standard Digital Edition is $39.99.
New Age of Discovery Game Features
Dungeon Maker
- Ever wanted to build your own dungeon? Now you can, with the Dungeon Maker system! Locate and collect a variety of floor layouts and styles, decorate your dungeon, select monsters to fill it, and battle through the content you designed to win new rewards!
Beastlords
- At last, the Beastlord class returns to Norrath. Seek out new animals throughout the world to train as your warder pet. Work with your warder to build up your strengths and exploit your enemies’ weaknesses. In the Age of Discovery, Beastlords will walk the lands of Norrath once again!
Mercenaries
- As you travel the lands of Norrath, keep your eyes open for mercenaries who may be for hire. Is your group short-handed? Now you can hire a brave companion to fight by your side, filling a spot in your group or assisting you in a duo. Coin talks, and the mercenaries of the shattered lands are eager to listen. As you travel, be sure to watch out for signature mercenaries who may not normally be available, but who will serve you well and faithfully for a limited time.
Reforging
- Ever obtained an item that’s just not quite what you wanted? Using the reforging system, you will be able to reconfigure your items to change their stats and even add particle effects!
Tradeskill Apprentice
- Claim your tradeskill apprentice and gain your very own minion! Put your apprentice to work researching new recipes for extremely powerful items specific to your tradeskill class. Coach your apprentice to make his or her research more efficient; gain XP and rewards as well as recipes as your apprentice gains in skill.
AA Limit Increase
- The AA limit will be increased above the current limit of 300.
For more information on each version, the exclusive items, and more, please visit the Pre-Order website (not currently updated to Age of Discovery at press time).
Keep watching EverQuest2.com for more official information about Age of Discovery as we near the release date!
And it’s going to be FTP. Now that’s a shocker. And no word on the AA cap. All I can say is to paraphrase my paladin…”Well eff a zombie.”
2 words to describe the pricing scheme for this “expansion” (really a DLC patch)…
“fokking hilarious”
$40 for a DLC pack, sweet.
Laughable they’ve a nerve they really have
30 quid for this,which has no content or 38 for Star Wars TOR??
Its a hard one for sure
No lie, Skipppy. I’ve already cancelled 3 of my accounts. I’ll be cancelled the last 2 active ones in December and probably switching to SWTOR or (if that bombs) just staying with Rift.
Grats SJ on completely boning up this game.
This was the final straw. Do they think we’re stupid? Two accounts cancelled. It’s been a great seven years and I wish you all the best.
Rip off….
it is far too expensive for what little is coming.
Sad thing is, there will still be people that purchase this over priced garbage, hopefully the sales are mediocre and they lower the price to $20. I want to try out a beastlord, but not for $40.
Can I not buy this with SC? Cus I am SO not paying $40 for an expansion that doesn’t even have any new zones…
40 dollars for a game update? Ridiculous.
$90 for all the goodies, after preorder? That’s a lot of moolah for a couple of cloaks and a special beastlord pet.
And if you actually want all the dungeon building tools, looks like you have to preorder the $60 expansion ($90 at launch). I thought they wanted to encourage this?
Looks like they haven’t even decided how much the AA limit will be raised yet. Great planning there SOE!
AA Limit Increase
The AA limit will be increased above the current limit of 300.
What the heck will I use them on?
Yeah, Sadly, I just bought 2 of the $60.00 because i reallllly want the dungeon building things. and the wife,. Just had to have the home. I think she already owns all of the prestige homes already :P. At least i’ll have someone to hire when i run through someone else’s dungeon. Heh.
I don’t think F2P will be as bad as you guys are making it out to be. Take a look at DCUO and see the crap loads of people playing that. 180k new players? Sure they might not all be paying customers, but even if 10% of them shell out 5 bucks to become premium that’s more then they have now. And where one shells out once, more will be shelled out in the future.
The crack you’ve been smoking must be REALLY good, Tbiggs! LOL 🙂
Problem is TBiggs that the logon queues are hours long. Unless they give Gold members priority logon we maybe facing that come December
I am looking forward to all those amazing dungeons, Tbiggs!
From what I can see, Gold folks will have queue priority.
Will definitely NOT be paying 40 bucks for this “expansion”.
wow, they did it oO
Same price as always for 1/3 of the content
I don’t think there’s anything I want or need in this expansion. $40 saved, I’ll just keep paying my sub (gold membership now, I guess) and play the game I’ve been playing.
The only reason I am going to get it is the AA’s. Yes I’ve heard horrible rumors like its only added to existing trees and the tradeskill tree, but I would prefer to keep up with AA so I don’t have to play catchup when a decent expansion comes out.
Can we buy with SC (Robin asked, but I didn’t see a response)?
I will purchase, IF they open up a second heroic endline.
Yay! My two favorite games in one! EQ2 and Little Big Planet. One of them I’ve been playing for years, the other I got sick of in days due to player created content. Win win! (kill me now)
whats about player wo cancelled subscribtion to eq2, but had Buyd DoV, with this free to play option, cant use DoV because of F2P? I buyd for nothing?
Sole, if the account is flagged for DoV (which yours is if you bought it), then you can play in DoV as free on that account. Only accounts (new ones mainly) that do not already have it will not get it automatically.
Overall, I have seen F2P games work out well. We’ll see. It definately will raise the revenue of the game, so maybe we can see a bit more attention.
ah ok thanks, im not playing actually EQ2 but…if i had to rebuy dov i never played it again:) ….but actually i think i have to active sub gold to not lost my charakters? if i Understand right, i have seven charakters… silver limit is 4! one slot for LON and one slot i bought a few months ago. Also in all i will loose 1 Charakter permanently? or its just inactive till i activate a gold subscribtion?
From what I heard is that the AA will be raised 50pts. But that 25 of that is only for crafting AA…? Just what my woman read somewhere.
This is probably the first time our family won’t be preordering the game since launch. $40 is probably twice the value in comparison to other expansions for items that will appeal only to a select variety of people, but most likely not more than 2 or 3 things for everyone. This truly sounds like an expansion that would do much better piece meal on SC to be honest.
its also Irritating everyone is already “needing” on chain armor for alts in raids to boost their future BL’s, and leaving us current poor scouts high and dry. Currently 6 scout types loot on scout chain. 2 classes loot on their heal chain 2 classes for leather and plate each. 2 fighter leather, 4 plate fighters. and 6 classes for cloth. I really have no idea how these drops balance out given content overtime, but i do have friends that have easily geared out brawler classes very quickly for example… They originally wanted to make BL’s leather but apparently decided that would be too much work (i guess cosmetics of the monk classes out weighs just making them a fighter class??).
Still no precise info regarding the AA increase
@Melpheos
Dont Worry you get tradeskill apprentices, 2 not 1 but 2!!! Dungeon Finder Pets!, aside from the sarcasm I bought the CE edition just for 1 Reason.
Have u guys seen the mount its awesome! 😀