Feldon
There was some question and answer time including 1 hr of gameplay and 1 hr anything goes. Of course a few questions which had already been answered in guild halls were asked. I tried to ask Aerilik a ranger question but a monk cornered and monopolized him for 10 min to see if monks could do something like aggression mitigation (basically a complicated way to hold agro). I get the impression that the new AA lines will offer an additional taunt (help for crusaders too) but not sure.
Feldon
Lots of great questions about PvP and exile. Alas it was almost a throwaway factoid rather than a discussion. I’m sure there will be more info. Thanks for reading my blog! It was a lot of fun. Might keep it going if there is interest. Btw I post at eq2flames.com as feldon23. I’m Feldon on Butcherblock (80 ranger/jeweler).
The Lost from Butcherblock won the EQ2 tournament in the new zone Veksar:The Invasion.
Tradeskill Group Quests (Missions) 9 recipes which must be completed. Each requires their own tradeskill arts (no more Geocrafting/Geomancy). So with 6 tradeskilers they must craft the other 3 recipes using someone elses arts with some difficulty (sorta like Frostfell). Rewards include Tradeskill Mounts. Existing animal, new look, range of run speeds. One of the new AA lines will be Tradeskill Harvesting. Will increase items harvested per node. Tradeskill Rush orders give +300 faction Tradeskill Work orders give +200 faction Domino and others have had a lot of discussions about loams vs cluster cost. Changing recipes or increasing drop rate is...
GU48 Crafted armor 1-69 No more incomplete armor sets Imbue all armor 10+ Shadow odyssey Tradeskill mounts Tradeskill missions 6 man group 3 at launch Rewards Tradeskill zones may scale 50-80
SoE would like to boost taunt as one of the new AA lines so crusaders and bruisers can catch up and match the damage of current weapons. Torch slot or maybe more items with light effect. No more 80s running around with lightstone. On the flipside perhaps an option to auto-hide light sources on stealth. Maybe too easy? 🙂 Auto mentor 80 down to match some zones instead of having to have a 60 tag along. Make mentoring more rewarding include AA. Warden asked about having to cast 14 wards on every death. SoE might allow more than 2...
Itemization — We have a plan. Raiders should not need legendary items. Rodcet nife is new avatar. We have thought about splitting avatars into good evil neutral for more frequent spawns. No plans. No other contesteds being added. Cannot respec and move existing AA (140) to new tree 6 man Group Missions — do a dungeon at the request of an NPC 1 per day, 1 per dungeon Reward is tokens which can be spent on legendary and low fabled items. Might add loot to Tangrin. No epic quests. 1 more signature quest. Long but not repetitive. Good and...
New AA tree: General Archetype (Priest/Mage/Fighter/Scout) Class (Cleric/Summoner/etc) Subclass (Warden/Ranger/Assassin/etc.) Instead of a “tree” that forces you to take AA items you don’t want, AA lines are straight across and you just pick ones. End of line reward for each level. Tradeskill AA Harvesting AA increase # harvests per node Asymetrical armor pieces if you want one big shoulder, one small shoulder. 🙂
New overland 77+ 20 dungeons 4 new raid 60 pts for new aa tree Missions – even if good loot does not drop you can get shards to turn in for weapons Re use existing zones Most dungeons scale 50-80 Najena’s is a new big ass dungeon. Very tall (4 story stairs and just really cool). Very organic, wood, ropes, not the current stone boxes. Najena’s forge is the new place to go to craft various master weapons, etc. taking the place of the existing Solusek Ro forge. Upper and lower Guk One of the two dieties being added...
DC universe looks awesome. Much less dogmatic mmo gameplay than coh. Just plain fun. Assist batman superman wonder woman flash or the joker and other baddies. All art by Jim Lee. FreeRealms for younger less serious players. Has enough of the Sims and Second Life but Very good graphics. Completely free with premium content and microtransactions to buy certain stuff. Solves a lot of deterrents to playing that existing games have: Don’t pick character class at char creation. Create character on flash website while game downloads. Tons of minigames. Racing, cards, etc.
Allakhazam is now Zam.com. Fully connected to Sony servers. Web accessible broker. Items show full details and drop %. Try on new armor with 3d model of your character. Suggest armor and find out where it drops.
Really pushing Station launcher for all games even non Sony. Buddy list is very smart. If you meet someone on eq and add buddy then that is how the see you. It hides the fact you are on an alt or playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure unless you are also buddies in that game or with that alt. Smart buddy list collapses multiple alts from multiple games to keep the buddy list clean. Voice chat on station launcher. Personal or guild chat from launcher. Voice chat on station launcher from a CELL PHONE.
The big news is tomorrow at 2pm PDT, the revelation of The Shadow Odyssey expansion. So far, SoE has managed to keep this expansion completely under wraps. Until tomorrow…
Tier 1 Guild Level 30 5 room guild hall house in Qeynos, Freeport, Neriak, etc. 50 plat 100 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundable if you upgrade) Upkeep 50g, 50k personal status per week 1pp and 100k personal status Tier 2 Guild Level 50 10 room house in the Hall of Thunder in South Qeyno or Stonestair Byway in Freeport. 250 plat 500 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundable if you upgrade) Upkeep 2p50g, 100k status per week 5pp and 150k personal status per week Tier 3 Guild Level 70 1,000 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundable if you...
The represented members of Solaris Society (Thorien, Feldon, Naopia, Okidok, and Afra) are joining a tournament Saturday a.m. to see some new content coming in GU49. 3 group mobs which we have 30 min to bring down. Any dps available? 😉