New Xpac!Follow

It's based on The Buried Sea expansion of a while back which promised... SHIP-TO-SHIP COMBAT!

If you don't believe me, check the link! About time!

I want to talk like a pirate AND fight like a pirate! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Ship to ship combat...Yeah.. I remember that sales pitch !

I hope they give us enough content, zones and more tiers of gear and other options in the group game this expansion, as its becoming so generic and linear.

It seems like the developers latest trend is to make only a few static zones an expansion and this with staggered release of the already scarce content and zones. Eight zones is definitely less than I hoped for.

No interest here either for some of the new gimmicks...



Edited, Aug 17th 2014 12:44pm by hexeez

My Cleric has the perfect (almost, it should have been for the shoulder slot!) item for you sitting in his bank: Bud's Parrot

Edited, Aug 17th 2014 6:24pm by KC13

It was info pulled from a very early site "reporting" on the news. The reporter didn't sound the most intelligent.

The mount keyring is a great idea (which other games have... but good stuff I don't care where they get the idea from even it it is WoW).

Random thoughts:

I never really understood the attraction of mounts. Maybe that's just because my main being a druid I always have speed available for all my toons. I'm always amazed at how Sony is willing to add so much animation overhead by including mounts yet they have limited other more useful features due supposedly to demand on systems. Like, for example, letting pet classes have 2 pets at once. I mean 2 REAL pets, not swarms and short duration pets. There are illusions that have no sitting animation yet they developed horse-riding animation for practically every race in the game lol.

New race... I wonder if we will EVER see one introduced to Plain Ole Vanilla EQ ever again. A whole new race is a lot of work even if they used an NPC race like goblins,sarnaks or giants, all of which have plenty of infrastructure built into the game now. Goblins would be a no-brainer... there are even goblin bankers and vendors. Same for sarnaks. I do think if they intro'd a goblin race of PCs, starting in Runnyeye, you'd see Misty Thicket overrun with noobie gobs for at least 2-3 weeks, just like happened with frogloks, if anyone remembers what it was like in Innothule Swamp when that race was first introduced. Would be fun but not sure it's worth the time and programming work EQ devs would have to engage in---from a strictly profit-and-loss point of view. Unfortunate, that.

Does not interest me in the least. Then again my max level is lvl 92 so about the time I finally hit 100 I will once again not be max level. I have never been able to hit max level in this game and I have played off and on since Kunark era.

The closest I have ever come to max level was back when 65 was cap. I had two chars at 64 and two at 63. Then I went AFK for about 6 years when my entire guild defected to WoW.

...Depends which side of the Xorbb rebellion one aligns with I suppose (the goblin vs. evil eye which is pet question)


You're right... orcs are probably the best-factioned of any of the races people often talk about but even then there would be lots to do to have them lore-logical walking around the old world, and they don't have all the aspects of a complete race.

I suppose the Sol C & Chardok B precedent would be a better way to do it: create a mini newb zone off the existing piece you want to patch a new race onto. I've always liked the idea of being able to be a Thurgadin dwarf but of course that would be a disrupted place to live from time to time. That's if they wanted to "lore-in" more sublimely.

I suppose the shortcut is to toss a few tents in the mostly empty west side of Crescent Reach and have all the "refugee" types seeking asylum align with the Drakkin. Default-wise they could cut-paste the Drakkin faction onto these new versions of said races. Though it really would be better if each was "tuned" a bit more to the in-game tradition.

I also wonder if their is a shortcut that would work: it's been talked about before, but expanding the heritage tab (as used for Drakkin) for other races.

So Dark Elves heritage wise could be expanded to include: Mistmoore Vamps, and Crushbone orcs and maybe even Luggalds (though you could lump them with Trolls too). The new skin for each race (including dark elf, which to me would be just a further refined version of the existing --no radial change but more face/hair options) would run off the same animations and faction tables. Armor looks we'd want some difference...

Dwarves would be easy, as icy Thurgadin as an option makes sense and allows for more class choices.

We've seen some other elven tribes/races? in lore throughout the game. Having 1 of them come and live with the Wood Elves isn't necessarily a huge stretch.

This "cheat" doesn't have to be combo that would precisely live together. Look at how half-elves have such a range of deity/starting city choices despite the limited number of classes available to them.

For example: if there is nothing to pair with Barbarians... they could add playable gnolls and make Crescent Reach the only starting City option.

I concede that this "shortcut" works best for something like the Dwarf example where it is really just the model skin colouring that differs. So maybe that is the reality check. Granted they could put a Pirate Newb Beach off Stonebrunt and let half the existing races heritage into pirates... Inny worshipping gnome rogues for the win!

Edited, Aug 22nd 2014 2:40pm by snailish

When Frogloks joined us there was no Crescent Reach. Then there were Wood Elf Beastlords .... And where did they start? And where (at least to this point) may they not start?

From what I've read so far, I won't be buying. I love the 1-65 game, but I no longer have the time nor the inclination to pursue the high end any more.

I will buy the xpac because I'm addicted and ultimately $40 a year is chump change in the world of entertainment.

My complaint about mounts regards the fascination with having many mounts in such quantity that a keyring would even be required to keep track of them all! For mana regen any ole mount works so that's irrelevant to my point. (Vaguely relevant aside: remember when mounts couldn't be summoned indoors? That really made XPing in the best dungeons a slow process with having to sit and med every few pulls. How the EQ-Care-Bears have changed the game, eh?)

I share the traditionalists' objection to trashing the original game lore by adding moon people, aliens, dinosaurs, etc. to the game but that ship has sailed---off the edge of Norrath---long ago and there's no putting that genie back in the bottle. Heck, I'm happy if they have a half-dozen mob designs AND animations that I don't recognize as cannibalized from earlier work.

Yeah. I distinctly remember a group of us running through EJ in Kunark back in the day, and turning around to check where the rest of the group was only to see a *large* number of those raptor thingies chasing us! Ah, the good old days when your map didn't show where your party members were (Hahah! There were no maps!), and there were no handy dandy agro indicators telling you even that you had attracted the attention of something nasty (much less how angry it is at you personally), which then called a few of it's friends for a light snack.

There's just something about running along and the whole time not actually knowing if you had something on your tail. Sometimes, if it was like a giant or something, you'd hear the ominous stomping of feet. Other times? Silent death!

It's ANKYLOSAURUS!

Actually the giant mosquitoes freaked me out even more than those nasty looking raptors. Just imagine being "stung" by a mosquito the size of a giraffe.

ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!