Sentinel's Fate, first impressions.Follow

So, it's been a bit over a week, I've already seen several lvl 90 players. Unfortunately I had to work a lot recently so I haven't seen all that much of the new zones so far. I'm still in Paineel, questing at the Eye of Dartain at the moment.

Still, the effects of some changes were easily noticed. The stances are altered radically, the AA's have been changed and expanded again, which led to the fun job of rechoosing them, again lol.

I was partly in shock when I noticed that the former first line of AA's in the fighter tree were simply cut, no more str, sta, agi, wis or int boosts anymore, yet I don't see all that much of a difference in my stats. Ofcourse, I didn't write them down before the change so I don't really know for sure how much they changed, but not all that much. The new AA's added seem to be pretty good, useful, unlike some of the shadow expansion. (as always personal opinion ofcourse)

Fighting in the new zones is easy, the first day I explored a bit and fell down the waterfall in the roekilik caverns (or whatever the rats are called), I found lvl 83 arrow downs and 84 no arrows there but all went down very easily, and I mean easy. Granted, I do have my mythical and T1 shard armour, but that's not that great to be able to even take down a mob that is five levels higher I encountered in the caverns too, with hardly using power and almost no loss in health. (with the use of my monk abilities, chi and tsunami and the improved stone stance ability, but still)

Ofcourse, I do prefer this than not being able to beat a single mob on my own, as SOE did at the beginning of the game in the higher lvl zones.

I don't really like the quests so far. The second quest I got was to kill 3 rats, at lvl 80 that does sound a bit ridiculous, to say the least. Too many quests involve merely running around, talking to someone or delivering a message. Again, at that lvl it just doesn't feel right anymore. I have only done 51 quests there though, plenty left to do! It's all very lineair so far, but that's pretty normal, the quests make you explore the city first, then the areas just around it next.

The visuals aren't bad, but so far it's all very brownish, I'm going to fly around a bit when the servers are up again and see how the rest looks like.

Very little lag, I almost quit the game with the previous expansion as it was truly unplayable then, but up till now it has all been very smooth.

I've yet to encounter all the changes to the game or see all the content of this expansion, but so far it's not bad. Not as fun as Faydwer or Kylong Plains was at first, but it's early.

What are your first impressions of this new expansion?

My favorite bit about this expansion is I can solo it - and I don't even have to wait until the mobs are green. I'm an "average" player, no raid or shard gear, although I've got some nice pieces. The last two expansions were so difficult to solo with my Troub that I didn't bother hitting 80 until right before Sentinel's Fate.

I'm taking my time. I play an hour or two every night, tradeskill one day, adventure the next.

Yes OBD, the DD was available for purchase on the 23rd. I have a guildy in the UK and he had to wait to get it as well, but he's up and running around the new zone with us. So definitely get the xpac and start joining in the chaos!

You want something to say?

Why did you quit playing EQ2 in the first place you bum!?

Gratz OBD!!

Just so you know, I do live at home and have no job...so I can easily play 10+ hours everyday (in fact I generally do). I'm sure a much more laid back player will take some time to get through the same content.