One of the EQ2 devs (Imago-Quem) has posted a few images of the difference we will see in the game with Shaders 3.0. There posted here in this thread (but i’ll just steal them).

Just looking at the picture this change is going to make the game look SO SO SO much better than it currently does.

Pics after the break

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The montly dev Q&A thread is open for question here. This is the first Q&A sestion since since Sentinel’s Fate has been announced.

I am thinking about asking the Dev’s for map, for my Map project, but it might be easier to just PM a bunch of Dev’s tell someone gives in…

If you looking for what was anounced at fan faire check out The Eq2 Wire. The rest of this is my own speculations.

History Lesson

After the fall of the Combine Empire (way before eq1), the cities of Freeport and Qeynos rose up to become the major cities of Humanity. A group of humans living in qeynos led by Erud became irritated, and disgusted with men. They left qeynos to the island/continent of Odus and formed their own city, and called them self the Erudin’s. They gathered reports, books, scrolls and other artifacts that there spies got for them (Sounds like the Order of Rime). They were the first Human Mages. After some time, a group Erudites discovered the lost art of Necromancy, and they were branded as heretics. A magic war broke out between the 2 groups. In the Final battle great mystic energies were releases and an immense hole leading to unknown depths was created. A tribe of Kerra where blown all the way to the moon of Luclin and became the Vah Shir. The city of Paineel was created on the side of the hole, and this is where the Erudites who believe in Necromancy lived.

Speculation

This is Odus in eq1 times.

There were 2 overland zones Toxxulia Forest and Stonebrunt Mountains which will probably be the 2 overland zones mentioned. The The order of Rime could either be what is left of Erudin orcould live in stonebrunt mountains. Stoneburnt mountains had a huge snowie area with a little village, so the Order of Rime (i’m guessing) most likely came from there.

The Hole is a level 82+ dungeon. The rest is pretty much up in the air.

According to SoE around the time of Fan Faire the first Lore book from Sentinel’s Fate would appear some where in game and they would give some hints where it is…
I haven’t seen any hints, or anything yet, Anyone have any idea if this book is out yet?

• Sentienl’s fate will take place in Odus. (The ice from live update 52, Monument and might, made me and probably everyone thing the next expansion was Velious), but it Odus.

• The Level Cap will be raised to Level 90

• It will go live in Feb 2010 (Not in November 09). They plan to release 3 more large live update between then and now (live update, 53, 54, 55).

• The City of Halas will be a good city that will come out with the expansion. They want to make it the best newbie experience ever.

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The rest of these feature i believe are coming out in the 3 live update prior to the expansion, but they could be in the expansion.

• Solo Mentoring (You won’t have to mentor anyone you can just level your level to what ever level you want). W00t, i plan to go through a ton of quest on ratbear, or ogrebear. And gain back my title of most quest on Kithicor)

• Achievements — (They are adding an achievement system)

• Shard of Love — They are adding the shard of love to the game

There are on my live blog from SoE Fan Faire (http://ogrebear.com/?p=1099)

I am not in vegas, but i just started watching the address (7:20pm) here are some of the high lights.

7:24 190,000 virtual items have been sold in everquest 1 and everquest 2.

7:26 Soe and HP have teamed to mail in game art to your house. (If your buy something in the store online they will mail you a copy at home). They even will send you a book with all your guilds mates

7:26 Station cash to move your charater from one server to another. 20 bucks

Free Realms

7:28 By next week Soe will have 4 million accounts in Free Realms.

7:30 200 new items, and a lot of new content since launch. (The ghost pets do seem pretty cool.

They released the story quest (Ok so now i want to play these and see how they are). (i’m such a quest whore).

7:31 Full progression for Detby and kart racing. 40 quests, and customization of your own car. They are also releasing garage where you can customize your cars.

7:33 Big Bang entertainemnt is working on some of the mini games. Free Realms soccer.  There are power ups, (it sound a lot like Mario Strikers).

7:35 It will come out this summer, and will have quest like the other jobs as well. Guilds can have matching uniforms.

7:36 New area is coming out, it is the home of the draves (it a desert play ground) Drawves look like punks with presing.

New jobs (Druids)

7:38 Card creatator, you will be able to put your charater on a card.  You will get 10 physical copies of the card, with a code that will give you a in game copy. (No price annouced)

PoxNora

7:40 Sony bought the compnay that makes PoxNora. It can be played on PC’s and Macs (a direction they plan to keep going in to).

7:41 it like a card game, but the card come to live. 10 expantions have come out, and the game is 3 month old. Now there showing a Demo.

DC Universe

7:44 You can pick anything up and throw it. (They are working with Jim Lee)

7:46 Its an action MMO. It fast pace, it has a lot of physics and you can create your own create. You can fight with superman. Demo.

7:49 There showing a trailer now. The game look cool it seem a lot more fast pace, and a little less like an tradtional MMO. You can be a super hero or villen

The Agency

7:51 The guy downed a martini before he started to talk.

They won MMO of the show at E3.

7:52 What is the agency? They want you to live through how a spy would live. Fun now no waiting.

7:53 You look like you can be any class. As you level up to get operends. Your working up to World Domination

7:54 He is going to show them a spy mission. The evil dr. plans to brain wash the people. There are some mini games it looks like.  You can be an alies that will let you in to place you couldn’t with guns, you gain different items (like cameras). You can customize weapons.

(For got to take screen shots)

I need to pee… but i’ll wait until it over.

Star War Galazies … OK i guess that mean i can pee

7:57 … um this guy is listing stuff people wanted and what they added.

7:58 Star Wars Cronicles system. You can create your our quest, with people like Darth Vader.

7:59 They are going to add a quest based on a new star wars book.

Star Wars Card Game

8:02 There on there 4 expantions..

Everquest

8:03 They have a book if you want to buy it

8:04 EverCracked documentory, there going to show it tomarow (awwww i thought they were about to show it)

8:05 Evercracked documentory, They had side jobs to because they didn’t have money. (Why are they showing eq2 trailer video… well ok i guess in eq as well).

Everquest 2

8:08 Brenlo is coming up.. All the girls are screaming for this sexy sexy man

8:09 joke about a Shadow Knights…. The Shadow Odyssey video

8:11 3 month update. Live update 51 was the first one. They reintruduced Lavastorm

8:12 Live update 52, (not everyone likes Research assistant).

8:13 What does the ice mean? He is announcing. The 6th expantion. Eq2 Sentinel’s Fate. You will be able to travel to Odus. And some videos.

8:16 Al fan faire people get access to Beta, but that not all. (Feb 2010, WTF not Nov). Everyone at fan faire get a free digital copy

8:17 There working on 3 more live upate before then. Auto Metoring, you can metor your self down to level 1 with out needing anyone else. So you can be any level from 1-80 now W00t.

8:18 Acheivement. W00t, that the next live update, w00t. There going to work on there new player experiance. (A new city for Good people, you’ll be able to start in Halas, and there going to work really hard on it. (this come out Feb 2010)

8:19 Another new shard. (The Shard of Love), no ewoks.

LON — not going to cover this got 20 picture to add to the previous ones

(eq2 get a clock that heals all your armor once a day.. WTF

Everquest 1

8:23 A lot of talk about what they have done in the last update

8:25 What is next for Everquest 1. You start off at level 51, on the new level 50 server… (ok..) Only fan faire people can play on it for now

8:27 Underfoot the 16th expantion for eq1. It will launch in November. From July to November there will be events, you will get a credit, you’ll be alowed to get the game earlier before the others.

8:30 Everyone in fan faire gets to get in early, and get the expantion for free was well.

DRINKING, and Gambling

In the eq2 they are raising the level cap to 90.

The end

For some reason it feel like just yesterday i got a tweet saying there was 54 days tell Fan Faire, but now there is 1.

So my expectation for fan faire is that SoE will revile the next eq2 expansion, Sentinel’s Fate. At least that is what SoE has registered as a trademark. From the lore that in game so far it seem to point to Velious. But i think there is a small chance it could be Odus.

I am excited

Walk through for all these quests can be found here.

The second set of quest is very similar to the first set. You will need to kill Order of Rime invaders around the zone in different places, each quest gives your roughly 34 ish gold, and they are green so it is worth doing for the money alone.

There are a few nice house items in this series of quest as well. You also get a new mount a Rilissian Soldier’s Mount. Which is a has a 55% run speed and increases your out of command health and mana regen by 15, and increase meele, spell and heal amounts by 15.

You’ll end up with 2 or 3 plat a that, mount, and a few hours items for 1 hour of your time which again is a pretty sweet deal.

Strats for Groups zones in eq2

There seem to be a lack of strats in Everquest 2 for most of the groups zones. Yesterday my group was doing Mistmyr Manor, and there were a few names that it would have been nice to have some sort of strat before hand. Like the one who locks you in a room and after a certain amount of time has the ceiling fall on you and instantly kill you, unless you kill him/her before that.

A strat on what to do would have been nice. Is there a site with this information? I couldn’t find much on eq2.wikia. eq2.zam.com, even being spoon feed the information had less information than eq2.wikia. And google did not turn up any hit on the first page that I found relevant.

I might just go ahead and create some pages for the TSO zones with strats on how to kill the names, if no one can point me to a site that already does that.