Next Expansion in November announcedFollow

Secrects of Faydwer

"Rediscover Faydwer as you strive to thwart the plans of the evil gnomish necromancer, Meldrath the Malignant.
Meldrath takes his fortress Mechanotus to the skies on a mission of destruction exposing a network of mineshafts
and tunnels that lead across the Steamfont Mountains to the unexplored lands of Faydwer.

Prepare for adventures with new friends and foes as you do batlle against angry clockwork machines and come face to face with the great dragon, Kerafyrm, who plots to end the world.

FEATURES:

Heroic items: Push yourself beyond your limits with Heroic Items that take your abilities beyond their maximum potential.

Level cap increase to level 80.

New Zones, Non Player Characters, and Interactive Objects.

New Alternate Advancement Abilities, Spells and Items."

Additional comment by Rashere:

I wonder what the required level will be on the new buffs for the 76-80 line of spell buffs. I still think the requirement for buffs such as Tenacity and Dire Focus should have been level 65 or so instead of level 61.

Personally, I am pretty excited about them going back to Faydwer, and hopefully making it a little more "old school". There are a number of zones on the original EQ map that were never created before, and I hope they use some of those.

I am torn on the level cap increase. I don't mind the grinding another 5 levels, its the trivializing of my Focii effects (just got my MP6 last month, sheesh) and the making of some of my favorite zones obsolete.

Its the obsolescence of the zones (for those max level) that really bothers me the most. With the bump to 80, OOW will basically be the oldest expansion you can go back to, and get decent experience in a group. Excepting of course, maybe some high-end zones that had to be unlocked by raiding or a few rare exceptions scattered among the expansions.

A lot can happen in 6 months, so we will see how it goes.

That is a good question. I hope that they start including all prior expansion with the purchase of the new one, would make life simpler for all.

They have an anniversary edition all expansions thru TBS included for 19.99 odd thing is you cant buy it thru the sony site but I got mine thru Best Buy.com. I doubt they will do another all inculsive so soon to the last one, but I could be wrong. Crappy part of the anniversary edition is its only for shipped not downloadable but still best deal going. Toss on the 30 bucks for the new expansion and your at 50 bucks to have em all if you do it that way when new one comes out.

Like the expansion idea and going back to some more old world content, but hate level 80, would much rather had a tonne of AAs instead.

To me, level 80 just means spending months updating my focii which I just got from the last expansion...

also, curious as to what this means:



New epics?

The Monk rep stated that focii are being revamped.

I have heard rumors that the Heroic items are like epic armor.

I can't wait to hit 75, but I don't see that happening for another month and a half tho, especially because I have so much of the game I haven't experienced. Like I have never taken on any of the gods. I have never raided either. So I am getting ready for that.

One thing that always seems to crop up whenever an expansion is announced is the weeping and wailing and the gnashing of teeth over having to get new foci. What is the big flippin deal? I have a 70 necro, and one of the things I enjoy about having him to play is there is always something more I want for him; spells, gear, foci, whatever. If we didn't have foci to chase after with each level cap raise, half the fun of playing our characters would be lost! One of the major playing points of an MMO like this is people are always supposed to be wanting something more for their character. I can think of nothing worse than reaching max level, max AA, max everything. Expansions are all about having to go after upgrades for your character. It's part and parcel of the whole concept.

FOCI:

True about caster foci degrading. I still see many armor items that are better than what ppl are wearing but have lvl 65 focii on them for improved healing or extended range or mana preservation whatnot. If the casters are casting lvl 66-75 spells then it does nothing at all to help them.

For melee if you are wearing parry 3 or dodge 3 whatnot it still works even when you are lvl 75 or 80 even.

Another thing about degrading caster focii- stagnation of mid to low tier raid content.

My guild is still raiding encounters in DP, but with level 80 the focii there will be severely degraded, and we have to ask: Is it worth raiding DP anymore?

I doubt there will be new potions coming out. They are very powerful as it is.

All caster's are very dependent on focus effects- you know they where introduced into the game in the first place to keep caster DPS on par with melee...