Music from the Shard of Fear is here...do we have any lore for it yet?

[Daine]

I was geeking along in my EQII music folders today and found a new folder in there.  It's in Everquest II->music->ShardOfFear.  It has 5 pieces of music in it, one longer piece and 4 flourishes.  Some good stuff and I assume it's for the upcoming Shard of Fear zone that's going to be added in Kunark.  I've heard it's supposed to be a shard of the Plane of Fear (huh, go figure).  Is there any other lore or information out on it yet?

[Cusashorn]

It's a level 70 group zone accessed from the portal of Fear in the Feerrott. That's all that's been revealed so far... and yes, it is only part of the Plane of Fear, so Cazic Thule will probably not be on the list of mobs you can kill. Wouldn't suprise me if he's part of a zone storyline though.

[Daine]

Think I also heard something about there were going to be two versions of it, a heroic and a raid.  I can't wait for the fun and the lore, the music sounds pretty spooky.  Maybe they'll bring it in early for Halloween?  Doubtful but we can always hope =D

[Josgar]

The raid one is going to be Fearand the group one is going to be Hateboth of these were raid zones in EQ1

[Mirander_1]

<cite>Josgar wrote:</cite><blockquote>The raid one is going to be Fearand the group one is going to be Hate</blockquote>Other way around, I think

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Mirander_1 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Josgar wrote:</cite><blockquote>The raid one is going to be Fearand the group one is going to be Hate</blockquote>Other way around, I think</blockquote>Yep. Shard of Fear = Group. Shard of Hate = Raid

[Willias]

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's a level 70 group zone accessed from the portal of Fear in the Feerrott. That's all that's been revealed so far... and yes, it is only part of the Plane of Fear, so Cazic Thule will probably not be on the list of mobs you can kill. Wouldn't suprise me if he's part of a zone storyline though.</blockquote>Considering that part of the music for the zone is listed as "Ring of Fire", I wonder if it isn't attached to the current Plane of Fear at all, and instead is the remnants of the former Plane of Fear.

[Ama]

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Mirander_1 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Josgar wrote:</cite><blockquote>The raid one is going to be Fearand the group one is going to be Hate</blockquote>Other way around, I think</blockquote>Yep. Shard of Fear = Group. Shard of Hate = Raid</blockquote>Wonder if this means Cazic and inny are combining their powers together to do something unspeakable.  I've never really delved too much into deity lore myself so i'm a bit in the dark. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[zerfall]

Cool stuff.  I don't normally go poking around the subfolders, but I just had to go check out the music.  It sounds really cool and should really set the atmosphere.  I was only in Fear once in EQLive, but from what I remember the music should fit if they try to stick to a similar "vision" of the zone.On a side note, it looks like two familiar faces may be showing up... both <a href="http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=733" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dread</a> and <a href="http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=732" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fright</a> have their own music files, so I am assuming it is encounter/combat music.As well, going on the Fear = group, Hate = raid... was Hate a harder zone than Fear in EQLive?  Like I said, was only in Fear once, and never went to Hate (I was a very casual player) but I seem to recall stories of Hate being more difficult and having better drops.  I could be wrong though and just making things up. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Barx]

<cite>Willias@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's a level 70 group zone accessed from the portal of Fear in the Feerrott. That's all that's been revealed so far... and yes, it is only part of the Plane of Fear, so Cazic Thule will probably not be on the list of mobs you can kill. Wouldn't suprise me if he's part of a zone storyline though.</blockquote>Considering that part of the music for the zone is listed as "Ring of Fire", I wonder if it isn't attached to the current Plane of Fear at all, and instead is the remnants of the former Plane of Fear.</blockquote>Well, considering that the planes were nothing but what the Gods wanted them to appear for us, it's possible that they could just stick with similar themes.In regards to it being a piece of it... thats all the PoP planes ever were. Mortals cannot experience/comprehend the full being of a plane, what we see and experience is just a shadow of the true nature of the plane.And I'm kind of glad to see some planes coming back, but in a very limited sense. Avatars are enough, no silly actual God "killing" like PoP please.I would like to see some peaceful planes (or at least peaceful to some...) ala EQ1. I miss PoG and also the not-so-peaceful PoM hehe.

[Ordate]

<cite>Zerfall@Permafrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>As well, going on the Fear = group, Hate = raid... was Hate a harder zone than Fear in EQLive?  Like I said, was only in Fear once, and never went to Hate (I was a very casual player) but I seem to recall stories of Hate being more difficult and having better drops.  I could be wrong though and just making things up. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>You probably would get different answers from different people.  Personally I have always felt that fear because of a number of factors was much more unforgiving then Hate.  Others might have different experiences... But I never had an 8 hour long corpse recovery in hate....

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Zerfall@Permafrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>As well, going on the Fear = group, Hate = raid... was Hate a harder zone than Fear in EQLive?  Like I said, was only in Fear once, and never went to Hate (I was a very casual player) but I seem to recall stories of Hate being more difficult and having better drops.  I could be wrong though and just making things up. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>Doesn't matter which is harder. This is what the developers have confirmed.

[Ndi]

Do we get to see our old friends Fright, Dread, and Terror?

[Ordate]

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Zerfall@Permafrost wrote:</cite>Doesn't matter which is harder. This is what the developers have confirmed.</blockquote>Umm, yes, I think both the person that asked and I both realize that since he had the whole =raid etc in his paragraph.

[Cusashorn]

<p>Well, if you really want to know, the Plane of Fear has always been one of the hardest planes in the game, even despite being the first in the game. The place is so dangerous that you could spend an entire day trying to get your corpse back. There were no 100% safe spots in the zone, and the safest spot possible was on the north side of the (the zone in was on the south.)</p><p>Plane of Hate was actually quite easy. It's gothic-city layout allowed for more strict pathing (though it did have it's share of pathing bugs as well.)</p>