Game Update 44 visual preview!

[Gnobrin]

<p>Game Update 44 is on its way! Here's a <b><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=1627&section=News&locale=en_US" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">visual preview</a></b> of some of the content you'll find!</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">Can Monks do handstand spinning kicks on the combat wargs?  ^_^ J/k</span>

[RoXx]

<p>I hope its not a picture of a guild pointing at a ranger, saying: </p><p>"Betray or go solo, we dont need you anymore!!" <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/c30b4198e0907b23b8246bdd52aa1c3c.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[leannel]

I remember the Shard of Fear portal bring up in Freerot a long time before the zone opened.  Has anyone seen an entrance to the Shard of Hate yet?

[Davic]

The entrance to shard of fear in EQ2 is actually the way you got to the plane of fear in EQ1 thats why it has been there the whole time. In EQ1 you had to have wizard ports to hate from these pyramid things to get to hate so there was no regular way in.

[Kitsune286]

Are those mandible armor thingies on the new wargs?

[swedago]

<cite>Leanne@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>I remember the Shard of Fear portal bring up in Freerot a long time before the zone opened.  Has anyone seen an entrance to the Shard of Hate yet?</blockquote>Shard of Hate zone in is in Neriak (by Temple of Hate) or Nek Forest (not sure where exactly).  Too bad SoHate is a raid zone cause we need some new instances in tier8 that drop loot =)

[Thor71457]

Is it true that it will be a quest to get the new Wargs ??

[Zeldane]

<cite>Thor71457 wrote:</cite><blockquote>Is it true that it will be a quest to get the new Wargs ??</blockquote>I'm also interested in how the wargs will be optained, anyone know?

[Umee]

Lovely work!  Oh, how I wish I could go explore SOH!  I absolutely loved <strike>dying</strike> hunting in Hate in EQL!

[44Dragon]

<p>I would love to be able to explore the wonders of EQ2 Players while at the office, but for some reason the office net filter thinks it is a [Removed for Content] site.  The network admin in charge of it stated that in order to get put on the list a site had to receive a very large number of public comments to be lumped into any given restricted group.</p><p>So who's posting [Removed for Content] on EQ2 Players, and more importantly why can't I find it when I'm at my house?</p>

[Lizardling]

where can the new wargs be bought? i looked around a little on test but did not find them

[Guldor]

yeah how can i obtain one of these new wargs. they are looking really cool.

[Xethren]

Supposedly they are a Kunark quest reward. Dont know anything other than that, and I might not be right either <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Araxes]

The new battle wargs rock.Glad I didn't spend 58 plat on one of the current wargs!

[Moltove]

Am I really the only one who's squeeling about the new ranged slot appearance?! =D I'm soo happy! Even though I'm an Assassin, sometimes my daggers are silly looking. And I love to work from my bow a lot, too! Aieee!

[randommind]

<p>Will the new wargs be available to the general public or only to the high lvl raiding guilds? I would like to see some of the cool stuff be available to the general players as well.</p>

[Denon]

<p>I really hope those wargs can be purchased without guild requirements. I am in a small family guild and we will never reach a level for the other good mounts. It would be nice to have something available.</p>

[Gryphonkin]

<p>I just hope exiles can get these ones...  Since nobody else will sell them to us.</p><p>Really, whats the logic in Terens Grasp not selling me mounts when im max ally with them?</p>

[Strange]

The wargs looks great, again doesn't look really good on caster type. Is SoE ignoring caster group? I am still using flying carpet! EoF came out wargs, then RoK came out rhinos. Now Wargs again. The creatures doesn't looking good on caster, some use horse but I don't. Be thoughtful please because we are also players.Now I have to admit that casters are totally underpower because we are weak and our dmg below from among melee classes. They has more advantages from fighting tolerance. Even they kills mobs much faster than casters, JOKE! Don't nerf melee class, too many of them. OVERPOWER casters to keep class FUN. I felt its not really much fun anymore since we are "weakling" Give me a break!Even more worst, Im stuck 52% capped mount speed. While scouts, some players run 100% even 114% from their AA. I think time for SoE to create speedy mounts for us to travel. Why have to keep us traveling really slow through many green/gray mobs zone. Im lv 80 and I would have to spend a lot time on traveling (Im coercer, no teleports for us grins)... again give me a break!Keep improving SoE!

[Moltove]

<cite>AvatarJay wrote:</cite><blockquote>The wargs looks great, again doesn't look really good on caster type. Is SoE ignoring caster group? I am still using flying carpet! EoF came out wargs, then RoK came out rhinos. Now Wargs again. The creatures doesn't looking good on caster, some use horse but I don't. Be thoughtful please because we are also players.Now I have to admit that casters are totally underpower because we are weak and our dmg below from among melee classes. They has more advantages from fighting tolerance. Even they kills mobs much faster than casters, JOKE! Don't nerf melee class, too many of them. OVERPOWER casters to keep class FUN. I felt its not really much fun anymore since we are "weakling" Give me a break!Even more worst, Im stuck 52% capped mount speed. While scouts, some players run 100% even 114% from their AA. I think time for SoE to create speedy mounts for us to travel. Why have to keep us traveling really slow through many green/gray mobs zone. Im lv 80 and I would have to spend a lot time on traveling (Im coercer, no teleports for us grins)... again give me a break!Keep improving SoE!</blockquote>A little off topic, buuuut...I think the Wargs are heh...uniclass. I've seen casters pretty satisfied with them. My personal preference? Horses. If they made them pumas or panthers from EQ1 accessible to EQ2, than I'd be all in with my Assassin Elf. Otherwise, a warg is too big and looks too messy, and a rhino? heh, more comedic value for me. But, I don't have any mounts for my chars. My only travel beef is between Qeynos and Freeport, but it's often easy to overcome. a FREE magic carpet at 40% works fine for me. Or, I nudge my Druish friend to give me a sow at 45%, then wear my Jboots for 55%.As a 68 Assassin, I'm still using my Path skill (16%) Jboots (10%) SoW Totem (24% I think. Only Jboots stack to make 34%) combo. Even more, I'm using the combo more than I whip out that dirty old rug. Takes too long to "mount" and then to actually go. Then, there isn't a huge difference between 34 and 40%. Agility line and I -think- the physical line are what bring up the run speed. I would love to put points in there but it's useless. Most scouts put points for dmg, not the ability to run faster. Meh, personal choice, of course.Moral of the story is...casters are not being ignored and all that...and more or less, I don't think having a runspeed of 52% is all that bad. be happy you can even afford that. I can't. But it's ok, I think travel time is ok at even 24%.---and, the new wargs make me giggle. They now have silly helmets! hehe

[Ghostwall]

<p>Indeed, I personally hate the warg and rhino mounts.. I think they just look stupid. Could you make a horse mount with the new stats next time. The last thing I really care to see is another ogre sitting on his pink warg with an enlarge spell active in Qeynos Harbor. It's stupid and it just serves to block my view of wherever I am trying to get to.</p><p> Just my opinion. I'm sure they think they look cool.. but they don't</p>

[Terreciel]

<p>Ditto on that. I think the rhinos look stupid and the wargs aren't much better. I agree that they aren't really caster-type mounts. I'd like to see more horses and/or other alternatives. Even an upgraded rug would be fine with me. </p><p>Yet another warg just shows laziness and/or a lack of imagination.</p>

[Viron_X]

I never liked the rhinos, but I loved the old wargs. On these new ones the main armor over their head is just waaay too over the top. It looks like the Warg can barely see, and has no use of it's mouth (I always figured their teeth was one of the selling points of a warg). It looks like rhino armor. It's bulky, ugly and impractical. I'd be worried my Warg was going to fall over face-first.Hate to say it, but these new wargs look like a joke. I'm not at all looking forward to having to look at these in-game.

[bbj1947]

<cite>Terreciel wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Ditto on that. I think the rhinos look stupid and the wargs aren't much better. I agree that they aren't really caster-type mounts. I'd like to see more horses and/or other alternatives. Even an upgraded rug would be fine with me. </p><p>Yet another warg just shows laziness and/or a lack of imagination.</p></blockquote><p>I'm pleased to see that I am not the only one who thinks the wargs and rhinos are stupid looking.  As a high elf maiden (I'm either high elf, wood elf or dark elf girl in Norrath), I can't stand the way the wargs slobber on everything, and the rhinos are so big, fat and lumbering, I wouldn't be caught dead riding one!  I've been whining about this in game for ages (I'm a 3 year veteran of EQ2), but it takes a lot to get an official complaint from me.  Now is the time.  More freakin WARGS, guys?  Come ON, give us a break!  Sony, why can't you give us a lovely flying mount.... preferably a flying horse!  I enjoy riding the griffins, but I'd really like to see a high level mount for us elves, one that doesn't look like it's either going to eat us or sit on us and crush us!  Come on, you can do it!</p>

[Strange]

Hate to disappoint you, bbj1947 there will be no flying mounts in EQ2 unless they revamp whole Norrath realm. If you really want the flying mounts, then play other MMO, EQ1, Vanguard, WoW, and others but not with EQ2. I did brought the argument in previous post and the players confirmed me that the devs repeatably won't ever give in to any effort making flying mount due to land render that already designed for non-flying mounts.Just yet they can be more creative creating really far out mounts. Remember this is RoK expansion, obviously not their best like with EQ1, cuz in EQ1 Kunark's almost nothing, so they knew and don't want to spend too much energy onto RoK. Looking forward for improve expansions coming out in the future. I think they need "Luclin" revamp since the Norrath graphics getting suck with modern technology, look at COA and newest MMO coming out, their graphics are brilliant! Better get busy SoE.

[denmom]

<cite>AvatarJay wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hate to disappoint you, bbj1947 there will be no flying mounts in EQ2 unless they revamp whole Norrath realm. If you really want the flying mounts, then play other MMO, EQ1, Vanguard, WoW, and others but not with EQ2. I did brought the argument in previous post and the players confirmed me that the devs repeatably won't ever give in to any effort making flying mount due to land render that already designed for non-flying mounts.Just yet they can be more creative creating really far out mounts. Remember this is RoK expansion, obviously not their best like with EQ1, cuz in EQ1 Kunark's almost nothing, so they knew and don't want to spend too much energy onto RoK. Looking forward for improve expansions coming out in the future. I think they need "Luclin" revamp since the Norrath graphics getting suck with modern technology, look at COA and newest MMO coming out, their graphics are brilliant! Better get busy SoE.</blockquote>But it could be done as a "flying" mount.  Like how the carpet "hovers".I've taken my Paladin over to Gorowyn and whenever I recall her horse after the griff ride, for a very brief moment Pheep is sitting on a small white griffin with armour.  I know it's a graphic glitch since she's standing next to the griffin on the docks in Gorowyn, but it looks neat.  I see the same glitch after the ride from Gorowyn to BB.So it could be done...question is whether or not it will be done.

[denmom]

Okay, since we're all wishing for new mounts...I want the EQ1 drogmor!Bring back the lizard cow!

[Endrian]

wow the new wargs look brill cant wait to get one. as long as thay are not silly plat like the market has gone

[Selene1212]

How can Hate be a raid zone if they are allowing you to choose sides...?

[Shankonia]

<p>Would love to see more options with mounts in the future.  New Mounts, especially Wargs and Rhinos just don't do it for me.  Due to my pride, a horse I shall always ride.</p><p>It's great there is a variety, but come end game, wouldn't it be great to be able to obtain loot that you could use on your mount?  Fabled armor, magical horseshoes....ways for them to help you fight or fight themselves.</p>

[Likias]

<p>I dont want a flying mount anyway.  Too many things are made too easy in this game that can be put to otherwise more constructive area...</p><p>LIKE MY BOW SHOWING! YEAH YEAH. j/k</p><p>I do wanna know if I can wear both my bow and guild cape (yeah its a cape dude...but I love my guild design so much that it makes up for the fact that it doesnt allow me to fly...lol)  Anyway, do I have to sacrifice showing my cloak to show my bow?  If I do, then I wouldnt even show my bow then, so there goes my excitement.  </p><p>Oh well, I like quests so as long as you swamp me with a few quests I'm good.</p><p>oh and I'm with Zarr...how do you plan on arranging it so that we can all still work together.  There are too many mixed friends.  Too many mixed guilds.  To much mixing period to not be allowed to do the quest together.  After all there are too many instances where a raid group wont let you in cuz you're a ranger or a fury or a ...whatever they would rather not have over another class.  Oh the chaos of it...lol.  Anyway, it cant be THAT exclusive...can it?</p>

[Lodrelhai]

<span class="newsContent">"You can choose to help cleanse the hearts of those that are affected to then bring that much needed peace to the lands by assisting Priests of Love (located in the "good" cities) or you can choose to further deepen the hate and thereby widen the doors of that shard, by assisting the Disciples of Hate (located in the "evil" and "neutral" cities)"I'm guessing (and this is only a guess since I can't find these guys on OpenTest) that either the quests from Priests of Love and Disciples of Hate are intro-quests and don't actually require going into SoH (like the quests to research the Fear gate before it became active), or that whatever they want players to do will be goals that people on both sides can work on simultaneously (like groups in Bloodline Chronicles can work together for their updates even if people in the group are working for opposite sides).My question though - shouldn't the "neutral" cities have both, since they are open to both?  Or are the neutrals being thrown in with the evils so no one has to decide if Gorowyn is "neutral" or "evil" in this context?</span>

[Bozidar]

any word on guild houses?

[Kiara-]

<cite>Bozidar wrote:</cite><blockquote>any word on guild houses?</blockquote><span style="color: #cc99ff;">at fan faire last august they said to expect at least a year or so.  so i wouldn't look for them til the next expansion, just to be safe.</span>

[Lodrelhai]

<cite>Bozidar wrote:</cite><blockquote>any word on guild houses?</blockquote>There's almost, sort of, maybe, a kind of word on them, though nothing official...If you load Test, the UI folder has a sub-folder called GuildHalls.  However, the only thing in it seems to be a copy of the UI file for the mannequin interface.

[Kaitheel]

Exactly right, Lodrelhai!  As you will hopefully see on Tuesday, the SoH events are intro quests that do not require you to step one foot within the Shard, so it is open to all levels, and the neutral cities were matched up with the evil cities so no one had to decide if Gorowyn was "neutral" or "evil" in this context.

[masakre]

I dislike all mounts, but would love to see a boot adornment that provided a run speed enhancement.

[Aneova]

<cite>Disiplin@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I dislike all mounts, but would love to see a boot adornment that provided a run speed enhancement.</blockquote>Agree 100%

[Ishnar]

ignore this please. 

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">For my Monk the mount that best suits me is a Warg IMO as when not being ridden it could take care of itself (I do HATE the docked tail look for my warg however) also seems a better combat platform for a monk doing "acrobatic" stunts. While I'm glad that the mounts will be less water-shy I was hoping that; 1) they would be so until the point of going under the water (no beast would allow that even with a spell that would allow them to breath down there) 2) What about the Hovering mounts (Carpets/Disks)? Are they less water-shy as well? As for the Boots idea, what they need is an upgrade to the Journeyman's Boots perhaps with Kunark and whatever super secret live update non-dungeon zone they have in the works timed races.</span>

[randommind]

<cite>Terreciel wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Ditto on that. I think the rhinos look stupid and the wargs aren't much better. I agree that they aren't really caster-type mounts. I'd like to see more horses and/or other alternatives. Even an upgraded rug would be fine with me. </p><p>Yet another warg just shows laziness and/or a lack of imagination.</p></blockquote><p>     I agree with this and have noticed that the same applies to the appearance of clothes and armor. There seem to be many different names and stats for the same suit of armor, but very few suits of armor that actually have a different style. I would love to see a wider varity. </p><p>At the very least, it would make sense if tailors of different races would have "recipes" for the style of dress that more aptly reflected their culture. How is it that races as different as the Elves and the Ratonga have no choice but to wear the exact same thing? </p>

[brammator]

As a raider, I would appreciate "Do not show mounts" or at least "Hide my mount" video option. As a druid, I want something like EoF wood and rock elementals as a mount 1-) Horses is for serious people.

[Spyderbite]

Not directed at anyone in particular. But, I must have missed the part where it said "This is the place to post your Christmas List". I thought this was a Preview thread and the Developer's Roundtable was the place to post "gimme gimme gimme". But, as usual, I could be wrong.

[JimParad]

<cite>Spyderbite@Venekor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Not directed at anyone in particular. But, I must have missed the part where it said "This is the place to post your Christmas List". I thought this was a Preview thread and the Developer's Roundtable was the place to post "gimme gimme gimme". But, as usual, I could be wrong.</blockquote><p>The internet needs are more posters like this!  I'm so sorry you had to scroll scroll scroll down to the important posts... oh wait..</p><p>Move to a message board where you can be one of the "posting elite," and leave the rest of us alone.</p>

[Kiara-]

<p><span style="color: #cc99ff;">How about everyone plays nice <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Thankies!</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc99ff;">* passes out cookies *</span></p>

[Storme2006]

<cite>AvatarJay wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just yet they can be more creative creating really far out mounts. Remember this is RoK expansion, obviously not their best like with EQ1, cuz in EQ1 Kunark's almost nothing, so they knew and don't want to spend too much energy onto RoK. Looking forward for improve expansions coming out in the future. I think they need "Luclin" revamp since the Norrath graphics getting suck with modern technology, look at COA and newest MMO coming out, their graphics are brilliant! Better get busy SoE.</blockquote>I hate to be this guy, but hold on...First, Kunark made early EQ1.  People spent months in those zones, and it's considered one of the best expansions of all time.  All aspects, coupled with the level increase, made the expansion phenomenal. Second, they didn't spend too much energy on RoK or they don't want to?  RoK seems very polished to me.  Now I was there when some content wasn't complete at release, and that's fine, they had a deadline to meet.  But I don't think anyone honestly believes they didn't want to spent too much energy on EoF, which is an expansion that SoE seems very proud of.Third, the skeletal revamp has been in the works for sometime, but the way I tend to look at it is this:  At inception, no computer I could find would run EQ2 on highest settings.  The joke among my friends was that such a thing didn't exist.   Several years later, these graphics are still competitive because of this.  EQ2 looks somewhat realistic, which is what most other MMOs lack.  Yes, Vanguard is realistic, so that may be an exception.   However, look at WoW characters versus EQ2.Now, with this in mind, I don't believe EQ2 needs a "Luclin revamp" for this reason.  EQ2 was designed with the next generation of technology in mind, and is still competitive against other new MMOs.

[myska]

I'm looking forward to testing out the changes made to the client myself. Soon as the server unlocks. Maybe this is finally a solution to the  DirectX out_of_memory crash? One can hope...

[GooseNC]

<p>Servers are all up</p><p>Lets go have some fun!</p>