Anyone Beta Testing the New Xpac?

[Endorplasmic]

<div>Only reason I ask is that I'm curious if anyone here has been asked to help beta test the zerks.</div><div></div><div>Assuming this xpac works like EoF we will get a new set of set gear (which I hope is upgrades for our current set *cough* gloves with nothing else to replace them *cough*)</div><div></div><div>The current set bracers are going to be a tough one to beat out.</div><div></div><div>I'd love to see what SoE has in store for our class in the upcoming xpac, be it gear, spells and raid content.</div><div></div><div>I realize people are under an NDA, but you can still disclose that you are in the beta from what I remember. If not, I'm sorry for wasting ~1:00 of your life <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div>

[LygerT]

i'm sure some zerks are in the beta, i couldn't go to fan faire due to work and i haven't heard anyone talk about it yet so who knows.

[Xalmat]

Those of us that are in the beta are under a Non-disclosure agreement. You won't hear anything about it until the NDA is lifted.I went to Fan Faire, and I play a berserker on the side. So I'll leave the rest for you to figure out.

[Endorplasmic]

<cite>Xalmat wrote:</cite><blockquote>I play a berserker on the side.</blockquote>*sigh*

[tikasa]

I was there with my BF... there were at least 5 " Hard Core " Zerks that had only a Zerk as their main.    All at FF are in beta so you have at least 5 that I know of....

[Xita]

<p>i went to fan faire and a zerker is my main.</p>

[Endorplasmic]

Alright that's awesome to hear! I was kindda sad no main zerks were chiming in.<div></div><div>I am very curious how they are handling raid gear the next xpac though. Also, I'm looking forward to some really long quests like Claymore and stuff, miss that feeling of long hours to achieve something awesome.</div>

[victer]

<p>ive seen screenshots of some of the monk AA's.. </p><p>the "fighter" and the "general" line is bleh (we share these with all fighters)</p><p>but the brawler and monk lines look pretty darn sweet. Im not going to go into specifics but ill say that they definetly got handed some nice tanking AA's that make them much more viable raid tanks. (funky absortion abilitys/uncontested avoid)</p>

[Xita]

<p>I'll provide a lot of information once the NDA is lifted.</p>

[Endorplasmic]

<cite>Victer@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>ive seen screenshots of some of the monk AA's.. </p><p>the "fighter" and the "general" line is bleh (we share these with all fighters)</p><p>but the brawler and monk lines look pretty darn sweet. Im not going to go into specifics but ill say that they definetly got handed some nice tanking AA's that make them much more viable raid tanks. (funky absortion abilitys/uncontested avoid)</p></blockquote>Well to be fair the zerker tree can go in the garbage for all I care, the warrior tree does have some cool stuff that I hope gets carried over (unless they make it so that we don't need a lot of DPS to maintain agro).Looking forward to the NDA being lifted, I hope we don't get the cookie cutter STR, STA, INT stuff that we do now.

[Slayer505]

I'll be testing it as soon as they put sign ups in.  I still have a beta code from last year's Fan Faire (I couldn't go this year).  I do have a couple of RL friends in beta though and I may have "accidently" gotten a glimpse of our AAs looking over their shoulder.  I'm not going to break the NDA, but I was pretty impressed with what I saw.  I don't think anyone is going to have much to complain about, but of course, I'm sure people will.

[LygerT]

well cookie cutter is pretty definitional, there is only so many ways to go with the AAs but i would say it is in a way like our EoF tree and there is some pretty nice abilities in there for our zerk tree but you can choose to be more tankish or more DPSish as far as it looks but i probably won't get to test it for a little while.

[Rocc]

<p>Rumors of mount speed reverse lifted, dedicated torch slot, and most important..... multiclassing. Yup! Not a level increase per say but 10 free AA slots to be used by any fighter class. The AA's are at a cost of 5 per AA and it allows you to multiclass one class in the fighter catagory. Same goes with scouts, mages and healers. From the AA screen you can select which class and inspect their AA's. But you can only choose one class to multiclass with. Personally I'm going down the SK line. Sp 200 AA's and 50 can be spent on multiclassing.</p><p>Another cool new option allows players to select upgrades for their armor. So they get their raid/quested armor with nice stats, see an npc and select which upgrades to take. You earn "tickets" from raiding and can turn them in to upgrade the new class armor. The maximum upgrades were capped at 10. The tickets come in fabled, legendary and treasured. The reward for the option you select will reflect the ticket you turned in. So you can waste your armor on 10 treasured or hold out for 10 fabled. Very cool and looks incredible!!!</p><p>New AA line "Bash". Allows you to duel wield and tank at same time. Very nice dps if your well geared.</p><p>New racial abilities will help every class. Fae get the best ofcoarse. : (</p><p>Mages finally got levitation!</p><p>Oh and the new Taunt AE's are single target, encounter and AOE. Each upgrade adds a proc to the taunt. You chose dps taunts or agro taunts.</p>

[Rocc]

Gotcha!

[Zhonata]

Well So we can start expecting to see Knights and bralwers  going down the buckler line so they can get in on its OP'ness sweet.........

[LygerT]

i'm not sure if any of that is true Rocc, but if it is i hope you know there is an NDA for those who signed up for beta, the edit button is ^ that way.

[Xalmat]

I can confirm the following about what Rocc has said:~NDA~NDA~NDA~NDA~NDA~NDA~But in all seriousness, once the NDA is lifted you'll know the scoop.