EverQuest II Journey to the Age of Discovery Webcast - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 4:00 PM

[Isulith]

<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://everquest2.com/images/en/features/articles/aodbeta/eqii_aod_logo.png" width="400" /></p> <p>Come join us Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 4:00 PM PST as we live stream an EQ2 Journey to the Age of Discovery webcast! What questions do you have about this highly anticipated Age of Discovery feature? You'll learn all about the thrilling features due in the upcoming expansion and we'll also share a little insight into the Beta process, how the team has been using your feedback, and what changes are being made!</p> <p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://everquest2.com/news/read/current/5045" target="_blank"><img src="http://everquest2.com/images/en/community/buttons/readmore.png" border="0" width="175" height="44" /></a></p>

[agentsix]

<p><cite>Isulith wrote:</cite></p><blockquote> What questions do you have about this highly anticipated Age of Discovery feature?</blockquote><p>What is the new AA limit? How is the limit distributed between the trees? Has there been any thought as to allowing AAs to be earned without limit but limit spending.</p>

[Haliken]

<p>Destiny of Velious redirected the aim of equipment based on the added necessity of >100% critical hit chance and critical mitigation values, as well as the change to turn "double attack" into "multi attack." Additionally, a number of effects appear to have been phased out from armor over time, such as Stoneskin effects.</p><p>Will Age of Discovery reshape equipment again in a new way, or will we simply be seeing more of the same in regard to equipment and desireable stats?</p>

[Aneova]

<p>Are there any current or future plans on the shelf to allow purchase of seperate pieces of AoD? Such as buying just beastlords and AA or mercenaries etc.</p>

[Dreyco]

<p>Question regarding the Dungeon Creator feature:</p><p>Why is it that we're only allowed to use NPC's in the dungeon finder?  If NPC's are the only option, can we at least customize those NPC's to some extent? (Appearance, abilities, etc.)</p><p>Asking because... as a storyteller, being able to take your character through said custom made stories is a pretty big deal!</p>

[SOE-MOD-08]

This post has moved: <a href="/eq2/posts/preList.m?topic_id=500098&post_id=5662822" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/eq2/posts/preList.m?topic_id=50009...post_id=5662822</a> Trolling

[Brigh]

Mercs: Will we be able to cast / affect them with group buffs? If so, does this mean paladins can cast their group friend buffs on them such as Resolute Faith. If so, then will you then remove the restriction placed on crusader squires not being able to cast on them to use this buff for the crusader's benefit (used to not be there).

[Elskidor]

<p>AA! For many of us this is the only thing appealing about the expansion, and we need to know how many aa there will be and how it will be distributed. Yes, others have asked this question before, but I'm reposting the same question in hoes of a straight answer. If you want more pre oders this question should have been addressed weeks ago.</p>

[Brigh]

This just in: Even hoes want a straight answer!

[OberonThunderfire]

<p>Mercs, Not much has been said about them yet. I have two questions:</p><p>What types of mercs will be available? Strictly tank/healer types like what started with EQ1 or are will utility/dps types also be available?</p><p>How good is the AI on mercs, I know in EQ1 they took significant tweaking after release to get them to be handy to have around.</p>

[clairebear]

Will it be available to order with SC on the day of launch? Can you confirm how much SC it will be?

[Barbai]

<p>Is there a confirmed and set release date or is it still "early December"?</p>

[irish]

<p>Will we have daily launch week events, like we did with Velious?</p>

[Cyliena]

<p>What is the pricing structure for mercenaries?</p><p>Which types of mercenaries will be available at launch, and will there be plans for more mercenary types later on?</p><p>Are the rare random world mercenaries that were mentioned at Fan Faire still going to happen? If so, any hints as to what we can expect of these mercenaries?</p>

[agentsix]

<p>At risk of violating the NDA.....</p><p>How close is the reforging system that is on Beta now to what is expected to be the final build?</p>

[SgtPmpkn]

<p>Concerns/Questions:  These are based on my particular playstyle, and wishes prior to pre-ordering:</p><p>1.  AA limit/Tree breakdown:  What will be the new max/limits be?</p><p>2.  With the addition of a new class, Beastlords, what role can they expect to play in the heroic/raid scene?</p><p>3.  Kander mentioned in a recent post, that there were numerous changes to Challenge Raid zones/encounters.  Will these changes be part of AoD?  If not, how soon after launch can we expect more progress made in this area?</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>what I'd liek to know is are crafters going to get left out in the cold again like they have with the special items from dungeons on these new TS apprentice recipes/reforging particle effects things becuase of availability.</p><p>the items from the instances are so rare as it is that you can run all the dungeons of a type (like all ToFS instances) kill every encounter within them, kill every mob, and not see 1 of them. which means if your a pure adventurer, if you see these on the broker, they are astronomically priced.</p><p>while it is nice to have interdependance between crafter/adventurer types, right now it is so horribly skewed in the adventurers favor as to not be believed. a crafter should not be entirely at the mercy of adventurers if the items are going to be so rare that they are frankly worth more sold to people unable to do the content then made into items by those that can get them...and they sell for huge prices. 100s of plat per, simply becuase of how rare they are.</p>

[Banditman]

<p>What is the expected Launch date?</p><p>When will the NDA be lifted from beta?</p><p>When will the price be corrected to more accurately reflect the "value" of the "expansion"?</p>

[Vengence277]

<p><cite>Banditman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What is the expected Launch date?</p><p>When will the NDA be lifted from beta?</p><p>When will the price be corrected to more accurately reflect the "value" of the "expansion"?</p></blockquote><p>As usual no Answers to the playes questions.....I am really dissapointed with the way Devs and "marketing" has handled this, I want to preorder the CE version but with little or no info and the outrageous price I am likelly to shelf EQ2 for awhile until they sort this all out.. november 30th is release day? I doubt it very much, no NDA lift or open beta....unreal guys....Now a pod cast on the eve of release...probably to tell us the expansion is pushed back to mid december and to try and tell us how hard they are working on it....really?  Try talking to the player base...we are the ones paying..</p>

[Kerahzey]

<p>Why in the name of God can't you tell us if all or part of the game will launch on November 30th.  We need to know now not the day before.  I am trying to make plans and your lack of communication is ruining everything.  For the last 6 years I have planned vacation time and now I am all messed up.  I wish I could say some nasty things here but I can't. You folks at SOE should be ASHAMED of yourselves for letting things get like this.  TELL US NOW IF THE XPAC WON'T LAUNCH ON THE 30TH NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!</p>

[feldon30]

<p><cite>Vengence277 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Banditman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What is the expected Launch date?</p><p>When will the NDA be lifted from beta?</p><p>When will the price be corrected to more accurately reflect the "value" of the "expansion"?</p></blockquote><p>As usual no Answers to the playes questions.....</p></blockquote><p>The webcast hasn't happened yet, although I bet only 2 of those questions will get asked. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Vengence277]

<p>And i bet neither one is what players want to hear <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/c30b4198e0907b23b8246bdd52aa1c3c.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>If i had learn to speak and write japanese, i would wrote to Sony to fire John Smedley for those poor planning and lack of communication with clients, why so quite and hold back beta or any teaser on AoD right down to final days.</p><p>we the customers dont want to buy it blind and feel cheated with cheap cop-out expansion.</p>

[Couchtomatoe]

<p>Why didn't you allow the Tradeskill Apprentices to craft items we no longer have a yearning to make? Like why didn;t you allow the Apprentices to make Noxious/Trauma/Elemental/Arce potions for us and our alts in stacks of 100 and flag them Heirloom? I go mind numbing suicidal when I have to make enough pots for me and all my alts..</p>

[Geothe]

<p>Since absolutely nothing what-so-ever has been stated on this yet:You claim there will be in AA increase but nothing more has been said.What is the AA cap increasing too?  Are the limits on the individual AA trees staying the same, or are those increase as well?  If increasing, which trees and to what extent?</p><p>Reforging:What exactly does this entail?  Can you completely rebuild the stats on an item to better fit your play style/gear level?  (and correct for the ignorance in itemization itself).  Or is it extremely limited and you can only make very minor changes.</p><p>The answers to those 2 questions will greatly impact the number of players that buy this "expansion".</p>

[Vengence277]

<p><span ><span style="color: #cae0e6;"> </span><p>The expansion is set to release early December 2011. We'll give further information during tomorrow's webcast, which is set to broadcast at 4:00 PM PST. More information on the webcast can be found here: <a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/5045"><span style="color: #f8bb62;">http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/5045</span></a>. We're extremely sorry for the confusion on the date here!</p><p><span><span style="color: #cae0e6;">Message edited by Isulith on <span>11/28/2011 20:08:23</span>.</span></span></p><p>There ya go, Once again they have not dissapointed me with their lack of communication and PR skills....I guess we wait for the pod cast to hear more wonderful news.</p><p>I have three accounts , not including the other three from family members...I think after today I will cancel and see what happens , maybee come back later. I think with the price of this update and other false-hoods from smokejumper and the rest of this cast i am truley dissapointed...not a very good way to treat your fan base. No updates , no information and nothing on the update but they want you to pre-order.....this is not a good marketing move at all.</p></span></p>

[Juravael]

<p>"The expansion is set to release early December 2011."</p><p>Hmm, thought the expansion was set to go live tomorrow, Nov. 30, 2011?</p>

[Banedon_Toran]

<p>Could be worse, I've see "Winter 2011" mentioned around here, and depending on your definition of winter that could mean as late as Feb 2012...</p>

[Elskidor]

<p><cite>Glenedhel@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>"The expansion is set to release early December 2011."</p><p>Hmm, thought the expansion was set to go live tomorrow, Nov. 30, 2011?</p></blockquote><p>They make stuff up as they go. They still call this thing an expansion too. </p>

[Ninna37]

<p>Design your own dungeon</p><p>- will traps be available to builders on launch?</p><p>Freeport redesign and Racial quests</p><p>it was mentioned at fanfaire that players who betray would not be able do Freeport quests unless they are an appropiate native race - is that still the plan?</p><p>Commonlands Public quests</p><p>how does it scale for high level players?  is mentoring allowed?</p>

[Nynaeve]

<p><strong>Are you considering to offer a collect-char-transfer?</strong></p><p>It's a bit over the top to pay 3x$25=<strong>$75 just to move 3 chars</strong> over to play on another serverSome people may pay as much and more, but many who want to transfer all their chars are probably stuck on their servers as long as there's no collect transfer deal, which means you may be loosing money on them (don't know if the few who pay for a big transfer make up for it).</p><p>On second thought, it wouldn't be such a big deal if you offer another double SC event early December.</p>

[Valdaglerion]

<p>I am actually more interested in the moment about the new launcher being put into play tomorrow as the only launcher available thereafter.</p><p><ol><li>Why was the character select removed for selecting characters prior to login? If it wasnt how will we access it as it doesnt appear on the screenshots?</li><li>If we use everquest2.exe to access the game will we still be able to do so? If we access the game in this manner will we be able to use out custom ui mods for the loginscene.xml to access all our characters across multiple accounts?</li><li>Speaking of multiple accounts, will we still be able to run multiple instances on a single machine and multi-box?</li><li>Will this new launcher force download of content during gameplay like the current streaming client does?</li><li>Why is this new launcher being released without being tested and appropriate feedback provided by existing players?</li><li>Will subscribed players see the same advertisements as Free players? If we are paying for the game already I think we have earned for and paid for the right to not be subjected to additional advertising. Give your paying customers a toggle to turn such things off if they choose to. Some people will keep them and like to be reminded of new items as they dont play as often, those who log in daily and those with multiple accounts are over taxed with such things. </li></ol><div>Thanks for the consideration in providing some clarification on the new launcher.</div><div></div></p>

[GussJr]

<p>so...4 pst = what in cst...I can't seem to get the converter to cooperate</p>

[SgtPmpkn]

<p><cite>GussJr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>so...4 pst = what in cst...I can't seem to get the converter to cooperate</p></blockquote><p>6pm cst</p>

[chaine]

<p>I would like to know if the AoD xpac requires the DOV to benefit from it, I didnt purchase DOV when it first came out, lack of funds made it impossible for me, i was hoping to recieve it with this xpac as we have always had the previous expansions included before. As it is now clear we wont be, should i cancel my pre-order? I would also like to know why we are missing out on this xpac yet still paying the same price. I have read many posts where ppl talk about free content later on if you have DOV, what about those who purchase AOD and DONT have it? will we be excluded from this "free" content even though we have paid for it? Which doesnt make it free, i pay my reaccuring monthly sub and have purchased my xpac, and all previous xpacs excluding DOV.</p>

[piro]

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Will merc's work in pvp ? will we even see them on the pvp server ?</span></p>

[Isulith]

<p>Congratulations to Robert A., Dreyco, and Oberon Thunderfire, who each won 1,000 SC for asking questions for today's EQ2 webcast! We truly appreciate your participation! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>(Please check your PMs for your SC code!) </p>

[Dooh]

<p>Who cares who won station cash. Where are the answers to these questions?</p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Dooh@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Where are the answers to these questions?</p></blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYrA3MkoCk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYrA3MkoCk</a></p>

[Ilovecows]

<p>It would be nice if something could be posted, like a summary that would tell us about the more important stuff from the podcast.</p><p>Edit:  Did i hear them say that a cow would be one of the warders?  legit!  I want it!!!</p>

[Brigh]

Brasse seemed to have used part of my question in the webcast unless someone else asked the same thing. I wish my questions that followed my first were answered.

[feldon30]

<p><cite>Steppen@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It would be nice if something could be posted, like a summary that would tell us about the more important stuff from the podcast.</p><p>Edit:  Did i hear them say that a cow would be one of the warders?  legit!  I want it!!!</p></blockquote><p>Perhaps... <a href="http://eq2wire.com/2011/11/29/soe-webcast-journey-to-the-age-of-discovery/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eq2wire.com/2011/11/29/soe-w...e-of-discovery/</a></p>

[clairebear]

<p>I am very interested to know how Beastlord Warder AAs will work. In the webcast, they mention about different warder families having different AA trees. As BLs have the same number of AAs as other classes, are we going to be able to "share" the same number of AAs in the warder trees? (e.g. you can spend the same 100 points in each warder tree, because the AAs you have spent only activate when you have one particular warder out, whilst the other warder trees are "greyed out" if that makes sense). Otherwise will we have to respec every time we change warder pet?</p>

[Dethdlr]

<p><cite>Isulith wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Congratulations to Robert A., Dreyco, and Oberon Thunderfire, who each won 1,000 SC for asking questions for today's EQ2 webcast! We truly appreciate your participation! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>(Please check your PMs for your SC code!) </p></blockquote><p>I keep checking, and checking, but alas, still no PM with my SC code.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>