The webcast was very informative, thank you!

[Vinyard]

<p>I was pleasently surprised to find out some new info from the webcast. Thanks for putting it on! A few points</p><p><ul><li>Plane of War gear is going to be the best gear attainable for some time.</li><li>Some DoV part 1 items will still be relevent. My guess is Drunder/EoW</li><li>I'm not sure if I heard correctly...but I think Windstalker mentioned Prestige classes in the future...was that just a slip?</li><li>Both tradeskillers and adventurers will get the full storyline of Skysrhine. Told differently, so if you do both, you'll get the most info</li><li>New pathing coming out next week with the GU</li><li>Solo/group content will have the scripts/animations from raid mobs. Does this mean an increased difficulty?</li></ul></p>

[Gargamel]

<p>So I assume they are going to massivly buff PoW gear in the update, because right now the gear in there is pretty loose butthole.</p><p>Are we walking DoV/Drunder HM still being useful, or EZ mode (because I'd expect 63 EZ raid to upgrade drunder EZ, but currently it seemed heroic 63 was upgrading all but most HM DoV and some HM drunder.</p><p>New pathing (for the 7th time), but glad they are at least trying things with that /thumbs up</p><p>Raid animations - I just want red/text, or at least an emote that can be parsed.  If they do actual mob aniation/effects they BETTER test down to extreme perforance at expected ranges.</p>

[Nightshade]

<p>Am I to understand pathing = NPC walk pathing?</p><p>As in, my necro pet won't run to my left, up a ramp, and get stuck behind a pillar in an attempt to attack something right in front of me?</p>

[gourdon]

<p>The prestige class thing seems like it will be their way around the level cap, give us a new class on top of our original to level up which gives us new stuff.  I kind of hope they allow us to broaden our characters rather than just continue to specialize.  There are certainly pitfalls if you allow tanks to heal and everyone to dps, but it could work out that less specialized characters don't do the hardest content any better than a group without prestige classes.  This would help to keep the gap between a maxxed out character and a new one from growing larger as it does every time there is an increase in the level or AA cap.</p>

[Mermut]

<p>I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when they described the 4 tradeskill quests which give 4 recipe books as a 'tradeskill timeline'. They've even forgotten to add the level 90 recipe books.... no transmuting, no adorning and no tinkering for T10 yet... but 'lots' of crafting stuff...</p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Mermut wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when they described the 4 tradeskill quests which give 4 recipe books as a 'tradeskill timeline'. They've even forgotten to add the level 90 recipe books.... no transmuting, no adorning and no tinkering for T10 yet... but 'lots' of crafting stuff...</p></blockquote><p>Hey, I think it's 7, <em><strong>maybe</strong></em> 8 quests. They mean serious business with that.</p><p>I was also disappointed to see nothing new for tinkering/adorning.</p>