Void Shard Merchant High End Armor (Stats and Pics)

Ogrebe · 10-30-2008, 07:15 PM

The Void Shard Merchants Sell 2 sets of armor. This is the high end set. I did not do the low end set (so if your looking for that to bad). There is also a high and low end Jewelry set that i got picture of that i will post in an once i crop and upload those images.

High End Void Shard Merchant Armor (Stats and Pics)

madha · 10-30-2008, 07:53 PM

so where are the gems for the armor dropped? instances? how many drop per instance? how does this armor compare to armor that drops in those instances? how will nbg work with the gem drops because unless its like ldon where everyone gets the reward for clearign the zone going to see alot of people complaining about gem drops.

Where is the cool looking armor this is all recolored old junk? I thought we where suposed to see asyncronise armor this expac or is that only raid loot and lon loot?

Ogrebe · 10-30-2008, 08:12 PM

If i remeber correctly, you get a single quest for each dugeon before going in (at the camp in the area), and finishing the dugeon (or completing what ever the task was), get you one shard. I think there are other speical quests that also give shards as well.

So shards are not droped (at least i didn't see any) there all quested.

KrescentWolf · 10-30-2008, 08:33 PM

ugh... half those armor sets look like they were made by the guy who did the KoS armors... lotsa pinks and purples >_<

Still the same old robe graphic too... yeah its been retextured (again) but come on already...

Give us some new armor models already....

Ogrebe · 10-30-2008, 08:37 PM

Well these are the legenday ones... the fable set in raids are probably differnet. (if there fable set in raids)

Coniaric · 10-31-2008, 05:25 AM

I see ... brawler's verison is back to an older style. Ah, well.

Thunderthyze · 10-31-2008, 07:52 AM

So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion.

Kizee · 10-31-2008, 08:22 AM

Holymoly@Runnyeye wrote:

So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion.

Yeah for 1 character.

I don't think anybody has figured out that they will need to run instances hundreds of times if they have alts. /gouge eyes out

In sence the old system is better since if something dropped that your alt could need you could log out and get the item....now you are forced into running zones "x" amount of times for each character.

Oakum · 10-31-2008, 09:52 AM

I see that the fury/warden set has no str on it, just int as the third stat. Is there some bias against melee specced druids there?

Jevangal · 10-31-2008, 10:07 AM

Thanks Ogrebear, I really enjoy looking up the pics on your site and I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates the effort you go to

Love the pink armour for the troub lol

Ogrebe · 10-31-2008, 11:45 AM

Holymoly@Runnyeye wrote:

So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion.

Well i don't know how busy it will keep people. There is are like 15 or 17 or 18 instances (3 at all location 2 at lavastrom). All the instances take about an hour or 2 (well the ones i saw). So you go through every instance in a day/weekend. So that at a minimum 15 shards.

So the very hardcore people are probably going to have all the shards they need or want before 2009.

Plus its more than 60 Runs. In the other theard i linked the Jewlery sets, so that another 50+ shards for 2 full sets of thouse (3 in a set), and that includes the cloak. So your looking at about 100 shard for armor and jewlery.

feldon30 · 10-31-2008, 11:51 AM

Ogrebears, Thanks for posting the info, but the # of shards is what's on Beta. When it goes live, the number of shards it takes to get each item will go up by 2x or 3x. AND, you have to get the lower Legendary first and trade up. So each of the upper Legendary items you have shown are not 8, 10, or 12 shards but actually closer to 30-40 shards each to attain.

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There are two sets of Void Shard armor. Both are Legendary. The lower end is an upgrade from Kunark legendary sets (instance dungeons like CoA, MC, Chel, Char, and VoES). It is much more specialized and tailors closer to the individual classes. There's chain healer stuff, plate healer stuff, shadowknight armor, paladin armor, solo scout stuff with a bit of survivability added to it, solo fighter stuff with the same, and more specialized gear including full brawler set, full assassin/ranger set, etc. The higher end Legendary set has stats that most will realize is essentially low Fabled. This is the gear you'll wish you had when you started doing T2 raids in Kunark. It will take a lot of shards to get, but considering how much harder some of the instanced dungeons are in TSO, they will be a necessity for those as well as raiding. The numbers are being fiddled with, but right now it looks like it will take about 12-14 shards to get each of your lower Legendary pieces, and then another 12-14 shards to upgrade to the upper Legendary pieces. The current theory is you have to buy the lower and trade it in to get the higher, so you aren't really losing or wasting shards by buying one and then the other. If there was a way to buy the upper Legendary immediately, I'm sure they'll require 24-28 shards per piece. And did I mention there's lots of jewelry and charms and more general purpose armor which costs a lot less shards if you are just really hurting for some good armor you can earn maybe as little as 8 shards and gear up on these items. There are a lot of choices. There is also a lot of request on the Beta forums to allow us to earn more than one shard per run for the tougher dungeons. Some TSO dungeons are like VoES -- 30 minutes with a solid group and you're done. Others are 2 hour slogfests. It would be nice if there was a chance of getting more shards. And keep in mind that the dungeon zones will be dropping all kinds of loot which we don't even know about yet. Void Shards is just one option. Suffice it to say, if you want to gear up, now is the time to pick your dance partners. Because I really intend to be grouping in 1-2 dungeons a night every night I can to gear up.

Besual · 10-31-2008, 12:01 PM

The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus.

Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. *thinks more* *PLING* Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off

axl_2baz · 10-31-2008, 12:27 PM

Besual wrote:

The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus.
Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. *thinks more* *PLING* Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off

Maybe it means that the ward will create less aggro ??

RightInTwo · 10-31-2008, 12:33 PM

Hmm....hopefully it will only reduce the aggro of non fighter classes....hopefully.

Qandor · 10-31-2008, 02:35 PM

I must say the art department has really outdone itself with those new armor graphics. They are more hideous than ever. Kudos on keeping EQ2s's leagcy alive - worst armor graphics of all times entering it's 5th consecutive year..

Thunndar316 · 10-31-2008, 04:32 PM

Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS

Not to mention those textures are FUGLY

Geothe · 10-31-2008, 04:38 PM

Thunndar316 wrote:

Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS

Erm.You are joking right?I seriously do hope so, else I pity who ever you group/raid with.

Kizee · 10-31-2008, 04:46 PM

Thunndar316 wrote:

Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS
Not to mention those textures are FUGLY

LOL....wow.....just wow.

Froed20 · 10-31-2008, 04:50 PM

*cough* poison *cough*

liveja · 10-31-2008, 04:55 PM

Thunndar316 wrote:

Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS

Sarcasm FTW!!!!!!!

Right? Please say "yes." Please???

I do agree that the armor itself is seriously ugly, but that's what appearance slots are for.

Yimway · 10-31-2008, 05:22 PM

If that is the artwork for the armor sets.... Two words.

EPIC FAIL

goomba76 · 10-31-2008, 05:31 PM

Dear god the students at the art school i was going to can put together better texturing than SOE's art department. YEah thats what appearence slots are for but coem on new expantion should mean better art as well ...but hey it is SOE we are talking about.

Banditman · 10-31-2008, 05:40 PM

Those prices are incorrect. Those are the BETA prices. They were intentionally set lower so the beta people could afford to "quickly" get their hands on them to test with.

The live prices are scheduled to be approximately three times more.

Soluss2 · 10-31-2008, 07:03 PM

Besual wrote:

The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus.
Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. *thinks more* *PLING* Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off

I think that means you will generate less aggro from warding the tank.

Blackfoot_cof · 10-31-2008, 08:01 PM

Looking at the Illy set.... does +spell damage stack, how does that work.

Thanks

Wyrmypops · 11-01-2008, 01:40 AM

Some new looking armour pieces there. A Sallet type of plate helm, and some different looking leather shoulders. Nice. About ruddy time though eh.

Less impressed by the paint jobs on the armours though. They're not evocative of anything. Not the theme of the expansion nor the name of the armour set. And if there's one colour scheme that's been blasted more than any other, it's that light-purple/lilac/pink, so why on earth that's rearing it's ugly head again is madness.

There's some use of the glassy texture on the metal armours, which is cool. But honestly, the design and paint jobs are letting the art department down. Instead of being things used in appearance slots, they're things that are gonna get covered up by it.

Edit: On further perusal, was it actually artists that painted these rather than coders? They're so plain. The glassy metallic effect is great and loving that being more used, but blimey, where's the creativity with the paint jobs?

I've noticed more new shoulder graphics than I thought at first. Great stuff, variety. Some of them even look good. Shame my zerker set one isn't one of them. Just look at that, he'd lift his arm and puncture his own neck with that spike. And a uniform blue, what's that word that isn't exciting? Oh yes, dull. But least I ain't an Inquis/Templar, they're set looks like a picture in a colouring book attacked by a 2 year old with the first felt pen they could grab.

The chain sets look like level 20 armours.

Felshades · 11-01-2008, 03:06 AM

i was hoping the enchnter stuff would be something other than gold :/

Besual · 11-01-2008, 05:20 AM

axl_2baz wrote:

Besual wrote:
The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus.
Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. *thinks more* *PLING* Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off
Maybe it means that the ward will create less aggro ??

That wouldn't suck as much as deagro on the target of the ward but would still completly useless. Only on a pull with pre-wards up and a resisted taunt I get agro from warding. Or when fighting multiple encounters and the tank only is attacking / tauting one.

Chips · 11-01-2008, 12:44 PM

some look superb others like rehash, and whats with the purple?...um?...nothing like a hoarde of people charging a foe

in pink and purple armor to inspire fear!!, um , yeah gonna stick with ebon or cobalt armor in my appearance slots till

someone on the design team wakes up.

10-30-2008, 07:15 PM	#1
Ogrebe General Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 383	The Void Shard Merchants Sell 2 sets of armor. This is the high end set. I did not do the low end set (so if your looking for that to bad). There is also a high and low end Jewelry set that i got picture of that i will post in an once i crop and upload those images. High End Void Shard Merchant Armor (Stats and Pics) __________________ Ogrebear's Thoughts -- My EQ2 and MMO blog

10-30-2008, 08:12 PM	#3
Ogrebe General Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 383	If i remeber correctly, you get a single quest for each dugeon before going in (at the camp in the area), and finishing the dugeon (or completing what ever the task was), get you one shard. I think there are other speical quests that also give shards as well. So shards are not droped (at least i didn't see any) there all quested. __________________ Ogrebear's Thoughts -- My EQ2 and MMO blog

10-30-2008, 08:37 PM	#5
Ogrebe General Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 383	Well these are the legenday ones... the fable set in raids are probably differnet. (if there fable set in raids) __________________ Ogrebear's Thoughts -- My EQ2 and MMO blog

10-31-2008, 05:25 AM	#6
Coniaric Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 756	I see ... brawler's verison is back to an older style. Ah, well. __________________

10-31-2008, 07:52 AM	#7
Thunderthyze Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Old South Wales Posts: 2,050	So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion. __________________

10-30-2008, 07:53 PM	#2
madha General Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 666	so where are the gems for the armor dropped? instances? how many drop per instance? how does this armor compare to armor that drops in those instances? how will nbg work with the gem drops because unless its like ldon where everyone gets the reward for clearign the zone going to see alot of people complaining about gem drops. Where is the cool looking armor this is all recolored old junk? I thought we where suposed to see asyncronise armor this expac or is that only raid loot and lon loot?

10-30-2008, 08:33 PM	#4
KrescentWolf Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 41	ugh... half those armor sets look like they were made by the guy who did the KoS armors... lotsa pinks and purples >_< Still the same old robe graphic too... yeah its been retextured (again) but come on already... Give us some new armor models already....

10-31-2008, 08:22 AM	#8
Kizee Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,093	Holymoly@Runnyeye wrote: So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion. Yeah for 1 character. I don't think anybody has figured out that they will need to run instances hundreds of times if they have alts. /gouge eyes out In sence the old system is better since if something dropped that your alt could need you could log out and get the item....now you are forced into running zones "x" amount of times for each character.

10-31-2008, 09:52 AM	#9
Oakum Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,441	I see that the fury/warden set has no str on it, just int as the third stat. Is there some bias against melee specced druids there? __________________

10-31-2008, 10:07 AM	#10
Jevangal Server: Splitpaw Guild: Nastrand Rank: The Big Cheese Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 114	Thanks Ogrebear, I really enjoy looking up the pics on your site and I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates the effort you go to Love the pink armour for the troub lol

10-31-2008, 11:45 AM	#11
Ogrebe General Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 383	Holymoly@Runnyeye wrote: So 60 instance runs to get a full set of armour (less any intermediate drops), plus a whole lot more to get the jewelery? Should keep us going until the next expansion. Well i don't know how busy it will keep people. There is are like 15 or 17 or 18 instances (3 at all location 2 at lavastrom). All the instances take about an hour or 2 (well the ones i saw). So you go through every instance in a day/weekend. So that at a minimum 15 shards. So the very hardcore people are probably going to have all the shards they need or want before 2009. Plus its more than 60 Runs. In the other theard i linked the Jewlery sets, so that another 50+ shards for 2 full sets of thouse (3 in a set), and that includes the cloak. So your looking at about 100 shard for armor and jewlery. __________________ Ogrebear's Thoughts -- My EQ2 and MMO blog

10-31-2008, 11:51 AM	#12
feldon30 Fansite Staff Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5,424	Ogrebears, Thanks for posting the info, but the # of shards is what's on Beta. When it goes live, the number of shards it takes to get each item will go up by 2x or 3x. AND, you have to get the lower Legendary first and trade up. So each of the upper Legendary items you have shown are not 8, 10, or 12 shards but actually closer to 30-40 shards each to attain. --------------- There are two sets of Void Shard armor. Both are Legendary. The lower end is an upgrade from Kunark legendary sets (instance dungeons like CoA, MC, Chel, Char, and VoES). It is much more specialized and tailors closer to the individual classes. There's chain healer stuff, plate healer stuff, shadowknight armor, paladin armor, solo scout stuff with a bit of survivability added to it, solo fighter stuff with the same, and more specialized gear including full brawler set, full assassin/ranger set, etc. The higher end Legendary set has stats that most will realize is essentially low Fabled. This is the gear you'll wish you had when you started doing T2 raids in Kunark. It will take a lot of shards to get, but considering how much harder some of the instanced dungeons are in TSO, they will be a necessity for those as well as raiding. The numbers are being fiddled with, but right now it looks like it will take about 12-14 shards to get each of your lower Legendary pieces, and then another 12-14 shards to upgrade to the upper Legendary pieces. The current theory is you have to buy the lower and trade it in to get the higher, so you aren't really losing or wasting shards by buying one and then the other. If there was a way to buy the upper Legendary immediately, I'm sure they'll require 24-28 shards per piece. And did I mention there's lots of jewelry and charms and more general purpose armor which costs a lot less shards if you are just really hurting for some good armor you can earn maybe as little as 8 shards and gear up on these items. There are a lot of choices. There is also a lot of request on the Beta forums to allow us to earn more than one shard per run for the tougher dungeons. Some TSO dungeons are like VoES -- 30 minutes with a solid group and you're done. Others are 2 hour slogfests. It would be nice if there was a chance of getting more shards. And keep in mind that the dungeon zones will be dropping all kinds of loot which we don't even know about yet. Void Shards is just one option. Suffice it to say, if you want to gear up, now is the time to pick your dance partners. Because I really intend to be grouping in 1-2 dungeons a night every night I can to gear up. __________________ .. EQ2Wire.com \| EQ2U - Character, Item, Spell, and Guild Data

10-31-2008, 12:01 PM	#13
Besual Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 830	The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus. Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. thinks more PLING Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off __________________ The Nu-Team Defiler 90 / Provisioner 90 Berserker 90 / Jeweler 90 Brigant 90 / Alchemist 90 Coercer 90 / Sage 90

10-31-2008, 12:27 PM	#14
axl_2baz Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 233	Besual wrote: The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus. Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. thinks more PLING Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off Maybe it means that the ward will create less aggro ?? __________________

10-31-2008, 12:33 PM	#15
RightInTwo Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 49	Hmm....hopefully it will only reduce the aggro of non fighter classes....hopefully.

10-31-2008, 02:35 PM	#16
Qandor Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 994	I must say the art department has really outdone itself with those new armor graphics. They are more hideous than ever. Kudos on keeping EQ2s's leagcy alive - worst armor graphics of all times entering it's 5th consecutive year..

10-31-2008, 04:32 PM	#17
Thunndar316 Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,681	Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS Not to mention those textures are FUGLY __________________ Sleight of Hand is USELESS

10-31-2008, 04:38 PM	#18
Geothe Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,098	Thunndar316 wrote: Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS Erm.You are joking right?I seriously do hope so, else I pity who ever you group/raid with. __________________ Smed: We aren't going to be allowing RMT in any way, shape or form on the non-exchange enabled EQ II servers. Period. End of statement. Smed: 5) This [LoN] is not some slippery slope towards selling items directly in EQ & EQ II. Lie #3: Station Cash. Enough Said.

10-31-2008, 04:46 PM	#19
Kizee Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,093	Thunndar316 wrote: Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS Not to mention those textures are FUGLY LOL....wow.....just wow.

10-31-2008, 04:50 PM	#20
Froed20 General Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 464	cough poison cough

10-31-2008, 04:55 PM	#21
liveja General Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends Posts: 4,793	Thunndar316 wrote: Why do they put INT on Swash armor? It's useless. Give us WIS Sarcasm FTW!!!!!!! Right? Please say "yes." Please??? I do agree that the armor itself is seriously ugly, but that's what appearance slots are for. __________________

10-31-2008, 05:22 PM	#22
Yimway Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 9,707	If that is the artwork for the armor sets.... Two words. EPIC FAIL __________________

10-31-2008, 05:31 PM	#23
goomba76 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 10	Dear god the students at the art school i was going to can put together better texturing than SOE's art department. YEah thats what appearence slots are for but coem on new expantion should mean better art as well ...but hey it is SOE we are talking about.

10-31-2008, 05:40 PM	#24
Banditman Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,459	Those prices are incorrect. Those are the BETA prices. They were intentionally set lower so the beta people could afford to "quickly" get their hands on them to test with. The live prices are scheduled to be approximately three times more. __________________

10-31-2008, 07:03 PM	#25
Soluss2 Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 196	Besual wrote: The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus. Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. thinks more PLING Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off I think that means you will generate less aggro from warding the tank.

10-31-2008, 08:01 PM	#26
Blackfoot_cof Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 41	Looking at the Illy set.... does +spell damage stack, how does that work. Thanks

11-01-2008, 01:40 AM	#27
Wyrmypops Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 799	Some new looking armour pieces there. A Sallet type of plate helm, and some different looking leather shoulders. Nice. About ruddy time though eh. Less impressed by the paint jobs on the armours though. They're not evocative of anything. Not the theme of the expansion nor the name of the armour set. And if there's one colour scheme that's been blasted more than any other, it's that light-purple/lilac/pink, so why on earth that's rearing it's ugly head again is madness. There's some use of the glassy texture on the metal armours, which is cool. But honestly, the design and paint jobs are letting the art department down. Instead of being things used in appearance slots, they're things that are gonna get covered up by it. Edit: On further perusal, was it actually artists that painted these rather than coders? They're so plain. The glassy metallic effect is great and loving that being more used, but blimey, where's the creativity with the paint jobs? I've noticed more new shoulder graphics than I thought at first. Great stuff, variety. Some of them even look good. Shame my zerker set one isn't one of them. Just look at that, he'd lift his arm and puncture his own neck with that spike. And a uniform blue, what's that word that isn't exciting? Oh yes, dull. But least I ain't an Inquis/Templar, they're set looks like a picture in a colouring book attacked by a 2 year old with the first felt pen they could grab. The chain sets look like level 20 armours. __________________

11-01-2008, 03:06 AM	#28
Felshades Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,887	i was hoping the enchnter stuff would be something other than gold :/

11-01-2008, 05:20 AM	#29
Besual Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 830	axl_2baz wrote: Besual wrote: The shaman set has damage shield / deagro on wards as the 5 item set bonus. Let me thing about this for a moment... Who gets warded mostly? I would say the tank. thinks more PLING Yes, that is great! Now I can give deagro to the tank!!! That's what I always wanted to do! /sarcasm off Maybe it means that the ward will create less aggro ?? That wouldn't suck as much as deagro on the target of the ward but would still completly useless. Only on a pull with pre-wards up and a resisted taunt I get agro from warding. Or when fighting multiple encounters and the tank only is attacking / tauting one. __________________ The Nu-Team Defiler 90 / Provisioner 90 Berserker 90 / Jeweler 90 Brigant 90 / Alchemist 90 Coercer 90 / Sage 90

11-01-2008, 12:44 PM	#30
Chips Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 150	some look superb others like rehash, and whats with the purple?...um?...nothing like a hoarde of people charging a foe in pink and purple armor to inspire fear!!, um , yeah gonna stick with ebon or cobalt armor in my appearance slots till someone on the design team wakes up.