Game Update 44 visual preview!

[Gnobrin]

Game Update 44 is on its way! Here's a visual preview of some of the content you'll find!

~Gnobrin!

[Zabjade]

Can Monks do handstand spinning kicks on the combat wargs?  ^_^ J/k

[RoXx]

I hope its not a picture of a guild pointing at a ranger, saying:

"Betray or go solo, we dont need you anymore!!"

[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]

Leanne@Everfrost wrote:

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?

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]

Thor71457 wrote:

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

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 dying hunting in Hate in EQL!

[44Dragon]

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.

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?

[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

[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]

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.

[Denon]

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.

[Gryphonkin]

I just hope exiles can get these ones...  Since nobody else will sell them to us.

Really, whats the logic in Terens Grasp not selling me mounts when im max ally with them?

[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]

AvatarJay wrote:

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!

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]

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.

 Just my opinion. I'm sure they think they look cool.. but they don't

[Terreciel]

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.

Yet another warg just shows laziness and/or a lack of imagination.

[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]

Terreciel wrote:

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.

Yet another warg just shows laziness and/or a lack of imagination.

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!

[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]

AvatarJay wrote:

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.

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...?