Sleeper's Tomb, Chapter 1 Begins Next Week!

[Windstalker]

Good day intrepid adventurers! Next Tuesday we are bringing you a big update that we lovingly call “Sleeper’s Tomb.” This is the first chapter of our expansion, Chains of Eternity, releasing in November. We have some additional content releasing with Sleeper’s Tomb that is definitely worth getting ready for! Check this out:

Sleeper’s Tomb, Chapter 1 Begins!

Norrathian’s will find Jorlak, an aged Dracurion chronomage, outside of the Sleeper’s Tomb in Velious’ Eastern Wastes. He will launch a quest that gives adventurers access to world-changing events in Norrath’s history, including the rituals of the heralded warders who kept the great prismatic dragon, Kerafyrm, asleep for many ages.

Start Your Chains of Eternity Adventure

Level 92 players should be on the lookout for a message from Erus Dal’viv, the Swordbearer. He has a mission for adventurers that will help the Duality’s research into the Age’s End Prophecy... a mission that could take an unexpected turn.

Avatars of War Appear!

The defeat of Rallos Zek has ascended the demi-gods of War to full godhood. They will appear in the lands of Velious ready to take on any who challenge them. These Avatars – now known as the Hounds of War – will take on any and all who dare confront them as they choose to appear in Eastern Wastes, Withered Lands, or Great Divide.

Ride Dragonkin across the Skies! Or Decorate with One!

New wyvern mounts are available through the new Sleeper’s Tomb content released on Live servers for those who have the Velious expansion. Or you can buy a wyvern mount of your own from the Marketplace. And if flying isn’t your speed, you can decorate your house with a wyvern plushie from the Marketplace. Each Beastie Box gives you a random color of wyvern when it’s opened. Collect all five colors!

Stay tuned. We’ll be posting more soon!

[Rainmare]

does the Swordbearer's new quests require having finished the fallen sword line through drunder and/or the forming of the combine?

cause I can't even pay a group to go through the 'old' drunder zones. so I been stuck at that point in the fallen swords line.

[Cronyn]

Newp!  The only requirement is to be level 92.  It doesn't require you to have finished the Fallen Swords line. 

[Shanak85]

I hate you....   Why can't we get any kinds of new mounts besides flying mounts?  Some of us don't like having the ONLY good stat mounts be flying mounts, you know.  Still stuck with a heroic drop drunder warboar...

Can't wait to see the rest of the stuff though

[Windstalker]

Duly noted Shanak.

[LordPazuzu]

Screenshots coming soon?

[Vinyard]

Meaghan@Lucan DLere wrote:

Screenshots coming soon?

This.

I miss it when you guys would put together zone previews like you did for the TSO expansin. It got me really hyped up to buy it.

[malstria]

Hi Holly! First time posting a question.

We were wondering if the reference to the Sleeper's Tomb means that in order to participate you will need to access and get through the Sleeper's Tomb dungeon in the game. The concern is that non-raid players will miss out on some amazing new content since they don't raid.

We're not asking for spoilers or anything, just wanting to know if it's even worth it for us non-raiders to get our characters to 92 or not before this new content goes live on Tuesday.

We're also totally stoked about the upcoming Chains of Eternity expansion in November!

Many thanks!

[rgfvagv]

Flying mounts are okay and all, but I'm not focused much on my toons after they've gotten past 80. I wish there were flying mounts for lower levels, those are the toons I tend to play more. I want to play more of the stuff in between the beginning of the game and the end. Can we get more stuff for in between? 20-80 stuff?

I feel like, after 85 it's the end, I'm not a raider, I'm just a rpr. I want to be able to do all the new stuff, but I don't think I'll ever get past 90. I'm still trying to explore Kylong planes stuff, before I go to Sundered frontier. You guys keep focusing on all this high end stuff, when I just want to sit back and enjoy the fun levels..where it actually feels like I'm accomplishing something. Once I'm 90, 92 or 95 that feels like the end for me and those toons get neglected.

Anyway, it's just something to consider, I'm probably alone in this, but hey, it's worth saying something. Thanks for making the neat stuff you guys do and for making eq a game I continually enjoy playing.

[Regolas]

You are in the minority. There's tons of content at lower levels, much more than at 90-92. If you haven't experienced it all yet then it's new to you! If you ever do get to 90+ I'm sure you'd enjoy it though. Eq2 is massive and plenty to do at all levels, but there's much more pre-80.

[Kinya]

Windstalker wrote:

Avatars of War Appear!

The defeat of Rallos Zek has ascended the demi-gods of War to full godhood. They will appear in the lands of Velious ready to take on any who challenge them. These Avatars – now known as the Hounds of War – will take on any and all who dare confront them as they choose to appear in Eastern Wastes, Withered Lands, or Great Divide.

Are they on Beta already?

Do you think that 1 week of testing is enough?

And I must say I love how the new banshee mobs look like and gargoyles

[Raienya]

Exactly how long has this been in test on the Beta server? I have only seen two threads in the "In Testing Feedback" area, and they are both only a few days old. From reading the few threads, there are still quest problems, and seemingly a few problems with trash mobs in Sleeper's Tomb.

PLEASE, DO NOT release this if it has not been tested enough. The same goes for the next expansion.

[feldon30]

Raienya wrote:

Exactly how long has this been in test on the Beta server? I have only seen two threads in the "In Testing Feedback" area, and they are both only a few days old. From reading the few threads, there are still quest problems, and seemingly a few problems with trash mobs in Sleeper's Tomb.

PLEASE, DO NOT release this if it has not been tested enough. The same goes for the next expansion.

Sleeper's Tomb has been present on Beta since at least Friday Sept 7th. However Beta Copy was disabled and there was no Beta Buffer until this week. These zones require level 92 with gear, so we need either Beta Copy or Beta Buffer to do them. Heck it wasn't until people stumbled upon to the Beta server that it was even known that testing would begin soon.

I complain a lot, but let's look at this constructively. If I were involved in EQ2 Community, I'd be acutely aware that players are scrambling for more content. I'd also be aware that Sleeper's Tomb is landing in September. I would be e-mailing or IMing the designers every other day asking "When is Sleeper's Tomb ready to be tested, and where will it be tested?"

I would then see to it that Beta Copy and Beta Buffer were up and running as soon as Sleeper's Tomb was ready, and then post a prominent announcement calling out players to test it, and providing all the necessary info on how to test it. Basically the FAQ I wrote here:

http://eq2wire.com/2012/09/11/let-t...roup-raid-zone/

[Calthine]

feldon30 wrote:

Sleeper's Tomb has been present on Beta since at least Friday Sept 7th. However Beta Copy was disabled and there was no Beta Buffer until this week.

FYI, yesterday's Beta Buffer only buffed to 90. I hear we're getting a better one.

[Brigh]

Gotta love how the storyline continues with RZ being defeated yet last I heard there still was not one guild that actually defeated him.

[Brigh]

Shanak85 wrote:

I hate you....   Why can't we get any kinds of new mounts besides flying mounts?  Some of us don't like having the ONLY good stat mounts be flying mounts, you know.  Still stuck with a heroic drop drunder warboar...

Can't wait to see the rest of the stuff though

The best stat mount I have is a guild status stable horse. It is better than anything that came afterwards in quests.

[Koleg]

I'd just like to say, after reading each post in this thread, that I support the top tier level cap portion of this game.  I found several of the posts in this thread to be in direct contrast of the portion I and well over 100 of my freinds & guildmates enjoy daily.  I find myself, as do many if not most of the 100+ friends and guildmates, searching for content at the top tier level cap to participate in on a dialy basis.

I don't begrudge the lower level-blocked players or those who have yet to experience the great, albeit small amount, of content at the current tier level cap, and I would hope they would not begrudge me, my friends or my 100+ guildmates the same thing in kind.

[Gaarysal]

Brigh wrote:

Gotta love how the storyline continues with RZ being defeated yet last I heard there still was not one guild that actually defeated him.

5 guilds have defeated his encounter. First was 8/9, most recent was 9/10.

[Brigh]

Gaarysal@Permafrost wrote:

Brigh wrote:

Gotta love how the storyline continues with RZ being defeated yet last I heard there still was not one guild that actually defeated him.

5 guilds have defeated his encounter. First was 8/9, most recent was 9/10.

So only last month then.

He was dead several months ago according to the FP quest line before anyone did it.

[SisterTheresa]

rgfvagv wrote:

Flying mounts are okay and all, but I'm not focused much on my toons after they've gotten past 80. I wish there were flying mounts for lower levels, those are the toons I tend to play more. I want to play more of the stuff in between the beginning of the game and the end. Can we get more stuff for in between? 20-80 stuff?

I feel like, after 85 it's the end, I'm not a raider, I'm just a rpr. I want to be able to do all the new stuff, but I don't think I'll ever get past 90. I'm still trying to explore Kylong planes stuff, before I go to Sundered frontier. You guys keep focusing on all this high end stuff, when I just want to sit back and enjoy the fun levels..where it actually feels like I'm accomplishing something. Once I'm 90, 92 or 95 that feels like the end for me and those toons get neglected.

Anyway, it's just something to consider, I'm probably alone in this, but hey, it's worth saying something. Thanks for making the neat stuff you guys do and for making eq a game I continually enjoy playing.

Sorry to read you feel that way after level 80.  I have (after 2 years of playing my main now) 1 level 92 char and 1 level 90.  The rest are below it.

But honestly, you CAN still enjoy the lower area content at level 90.  Chronomentor!  I ran my level 92 around the old Qeynos areas and got the AA for the nameds there I've never seen before.  I did old quests, got lots of neat items (no Lera you cannot have my furnature!) and got AA for discoing places.

Level 80 isn't and shouldn't be the end all of the game.  Though I would like to see more content for lower areas, more than likely the devs don't feel it is important enough to look at it (changing artwork is NOT looking at it, sorry).  Heck they haven't fixed certain things yet .. won't say as it will derail the thread.

Though, shame much coming out now is only for high level characters.  All that does is force people to grind out levels to see it and miss everything along the way.

[Denon]

I read the requirements are you need to be 92? Are the requirements also that you raid, or is there content here for the casual L92 PUG also?

I like how SS has solo, contested, casual group, HM group, and raid versions of content. I hope SOE continues to follow that pattern so raiders, HM and casual players all has content available for them.

[Calthine]

Denon wrote:

I read the requirements are you need to be 92? Are the requirements also that you raid, or is there content here for the casual L92 PUG also?

I like how SS has solo, contested, casual group, HM group, and raid versions of content. I hope SOE continues to follow that pattern so raiders, HM and casual players all has content available for them.

The requirement for the first quest in the CoE Signature series (which is being called a prelude) is 92.  I was able to enter Sleeper's Tomb and get the quest at 90.  Probably will be rough for folks who haven't met the aa requirement to level past 90, though.

[denmom]

You don't get the whole story if you solo from what I've seen.  And even if you raid, you still have no guarantee that you'll get the story.  Raising my raid toon was a whirlwind, I never was able to read as much as I wanted, and I lost much of the storyline along the way.  Yeah, I have access, but it feels empty, like cotton candy when you want a meal.

I've complained about this many times, have given several ideas of how low level and casual players (solo to group) are able to have the storyline if they want it.  Too many storylines end in raids, and is partially why I raid, the story.  Even being a raider I still don't find all of it since I tend to solo due to RL taking much of my time.

Again, how about a questline where low level on up can get the story that's unfolding in the world of Norrath?  They're asked to go look and search areas where fights have been rumoured to happen.  Have it scale or be fightless.

There's much in the world storyline that I missed out on in my years of playing since launch.  The majority is due to not being a raider.  Now that I am, I'm still missing huge chapters.  And doing this third hand, as in searching on the net for any info as well as scouring the lore section of this forum, really is disappointing.  I want to see dialog from the quests, but all I find is description or the ending dialog of the quest, the small cliffnotes of what you just did.

No, this isn't whining.  I'm just speaking up because others have also mentioned wanting to participate in the world storylines, from low level on up.

[Foxblade_SithLord]

I know i cant wait for to try it out but if it is level 92 only i wouldnt be able to, trying to get 280 aa's is so boring i rarely ever play that toon anymore, if i can play it at level 90 then i will 

[Grycks]

Could you please make the prequel quest obtainable by lower levels please? I'm short on time and not sure I'll be able to get to 92 before the quest is gone.

[Whilhelmina]

It's not a prequel but the first step of a signature from what Cronyn said, so the quest won't go away.

That is, if you're speaking about "Unexpected Consequences"

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=522143

Cronyn wrote:

Okay so, I see the confusion, and I'm sorry about this!

So, this isn't intended to be a "prelude" in the vein of past prelude events - this is actually step one of the signature line for the expansion.  We're releasing it early to give you guys a lead in to the expansion, but it is actually intended to be part of the live content - in other words, it will remain once the expansion goes live (and will be part of that story).  It's similar to the Sleeper's content, intended for the appropriate levels.

Again, this will remain live once the expansion goes up, so you'll always have access to it - that's the way I always wanted it to be, which is why it can't scale - otherwise, a new level one player would have to wait a LOOOOOONG time to find out why (COMPLETELY RETRACTED THANKS GNINJA FOR POINTING OUT MY FLAWS). 

Sorry folks!  I didn't mean to throw you a curveball on this!