The EQ2 May producer letter was released today, which brings some incredibly exciting news! Apparently on the way (and soon, as its already going to Test server on Friday) is a new race and new adventure areas. The new race is the awaited “Dark Fae”, called Arasai. Honestly, I think that race was MADE for me. I think the Fae are absolutely adorable, but I always wanted to be able to make them look more evil and less happy and cheerful. Big cheers to SOE for this.
Some good things about this:
1) Neriak. Enough said. Nothing brings back nostalgia for me quite like Neriak.
2) Art being done by the EQ2 Taiwan team – responsible for the Fallen Dynasty adventure pack. Their art is among the best in EQ2 and I can’t wait to see what they’ve done with Neriak.
3) New race means a new alt for me!
4) More lore. I’ve always loved the Everquest storyline and I’m excited to see where the story goes.
5) $$$$ Possibly the best thing, its free. $$$$
They sure are doing things smart. Releasing Echoes of Faydwer with not only a bunch of new nostalgic zones in combination with a new race for people to come back and level up..that was brilliant for bringing in new players. Doing it again with a new race and new starting zones that bring back memories – that’s genius. And this time its free..doesn’t get much better than that.
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Sweet baby Jesus this is an exciting time !
I’m excited, but sad at the same time… i love all my characters, And would love to have the new race…. i would love another character slot, of the ability to pay like a one time fee of 20 or something like that for the character slot so i don’t have to pick a character to delete
Are you frickin serious??
I had to check the date and make sure it wasn’t April Fools…
SOE is just on fire with all of this stuff. Greta news.
I agree with all of the above. I just re-activated my EQ2 account after a year of inactivity and things are looking great so far.
I love that they appear not to be giving up on this franchise. Even though a lot of people hated it at launch, I still thought it had a good base to build on. Enough for me to play a year before making the switch to WoW.
The only think that’s killing me, as ogre mentioned, is the 6 character limit. I’m not ready to delete all my old characters in order to make room for new ones. So much has changed since launch, I have to relearn all my classes.
Would it really kill them to allow more characters per account?
On a slightly unrelated note, does anybody have any comments on the state of the raiding game? Back when I played, in addition to the performance issues I found that most of the raids were the same as normal areas just the mobs had more health and hit harder. Have things gotten better on that front?
I loved zones like Nek castle but many of the raids I went on left something to be desired.