Novices et vétérans y découvriront un contenu immense, magnifique, surpassant tout ce qu'il a été possible de voir dans EverQuest II jusqu'à présent

I might have spent time so far slightly less sober then intend but I guarantee not drunk enough to take the clothes off so stop wishing!
 
Day 2
It all started off with the G.I.R.L breakfast and panel. For those that do not know G.I.R.L (gamer in real life) is SOE's initiative to get more women into the gaming profession. The panel had a couple of managers and developers from various SOE games and the winner of the competition that they held earlier in the year. It was very interesting to hear they take of the gaming world especially the struggles they go through to add and change things to make games more appealing to women.
 
Next up was the live event. It was better organized this year. The sub-quests didn't have us embarrassing ourselves as much this year compared to last. They also upped the difficulty level of the crossword puzzle. So by the time everyone got down to the same 3 words they didn't know there was a lot of mingle around the EQ2 players to see who had them.
 
The first real panel was the Guild Halls. Piki gave the information in another post. All I can say is they look awesome. 25 huge rooms! Model we saw was decorated by Domino.
 
I skipped the anatomy of an update and unfortunately missed the lore panel all because of lunch.
 
Last panel of the day was the general Q&A. It was painful. Too many people were rehashing things that have been and gone. Some tried to get some class info out of the devs and they were very upfront saying that there would be no answers until after the expansion panel.
Some things I did pick up:
1.) There is a variety in armor coming. IE., not all robes will have the same basic design.
2.) Question of heritage items being flagged per account came up and the answer was no it would not be happening.
3.) Asked why we don't see jewelry on the character. It was originally part of the game but all those little pieces caused serious performance issues so they were removed. Now that technology has changed they might revisit it but there is still a worry over performance plus there would need to be a graphic for every piece of jewelery that is in the game (that would be one big task).
4.) The game only checks you for smart loot purposes. There is no conspiracy that nice pieces do not drop in dungeons due to the groups gear.
5.) We will be seeing more of the city leaders in the future.
 
Smed's address didn't have much new stuff. Just the first look at the new expansions and a demo of free realms. There was a little news like alakazaham doing some serious changes. Their new zam.com line will start with EQ2 and will offer for more information then any website out there. They will have real time broker information. Very detailed mob/quest information. The ability to input your current gear and stats and see how any piece of armor would effect your set-up. The news that the attends liked was that we get both the EQ and EQ2 expansions for free (digital download copy only). So please don't hate me
 
To wrap up the day there was the mixer at the sports center. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to let gamers lose around sports and alcohol at the same time.
 
Expansion News
The 60 new AA will be going into a new tree. The tree is broken down into 4 parts; a general line, archetype, class, and subclass. The thinking this time around is to give you more choices. You will only need 10 points in a line to get the end spell. You will not be able to respec and put those points into the new lines on release. The gating mechanics haven't been finalized.
 
There are 20 new dungeons and 1 massively huge outdoor zone. The outdoor zone will have quests and such. Many dungeons will scale from 50-80. Since they are not all in the new zone the lower level range will be determined by the outdoor zone range. All items in the scalable dungeons will be based off the lvl 80 version of an item. They are doing something new with dungeons. Instead of quests there will be missions. Every member of the group will have the same mission with a 24 hour lock out on completion.
 
Tradeskills will also be getting missions. There will be solo and group versions. The group versions will require items to be made from each of the 9 classes. No, they aren't increasing the group size for this or allowing a raid so having a full group of 6 different ts'ers will mean that 3 will have to create the remaining. The recipes will require use of that ts'ers reaction arts and not the general ones. Also there will be obtainable mounts for ts'ers. Domino wouldn't say much expect that they aren't outlandish and will have a variety of speeds. Oh, one of the new AA's will deal with harvesting.

Tier 1
Guild Level 30
5 room house in Qeynos, Freeport, Neriak, etc.
100 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundible if you upgrade)
Upkeep 1pp and 100k personal status per week
 
Tier 2
Guild Level 50
10 room house in Stonestair Byway in N Qeynos or Freeport (replaces Hall of Thunder)
500 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundible if you upgrade)
Upkeep 5pp and 150k personal status per week
 
Tier 3
Guild Level 70
1,000 plat, no status to buy (nonrefundible if you upgrade)
25 room castle in Antonica or Commonlands
Upkeep 10pp and 200k personal status per week
 
Miscellaneous
 
* 1,500 house item limit
* Guild Hall Actions Log — see what people have done
* Upgrade T1->T2->T3 done via moving crate system. Amenities are refunded.
* Players can drop (donate) furniture but not pick up unless a gh trustee.
* GU48 will offer harvesting quests — turn in 10, 20, and 30 times to get house item, nicer house item, and finally “Guild Constructor” title
* Status Reduction Furniture HAS NO EFFECT on status upkeep. You can bet that all guilds are going to change their Ranks from measuring Guild Status to Contributed Escrow Status for rankings.
 
Escrow System
 
Members can contribute plat and personal status (at full 100% not 10% to guild hall
Escrow carries over when guild hall is upgraded from T1->T2->T3
 
Amenities
Purchasable items. Start with 5 and gain 2 for each level. 42 amenities at game launch.
 
Amenities value is refunded when upgrading from T1->T2->T3
 
* Call of Guild Hall
* Mariner’s Bell (T3) to Ant, CL, etc.
* Druid NPC to port
* Complete Tradeskill setup including writ givers and merchant
* Tradeskill Supply Depot — store materials and fuels for tradeskilling in guild hall
* Mender Bot (guild leader can set guild to comp up to 100% of mender fees)
* Intraguild Broker — place items on broker that only guild can buy
* 1 Raid Strategist Tactical Rally Banner — drop flag at zone to raid (2 hour lifespan)
* 5 teleporters can be placed in guild hall to teleport — even with speed hack, the T3 hall is freaking huge and takes a long time to run along
* Set race and clothes of all house npcs (hirelings) via. mannequin system
* House Broker (flat 20%? not real clear)
* Guild Cloak Designer
* Creature Conjurer — summon mobs for practice fighting
* Tradeskill Table
* Courtyard Statue Sentry — perfect for PvP when you need to keep other players out!
* Magic Carpet to Sinking Sands
 
Trophies
 
Head of Trakanon, Godking, etc. which drop off their raid items (2 trophies per expansion) and can be placed in hall.

The new EQII site, when completed, will feature:
 
 A complete database with detailed information that you can only get directly from the game itself. Maps of Mob Locations. Mob spells and skills. Complete drop information including the percentage chance of something dropping. Full item stats, including the normally hidden stuff. Complete quest walk throughs with all the text from in game. Spell, skill and AA lists.  
Live Broker Data. You will be able to log onto our site and see exactly what is for sale at that moment. You will also be able to request that you get e-mailed or texted when certain items come up for sale at certain prices.  
3D Models of everything in the game including mobs, items and your profile. You will be able to try on outfits and see what they look like.  
Profile Upgrade Search. Put in your parameters, like solo only or quest only or exclude raid and search your profile for easy upgrades to your current equipment, then print out the directions on how to get it and go.  
And in the future, all Zam.com sites will feature:
 
Flexible template. Pick your own background and graphics. Make up your own menu to highlight the pages most important to you. Add or remove modules from the front page.  

Redécouvrez (avec nostalgie) les thèmes de donjons d'EverQuest, comme Najena, Brumebrande et l'Empire sebilisian, et aventurez-vous dans plus de 18 donjons tels que les ruines de Guk et Befallen.