[Siouxe]

Greeting from Las Vegas!

It seems fitting that HOT (House of Thule) is introduced here in the desert. It is ridiculously hot =(

If you haven't otherwise caught up on news about the new expansion, following are some of the highlights revealed at presentation I attended at Fan Faire

- Level cap raised to 90
- Player housing
- New AA's
- New spells
- New trade skills to create furnishing for player homes. Fletchers and jewellers highlighted as the relevant artisans
- 2 more inventory slots
- New containers with more slots (crafted, looted and available in the marketplace
- The ability to display your weapons on the wall of your home (knew I kept my old weapons for a reason)
- Container can be stored within containers
- Shaman will get group invis ( not so much a highlight rather a question posed to the developer and divulged) a yay moment nonetheless
- New grapic effects
- 12 new groupable zones
- 1 new raid only zone
- First zones have been designed to replicate the same degree of difficulty as the end zone in Underfoot (Convorteum)
- Set in Feerott

Have been enormously surprised at developers receptiveness to suggestions thrown at them by the audience. From "can you please make the guild banner untargetable" - yes! To " can my ogre have an Afro" - no!

Apologies for the typos - phones are not recommended for this much text =p
Siouxe

[Gurp]

I am getting excited thanks for the info

[Cerberous]

Release date?
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[Zurf]

Awesome stuff! Containers within containers? That is seriously good. And two more inventory slots for all those clickies. Gotta love it... Now if only a few new AA's would be introduced to allow all classes to FD... (insta cast, of course) and Track mobs... just kidding !

Will there be master-level mercs introduced, too? Which are not as dumb as the current ones are? Can we "hide" other player's houses, like the vendors in the bazaar? Could they allow everyone to buy those cool mercs, like the sirens? Even if they would cost a truckload of plats? Say 100k to hire, and 500 plats to keep them?

Ok... time to wake up. The reality will be wonderful, too.

[Ardnasc]

Check out the SoE site - they are accepting applications for beta! Thanks to Vahl for alerting us last night.

Just remember if you do get in Beta you can discover all kinds of neat stuff you can't talk about until the NDA is lifted

Have Fun!
Ardy
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Have Fun!Ardnasc

[Didokova]

I am so happy i hope the player houseing is not too expancive and where are they going to be located and is there going to be a player home port clicky or spell of some sort
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[Siouxe]

Dido - Player housing will be purchased and accessed through a new portal from the guild lobby.

The AA dev was emphatic that we'd all be pleased with the new AA's and spells. Guess we now wait.

Do register for Beta. I will be in Beta with my cleric an am looking forward to seeing what the have in store for ramping up the clerics as the prime healers in the game.

Siouxe

[Hasseo75]

After the big fail of UF i still sooo skeptical ...we will see
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[Zacatac]

VIDEO

http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51986

[Cerberous]

Vid broken for me, but the screenshots look badass.
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