Fan Faire: EQII Expansion Panel

Destiny of Velious Scheduled for February 8, 2011

The EverQuest II expansion panel was sketchy on details, but what we saw was promising.  Destiny of Velious, slated to launch February 8, will return Norrathians to the fabled continent of Velious.  Here players will continue the Order of Rime storyline, discover the fate of Thurgadin, and learn more about what happened in the 500 years between EverQuest and EverQuest II. The expansion will be levels 86+, to compliment Sentinel's Fate.  There is no level cap increase and there will be new AA although the details have not been hammered out yet. 

Apparently this early in development there are still quite a few things under discussion.  We were given a list of zones and features, and told that there are more things planned that they have not yet finalized.  So far there are:

  • Hundreds of new weapons, including Velium weapons
  • 300+ quests
  • 10 instances
  • 1 massive contested dungeon
  • 4 Heritage Quests including the Coldain Prayer Shawl
  • 6 Raids
  • 2 Overland Zones

We were treated to concept art and a flyover video, both of which should be available online later today.  The Othmir are indeed present in Velious, but will not be available as player races.  Flying mounts will be introduced: we saw a griffon and something dragonish, and were told the first one is quested.  The existing cloud and carpet mounts will not be changed to "real" flying mounts.

We were warned that this is part one of Velious.  When pressed we were told that they absolutely will finish the Velious story, but it has not yet been determined if that will happen as game updates or a later expansion.

No date was given for the start of Beta testing but we suspect we'll see it sometime before Christmas.  We look forward to bringing you more details as they become available!

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My kingdom for Shader 3.0
# Sep 12 2010 at 10:20 AM Rating: Decent
My kingdom for Shader 3.0

ROFL

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what ruins this game its old tech

shader 3.0 and dx10 should be #1 on the DEV list for this game it would have serious SUBS if they would do the work

but right now its so old its more slated to a FTP model

FTP server is always stacked

regular servers not so much
Pics and Vids
# Aug 07 2010 at 9:27 PM Rating: Decent
Pics and Vids or it never happened :P. Was hoping they'd do another U-Stream like they did last year.
Velious harvestibles
# Aug 07 2010 at 5:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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Velious harvestibles will be unique to Velious and Velious recicpes
will require them.
this just in
# Aug 07 2010 at 3:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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This just in... The Coldain Prayer Shawl will be a tradeskill HQ
More AA
# Aug 07 2010 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
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I don't mind more AA, but the big question is will this just add more aa to the current trees or will we finally get a new tree?
More AA
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hirofortis wrote:
I don't mind more AA, but the big question is will this just add more aa to the current trees or will we finally get a new tree?


At the time of the panel they said this was still undetermined.
Prayer Shawl
# Aug 06 2010 at 9:06 PM Rating: Good
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I hope the Prayer Shawl quest is just as long, drawn out and tedious as the one in EQ1 was. Srsly.
Prayer Shawl
# Aug 09 2010 at 7:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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I hope the Prayer Shawl quest is just as long, drawn out and tedious as the one in EQ1 was. Srsly.


The Coldain Prayer Shawl series drove me nuts, but yeah, I would love to see that too. Smiley: grin
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Prayer Shawl
# Aug 07 2010 at 7:11 PM Rating: Decent
I can't say this is filling me with joy it all seems far to vague at the moment I'll grant you SOE are in firefighting mode over the F2P fiasco but c'mon they should have had more info than this.
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Not really. With a release date 6 months away, there's lots in development that they aren't ready to tell us about yet. Largely because things tend to change.
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