Everquest Legends

yerm said:

This sounds great if you're an emulator autist who thinks gates of discord is awful and refuse to move past pop.

If the game ACTUALLY proceeds on to some of these really excellent future expansions like gates, tss, sof, it needs to have progression to follow with it.

Given the people in charge and the majority of the clientele I am pretty certain they won't be going to Nedaria, maybe not even to the moon. But if they handle their shit properly and DO release an excellent gates of discord (the best LOOKING zones in everquest) or secrets of faydwer (it has secrets in the name, come on, and its also one of the best expacs)... they'll have to solve this problem.

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Araxen said:

I think at the time ROF2 client stopped at DON. It was something like that.

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Gavinmad said:

How was Gates of Discord not awful? It basically killed the game.

I hope Triune continues to add expansions but if you're going to freeze the game at a specific point PoP is not a bad place to do it.

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• The team is going back to roughly weekly patches for now instead of biweekly updates. Some weeks may be larger than others, but they expect a faster update cadence in the near term.
• The existing roadmap is still on schedule. Auction house, aliases, housing, additional achievement-related systems and other previously announced features are still being worked on.
• Non-respawning instances are getting completion rewards, likely in the next patch or the one after. Completing one will refund the instance charge used to enter it, so a successful clear should let you immediately start another.
• The devs strongly reaffirmed that EQL is intended to remain a solo/casual game. Grouping should be fun and worthwhile, but they do not want grouping to become clearly superior to solo play or turn the game into something that expects large raids and long daily play sessions.
• They specifically said they are not going to balance around the loudest power gamers at the expense of slower players. Casual players should still be able to reach endgame and have a reasonable shot at the best gear.
• They acknowledged that some endgame content, including Plane of Sky, still needs work for both players already there and more casual players who will arrive later.
• New classes and races have been discussed for the long term. A new class by Kunark is considered unrealistic, but they clearly do not view the current class and race list as permanently closed.
• Manastone, Healthstone and Vigorstone are not currently obtainable. They existed previously, were removed because of an exploit, and will return after that exploit is fixed.
• 50-slot bags are expected Tuesday, August 25. They will be bank-only.
• Ogre and Halfling unlocks are still being looked at because both are considered more painful than intended. A small Halfling-related change has already gone to Test.
• PayPal support is being worked on through the account/payment side of the company. PaySafe was also mentioned as something they would like supported if possible.
• The current Exaltation class restrictions are partly there because future items could become absurd if every class restriction were removed. They used Kunark's ranger-only Conflagration Dagger as an example. They are more open to loosening rules around non-proc Exaltations later.
• More spell vendors are being considered, especially for places where certain classes currently have poor coverage.
• Pet naming is planned, but there is no date yet.
• Gender will be selectable per loadout in a change expected within roughly two weeks. Different character names per loadout will eventually come through the alias system.
• More ways to earn loadout slots through gameplay are coming within the next couple of weeks.
• A future appearance system is planned that will allow more character appearance customization. They did not give details yet.
• Kunark will not simply be EQ1 Kunark copied into EQL. It will have familiar zones and characters, but also new material and changes to the timeline and lore.
• Velious was explicitly confirmed as coming after Kunark in some form. EQL is not committed to following EQ1's original expansion order forever.
• The devs are actively testing unusual class trios internally and still want all reasonable combinations to be capable of clearing the game's content. They acknowledged that balancing hundreds of possible three-class combinations will always be ongoing.
• Rogue backstab modifiers are planned to scale with item upgrades. The current target is roughly within the next month, though the exact scaling is still being worked out.
• Rogue poisons are intended to work with ranged weapons. That functionality is coming once the remaining bugs are fixed.
• Scaling rogue poison disciplines through motes or another system is still being discussed, but it requires more work and is not an immediate change.
• The devs do not see the current melee/caster balance as simply "casters good, melee bad." Their strongest builds tend to combine multiple damage sources. That said, they specifically called out Rogues, pets, Beastlords and Ranger ranged combat as areas they are looking to improve.
• The bug where DoTs can strip buffs has a fix in QA and should reach Test soon.
• The looping Bard Singing Mastery cast-animation bug is next on the list for the developer working on the spell-stacking fix.
• Low-level melee endurance use is being reduced. The current scaling hurts melee much more at low levels than intended. The change should be noticeable while leveling and provide a smaller improvement at level cap.
• Beastlord itemization gaps are being filled over time because Beastlords did not exist in Classic EQ. The team has already added more proc options and expects to add more appropriate focus-effect options as new zones arrive.
• A new Beastlord ability involving synergy between the Beastlord and warder is in development, although it is not specifically a Frenzy of Spirit change.
• Berserker Frenzy is due for another look. Rampage is mostly working as intended but may need more damage. Burst of Power was acknowledged as something that had been overlooked and now needs attention.
• Rune amount will eventually be visible near the health bar. This should make effects like Blood Rune much easier to evaluate, and the devs said they will buff Blood Rune if the new visibility shows it is genuinely underperforming.
• Pet weapon scaling is being redesigned. After the change, giving a pet a weapon will always improve it. Better weapons will give larger improvements, removing the current situation where some weapons can effectively make a pet worse.
• Beastlord warder AI is under review. They specifically acknowledged warders making bad spell choices, such as repeatedly casting weak low-level DoTs instead of stronger abilities.
• Tracking may eventually get better search/filter tools. A future feature will also give some additional tracking functionality to characters that do not have a tracking class.
• Spell-upgrade preview tooltips are in QA. Putting motes into the upgrade window will show the resulting changed values before the upgrade is committed.
• A third phase of spell upgrades is being designed for effects that do not currently scale. No timeline yet.
• More spell slots are not currently planned.
• The 50-AA banking cap is intentional for now. The devs want excess AA spent on other class combinations rather than stockpiled indefinitely.
• More AAs are planned before and during Kunark, with a much larger batch naturally coming with the expansion.
• Pet accuracy problems are being treated as a general pet problem rather than something that should require a special AA to fix.
• The devs are interested in improving old quest rewards. Many Classic quest rewards were strong in original EQ because raid gear was inaccessible to most players, while EQL makes that gear much more available.
• New quest design will generally try to remain discoverable. They still want puzzles and secrets, but do not want to spend time making content so obscure that nobody ever finds it.
• An Agnostic deity unlock quest already exists in the game.
• Charm is considered stronger than intended in some high-end situations, especially Hate, Fear and Sky.
• The plan is not to gut charm. They are looking at specific overpowered charm targets and some level-scaling behavior while also trying to make normal pets substantially stronger.
• The intended end state is that charm remains powerful, but a well-geared normal pet is sometimes a legitimate alternative rather than charm being the automatic answer.
• Starting cities and older Classic zones may receive new quests and further updates over time. The team does not view a zone as permanently finished just because it has already received one pass.
• Rujarkian Hills will be an outdoor high-level leveling zone. They initially described it as 35-50, then clarified that it is more realistically around 40-50, with possible endgame content deeper in.
• Nektropos Castle is still coming, but they are not ready to reveal its level range.
• They also teased an unannounced raid project and another unannounced feature.
• Something is planned around Labor Day. Future holiday and classic EQ-style events are also planned.
• They reiterated that they do not want limited-time events to contain permanent character progression that creates FOMO.
• Raid scaling for two- and three-player groups has been substantially changed and is currently in testing. This is meant to address group raid bosses becoming enormous HP sponges for small groups.
• Dungeon revamps are gradually moving toward higher-level zones.
• Estate of Unrest is the next dungeon revamp.
• Permafrost is getting a larger redesign and is intended to become an endgame alternative to Sol B.
• D5+ content has already been designed and playtested. The devs described it as deliberately unfair and aimed at players who specifically want that kind of challenge. It is being worked on, but there is no release date.
• The Blue Crystal Staff from Phinigel Autropos is not currently dropping because the relevant epic content is not yet in the game.
• Quillmane is not being fundamentally trivialized. Improved tracking should help, and private instances remove kill-stealing, but the devs still want the hunt itself to remain recognizable.
• Quillmane is not guaranteed to appear in a non-respawning instance.
• More overworld content is planned. The team acknowledged that EQL currently leans heavily toward dungeon crawling and wants to make better use of outdoor Norrath again.
• The development team is expected to expand, though they did not give hiring numbers or timing.
• More hidden quests and environmental storytelling are planned. Torrid Corruptor was described as an early example of the sort of discovery-driven content they want to do more often.
• There is an intentional lore reason Mayong Mistmoore is not currently in Mistmoore Castle.
• Traps and currently underused skills like Disarm Trap may get more use in future content, particularly in castle-type zones.
• Plane of Sky loot is being changed. When you kill a boss, there will be a chance for an additional item appropriate for one of your three active classes from that boss's loot table.
• That class-targeted Sky item is extra loot and does not replace the normal boss drop.
• The purpose of the Sky change is to reduce the current situation where players can run the zone dozens or even hundreds of times without seeing a particular class item.
• Mote drop chance is affected by several multipliers. Multiclass mobs get a bonus based on their number of classes, rare or unique mobs double the chance, and raid targets triple it.
• Those mote bonuses multiply together. Under the right circumstances the chance can reach 100%, so named density is especially important when farming motes.
• The team is also adding the rare-creature flag to more old named mobs so they properly receive the rare-mob mote bonus.
• Existing motes will continue to work on Kunark items and spells.
• Progressing beyond the upgrade limits currently available in Classic will require new drops from future content.
• The team is continuing to build EQL as its own version of Norrath rather than simply replaying old EQ expansion content exactly as it originally existed.