Teek and Tormax are on the horizon!

Discussion in 'News and Announcements' started by Angeliana, Apr 24, 2024.

  1. Angeliana Senior Community Manager

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    Hail, Norrathians! As you are aware by now, Teek and Tormax will be our two new Time-Locked Progression servers, and we're launching on May 22 at 12 noon PDT! So, sharpen your blades and prepare your mind—it's time to enter Norrath anew!

    Both servers will open with access to the Ruins of Kunark, and then subsequent expansions will be opened in a specified cadence later (check out more info on the cadence below!)

    Need to know what to expect on Teek?
    • Standard Time-Locked Progression unlocks—New expansions unlock automatically every 8-12 weeks. (Early expansions unlock more often. Other exceptions apply. The specific schedule is below.)
    • Experience: Progression standard. It starts off slower than live but faster than EverQuest at the original launch and increases at Gates of Discord, Depths of Darkhollow, and The Serpent Spine. At The Serpent Spine, the experience is like normal live servers. Legacy Experience is not included on this server.
    • Focus Effects: Remain unavailable until the Shadows of Luclin unlocks.
    • Random Loot Enabled: The Teek server is a server that randomizes loot. Rare NPCs will drop loot from a pool of NPCs of a similar level within the same expansion. This pool will include themselves. Raids will drop loot from other raid NPCs of a similar level within the same expansion, also including their own loot. Rare NPCs have a greater chance of spawning.
    • Free Trade Enabled
    Unlock Cadence:
    • Server launches in Ruins of Kunark
    • Twelve weeks after launch: Scars of Velious
    • Eight weeks later: Shadows of Luclin
    • Eight weeks later: Planes for Power and Legacy of Ykesha
    • Twelve weeks later: Lost Dungeons of Norrath
    • Four weeks later: Gates of Discord
    • Eight weeks later: Omens of War and Dragons of Norath
    • At this point, the schedule becomes consistent. Enjoy expansions for twelve weeks when a new level cap is unlocked and eight weeks in expansions where the level cap stays the same.
    True Box:
    • This server starts with True Box enabled. You may have only 1 client per computer logged into the server at the same time.
    • When Omens of War unlocks, the server switches to Relaxed True Box. You may have up to 3 clients per computer logged into the server at the same time.
    • When The Buried Sea unlocks, True Box will be removed.
    Need to know what to expect on Tormax?
    • Standard Time-Locked Progression unlocks—New expansions unlock automatically every 8-12 weeks. (Early expansions unlock more often. Other exceptions apply. The specific schedule is below.)
    • Experience: Progression standard. It starts off slower than live but faster than EverQuest at the original launch and increases at Gates of Discord, Depths of Darkhollow, and The Serpent Spine. At The Serpent Spine experience is as normal live servers. Legacy Experience is not included on this server.
    • Focus Effects: Remain unavailable until the Shadows of Luclin unlocks.
    Unlock Cadence:
    • Server launches in Ruins of Kunark
    • Twelve weeks after launch: Scars of Velious
    • Eight weeks later: Shadows of Luclin
    • Eight weeks later: Planes for Power and Legacy of Ykesha
    • Twelve weeks later: Lost Dungeons of Norrath
    • Four weeks later: Gates of Discord
    • Eight weeks later: Omens of War and Dragons of Norath
    • At this point the schedule becomes consistent. Enjoy expansions for twelve weeks when a new level cap is unlocked, and eight weeks in expansions where the level cap stays the same.
    True Box:
    • This server starts with True Box enabled. You may have only 1 client per computer logged into the server at the same time.
    • When Omens of War unlocks, the server switches to Relaxed True Box. You may have up to 3 clients per computer logged into the server at the same time.
    • When The Buried Sea unlocks, True Box will be removed.
     By playing on Teek or Tormax you agree to:
    Absolutely No Automated/Unattended Gameplay. Any incident of automated gameplay will result in an immediate suspension, and a second offense will result in a ban, including Teek or Tormax-associated accounts.

    To play on the Teek or Tormax servers when they launch, all you'll need is an All-Access Membership. You can discover all of the perks of being an All Access Member and sign up here!

    This will be your last chance to nab the Lorisyn’s Lament Bundle and Lyirae’s Languish Bundles for your new characters to /claim after launch! Don’t forget that these are only available once per account.

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  2. Sheila Elder

    Very disappointed in the decision to move forward with Tormax as is but hope it has the following that some think it will. I'll still say that I won't be playing on either and think that you all should re-evaluate your stance on Truebox in the future.
  3. Rodd New Member

    No overflow server for Teek? Get ready for 6-8 hours of queues and server stability issues. This is going to be the most popular TLP server EVER and it will also be the worst launch experience EVER.
    maxisbored, Flexin, Xavier and 2 others like this.
  4. barbs1424 New Member

    Nothing about free-trade on Teek? :eek:
  5. LostSoul Lorekeeper

    Its not listed, so I will ask. Is Teek also free trade enabled?
  6. Angeliana Senior Community Manager

    Updated to include: Free Trade enabled for Teek.
    Baulkin likes this.
  7. Brickhaus Augur


    When do we get more information about reserving names? Aka when will /reserve work in game?

    We're past Noon Pacific and the Name Reservations window still doesn't work.
  8. CdeezNotes Augur

    They listened to the community last time and now we are left with a graveyard server (TB). I doubt they want to do that again. It's a waste of resources.
  9. Basak Augur

    Unfortunate, the thought of a random loot without free-trade sounds fun.
  10. Rodd New Member

    I get that part, but I can tell you there's going to be more players on Teek at launch then there were on Mischief and Thornblade combined. People are coming out of the woodwork for Mischief v2. What they should have done is a server merge of Thornblade and Mischief after PoP. Which is exactly what they can do here, because launch on a single server with no overflow is going to be MISERABLE for everyone.
    Xavier likes this.
  11. Ragnoruk Augur

    This is disappointing. I was really hoping true-box would be relaxed from the start.
    maxisbored likes this.
  12. Sheila Elder

    And has been hit to death on the feedback thread. With many suggestions on alleviating it with improvements to Tormax, ideas for overflow. This is 100% a situation where they are just going to make you guys sit in queues. A designated overflow with intent to merge on X date would have fixed this. They could have one-upped and made the decision to support people that want to box by making it non-truebox and merged when truebox is going to be removed. This just feels like a decision that shows no respect for players or their time. I am quite appalled.
  13. Gialana Augur

    Is this working for you now? I only checked about 20 minutes after your post, but it looks like the Reservation window is working. If you've had the window open for a while and it still shows Closed, you could try the Refresh button.
  14. Brickhaus Augur


    /reserve brings up a window. But the Buy Now button, while Green, does nothing as of my typing.

    P.S. And I missed the naming post originally. I'd say my bad, but it's a little strange that it was not mentioned at all in this post.
    Gialana likes this.
  15. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    Check behind the window for another box
  16. Raytheon Augur

    Then after you buy it, look under the window again for the confirmation. Buggy implementation.
  17. Brickhaus Augur


    Haha ... sounds about right for Daybreak implementation these days.

    I think some dev recently praised the work of their QA folks. Maybe they should rethink their praise...

    Edit - I'm not seeing any dialog boxes even after moving the window. Was there a recent patcher update in the last few days?
  18. Yinla Ye Ol' Dragon

    Not seeing any announcement for the time of launch?
  19. Xavier New Member

    Maybe consider launching Teek much earlier in the day, to help spread out the population more? I agree with what others have said, this is going to be the most populated TLP to date. Log in issues seem like they could be a serious problem. Would love to hear DPG address these concerns.
  20. Crashdummy Elder

    Uh, I have a question, am I allowed one character on Teek and one on Tormax on the same computer at the same time?
    Yinla likes this.