Empires of Kunark info stream and expanion packs

I do not think they are trying fool anyone. They are trying to get people to sub longer without any real investment. They are grasping at straws.

Indeed the 10k AAs are to keep people subscribing longer, it is an okay business strategy. Not great for us customers but whatever keeps DBG bills and Russian investors paid.

Still wish there was a level increase because levels give characters "more bang for the buck" than AAs.

That is a level 105 with no AAs is going to be more powerful than a heroic 85 with 5k AAs. Also a level 105 with 1000 AAs is going to be more powerful than a level 100 with 10k AAs.

The marginal cost of AAs drops rapidly. There are a couple of thousand AAs which are near useless.

Maybe the new AAs will change this but somehow I doubt it.

I suspect that power (defensive/ offensive DPS) increase from the new AAs will be roughly equal to what level increase to 110 would have brought.

Level increase taking longer then a year ?
i dont buy into that.

Well then again.. depends on how many People you have working on it.
My guess is we saw the entire development Crew on the stream. That is the guy in the middle...

Hopefully DBG goes under and EQ can just go full .

No Absor on stream = worst expansion confirmed. Also, stop crying about AA, now there is something to do so you don't only log in for raids nights.

Seru was the bad guy in the past; the Combine (Tsaph's followers) never were bad guys. Seru poisoned Tsaph. The Sarnak however have always been bad guys, you just could faction up with them, because back in the day they wanted faction to matter because they didn't plan on the game being around more than a few expansions much less 23 of them.

I don't agree that it was a dumb excuse. What they said was in effect, they would have to start working on the level increase itself right now with their current team in order to complete it for the next expansion. That would mean not tuning, not fixing bugs, not doing anniversary events, etc.

As for all the people talking about all the AA totals, who cares. The majority of AAs have always been less necessary and more looks cool. The way the 100/rank one sounds, it could be fairly powerful.

So i guess DH HAs are going to see a lot of traffic again ....

Well with the very high cost of the aa 10k aa doesnt mean much really. If you look at it in levels of aa we arent getitng much.

Someone who saw the beta forums mentioned there are basically 2 categories of AAs
Normal ones that start as low as 10aa/rank
Focus which are 100aa/rank

I'm looking at this a different way. Maybe the focus are not supposed to ever be completed. So there is always a way to advance your character. You are expected to get all the non-focus AA, but the focus ones are there so you will always have a goal.

There is one focus AA for each class, 100 AA per rank. Getting a thousand AA for all 10 ranks will not be that difficult for many people. The costs of the regular range more from 25aa to 60aa per rank.

Does anyone know when they will do the first character copy over?

I completely disagree. You are pretty naive to think there aren't that many naive EQ players.

DH HA's cause spontaneous combustion.

2088 working hours assuming no overtime (which I am guessing devs are salaried) year?

Or around the clock year?

IDK people on the forums almost convinced me it was all spreadsheets and difficulty sliders.

Is there bonus exp on test? It seems the AA were flowing like water in Droga molo and with 1 other person. Grind exp in new expansion might beat out DH HA.

I am disappointed port clickies went from prequests or preorder bonuses to an exorbitantly priced editions more than double cost.

$140 edition too... what a joke. The expansion itself is low in price too. I just cannot justify over $100 extra. That is just insane.

Anyone able to check if TDS tier 2, 3 and Arx are unlocked on beta, for a toon that hasn't done progression?

Its supposed to unlock zones, two expansions behind the current expansion, so curious if that is working.

So put two devs on it and it could've been done last May~

On the bright side it should only take one Dev day to fix the Troll level inflation to class AA counts. 7 to 11K AA to grind depending on class is ridiculous even without a level increase. Especially true when you consider that we aren't getting any new AA outside of tradeskill/focus stuff and very few new ranks of existing stuff. The vast majority of that comes from the hyper inflated AA costs for each rank of anything.

An example would be Spell Casting Reinforcement. 5 previous ranks were 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 AA.
New expansion has 2 new ranks. 65 AA each.