Night of Shadows Beta and Pre-Orders

Ruinous circumstances are brewing in the shadows. Are you ready?

We’re just going to let this speak for itself before we dive into details.

Night of Shadows beta is upon us, and we couldn’t be more excited! Don’t believe us? Check out the beautiful expansion page we launched today!

Beta started today and if you’d like to jump in with others, please head to our pre-order page to reserve your copy of the expansion which will instantly grant you access to Beta. Pre-ordering also grants you three Petroglyphic Weapon Ornaments. Once you’ve secured a copy of Night of Shadows, you should also immediately gain access to the Beta forums as well. If for any reason you cannot see or post in them, please contact Angeliana via private message. Beta testing for Night of Shadows will end once the expansion is ready to launch. You can learn more about how to join beta by clicking here.

Will you be able to overcome the shadowy forces responsible for all the turmoil? Only time will tell, and that time is now! To all of you who join us on Beta, thank you for taking the time and for your feedback. There will, of course, be a beta reward. To all Norrathians, we have one tip: When all else fails, seek out the Vah Shir.

Happy adventuring, y’all!

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Looks like the tradeskill depot will be available on TLP servers? Is there a certain "expansion" when this unlocks?

Because if not huge perk for tlp players to actually buy the expansion.

Features like this usually unlock with the purchase of expansions , TLPs got the hoard previously when they purchased the expansion

Tradeskill depot sounds amazing and hopefully fixes one of my biggest problems with the current game (inventory management of tradeskill items.)

Curious to see how it really works in application.

Tradeskill Component Depot Slots 250 to 490: every server?
Tradable: Tradeskill Component Depot Slots 20 per: single server?

Might want to rethink the hashtag NightOfShadows, which is in use by a cosmetics convention or something like it.

The part " You can learn more about how to join beta by "

Takes you to https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-beta-how-to-participate
That says: " If you don’t already have the beta launcher, you can directly download it here. " Clicking the link does nothing. Google Chrome. Right clicking on it and "Copy Link Address" then pasting it into a new window, then downloads the file.

The point is it says claimable on tlps so confirmation would be nice either way.

Not to mention they have been adding lots of things to tlps that were previously locked behind things in future expansions. Buying outside of baz. Agro meter etc. if it was actually usable on tlp more would buy the expansion and be a great move.

I'm sure those 20 slots will be up for sale in the store eventually. $1 per slot? Per 2 slots?

Thanks for pointing this out. I had to scramble a bit to figure out what was wrong, but that link should now be working correctly.

Will we still need to purchase Luclin? or will pre-order unlock all previous expansions?

I can't figure out why it won't let me post the screenshot, but you receive all previous expansions at the time of purchase.

Every expansion you buy (or at least the last five or so that I know of) gives you all previous expansion content.

Note I bolded the word content. That's because you get all the content but you do not get, for example, Familiar Key Ring slots if you have not purchased Empires of Kunark. You get the Familiar Key Ring with zero slots and you may then purchase some slots in the Marketplace.

You may not get the non-content stuff, but it's still a nice deal to get all the previous expansion content with one purchase.

Since the BETA seems to be up. When will the BETA forums go live?

They are live, but if you were logged into the forums before preordering you need to relog.

Beta forums are live if you are able to log onto beta and not see forums log out and back into your account on forums.

Thanks. Out and back in did it.

In the original post, clicking the second picture attempts to load a wallpaper-sized screenshot from here:

Code:

https://assets-qa.daybreakgames.com/uploads/dcsclient/000/000/253/241.jpg

However this server is not reachable via public Internet.

If I remove "-qa" from the hostname in the link then it works:

Code:

https://assets.daybreakgames.com/uploads/dcsclient/000/000/253/241.jpg

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On the Friends/family package, what lvl exp is the tradable expansion? For the $110 difference from Premium to Friends/Family i would hope its at least collectors lvl expansion. I have 2 accounts and would normally get 1 premium and 1 collector for $210 but might get the Fam/Friend pack if the tradable was at least collectors lvl .... wouldn't be worth the extra $$ for basically the Overseer Agent Packs and Ogre Heritage Crates.

Thanks for catching that! Image file should now be fixed. Let me know if there are any other issues.