The Darkened Sea Expansion SOE Live 2014 Keynote

We've debuted what’s in the 21st EverQuest Expansion – The Darkened Sea! Watch the SOE Live Keynote presentation and learn about the new updates including...

• Level Cap Increase to 105!
• New Spells, AAs, and Items!
• New feature: The Mount Key Ring!
• Eight Zones on Launch Day!
• And more...

when can we pre order ?

When is Darkened Sea's launch day?

Release dates

Would like to pre-order soon so I can gain access to the current expansion content please.

By the way, great job on the new looting features. Looting in EQ has always been a headache, I'm glad the devs listened and programmers found a way to improve it. Kudos.

Unless I'm mistaken Mardy, preorders won't give you access to RoF/CoF until the release actually comes out for TDS (the darkened sea).

Any news on how many raids?

What are the 10/28/14 for all access and 11/11/14 for free to play? Release or pre-order dates?


Edit: Nevermind. Says right in the video those dates are for launch.

Awesome a mount keyring!! Gonna save me 4 slots in my bag!! Should have done illusions or hero's armor :/

Well that's disappointing, I guess no EQ for me until October.

I believe it's always been that way unfortunately Mardy, so nothing new or surprising.

To Ashten, illusions are something they want to do (for a keyring), it worked best for mounts initially (was initially designed for familiars so that may also be coming sometime in the future).

Does this imply staggered content after launch day?

No. It means you know exactly what you're getting on launch day, and if you get anything else (such as Plane of War) it'll be a bonus for players and not part of what they paid for with The Darkened Sea.

I predict the following:

Standard edition:
36 slot generic rucksack of some sort (wayfarer?)

Special Edition
40 slot "treasure chest" container
Pirate boat player housing

Although 8 zones for a level increase expansion sounds underwhelming (yet I do reserve my final opinion for when I actually see the size of the zones), I think it's a much better thing that you've learned from the CoTF content failures.

Now, at the very least, the entire playerbase understands in advance the amount of content that they are (or are not) going to get for $40. I for one, will be thankfull we will be saved from the multitude of people wanting their $40 back, or asking for the $40 worth of remaining content.

The release model for RoF was almost really good. If T3 and T4 had been smooshed together as one tier and released about a month after T3 was released, I bet it would have been received better.

It would have given us a larger chunk of content to work with, while keeping a larger amount of the content relevant by consolidating the tiers, and the cool looking T3 zones would help distract from the Quake 2 looking T4 zone.

There certainly are benefits from having some content come out around the time that everyone is getting bored with the stuff in the fall expansion. But the cotf model was not correct for EQ.

Don't they usually throw in a special ride, or special mercenary? I'm gonna say there is a pirate mercenary in there somewhere. Not sure what ride would be included. Maybe a giant parrot that squawks "Arrr, Matey!"

How about an answer on the expansion price being reduced or including it some how in the pre-order cause some of us haven't bought and are stalling out of content till October.

I will for sure buy one copy of this new expansion , maybe 3 in total depending on how weak you make my pets , yes I love play pet class have mag nec bst ..


Yimin

I think Underfoot was the best Staggered release Expansion yet.