Yearly Development Roadmap The Year of Darkpaw: An EverQuest® Celebration started with a bang! There is already a lot going on, and so much more to come! You can read about what’s happened so far in the 2023’s Final Producer’s Letter and the 2024’s New Year Post. Before we go too far, let’s take a few moments to recap what happened at the tail end of last year. Now, I would like to mention Extra Life and the amazing job you all did with fundraising and donating to help children in need! You all went above and beyond this year, and as such earned a whopping $174,572. This year’s Darkpaw Games page is already up and ready for sign-ups, I have a feeling 2024 will be another banner year! Did we mention we have Year of Darkpaw swag for sale now? Head on over to the and grab some great stuff today, like this T-Shirt, Mouse Pad, and Poster! That’s that, so let’s move along to the 2024 Roadmap. January: The Year of Darkpaw Year of Darkpaw Swag for sale Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Soundtrack Volume 1 released on streaming services Masquerades of Divinity Missions, achievements, and currency merchant added Zimara Breadth: Crested Expanse [Raid] unlocked February: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Soundtrack Volume 2 released on streaming services Masquerades of Divinity Adding January giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Ask Me Anything forum thread Aether Wroughtlands: The Delves [Raid] unlocked Erollisi Day event returns Varsoon unlocks The Shadow Odyssey Mid-Content The Emperor's Athenaeum, Kurn's Tower, Munzok's Material Bastion, Ward of Elements, Miragul's Planar Shard, Shard of Love March: Chronoportal Phenomenon event returns HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY EVERQUEST! The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding February giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Brewday Festival event returns Beast’r Eggstravaganza event returns Game Update 125 Beta opens DirectX 11 API Port on Test Server April: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding March giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Ask Me Anything responses posted Bristlebane Day event returns Game Update 125 launches Varsoon unlocks Sentinel's Fate May: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Altars Adding April giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated DirectX 11 API Port launches New TLE Server Beta opens This is not a TLE, like Varsoon, this will be a different experience. We will be announcing more details soon Patches of Pride event returns June: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding May giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Summer Jubilee's Tinkerfest event returns Summer Jubilee's Scorched Sky event returns New TLE Server launches Varsoon unlocks Sentinel's Fate Mid-Content The Icy Keep: Retribution, Underfoot Depths, Zraxth's Unseen Arcanum July: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding June giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated August: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding July giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Extra Life incentives announcement Summer Jubilee's Oceansfull Festival event returns Game Update 126 Beta opens Game Update 126 launches Expansion Prelude begins Varsoon unlocks Destiny of Velious September: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Masquerades of Divinity Adding August giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated New Panda, Panda, Panda content October: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Adding September giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated EverQuest II's 21st expansion beta + Pre-Order opens Nights of the Dead event returns November: Heroes' Festival event returns HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY EVERQUEST II The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Adding October giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Extra Life Game Day EverQuest II's 21st expansion launches December: The Year of Darkpaw Monthly collections, giveaway, limited edition items Adding November giveaway item for purchase Missions, achievements, and currency merchant updated Frostfell event returns It’s time we Return to our roots, Jenn Chan Head of Studio Join us on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Discord.
I just saw this roadmap earlier today on PC Gamer! So does the new TL coming in June have a special ruleset? Hardcore Permadeath? At least there's a test period in May, that's good.
Looking forward to the DX11 port! With how pretty BoZ is (assuming thanks to the 64bit client) I look forward to seeing how the art team uses DX11 in the future!
The PC Gamer article also mentions that the image above contains an easter egg. I wonder what it could be? I have an idea, but it's probably a bit early to post it if I'm somehow correct.
any new TLE server is an old TLE server killer always was, no matter what the special ruleset is. There is not even a mention that Varsoon unlocks anything beyond DoV, no mention of AoD so it looks like they expect we will not get to that expansion this time, should be getting AoD in December. I hope this was just an oversite. On Kaladin we got AoD and even Sleeper Tomb at the end, but because this never posted people thought it's over.
That'll make for a good year, unless RL messes it up by having the sun vomit all over the entire solar system or something.
Varsoon had an amazing run and a new server that just takes the best of Varsoon and only improves upon it would be a big hit again. After all, each TLE got better and better with Varsoon knocking it out of the park. Curious to see what the new TLE will be all about. It would be a dream to see a TLE that brings the super old school leveling system from 2004/2005.
+1 EQ1 went DX11 recently, and it's running pretty good on Linux already. Tested it just a few hours ago and it was basically just start Steam -> download and install EQ1 -> patch and play. Curious to see how EQ2 takes advantage of DX11 too!
I got my expansions mixed up, we are still missing the last expansion we had on Kaladin I can assure you the old system from 2004 will never , ever return.
I see that halfings are forgotten again in that picture unless the black dot by the tower is one carrying a ring....
On the matter of game art, it kind of stinks that we still don't have armor like we see in the LON art, or the last Hero's Festival banner.
