What do you want to know about The Darkened Sea?Follow

Hey all,

Of late, the decisions of the development team have ended up pissing me off, so I avoid the main forums. I can only assume that this late in the day that the NDA has been lifted. If not, I consider it late enough now that it is now null and void. So ask away with any questions you might have about The Darkened Sea.

There are eight zones, as any basic search will turn out. Four of them are semi-large and four are tiny. Two t1 zones that will be light blue at 105th, two t2 zones, and four t3 zones.

There are seven raids, two of which lock out upon request. So don't wipe or have raid reset or you'll be waiting until next week. Raids are tuned for 54 players in CotF t1 raid gear. Trash mobs hit upwards of 42k (in silk, granted).

Necromancers will finally be able to equip other weapons. Whether or not this will be desirable is yet to be seen.

There is a mount keyring that will store ten mounts. Additional mounts can be purchased from marketplace.

There were no new spell lines that I saw, granted I didn't look at *every* class. Most classes are having a good number of their key spells and abilities not seeing upgrades.

There were very few new AA. Most are but upgrades of current lines and, like the spells, many aren't seeing upgrades.

Weapon augmentations aren't seeing any upgrades. Gear upgrades are very minimal across the board, however, there are new powersources.

There is only one group mission per zone. Most, if not all, of them take place in open zones, so competition might be fierce. Looked to be only six HA.

Well, these are just a few highlights. I'll go into further details upon request and I encourage others to do the same.

I will probably buy it. I haven't "used" much content past TSS. I buy an EQ expac about every 3 to get caught up. I figure it keeps the game going... so even though I'm really paying for them to keep the old stuff up and running that I want to do at least I am contributing. True... people that buy every expac contribute more. My thinking is I am paying 1/3 of the price for content I will likely never use. Maybe this is odd thinking?

Once in a while they do things that benefit anyone. The tweaks to the shared bank (my reading is bigger shared bank) make this expac useful. Granted they might be giving that to everyone anyways... sometimes hard to tell from Sony info.


I also have only played EQ in stretches over the last few years, maybe subbing for a few months at a time. $40 isn't a lot of money, depending on what kind of entertainment budget you have.

$40 is a lot of money if you run 3+ accounts and have a limited income.

Or, they never bought CotF (like me) and will get the extra bank slots due to that expansion being included.

Tat

There is nothing in this expansion for me, so ill only purchase it on my mains account for now and even then, I wont be entering the TDS zones for at least a year. Maybe longer if they do not fix the level 101+ xp nerf to pre COTF zones.

I get the impression TDS is to discourage us and get us to move on to Next or Landmark. Not going to happen with me.

Thanks for the correction. I was reading really sketchy (as in hard to follow the paragraphs let alone the meaning) web reviews of TDS.

I can't believe they'd make this expansion suck on purpose to get players to switch to EQNext. Since EQNext isn't even close to out yet all this would do is drive players away to a different on-line game (or to RL pursuits like bowling or Tiddly Winks! ) and be self-destructive for Sony. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time they take actions that appear to be suicidal.

The only good news so far is AFAIK the XP in older zones hasn't been nerfed as much as I feared. I got to 102 in about 2 hours of semi-casual play and am about to ding 103 in a little more time. I'm thinking I will wait till my toons are all 105 to tackle the advancement quests in TDS. Because it wouldn't be unprecedented for the devs to realize they screwed the pooch here and institute some serious "fixes" such as maybe opening more zones to all.

I held off buying CotF since I returned in September, and figured I'd wait for TDS, and save $40. Missed the extra shared banks and HA's, but figured I'd rather save the money. Now with the huge stink over TDS, I'm postponing that, as well, until they address the issues. The issues don't really affect me, being only 87, but I'd rather lend support to the 100's who are livid over the changes.

Tat

They've taken the mount "storage tab" as done a while ago in games like WoW (and probably elsewhere before that).

It's probably a good change.

For the mount key ring, I just click on the mount tab in inventory and right click on the mount I want. Only have TDS on one account though.

where do you get "Tropical Seafruit" in this expansion? cant find it anywhere

It's been changed. When I clicked on my hotkey, it started to cast like a spell instead of an instant mount. This created an inventory item from which you make a hotkey, place it on a hotbar, then you can right click to insta-cast mount. I must say, I dislike this change.....