About THE COMMUNITY SUMMIT by SOE

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If you didn't know, SOE opened the door to Leaders of many guilds, reporters from selected fan sites and content fan sites, and more. they invited them to come there over the weekend and chat to Developers and Management and Customer Service people about issues. This was apparently an unprecedented access and informative time to discover what is happening with the MANy concerns players have with the game and it's direction.

There are several posts from people who attended, and I am linking those posts I saw linked at Caster's Realm.

Caster's Realm Report

Paladins of Norrath Boards - Summit Topic

Druid's Grove: Summit Report

The Steel Warrior: Summit Report

Lots to read and learn about.

IMPORTANT MATERIAL

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The shifting number of allowed players in raid encounters between Planes of Power, Lost Dungeons, and Gates of Discord frustrates a lot of guilds and leads to many players quitting. Everquest's designers stated that 54 is the new official number for future Everquest raids.

Though focused on raid content, all love of the single-group gamer is not lost. Brenlo confirmed that new high-end elemental level equipment will update the LDON adventure merchants. Single-group hunters will be able to gear up for Gates of Discord content without Time or Elemental access. Omens of War includes only one flagged zone though certain encounters may be locked. This resembles Kunark, Velious, and Luclin expansions where most of the content was open to all players. Omens of War includes zones for all players tuned to help characters level up to 70.

While SOE designed Epic 2.0s to be the best class items available to the most powerful raiders, Epic 1.5s will be available to high level players and require only one or two groups to complete.

Here's a brief summary of the things I found most interesting:

- We will have new PC models by the end of the year.

- New high-end high-cost items will be available on LDON adventure merchants.

- Gates was designed for level 70, thats why its so hard.

- Omens of War has only one locked zone, the rest of it is open to all players.

- While Epic 2.0s are for the uberist of the ubers, Epic 1.5s are available to the rest of us.

- Some sort of instanced solo adventure is in the works.

- The Omens of War task system, a small 30 minute quest system, will be available to levels 20 and above.

- There will be a quest for Gates of Discord spells, though details aren't available.

- Chat channels cross over between Everquest and Everquest 2.

- The development team wishes they never called it Everquest 2.

- Soon augments can be removed and replaced on other items.

- Smedley loves pirates.

- The graphic engine update we went through will help EQ stay graphically competitive with other MMOGs.

In case you missed it, LDoN's will eventually have high-end Elemental-Level equipment to get to.

So you may want to start saving up your points...........