Hello all,
Can you believe it's July already? The team has been busy at work getting Call of the Forsaken wrapped up with the Argin-Hiz release, and getting geared up for SOE Live. As always, I hope you'll join us at SOE Live during August 14-17 in Las Vegas to hear these announcements in person (and I'm sure you have already speculated that we'll be talking about an expansion during this event)!
Just to keep everyone in the loop, here's a bunch of info about what's going on this month of July:
Argin-Hiz: This is the final Call of the Forsaken zone, and the team did a GREAT job putting this together. I mean, just take a look at it:
We plan to have the beta for this zone open today, and we're looking at July 16 as the date that players will be able to explore this zone for the first time on all Live Servers. This zone has one raid, and the quality of raid drops here will be on par with the raid drops from Tower of Rot.
Argin-Hiz Launch Event: Starting Friday, we will be kicking off some launch content for the Argin-Hiz to prepare you for the zone coming out in two week. There will be additional content the following Monday.
Hardcore Heritage Events: Two additional Hardcore Heritage zones will be opening up next week. Check out the
article here to see which ones will go live.
Plane of War Raid: We're pretty happy with the difficultly of this raid. Guilds are starting to beat this, but we understand it's still something more difficult than any of the current Call of the Forsaken content. We're looking at changing a few of the adds in this raid to give a few more guilds a chance to beat this encounter. We're also planning on upgrading the currency reward from the Plane of War raid to Fists of Bayle, and have more of this currency go to players that beat this raid.
The Journey Home: There will be one more raid (in addition to the Argin-Hiz raid) that wraps up the Call of the Forsaken storyline. We plan to have this out to you before the end of the month.
Death-Death-Death Event: The SOE Live event will be released to the Live servers at the end of the month so you can attempt to hone your skills to compete for cash in Las Vegas next month.
Hopefully this gives everyone a better picture of where we're going with the last big updates for Call of the Forsaken. What have been your favorite parts of this expansion, and what are you looking to as we move forward from here?
Thom "Phathom" Terrazas
Senior Producer, EverQuest
