8 Zones all at once
Spell Focus AA to be added in the darkened sea, casters will have to buy spell focus lines via AA to enhance certain spells or spell lines, so they aren't as front loaded vs Melee having to gear up for their gains
Beta around the beginning of September, sign ups soon
tempest temple will be the Hub of TDS, karana worshippers, they are trying to create perfect storm to make place better for them shattered volcano
caverns next to temple, Siren boss trying to get its lost love or such
degmar next, combine trying to preserve races, pulled dwarves to the place to protect them dwarves went insane
thuliasaur island next, jurassic park, where the drogmor come from, also lizard men that built temples to Cazic
combine dredge, mining platforms by mana conduits to harvest resources from ocean, lanys took it over
arx mentis the sci fi zone
new cultural to go with level increase
auto granted AA increased to HoT
Mounts will be in a new tab on inventory screen
Q&A
The mount key ring is there a limit?
there is a limit of 128 mounts
mentioned new tradeskills, any new tradeskill augments like shawl?
this is a stretch goal for expansion, depends on their time limit, they hope to get it in for launch (shawl 4.0 hype)
how does mount keyrings work with heirlooms?
mounts will have collectible status, when you put it into keyring, it will automatically flag that char as collecting it, you can then take the heirloom mount out and trade it to all your characters and use it on all toons on acct. If you're a knight you cant take your class mounts out
Will there be any new heros forge armor sets?'
(there are 3 not released) - answer was heck yea, tribal, combine (doesnt mention clockwork)
with additional tradeskill items, are the caps increasing?
probably not to tradeskill skill cap increase, jansan isn't there to answer
2 years ago at soe live, mentioned possibility to work on new race models is that close?
start with robes, see how things go with heros forge models
any details on collectors edition yet?
no announcement yet still work in progress
how is looting gonna work in raids with new system, and no drop stuff?
you can assign master looter, there will be algorithms who has the rights to give loot, who has the rights to assign loot and that
will there be ship to ship combat?
yes, if you're on a ship and there's something there you can fight, volcano in tempest temple destroyed all ships
looking into opening player studio to housing exteriors and guild halls?
still in mix
what is the hub zone and where do druids and wiz port?
from buried sea to tempest temple hub zone, will be guaranteed to be druid and wiz ports
8 zones at launch, what is tier make up?
there are 8 zones, no more coming for the darkened sea though
plans for new progression server?
no plans immediately
epic 3.0s?
no epic 3.0s in near future
raids locked behind keys and flags?
progression of raids is in flux still
how many tiers?
3 tiers for group gear, 2 tiers for raid gear
initial penalty for new spell, and have to get new gear, makes casters weaker already?
new spells will be more powerful then old spell with old focus even tho old focus is degraded, no aa focus for mezes
will there be a clicky port to new zones?
undecided
how hard are the raids, mass emote, or spank and tanks?
75-80% of complexity, Absor looks to be doing most Raids
any improvements to raid tools, like banners for alliances?
gigantic laundry list of things to do, to improve raid window, and entire raid management process, none of them are directly slated for TDS, will get to them as soon as can throughout year
will there be a way to check what mounts out of all possible ones? will there be achievements for getting more?'
probably coming achievement wise, doesn't show what are missing though
is there going to be any plans to balance the crap sustain dps people like casters get focus changes?
casters get huge power increase, melee have to get new stuff to get any power, its just balancing out that with spell focus, class balance always in minds, coming year they will try to balance it even more
is there a plan to restrict progression so dont skip over tiers?
still working on it, want people to do everything
how are hybrids effect by spell focus aa?
to be determined