I was at GenCon, too. The Ruins are pretty neat. They had a 50th
level GM Human Paladin with a fire sword of some type that did 35 dmg
that you could play with to walk around. The new race is called the
Iksar, and they are lizard men. The story behind the land is that
the dragons found out about it, or something, and there was a great
war, and now it's kind of a wasteland. They've done some nice things
graphically with it. The trees sway in the breeze, and the are using
more polygons on the monsters. This Hill Giant they had in it looked
really cool. The guy showed how the shirt on the giant was a separate
polygon and move separately from the body. Kinda neat. They had a
rhino that looked really good (he said it was around 30th level) and
an enourmous scorpion that was just huge.
I ended up taking over the controls after this kid left, and was
wandering down a beach next to some cliff facings, and I found a
column just off the beach, in the water. I swam out to it and found
a tunnel that led back to the shore underwater. I swam into it and
it was dark, and I couldn't see (human at night) and I thought, "let's
just see how invincible this character really is". The guy was busy
talking, and needless to say, I drowned his 50th level character by
taking 1843 points of damage per gulp. Funny.
The actual zone looks like a cross between Innothile Swamp and
East commons or something. Kinda flat, kind green and dreary. He
mentioned that you could get to the land via Freeport. Not sure
exactly where the island is located.
>From: "Azor" <jmaynus@...>
>
>For those dying for the upcoming expansion pak the bad news is, it won't be
>out before Christmas BUT March 16th, 2000. On EQVault today they had a
>post
>from a guy that went to Gen-Con and he said it wouldn't be out till
>3-16-2000.
>Speaking of the pak many ppl keep saying they are adding more lvls for us,
>Brad himself has stated before they didn't know if we would be getting more
>lvls. He said they saw no real reason to give us more lvls. A bit later
>he
>said something about if they did it might be from Lvl 50-60. I think 50 is
>cool for now but if they do give us more I think it should be at least 75.
>As I was writing this I read more on EQVault they guy said Verant is
>thinking of raising the lvl cap to 55 or so. Gee a whole 5 lvls!!
>
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>Azor
>Lvl 18 Human Cleric of the Rathe
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