VOTES ARE IN! - Everquest News

Hello and welcome. The votes are in. Frost Rever is taking shape. So, we got some EverQuest news today. The uh TLP server has uh finalized its votes and let’s go over those right now. I’ve been uh pretty excited about this server. Uh starts in May. So, uh this is going to be Frost Reaver and uh the votes. We talked about these early. Uh so this is going to be kind of this is going to be a cra the craziest TP I think ever. [laughter] So uh expansion unlocks. So what expansion will be available when the server opens? Winning vote standard plus scars of launch. So that means day one classic Kunarch I couldn’t remember the name but Kunarch and Velius. All right. Should this server ever stop unlocking uh content? No. It’ll go all the way to live. Should this uh how how often should expansions launch after Planaines of Power Standard Plus expansion should lock every 8 weeks. Every 8 weeks we get a brand new expansion. This thing is going to hit live fast. Like 2027, 2028 probably. All right. Should Beast Lords and Berserkers be available at launch? Yes. Yes. Should Gates of Discord unlock faster? Yes. Should Legacy of Akisha uh unlock with Plains of Power? Yes. Should Prophecy of Row unlock with Depths of Dark Hollow? Well, yes. Should Dragons of Norath unlock with Omens of War? Yes. All right. So, uh that is crazy. It’s everything. Everything won. Uh you know, obviously this is the the is is the correct vote, right? Everything won. So, that’s good. Should this server have true box? No. Clients per computer will be unrestricted. All right. [music] Fantastic. So, this means you can box uh with as many characters as you want, just like live uh on this TLP. This this is going to be crazy. This TP will have cubes because of all of that, plus the amount of people that are going to want to play this. Uh should this server have open PvP? No. Now, sadly, I was hoping that would kind of win, right? Like there’s always been like like I always get a comment here and there, you know, why is there no PVP? Why is there no PVP TLPS, right? And obviously, no one wants T uh PvP in a game that’s not really designed for PvP, but uh some people out there do. Uh and it would have kind of been nice to uh kind of nice to see that. It would have just been absolutely even crazier than this is going to be because you would just you’d get to a camp, you want the camp, you kill the people at the camp, right? Uh that would be fantastic. Uh should this server have encounter locking? Yes. Now, encounter locking is when I tag a mob, I’m the first person to aggro that mob. That mob is locked to me for like 10 minutes, right? Or my group. And there’s a command I think you can use to unlock it. But uh for the effectively it it solves a lot of the hassle that is uh pulling through areas where there’s you know, you know, restrictions and people and sitting in spots that are just, you know, not to your advantage, right? you can pull through them and uh you can uh not worry about somebody coming into your camp and uh stealing you know stealing the mob in a sense that you know they just start attacking your mob and taking it right. Uh obviously whoever tags it first gets it and that is the rules of the server. How fast should experience be gain live? So this is this is going to be crazy. So we’re going to get the full experience that you get on live on a TLV server. So leveling is going to be crazy. Now, if you take into account some of these other bonuses, what we’ll talk about here in a second, this is going to be this is just going to be crazy. Uh, should this server have free trade? Obviously, yes. Free trade is is the by far the most popular option on these servers. Uh, bar bar none, right? Like, not everybody has time to go raid, right? I don’t have time to raid. Uh, being able to, you know, trade my platinum for a, you know, a raid item is is just fantastic. being able to trade no trade items to, you know, my boxes, my alts, you know, characters. It’s it’s just so much easier to deal with. I can give my friends loot I got on my own, right? You know, things like that. So, this is fantastic. Should this have level locking? Uh, level locking is kind of like how Veniki did it where, you know, you’re locked at level 40 or something like that to do something. And no, it does not have that. Should this server have disabled item requirements? Yes. So when you look at an item and it says required level 130, that’s gone. It’s a recommended level 130. So the item will scale from 1 to 130, right? Uh and now that is just completely throughout the whole rest of the game. Uh and it’s fantastic on Viniki, right? You could go get a worm slayer. Put that on a level one. Boom. You you’re taking zero damage for uh all the way to House of Thed uh on my Veni character started having some issue. So that is uh definitely fantastic. Should the server have early item focuses? Yes. So on by default focus items do not work on servers [music] um from uh classic to Luckland. And then at Luckland, you can use these and these are like the mana preservation, the improved damage, you know, faster casting, you know, spell range and stuff like that. Boom. Day one. Uh they’re already on the items, right? So classic items got revamped at some point in the game’s history to add those focus items to them. And that only really affected live. Now this affects TLPS. Now this is big. Uh it’s a lot bigger than what you would really think, right? because like improved uh damage is like what 15 20% extra damage right so wizards mages uh in some extent necromancers they’re going to be doing a lot more damage right and u there is not as many focus effects for melee so this so being a caster is going to have a benefit from this because you one you can save mana you can get extended range you get all those things when you know you’re in a melee you know, early it’s typically melee heavy on these TLPS because, you know, you just don’t have anything like casters don’t have the lures or anything like that at that point in time. So, that is this is huge. [laughter] This is this is trying to shake up the meta on uh TLP servers for sure. Bonuses. Will this server have evolving bonuses? Yes. Will it have randomized loot? Yes. Challenge achievements? Yes. Will it have resource hunter? Yes. Will it have legacy characters? Yes. All right. So, earlier on I mentioned that uh we’re going to have the live expansion right here. Live expansion experience. Now, evolving bonuses was a feature where each expansion unlock gave a different bonus and at the end you have like I think it was like 200% experience or something like that. Let me see if we can find these real quick so I can actually explain these a little bit better. Developer polls, close polls, bonuses, uh, evolving bonuses. There we go. All right. So, increased character experience, AA experience, mercenary experience, evolving item experience, loot drops, coin drops, alternate currency drops, tribute donations, reduced tribute activation, increased rare NPC spawn chance, short NPC spawn times, shorter collection spawn times, faster skill gain, faster faction gain, increased luck. Now, I think we can go over here to this one and it shows it in a little bit more detail. Uh, yeah, here we go. So, this is what they did for Oakland right now. If we go all the way here to the very end, Knight of Shadows is like the last one they did on this is when the server came out. 400% rare spawn modifier. 200% experience modifier. 200% AA experience modifier. Now, if you think about that, [laughter] if you think about that, boom, your mind’s going to blow because that is better than extra life. That is better than extra life. And that is a permanent bonus that you get when those ex those come out, right? And you can see here like uh we’re going to start in scale of uh you know, and Velius, right? Right off the bat, we’re already starting with 125% loot modifier and 125% faction modifier. This 8 8 to 12 weeks later, 125% AA modifier, right? Immediately, this server is is going to have some crazy bonuses, right? So, that’s the evolving bonuses, right? Now, randomized loot is where all of the loot is put into a bucket, right? Uh, let’s say Guck and Soul B are in the same bucket. They’re not really technically in the same bucket because there’s different level mobs, but let’s just say they are. If I’m in Soul B and I kill the uh soul uh the king in uh SoulB, right? He has a chance to drop any of the loot in his in that bucket, right? So, uh I believe he includes the ancient cyclops in his bucket. He includes like the frog um not the frog king. He’s not that high. uh the frog uh I think frenzy, right? I think it’s that’s the same bucket, but it doesn’t matter. It’s just this the concept is the same. The anything in that bucket has a chance to loot. Now, you modify that by the loot modifier of 125%. So, there’s a you know 25% chance to get extra item. So, this is this is this is crazy. Now, you throw that onto the random randomized loot, right? Um, [music] I think this will explain it a little bit better. Uh, cuz there was some extra stuff with this one. Uh, yeah. Um, yeah, I don’t it doesn’t say anything extra there. All right. So, random randomized loot is a thing. Challenge achievements. Now, the challenge achievements from Vinei, I don’t know if they’re going to list them all here. So, these all gave us different challenge achievements, right? They’re all listed right here. So, uh this is a level locking that did not win, which is good because level locking is painful. Um it’s it’s got a fun fun factor to it, but it’s painful. So, here’s the current uh the things you get for doing some of the achievements. Uh at level 40, kill Kazakth. I don’t know how this is going to work because it doesn’t have level locking, but if you kill Kazakth at a certain level, you got an item, right? You get certain items for doing certain things at different things, right? and you can do other personas and stuff like that and whatnot. Um, and then you also got titles uh for doing things and uh more currency, more stuff like that. And as soon as you got level 60, you got an illusion uh plus primitive weapons. And then uh let’s see here. Defeat the Herald of the Brood by 115. You get a a contract sk [snorts] a special contract. You got a special squirrel mount. all kinds of different things for challenges, right? So, that right there gives you something you can do and work towards uh with, you know, like your personas or your other characters, right? You you know, you [clears throat] level up your main character to, you know, whatever the max level is, right? Then you make it a persona down to 40 that you then you go in to do these raids with, right? So, you have your, you know, your level 60 main or whatever, right? you know, getting all the gear and stuff that they can pass down to the lower level persona and you got random loot all into this. This is just going to be so much fun. Uh, so you got that, right? Uh, we got the challenge and then we got the resource hunter. Now, resource hunter is something I have not done yet, but the way it works is is that every single day it says up to three zones in the same, you know, level range will get randomly selected to get a bonus. right now on top of all the other bonuses that are already applying. They’re just like going right increased experience, increased AA experience, increased loot, increased coin, everything else, right? So, on top of the randomization of the loot and all the other bonuses, this is going to be crazy. This is going to be like loot piñatas, if you will. So, uh that is crazy. And then legacy character. This is my This is one of my favorite things that uh I think this one right here says it all. This is one of my favorite features. I think they should add this to all the servers personally just because it would help with replay playability. But when legacy characters are enabled on a server, every maxle character or persona on an account with this stuff. So, if I have a if I have one character on the server and I got, you know, a max level persona, every other persona gets 10% extra bonus experience to aa quest, kill, and mercenary experience to a maximum of 100, right? So, I need 10 characters or personas at max level, and I’m getting 100% extra bonus. Now, I don’t know if this is additive or multip, you know, multiplied, right? But you get the bonus here from this and you get uh or is it an Oakland bonus here? Right. So at the end right here uh 200%. Is that a 300% modifier in experience? I mean that’s like you know like 20% [laughter] experience for killing one mob. I mean at almost any level. Uh so this is going to be absolutely crazy. So uh in addition to that uh you also can trade items between but that doesn’t matter because this is a free trade server. Uh then also missions, raids, and tasks are account with accountbased lockouts are now character based lockouts, right? So I can I can have a, you know, let’s say a level 60 uh warrior, a level 60 Shadow Knight, and a level 60 paladin. I can then go raid uh whatever raid. I can do that raid and then immediately flip over and do it again and do it again, right? I can do it as many times as I want. I have no no restrictions. Like same with missions. I can go I can go do let’s say like you know uh what is a mission right? I can go let’s say I do Zandicar on one persona. I can do this land car again on another persona and again on another persona and I’m getting the currency each time with that plus the added extra bonus currency I’m getting from all of this. This is going to be crazy. This is going to be fun. Um and then that lets you, you know, gear up and get your items quicker. uh you’re going to be able to just loot’s going to just be flying out the door everywhere. It’s just going to be so crazy with all these other extra bonuses and these are all additive bonuses, right? So, I don’t know the the actual math if like you know 100% plus 100 or 400% is you know you know I don’t know how that works. I I I wish I knew but I don’t. If somebody else knows, post a comment down in the down below. But this is this is absolutely crazy. So everything one, everything’s going to be good. Then you can do it with boxes. Now, I would not recommend trying to trying to do boxes on day one. Honestly, I would I would I would not. You’re going to have a faster experience just randomly grabbing people that are looking for group and going uh and then slowly add your boxes after that. I I would truly not recommend doing it like that because it is going to be uh [music] you’re going to have cues. you what if your box gets in, you don’t get in, you just getting into a group is going to be so easy on these on these TLPS. You you throw up looking for group and you almost usually get a group on the first day without even trying. Um, so definitely this is this is phenomenal news. I was I was I I’ve been swearing off TLPS because I get so addicted, but this this is everything. This is everything. There’s nothing they could have added that would uh that would have changed the like the standard rule sets here. And I think this is this is just f this is just fantastic. This is going to be so much fun. I am definitely excited as you can hear in my voice probably and I will be uh I will be creating at least one character. I have no idea what that character is going to be yet. I probably put up a poll and uh we’ll I’ll play whatever uh whatever the community of my community votes for to play and we’ll probably stream it. Uh in all honesty, we’ll stream it. Uh maybe I can find an oceanic guild that raids during the day and uh we can uh do some raids and stuff. I think it’d be fun. I I’m gonna have fun. Uh are you are you going to have fun? Are you going to come play on uh this server? is uh you know like I know true boxing was very contentious to people but at the same time I don’t think the people that are boxing like the the people that that can’t get groups when boxing is enabled are I don’t feel like they’re going to they’re not going to have a problem right they’re they’re it’s hard to say but I don’t think people will have a problem finding groups I just don’t think it’s going to be an issue you know obviously ly some people are probably going to two box a lot. I see I think that’ll be more popular than a full six box. There’s no mercenaries until I don’t know what expansion like seeds of destruction. So it it’s it’s it’s like no mercenaries for the first year. So it’s it’s it’s a lot harder typically uh in these older expansions when they don’t have the spells, you don’t have defiant, you’re you’re going to probably find groups no problem. Especially with like free trade and stuff, people are always just throwing up groups. Teik was just everybody was grouping with everybody. It was so much fun. I don’t think True Box is going to have anything to do with that. Uh and it if anything it it allows people to save money and save electricity from from running, you know, multiple computers, right? So definitely I think it’s going to be So are you going to play uh are you going to be on Frost Reaver? Will I see you there? cuz I am almost 100% certain unless I die before then that I will be there [laughter] playing and uh making something. So, let me know uh let me know if you’re going to be that. But thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic Hey,