New EMU Under Development - EQ Launchpad

[mgellan]

Hey there:

Lots of work being done on the new server, testers are wading through the content to bring it to close to Trilogy on the day before Luclin was dropped. We're not religious about classicness but it's nice to be close if we're putting the effort in!

Some recent developments for testers (besides betabuffing to 60 with BiS items) are starting characters are now equipped with Charm of Testing Prowess (32k hp 32k mana +100 to all saves, clicky gate, allows testers to test raid content without having to die a lot), Charm of Healing (clicky Cheal) and Staff of Forgetfulness (clicky memblur) to faciliate content testing.

Parameters such as Xp, runspeed, etc. being tuned to classic levels, loot tables have had all post-Velious items disabled, drop rates adjusted, NPCs being added/removed to restore the database to Velious state, zones being restored to pre-Luclin states.

Lots of discussions ongoing on our Forums about future expansion modules at: http://eqlaunchpad.freeforums.net/

Come join the fun!

Regards,
Mg