EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer Pre-Order Now Available!

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EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer Pre-Order Now Available! – 10/16/07


EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer™ is now available for Pre-Orders! Get your order in before November 13, 2007!

EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer™ All-In-One Compilation Pack Download Features:

* Includes EverQuest Classic and all 14 EverQuest expansion packs
* All available in-game retail items from all 14 expansion packs

* New Mount – The first EverQuest appearance of the fearsome Worg.
* Special Pre-order Bonus, The Gnomish Steamfists – First conceived as a weapon to help the determined gnomish pugilist overcome their stature when facing larger combatants, jets of steam fire out the back of these oversized, mechanical gloves. Unfortunately, they propelled the gnome forward into the waiting jaws of their rather amused opponent. Sensing opportunity in disaster, the intrepid gnomes tweaked the fists to provide a more constant release of steam, ruining their usefulness as weapons, but creating one of the strangest methods of accelerated movement to be found on Norrath.
* Legends of Norrath Items – Digital Booster Pack and Nimbus of the Storm Lord loot item.



* In-game items are available one per account.

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[Gildawen]

From developer chat logs on Sony's forum:

<[QT]Destinova> *Swampfunk* How will the new group armor be designed? I hear it will be very good, how good? How long will it be designed to take to create a full set of the best high end group armor?
<Merloc> The group armor will start off with archtype armor that is slightly better than top end TBS group armor. The armor can be upgraded to a class specific version at the next tier of group content, and then upgraded a second time at the final tier of group content. The final tier upgrade will have 4 elemental variations, and a 5th variation that is a combination of the 4 elements.
<Merloc> The final level of group items for the expansion will be over 500hp/mana, and will have all of the new stats and mods we are adding into the expansion.

<[QT]Destinova> *Swampfunk* Can we find out more about the Heroic items? How many items will have heroic stats? What are some of these bonuses I keep hearing about?
<Maddoc> Heroic stats will exist on many items, both on the raid-attainable level and the group-attainable level. Some of the bonuses you can expect to see are modifications to your avoidance skills, additional damage for melee and ranged combat, and of course additional bonuses to health, mana, and endurance.

<[QT]Destinova> *FennyMT* There was mention that augments are being changed from raid drops to group drops. This is a most welcome change! What quality level can we expect from these augments? Anguish? Ayonae? BiC???
<Merloc> They stat level will vary based on the tier content from which they are obtained, that should include up to and beyond Anguish level.
<Merloc> There will be some special augments that will be significantly better than Anguish as well.

<[QT]Destinova> *Uliadyen* What can we expect from the tradeskills this expansion? I've heard there are several long quests involving the tradeskills, how will they compete with previous tradeskill quests?
<Ngreth> Tradeskills will get the normal baking we have seen the last few expansions, and a small amount of brewing. Additionally there will be a revamp to Jewelcraft, the continuation of alchemy potions to XIII (level 80), Spell research will get some consumable scrolls and all of the old spell research recipes in the systematic spell system.
<Ngreth> Additionally there is a long tradeskill quest, I estimate this quest to take 10 hours if you are extraordinarily lucky, but it is more likely to take about 20 to 30 hours to complete. It will involve all of the seven major tradeskills, and cross seven of the zones within SoF. The content is rather high level, so may require that you gain some adventurer levels in order to complete the quest.

Also on the EQ forum, a clarification on what's included in the download and retail versions of SoF:

Rashere

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I chatted with marketing to make sure I've got it all straight. This is how it breaks down:

Retail Box
All of the in-box goodies [poster and such]
Worg mount
LoN booster pack
LoN nimbus

Digital Download
Worg mount
LoN booster pack
LoN nimbus

Digital Download Pre-Order
[All of the Digital Download Goodies]
Gnomish Steamfists