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EverQuest 2 GU 51 Lavastorm revamp dev tour
The Lavastorm zone has been in EverQuest II since launch. At the time it was one of the highest level zones, but a few expansions later it is all but deserted by most players. In Game Update 51, Elements of Corruption, SOE is revamping the zone. The older content is being left intact, but new higher level content is being added tied into the latest expansion, the Shadow Odyssey. In fact, players will need to have that expansion before they can enter any of the new instances.The revamp includes a x4 raid dungeon, a x2 dungeon (the Ward of Elements), a new crafting instance and new high level solo content. Click on the gallery below to begin our tour of the new content.%Gallery-47248%
EQ2 previews new GU51 zone Ward of Elements
The dev team at EverQuest 2 is gearing up for their next big content update, GU51 - The Elements of Corruption. The focus of the patch is a revamp of one of the zones that launched with the game four years ago, Lavastorm. An original zone from EverQuest, the lore of it centers around the Magician Najena, a master of the Elements and summonable elemental pets.In the update, Najena is trapped in her underground lair and is being assaulted by the void creatures that were introduced in the latest EQ2 expansion, The Shadows Odyssey. It will be a x2 dungeon (two group raid) called the Ward of Elements. Adventurers must band together to save Najena and defeat the void incursion.Along with this new dungeon, there will be x4 raid dungeon, new high level quests and a new crafting zone. Massively will be bringing you spotlights on the new content in the coming weeks.%Gallery-45278%
And the first EQ2 player to reach level 80 is...
Stratics reports that the first player to reach level 80 on EverQuest II's live servers is the Monk Taucher of the guild Second Dawn on the Najena server. The word is that Taucher reached level 80 at 7:37 AM EST on Thursday the 15th of November; that's approximately 36 hours after Rise of Kunark -- the expansion that raised the level cap from 70 to 80 -- went live.Taucher won a $100 reward from the community for being the first to level 80. He wrote a couple of brief posts in the contest's stickied thread at the EQ2Flames forum. He said in his post announcing his accomplishment, "I'm sure I'll have a lot to say when I wake up at some point, but right now I've been playing for pretty much 39 hours straight and I just want to go to bed."This is not the first time a power gamer has blown everyone away with a marathon play session to reach a new level cap. Back when The Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft came out, a 24-year-old Frenchman progressed from level 60 to level 70 in just 28 hours with the help of his guild mates.
