Journeys with Jaye

Diving into The Shadow Odyssey

I just spent about a half hour in the new EQ2 expansion, and I already can’t wait to log back in tonight.  What struck me the most in my brief time there was the attention to detail.

Above:  Pixie on a string – a new 5 year veteran reward.

Cool moment # 1 – finally entering the castle in North Qeynos!  Yes, the Queen’s chambers is a smaller version of a Tier 2 guild hall (I maintain that our decorating > Antonia’s /nod), but I’ve wanted to go in that castle for 5 years now, so it was a very pleasant surprise to be able to kick off my expansion adventures that way.

I visited Antonia, tried very hard to read her dialogue, but was defeated once again by my twitchy mouse finger.  Luckily, Shay gave me the bullet points – something about a mysterious balloon ship, and a foreboding threat to all Norrathians.  Apparently Antonia even tried to contact Lucan, since they both share a common threat, but he didn’t respond.  So we’re sent out to investigate, although I wished there was a clicky option to tell Antonia to just go log out and roll up an evil toon if she was really interested in talking to Lucan.

Cool moment # 2 – The airship!  I’m a sucker for vertical depth in a game, which is why I love Vanguard so much.  It seems that there is a lot of that in this new expansion.   Taller cliffs, longer waterfalls, and sweeping vistas.  And the airship itself gave me a chuckle.  I love the WWII bomber-style artwork on the side.  6 kills!

Cool moment # 3 – Again, thanks to Shay, I met up with some quest givers at the first hub.  So I’m mindlessly hailing, clicking, and accepting quests, when all of a sudden she tells me in the most innocent of voices to “just run over to this cannon….”

Yep, hurled across the chasm in a wooden barrel.  Luckily there’s a net on the other side.

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