The Shadow Odyssey,
EverQuest II's fifth expansion, is not just the usual bump to the level cap, a couple of new raids, and a reset for all the armor you already got. It's none of those things. What
SOE has done with this expansion is go through the level 50 to level 80 portion of the game and say, let's make an expansion that has something for pretty much everyone. Let's make an expansion where even if no upgrades drop, you can be working toward some awesome stuff just by playing.
The original
EverQuest started out as a supremely casual and social game. It was the players that pushed
SOE to make the game more raid focused, but sometime after the heavily raid-oriented
Planes of Power expansion, the casual players asked when they'd get an expansion for them. SOE came out with the
Lost Dungeons of Norrath, which offered three or four variants at each of six dungeons, meant for single groups of averagely-equipped players. The difficulty and mission type could be selected, and every time you completed a mission, you got points with which you could buy hard-to-find spells, armor of near raid quality, adornments which would push that armor into the quality of raid gear, and some cool stuff only available through the
LDoN merchants.
The Shadow Odyssey is
EverQuest II's
Lost Dungeons of Norrath -- and more. Click on through to see why
TSO might be the best
EQ2 expansion yet.
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