Tier One of The Outer Brood.
Once again, it was the time of year for the new expansion, with the Outer Brood launching in December 2024 and new raid early in January 2025.
AOU did extensive beta testing for this expansion, and while I attended a majority of our raids, the screenshots I took matched my enthusiasm for playing and updating the news.
Not taking anything away from Everquest, its still going strong considering its now in its 26th year, I have not been as committed as much as the past, but my annus horribilis is a whole separate story.
Anyway, a reasonably smooth launch with so far few problems (I did win the impromptu “whens the first patch going to be” guess held in our discord.
The two Tier One raids went live as expected, and also as expected AOU beat them both the first night back raiding.
The first one of the pair of raids I cannot say i’m all that keen of, or as Yinla said to me “shit raid”, it seems to be overly complicated with a ton of aura emotes that get pretty much ignored, but I do like the couple of adds that spawn during the event to chase players.
The second raid I didnt see live, as I benched to allow a player chance of raiding, but it was another we had beta tested several times (this one seemed slightly more interesting and for once I wasn’t expected to lead the Hokey Cokey to an emote dance move), ill get to see it next week, so assuming I remember here is a screenshot I took afterwards ..
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Getting back on the subject of Beta Testing and while as I said, I took a bunch of screenshots during beta, a majority were not great, and I was otherwise not that committed to doing a news report everyweek, heres a selection of some pics in no particular order I took showing we attempted (and beat) a whole bunch of them.
BTW, welcome to the Manglers to their first beta with AOU, you know who you are
Thats all for now …