今月の変更予定 [eqlive.station.sony.com]

Future Plans for July

Those of us behind the scenes here on the EverQuest team have plans for the future of the game. Further Down the Line is where we will keep you informed about what those plans are. Please understand that these are our long-term plans and may require a fair amount of research or development time.

今月の変更＆調整予定項目は下記のとおり。でも、調査や開発の進行具合によって変わるから、まー気長に待ってろ。

This section will be a little sparse right now. We're still ironing out priority lists and such, and we'll be back to update this with more information soon.

よーわからん。

Items in the Planes of Power

We will be looking at the quality of Planes of Power item rewards and improving them where appropriate. Items for many of the lower tier gods will be upgraded and more rare items and NPCs will be added to the following zones as needed:

Crypt of Decay
Plane of Torment
Halls of Honor
Plane of Tactics
Plane of Innovation
Bastion of Thunder

ちと、PoP の低い方の Tier の神が DROP する ITEM が難易度と合ってねーから UPGRADE する予定だ。あと、Rare Item と、それを DROP する NPC を追加する予定。対象の Zone は…本文見れ。

Class Balance

We're still planning to take a look at improving the damage capabilities of melee classes, as they've fallen behind their magic-using counterparts at the very high end of the game. Finding the proper solutions for this situation will take some time. Some options being considered are:

Improve melee damage-increasing disciplines
Improve Planes of Power melee weapons

Additionally, we're looking at the concerns from players about their spells, and changing them where appropriate. The goal here is to remove annoying issues with spells, not necessarily to increase caster power overall.

Melee 関連の変更予定。以前にも書いたから省略。

Shields and blocking

We're planning on reviewing the possibility of giving an innate chance to block when using a shield. We've been hoping to do this for a while, and it should be getting a realistic review in the near future. We'd like to increase the value of shields, and make it a worthwhile choice for players who might normally dual-wield weapons or use a two-handed weapon. We plan on balancing this against classes which use shields by default, and therefore wouldn't be making any trade-offs to equip a shield.

盾装備時の Block に関する変更。以前にも書いたから省略。

New Zones

Both Live and Legends server will be seeing more zone revamps and even a few new zones. It's a little early to talk about the details of these zones, or even which zones we'll be working on, but the team is looking at some very interesting ideas for places to revamp and perhaps adding a few new free zones.

Zone の再調整と、新しい Zone の追加。テスト鯖の chardokb が話題になっているけど、オレは Royal エリアのバグ調整と見た。