Everquest: Gates of Discord Expansion Pack

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $7.48

Features:

• Expansion for the massively multiplayer online role playing game, EverQuest
• 100 new Alternate Advancement abilities with new and unique skills to master
• 20 new zones, 10 new instanced zones, and 10 new traditional zones including a huge ship city zone
• New Berserker class empowers you to ravage your enemies with two-handed axes or by hurling large objects
• Note: this online game charges a monthly fee and requires an Internet connection

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

GoD is mainly targetted at uber players [Posted on 2004-04-24]
I've been playing EverQuest since the very beginning. Over the years I've picked up the various expansions as they came out. Gates of Discord is the first one to make me seriously consider asking for my money back. Most of the content is aimed at uber players with 65th level characters that have tons of AA points. If thats not you then there are exactly four things in this expansion that will be of interest to you.

1) The new berserker class. I've toyed around with one of these and found it to be a fun addition to the melee classes. Not sure its worth the price of the expansion though.

2) New tradeskill interface. They've come up with a new and vastly improved tradeskill interface for this expansion. It allows you to look up most common tradeskill items, see if you have the necessary components to make them, and turn them out with a couple of clicks of your mouse button. With the old interface it would take me 6 mouse clicks to make Celestial Essence, an item needed in large quantities for high end tradeskills. With the new interface it only takes me 2 clicks. Its great if you're into tradeskills. If you're aren't into tradeskills, the new interface isn't worth it.

3) Leadership Points. You earn these by leading groups. They do take away from regular experience though its a small set amount and only when you're actually leading a group. They allow you to do things like place visible markers on NPCs so that your group knows who to concentrate on in a fight. If you lead a lot of groups, they might be worth it. If you don't lead a lot of groups, you'll have no use for them.

4) Tribute System. The gods of Norrath are unhappy with their creations. As they become less responsive to their followers, people have looked for alternatives. This is the tribute system. The way the system works, you go to your home town and donate items or money to the tribute master in exchange for which you recieve tribute points. You can then expend tribute points to have the local mages send you power wherever you are to temporarily boost various stats, resists, haste, etc. Note that you can only turn them on in your home town and once active they burn tribute points at regular intervals until you either turn the power off or run out of tribute points. If you turn the power off you have to go back to your home town to turn it back on. Interesting concept but it leaves a lot to be desired. Basically its a thinly veiled system for removing money and items from the game and, in my opinion, not worth the price of the expansion.

The new AA abilities added with the expansion also deserve some mention. There are a couple that are available in the 50s but for the most part you'll have to be 61+ to take advantage of them.

If you're an uber player or a tradeskiller I'd say the expansion is worth it. If you lead a lot of parties or you want to play a berserker, you might get your money's worth out of it. For everyone else I suggest you give GoD a pass.

Pretty Cool [Posted on 2004-05-04]
its a pretty cool game because you get the berserker and stuff and it has a really cool dock place.... soo umm.... u should get it oh yah and leadership points R cool!

Tradeskill interface [Posted on 2004-05-10]
Keep in mind the new tradeskill interface was NOT included only with the Gates of Discord expansion; the new interface was made available to everyone.

I didn't buy the GoD expansion and I am happy that I didn't. Most of what I've heard from friends and guildies is that the expansion just wasn't worth it. Nerfing the vendor buy price on fish along with SOE's massive tribute point reduction that was made *after* everyone turned in a good amount of plat and items was just low.

I've read that SOE is working on fixing some of the content so that casual players can begin to get more from this expansion instead of just ONE hunting zone. Until they do that or once it shows up in the $9.99 bargain bins I would suggest not buying this expansion.

buggy and rushed [Posted on 2004-05-13]
its new, its buggy, and it feels undeveloped. The new berserker class added in this expansion has features that are obviously broken. trade skill items are there, but of little use to anyone able to explore the content.

Dont waste your money [Posted on 2004-06-26]
You need to be level 65 and in a high end raiding guild to do anything in this expansion. It is very buggy. Do not waste your time and money.

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