The Outer Brood Beta and Expansion Pre-Orders

[Angeliana]

Let’s get ready for the Beta test!
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The Outer Brood beta is upon us, and we cannot wait for you all to check out this expansion! We have this beautiful expansion page which launched today with all the information!


Head to our pre-order page to reserve your copy of the expansion and play Beta with all your buds! Pre-ordering also grants you three Azure Scalewrought Weapon Ornaments. Beta also grants you access to the Beta forums. If you cannot see them after your purchase, please log out and back into the forums. If you still cannot see or post to them after relogging, contact Angeliana via private message. Beta testing for The Outer Brood will end once the expansion is ready to launch. You can learn more about how to join beta by clicking here.

Azure Scalewrought Weapon Ornaments
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The skies above Norrath will be buzzing with action. You will need to aid prior enemies and help save the lands as you know them. Will you answer the call when it is sounded?
 
Key Features to check out on Beta today: 

• 6 Expansion zones - Explore a lost area between Freeport and Nektulos then fly to a leviathan so large that dragons built a castle on top of it.
• New Raids, Quests, Collections, and Missions
• New Spells, Combat Abilities, and AAs
• New race and class combination: Dark Elf Ranger - For the first time, Dark Elves can be Rangers!
• Activated Items Key Ring - A new key ring that accepts most nonexpendable items with activatable effects that are not already part of another key ring.

Beta Reward:

• A Paper Bag Hat Ornament. This ornament can be transformed into a hat if you wish.

Paper Bag Hat Ornament
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May luck be on your side, adventurers!

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[Knifen]

Any chance you'll post how many missions and raids are in this expansion? Looks like fun thou.

 

[CatsPaws]

Is the beta reward - that paper hat - dependant on doing raids while in beta, earning coins or whatever or is it just a flat out reward?

 

[Koichiro]

is beta up? i get to the log in screen then says i need to update etc.

 

[Angeliana]

is beta up? i get to the log in screen then says i need to update etc.

Please redo your Beta install.

 

[alanus]

EDIT: Sorry, wrong thread. Feel free to delete

 

[Moege]

Is the beta reward - that paper hat - dependant on doing raids while in beta, earning coins or whatever or is it just a flat out reward?

probably need to do quests/raids to earn beta coins

reward for preorder is Azure Scalewrought Weapon Ornament!

 

[CatsPaws]

probably need to do quests/raids to earn beta coins

reward for preorder is Azure Scalewrought Weapon Ornament!

Ah, that is what I saw when I read it again. Maybe it will come up for sale someday. Thanks!

 

[JustAQuestion]

To be honest, I was hoping for an improvement of the persona feature, like bonus XP for each persona at max level, persona equipment hoard (to free some bag space up) or something like that.
And only one new Race/Class combi please... add some more

 

[Eckish]

Does standard edition not come with any slots of the new key ring? Or are the ones listed in the feature chart extra slots?

 

[Rylak]

The Discord announcement on the new expansion is referring to it as "Our 32nd expansion"

I don't think that is accurate is it??

 

[CatsPaws]

Does standard edition not come with any slots of the new key ring? Or are the ones listed in the feature chart extra slots?

I don't see any key ring listed under the standard version. Guess you get a shiny weapon ornament. And if you jump in now, you can beta play

 

[Sprooce]

Love all the new images and the activated item key ring will be really useful, looking forward to it.

 

[Draggoone]

• New race and class combination: Dark Elf Ranger - For the first time, Dark Elves can be Rangers!

Imagine the faction grind to do the epics. May even be impossible if the rangers can only worship Inny.

 

[fransisco]

Imagine the faction grind to do the epics. May even be impossible if the rangers can only worship Inny.

it feels in character. If a dark elf ranger wants to play with the other rangers, they gotta slaughter neriak a few times. Its a win/win

 

[RedChief]

When will Persona's be available in the DBS if we don't own LS (I play on a TLP so latest expansion isnt a issue)? Usually the feature unlocks once the next expansion is on order. (So I cannot pay for LS now to get personas).

 

[Kaelwyse]

The Discord announcement on the new expansion is referring to it as "Our 32nd expansion"

I don't think that is accurate is it??

This is probably a dictation error. A dev told the intern responsible for writing ad copy that "this is a 30 second expansion".

 

[Demetri]

Question re: DE Rangers - the caveat on the Pre-Order page says "*Available on Progression servers when The Outer Brood opens" - with it using 'opens' rather than 'unlocks' per normal TLP availability phrasing, does that mean that it will be available regardless of current TLP era, after The Outer Brood launches? (Presumably requiring the Xpac purchase, however)

 

[Exmortis_MT]

Dark Elf Ranger!! relive the glory days of Hathor Zhi!
I bet that only in this expansion and later will DE's be rangers? Please say it isn't so and any server in any era can have such magnificent class/race combo!

Scratch that...<sigh>

 

[Nennius]

Any chance we can have an option to decorate the paper bag?