Daily Archives: December 6, 2023

The Laurion’s Song Expansion Arrives for EverQuest bringing Class Swapping and More

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Class swapping sounds a bit salacious, does it not?  Do you want an open relationship with your main class?  Do you want to see other classes?

This may be your chance, as the Laurion’s Song, the 30th EverQuest expansion, has arrived and is promising just that sort of thing.

Laurion’s Song available here…

The expansion’s tale is explained as such:

A door appears, and the heroes of Norrath walk through to find a warm and cozy-looking building. Light from the windows illuminates a clearing in a forest. Music and voices as well as the tantalizing smell of cooking meat and mead drift on the air. The inn’s presence invites adventurers to rest and revel after exhausting and dangerous exploits.

Welcome to the Realm of Heroes, the place where the greatest heroes go when their adventures are over. Nobody remembers the last time anyone entered or left this place. Can you discover what the mystery is that lies under the facade of comfort and revelry? Why is the Realm open now? Why was it closed for so long? To help you along the way, there are other doors within the inn that open onto memories of when someone proved that they are a hero. You can participate in those exploits and see how heroes of the past became the legends of today. This is the time for the current heroes of Norrath to show their worth and unravel the mystery that is the Realm of Heroes.

So there we go.  It is time for the Realm of Heroes with many questions to answer.

And what does the expansion bring?  Well, a lot of the usual things we have come to expect form the annual update:

  • Level cap increase to 125
  • Alternate Personas – Swap to another class while retaining your name, inventory, bank, crafting skills, keyring and more!
  • New Items
  • New Zones
  • New Raids
  • New Missions
  • New Quests
  • New Spells
  • New Combat Abilities
  • New AA’s
  • New Collections

Standing out on that list is the Alernate Personas feature that promises to allow players to swap to another class.  How will it work?  That isn’t clear to me, though there is a lengthy FAQ linked below that covers the many and varied circumstances that players of a nearly 25 year old title might find informative.

I will be interested to hear if this becomes an interesting and useful feature or if it ends up being more trouble than it is worth.  I’ll only hear about it, if I hear anything at all, because I’ve never had an unboosted character beyond level 80 in EverQuest.  It is a title that interests me, but my days with it are in the past.

Still, it remains a good deal for a year’s worth of content, at least at the base price level.

  • Standard Edition – $35
  • Collector’s Edition – $70
  • Premium Edition – $140
  • Family and Friends – $250

Those more expensive additions… they are there because people buy them, even if they are priced well outside of my own interest level.

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