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1. TheWeeJenny says:

   June 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM

   I’ve got a cou­ple of low­bie alts that I’ve barely touched if you need some­body for your new Bree charater to hang with. ^_^

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2. Doyce says:

   June 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM

   With­out a hint of irony or sar­casm, I can say that the revamp of the Bree area (far FAR more than ‘adjust­ments’) rep­re­sents some of the finest revi­sion and improve­ment I’ve ever seen in any MMO. Period. Full stop.

   My wife and I have played through the first part of the story in the Bree fields — hav­ing just explored the improved Ered Luin, we decided to let the char­ac­ters sit for a week in Bree with­out tak­ing any quests, until Book 8 dropped, and it was SO WORTH IT.

   Right at the end of the night, we’d made it through the new “Grim­briar” quest hub, Adso’s camp, and wrapped up with Chap­ters 6, 7, and 8 of Book 1, which took us into Buckland.

   Our jaws dropped. Lit­er­ally dropped open.

   I already knew from Adso’s camp that they had revised the Old For­est and some­how — mag­i­cally — found the per­fect sweet spot between the orig­i­nal Old For­est (hor­ri­ble death trap) and the more recent ver­sion (laugh­ably harm­less), but this… I mean… I had no idea.

   The South­ern Bar­ri­cade along the Green Way with that one mis­er­able mis­sion that no one wants to do? They fixed it. It’s so much fun now.

   It’s all just… so much fun.

   Right at the end of the night, we noticed we both had a mes­sage in the mail.

   I won’t tell you what it was, but it made us stop and just stare at each other and say “That… is so. F*@#ing. Cool.”

   And it was. It really was.

   I can­not WAIT to really delve into the Old For­est now. I am prac­ti­cally VIBRATING in antic­i­pa­tion of the Bar­row Downs.

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   • Tony says:

     June 24, 2009 at 10:22 AM

     Thanks for this com­ment, loved it.

     I’d def­i­nitely be inter­ested in hear­ing your future thoughts on the Old For­est. I didn’t even con­sider that they’d be chang­ing that in any way.

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     • Doyce says:

       June 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM

       From what I can tell, there isn’t a sin­gle quest in the area they didn’t touch, and all for the better.

       So far, I count a least a half-dozen entirely new quests, mostly around the South­ern Bar­ri­cade on Greenway.

       Buck­land quests into the Old For­est were entirely revamped, the story lines tweaked, and all of them MUCH more stream­lined (you’re going into the for­est? why not take all three of the wolf/bat/bear hunt­ing quests AT ONCE? What a concept!)

       It’s really excel­lent. They took what they learned in revamp­ing Ered Luin and (to a smaller degree) Archet/Combe/Staddle, and took it up an order of magnitude.

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