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In other EQ news, the latest expansion (number 27!) is out today. While there is no level cap increase, there are several new zones and a number of other new features included. https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-claws-of-veeshan-launch-dec-2020 Claws of Veeshan Velious is overwhelmed with writhing ic...

Last week, Enad Global 7 (EG7) announced that they've purchased Daybreak Games for about $300 million: https://www.enadglobal7.com/press/7758700B9A777D34/ MassivelyOP has good coverage of the announcement, as well as a breakdown of EG7's investor presentation: https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/01/dayb...

The next expansion for World of Warcraft, Shadowlands, releases today.

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While the Shadowlands expansion itself is delayed, the Shadowlands pre-patch is out for World of Warcraft today. It brings a level squish and a revamped leveling experience, including the option of using Timewalking to level to 50 in a single expansion. And of course among the many other changes, th...

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I've made some style/markup tweaks to our post archives which hopefully make them easier to read on mobile devices, while still keeping them legible on PCs. (None of the content of these archived posts has been changed.) Let me know if you notice any problems.

The forum software used for The Druids Grove has been updated. As part of this, we had to also update the Druids Grove "theme" used by the forum. Please send me a PM if you notice any issues.

Sorry to hear about that. I was Restoration during the 1.x days, and mostly I remember trying to heal dungeons and hoping no one died, because I only had the in-combat rez with the 15 minute cooldown.

Want to go back to World of Warcraft as it was in 2006? Today, you can. Blizzard has now launched World of Warcraft Classic; it's based on patch 1.12. You do need a World of Warcraft subscription to play, but do not need a separate Classic sub. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic You can al...

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Twenty years ago today, Verant / SOE released EverQuest.