Before the launch of EverQuest's Secrets of Faydwer earlier this week, Community Manager Laura Genender took part in a tour of the new area. Today, she reports back on that tour.

Last week I had the chance to explore EverQuest’s new expansion, Secret of Faydwer, with the best tour guide a player could ask for: Travis “Rashere” McGeathy, lead designer of EQ and one of the minds behind the expansion.

“Secrets of Faydwer,” Rashere explained to us as the tour began, “is in many ways a thorwback to the expansions of old.” If the name “Faydwer” sounds familiar to you EverQuesters it’s because it’s one of the original EQ continents, home to elves, dwarves, and gnomes. As the name suggests, this expansion reveals some of the secrets of Faydwer.

The expansion targets higher level players. “We’ve built the expansion mainly for the players in the top tier of the game, level 70+, and have designed things so that there are multiple tiers of difficulty within the expansion,” Rashere continued. “This allows us to not only provide more gameplay for top tier players, but also give much more significant improvements to the characters as they progress.” That being said, the first stop on our tour was the one lower-end zone from this expansion: Steamfont, a zone from the original EQ which was revamped with Secrets of Faydwer.

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