Ring of Scale

Ring of Scale (RoS) is EverQuest's 24th expansion. It was announced on September 20, 2017. Pre-ordering and Beta access began Wednesday, October 25, 2017. It was released Tuesday, December 12, 2017.

Editions

 * EverQuest: Ring of Scale Expansion Content

If you're an All Access member, you'll get 10% off the cost of the expansion.

Standard Edition

The price for the Standard Edition is $34.99. It contains all previous expansions.

Claimable once per account:
 * Pre-Order Bonus: Veeshan's Burning Bas-Relief (Delivered at time of purchase. A giant stone slab carved with the burning symbol of Veeshan that can be placed in a house or guild hall.)

Collector's Edition

The price for the Collector's Edition is $89.99. It contains all previous expansions.

Claimable once per character:
 * Gorowyn Express Beacon - Personal teleport to Skyfire
 * Contract of the Skorpikis - Mercenary contract

Claimable once per account:
 * Pre-Order Bonus: Veeshan's Burning Bas-Relief (Delivered at time of purchase. A giant stone slab carved with the burning symbol of Veeshan that can be placed in a house or guild hall.)
 * Painting: Ring of Scale
 * Experience Potion
 * Howling Stones Tomb Box
 * Devourer Familiar
 * Guise of the Iron-Toothed Earthdigger - Burynai illusion

Premium Edition

The price for the Premium Edition is $139.99. It contains all previous expansions.

Claimable once per character:
 * Gorowyn Express Beacon - Personal teleport to Skyfire
 * Gorowyn Express Lantern - Guild teleport to Skyfire
 * Contract of the Skorpikis - Mercenary contract

Claimable once per account:
 * Pre-Order Bonus: Veeshan's Burning Bas-Relief (Delivered at time of purchase. A giant stone slab carved with the burning symbol of Veeshan that can be placed in a house or guild hall.)
 * Painting: Ring of Scale
 * Experience Potion
 * Howling Stones Tomb Box
 * Devourer Familiar
 * Cockatrice Mount
 * Guise of the Iron-Toothed Earthdigger - Burynai illusion
 * Shared Experience Potion
 * Bridle of the Balefire Wyvern
 * Herald Telcha Familiar

Features
EQ Community News: The Ring of Scale Expansion is Coming to EverQuest!


 * Level increase to 110
 * All previous expansions
 * 6 Zones
 * New Raids, Quests, and Missions
 * New Spells, Combat Abilities, AAs
 * New AAs include one extra spell casting slot - Requires level 106+, cost 150 AAs
 * New Collection items

Zones
The dungeons for Ring of Scale are Charasis, Sathir's Tomb, Gorowyn, and Veeshan's Peak. Those zones are meant mostly for characters at or near level 110. The overland zones will be easier and should be accessible by characters from 106 and up.


 * Charasis (Ring of Scale) - Also known as The Howling Stones
 * Gorowyn
 * Sathir's Tomb
 * Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale)
 * The Overthere (Ring of Scale) - Hub zone
 * Veeshan's Peak (Ring of Scale)

Tiers
There are two group tiers and one raid tier of items.

Tier 1:
 * Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale)
 * The Overthere (Ring of Scale)

Tier 2:
 * Charasis (Ring of Scale), also known as The Howling Stones
 * Gorowyn
 * Sathir's Tomb
 * Veeshan's Peak (Ring of Scale)

Getting to RoS
The Overthere (Ring of Scale) is the hub zone for this expansion. You can reach it through Frontier Mountains from Empires of Kunark. It leads to Charasis, Sathir's Tomb, and Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale).

Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale) can be reached through The Overthere (Ring of Scale) or Scorched Woods from Empires of Kunark. Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale) leads to Gorowyn, Veeshan's Peak (Ring of Scale), and The Overthere (Ring of Scale).

The guild hall teleportation assistant sells Miniature Worker's Sledge Mallet, which changes the portal to The Overthere (Ring of Scale).

Druids and Wizards can obtain port spells to Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale) from Dermun (Teleport Scrolls) in the Combine camp in southwest corner of Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale).

The following items will take you to Skyfire Mountains (Ring of Scale):
 * Gorowyn Translocator Beacon - Personal teleport to Skyfire, next to Gorowyn. Obtained with purchase of the Collector's or Premium Edition.
 * Gorowyn Translocator Lantern - Guild teleport to Skyfire, next to Gorowyn. Obtained with purchase of the Premium Edition.

Zone connections map
Includes Empires of Kunark zones.



Progression
Achievement: Adventurer of The Ring of Scale (Group)
 * EQ Resource: Ring of Scale Progression

Completing the following will grant you access to quests in The Howling Stones, Sathir's Tomb, and Gorowyn:
 * Partisan of The Overthere
 * Partisan of The Skyfire Mountains

Achievement: Veteran of The Ring of Scale (Group)

Completing the following will grant you access to quests in Veeshan's Peak:
 * Adventurer of The Ring of Scale (Group)
 * Partisan of The Howling Stones
 * Partisan of Sathir's Tomb
 * Partisan of Gorowyn

Raid Progression
To request raids in Tier 2 and Tier 3, you need to obtain the achievement Seal of Charasis (Raid). This is obtained by completing raids in Kor-Sha Laboratory in Empires of Kunark.

Kar'Zok

 * For a write up of how to gain immunity, see Essence of the Dragon I.

Kar'Zok sarnak (green sarnak) were first introduced in Empires of Kunark.

The Kar'Zok have a deadly aura, Aura of the Kar'Zok, and the some also have Gust of Atrebe. These will pretty much kill you. However, you can gain immunity to them by completing the quest Methods of Sarnak Destruction in Empires of Kunark. In order to request Methods of Sarnak Destruction, you must first complete most of the Empires of Kunark group progression.

Once you complete Methods of Sarnak Destruction you gain the achievement Essence of the Dragon I (Group), which grants immunity to Gust of Atrebe and Aura of the Kar'Zok.

I can confirm that there are Kar'Zok (green sarnak) in Gorowyn. There is a single rare NPC in Overthere that is a Kar'Zok. There are Sarnak, but no Kar'zok in Skyfire, Howling Stone, and Sathir's Tomb. There are no Sarnak in Veeshan's Peak.

So plenty of the expansion can be experienced without encountering Kar'Zok. 4 of the 6 zones are free of them, and one has a single NPC in a large zone. So one spot in it to avoid, if the rare is up.

We are looking into auto-granting an equivalent AA to mercenaries that gives them resistance/immunity to the Kar'Zok breath weapon. (It will look for the bit the character gets, so they will only get it if you get it.)

(I am talking about basepop. It sounds like the Sjyfire [Skyfire] mission has Kar'Zok)

It has also been reported there is a Kar'Zok rare (named) in Sathir's Tomb.

If you own the Claws of Veeshan expansion and enable AA Auto-Grant, you will be granted the Essence of the Dragon.

Whether you do the quests to gain the Essence of the Dragon or use the auto-grant, you need to go to your Mercenary AAs and purchase it for zero AAs in order to grant it to your mercenary.

Spells
Selected enchanter illusions will drop randomly in Gorowyn and Veeshan's Peak.
 * Allakhazam: Ring of Scale Spells

Rank I

Rank I are purchased from various NPCs in The Overthere (Ring of Scale). They can be found using the Find window (Ctrl-F). The spells cost ~3,000 platinum each.

Rank II

Rank II spells are gotten by clicking "Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale" drops from named mobs or randomly off of trash mobs.


 * Minor Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale - Level 106
 * Lesser Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale - Level 107
 * Median Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale - Level 108
 * Greater Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale - Level 109
 * Glowing Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale - Level 110

Rank III

Rank III spells are gotten from clicking "Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale" gotten from raid chests in RoS raids.


 * Minor Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale - Level 106
 * Lesser Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale - Level 107
 * Median Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale - Level 108
 * Greater Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale - Level 109
 * Glowing Marked Symbol of the Ring of Scale - Level 110

Type 3 augmentations
Type 3 augmentations that improve your spells and disciplines are sold by the following vendors in The Overthere (Ring of Scale):
 * Grifand Makalroi (Augmentations)
 * Justyl Makalroi (Augmentations)
 * Trapat Makalroi (Augmentations)

Items
There are two group tiers and one raid tier of items.

Visible armor
The dropped armor parts in Ring of Scale require an upgrade of a previous item.

To make a Tier 1 Ring of Scale armor piece, you need: The notes on the facets indicate what is required.
 * For group armor, a Tier 2 Empires of Kunark piece. (In addition to farming the piece in Empires of Kunark, you can purchase it for Bathezid Trade Gems (see Alternate Currency below)). For raid armor, a Tier 1 (there are no tier 2 visible raid items) Empires of Kunark raid piece.
 * An NPC merchant bought component sold by Blacksmith Gerta (Smithing Merchant) in Plane of Knowlege:
 * Combine Draconic Scale Subsumption for group armor. Price 21,000 pp.
 * Combine Draconic Scale Transmogrificant for raid armor. Price 31,500 pp.
 * A Tier 1 Ring of Scale mob dropped "Facet". Tier 1 Group facets, called Scale Touched [slot name] Facet, should drop off of zone named mobs. Raid facets, called Scaleborn [slot name] Facet, are found in raid treasure chests.  The Facet drops are two slot containers, each one for a specific slot. The container is used up in the combine.

For Tier 2 group armor, you must use a Ring of Scale Tier 1 group armor piece instead of a Tier 2 Empires of Kunark group piece. The Tier 2 Ring of Scale facets are called Scaled [slot name] Facet and drop off named mobs in Tier 2 zones.

Tradeskilled
There are tradeskill item tiers as well. The group tradeskilled item tier is between Tier 1 and Tier 2 group gear. The Raid tradeskilled item tier is between a fictional Tier 0 and the real Tier 1 raid gear.

Crestra's Earring
Crestra's Empowered Elegant Earring is a new tradeskilled item. It is gained by completing the achievement Ring of Scale > Quests > Crestra's Earring.

This requires completing the following quests from Crestra. Crestra can be found in The Overthere using the Find Window (Ctrl-F):
 * Here or Over There?
 * Details of the Sky
 * Weight of the Sky
 * Gorowyn Wares
 * Measure of the Dead
 * Journey Into Terror
 * Craft Crestra's Empowered Elegant Earring

Power Sources
Power Sources can drop from rare (named) mobs. It's [the drop rate] 30% from any Ring of Scale rare. 5 of the VP rares roll it twice. Actually is is only T2 rare NPC's (the "dungeons")

Rare (chase)
No new chase items added, however the same ones that drop in Empires of Kunark can also drop in Ring of Scale.

Alternate currency
Ring of Scale introduces two new alternate currency types:
 * Ancient Draconic Coin - Earned by completing Ring of Scale raids. Spent at a merchant (Raid Merchant) in The Overthere (Ring of Scale).
 * Bathezid Trade Gem - Obtained by completing Ring of Scale Heroic Adventures. Spent at a merchant (Group and Parcel Merchant) in The Overthere (Ring of Scale).  You can purchase Empires of Kunark Tier 2 group visible armor as well as Type 5 augmentations with this currency.

Lore
Now that Norrath's mortal heroes have defeated the Queen of Chardok they must hunt down the Overking, Bathezid. Those that have pieced together the Seal of Charasis will be able to follow the Overking's trail, defeating his allies and any others that stand in their way. The Overking's defeat, however, does not end the troubles in Kunark. The one being behind the manipulation and uplifting of the Sarnak must be stopped. Venture into the depths of Veeshan's Peak to find Talendor and end the risk, perhaps for all time.

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