The house that Sony built just keeps on trucking. With little fanfare and quiet competence, the thirteenth expansion to the original EverQuest went online today. Buried Sea adds pirate ships, underwater zones, and something that sounds a lot like technology from the Transformers.

The Buried Sea introduces players to a new type of inventory slot called a Power Source which is used for new equipment available in the expansion, known as an Energeian Power Source. Energeian Power Sources are similar to a magical battery and come in a variety of types such as: fire, cold and light.

More than meets the eye, indeed. While the new content added at the high end will no doubt be welcomed by players, in my opinion the best stuff added by the expansion is the Fellowship and guild support. Guild banners: awesome. Fellowships: even more awesomer.

Fellowships are basically mini-guilds, a formal recognition of a regular group. As someone who is still having a lot of fun playing in one of those, I’d like to request that this be added to EQ2 asap!

On a semi-related note, EQOA is celebrating four years of existence. Keen … but um, realistically how many people are still playing?

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