I don't know if you've been watching the EQ forums but there was a lot of talk on the SOD hard raids planned for the upcoming patch. Last checked there were 99 pages of comments LOL.
Here's a copy/paste of the upcoming patch notes.
SKlug wrote:
*** Quests & Events ***
All SoD raid events should now have a more challenging version available with a lower population cap. These new versions are available in the same manner as the originals. *** Miscellaneous ***
New Hot Zones are available! See Franklin Teek in the Plane of Knowledge for new tasks. Both Valdeholm and Frostcrypt are level 75 hot zones to handle the increased demand at these levels. The new hot zones are: Everfrost Permafrost Keep Iceclad Ocean Tower of Frozen Shadow Great Divide Eastern Wastes Velketor's Labyrinth Kael Drakkal Western Wastes The Ascent Icefall Glacier Valdeholm Frostcrypt The state of /announce is now persisted across logins. Made some behind the scenes changes to the marketplace. Let us know if you have any issues adding funds to your wallet. Fixed a bug that caused certain rogue poisons to use the user's level rather than the poison's level. *** Changed Files ***
