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Executive Producer Dave Georgeson and a host of EQ2 team leads were on-hand to introduce EverQuest 2’s seventh expansion this weekend at Las Vegas. Six new raid instances, three hundred new quests, ten instanced dungeons, Velious-themed battlegrounds areas, and one “massive” contested dungeon were mentioned as key aspects of this expansion. The real icing on the cake, however, was that new flying mounts will be available for all overland zones with the upcoming winter expansion.

Rather than being a part of the EQ2 Extended project or a Station Cash buy-in, Georgeson explained that players will undertake a quest to earn their flying mounts, and the mounts will act as ground mounts when players aren’t in the sky. Flying combat, however, will not be a part of this expansion, but the mounts will act as ground mounts when the player isn’t flying. No word on how the Fae, EQ2’s fairy-like winged race, will adapt to or be adapted to the mounts.

Content in Destiny of Velious will be geared primarily to level 86+ players, and the expansion is part 1 of the new Velious content (word is that the immensely popular Siren’s Grotto area will not be included with part 1). A collector’s edition was mentioned, but SOE has no information on bonus items at this time. More when we know more from SOE Fan Faire 2010!