Dark-Sun

Dark Sun Expansion Pack
Turbine received a major investment1 from Warner due the success of Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) and a huge new expansion pack will be available to the players in the next year with a world that veterans and new-comers will love.

The new expansion that will be aired in winter 2014 is DarkSun and for the first time, the players will have access to the world of Athas, where survival is not just a simple word.

New Features
Increase of level cap from 28 to 35.

Eight new playable classes:

 * Psion: A psionicist is much like a wizard, except that his powers derive from his mind rather than external agencies. As psionicists gain experience, they gain access to more attack and defense strategies and to more psionic powers.


 * Psychic Warrior: Psychic warriors are a blend between Fighters and Psions. Like fighters, they gain bonus feats, and like psions, they wield psionic powers, though at a slower rate than either specialized class. Their attack bonus and hit point growth is similarly in the middle.


 * Soulknife: Soulknives are warriors who have learned to channel psionic power into "mind blades", or swords composed of psionic energy. Their broad training allows them to take many occupations and be a "jack of all trades." As a soulknife gains levels, the powers of his mind blade increase, such as the ability to form their mind blade into shapes other than a short sword.


 * Vitalist: Where the egoist is the master of his own body through the power of psychometabolism, vitalists blend the disciplines of telepathy, psychometabolism, and clairsentience to pool multiple creatures into a larger collective of beings, sharing the health of the many to keep each individual well. They are the masters of psionic healing, distributing regenerative energy with the precision of a surgeon.


 * Wilder: Wilders can use "wild surges", which allow them to augment their psionic powers to a greater extent than normal. Doing so is dangerous and there is a chance every time a wild surge is used that the wilder will suffer from "psychic enervation" causing them to become dazed and lose power points.


 * Ardent: Ardents derive their powers from a focus on primal truths or concepts ("mantles"); different mantles offer different abilities to an Ardent.


 * Erudite: Rather than learn powers upon level gain like psions, erudites may theoretically use any psionic ability by "copying" another person or a psionically-infused item. In exchange, they may call upon only a limited selection of powers per day. Mechanically, they are thus somewhat similar to unspecialized wizards rather than psions.


 * Lurk: Lurks are similar to rogues who call upon psionic powers to aid them. They may perceive the weaknesses of enemies and make sneak attacks, as well as use psionic augments to their abilities.

Four new amazing races:

 * Mul: A dwarven-human hybrid, they are able to work for long periods of time without rest, making them the most valuable of slaves.


 * Half-Giant (Goliath): More intelligent than their counterparts in other worlds, but with a tendency to change personalities over time. They were magically created by the sorcerer kings from giant and human stock.


 * Pterran: A shamanistic race of reptilian humanoids. Essentially humanoid pterodactyls with only vestigial stumps on their shoulders where wings had once been. who worship the earth mother.


 * Dray: Dray were created by Dregoth and live in New Gustinel.

Four new epic destinies:

 * Runecraft Specialist: The Runecraft Specialist learned the way to carve the runes on his body and have innate magical power by this. The most important feature of this Epic Destiny is the skill to slot spells and have'em casted even in anti-magic fields or places without mana.
 * Ordered by the Shadow Thread: Ordered by the Shadow Thread is a destiny able to deal with massive ammounts of enemies, it increases the dodge cap at 30/35/40/45/50% giving the resources to avoid attacks at all costs.
 * Mindbreaker: Mindbreaker is a charm specialist, the skills of this destiny allow to hack into the enemies mind and create mess, control or just break it.
 * Oath of the Dark Blade: The Epic Destiny Oath of the Dark Blade is the way of the sword, enhancing it's use with magic or psionic powers to devastate enemies.

Non-instanced combat

 * New non-instanced wilderness area ready for massive combat and epic battles.

Prices
There will be five brands for the expansion pack:


 * US$19,95 for the Standard edition
 * US$39,95 for the Advanced edition
 * US$59,95 for the Master edition
 * US$99,95 for the Legendary edition
 * US$125,95 for the Epic edition