EverQuest II: Kingdom of Sky Interview #3

MMORPG.com has published the third installment to their ongoing interview with Sony Online's Scott Hartsman about EverQuest II: Kingdom of Sky. A snippet:
Q: With the new Character Progression system, will there be more class-specific armor quests? How specific is (specific?) How different will monk armor be from bruiser armor, for example? What about race specific looks?

A: There's a pretty healthy blend of both mixed in there. You start out on the Outpost of the Overlord or the Queen's Colony and you're questing for and looting equipment that's tailored fairly well to your class. There's really quite a bit of new loot on both islands.

Then once you make it off the island and into town, you meet up with a trainer of your race who has a quest series, with stories and rewards tailored to give you some background on your racial identity, and an idea of how your race fits into Norrath.

As we introduce more and more content into EQ2, there is a lot more differentiation going on between classes, and it's a focus we're going to keep working with. Kingdom of Sky, for instance, introduces some really amazing looking new armor sets that are specific down to the class level.

As usual, they've also kicked up some exclusive screenshots to go along with the feature.