Im not sure of the exact date that asheron's call is going to be out but I
know its not real soon. If you read the postings on various sites about the
new eq edition coming out the first quarter of next year its adding swaying
leaves(using less pixels!) and tons of other great additions including the
new continent it will be more than enough to match asheron's call. The one
thing though that I did read about asheron's call is about discovering new
spells( kind of like research but better) and the advantages to keeping the
spells secret so there arent a lot of spoilers. That would definately add a
new angle on spell casting in eq if they added something similar to that.

~Dracor on Erollisi Marr