From UO.com!

August 25, 2006

1. Can you tell us more about the 9th Anniversary box?
Darkscribe: Just a bit. It will contain Mondain’s Legacy, cost $19.99, and even though it ships in late October, you probably won’t see it on shelves until early in November. And there is a very special surprise early buy anniversary gift, and it doesn’t involve the word "soul" or "stone."

2. Are any changes to existing content (aside from the graphics) coming with or before the new client? Things such as adjusting the spawns and rewards in the old dungeons?
Darkscribe: Between now and the launch of Kingdom Reborn, we are going to focus on live event content, similar to what we’ve been doing with the Inu storyline and the Ophidian Invasion. We want to keep changing things up and offering new kinds of challenges, and that might include altering some of the existing content. I can’t be more specific than that at the moment.

3. Regarding the change to evasion which requires 50 weapon skill, how are the Use Best Weapon Skill and Mage Weapon properties handled?
Wilki: Neither of them count towards the 50 weapon skill requirement.

4. Do we need to clear out both Felucca and Trammel cities to progress in the storyline?
Draconi: No, the storyline will continue to progress; yet, the fate of each facet may rely upon the events occurring on that facet.

5. If only Trammel gets cleared will the Ophidians stay in the Felucca cities?
Draconi: Yes, the remnants of the Ophidian army that defected to the rogue queen will continue occupying the cities until they’re forcibly removed.

I love the answer to #3. That is like music to mah ears!! No more evasion mages hopefully!! They are worse than the archers after ML

Some say the same about chivilary mages, but some other combination of skills will tip the scales. Its inevitable.

well the chiv/mages have been around longer than the ML glorified archers, I think they are still hated, dont get me wrong, but I am sure archers are more hated than all!

I think the evasion mages wielding bokutos is more hated than the bushido archer. The archer had this elven composite bow nerf'd and honor taken out of pvp, while the bakuto still has it nerve strike pretty much in tact.

Any combination of Magery/Chiv/Ninjitsu/Evasion/Necro with a Bokuto sucks.

well soon alot of those bokuto wielding mages are gonna be a thing of the past too, cause theyre not gonna want to waste the points on bushido anymore since they wont be able to evade..

I dont think chiv/mages are as much a threat though, they are mostly survival templates, which sucks for people who are trying to kill them, but as far as offensively, they arent as much a threat.