What is The Serpents Spine?
Commonly called TSS or just SS, this expansion added the Drakkin race and their starting city, Crescent Reach (which can also be used as a starting city for new characters of other races), plus other new zones off of Highhold Pass. The level cap was raised to 75, and the new zones have content for all levels 1 through 75. Many other changes were made at the same time as TSS but are available without buying the expansion, such as reduced downtime when out-of-combat and faster accumulation of Alternate Advancement points. This is also when the color system for identifying monster levels changed to include gray. (TSS is also the first EQ expansion without “of” in its name!
