Game Director Letter – March 2014
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Game Director Letter – March 2014
Feel free to discuss the monthly Game Director Letter here!
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Palace of Cetriss
progression raid for t4 players with 6 bosses inside > great news ^^
Slithering Chaos
12-man dungeon... interesting but can be unaccesible for smaller social guilds
any ETA for the Slithering Chaos on TestLive ?
The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men.
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Zarathustra - Dark Templar
Utawarerumono - Bear Shaman
Caim - Herald of Xotli
Silmeria - Assassin
Nekoruru - Conqueror
Manah - Priest of Mitra
Samanosuke - Guardian
Isztaria - Demonologist
Lenethia - Ranger
This is awsome. great news. 6 raid bosses is a lot more than I was expecting.
how many bosses is there in slithering chaos?
A screenshot from the palace would be awsome. when can we expect Cetriss on Testlive?
Last edited by Andistoteles; 1st April 2014 at 14:57.
1. Raids, Khitai, Dragonspine and Unchained dungeons require being premium. Will new pvp stuff finally require us to subscribe if all post 2.0 pve-inclusive content require to be premium or at least purchase access to it (Turan)?
2. 12-man dungeon? Some details? What will be cooldown (if any). What loot. And how that is going to fit in current PvE state? Does it has to fight for our time with 6-man or raids? As stand alone content it won't fit here unless we will be able to repeat it over and over without cooldown.
Last edited by bogus; 1st April 2014 at 15:00.
Hayde, dead Dark Templar of Xotli
and her long forgotten brotherhood: Berbelek Bookah Esthle Esthlos Illea Jamei Margrid Sanessa Shahai Sharila Vassone Vizu Xami
Hmmm interesting. I guess this is the worst possible news for someone like me-pure PvE player, playing soldiers mostly, DT more than anything else. Not only you are bringing permanent open world PvP to Crom thus shutting me effectively from most of the game because I loathe PvP, you are also nerfing/crippling my favorite class beyond playability. On top of that I understand you decided to increase difficulty of Cetriss raid, but gear probably wont be better than Jade Citadel gear?
yeah.... we thought so also some 1.5+ year ago when we heard the news that CRAFTING REVAMP is coming...
so about Cetriss and Chaos we have no ETA, only some info
The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men.
---
Zarathustra - Dark Templar
Utawarerumono - Bear Shaman
Caim - Herald of Xotli
Silmeria - Assassin
Nekoruru - Conqueror
Manah - Priest of Mitra
Samanosuke - Guardian
Isztaria - Demonologist
Lenethia - Ranger
Pretty rounded up letter. New pvp content is much needed and these events are good way to spice things up.
Crafting news are...disheartening. I am not sure we will even see crafting revamp this (yet another) year.
Check this out: http://aochideout.blogspot.com/2012/...ll-revamp.html
I made this joke in 2012 :X yeah, joke is on me.
I have only 3 questions to Game Director:
1/ Minigames, anything planned for tournament mode? Putting back "team" to "team pvp"?
2/ Unchained minigames - is this project terminated? (I never cared about it TBH)
3/ Hyborian race - is this project terminated? (again, I personally don't care)
I am asking about 2 and 3 because I rather see those resources being spent elswere.
Last edited by Slith; 1st April 2014 at 15:10.
Retired
The next patch will focus entirely on PvP, which is good.
It's been way too long that FC neglected that important part of the game.
12-man instance is a nice addition for little guilds and teams.
I'm also glad to hear that the next raid instance won't be a straight flat tier increase with linear budget increase on gear, i'm hoping to see more alternatives to existing gear.
For the PvP events on Crom, will some maps become PvP "active" during this event and people be able to PvP in it just like in regular PvP maps or will the event take place in existing PvP maps only ?