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Suggestion
Suggestion Implemented Reimplementing "Raid" Dungeon Ancients - The Grind Cookie
- By Heroine
- Suggestions (Archive)
- 3 Replies
It's likely been brought up before, but I'd like to bring it up again with some insight on hows and whats. A long time ago, back in closed/open beta, Runewaker made an attempt to bring the similar Dungeon Ancient mechanic to the larger raid styled dungeons. At the current patch, the level cap was 60, and the available raids were Dunar Temple, Accursed Tower and Juno Crystal Gallery. At the same time flutes existed, and upon using them people chanced upon some unusal spawns.
These were Indigo Flame, Emerald Crystal, Jade Soul (and Ebony Thorn, but has since been patched out), Diamond Bulwark, Scarlet Flame. Within time, each dragon was determined to be spawns of particular dungeons, like how Indigo Flame belongs to Puretia's dungeons, should you have either the luck or the endurance to run multiple times.
With digging some flavourtext by Infernium, as well as translations provided in game by the dragon compendium Diamond Bulwark, Scarlet Flame and Vibrant Thunder were intended to be located in Juno, Accursed Tower and Dunar Temple respectively.
It was mentioned multiple times that the lines that would trigger the spawn do exist, but in their current form don't work. I don't know if this was a flaw due to removing the extreme difficulty setting, or the fact that the dungeon has more rule modifiers than a normal instance, but Runewaker never looked at implementing dungeon ancients again and never did for the following level cap raids.
The proposal I have is that, not only re-implement these raid ancients, but use it as an oppotunity to offer a 'cookie'. People run Racman's Grotto, Dragon Heart Temple and Dunar Temple a lot. To see either new or pre-existing dragons within these instances in some form would give variation to a long series of runs as well as offer something new that couldn't just be handed out with eggs.
The 'cookie' also gives an oppotunity to run other dungeons a lot. Sometimes, I get a little tierd of seeing the dragon-gambling casino halls of Corzine again and again and again, so sometimes I'll switch regions to grind my ancients, loot and what-have-yous to keep the scenery and content fresh. Besides the Flameheart Amulet, no one is going to likely wander into Iron Fang Fortress again for anything other than glamour. There's probably stats on instance usage somewhere.
There are issues with this system. It's easy to just suggest things, the marathon is the implementation. There was a solid reason in the mess of code why Raid ancients never worked in the first place, and I imagine it would take a deal of sleuthing and testing a mechanic that seems, on the outside, very simple to function. Another issue is that raid dungeons are a deal longer than your regular dungeon fair. Implementing the same point system into a raid and not factoring the extra minutes it takes to complete them (We're looking at 10 minutes per run on DHT compared to a 2 minute run of Bloodstone Citadel) and the grind burnout would be pretty real. Raid ancients could benefit from the same flat spawn rate as regular dungeon ancient encounters but with only half the point total required. Or you could factor the third difficulty in Methus/IFF. Again, another tricky trinket that needs fine-tuning.
So outside Juno Crystal Gallery, Accursed Tower and Dunar Tower, what goes where? It's up to opinion honestly. But I'm sure you've ran through Dragon Heart Temple and thought:- Man, Obsidian Thunder is a neat dragon I want him on my team, but then you try and press the capture when you spot this unique ancient in the dungeon and just frown. But what if, upon killing Urukar Hexclaw, you had a chance, or with enough dedication to multiple runs, a guaranteed chance at him? I'm sure there's also dragons in Runewaker's library that go unused in some manner, or could be converted into a capturable format.
So what else? Besides dungeon ancients in raids being a tiny cookie to help them push forward a bit more without the 'It's in eggs, so I don't need to run ancients.' It brings back some of the more classic grind to Dragon's Prophet, because to be honest, without it, the grind solely lies with getting loot, extracting it for recipes and crafting. I'd rather have both accompanying me at least, because at the heart of it all, Dragon's Prophet is a pokemon collectathon game too.
These were Indigo Flame, Emerald Crystal, Jade Soul (and Ebony Thorn, but has since been patched out), Diamond Bulwark, Scarlet Flame. Within time, each dragon was determined to be spawns of particular dungeons, like how Indigo Flame belongs to Puretia's dungeons, should you have either the luck or the endurance to run multiple times.
With digging some flavourtext by Infernium, as well as translations provided in game by the dragon compendium Diamond Bulwark, Scarlet Flame and Vibrant Thunder were intended to be located in Juno, Accursed Tower and Dunar Temple respectively.
It was mentioned multiple times that the lines that would trigger the spawn do exist, but in their current form don't work. I don't know if this was a flaw due to removing the extreme difficulty setting, or the fact that the dungeon has more rule modifiers than a normal instance, but Runewaker never looked at implementing dungeon ancients again and never did for the following level cap raids.
The proposal I have is that, not only re-implement these raid ancients, but use it as an oppotunity to offer a 'cookie'. People run Racman's Grotto, Dragon Heart Temple and Dunar Temple a lot. To see either new or pre-existing dragons within these instances in some form would give variation to a long series of runs as well as offer something new that couldn't just be handed out with eggs.
The 'cookie' also gives an oppotunity to run other dungeons a lot. Sometimes, I get a little tierd of seeing the dragon-gambling casino halls of Corzine again and again and again, so sometimes I'll switch regions to grind my ancients, loot and what-have-yous to keep the scenery and content fresh. Besides the Flameheart Amulet, no one is going to likely wander into Iron Fang Fortress again for anything other than glamour. There's probably stats on instance usage somewhere.
There are issues with this system. It's easy to just suggest things, the marathon is the implementation. There was a solid reason in the mess of code why Raid ancients never worked in the first place, and I imagine it would take a deal of sleuthing and testing a mechanic that seems, on the outside, very simple to function. Another issue is that raid dungeons are a deal longer than your regular dungeon fair. Implementing the same point system into a raid and not factoring the extra minutes it takes to complete them (We're looking at 10 minutes per run on DHT compared to a 2 minute run of Bloodstone Citadel) and the grind burnout would be pretty real. Raid ancients could benefit from the same flat spawn rate as regular dungeon ancient encounters but with only half the point total required. Or you could factor the third difficulty in Methus/IFF. Again, another tricky trinket that needs fine-tuning.
So outside Juno Crystal Gallery, Accursed Tower and Dunar Tower, what goes where? It's up to opinion honestly. But I'm sure you've ran through Dragon Heart Temple and thought:- Man, Obsidian Thunder is a neat dragon I want him on my team, but then you try and press the capture when you spot this unique ancient in the dungeon and just frown. But what if, upon killing Urukar Hexclaw, you had a chance, or with enough dedication to multiple runs, a guaranteed chance at him? I'm sure there's also dragons in Runewaker's library that go unused in some manner, or could be converted into a capturable format.
So what else? Besides dungeon ancients in raids being a tiny cookie to help them push forward a bit more without the 'It's in eggs, so I don't need to run ancients.' It brings back some of the more classic grind to Dragon's Prophet, because to be honest, without it, the grind solely lies with getting loot, extracting it for recipes and crafting. I'd rather have both accompanying me at least, because at the heart of it all, Dragon's Prophet is a pokemon collectathon game too.
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Suggestion
Suggestion Please Buff Severite/Azores Treasure drop rate. (Weekly Quest)
- By Heroine
- Suggestions
- 1 Replies
For some reason the thread tag is wrong, should be a suggestion.
When Runewaker added Treasure Hunts, they were severely imbalanced. Quests designed as a weekly achievement deemed impossible to clear in the week due to the immense and unrealistic grind by a handful of the quests. Caromund's Treasure? The only RNG you dealt with was road quests at night, at the rates were fine. Dog Star Pages? Also fine, you just had to hunt out Remnant Moon merchants. Barbarossa's treasure is a fairly fun one, wandering into Corzine to spawn the dungeon rare was a fun task. However, the imbalance lied with the last few quests.
Now, with this server and Lundhal's treasure, thanks to how it deals with the PE completion in the territory war zone, it always guarantees the final piece, no matter what. So in a sense, that problem was fixed with adeptgamer's server. A once, very tedious quest, was placed more in line with the reasonable weekly grind that the Babarossa's, Dog Star and Caromunds also follow.
Now, the only two outlier quests are Azores and Severites. Runewaker thought it was an excellent idea to hide Severite Treasure fragments on glowing mobs. Spawning these is a grind in itself, you have a roughly one in 10 chance of spawning one, and they are fairly spread in number across the map. The second RNG wall, is the drop itself, and on NA server, this took me 6 months of on and off grinding to complete. That... doesn't sound like a weekly quest to me. I don't know if the drop rate was a slip up or someone in the RW offices felt horribly devilish that afternoon. What's more, you also need 4 of these Severite pieces in order to complete the quest. That seems... unreasonable. The enemies that need to be killed are Stone Eye Witch Doctors (Puretia), Blood Stone Guards (Alentia), Steelsnarl Fighters (Korhala) and the third Palace of Methus Boss (His drop feels far more reasonable, for whatever reason.)
Azores isn't as severe as Severite, but the quest itself is safeguarded by a very high entry toll so the difficulty for the first stage is needless. The drop needs to be boosted, everything else does not. We're already paying 300 Kindred Insignias, 3000 Adventurer Insignias and 3000 Dragon Shells (Yes those shop shells, it's a good shell sink.) in order to complete it.
Anyway, that's about all. I really hope I can, for once, see the weekly treasure hunt complete, because if I'm not mistaken I don't remember anyone who's ever done all of them consistantly per week.
When Runewaker added Treasure Hunts, they were severely imbalanced. Quests designed as a weekly achievement deemed impossible to clear in the week due to the immense and unrealistic grind by a handful of the quests. Caromund's Treasure? The only RNG you dealt with was road quests at night, at the rates were fine. Dog Star Pages? Also fine, you just had to hunt out Remnant Moon merchants. Barbarossa's treasure is a fairly fun one, wandering into Corzine to spawn the dungeon rare was a fun task. However, the imbalance lied with the last few quests.
Now, with this server and Lundhal's treasure, thanks to how it deals with the PE completion in the territory war zone, it always guarantees the final piece, no matter what. So in a sense, that problem was fixed with adeptgamer's server. A once, very tedious quest, was placed more in line with the reasonable weekly grind that the Babarossa's, Dog Star and Caromunds also follow.
Now, the only two outlier quests are Azores and Severites. Runewaker thought it was an excellent idea to hide Severite Treasure fragments on glowing mobs. Spawning these is a grind in itself, you have a roughly one in 10 chance of spawning one, and they are fairly spread in number across the map. The second RNG wall, is the drop itself, and on NA server, this took me 6 months of on and off grinding to complete. That... doesn't sound like a weekly quest to me. I don't know if the drop rate was a slip up or someone in the RW offices felt horribly devilish that afternoon. What's more, you also need 4 of these Severite pieces in order to complete the quest. That seems... unreasonable. The enemies that need to be killed are Stone Eye Witch Doctors (Puretia), Blood Stone Guards (Alentia), Steelsnarl Fighters (Korhala) and the third Palace of Methus Boss (His drop feels far more reasonable, for whatever reason.)
Azores isn't as severe as Severite, but the quest itself is safeguarded by a very high entry toll so the difficulty for the first stage is needless. The drop needs to be boosted, everything else does not. We're already paying 300 Kindred Insignias, 3000 Adventurer Insignias and 3000 Dragon Shells (Yes those shop shells, it's a good shell sink.) in order to complete it.
Anyway, that's about all. I really hope I can, for once, see the weekly treasure hunt complete, because if I'm not mistaken I don't remember anyone who's ever done all of them consistantly per week.
Valentines day Items
- By MystikStorm
- Merchant Corner
- 15 Replies
Hi I hope I am posting this in the right place lol
I would just like to ask if the Valentines day items will be on market to buy as I have been waiting on it for the two teddy bears (Girl teddy) and (Boy teddy), I had them on EU and would love to have them here
I would just like to ask if the Valentines day items will be on market to buy as I have been waiting on it for the two teddy bears (Girl teddy) and (Boy teddy), I had them on EU and would love to have them here
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Commissions, Suggestions and Pro-Tips? :D
- By Misha
- General Discussion
- 3 Replies
Hi everyone!
My name is Misha and I'm a 19-year-old Artist from the UK. I dabble in quite a few different areas, including 3D Model Texture painting, Concept Work, Logos and more! I'm currently part of the development for Beasts of Bermuda, as well as an official tester for a few other games. I currently work as a software tester to pay the bills!~
On the side, I love doing artwork and I'm looking to switch up my prospects a bit to go into full-time concept artwork and other types of art as my career. On the side of all this, I do commissions which are special in that I will work with your budget!
Thank you for checking out this thread, of course. I really appreciate that!
If you want to see more examples, I'll be more than happy to directly message you my portfolio, which includes some of my 3D Model Paints!
Now, let me show some quick examples of what I can do! I am always looking for ways to improve, so do say if you see an area I could improve on!
My name is Misha and I'm a 19-year-old Artist from the UK. I dabble in quite a few different areas, including 3D Model Texture painting, Concept Work, Logos and more! I'm currently part of the development for Beasts of Bermuda, as well as an official tester for a few other games. I currently work as a software tester to pay the bills!~
On the side, I love doing artwork and I'm looking to switch up my prospects a bit to go into full-time concept artwork and other types of art as my career. On the side of all this, I do commissions which are special in that I will work with your budget!
Thank you for checking out this thread, of course. I really appreciate that!
If you want to see more examples, I'll be more than happy to directly message you my portfolio, which includes some of my 3D Model Paints!
Now, let me show some quick examples of what I can do! I am always looking for ways to improve, so do say if you see an area I could improve on!
Merchandise Show Off Thread!
- By Yuuyake
- General Discussion
- 10 Replies
I was thinking maybe people would like to show off the shirts they bought or other accessories such as mugs from the shop. Sometimes it's hard to judge what the product will look like from the stock images so why not show off your merch here!
I'll start with the FroYo shirt I just got in the mail the other day, I chose a light blue for the shirt color because I thought it went well with the blue accents on the dragon. The print is nice and clear, vibrant, and silky smooth!
I also apologize for the horrible cell phone camera.
Sometimes it's hard to judge what the product will look like from the stock images so why not show off your merch here!I'll start with the FroYo shirt I just got in the mail the other day, I chose a light blue for the shirt color because I thought it went well with the blue accents on the dragon. The print is nice and clear, vibrant, and silky smooth!
I also apologize for the horrible cell phone camera.
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Suggestion
Suggestion Implemented Skills Learned Notifications
- By Creylith
- Suggestions (Archive)
- 0 Replies
Would it be possible to maybe enable a choice as to whether or not we get the skills learned notifications popping up on screen? When swapping masteries all the notifications are quite distracting and it's just unnecessary graphics for my gpu to process.
Crossing fingers
Crossing fingers