Greetings everyone.
It’s been quite a few months since the last diary, as appears to be our custom with these sorts of things. Lots of hard work has been done to both RvR and PvE, but we’re still deep in the Alpha state trenches. The team as a whole is solid, and we’re committed for the long run to bring out a Warhammer experience that we have all had lingering in our imaginations for years. This process of course takes time, experimentation, and a few disruptions along the way. We understand and appreciate that these things interfere with the status quo of the server, but that simply cannot deter us from walking the hard path forward. I hope you all understand that we want to build something better, and at times that means tearing down old structures to build them back up again.
To help us out with the raze and burn process, we have brought CegeePegee and Thayli onto the team. Both have experience with the coding language we use on the server side, and they’re currently going through the Database Dev gauntlet. Learning all the things, what’s broken, what’s frustrating, what’s probably impossible, and hopefully taking notes on all the things they might hope to achieve in the future.
First, some good news. We are planning on releasing three sets in the near future and some new RvR carrots to acquire.
Releasing The Carrots
Conqueror is the set you’re all familiar with.This will be taking the place of Annihilator in Gold Bags at the keeps, and will have it’s own currency which will only be downconverted for a good period of time. Boots and Gloves will not drop for this set in RvR, so you’ll either need to grind out the currency, or get some lucky gold bags. Currency will drop from players of the appropriate level, and will be awarded from RvR activities.
Annihilator will remain in place as a purchasable set with existing T4 currency and the costs will be reduced so it’s an entry level set to T4 RvR that doesn’t require the end-game grind it’s enjoyed since T4 released.
Subjugator gear will be assigned to Purple keep bags, and the rest of the current items will be shifted down a bag. Yes, that means Genesis gear in the blue bags. You’ve all waited long enough. Subjugator will include R40 79.8/55 DPS purple weapons with new never-before-seen-on-RoR appearances and procs. There will also be some R40 purple accessory/back pieces to collect, as well as diluting the chances of receiving a weapon from your first bag, of course.
Dominator gear is a new set that is equivalent to Conqueror in stats. This will also have its own currency that will take the place of Merc emblems from each 100 points earned in scenarios. Similar to Conq, Boots and Gloves will not drop from kills during scenarios. Currency will also drop for players of the appropriate RR rank during scenarios, and will only be downconverted. While Subjugator is the counterpart to Conqueror, Dominator will have Glory and Tyranny weapons purchasable with currency.
Mercenary will have its costs reduced, similar to Annihilator treatment, and you will earn the Merc emblems from completing the scenario win quests, as well as from player kills.
Beastlord is another new set that has been created for the purpose of bringing some real reasons to go out and fight the Lair Bosses in the world. This is a step up from Ruin, but not quite at the power levels of the new sets. As you may have experienced, we have had some good success at making sure bosses in our Live Events pose a reasonable challenge, and re-building the lair bosses means we can assign gear worthy of their power levels. Although, with a twist. We will be flagging the lairs as RvR enabled, and both realms will be tasked with hunting the same beasts. There is also a player kill requirement to complete the related quest line, which means we fully encourage getting your group into conflict when the bosses are spawned.
Renown Compression
We’ve got a bunch of cool stuff coming soon*. So here’s the bad news. You know how we’ve been repeating that no wipes are planned currently? We have moved beyond that current position. Wipes are planned, ~Two Weeks™. RoR meme incoming.
No specific timeframe currently, just a warning.
