What Would Bring You Back?

Now let’s be honest, this is a huge open-ended question and would probably met with huge numbers of “Over my dead body”. However if you were to put your  emotionally charged responses to one side, with all that “I feel betrayed by Mythic crap” and behaved rationally in the cold light of day (Don’t refer to my previous post, because I’m still bloody annoyed). What would it be? Is it one thing, is it even a reasonable request?

Armour Changes In 1.4.1

Okay I’m a bit confused/angry by the purpose of the changes and the need to insert a new armour set between Warlord and Sovereign. These are the new RR’s for armour, bar the new set “Worn”:-

The Renown Rank and level requirements for several item sets have been reduced to allow players to use them sooner in their careers. This applies to the following sets: Annihilator, Conqueror, Invader, and Warlord.

o Annihilator – Level 25 to use, equipable at renown ranks 25-29

o Conqueror – Level 35 to use, equipable at renown ranks 30-35

o Invader – Level 39 to use, equipable at renown ranks 40-45

o Warlord – Level 40 to use, equipable at renown ranks 54-60

Odin Wasn’t Smiling Down On Me Last Night

Yep, the god of war had a right mood on last night and pretty much switched off for the whole evening. I appreciate that Tyr is also the god of war (Single combat), but since I don’t like to get my hands dirty, I stuck with Odin.

I log on, just missing a city siege and then spent the rest of the evening in zones which were just not going to flip. I mean Praag really wanted to, we had a successful defensive of the Southern Garrison, while our forces were also sieging Garrison Of Skulls in the north. Having been involved in both defense and attack, I was looking at 2 keep bonuses, which is always nice when it happens.

Open Discussion

It was pleasing to see something that I mentioned briefly before, but never really expected to see from Mythic, open discussion of a topic. The starting point of the thread is the following post by James Casey.

Hey all,

The reason for this post is two-fold:

One, I didn’t get to discuss this much in the producer’s letter and I plan to address it more in the notes for patch 1.4.1 and my next letter, but we wanted to let you know we have some short and long-term goals for some of the concerns on power/gear gap. You can see the first of these changes for yourself during the public test for 1.4.1, we’ll have more details for you soon.

Secondly, as part of continuing communication with the players, I’d like to open up discussion on ideas earlier. 

There are several caveats.  (similar to how we handle dev discussions)

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Betas

The one thing I learnt from being in the Warhammer beta, was not to partake of them. Okay that’s a little bit of a lie, if I was offered an invite into the new Blizzard MMO World Of Starcraft, then I’d probably accept it. Yet even then I’m not completely sure.

CheckRR

It does what it says on tin, but it really should come with a mental health warning for the under 70’s (RR that is). It can cause depression. Because only when it’s installed, does it really make you aware of the fact, that you’re a puppy in a pit full of mastiffs.

Eek Royal Crest Crisis?

I’ve a wee bit of a worry, which is summed up by a lack of royal crests. Yesterday evening I finally reached RR70 and acquired the title of Longbeard, which by the way doesn’t appear as one of my selectable titles. Bug report raised. I was pleased with hitting RR70, my wife was decidedly less enthused.

Summary Of Healer Changes By Mythic

So there was a post a couple of hours ago, which basically summarised the changes Mythic are now planning based upon feedback in the thread I just linked you to.

Archmage
Isha’s Encouragement- Will add a Heal over time on a successful Cleansing Light use.
Boon of Hysh- 2s cast time. (reduction in fragility)

More Healer Changes Outlined

Go here and please indulge yourself.

The Last Book Of The Malazan Series

In a couple of weeks, the last installment of a 10 book epic will come out, it’s called The Crippled God and it’s written by Steven Erikson. The “Malazan Book Of The Fallen” series is good, in fact it’s bloody excellent and in my opinion better than both the Wheel Of Tme (Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson) or the A Song Of Fire And Ice (G.R.R.Martin) series. Also this author has managed to avoid the failings of the other authors, which is the ability to produce a high quality series in a timely manner.