News Archive - Sep 08

September Patch - Tuesday the 23rd - Link

"On Tuesday, September 23 from 7AM - 1PM Eastern, all worlds will be down for the September event Risks and Rewards."

Changes Coming to Pristine Mana Shard & Mana Forge System - Link Severlin, Senior Game Engineer posted this on the mana shard and forge system:

The plan is this:

We want the rate to be higher in general, but we want it much higher until someone gets at least 5 chest pulls a week from hunting. At 20 chest pulls a month from hunting it will be competitive with questing. That's our goal.

The numbers we are looking at is this: We want chest pulls from hunting to be doubled what it is now, but for the first 5 chest pulls each week we want the rate to be much higher than it is now: about 5 times the rate. So your first 5 chests a week will be increased by at least 400%.

How we are doing this:

~ All shard drops rates for hunting areas were multiplied by 5. In other words, we increased shard drop rates by 400%.

~ Bosses and higher powered creatures have an even higher drop rate. So big game hunting like Dark Isle bosses have an increased rate of shard drop. We'll let you figure out which mobs have higher drop rates.

~ The mana forges have a quota that needs to be filled. If you are at least level 150, for your first 5 keys per week you get to turn in shards at a rate of 10 per key. This is 5 times the rate it is now.

~ After 5 pulls in the same week (or if you are lower than 150) you have to talk to the normal shard collector and the rate drops to 25 per key. Note that with the increased shard rates this is (not counting increased boss rate) double the rate of pulls that it is now.

With this system after 5 keys in a week you have to decide whether you want to save the shards for the next week, or get even more chest pulls at a reduced rate.

Most quests give out keys; only a few quests will give out shards so most quests won't eat into you hunting rate.

Sev~

Edit: We also cleaned up the chests. The chests drop 4-5 items. The component chest no longer has a chance to drop only money. We took out "horde" items so you don't get as much junk.

--An Adventurer 17:09, 15 September 2008 (CDT)

Asheron's Call Developer's Chat 9/22/08 7pm Eastern - Link

''On Monday, September 22nd at 7pm Eastern, Turbine and AC Vault are teaming up once again for a Developer's chat. To submit a question, just go to the AC Vault main page and click on the "Submit Question" link under the "Dev Chat" header on the left.

''We are all looking forward to see everyone there! __________________ Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo

--An Adventurer 10:31, 15 September 2008 (CDT)