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3 faction pvp and mentoring also
Puremallace
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Talk about a badass dev. I am trying to get the pts download to work so I can get screenshots
NOTES: Features In Testing on PTS! 5/15/12
As always, everything on PTS is highly subject to change before it makes its way to live servers.
Today's update to PTS includes the following (high level notes; more details to come):
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CONQUEST
* An early version of Conquest is now on PTS for testing! At this point, Conquest will only be accessible when specifically enabled for a playtest.
* Align yourself with one of the three warring groups - the Dominion, the Oathsworn, or the Nightfall, and join three-way cross-shard conflict in a contested sliver of Stillmoor.
* Capture, defend, and enhance conflict points to not only control the region but also gain access to bonuses and resources for your team.
* Fight Colossi on the field of battle to demonstrate your power and gain additional buffs.
* The Conquest Bar displays your current Conquest bonuses and can be found in the 'K' menu under Conquest.
* For those looking to contribute in ways other than direct combat, gather Sourcestone resources and use them to create beneficial effects that help everyone in your faction. These resources can be deposited in a depot inside your base where other crafters can also process them.
* New crafting recipes for use during Conquest are now available on the trainers in Sanctum and Meridian.
* Matches begin to lock down when a single team claims 40% of the control points, or when 5,000 deaths have taken place in the match; at that point a 10 minute timer will begin for a last chance at rallying your troops!
MENTORING
* New Mentoring system allows you to set your character's level below what it actually is, whether you're on your own or playing with a lower-level character.
* Mentoring is available for characters of level 11+ and you can only reduce your current level, not increase it.
* The new Set Ascended Mentor Level menu option now appears when right clicking your own character portrait. You can choose what level you'd like to set your character to from this option.
* When right-clicking the portrait of another character, the menu option to set your mentor level to the target's level appears.
* While mentoring, your stats, abilities, regeneration, etc. will be temporarily reduced in line with the target level.
* Grouped characters using mentoring will receive bonus experience as long as the character with the lower natural level remains within 2 levels of the mentor and the mentor remains at least 5 levels below their natural level.
Mentoring for idiots:
Right click on your potrait
Pick a number between 1-50
PRESTIGE RANKS / ARMOR
* Prestige Ranks are now increased to 50!
* The added ranks offer new milestone titles and additional Planar Attunement bonus experience when attained - 2 Planar Attunement levels worth for each rank.
* A new set of PvP Armor is now available in line with the Prestige Rank increase.
* Increased the effect of Bolstering in line with the addition of new PvP gear. Warfront Bolstering is now applied to all characters up to rank 25.
* PTS NOTE: The new rank set armor is temporarily using the previous set's appearances on PTS.
Add in a new 5 man also that is not available yet....
wtf seriously 6 new zone achievements
wtf is a hunt rift???
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Hardest working devs in the MMO business. Go RIFT!
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Empyrean city..the zone they spoke of int he anniversary video /
This is what i'm talking about. Trion is about the only developer who realizes they made a game but they will not just be happy collecting your subscription. They will compete.
Food for thought:
What would rift's population be right now if they havent been working hard to make people happy? Its not like they are doing these updates because its ethical to do so, they are doing it to survive.
Notice how much more content LOTRO has been putting out the last 9 months or so? They need to do it to survive.
MoP judging from what Ive seen of the beta is more indepth than previous expansions and is probably coming out several months prior to the normal release time. They are feeling the crunch and are working now to reverse it.
I have said and will continue to say.....
I truly believe Trion realized their mistake in developing a WoW clone. Since the game released, they have been very aggressively trying to change directions. People may have mixed feelings about them. Some say all they do is copy. Some say they are competing. Any way you look at it, they've paid attention to what the player base wants and are taking steps to put it in the game.
I think Trion is really trying to understand it's players and deliver what they want.When the time comes It will be very interesting to see what they do with an expansion and the game changing turns they take. I may just come off my break from Rift and resub.
I can feel a re-sub coming on.....
In that case I wonder why they do not succeed in understanding the player base they continue to loose.
It takes one to know one.
Trions done nothing to lose players. in this day and age people dont stick with subscription games long.
Even WoW is losing subs at a crazy rate.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
Trion just keeps delivering, impressive.
very good point.
I'm going to wait and see how the 3 faction/server world pvp takes shape in Rift before I decide whether or not to resub. If I like what I see/hear/read then I may resub. I'm waiting for GW2 to come out, have been for the last 5 years now. I've been playing the betas and I'm loving every second of it. If it wasn't for GW2, Rift would prob be my game. Rift lost me because when it first launched, it looked too much like WOW. I like the fact that they are trying to change that now; most likely to compete so they can survive.
With a game like GW2 coming out, it will be interesting to see how long Rift and WOW remain as P2P.
Trions done nothing to lose players. in this day and age people dont stick with subscription games long.
Even WoW is losing subs at a crazy rate.
Its all about perspective.
WoW lost 15% of its peak subscriber base over the course of a year. Not what I would call a "crazy rate".
Also, WoW can afford to lose subscribers at a "crazy rate" and barely notice it. Rift, on the other hand, does not have that luxury.
These big updates cost a lot of money so how long can Trion continue without seeing returns in subscriptions?
shame on you Rift stealing stuff from other MMOs is Blizzards job.....this stuff that was all unique to GW2
There are times when one must ask themselves is it my passion that truly frightens you? Or your own?
That's a cop-out. If Trion had focused on the right things, they would have retained more players than they have.
I'd love to see what Trion could do with a game that doesn't devolve to a simple gear grind at endgame.