2/20 ArcheAge Livestream Recap & Link to Video

General:

• Feb 23 is last day for:
• Divine Gifts
• Entrance Bonus quests for Serpentis and Sea of Drowned Love
• ArcheMaster promotion
• Dragon Bone chips
• Library Expedition Tokens
• ArcheMaster title stays at getting skills to 50 even after level increase
• No similar title for 55
• Blue Dolphin does not have sonar
• Waiting for a response from XL

PTS:

• Borderless windowed mode and inverted mouse were shown.
• With lvl 55 hybrid specs are more viable.
• New command for Fluffy
• "tell me a secret fluffy!"
• Instant lvl 53 (55 later in testing cycle)
• 13 mails with gear and titles
• 1000 gold
• Lots of consumable
• Takes a 2-5 minutes to receive
• Labor is doubled, PTS only. This will not go live.
• Patch Notes are being written currently
• PTS is open now

Diamond Shores:

• Is a PvP zones, features all levels of tension, war, and peace, like a normal PvP zone
• You ear honor
• 3 Climates - Tropical, Subarctic, Arid
• No Bungalow housing yet
• Later update
• XP from 50-55 is lowered from the KR version
• Takes 10's of millions of XP to go from 50-55
• Library has inflated XP gain values
• Fish Hook
• Library Island
• Blue Tent - Nuian Base Camp
• Red Tent - Haranyan Base Camp
• Base camps have peace buffs, similar to Nui priests or dungeon zone entrances
• Peace zone at entrance to library
• You can use either hub as either faction
• No guards
• Pirates can use them too
• Can buy scrolls to teleport you directly inside library
• Library
• Workbench outside that shows you the materials needed to make the costumes.
• Difficulty for floor 1 mobs in Library lowered from KR version
• No PvP anywhere in Library
• Purchasable teleport scrolls for each floor
• 5 Gold for 1
• 50 Gold for bundle of 12
• Usable from anywhere in the world
• Has multiple instances of each floor called Dimensions
• 3 Instances available
• Choose your dimension on zoning in
• Can have mounts and combat pets out
• Great place to level them because of inflated XP values for 50-55
• Foliage in the way of entrances to stop blockades
• Library Size
• 64 Rooms per floor
• 8x8 Grid
• 8-12 Mobs per room
• Corners have portals to a "break area"
• One break area per floor
• Quest hub
• Floor 1 Break Room
• Corner Reading Room to progressive dungeon (near 50 waves)
• Further you get, the better rewards
• Portal to to instanced boss like sea of drowned love
• Level requirements
• Floor 1 - 50
• Floor 2 - 51
• Floor 3 -53
• Floor 2 Info
• Level 53-54 mobs
• 1-3 stars
• Video shows Floor 2, first time seen since it was disabled in Alpha
• Librarian's Coinpurses
• Next tier above jester's
• 15 labor points to open
• Scale up similarly to Noble's -> Jester's
• Average about 30 silver
• Drop fine lunarite
• Can drop rcheum Crystals and Essences (very rare)
• Stolen Librarian Puches
• 150 Labor to open
• Increased chance to drop archeum
• Can drop from all mobs in the library
• Are not tradeable 
• Obisidan / Ayanad Patterns
• Drops form rare book that drops off some mobs in library
• 600 labor to open
• Gives a random pattern
• Every weapon has a pattern
• Every armor slot has a pattern
• Patterns can be traded, the books cannot
• Obsidian Weapons
• Materials
• T1 - Malevolent Obsidian 
• Drop in Diamond Shores, Exeloch, Sungold
• Also requires a salvaged illustrious weapon of same type
• T2 - Some are from outside library, some from inside
• T3/T4 - Mats come from deeper in the library
• T5 - Drop from instanced bosses in library
• T6 - Some components from library and some from world bosses
• Stats
• Gain some interesting stats
• Short spear gains +Healing
• Katana gains +Magic attack
• Goal is empowering hybrid builds like Paladin, etc
• Can be dual wielded like normal weapons
• Exception Obsidian katana becomes main hand only
• Can still dual wield a regular katana with it
• Obsidian Weapons are Bind on Equip
• When upgraded they become unbound

Rest of Auroria:

• Can't get war cycles because it messes with sieges. Can currently only have 1 or the other
• Including Sungold and Exeloch because they have the capacity for castles

Here's a link to the VOD on Trion's Twich: 2/20 ArcheAge Live Stream. I'd recommend checking it out if you want to see the library floor 1, floor 1 lobby, and floor 2 as they spent the second half of the stream in there.