3/13 Livestream Recap

This weeks livestream is hosted by:
Producer Merv “Khrolan” Lee Kwai
Associate Producer Amanda “Amary” Fry
Senior Community Relations Manager Evan “Scapes” Berman


SoA Overview

• It's released
• Has gone well overall
• Servers have been stable
• Missing Quests in SoA
• To join the crimson watch
• And forge your first obsidian weapon
• They were updated in KR and cannot be released until 1.7
• Talking with XL to see if some can be brought back that aren't 1.7 dependent

SoA Forecast / PTS

• PTS is up
• Will be down for the weekend
• And back up on Tuesday
• Will have a new build
• Enhancements to SoA
• Fishing & Arena tournaments
• Not available this weekend, but the following weekend
• So 3/20
• Cyanfin has sonar
• Aiming for 3/24 Live release
• Not a hard date
• Appraisal cert change
• Now size of land change the amount of appraisal certs needed
• 8x8 and not small farms (crafting stations), 16x16, Including aquafarms are 1 cert
• 24x24, Thatched Houses, Gazebos, are 2 certs
• 28x28 are 3 certs
• 44x44, Mansions, are 4 certs
• Hanure the hunter
• Raid boss in Hasla
• Level increase to 55
• Drops Earthen Roar
• Will also drop essences to upgrade Earthen Roar to Crimson Lightning
• Crimson Lightning has unique armor
• Can be purchased from stable hand for in game gold
• New Event
• Spirit of the Red Dragon
• Runs for about 8 weekends
• Weekend defined Thursday - Sunday
• A mob will spawn 3x a day
• In a lower end zone
• Kind of a hub zone
• Players will kill the mob
• The corpse will remain in the world for an hour
• Interact with the corpse to gain
• Some Archeum
• A Scale
• 5 Scales combine into a red dragon cape
• Screenshots and video of the cape
• Not upgradable
• A Potion
• Short duration buff
• New Mount
• Pegasus!
• Planned live release of 3/26
• Flight has 60 second cooldown
• 5 Minute glide time
• Not affected by turbulence
• Cannot fly with a pack on
• Can be killed
• While in flight too
• Removed archery snipe ability
• And the other repeat usable one
• Turns slowly compared to other gliders
• First gliding mount
• Will be monitoring it after release
• Will be for loyalty
• For 625 or 650 tokens
• Will also be in an Archeum Supply Crates
• See Updated Archeum Supply Crates
• Screenshots and video here

Marketplace / Patron

• Improved Archeum Supply Crates
• Removed starlight crystals
• Removed Expertise Tonics
• Got rid of a lot of the stuff nobody likes in them
• Doubled drop rate of rare items
• Including Pegasus
• New Idea with boxes is
• No matter what you got out of it you would find it valuable
• Not just crap stuff nobody likes
• Increasing Value of Patron
• Coming in April
• Offline Labor will have same regeneration rate as online labor for patrons
• Access to Auction House anywhere in the world through a UI button
• 3 Additional Changes that will be discussed as we get closer to the change
• Yata costumehas the deaggro dance
• The buff is random
• Although you can spam it to get the one you want
• Less of a concern since it's PvE
• Much more sensitive to things that affect PvP
• They thought it was not impactful enough that it had to be removed
• It is not flat stats.

Will the secrets pack anypost owl be available anywhere else?
No plans for this, it is one of the selling points of the secrets pack

How about the albino yata?
Same as last question.

Will there be a heads up before removing items from the loyalty store?
Yes there will be ample warning given before items are removed.





Archeum / Crafting

• Mid to late April
• Will be enhancing the drop rate in the game
• All coinpurses will see an improved drop rate of archeum
• The exact number is still in the air
• It's a significant increase
• Will favor sunlight and moonlight over starlight
• Current it is 3/3/3
• Will change to 4/4/2
• Archeum Trees will also be enhanced
• Won't always drop dusts
• Will also drop crystals and shards
• Will have ways to convert crystals off one type to another
• Ex: sunlight to moonlight
• At ratios that make sense
• This sounds further off in the future
• Regrades may be improved

Can we get custom designs for gazebo farm, like the ones for farm carts?
It isn't in the pipeline but Trion would love to see this.

Any update on the unfuse system?
It is in development, to clarify this is a system to emove an image item from a piece of gear and our rough timeline late April.

Can farmers get better things like mounts with vocation badges, things on par with Honor?
They are looking into this and want to give better options to use vocation badges for.

Can you proc above Celestial when crafting obsidian?
We don't have a good answer. We've asked XL games and are waiting for a response. Will also poll data to see if it's ever happened, but they don't think it can happen.

Any fix for the bug where crest is showing someone else's crest or blank?
XL is aware of it and currently fixing it.

Regrade rocks timeline?
Not sure when this coming yet.



Mounts / Vehicles

Will pets be able to level to 55?
No current plans.

Timber coupe?
Around 1.7 All changes we've talked about today will be before timber coupe.



General 

• Server Management
• Today was the first day limiting new character creation on higher population servers
• Goal is to stimulate the lower population servers
• Will see it especially when they expect an influx of new players
• Could potentially last longer than just the weekend
• They are monitoring
• Forum link to get details on what servers are currently affected
• Valentines Contest
• It's been a month, sorry, PAX put it on the back burner
• Winners have been chosen
• Results will be out at the end of today
• See results here (Will update with link when posted)
• Server transfers
• We want to offer this in the future
• The tech is currently not available
• For the time being trying to increase the population on lower population servers
• So less people want to leave them in the first place
• 1.7 Patch Name
• Will have a thread where players can suggest names
• Will take them and put into a poll
• Trion will select from the finalists that win the poll
• Stream Giveaways
• 1 Pegasus (must wait until it launches)
• 5 Secrets Packs

Why are you guys streaming? You should be off farming libary.
Khrolan - I'm actually AFK in library right now.

What server do you play on?
A lot of Trion employees play on Ezi, most of the finance department.

Will there be a new divine gift?
No, current events will be the free library indexes in the mail and the red dragon event. Indexes will be coming daily until 3/24.

Is 1.7 on schedule?
Yes, the process is going really well. Aiming towards end of April, or beginning of May, May is more likely. Will be on PTS 2 weeks before it goes live

Race changes?
This not currently feasible, but may come eventually.

Can plate armor get magic resist?
This is in in-depth talks with XL Games.

Will we ever be able to use the Casino?
No plans to use it. Gambling in games is very tricky.

Will you post the answers to the questions on the forums for those that can't watch the livestream?
Not directly. (Gunthore) I will post them there.

Is anything being done about the random inventory scrambles?
Will raise to XL but be warned it is a low priority bug since it doesn't affect gameplay.

Sieges?
We're working on this. We want to get the KR changes earlier than planned but that has lots of challenges. We will likely have to continue on our update schedule and get it when it comes.

Arena Rankings
Part of Arena Tournament. Does not take 1v1s and make them have a persistent leaderboard. They are weekly tournaments and give rewards at the end of the week. Winners get medium valuable rewards to more players vs high value rewards to a few players