4/2 Dread Prophecies Livestream Recap (Text Only)

This week's livestream is hosted by:
Producer Merv “Khrolan” Lee Kwai,
Lead Producer Victoria “FireCait” Voss,

Associate Producer Amanda “Amary” Fry,
Brand Manager Michael "Krazzyr" Lee,

and Local Version Editor Kendall.

Spring Tidings Gift

• Get it for free from the Trion website or Glyph store
• Includes 
• ArcheAge Plushie
• "Spring Tidings" title
• Decreases production time by 2%
• 4 Week long (168 hour) Easter egg buffs
• Health regen +1
• Mana regen +1
• XP increased by 5%
• Movespeed increased by 2%

Dread Prophecies (1.7A)

• Everything below is coming in 1.7A
• Patch notes are over 600 lines long
• TONS of content coming in this patch
• These notes cover about 1/3 of the content coming with Dread Prophecies
• Updated ETA is end of April or early May
• Don't be mad if it's delayed a bit
• Because there is so much stuff to be tested

New Zones

• Golden Ruins
• Mistmerrow
• Big changes to Freedich Island

Golden Ruins

• Designed for players that want to get to 55
• While getting out of the library
• Level 53-55 creatures
• Varying difficulty
• Easier than library
• Central hub for the Crimson Watch
• Continue the quest line to create your first obsidian weapon
• Some creatures in the zone drop some highly coveted items
• More info later
• Hostile zone
• No honor earned for PvP kills
• No local lord
• Large player housing area
• At least double the size of Diamond Shores housing area
• Temperate and Arid

Mistmerrow

• Basically the new PvP zone
• You gain honor for kills
• New game and cycles like Halycona
• Fight to control towers
• At end of the conflict period team with most towers wins
• All sides get tokens
• Winners get more
• Teams may not just be based on faction
• Based on Kingdom?
• More details will come in a spotlight later
• Tokens can be redeemed "really cool" musical instruments
• Proven Warrior Instrument
• Cost 300 Warrior's Medals
• 10 different instruments
• One for each class
• Has appropriate stat for the class
• Increases the rank of one skill for that class
• Archery +1 Intensity
• Shadowplay +1 Freerunner
• Auramancy +1 Health Lift
• Witchcraft +1 Insidious Whisper
• Occultism +1 Retribution

Freedich Island

• Housing will be removed
• You will get compensated for losing your house
• Should be unique and worthwhile
• You will have any teleports removed from your memory tomb
• Removing any ability to port there
• Specs are losing ability to port to them as well
• Losing guards
• Canons will be manned by players
• Increasing the competition on Freedich
• New content coming on and around Freedich
• A gold trader will spawn
• Will trigger a global message
• Stays up for a couple hours
• Gives ridiculous gold per track
• 20 gold per Halcyona specialty pack from the specialty station
• Ocean trader
• Added to each continent as well
• He takes specialy types of trade packs
• Made on the ocean
• Salvaged from a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean
• Turns in for lots of gold
• Resource trader on Freedich 
• Will give rare item for building ship parts

Achievements

• Tracked in a new tab in the quest tracker
• Over 200 achievements added
• Examples
• Travelling across the world
• Leveling
• Killing high end objectives
• Building a large house
• Earn Merit Badges for completing them
• Can be used to earn "great" rewards
• Unique glider
• Costume
• More
• Will autocomplete any achievements you've already completed when the patch goes live
• Sorted by level

Crafting

• Proficiency increased to 180k skill cap
• 10 Proficiency Ranks
• Ranks
• 1. Novice - 7
• 2. Veteran - 6
• 3. Expert - 5
• 4. Master - 4
• 5. Authority - 3
• 6. Champion - 2
• 7. Artisan Lv3 - 2
• 8. Artisan Lv4 - 2
• 9. Artisan Lv5 - 2
• 10. Master Lv1(?) - 2
• Exploration
• New Proficiency
• Evolution of the Nui Tear system
• Based on exploring zones
• Fills a progress bar for each zone
• Artistry
• Getting introduction quests
• A title
• Create the new floating storage chests
• Farming Competition
• 2 Weeks to grow as many glorious experia plants as you can
• Awarded housing items
• Furniture
• Stuff for farms
• Regrade changes
• Arcane - Celestial easier is the goal
• Archeum Update
• Archeum drops increasing by 50%
• Pouches can drop Archeum trees

"Gear of Legends" score

• Gear score
• Based on how progressed your gear is
• Includes sockets, etc
• Leader board for this
• No rewards
• You can see other people's gear score
• By mousing over their name
• Still can't see their exact gear

Updated UI

• Updated proficiency window
• Updated quest tracker
• Includes achievement tracker

New patron benefits

• 10 Labor points per 5 minutes offline regeneration
• 50% Reduced auction house commission fee
• 20% Increased XP gain
• 20% Decreased production time
• Life activities
• Crafting
• Farming
• Repair button added to inventory
• Auction house button will be added as well

Improved Scarecrow Farm

• New farm
• 16x16
• Combine some of the materials used in a Gazebo garden with existing 16x16
• It is also a farmer's workstation
• Built into the center of the farm (the post)
• Will be a way to revert farmer's workstation back to a normal 8x8
• Because of the new farm being added

House Items

• Approximately 40 new furniture items coming
• New lights
• New bed
• New floating storage chests
• Owner only
• 3 Different types
• Joyride vault
• Stores
• Mounts
• Pets
• Vehicles
• Splendid Costume Chest
• Stores 
• Costumes
• Hummingbird Storage Chest
• Stores
• Sheet Music
• Limit 2 per house it seems
• All storage chests are getting auto sort with Dread Prophecies

Obsidian Armor/Weapons

• 5 pieces of armor
• No set bonus
• 2 Paths for Armor/Weapons
• Once you hit T3 you can split off
• Leather example
• Splits to ranged or melee
• Versions 1 and 2 Obsidian Armor available
• Also Obsidian Weapons version 2
• Split at T3

Dawnsdrop Armor

• New armor type
• Based on life activities
• Craft it the same as obsidian
• Takes salvaged armor
• Has combat stats
• But not really combat armor
• Similar to Auroria gear
• +20k to 3 different proficiencies per piece
• Increases the speed you do these proficiencies
• Hat 
• Handicraft
• Tailoring
• Artistry
• Chest
• Weaponry
• Logging
• Exploration
• Belt
• Cooking
• Printing
• Husbandry

1v1 Arenas

• One of two changes coming
• Either forced to drop
• Or a path to let you get to the top

Sieges

• HP reduced on
• Walls
• Towers
• Gatehouses
• Loadestone
• Increased
• War drum bonus
• Tower canon damage
• Houses being made invisible during siege
• To remove line of sight issues

PTS

• Still a couple of weeks out
• New fluffy commands
• Will give ship parts