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[Pinski]

Originally Posted by Snark

Does this mean the loot obtainable now will no longer exist?

Better get those resplendent robes, chime items, power/dmg proc items, stoneskin proc items, spell reuse reduction items, etc.. soon!!!

10p says they'll give you more mit/hp/power/stats with a slightly longer duration proc or higher chance to proc on the old items.

[Niber]

Originally Posted by Pinski

10p says they'll give you more mit/hp/power/stats with a slightly longer duration proc or higher chance to proc on the old items.

I'll take that bet. I'll bet a lot of the overpowered items will be scaled back. If Robe of Al'Kabor and Robe of Battle (there are more I know) weren't nerfed I'd be amazed.

[Cochy]

Originally Posted by Niber

I'll take that bet. I'll bet a lot of the overpowered items will be scaled back. If Robe of Al'Kabor and Robe of Battle (there are more I know) weren't nerfed I'd be amazed.

If these items are nerfed but the Mystical Orb's, Soulfire Gladius' etc aren't nerfed I will be pissed.

[gungo]

Originally Posted by Sigh

Here are some PRE RoK things a friend said they mentioned going into the game

Shard of Fear - new pre Kunark heroic dungeon zone is done and in testing
Shard of Hate - new pre Kunark x4 raid dungeon is also done and in testing
New Avatar is supposed to come before Kunark as well


And a little more RoK info not mentioned here

ROK Raiding:

Veeshan's Peak

Volcano x4 raid instances - Guarded by the Ring of Scale. Zone has Flame Spurts, Magma Raptors / Wyverns / Golems and enslaved Iksars and Sarnaks who we have to free. There 5 guardians of the Peak which are all raid mobs. There are 7-8 dragons on top of that including Silver Wing and the end boss is Trakanon. He has his own lair within the zone. Xygoz is another dragon who is sleeping and his dreams will attack you. There are 11 unique scripted encounters inside the zone (dragons) and they've been working on that aspect exclusively on the raid side for the last two months.

Karana, Bertox and Tribunal will be new Avatars. As I mentioned yesterday the old avatars (plus the new one coming before Kunark) will all scale up with the expansion and their loot will scale as well. The intent is for them to still be the hardest end game mobs with the exception of Trakanon.

You know all the theoratical changes i cna deal with for now because really no one has a clue how it will all turn out. But what in the name of all that is holy makes them think adding in a T7 raid zone that late into an expansion is a good idea. It will be completely obsolete in a matter of weeks. The loot will be less then contested loot and be completely and utterly useless. And lets hope they have the common sense to just make bristlebane a lvl 85 mob instead of a rare random 75 mob and then wasting the resources and time to reitemize him in a few weeks.

I can somehow see the heroic zone being ok. It will give some lore, and add another 70+ zone to level in until 80. But a T7 raid zone is just moronic. Do yourself a favor SOE and just upgrade that zone to T8 now. This way you can make sure you have enough content for T8.

[LFG]

Originally Posted by gungo

You know all the theoratical changes i cna deal with for now because really no one has a clue how it will all turn out. But what in the name of all that is holy makes them think adding in a T7 raid zone that late into an expansion is a good idea. It will be completely obsolete in a matter of weeks. The loot will be less then contested loot and be completely and utterly useless. And lets hope they have the common sense to just make bristlebane a lvl 85 mob instead of a rare random 75 mob and then wasting the resources and time to reitemize him in a few weeks.

I can somehow see the heroic zone being ok. It will give some lore, and add another 70+ zone to level in until 80. But a T7 raid zone is just moronic.

As much as I'd like to see a new raid zone now, I'd prefer to get more life out of it than is possible if it is tuned to level 70. I'd rather them tune Shard of Hate to level 80, so we will have more to do when RoK comes out.

Just my opinion.

[Pinski]

Originally Posted by gungo

You know all the theoratical changes i cna deal with for now because really no one has a clue how it will all turn out. But what in the name of all that is holy makes them think adding in a T7 raid zone that late into an expansion is a good idea. It will be completely obsolete in a matter of weeks. The loot will be less then contested loot and be completely and utterly useless. And lets hope they have the common sense to just make bristlebane a lvl 85 mob instead of a rare random 75 mob and then wasting the resources and time to reitemize him in a few weeks.

I can somehow see the heroic zone being ok. It will give some lore, and add another 70+ zone to level in until 80. But a T7 raid zone is just moronic.

What are you talking about, Bristblebane will just be another Level 75 Avatar using shared loot until we hit Level 80, then they'll just use the new shared loot and add in the unique item.

As for adding Shard of Hate, it's dumb. I'll say it again, there is no point in adding another T7 raid zone at this point in the game. Maybe in February, or November of last year it was a good time, but now is a terrible time.

[gungo]

Originally Posted by Pinski

What are you talking about, Bristblebane will just be another Level 75 Avatar using shared loot until we hit Level 80, then they'll just use the new shared loot and add in the unique item.

As for adding Shard of Hate, it's dumb. I'll say it again, there is no point in adding another T7 raid zone at this point in the game. Maybe in February, or November of last year it was a good time, but now is a terrible time.

There was a post saying they would revamp ( add new abilites, etc) to the T7 avatars for T8. Adding in bristlebane now just to revamp him would be another waste of time that could be spent on just making another T8 contested. And they should at least seperate the avatars into 3 subsets good, evil, neutral with different respawn timers especially if they intend Avatars to always be the contested content and continue to add more avatars to the list.

I think TNT was the latest they should of added a new raid zone 4+ months is fine but adding a zone w 1-2 months left until a level cap increase is i agree, dumb.

[LFG]

I was able to get in a raid question during one of the sessions after a significant part of the Q&A answer time during that session was eaten up by questions regarding exiled players in PvP and crafting.

My question was, is there any possible way to quickly tune some of the existing T5 raid instances to T7, and just scale up the existing loot from those instances to T7, so raiders could have more to do while we wait for RoK?

I didn't hear the answer, but it was given by Gallenite. I asked around after, and am told his answer was that there would be much more to doing something like that than people would think, and the development involved would be prohibitive, and almost like introducing brand new content.

So my assumption is they can only tune zones like this one way per tier based on the different factors involving the tiers. I understand they also said that all the work for Shard of Hate had been done already, all they would need to do to release the zone now would be to tune and test it for a certain tier.

So I strongly agree that this new zone should be tuned for level 80 rather than 70, assuming we only have that choice, and it can only be tuned to a particular level once.

[Niber]

Originally Posted by Pinski

What are you talking about, Bristblebane will just be another Level 75 Avatar using shared loot until we hit Level 80, then they'll just use the new shared loot and add in the unique item.

As for adding Shard of Hate, it's dumb. I'll say it again, there is no point in adding another T7 raid zone at this point in the game. Maybe in February, or November of last year it was a good time, but now is a terrible time.

I'm almost positive Shard of Hate will be 75-80. I'm not sure where you heard T7.

[Morara]

Originally Posted by Niber

I'm almost positive Shard of Hate will be 75-80. I'm not sure where you heard T7.

I thought they said it was coming out pre-RoK. Why would it be T8 then?