New Warfront: Library of the Runemasters!

No you're not crazy, you do not have to adjust your monitor.

I said "NEW WARFRONT" and I sure as heck mean it! You might have thought we'd take a break on new content after 1.4, but you would have thought wrong.

No my Ascended friends, we toil ever forward taking RIFT to new heights each day - or in this case...depths!

Hammerknell was a seat of great power in Telara, and in its ruin artifacts remain that can turn the tides of war. The Defiant and Guardians are no fools of the strategic advantage some of this cursed magic could provide and so their leaders have chosen you to battle it out for supremecy.

Join us tomorrow, 08/10/11 @ 3:00PM PDT for a battle royale as we take our first stabs at testing this new PvP instance.

Welcome to.... Library of the Runemasters!

Within the depths of Hammerknell, Guardians and Defiants fight to take control of abandoned dwarven rune vessels. Able to bind powerful planar beings, these artifacts could prove invaluable to the armies of Ascended.

You must fight to take control of these powerful vessels. Be warned, the longer one is within your grasp, the more its dark power will eat away your soul.

Earn points for your team by holding onto the relic for as long as possible. However, no one can withstand the power of the relic for long, and the carrier will take an increasing amount of damage until they die. You may also accrue points for your team by defeating enemy players.

Character Copy to PTS!

You know what else is new? You can copy your character to the Public Test Shard! Simply click the Transfer button when you're at Character select on the Live client and select "Copy to PTS" - it's as easy as that!

As always, Leveling and Gear NPC's will be available to you near the porticulums in Meridian and Sanctum prior to the start of the event. We encourage you to login a few minutes early if you do not yet have a character setup. You will need to download the PTS client if you have not done so already, this is approximately the same size as installing the full game and may take some time.

Интервью об участии Trion в gamescom, раскроют подробности 1.5

MMORPG.com:
Can you share with us what you'll be showing at Gamescom this year? Traditionally these shows are about the players, so what's new that we'll be getting our hands on?

Adam Gershowitz:
As always we've got a ton of exciting things in the pipe for our upcoming patches. For Gamescon we'll be doing a sneak peek at some of the features of our 1.5 patch, which will be focusing on "Endgame for All" content. Specifically we'll be showing people our new Chronicle instances, which are targeted towards solo or duo sized groups. We will also be showing our next weekend warfront which takes place in Hammerknell, as well as discussing a number of really exciting features we're planning but are not quite ready to show live.

MMORPG.com:
What's the new Warfront all about? Can you give us some more details on the mechanics or setting?

Adam Gershowitz:
Weekend warfronts are a way for us to spice up the normal warfront grind with fun new gameplay, and bonus rewards. Our first Weekend Warfront map takes place in Whitefall Steppes and introduces a new game mode called Escalation.

Escalation has similar mechanics to a traditional CTF map (Steal an object and bring it back to your base) but focuses on breaking many of the stalemate conditions that makes capture the flag frustrating. Each team needs to return three Power Crystals to their cannon to fire it and wipe the other team off the face of Telara.

Power crystals are periodically spawned from the giant air rift in the middle of the zone, and the longer the match goes on the more crystals available to power your Cannon. In addition just returning the crystal to your base won't mean you win the map, you need to defend your cannon & its power crystals. If you don't then the other side can deep strike into your territory and steal them right from under your nose!

MMORPG.com:
How about some of the other "Summer of Rift" features? Will we be seeing the Chronicles of Telara stuff in action at PAX or Gamescom?

Adam Gershowitz:
Definitely! Players will get their first look at Chronicles of Telara at Gamescon. We'll be showing our first (of many) Chronicle instances. Players will get a sneak peek into Hammerknell and a deeper look into the story behind the corruption of King Molinar and the fall of Hammerknell Fortress!

Нам в гильдию срочно нужен переводчик

Да тут ничего примечательного. Описывается принцип работы новой версии WF Whitefall Steppes.

Также сказано, что в 1.5 появится ряд данжей, которые можно будет проходить соло/дуо.

Спасибо!

to patch 1.5:
- 1.5 will go live end of september – beginning of october
- There will be “single-dungeons” as a part of the “Chronicles of Telara”. These dungeons are for more casual players who don’t have the times like full raiders do. You can easily clear this dungeons with 1-2 players (depends on the equip) but the difficulty will not scale with the amount of players in the dungeon. Hammerknell will be the first “solo-dungeon” so that casual gamers are able to see that type of dungeon as well.
- There will be the “Master-Mode”. The Developers said that it is going to be hard to solve these dungeons. It’s for gamers between full raiding and casual. Right now, Darkening Deeps and Deepstrike Mines are the first dungeons in testing phase. There probably will be more depending on which dungeons the community wants to see.
- The new “Hammerknell”-Warfront “Library of the Runemasters” will be released
- The first parts of the new “Planar Achievment System” will go live. From level 50 on you will get points for earned EP from daily quests etc. These points can be spent in 6 extra bonus skilltrees to adjust the characters a little more and give them some finetuning.

other facts:
- The new 10-man-dungeon “Rise of the phoenix” won’t be released with 1.5 because they are focusing on other things (see above) and it is still in testing
- The new 10-man-dungeon will be as hard as Hammerknell just with 10 man!
- The new Zone won’t come live with 1.5
- But there will be new Raid-Rifts with the new zone (1.6 or later)
- The aspect “social-life” was discussed. Developers are planig some fancy features like a “barber-shop” whre you can change the face of your character.
- The “Warrior and leather” issue was discussed. They want to have every class their own equip-class. So warriors won’t prefer leather instead of plate anymore in future. so don’t buy any leather form you tokens any more warriors because they will adjust the items step by step^^

еще бы расу дали возможность сменить ^^

И сторону камфликта, понимаешь. На неделю, как с трансфером

Не, тогда не с кем было бы воевать

Собственно презентация на Gamescom'e
Показывают Кракена и хроники, в конце говорят, что в 1.5 будут моды

Кракен (Акилос) конечно зачетный.

Лысые деды рулятъ!

Слухи от людей на прямой связи с разработчиками: they're just nerfing PVP gear in PVE situations
---grain of salt required---

Беда-беда

Предсказуемо на самом деле

Великолепно!!!

Не смотря на то, что именно возможность пвп абуза сподвигла меня на фарм пвп гира, я очень-очень доволен данными слухами!

Сколько неприкрытой радости. Очень жду когда пве гир также нерфанут, чтобы SC кэриеры не абузили танко шмот, а дамагеры в пве гире вливали на уровне р2 персов. В противном случае лимит доверия к трионам будет исчерпан.

А мне не нравится это возможное решение не по сути, а по форме. По сути трион прогнулся под вайн не очень умных людей.
Что ж, альтернативные пути экипировки скоро могут быть отрезаны. Живите в резервациях и чтобы быть жизнеспособными и в пвп и в пве - фармите в 2 раза больше.

Вариант переработки я так думаю будет в ветке душ. Я не вижу билдов сейчас которые юзают темплар у клериков. Все чисто ПВЕ билды. Вот это не правильно. Так как разницы ПВП и ПВЕ нет с своей основе - билдах.
Снижение дамага при юзании темплара таково, что убить кого то не представляется возможным. Вас тоже сложнее убить - но это вопросы выживаемости, а вопрос нюка более актуален.
С точки зрения классов у трионов разброд полный. Есть классы в ПВП которые ультимы (вар дд, клерик хил, хлоролок) а все остальные курят нервно.
Должно быть что к 6 рагу ВСЕ классы тянулись в ПВП душу на макс. Это справедливо. Там должны быть плюшки которые перекрывают чистый дамаг ПВЕ.

А сейчас Клериковскую ПВП душу я бы только для дуели бы взял и для отхила 12 талантов. Топовые таланты там нахрен не нужны. Что есть БРЕД!!!

Далее шмот тоже разделят и очень хорошо. ПВЕ имбы могут гулять лесом против 8 ранга - в этом справедливость специализации.