Game Director's Letter - September 2013

[FirepowahQQ]

x2 When can we expect this?

After PvE stuff is done

[avexy]

New quests for halloween! Yay, lets hope teh social stuff is new as well, and lokkign forward to the tradeskill rewamp, will be fun

[bulk]

... rolling a critical when crafting your own custom two-hander and being able to give it any visual you want!

Is the new tradeskill system based on luck?

Help us out by jumping onto the Testlive servers

How are we supposed to do that when we are unable to copy our characters from live to test servers? (At least for EU players)

[Maganothrom]

Is the new tradeskill system based on luck?

Hopefully, higher skill = higher crit chance.

[Jaedelyia]

Ok, I wasn't really looking forward the Craft revamp, but now I'm hyped as balls.

[andistoteles]

Joel why didnt you mention The slithering chaos, palace of cetriss and new minigame map?
What kind of dungeon is Slithering chaos? 6man? singel player?
What tier will Palace of cetriss raid be? t3,5 or t4?
Will the minimap be realesed this year?
How big is new minimap and what ruleset is it? 6 vs 6 12 vs 12 capture the skull

Some info on this would be highly appreciated

[Usedtissue]

After PvE stuff is done

PVE stuff is never done lol, nevermind that they have maybe 15x as much content as we pvpers do :P

[Scaevacas]

Still hanging out for a new raid, be it T3.5, or a better choice, T4.5.

Top priority should be enabling the free transfers, we have many people that desperately want to move server.

Regarding the Hyborian Race, one of our allies in Mist Wolves had a brilliant idea. You should unlock the maps in stages, for example, everyone is given several days in Tortage, before opening up additional zones. Then open up the level 30 play zones, but no higher, for another week. Later on, open up Field of the Dead and Noble district for a week. Continue opening up the +10 level zones every week until the 7th or 8th week (the 70-80 week) where you can enjoy the race to its full potential.

This will encourage greater PVP, it will allow more players to work together rather than have them spread out across multiple "top tier" zones, and it will be a hell of a lot more social and exciting. It will also allow more players to get on board in the race, as those that work long shifts won't be at such a disadvantage to those that barely work at all. You will probably have to set level caps along with the zone openings.

[tman1991]

The new raid better be >T4 call it T4.5 or T5 just anything over T4. If its another T3.5 and the gear is <T4, no one will go there. I know a bunch of guilds are in a holding pattern waiting. Pls FC announce the tier soon.

[lmagowz]

You decide trade old tradeskill resources for new one, but don't want to trade old recipes? It's easy to farm resources, and getting some culture recipes very, very hard.

+1 for other questions, very short letter, how about other promises like new mini-games, new raid, new dungeon in Dragon's Spine?