Skirmish Additions and Adjustments Follow

Greetings everyone!

I'd like to share some information on what we have planned for Skirmish, in terms of both additions and adjustments.

Skirmish Additions
We will be adding new skirmishes along with new areas that are added, and the content level for these will be set to level 13.

With this, we are trying to accomplish the below:

• To provide a variety of content to cover a single content level.
• As it's possible to get burned out rushing to the top, we'd like to provide alternative ways to spend your time, which focus on non-vertical growth.

*In addition to Skirmish we will also be adding new Colonization Reives and Lair Reives for content levels 6-9, and new Wildskeeper Reives for content level 17. We'll be introducing new gear for these new content levels and we'll also be adding new gear that can be purchased using Bayld.


Below is a representation of how it will look:



What can you do with the new Skirmishes?

• Enhancing current Skirmish weapons
By clearing new Skirmish areas, you may obtain a key item and new enhancement materials.

• Key item
It will be possible to evolve your current Skirmish weapon a stage further.

For example:
Ninza + key item= Ninza +1

• There is only one type of key item.
• You can freely choose which weapon you would like to evolve; however, once you evolve it, the key item will be consumed.
• You will have to obtain a new key item if you wish to upgrade multiple weapons.
• Arcane Glyptics will be reset. The reason for this being that there are issues with the item system when it comes to carrying these over to the next stage.

• New enhancement materials
These will allow Arcane Glyptics to be added to your newly evolved weapons.

• New armor to be obtained
5 new sets of armor will be added. With the new enhancement items it will also be possible to add Arcane Glyptics to this equipment.



Adjustments to Arcane Glyptics
We agree with the feedback about allowing Arcane Glyptics to be added more easily and will be performing the below adjustments.

• Ghastly Stones
In the next version update we will be making Ghastly Stones an item that can be sold on the auction house (The new enhancement items will also be treated the same way.). Also, there has been feedback asking to tie the rank of the head piece to the level of Ghastly Stones that can be obtained; however, this is how the system already works currently.

• Bayld required for adding Arcane Glyptics
In the next version update we will be lowering the Bayld cost for Arcane Glyptics to 500 Bayld.



Other feedback

• Exchangeable goods
Exchanging items for Bayld has been primarily setup to be used in conjunction with coalitions. As we will be adding things such as new Wildskeeper Reives, we would still like to keep Bayld use tied to coalition-related content.

• Obsidian fragments
Obsidian fragments have been set to be a sort of bonus point type of thing for doing Skirmish. The main purpose of this content is not to save up these points, and as such we are not thinking about making it so you can exchange these for weapons.

• Acquiring the weapon you are aiming for
By clearing Skirmish once, 1-2 weapons will drop at minimum, and the difficulty for obtaining the weapon you would like has not been set very high. We would like to keep the methods for obtaining weapons as they are currently, but plan on increasing the opportunities to obtain statue segments.

SE really doesn't seem to understand the concept of obsolescence, do they?

deleve was a fantastic idea for a small portion of the playerbase only........./sea all................. *crickets*

thankfully 14 is out soon a welcomed change till the next 11 expac, if that happens. :o)

I don't trust SE enough not to pull the same crap they did with 11.

constantly update the game over 11 years.

It works for games like WoW because WoW players are less sophisticated. You have built a game that has a niche market for sophisticated and mature players; it is not a standard MMO crowd, stop treating your customers like just another bunch of self-serving solo players. That's not what most people want from this game, that's never been the appeal to this game. You're straying from your niche and you're going to lose it all.

In all fairness, we don't really know how Yoshida Naoki would respond and handle things in-game. I mean, if design oversights and exploits are found while he and his team do nothing for years on end to fix them (gear swaps, Utsusemi tanking, bind/gravity soloing, broken defense algorythms, the shield block system as a whole), then yeah, we'll end up with more of the same. If the guy is proactive about stuff, things have a chance of turning out for the better.