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Trion World Livestream April 2, 2015 2:30pm PDT
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1.7 Info New Zones
Golden Ruins
West of Diamond Shores in Auroria
A zone with quests for leveling to 55.
Central hub for Crimson Watch.
Quests contain the lore for level 55 content.
Lv 53 - 55 Creatures drop highly coveted items.
Player housing wraps around the crimson watch camp, about twice the size of diamond shore housing area.
Neutral zone, no lord, no castle.
Mistmerrow
PvP zone, cycles conflict, you get honor during pvp.
Theres a game like halcyona war where factions and kingdoms compete to hold towers.
At end of conflict period side with most bases hold gets tokens.
Use tokens to get Proven Warrior musical instruments.
Proven warrior instruments improves the rank of specific skills.
Pirates can participate.
When event begins world gates will spawn to allow players to teleport into the zone.
New Patron Buffs
Offline and online labor regen 10 labor every 5 minutes.
Decreased auction house fee -50%.
XP gain +20%
Decreased production time -20%.
Ability to repair items from the inventory.
UI button to access AH anywhere.
New Farm
16x16 "Improved Scarecrow Farm"
Made with 16x16 farm and some materials like is used for gazebo.
It contains a farmers station in the centre of the farm.
A new recipe added to revert farmer station into 8x8.
40 new housing furniture
Garden items
Floating private storage chests
Joyride Vault: Stores Pets, mounts, vehicles.
Splendid Costume: Stores costumes.
Humming Bird: Stores sheet music.
All chests will get the auto sort ability in Dread Prophecies
New Questing System
Achievements System
Over 200 achievements added; Traveling,leveling, killing mobs, building a large house etc.
Completing achievements gives merit badges which can be exchanged for great rewards like costumes, glider.
Proficiencies have been increased to 180k skill cap
New proficiency called "Exploration" alternative to the Nui Tears
Obsidian armor
2 paths. For Example leather can be made with melee bonus or range bonus.
Only 5 pieces
Obsidian weapons v 2
New Armor Set
Dawnsdrop Armor: Requires salvaged armor to craft.
Not combat armor.
Raises Proficiencies.
Reduces time required to do actions related to that proficiency.
New Rankings Boards
Blue Ribbon Farm: 2 weeks to grow experias and awarded housing items
Gear Grades: Accumulated gear scoring based on grade of armor, gems, lunafrost, progression. (No rewards just a listing) Can mouse over a player name and see their gear score.
Archeum Revamp
Coinpurses will increase drop 1.5x (50% increase to existing drop rate)
Coinpurses will also drop archeum trees.
Regrade Improvements
Arcane - Celestial tiers will have success chance increase, failure rate decrease, downgrade rate decrease.
Celestial tier destruction rate decrease substituted by downgrade.
Freedich
No housing, portals will be removed from teleport books
No portals to the 3 islands around freedich. (Players with houses on freedich when update occurs will get tax certificates and their house back and will be able to place it as a prebuilt house.)
Gold trader spawn during certain times of the day, stays for a couple hours. Gives good amount of gold for packs.
Guards will be removed from islands around freedich, cannons will be player manned.
New NPC "Ocean Trader"
At Freedich, Twocrowns, Growlgate, Solis headlands.
Salvage ship wrecks in the ocean to get a trade pack to turn in for gold at ocean traders.
Feuille Sound will become a contested zone.
Resources like dragon essence will be required for ship customizations.
1v1 Arenas +They will force opponents to drop or create a path to the platform so afk players can be reached.
PTS will have fluffy new commands
Castle Siege
Health of walls, towers, gatehouses, lodestone will be reduced.
Benefit of tower cannons will be increased
War drum bonus increased from 20 to 40%
Housing will be temporeraly removed during siege
Working on line of sight and respawn issues.
New artistry title and introductory quest
This is 1/3rd the content of Dread Prophecies