Community Update | 6/08/16 | Fast XP, UI tweaks, Return of Singe and more!

[Justg]

Hey folks!

Several things coming tomorrow we'll mention, plus a surprise or two on the way



Pets

We're starting to reintroduce old and hard-to-find Arcane Pets into the game. Tomorrow Singe's Egg will be available in Massive Locked Cryostar crates. He will be there for one week. Munch Mouth and Arcane Deary are still there, but we'll be swapping out all three next time. We're also fixing Samael and Ice Ball issues that we saw with Pet Animancy.

- Samael’s passive healing is now correctly tied to Samael himself. It will not go away if you replace his happiness buff with another egg, and won’t be transferred if you give his happiness buff to another pet.
- Ice Ball’s Arcane Ability will now apply the freeze on basic attack to any pet if Ice Ball’s egg has been slotted.

If you see any other Pet Animancy slotting issues, please let us know!

XP FastTrack

Stuck on the grind? Tomorrow we are introducing an accelerated early game. By following the main quest lines you will be rewarded with some significant XP packages. These go through Shuyal, and will get you up to level 35 or so pretty quickly, while still ensuring you are learning how to play the game properly. Some of the daily's in Nordr and Shuyal also have some substantial XP returns worth checking out.

UI fixes

Lots of feedback and use cases on our UI changes, thank you very much. They were necessitated because our systems are growing and we'd like the flexibility to make them more useful, but in the process we made things a little more difficult for some users. We are going to tweak it to hopefully address these things:

- Moving the Chest access back to the Equipment page to allow fast access
- Returning the high and low price sorting in the Consignment Shop
- Loadout on Other page should go to equipment loadouts, not vanity loadouts
- We've also made some underlying technical changes to speed things up with your inventory access

Housing

Again tons of feedback on Housing. We're working on ways to make it more accessible to everyone.

- Tradable House Inventory kits
- Tradable House Decoration Slot kits
- Boss Trophy Quests for Elite Jarl, Elite Alpha Wolf, and Elite Hugal the Beserker
- People on your "Ignore" list will no longer be allowed in your house
- Friends of Friends will no longer be able join your house
- 2 more Story Token quests added to the Wandering Minstrel's daily quest rotation
- Visitors accessing Stash should no longer spam chat
- A new housing furniture category (Gardening) with some new decorations available for in-game currencies

Plus a nice surprise that you will have to wait until the bounce tomorrow to see.

What do you think it is? *shiftyeyes*

Questions comments below, and thanks!

- g