Preview - Winter 2022! New Level 81 Arcanes! 3x LB Weeks w Trade-Friendly vans!

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Tier Rewards
Gold and Platinum Tier are a complete joke, crate tokens? Instead of adding a decent pet/egg or decently designed Vanity item/set on plat tier we get the always super useful crate tokens, seriously now, Who thought this was a good idea? Crate tokens have no use, wait nvm, we can use them to buy Ebon weapons/drag weapons/bunch of eggs and arc shard, I guess everyone (everyone who has already opened locks to gather these tokens ofc) will go for arc shard since all the other stuff is useless.
If you are adding a Jewel Chest I highly encourage you to improve this chest since we all know the vast majority will get a standard jwl that will never be used, let the gamble for Locked Chests, we need decent rewards from tiers.
The titles are good, merrymaker is a nice change to the usual single colored titles.


Lb Rewards
1 different set for each week, why? The single set recolored for each week was good alrdy imo, guess the rewards being tradeable kinda makes up for it.
The overall Reward distributions seem fair tho top 5 should get a banner as well.
Make Badge or banner bound to lb Runners, something should stay bound otherwise whats the point? Anyone could buy the whole Rewards and pretend they actually won the lb.


Token Vendor
Hopefully im wrong on this one but from what I've read, Vendor only has recipes to craft locks, auras (that require the actual aura only obtainable through locks), Teddy bears with hats (that require buying the bear with platinum) and the new point booster lix.
Is this some kind of prank?
Where are the pets, Vanity items, furniture and the event Lesser and Greater Chests?
There're plenty of items being added to events, stop hiding them all inside Locked crates!


Boss Loot
So far so good, i would add a recipe to both platinum tier bosses and brood, these recipes would let us craft a holleythrax themed Vanity set (wing recipe-Syrillax, weapon recipe-Elite Guards, helm and armor recipe-Holleythrax).
Other Vanity items or winter themed furniture would be appreciated as well.
Maybe replace arc chester with Hero Lucky? Who doesnt have arc chester already?


New pets
Overall appreciated for having 5 new pets, the downside? 4 of them are restricted to platinum users either through locks or store sale, i get the point of running a business is making money but considering the release of the new 3 arcanes, 3 new auras, aurelian set and winter tree weapons i think it's more than enough.
Make any of the other 4 pets (Hero glacial grom/frostbitten/Hero drauger/arc glacian) lootable from Brood.
Arc Yowie:
Passive: whats the %rate for each different attack to happen?
HB: replace the gl for 20/25% haste/15% HP Regen, make the dmg reduction stackable.
AA: decrease CD to 18-20 seconds.
Hero Glacial Grom:
Passive: how long lasts the freeze?
HB: add +20/30 Str,Dex,Int.
AA: does the freeze ability granted to the passive work for any pet that has this as a slotted aa?
Frostbitten:
Passive: add a 5%chance to freeze to the 5seconds fire DOT.
HB: make dmg stacking.
AA: decrease CD to 23-25seconds.
Hero Drauger:
Passive: is the extra dmg stacking? Does the dot also trigger the 15% dmg Buff?
AA: whats the %rate for the stun to happen?


Kraken items
Artifact: make all have the 20dmg we all know warriors have no use for miserable extra 400hp, same goes for rogues and that extra 3.5% crit.
Give a passive effect that reduces kraken weapons CD by 3-4seconds OR increases their proc rate by 15%.
Ring: change proc into "chance on attack" instead of "chance on killing".
Make the proc stack up to 4 times.
Belt: change proc into "chance on attack" no point on making it a proc that gives extra luck/gl if we have killed the enemy already before the proc activates.
Replace gl buff for a 5%hp Regen/Leech/Poison dot.
Do these items have a cd? If so, whats the CD for each item?
Are there any buffs to be expected for kraken weapons? Sword needs a Buff, idk others.


Holley set
Good addition, hopefully weapons have some kind of winter/ice themed proc WITHOUT a cd.


Others
Again Brood requires flamestones to enter, ppl is already busy enough farming energies dying of boredom on hauntlet since its the most efficient place to farm them. Make an item like there used to be that allow us to enter Brood as long as this item is in our inventory, make it even cost 1k-5k tokens if you want. I have full Crafting slots, cant think of the despair of someone with only 5 slots.
The addition of a point boosting elixir is completely unnecessary, hopefully this isnt implemented on further events.



Expected more from winter event, anyway, Merry Christmas.

[Salb]

Tier Rewards
Gold and Platinum Tier are a complete joke, crate tokens? Instead of adding a decent pet/egg or decently designed Vanity item/set on plat tier we get the always super useful crate tokens, seriously now, Who thought this was a good idea? Crate tokens have no use, wait nvm, we can use them to buy Ebon weapons/drag weapons/bunch of eggs and arc shard, I guess everyone (everyone who has already opened locks to gather these tokens ofc) will go for arc shard since all the other stuff is useless.
If you are adding a Jewel Chest I highly encourage you to improve this chest since we all know the vast majority will get a standard jwl that will never be used, let the gamble for Locked Chests, we need decent rewards from tiers.
The titles are good, merrymaker is a nice change to the usual single colored titles.


Lb Rewards
1 different set for each week, why? The single set recolored for each week was good alrdy imo, guess the rewards being tradeable kinda makes up for it.
The overall Reward distributions seem fair tho top 5 should get a banner as well.
Make Badge or banner bound to lb Runners, something should stay bound otherwise whats the point? Anyone could buy the whole Rewards and pretend they actually won the lb.


Token Vendor
Hopefully im wrong on this one but from what I've read, Vendor only has recipes to craft locks, auras (that require the actual aura only obtainable through locks), Teddy bears with hats (that require buying the bear with platinum) and the new point booster lix.
Is this some kind of prank?
Where are the pets, Vanity items, furniture and the event Lesser and Greater Chests?
There're plenty of items being added to events, stop hiding them all inside Locked crates!


Boss Loot
So far so good, i would add a recipe to both platinum tier bosses and brood, these recipes would let us craft a holleythrax themed Vanity set (wing recipe-Syrillax, weapon recipe-Elite Guards, helm and armor recipe-Holleythrax).
Other Vanity items or winter themed furniture would be appreciated as well.
Maybe replace arc chester with Hero Lucky? Who doesnt have arc chester already?


New pets
Overall appreciated for having 5 new pets, the downside? 4 of them are restricted to platinum users either through locks or store sale, i get the point of running a business is making money but considering the release of the new 3 arcanes, 3 new auras, aurelian set and winter tree weapons i think it's more than enough.
Make any of the other 4 pets (Hero glacial grom/frostbitten/Hero drauger/arc glacian) lootable from Brood.
Arc Yowie:
Passive: whats the %rate for each different attack to happen?
HB: replace the gl for 20/25% haste/15% HP Regen, make the dmg reduction stackable.
AA: decrease CD to 18-20 seconds.
Hero Glacial Grom:
Passive: how long lasts the freeze?
HB: add +20/30 Str,Dex,Int.
AA: does the freeze ability granted to the passive work for any pet that has this as a slotted aa?
Frostbitten:
Passive: add a 5%chance to freeze to the 5seconds fire DOT.
HB: make dmg stacking.
AA: decrease CD to 23-25seconds.
Hero Drauger:
Passive: is the extra dmg stacking? Does the dot also trigger the 15% dmg Buff?
AA: whats the %rate for the stun to happen?


Kraken items
Artifact: make all have the 20dmg we all know warriors have no use for miserable extra 400hp, same goes for rogues and that extra 3.5% crit.
Give a passive effect that reduces kraken weapons CD by 3-4seconds OR increases their proc rate by 15%.
Ring: change proc into "chance on attack" instead of "chance on killing".
Make the proc stack up to 4 times.
Belt: change proc into "chance on attack" no point on making it a proc that gives extra luck/gl if we have killed the enemy already before the proc activates.
Replace gl buff for a 5%hp Regen/Leech/Poison dot.
Do these items have a cd? If so, whats the CD for each item?
Are there any buffs to be expected for kraken weapons? Sword needs a Buff, idk others.


Holley set
Good addition, hopefully weapons have some kind of winter/ice themed proc WITHOUT a cd.


Others
Again Brood requires flamestones to enter, ppl is already busy enough farming energies dying of boredom on hauntlet since its the most efficient place to farm them. Make an item like there used to be that allow us to enter Brood as long as this item is in our inventory, make it even cost 1k-5k tokens if you want. I have full Crafting slots, cant think of the despair of someone with only 5 slots.
The addition of a point boosting elixir is completely unnecessary, hopefully this isnt implemented on further events.



Expected more from winter event, anyway, Merry Christmas.

Bruh i can't even type this within typing machine

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[Vrazicak]

Tier Rewards
Gold and Platinum Tier are a complete joke, crate tokens? Instead of adding a decent pet/egg or decently designed Vanity item/set on plat tier we get the always super useful crate tokens, seriously now, Who thought this was a good idea? Crate tokens have no use, wait nvm, we can use them to buy Ebon weapons/drag weapons/bunch of eggs and arc shard, I guess everyone (everyone who has already opened locks to gather these tokens ofc) will go for arc shard since all the other stuff is useless.
If you are adding a Jewel Chest I highly encourage you to improve this chest since we all know the vast majority will get a standard jwl that will never be used, let the gamble for Locked Chests, we need decent rewards from tiers.
The titles are good, merrymaker is a nice change to the usual single colored titles.


Lb Rewards
1 different set for each week, why? The single set recolored for each week was good alrdy imo, guess the rewards being tradeable kinda makes up for it.
The overall Reward distributions seem fair tho top 5 should get a banner as well.
Make Badge or banner bound to lb Runners, something should stay bound otherwise whats the point? Anyone could buy the whole Rewards and pretend they actually won the lb.


Token Vendor
Hopefully im wrong on this one but from what I've read, Vendor only has recipes to craft locks, auras (that require the actual aura only obtainable through locks), Teddy bears with hats (that require buying the bear with platinum) and the new point booster lix.
Is this some kind of prank?
Where are the pets, Vanity items, furniture and the event Lesser and Greater Chests?
There're plenty of items being added to events, stop hiding them all inside Locked crates!


Boss Loot
So far so good, i would add a recipe to both platinum tier bosses and brood, these recipes would let us craft a holleythrax themed Vanity set (wing recipe-Syrillax, weapon recipe-Elite Guards, helm and armor recipe-Holleythrax).
Other Vanity items or winter themed furniture would be appreciated as well.
Maybe replace arc chester with Hero Lucky? Who doesnt have arc chester already?


New pets
Overall appreciated for having 5 new pets, the downside? 4 of them are restricted to platinum users either through locks or store sale, i get the point of running a business is making money but considering the release of the new 3 arcanes, 3 new auras, aurelian set and winter tree weapons i think it's more than enough.
Make any of the other 4 pets (Hero glacial grom/frostbitten/Hero drauger/arc glacian) lootable from Brood.
Arc Yowie:
Passive: whats the %rate for each different attack to happen?
HB: replace the gl for 20/25% haste/15% HP Regen, make the dmg reduction stackable.
AA: decrease CD to 18-20 seconds.
Hero Glacial Grom:
Passive: how long lasts the freeze?
HB: add +20/30 Str,Dex,Int.
AA: does the freeze ability granted to the passive work for any pet that has this as a slotted aa?
Frostbitten:
Passive: add a 5%chance to freeze to the 5seconds fire DOT.
HB: make dmg stacking.
AA: decrease CD to 23-25seconds.
Hero Drauger:
Passive: is the extra dmg stacking? Does the dot also trigger the 15% dmg Buff?
AA: whats the %rate for the stun to happen?


Kraken items
Artifact: make all have the 20dmg we all know warriors have no use for miserable extra 400hp, same goes for rogues and that extra 3.5% crit.
Give a passive effect that reduces kraken weapons CD by 3-4seconds OR increases their proc rate by 15%.
Ring: change proc into "chance on attack" instead of "chance on killing".
Make the proc stack up to 4 times.
Belt: change proc into "chance on attack" no point on making it a proc that gives extra luck/gl if we have killed the enemy already before the proc activates.
Replace gl buff for a 5%hp Regen/Leech/Poison dot.
Do these items have a cd? If so, whats the CD for each item?
Are there any buffs to be expected for kraken weapons? Sword needs a Buff, idk others.


Holley set
Good addition, hopefully weapons have some kind of winter/ice themed proc WITHOUT a cd.


Others
Again Brood requires flamestones to enter, ppl is already busy enough farming energies dying of boredom on hauntlet since its the most efficient place to farm them. Make an item like there used to be that allow us to enter Brood as long as this item is in our inventory, make it even cost 1k-5k tokens if you want. I have full Crafting slots, cant think of the despair of someone with only 5 slots.
The addition of a point boosting elixir is completely unnecessary, hopefully this isnt implemented on further events.



Expected more from winter event, anyway, Merry Christmas.

Said reality is that they won't even read your constructive criticism and suggestions, they'll probably do nothing.

[Cinco]

Tier Rewards
Gold and Platinum Tier are a complete joke, crate tokens? Instead of adding a decent pet/egg or decently designed Vanity item/set on plat tier we get the always super useful crate tokens, seriously now, Who thought this was a good idea? Crate tokens have no use, wait nvm, we can use them to buy Ebon weapons/drag weapons/bunch of eggs and arc shard, I guess everyone (everyone who has already opened locks to gather these tokens ofc) will go for arc shard since all the other stuff is useless.
If you are adding a Jewel Chest I highly encourage you to improve this chest since we all know the vast majority will get a standard jwl that will never be used, let the gamble for Locked Chests, we need decent rewards from tiers.
The titles are good, merrymaker is a nice change to the usual single colored titles.


Lb Rewards
1 different set for each week, why? The single set recolored for each week was good alrdy imo, guess the rewards being tradeable kinda makes up for it.
The overall Reward distributions seem fair tho top 5 should get a banner as well.
Make Badge or banner bound to lb Runners, something should stay bound otherwise whats the point? Anyone could buy the whole Rewards and pretend they actually won the lb.


Token Vendor
Hopefully im wrong on this one but from what I've read, Vendor only has recipes to craft locks, auras (that require the actual aura only obtainable through locks), Teddy bears with hats (that require buying the bear with platinum) and the new point booster lix.
Is this some kind of prank?
Where are the pets, Vanity items, furniture and the event Lesser and Greater Chests?
There're plenty of items being added to events, stop hiding them all inside Locked crates!


Boss Loot
So far so good, i would add a recipe to both platinum tier bosses and brood, these recipes would let us craft a holleythrax themed Vanity set (wing recipe-Syrillax, weapon recipe-Elite Guards, helm and armor recipe-Holleythrax).
Other Vanity items or winter themed furniture would be appreciated as well.
Maybe replace arc chester with Hero Lucky? Who doesnt have arc chester already?


New pets
Overall appreciated for having 5 new pets, the downside? 4 of them are restricted to platinum users either through locks or store sale, i get the point of running a business is making money but considering the release of the new 3 arcanes, 3 new auras, aurelian set and winter tree weapons i think it's more than enough.
Make any of the other 4 pets (Hero glacial grom/frostbitten/Hero drauger/arc glacian) lootable from Brood.
Arc Yowie:
Passive: whats the %rate for each different attack to happen?
HB: replace the gl for 20/25% haste/15% HP Regen, make the dmg reduction stackable.
AA: decrease CD to 18-20 seconds.
Hero Glacial Grom:
Passive: how long lasts the freeze?
HB: add +20/30 Str,Dex,Int.
AA: does the freeze ability granted to the passive work for any pet that has this as a slotted aa?
Frostbitten:
Passive: add a 5%chance to freeze to the 5seconds fire DOT.
HB: make dmg stacking.
AA: decrease CD to 23-25seconds.
Hero Drauger:
Passive: is the extra dmg stacking? Does the dot also trigger the 15% dmg Buff?
AA: whats the %rate for the stun to happen?


Kraken items
Artifact: make all have the 20dmg we all know warriors have no use for miserable extra 400hp, same goes for rogues and that extra 3.5% crit.
Give a passive effect that reduces kraken weapons CD by 3-4seconds OR increases their proc rate by 15%.
Ring: change proc into "chance on attack" instead of "chance on killing".
Make the proc stack up to 4 times.
Belt: change proc into "chance on attack" no point on making it a proc that gives extra luck/gl if we have killed the enemy already before the proc activates.
Replace gl buff for a 5%hp Regen/Leech/Poison dot.
Do these items have a cd? If so, whats the CD for each item?
Are there any buffs to be expected for kraken weapons? Sword needs a Buff, idk others.


Holley set
Good addition, hopefully weapons have some kind of winter/ice themed proc WITHOUT a cd.


Others
Again Brood requires flamestones to enter, ppl is already busy enough farming energies dying of boredom on hauntlet since its the most efficient place to farm them. Make an item like there used to be that allow us to enter Brood as long as this item is in our inventory, make it even cost 1k-5k tokens if you want. I have full Crafting slots, cant think of the despair of someone with only 5 slots.
The addition of a point boosting elixir is completely unnecessary, hopefully this isnt implemented on further events.



Expected more from winter event, anyway, Merry Christmas.

Thanks for all the suggestions! They are very much appreciated.

To improve on previous years' events we moved what would normally be Tier rewards into loot. The intention is to bring excitement back to the game zones as opposed to piling it all on the accumulation of score. I think criticism here is totally fair but I am committed to seeing if this approach is the improvement I'm looking for (and if it isn't we'll try something else in the future).

Your "is this a joke," and "is this a prank" comments obscure the constructive aspects of your post. Not sure you want constructive feedback yourself, but there it is ;-)

I'll discuss your Pet feedback with the team but on the surface it all seems unnecessary and OP to the extent that we'd just be creating more balance problems. I completely understand wanting to throw more numbers and preferred numbers at the Pets you (maybe kinda) like, but with so much power going around already I feel like these are in the right spot. Of course, if I'm suddenly looking at a failed battery of Pet Egg offerings then I'll think again about how much power to stack on 2023 Pets starting with Lunar New Year.

Your Kraken Battle Sign (AA) suggestions are good and match up with other players' suggestions. Changing them all to +20 Damage is not the right move - but giving them all +10 Damage is probably okay. Though the Sorcerer's 76 gives them +10 Damage, the impact of +120 Primary Stat is still profound.

I agree that the Kraken Battle Belt and Ring should proc on damage instead of kill. The reasoning for putting the proc on kill was to encourage endgame players to include 'minion kills' in their strategies. Unfortunately, one piece of 81 Arcane gear isn't going to change anyone's assumptions about how they need to play content - so switching it to 'on damage' gives us a more powerful and attractive item.

As for the stat changes on the procs, I'd ask that you play with these items for a week or so and let us know if you still feel that these specific changes should be considered. We have been running with these new pieces for several weeks and have made countless changes to the stat offerings and the procs and feel very good about the overall performance.

Thanks for your continued support, and Happy Holidays!

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Thanks for all the suggestions! They are very much appreciated.

To improve on previous years' events we moved what would normally be Tier rewards into loot. The intention is to bring excitement back to the game zones as opposed to piling it all on the accumulation of score. I think criticism here is totally fair but I am committed to seeing if this approach is the improvement I'm looking for (and if it isn't we'll try something else in the future).

Great, we need good loots to drive players into playing the event other than lb, which is why the Boss Loot table is scarce, repeated common pets (arc chester, Hero Regifter, Hero krampus) could be replaced by other more appealing pets. Adding holley set pieces as Boss loots is a good idea, gg. We still need 1-3 vanities and several furniture items as Boss loots. Adding a title as a Brood drop would be good as well ( "Eggslasher", "Brood's menace", "Mistletoer", etc).

Your "is this a joke," and "is this a prank" comments obscure the constructive aspects of your post. Not sure you want constructive feedback yourself, but there it is ;-)

Is hard to keep the cool down after seeing some of the details from preview but i get it, ill try my best to stick to details on future feedback.

I'll discuss your Pet feedback with the team but on the surface it all seems unnecessary and OP to the extent that we'd just be creating more balance problems. I completely understand wanting to throw more numbers and preferred numbers at the Pets you (maybe kinda) like, but with so much power going around already I feel like these are in the right spot. Of course, if I'm suddenly looking at a failed battery of Pet Egg offerings then I'll think again about how much power to stack on 2023 Pets starting with Lunar New Year.

Simply trying to make these pets usable instead of still not cutting it to make themselves a spot into the "most used pets" list, because as of now i dont see that happening.
Im worried to seeing arc glacian.

Your Kraken Battle Sign (AA) suggestions are good and match up with other players' suggestions. Changing them all to +20 Damage is not the right move - but giving them all +10 Damage is probably okay. Though the Sorcerer's 76 gives them +10 Damage, the impact of +120 Primary Stat is still profound.

Sounds fair to me, still even if warlock artifact gives +10damage the impact of the proc is much higher on the new kraken artifact

I agree that the Kraken Battle Belt and Ring should proc on damage instead of kill. The reasoning for putting the proc on kill was to encourage endgame players to include 'minion kills' in their strategies. Unfortunately, one piece of 81 Arcane gear isn't going to change anyone's assumptions about how they need to play content - so switching it to 'on damage' gives us a more powerful and attractive item.

Sadly the way the Gameplay works atm, Minion kills are not that important, at least not in Zodias Maps, only Gauntlet, this should be taken into consideration for the Next expansion's design.

As for the stat changes on the procs, I'd ask that you play with these items for a week or so and let us know if you still feel that these specific changes should be considered. We have been running with these new pieces for several weeks and have made countless changes to the stat offerings and the procs and feel very good about the overall performance.

Hope thats the case, i still dont see why the 25gl would make any difference when all the players use gold loot sets to farm gold, which makes removing belt a must, maybe would have a higher impact on the artifact BUT imo these items' procs should be focused on speeding up the farming/empowering our character, so i suggested those other options to change instead of the gl.
Some proc based on something else other than stat buffing would be appreciated, not a big fan of those.

Thx for the reply!