Remiem's Weekly Community Update | January 28, 2015

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Updates, updates, updates!

Greetings Legends, and welcome to your weekly community update! We've got a big 'ol update going in for you tomorrow, so let's not waste any time getting to the meat of it.

In This Week's Update

The team has been cranking on updates all week, and there’s even a special surprise to add!

First, Nekro’s changes are in and ready to go for tomorrow's update on 1/29. Here is a list of the changes you can expect to the (now) ferocious undead whelp:

• Nekro's happiness bonus now applies +10 all stat, and +30 to primary stat. This is a change from +15 all and +20 primary. He also provides 8 mana regen, up from 6.
• Nekro now deals more damage than any other pet by about 15-20%. This reflects in all of his abilities.
• Nekro's passive attacks have a 2/4/6/8/10% chance to stun, increasing as Nekro levels up. This is subject to normal stun immunity in PvP.
• Nekro's passive attack rate has been increased from once every 2 seconds to once every 1.8 seconds.
• Nekro's AA has had its cooldown drastically reduced from 40 seconds to 28 seconds.
• Nekro's AA now provides immunity to Freeze and stun effects for the duration of the shield. The shield has also had its damage absorption amount increased.
• Nekro's AA now also grants allies a 30% movement speed increase for 8 seconds, with immunity to movement impairing effects.
• Nekro's AA now has a 50% chance to terrify

We also received some really great ideas and suggestions on improving the loot in the Arena Master Chests. In tomorrow's update on 1/29 Arena Master Chests will no longer drop Architect, Shade or Noble gear, and now have a chance to drop 50 Health Potions, 50 Mana Potions and 10 Ankhs.

And! Coming up tomorrow, there's extra special new world event coming your way! There will be more details announced along with tomorrow’s update. The Hauntlet is under new management and for a limited time has been transformed into The Gauntlet. This isn’t your mother’s timed run. In this particularly dangerous encounter you’ll have to face multiple world bosses to earn points and climb your way up the leaderboard to receive prizes like an event banner, tradable respec scrolls, or if you’re one of the best of the best…a Courage the Lion egg!

Coming Soon

On the tail of the new Arena Master Chest changes, our designer Carapace is also looking into the possibility of adding one more special item to the loot table that would be entirely unique to the Arena Master Chests. Keep an eye out for information on that in the coming week.

Our artist Eva of 8-bit Salute fame and Carapace are teaming up to add a simple but incredibly useful addition soon: A “Teleport to Guild Hall” button! No longer will you have to travel all the way to Kraag or Windmoore. You’ll just be able to POOF right there!

We will also be taking a look into one of your most mentioned issues from last week: The Mushroom and Rutger Arena AP’s. The common report is that these AP’s are broken, when in reality they are just SUPER hard to complete, due to the requirement that you must fulfill each achievement without any deaths in your party. The designers will look into ways that we can make these AP’s a little more achievable.

And, finally, we continue our investigation on the lag issues that some players are still reporting. If you recall, last week we launched a re-organized Wilds map in Tindirin to help relieve some bandwidth issues. The consensus was clear… the bandwidth may have been improved but the lower map difficulty just didn’t make for good gameplay. We’ll be investigating other ways to improve your gameplay experience going into the future.

In Other News

Another one of your most requested features is in the works! We started work on a Guild Message of the Day system, but there's no estimate on ETA just yet. I'll update you all as this feature progresses.

Also, that confusing little double damage display bug will be fixed in the near future along with the return of the Re-Egging Service! Woo hoo!

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What's Next?

What do you want to see next, folks? Let us know in the comments what you would like to see us put our attention on next and share your most brilliant ideas. I'll see you in next week's update!