Remiem's Weekly Community Update | January 21, 2015

[Remiem]

It's another great week in Legends Land!

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

We had a lot to focus on this week. We've been working hard on a brand new pet, as you may have seen in the Insider's Section (http://www.spacetimestudios.com/forumdisplay.php?127-Spacetime-Insiders) along with some of your best community suggestions and bugs.

Many of you PvPers will jump with joy when you hear that Breeze changes will go into effect in tomorrow's update on 1/22. These changes were outlined in last week's update here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?203856-Remiem-s-Weekly-Community-Update-January-14-2015 and just required some extra testing before they could go live.

Another hot issue was a bug that popped up causing the Mage Rifle Auto-Aim to malfunction and shoot walls and empty air instead of your enemies. Mage rifles are magic! They don't miss! This is fixed in tomorrow's update on 1/22. Remember though, charged shots still have a 180 degree shot arc, so it will not hit if you are turned around or running away.

Coming Soon

Everyone's favorite undead dragon pet, Nekro will be getting an update soon. Our game designer Carapace has been in the trenches talking with players here about potential changes: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?204718-Nekro-Changes-Discussion. Like other pets, we want to make sure that our changes are solid and thoroughly tested, so Nekro's buff is scheduled for next week. Feel free to join in to the conversation until then. I'll announce the final stat changes in next week's update.

A lot of you mentioned wanting a loot overhaul in the Arena Master Chests. Tired of all that Architect gear? We totally understand! The designers will be taking a second look and discussing potential additions, like consumables. What would you like to see come out of the Master Chests? Let us know! As a side note, in tomorrow's update on 1/22 we fixed the drop rate for Arcane Fossils in the Arena Master Chests. They were always there, but were far too rare! Now it correctly matches the universal Arcane Rarity.

In Other News

Last week we mentioned looking into PvE Gold Payouts. This actually opened up a much larger conversation here at the studio about wealth distribution and the overall health of the game economy. We realized through all of this that it isn't just about quest gold payouts, but a much larger picture of how players earn gold, at what pace and more. We'll be doing some deeper analysis on this and determining what, if anything, should change going forward. I'll update you all in a future post as we learn more on that front.


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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!

[noahgoulin]

Nice ideas :)

[Ophelia]

Put th planar recipe in the master chest

[Opry]

i love this,

[ilhanna]

Very pleased to know that arena loot is getting an overhaul. Thank you, Remiem.

[Konviict]

Please make the Goblin Ring stashable.
Thanks.

[Fiasaria]

1m from master arena chest i know cant drop like a locked but would be great

[Archerios]

Sorcerer buff? No clue?

[Kain]

They are finally nerfing Breeze, his arcane ability is annoying!

[Clickbangboom]

Sweet! thanks for the update!

It's been mentioned before and I'll mention it again, Guild Message Board!
I was also thinking it would be nice to be able to arrange your pets in the stable to the way you want, not just have them auto arranged by level.

Thanks again!

[Madnex]

Good news! We were all getting really tired of the cheap people who exploited Breeze in PvP.

Do remove the useless Architect and Shade gear! Replace it with:


5-10 ankhs
2k-5k-10k gold payouts
50-100 Pots



Thanks for the heads up. :)

[Raregem]

A lot of you mentioned wanting a loot overhaul in the Arena Master Chests. Tired of all that Architect gear? We totally understand! The designers will be taking a second look and discussing potential additions, like consumables. What would you like to see come out of the Master Chests? Let us know! As a side note, in tomorrow's update on 1/22 we fixed the drop rate for Arcane Fossils in the Arena Master Chests. They were always there, but were far too rare! Now it correctly matches the universal Arcane Rarity.


Yay!!!!!! I am so excited about this! I seriously have an urge to bust out the sprinkler in celebration. Thank you guys for addressing this issue.






Do remove the useless Architect and Shade gear! Replace it with:


5-10 ankhs
2k-5k-10k gold payouts




I agree with Maddy, take out Architect, Noble and Shade gear. They are all auto-liquidate.

Ankhs, gold payouts, pots.

I'd like to see something else of moderate value go into them that you can sell. Right now we have recipe/fossil which have a low drop rate. The vials were good for half a second until the market became flooded with them. With the nekro recipe being reduced I don't think they will increase in value. So maybe one new item that is exclusive to arena that isn't as rare as the mythic recipe but is pretty close to it.

[regizakirs.rs]

I think ankhs or a good gold payout would be good or maybe pots cause you invest these items the most on the elite maps. With the arcane fossil being in a different loot table will that mean that neckro is going to get a buff?

[Andrisber]

Sweet. I hope we will have some nice arena gears that have health + armor, basically a good ''Of Will'' type. Something better than Living Spirit/Necroptic of Will for the people who love having armor.

[Dex Scene]

You guys are doing tremendous job AL.

What we want next?
Try to look at the joystick bug please. And is it possible that MUSHROOM AND RUTGER AP is glitched? Or the clones of Rutger in arena?? When the rutger is made reset his clone dont wanna go unleds we pull each clones out and fight them till they vanish. Thank you :)

[Candylicks]

We all agree remove the shade/architect and to add the consumables like ankh/pots. You could rarely drop a combo lix and very rarely drop a tradeable para gem. We love our paras, but you know the issue with the scam so make them so we can either use or sell them. That would jump us right back into that zone and feel less like we are spinning our wheels.

Nice to hear about the fossil rate being equal to the arcane drop rate.

Another thing, the drop rate on the legendary weapons in tombs is WAY TOO HIGH. Now their value is very low, it should have been set the same as Tindirin Elite legendaries. We drop those items very quickly and the market has tanked. A nerf here is necessary to bring the value of these items back up.

[Kriticality]

Ahhh, I can feel the breeze... My list is long of farm targets that exploited breeze. Time to get to work. And the nekro buff looks awesome in the other thread. Actually, I like everything about these weekly updates and the devs follow up/conjuntion with threads. Knocking some issues out each week is awesome and keeps me excited week to week about the changes. Thanks all at STS!! I can tell you're grinding. :-)

[Hadec]

You guys are doing tremendous job AL.

What we want next?
Try to look at the joystick bug please. And is it possible that MUSHROOM AND RUTGER AP is glitched? Or the clones of Rutger in arena?? When the rutger is made reset his clone dont wanna go unleds we pull each clones out and fight them till they vanish. Thank you :)

all i wanted to say lol...sts makes a good attempt on restoring al...gogogo guys

[Valkiryas]

First at all, Thank you very much Remien for this updates , because you take your time to write, analize and tell us what will happen with our lovely game! ; now we can talk with the developers and moderators about what WE want and what WE hate, in my opinion that's transparency .

In the other hand, talking about "Maridos" the next pet, I want to say that it look awesome (Status), but I kinda like see this pet as like "Mythic" Rarity cause that would be a step in the right direction, Samhayne did great things and terribles too, making all the best item obtainable just from crates is a terrible terrible idea, is a MMORP not a Casino got it?! That just increased the "P2W" experience, but if it would be farmeable I would like to see it as like something " obtainable " and not almost imposible , E.I, Fossil & Recipe.

Thanks again for take us in count!

Best regards Valky!

* PS. Sorry my terrible English I am trying a least :)

[debitmandiri]

Arena master chest :
Ankh as common drop, maybe 1-5

[Dwakell]

Cool! One question guys when you increase new level?

[Avaree]

Add respec scrolls, any type of elix, Ultra rare paras to the arena master chests.

:)

[Jazzi]

This is all very cool, especially the arena loot! Thank you for that. What about all the bugs?

[RDX]

Party tonight.woot wooot no more nonsense freeze.

[Fiasaria]

ok with the ankh and the pots but maybe more money 10k-50k and as rare as planar pedant recipe 1m gold

[goodjuice]

I'm super happy to see breeze is getting under control!
Suggestions for arena chest:
1. Ankhs I know this has been suggested already but its a good idea. On a good run I use 4 ankhs, on a bad run 10-15 that's 4-30k a run. Getting a few back sometimes would be nice :)
2. I know lixes has been suggested and that's an important source of revenue so u don't want to do that so how about a per level group buff lix? Use in Pve like a lix and lasts until the level is over and benefits all players effects could be like regular lixes but less effective. Maybe 17% damage, 17% speed, 10% damage reduction, etc.
3. New armors would be nice my mythic smells bad! Maybe not as good as imbued but something to give mythic wearers more options :)
Also I am disappointed to see the discussion about adding gold to quests have taken the back burner I think there should be an increase particularly in the lower level quests. There are quest rewards for as low as 35 gold that I can think of. I think a substantial buff to low level quests would be good maybe 50% then incrementaly smaller buffs for higher levels maybe just 10% or so for syual the same or less for tindrin. Maybe I'm imaging this but it does seem to me like since the 50 k drop in locked went away there is less gold to go around.

[Ardbeg]

here s my wish list:

add an option to display original pet names instead of personal names in stable (yes, not many players may have this problem, but for some it s very real...)

in star legends there are ultrarare vanities like squid buddy (best vanity ever!) etc which keep farming alive on low level maps. since no matter what you do, only the best and/or newest weapons will grab interest, adding vanities as ultrarare loot helps not only keeping old maps alive, but also gives new players a good chance to progress without tossing up the whole twink scene by adding another batch of weapons.


planar arena could drop basically all event gems (para as ultrarare gems could be handled in the way crafted planar fragments are handled now). this needs some thoughts and discussion, as alltime availability could devalue events.

the imbued gear is a roaring success for me. hard to loot, great value, great chance to work up selling tomb chests. i would love to see the rarity of legendary items shift back towards this direction, after a all the junk legendaries we saw.

[Leonut]

With regards to mage buff.

Just lies from last year. Move on or play another game. I'm enjoying other games now.

[aquascaper]

A few ideas (probably already been mentioned above):

~Renter Promocodes (some people, including me, liquidated theirs :/)
~Guild message board
~Add ankhs to arena chests
~Buff shade/noble gears and make them rarer (or just remove them from the loot table)

[Kakashis]

Would like to see anks, pots and some gold inside chests as common as those junk gears! Perhaps the mythic amulet recipie as well added in so that it's 2x chance to loot and a good place to recharge on pots and anks. As it is, it's too expensive for the average player farming there.

[Azemen]

Can we please get word on how the Mage buff is coming along? You guys haven't said anything besides "It's maybe coming, we're working on it", which is not very imformative at all.

[Xorrior]

Please take a look at the Mushroom AP. Is it ever possible with a small arena ?

Also agree with the community on the following......

Ankhs, potions, gold, para gem to go along with vials, fossil and separate recipe drop. This would make people want to farm this arena.

[epicrrr]

breeze nerf = tears of joy!

[Bellaelda]

1) mage buff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... We all been waiting patiently and now it seems your putting it on back burner again! :-\

2) add anks, gold, and rare tradable Para gems to the arena chests!!!!

3) fix the rutgar and mushrooms ap so that we can actually achieve it again

4) more crafting slots or be able to purchase more slots from daily story... Maybe a max of ten or so would be nice

5) 1v1 pvp rooms or scaled rooms I dunno... I don't pvp too much, but I know others really want this

6) bank teller in guild hall and possibly a shared stash option for players.... Where I can create a stash that I share with someone else would be helpful for many players... U could create a small stash box like 1-5 items then invite other players to share your stash box

7) player mail box... Where u could leave mail for offline players... Most of us had resorted to using other chat apps, but this would really be nice!

8) more inv or stash spots

9) a "friends list" chat like /f would be awesome too

Those r the things I would like to see added and in order of importance imo
Thanks and appreciate all the work u do for us all :-)

[Ravager]

Add the owl pet Shade to the arena chests.

[Rx8]

We all agree remove the shade/architect and to add the consumables like ankh/pots. You could rarely drop a combo lix and very rarely drop a tradeable para gem. We love our paras, but you know the issue with the scam so make them so we can either use or sell them. That would jump us right back into that zone and feel less like we are spinning our wheels.

Nice to hear about the fossil rate being equal to the arcane drop rate.

Another thing, the drop rate on the legendary weapons in tombs is WAY TOO HIGH. Now their value is very low, it should have been set the same as Tindirin Elite legendaries. We drop those items very quickly and the market has tanked. A nerf here is necessary to bring the value of these items back up.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes and a YES. Nerf that pinky rate, i feel like those are poppin out even if u just hit the attack button ._.

[Rx8]

Paradise pier cracked up by earthquake...

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[Assumptions]

Another hot issue was a bug that popped up causing the Mage Rifle Auto-Aim to malfunction and shoot walls and empty air instead of your enemies. Mage rifles are magic! They don't miss! This is fixed in tomorrow's update on 1/22. Remember though, charged shots still have a 180 degree shot arc, so it will not hit if you are turned around or running away.

Thanks for the quick heads up on this fix, much appreciated

[Leonut]

Can we please get word on how the Mage buff is coming along? You guys haven't said anything besides "It's maybe coming, we're working on it", which is not very imformative at all.

They have been working on it for 2 years. In anyone's standard that's like what?

[RDX]

RAZORSHIELD BUG.
It bugged if we upgrade it with extend duration.it fail.
Will be fun with its full power.

[Enterradora]

Please take a look at the Mushroom AP. Is it ever possible with a small arena ?

Also agree with the community on the following......

Ankhs, potions, gold, para gem to go along with vials, fossil and separate recipe drop. This would make people want to farm this arena.

Yes mushroom madnest is possible and sooooo easy.

Make ghost party /partyi aaa, search for urself till u find rutger (don't try to check if mushrooms or not, if u check and its u will get piss off).

Then if u are warr, call 1 dps, if u are dps call 1 warr.

Now go to right wall, in the middle of room, stay sure u all(2) are in the middle of wall and DONT MOVE.

Dps hit rutger and kill him whitout move and don't die.

Repeat this till the rutger was on mushroom enviorment. and stay sure u play whit /partyi aaa and U CALL the boss or not gonna get the AP.

I got the Ap 5 days ago or so

[Bmwmsix]

Thank You Remiem you doin' a splendid job ;_).

On Arena Master Chest i'd like to see furthermore:

--> Ankh
--> Combo Elixir
--> Para Gems
--> 10,25,50k Gold Drop

+++Please remove the legendary Set as it is already for long time outdated+++

Peace ✌






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[sumanqui]

Plss bring back the respect week..TNX

[notfaded1]

We all agree remove the shade/architect and to add the consumables like ankh/pots. You could rarely drop a combo lix and very rarely drop a tradeable para gem. We love our paras, but you know the issue with the scam so make them so we can either use or sell them. That would jump us right back into that zone and feel less like we are spinning our wheels.

Nice to hear about the fossil rate being equal to the arcane drop rate.

Another thing, the drop rate on the legendary weapons in tombs is WAY TOO HIGH. Now their value is very low, it should have been set the same as Tindirin Elite legendaries. We drop those items very quickly and the market has tanked. A nerf here is necessary to bring the value of these items back up.
tradeable para gems would be huge... heck you can even call them caragems! :^}

Also drop rate of the fossil in arena is way way way too low... idk if anyone has actually looted one that I know of... I've heard rumors but I think it's just urban legend!!! I've had 16 vials since they first were introduced to the game and the only fossils that have ever came are through locked I think.

Another things that's pretty frustrating is I'm like 99% sure that the urs locked crates don't drop any mythic weapons anymore since the event ended... this is disappointing... I didn't think this is how it was supposed to work. Has anyone looted a mythic except ammy's post event? No one I know has. Upside is our frost bows are even more valuable now... downside is the urs crates are now useless and really a bum deal if you think your ever going to get weapon from one.

[Pfx (Aaptoz)]

Snail... Breeze has been reported before frozen event and after.one month only update?

[Haligali]

Meh, why took so long fix the fossil drop rate.

[Zylx]

I wanna throw this out there by saying FIX THE DMG PERK ON NOX!

Buff Shadow Storm Shot too

[Sorcerie]

I just wanna say that these weekly updates are a god send and I'm extremely happy and grateful to see more involvement from the devs and mods with what is going on behind the scenes on a weekly basis. It gives us a chance to really help you guys make AL a much better game and experience for all.

In the past the feedback threads always seemed to be like we were just filling out surveys or giving opinions with no actual discussion being had, but with the increased involvement and posts from you guys in said threads we can actually see and feel as though our comments have weight, and yours in turn instill a much better sense of security that we're being heard. I feel like we're really in this together now, so well done guys. I like this new direction~

[Blissfulgod]

1) Paracelsus soul stones dropping from the planar arena at a rate comparable to the mythic recipe.

2) Ankh drops: Why drop ankhs in a map that consumes them? If the inclusion of ankhs in the drop table is a means of mitigating the cost of all those deaths, wouldn't it be more prudential just to make the bosses less lethal? I think that ankhs should drop in a non-tradable form from locked crates. - Let them take up some of those 2k gold spots.

3) Daily quests: It would be fun to have a chance at receiving a vanity/title upon completion of a daily quest. There can be vanities specifically for each location (Tindirin, Nordr, Shuyal, etc.)

[Sorcerie]

1) Paracelsus soul stones dropping from the planar arena at a rate comparable to the mythic recipe.

2) Ankh drops: Why drop ankhs in a map that consumes them? If the inclusion of ankhs in the drop table is a means of mitigating the cost of all those deaths, wouldn't it be more prudential just to make the bosses less lethal? I think that ankhs should drop in a non-tradable form from locked crates. - Let them take up some of those 2k gold spots.

3) Daily quests: It would be fun to have a chance at receiving a vanity/title upon completion of a daily quest. There can be vanities specifically for each location (Tindirin, Nordr, Shuyal, etc.)

1)I like this idea, but then there was nothing special about the halloween plat tier prize since now everyone has access to them. Kinda defeats the purpose of making it an event prize, no?

For this one, how about something like a Haxx Gem (named after the guy in charge of the arena upgrade) and have them be a lesser but comparable gem. It could have a couple of stat points less than the paracelsus gem, but still be a viable alternative.

2)Nerf the bosses? Nty. Just put ankhs in arena chests, it would def help since not everyone will be able to spam locked crates for ankhs that will be untradeable.

3)They already have them, they're in the store, only for just a few plat that you should be able to get with a couple of free offers. Remember more vanities means less space for other stuff.

[Kriticality]

With fossil buff AND pendant drop in arena, it's def place to farm for me. Here's to another 300 runs!!! Thx STS. Put some ankhs in those chests and lets goooo. :-)

[Leobot]

Thank you!

[ilhanna]

Please fix the chat system. It's inefficient to say the least, downright dangerous sometimes. All those fatal wrong chats!

[shahrul123456789]

What is it going to be... hmm

[carmine_blade]

I can't wait for the new mythic pet, I'll buy plat for that. So any teasers on when and what it might be would be much appreciated!

[siddhant]

buff mages?

[Taaraveo]

How about good legendary pet worth 1,000 hauntlet coins / 1,000 story tokens.

[Avaree]

The next myth pet, a girl genie pls :)

[Candylicks]

Something was brought to my attention this week that I wanted to bring up. It could have an impact on the server stability issues, and I am not sure if it's been posted about before. Are you guys aware that when we do damage the numbers are duplicated? For example if I shoot my bow at a target and I do 749 dmg it will flash on the screen 749 749? So think about this in a party of 4, now you have the server having to tell each person their damage X2. Not to mention the DoT on clocks... it will tick on an entire mob and have to flash on the mage's screen not only each tick of damage but TWO times/tick.

If you aren't clear, go in the game and try it! Shoot anything with a rifle or bow and you will see the damage inflicted numbers come up and they almost overlap as they repeat themselves. This issue is the same on chrome, iOS, android.

Thanks for listening and have a good weekend.

[Veluthe]

I have noticed duo numbers flashing everytime attack to candy. However I dont think both of them count but im not sure.

Also I love idea of paras dropping in arena. Ive been wanting that cool sparkly effect on my toon but im unable purchase gear that cost millions with para. This would give chance to finally have para without spend millions.

And thanks for all you guys have done to game so far!

[Serancha]

Please fix the chat system. It's inefficient to say the least, downright dangerous sometimes. All those fatal wrong chats!

Yes, when is this going to be looked at? We have already been promised several times that it will be fixed, but still have no word on timeline. Not cool.


Something was brought to my attention this week that I wanted to bring up. It could have an impact on the server stability issues, and I am not sure if it's been posted about before. Are you guys aware that when we do damage the numbers are duplicated? For example if I shoot my bow at a target and I do 749 dmg it will flash on the screen 749 749? So think about this in a party of 4, now you have the server having to tell each person their damage X2. Not to mention the DoT on clocks... it will tick on an entire mob and have to flash on the mage's screen not only each tick of damage but TWO times/tick.

If you aren't clear, go in the game and try it! Shoot anything with a rifle or bow and you will see the damage inflicted numbers come up and they almost overlap as they repeat themselves. This issue is the same on chrome, iOS, android.

Thanks for listening and have a good weekend.

I thought only crits were doubled, but yes, the point is the same.

[Bunny♥]

that would be a smart step to make para gems available once again but drop as rare as pendant recipe or fossil. Either let the gem drop directly from the arena chest or recipe to craft para gems - any will do for me as long as they are back and it is tradable.

[Madnex]

I thought only crits were doubled, but yes, the point is the same.
This is purely a visual glitch, some animation frames simply don't sync.

[Serancha]

This is purely a visual glitch, some animation frames simply don't sync.

I knew it was just visual, yes.

[hozukreti]

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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!

Very nice, i like this idea to shared with community what STS currently worked on to..

Asking for what community need next?, here the long wish list
http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?139166-List-of-improvements-We-d-like-to-see-implemented-to-Arcane-Legends

Here some major issue, need fast fix and we really happy to see this next :

- Connection issue
- Mage need buff (sts mention this from last year?)
- Scorch's need fix (people pay 250 plat for this guys, why not put this on priority list?)

Thanks for your hard worked STS team, community really appreciated it! :eagerness:

[Bmwmsix]

Woud like to see chest splitter really cancels attacks especially on t3 boss who always gets stunned but miracly still uses his spells.

[extrapayah]

planar fragment for arena chests plsss :D (just 1-2 is enough)

thanks

[ilhanna]

Yes, the lag is worsening, leading to actual pauses, freezes. There is also this split second pause when someone dies, revives or enters map. Very annoying. This happens even in the revamped Tindirin map. Lag situation seems a step or two down from what it was shortly before and during Winter event.

[Bmwmsix]

>>>Fix warrior skills<<<

[Evangelioni]

i dont agree to parasoul gem be inside arena chests or even anks drop from chests etc

BUT

you can make a system in arena like tombs with fragments where you can buy with coins you earned from arena ankhs,elixir or even exchange coins from arena to real game gold.

Also i would prefer for parasoul gem if you will decide to bring gem back in game to be craftable from very rare things from arena
for example you must collect 20 para vials to craft para gem

thank you..:)

[Valkiryas]

Where's our today community update?!

[Remiem]

Closing this week up. Here's the current update! http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?206306-Remiem-s-Weekly-Community-Update-January-28-2015