Remiem's Weekly Community Update | November 4, 2015

[Remiem]

It's raining--jewels!

Greetings Legends, and welcome to your weekly community update!

Announcements

Drink up, drop jewels.

Okay, so they aren't RAINING, but we do have a special new surprise for you legends out there who have been hard at work farming jewels. Introducing, Jewel Elixirs. This new elixir will arrive in game tomorrow and can be consumed to temporarily grant you the chance to magically coalesce a jewel type of your choice from damage dealt to a PvE enemy.

Jewel Elixirs will cost 8 platinum and grant you this special power 15 minutes. It even has a rare chance to drop a damaged jewel! But, remember, even the most powerful elixir can't make jewels drop where they do not. So, if you're after a particular jewel, you'll want to make sure you're farming in the appropriate zones.

Not sure where your favorite jewel drops? Check out Ravager's awesome guide to drop locations, here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...ewel-Drop-info


Game News and Updates

The Kraken Mines are Now Open--to Everyone!

The Kraken Mines have long been a farming destination for Arlorians everywhere. Starting tomorrow, we remove the level requirement so that players of any level can now join their friends in the Kraken Mines zones.

Game Updates & Bug Fixes

+ Reduced the brightness of the Mythic Set visual effects.


Coming Soon

Did someone say BIRTHDAY? Arcane Legends' 3rd birthday is coming up fast. Tell us--what do YOU want for your birthday, Arlor?

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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!

[Darkluciferx]

First!!! ty

[onadraosari]

Wow! Nice. Give us Arcane ring for 3rd bday . Joke
not bad to get ankh kits for bday

[Titanium]

The Kraken Mines are Now Open--to Everyone!

The Kraken Mines have long been a farming destination for Arlorians everywhere. Starting tomorrow, we remove the level requirement so that players of any level can now join their friends in the Kraken Mines zones.

Nice addition. I'm one of those people who asks his friends to join kraken mines so I could get there aswell. Thanks ! hahaha

[Titanium]

I want to ask for one more small addition. How about don't make us delete jewels one by one. Group them like essences. For example Cracked Chaos Jewel x 10

[Maarkus]

Take 5...(5 weekly updates have passed without STS comments)

Thanks for the update.

I would like to request for:

1. STS to address the prevailent classism in the game, which has been conveniently ignored (numerous posts and suggestions but no concrete replies on potential actions by STS)

2. Gear progression, new gear with the right progression to be distributed among exising maps as boss drops to encourage farming. Dont worry about imbalance as the game is already imbalanced might aswell release gear that makes our toons progress as no matter what gear you dish out it will not solve the imbalance issue which is rooted in the skill system.

3. Combined jewel recipes to replace the reinforced and enchanted eye gems. (eg. Noble
Fury/finesse/mind combined with noble diamond to give +8str/dex/int and +27armor to replace the reinforced gems)

4. Ingame currency such as orc tags/tooth/planar fragments to be convertable to platimun to encourage farming

5. More inventory space

6. STS to review Warrior efficiency in PVE

7. Keep your word, integrity means a lot to players.

Thanks for reading

[Stefandeaconu]

are those elixirs tradeble?

[Iisolah]

Is the elixir only avaliable for plat users?

[DarrenPR]

Man, 8 plat for 15 minutes? Double the price, half the time as other elixirs? This idea SOUNDS good on the outset, but unless it guarantees you always pick your jewel, and the devs are boosting the drop rate without letting us know, many players will find that the drop rate is still bad, and the elixir gets wasted.

[Crostalker]

Nice to hear about elixirs.

[Remiem]

Take 5...(5 weekly updates have passed without STS comments)

Thanks for the update.

I would like to request for:

1. STS to address the prevailent classism in the game, which has been conveniently ignored (numerous posts and suggestions but no concrete replies on potential actions by STS)

2. Gear progression, new gear with the right progression to be distributed among exising maps as boss drops to encourage farming. Dont worry about imbalance as the game is already imbalanced might aswell release gear that makes our toons progress as no matter what gear you dish out it will not solve the imbalance issue which is rooted in the skill system.

3. Combined jewel recipes to replace the reinforced and enchanted eye gems. (eg. Noble
Fury/finesse/mind combined with noble diamond to give +8str/dex/int and +27armor to replace the reinforced gems)

4. Ingame currency such as orc tags/tooth/planar fragments to be convertable to platimun to encourage farming

5. More inventory space

6. STS to review Warrior efficiency in PVE

7. Keep your word, integrity means a lot to players.

Thanks for reading

Hey Maarkus,

We definitely hear your suggestions each week and always take them into consideration when making new updates. To address some of your concerns:

+ Balance is an ongoing process. We are actively looking at balance for each class and will make changes over time. We wish it was a switch we could flip. But we have to make baby steps, one at a time, toward a more balanced Arlor. Trust us, it's always on our minds.

+ We understand your desire for new gear, but we must disagree with throwing balance out the window. This year we have made great leaps in creating a predictable gear progression and working toward a balanced and sustainable itemization structure that will keep the game going for a long time to come. We are also always looking into feedback on skills and how they impact game balance. We would love to hear your suggestions on specific changes.

+ Converting currency to platinum: This is a great idea, but it is important for the game economy, and our business, that platinum remain obtainable for real currency (or free offers) only. It's what keeps Spacetime and the Arcane Legends servers running.

+ More inventory space: This comes up quite often and is something we are considering for the future. Stay tuned!

+ Combined jewel recipes: Another solid suggestion. Thank you! For now, we have a pretty good idea of where we would like the jewel system to go and are allowing it to play out a bit before making any major changes. We hope you'll enjoy the Jewel Elixirs as a new way to get the jewels that you want.

As for keeping our word, we do our absolute best to remain clear, transparent and truthful no matter what. While unexpected things do happen sometimes, we are committed to providing you all the best game experience that we can, both in game and within the forum community.

Thanks so much for your dedication and contribution to the community.

[Avaree]

It would be fun to see added drops to bosses, e.g. orc fangs, damaged or weak *stat* jewels, or rare token to be used at naxbox. As it is now with the elite garetta maps, we skip bosses due to the lack of surprise of what is going to drop.

(Also the planar arena master chests dont offer anything fun either, (maybe a vial) an added higher tier *stat* jewel, or a naxbox token, would be better than the current pink items looted.)

[ilhanna]

+1 for overhaul of arena loot table. Omit the Shade/Noble gear. Scrap the Planar gear too while you're at it. Then put in primary stat and chaos jewels.

[kinzmet]

Only 15mins for 8 platinum?

I like the idea, but can you half the prize? Or double the time at least?

[ilhanna]

And for the anniversary, can we have a prize for exploring all the regions of Arlor? Give a solid reason to run in maps other than Ren'gol and Planar. Something to make us sweep through all the elites again, to find something or complete something. The maps and their challenges are part of the reason I love AL and I would love to retrace the journey again for the anniversary.

[forumspammer]

Hey Maarkus,

We definitely hear your suggestions each week and always take them into consideration when making new updates. To address some of your concerns:

+ Balance is an ongoing process. We are actively looking at balance for each class and will make changes over time. We wish it was a switch we could flip. But we have to make baby steps, one at a time, toward a more balanced Arlor. Trust us, it's always on our minds.

+ We understand your desire for new gear, but we must disagree with throwing balance out the window. This year we have made great leaps in creating a predictable gear progression and working toward a balanced and sustainable itemization structure that will keep the game going for a long time to come. We are also always looking into feedback on skills and how they impact game balance. We would love to hear your suggestions on specific changes.

+ Converting currency to platinum: This is a great idea, but it is important for the game economy, and our business, that platinum remain obtainable for real currency (or free offers) only. It's what keeps Spacetime and the Arcane Legends servers running.

+ More inventory space: This comes up quite often and is something we are considering for the future. Stay tuned!

+ Combined jewel recipes: Another solid suggestion. Thank you! For now, we have a pretty good idea of where we would like the jewel system to go and are allowing it to play out a bit before making any major changes. We hope you'll enjoy the Jewel Elixirs as a new way to get the jewels that you want.

As for keeping our word, we do our absolute best to remain clear, transparent and truthful no matter what. While unexpected things do happen sometimes, we are committed to providing you all the best game experience that we can, both in game and within the forum community.

Thanks so much for your dedication and contribution to the community.

At last you answered him, getting tired on seeing it copy-posted that same post in every community update.

[Motherless_Child]

FOr the price of 8 plat and only 15 mins of luck there should at least be a certainty of receiving nothing but mind, fury, finesse, chaos, or damaged diamond jewels when running then planar tombs or elite garetta.......

[ilhanna]

Only 15mins for 8 platinum?

I like the idea, but can you half the prize? Or double the time at least?

+1 especially since the maps where stat jewels drop aren't exactly packed with mobs you can breeze to make the most of the 15 minute time window.

[Carapace]

Only 15mins for 8 platinum?

I like the idea, but can you half the prize? Or double the time at least?

Hey Kinzmet,

While it sounds expensive, we feel the price point justifies the accelerated rate at which you can farm jewels with these elixirs, we're looking forward to seeing how you guys like them!

To provide more details on how the Jewel Elixirs work:

- You can purchase an elixir for a specific jewel type. You can also purchase multiple jewel elixir types to farm different jewels at the same time, provided the zone drops the jewels you are trying to farm. You cannot purchase multitudes of a specific elixir, the current one must fall off first.

- Jewel Elixirs count down in ALL PvE zones, but not in Town or PvP. This means if you buy a Water Jewel Elixir and a Chaos Jewel Elixir, then proceed to farm in a zone where Water Jewels do not drop you will lose the benefit of the Water Jewel Elixir so choose wisely.

- Jewel Elixirs are not tradeable at this time, they apply directly to you once purchased from the vendor

What do you mean coalesce jewel? Does this mean form jewels in our inventory!? Does this mean new type of jewels?

Coalesce?
This is a fancy word for "form" basically. What this means is that it will generate and place in your inventory the a jewel of the Elixir type that is active when the proc goes off! GM has played with this and in one hot streak of about 5 minutes he acquired about 8 or 9 cracked jewels of the elixir he was testing.

It's important to note Jewel Elixirs proc off of damage dealt, and not on death of an NPC! Be sure to layer on your DoT abilities and watch the jewels come flying in!

[Zeus]

640 platinum per noble...roughly.


I appreciate the fix to the jewel system but the grand system before would give us better stats and if we wished to plat our way...it wouldn't be 640 platinum per perfect (according to GM's loot rate).

It's really just too expensive...