Preview - The Elite Zodias Campaign! New AP's! New Rewards!

[aikl]

Yep. A nice buff to Marianos is being tested today (and will be out with the Elite Zodias stuff).

We're also working on improving Pisces - and hopefully it'll be ready for Friday too ;-)

thanks Cinco. Looking forward to this. Hopefully rogues will be useful again and get invited in elite pts.

[Holyshox]

@Cinco, I'll briefly describe my concern and then come to my question. I have a quick question regarding the last 6 months
I noticed that since the expansion release all the patches have the main focus on pve, even the myth gear. The only exception is the Staff of the Mage.
Question: When will we get new pvp content?

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[Oawaoebi]

Wengot zodias Ring. Should add aps towards capturing zones and maybe add honor pvp kdr.


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[Jiubara]

@cinco Any chance u tell us where "ultra rare mini bosses" are? Normal/Elite

[Marosok]

Is this wave animation from helmet inside of vanity weapons too? If so, could you please show a .gif picture? Must look cool.

[Camelot]

The time has come, Legends. You've prepared. You've geared up. You've honed your skills. Now--the Elite maps of the Zodias region are here to challenge you anew.

Elite maps will go live at the start of season 25, Friday 4/1 at 7:00 pm CT. (Not our usual new content launch day of Thursday at 1:30pm!)

Highlights:
+ Earn more Zodias faction points per kill.
+ 9 New Achievements!
+ Rare mini-bosses.
+ Timed LB's.
+ New vanities to collect!

New Maps and Mini-Bosses

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Visit the new Elite Zodias maps by selecting the Elite button on your World Map and entering the Zodias zone. Some bosses, will look familiar, but keep your eyes peeled for 4 new rare mini-bosses: Rigel the Blue Starfish, Midas the Gold Skeleton, Enki the giant red-breasted Merman, and Kroton the Cyber Merman!

Faction Points and Achievements

Your hard work will not go unrewarded. Each kill in an Elite Zodias zone will grant you 20% more Zodias faction points.

In addition, there are 9 new achievements to collect for defeating Elite bosses, enemies, and the new rare mini-bosses!

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+ Zealous Zodias Zealot - Defeat 1,000 Boss Enemies in the Elite Zodias Zones - Grants 150 APs and Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Armor
+ Ekenta Enslaver - Kill Elite Ekenta 1,000 times - Grants 200 APs and Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon Core
+ Mecharydon Massacre - Kill Elite Mecharydon 1,000 times - Grants 200 APs and Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon Structure
+ Rhabkor Ravager - Kill Elite Rhabkor 1,000 times - Grants 200 APs and Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon
+ Pale Blue Dot - Kill the ultra-rare Blue Starfish mini-boss - Grants 250 APs
+ Assimilate! - Kill the ultra-rare Cyborg Merman mini-boss - Grants 250 APs
+ Golden Touch - Kill the ultra-rare Captain Golden Bones mini-boss - Grants 250 APs
+ Finding Ariel - Kill the ultra-rare red merman mini-boss - Grants 250 APs
+ Zinger Zodias Zapper - Defeat 10,000 Enemies in the Elite Zodias Zones - Grants 100 APs and Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Helmet

New Vanity Recipes and Components

The recipes for the new Arcane Waves vanity armor and helm are earned by completing the Zealous Zodias Zealot (1,000 Bosses) and Zinger Zodias Zapper (10,000 Enemies) achievements.

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You'll collect the recipes for the matching Arcane Waves weapons for earning the Elite Rahabkor AP.

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Crafting components for these are earned with the Elite Ekenta and Elite Mecharydon AP's. To complete them, you'll need:

+ Recipe: Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon
+ Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon Core
+ Arcane Waves Vanity Weapon Structure
+ 100,000 Gold

Leaderboards

There are three 'speed run' leaderboards to compete for this Elite season!

Monthly Speed Run Leaderboards

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Elite Ekenta, Elite Mecharydon and Elite Rahabkor and award badges that you can wear for the duration of Season 25!

Other Changes Worth Mentioning

• The difficulty of Elite Zodias is slightly higher than that of current 'standard' Zodias maps.
• Difficulty of 'normal' Zodias maps will be reduced (to stats approximate to the campaign's original release) when Elite Zodias goes live.
• Gold loot from normal and Elite Zodias maps will be significantly higher than other campaigns in Arlor.
• The gold loot in the Deep Marsh will be significantly reduced to fit how easy it has become in today's Arlor.
• A "Locked Zodias Crate" can be looted from Elite Zodias bosses.
• The "Massive Locked Zodias Crate" can be looted from Elite Ekenta, Elite Mecharydon and Elite Rahabkor.
• Locked Zodias Crates contains Mythic Level 81 Equipment, Zodias Faction, Arcanite and Mythic Pet Eggs, Gold, Platinum, Elixirs, and standard equipment.
• Chance for equipment loot from Elite Bosses is comparatively higher than the drop rates in the 'normal' Zodias campaign.
• Elite Zodias bosses have a chance to drop Fathoms currency for use at the Zodias vendor.

Good luck Legends! We'll see you online on Friday 4/1 at 7:00pm CT for the launch of the new Elites!!

All seems fine but really it was necessarily to nerf dm? I hope the compensate will be good in zodias maps bcs gl gears will go on dumpster. Anyway i can't wait till friday i have lot of hope...

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[asommers]

Updated event start time to Friday 10am CDT.

-ALS

[Kaziscate]

Will we be able to loot Zaarus helm/armor from these bosses?

[flashio]

Is there any actual new loot from elite Zodias besides zodias locks?

[memphis]

Does it make any difference if Warriors can still kill bosses faster than Rogs?

I personally don't see a reason as to why Warriors were given 2 weapons designed to kill bosses when that's Rog's specialty.

Again. A line needs to be drawn separating classes from one another to make them more reliant on each other.

Mages are supposed to be AoE damage dealers to clean mobs. Aquaris proc does this nicely, so what's the point of giving it Health and Armor Proc?

Warrior's role is to do MEDIUM damage and highly tanky, and someone who can aggro the mobs allowing Mages to clear.

Rog are supposed to be either a marksmen with Bow, or an Assassin with Daggers. Boss killers, and bursting mobs (hence polaris proc made more sense on them to me)

It's time we made every class rely on each other and make maps requiring all of them to play a defined roles so each class can shine in their respective manner.

EVG is a good example for warrior now, they aggro the mobs so Mages can clear the mobs, and Rogs can kill the boss. See? This is a perfect example on how classes should be.

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thats not true in evg its 1 war 3 mages because mages do more aoe and more single target damage than rogues

[Trenton]

Will we be able to loot Zaarus helm/armor from these bosses?

Reaaaaally hoping this is the case. Not sure I want to grind 1000 bosses for Zodias crates, all new mythic weapons and armor/helms should drop from different bosses

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[WillieMakeit]

Reaaaaally hoping this is the case. Not sure I want to grind 1000 bosses for Zodias crates, all new mythic weapons and armor/helms should drop from different bosses

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Little nephew, those were the farming days of yesteryear... today we no longer farm elite bosses for the best gear and weapons, No sir! we are all now under the mercy of the all powerful plat buyers who graciously open the locked crates for us and cunningly manipulate the market as to insure we give them every last piece of our shiny gold for the precious gears we seek.

[Uereazagr]

Reaaaaally hoping this is the case. Not sure I want to grind 1000 bosses for Zodias crates, all new mythic weapons and armor/helms should drop from different bosses

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That’s what I’ve been talking about since elites appeared on the roadmap

[Analytical]

Reaaaaally hoping this is the case. Not sure I want to grind 1000 bosses for Zodias crates, all new mythic weapons and armor/helms should drop from different bosses

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Sounds like a selfish request, if all mythics are available from elites, people don't need to open locks which will affect sts income.

You can however suggest them to rotate only one type or piece of mythic is lootable out of the 4 pieces. Since belt is already common enough, I would suggest to at least keep one piece out of the four mythic pieces (the mythic weapons) to be exclusively lootable from locks. For example, every 2 weeks, the elite will have a low chance to drop either one of this: mythic helm, mythic armor, in rotation.

[Yoloswagx]

Sounds like a selfish request, if all mythics are available from elites, people don't need to open locks which will affect sts income.

You can however suggest them to rotate only one type or piece of mythic is lootable out of the 4 pieces. Since belt is already common enough, I would suggest to at least keep one piece out of the four mythic pieces (the mythic weapons) to be exclusively lootable from locks. For example, every 2 weeks, the elite will have a low chance to drop either one of this: mythic helm, mythic armor, in rotation.

i think better elites giving rares sea shells or somethinf or even dropping octosyn elixir and such, i wudnt mind farming for those elixir...ppl buy em for lb, lvling their character and etc

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[Trenton]

Sounds like a selfish request, if all mythics are available from elites, people don't need to open locks which will affect sts income.

You can however suggest them to rotate only one type or piece of mythic is lootable out of the 4 pieces. Since belt is already common enough, I would suggest to at least keep one piece out of the four mythic pieces (the mythic weapons) to be exclusively lootable from locks. For example, every 2 weeks, the elite will have a low chance to drop either one of this: mythic helm, mythic armor, in rotation.

I can however suggest them anything I please. My comment above was more of an opinion rather than a suggestion anyways, it was hardly enough information to be a true suggestion.

There are plenty of other items to be looted from crates, as well as a plethora of other uses for premium currency. The longer certain items are in the game, the easier they are to acquire. Each locked crate that releases introduces a new way of getting mythic items. The rollout of elites seemed a great time to introduce yet another way to start actually getting some more mythic items into the game. I'm not saying it should be easy to loot these items, they are indeed mythic. But the low drop rate also doesn't make locked crate openers stop opening for the mythic items, they just aren't valued as highly because there's more in the game.

So my suggestion, if taken as such, would still be to allow mythic items to be lootable from Elite bosses.

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[Analytical]

I can however suggest them anything I please. My comment above was more of an opinion rather than a suggestion anyways, it was hardly enough information to be a true suggestion.

There are plenty of other items to be looted from crates, as well as a plethora of other uses for premium currency. The longer certain items are in the game, the easier they are to acquire. Each locked crate that releases introduces a new way of getting mythic items. The rollout of elites seemed a great time to introduce yet another way to start actually getting some more mythic items into the game. I'm not saying it should be easy to loot these items, they are indeed mythic. But the low drop rate also doesn't make locked crate openers stop opening for the mythic items, they just aren't valued as highly because there's more in the game.

So my suggestion, if taken as such, would still be to allow mythic items to be lootable from Elite bosses.

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Despite sounding more thoughtful, the suggestion remains one sided and lacks perspectives from a plat player as well as developer side. I'm not claiming myself to be all knowing here nor that my suggestion is the best, but at the least at this point it addresses the issue from both side thoroughly. If of course anyone can come up with a better win-win suggestion, would be happy to open my ears to it too.

Now back to the reasoning of your suggestion, I'm gonna show why low drop rates doesn't reduce the supply of these mythics.

Almost all mythic, arcanes and heroics have low drop rates be it from locks or from event maps (arcanite events, eggsavier, windmore event etc). The key difference lies in the ones who are supplying these rare drops/loots.

For locks:
Even with only a handful of people opening locks, the supply of arcanes and mythic is enough to make price drop drastically every single time a new locks is released.

From maps:
Relative to the amount of people who open locks, there are far more people who are non payers and farm more often. This means ANYONE (both plat and non plat players, rich and poor players) can stand a chance to get the drop. So having low drop rates doesn't even matter at all when you have sufficient numbers to make up for it.

That's to say, in the case where rare loots are exclusively from locks even with low drop rates, the price still fall significantly enough to discentivize further openings, i.e. the rate at which locks becomes useless to open as opposed to just buying elite awakes or keys from store, I guess I don't have to dig too much as it's logical to see locks openers spend more platinum to hopefully get a good loot, a better plat to gold ratio.

So now assuming sts allow all types of mythic drops to be available from maps, the price will drop even more, which of course makes it more affordable for people to get themselves one, which not only makes it less worth while to run for non-plat players, it also makes it worse for plat players to open locks.

A simple obervational example is
When no new locks - price of arcanes, mythics and other rare stuff from locks is stable and relatively fix
When new locks is present - more openings, price of the rare and exclusive loots drop significantly.
(You can see this in 76 arcanes, 81 mythics)

Which is why it brings to one possible suggestion I could come up with, is to allow mythics drops but in rotation. And never all at once. So even in the worst case scenario where one piece out of the 4 mythic pieces drop in price, locks openers won't be discentivized enough to stop opening them and farmers too can be happy farming.

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[frommeyou]

pass to Bored

[Fearrr]

When is the Content Update Thread?

[Krish Sasukae]

@Cinco can you prepond the easter by 1 week early please from 7 th April