there should have been a guild structure from the get go... it could even be a generic one that all players could have accessed, but would load into a seperate instance for your guild... i talked about this in the beta forums pre launch around beta 3 i believe
single play instances sound alright to me, i am a casual player as it is and dont have the time to raid like i used too.
barbershops huh?? they better start adding some special things that are not in the creator...
no leather for warriors... umm shouldnt that have been fixed before launch??
1.5 will add the 6 other skill trees?? about time... but thats over a month away!
Trion Discusses 1.5 and Beyond at Gamescom
Members of the guild Result on the Immerwacht EU server had the chance to attend a meet and greet with Vice President/Executive Development Director Russ Brown and Producer Adam Gershowitz at Gamescom to learn about Rift Update 1.5 and beyond. According to the developers, 1.5 will launch near the end of September or beginning of October and will introduce the first part of the post-50 Planar Attunement advancement system, Chronicles of Telara dungeons for solo players or small groups, and the new Library of the Runemasters Warfront.
They also talk about future content past 1.5. For example, Brown hints that Ember Isle comes out in two patches with a new zone and a new style of gameplay. "Social life" features like a barber shop are also in the works.
You can watch the video below to hear all the details straight from Brown and Gershowitz, and you can read Result's own summary of the major points after the jump. Head over to our Rift general forum to join in on the discussion surrounding this news.
Result's Summary of the Video's Major Points
We (Result - Immerwacht EU) have been to the GamesCom in Cologne and had quite some luck to arange a meet 'n' greet with Vice President/Executive Development Director Russ Brown and RIFT Producer Adam Gershowitz. Here's a little summary of the topics:
to patch 1.5:
- 1.5 will go live end of september - beginning of october
- There will be "single-dungeons" as a part of the "Chronicles of Telara". These dungeons are for more casual players who don't have the times like full raiders do. You can easily clear this dungeons with 1-2 players (depends on the equip) but the difficulty will not scale with the amount of players in the dungeon. Hammerknell will be the first "solo-dungeon" so that casual gamers are able to see that type of dungeon as well.
- There will be the "Master-Mode". The Developers said that it is going to be hard to solve these dungeons. It's for gamers between full raiding and casual. Right now, Darkening Deeps and Deepstrike Mines are the first dungeons in testing phase. There probably will be more depending on which dungeons the community wants to see.
- The new "Hammerknell"-Warfront "Library of the Runemasters" will be released
- The first parts of the new "Planar Achievment System" will go live. From level 50 on you will get points for earned EP from daily quests etc. These points can be spent in 6 extra bonus skilltrees to adjust the characters a little more and give them some finetuning.
other facts:
- The new 10-man-dungeon "Rise of the phoenix" won't be released with 1.5 because they are focusing on other things (see above) and it is still in testing
- The new 10-man-dungeon will be as hard as Hammerknell just with 10 man!
- The new Zone won't come live with 1.5
- But there will be new Raid-Rifts with the new zone (1.6 or later)
- The aspect "social-life" was discussed. Developers are plannig some fancy features like a "barber-shop" where you can change the face of your character.
- The "Warrior and leather" issue was discussed. They want to have every class their own equip-class. So warriors won't prefer leather instead of plate anymore in future. so don't buy any leather from you tokens any more warriors because they will adjust the items step by step^^
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