Talk:Game updates/20110303

IRC chat about impending update
 Wartower.de interviews John Stumme about dervish and Embark Beach updates  travel between Embark Beach and all mission outposts is facilitated by NPC dialogue trees  those in EB are congregated by continent  EB also includes all merchants/traders  surprise feature (that i hadn't seen mentioned anywhere else): Minion UI panel  7 heroes allows custom builds for all 7, but no changes to the flag controls  no separate flags for heroes 4-8  new microtransaction item: Mercenary Heroes  turn any character (that meets some unspecified requirements) into a Hero that other characters on your account can use oh wow  big Pre-Searing changes - new series of 9 daily quests given by Lieutenant Langmar  difficulty and rewards scale based on level of party leader  intention is to make LDoA a more friendly title to more players - still require a time investment, but no need for 8 hours of AFK death leveling  ...ad nauseam for 3 months  which means...  ...you can now get LDoA and Survivor on the same character  also, Kimmes the Historian will be added to Pre-Searing so you can add titles from your perma-Pre characters to your HoM I can see a lot of LDoAs being annoyed about that. ^_^ <dr_ishmael> indeed well I can see my level 13 pre character finally getting LDoA there was no point before <dr_ishmael> exactly me too! my lvl0 character will have awesome title. <dr_ishmael> Winds of Change is next, of course, and "something" is coming in April that will be "amazing" <dr_ishmael> they also want to tell the story of the Foefire through a game event, but there's the complication that "everyone that experiences it gets turned into a ghost" <dr_ishmael> and they don't want to "get into the complication of 'a magical artifact protects the player character from the effect'" and stuff like that well, the "it's all a dream" out woudl work? <dr_ishmael> XD how did they do the historical Varesh Ossa etc. episodes from the bonus pack? <dr_ishmael> that's exactly what i was thinking <dr_ishmael> or the Keiran quests in HotN mysterious man appears in kama/kaineng/la and asks if you want to experience the future. * Turai Ossa <dr_ishmael> BMP = you're reading a book, Keiran = watching through the Scrying Pool ish, does he say if merc heroes can be pvp characters <dr_ishmael> he said any character <dr_ishmael> didn't specify PvE/PvP oh, cool <dr_ishmael> only that it has to be L20

Summary:

&mdash;Dr Ishmael 19:17, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Embark Beach - travel to all mission outposts via NPC dialogue. Travel from outposts back to EB through a Zaishen Scout.
 * 7 Heroes - can customize build for all 7, but flag controls remain the same
 * Mercenary heroes - microtransaction, takes a snapshot of one of your characters (level 20) and other characters on your account can use them as a hero.
 * Minion control panel - a party panel for minions.
 * Pre-Searing - New set of daily quests (9) that scale in difficulty and reward based on party leader's level. Can now earn Legendary Defender of Ascalon and Survivor on the same character. (cue the QQ)