Greetings everyone!
I'd like to share some information on what we have planned for Skirmish, in terms of both additions and adjustments.
Skirmish Additions
We will be adding new skirmishes along with new areas that are added, and the content level for these will be set to level 13.
With this, we are trying to accomplish the below:
- To provide a variety of content to cover a single content level.
- As it's possible to get burned out rushing to the top, we'd like to provide alternative ways to spend your time, which focus on non-vertical growth.
*In addition to Skirmish we will also be adding new Colonization Reives and Lair Reives for content levels 6-9, and new Wildskeeper Reives for content level 17. We'll be introducing new gear for these new content levels and we'll also be adding new gear that can be purchased using Bayld.
Below is a representation of how it will look:
119 20 Delve (Boss monsters) 118 19 117 18 116 17 New
Wildskeeper Reives115 16 114 15 113 14 Delve (NM group 2) 112 13 New Skirmish 111 12 110 11 Delve (NM group 1) 109 10 108 9 New
Colonization/Lair Reives107 8 106 7 Wildskeeper Reives 105 6 Skirmish 104 5 Colonization/Lair Reives 103 4 102 3 101 2 100 1 Item Level Content Level Up to April 2013
What can you do with the new Skirmishes?
- Enhancing current Skirmish weapons
By clearing new Skirmish areas, you may obtain a key item and new enhancement materials.
- Key item
It will be possible to evolve your current Skirmish weapon a stage further.
For example:
Ninza + key item= Ninza +1
- There is only one type of key item.
- You can freely choose which weapon you would like to evolve; however, once you evolve it, the key item will be consumed.
- You will have to obtain a new key item if you wish to upgrade multiple weapons.
- Arcane Glyptics will be reset. The reason for this being that there are issues with the item system when it comes to carrying these over to the next stage.
- New enhancement materials
These will allow Arcane Glyptics to be added to your newly evolved weapons.- New armor to be obtained
5 new sets of armor will be added. With the new enhancement items it will also be possible to add Arcane Glyptics to this equipment.
Adjustments to Arcane Glyptics
We agree with the feedback about allowing Arcane Glyptics to be added more easily and will be performing the below adjustments.
- Ghastly Stones
In the next version update we will be making Ghastly Stones an item that can be sold on the auction house (The new enhancement items will also be treated the same way.). Also, there has been feedback asking to tie the rank of the head piece to the level of Ghastly Stones that can be obtained; however, this is how the system already works currently.
- Bayld required for adding Arcane Glyptics
In the next version update we will be lowering the Bayld cost for Arcane Glyptics to 500 Bayld.
Other feedback
- Exchangeable goods
Exchanging items for Bayld has been primarily setup to be used in conjunction with coalitions. As we will be adding things such as new Wildskeeper Reives, we would still like to keep Bayld use tied to coalition-related content.
- Obsidian fragments
Obsidian fragments have been set to be a sort of bonus point type of thing for doing Skirmish. The main purpose of this content is not to save up these points, and as such we are not thinking about making it so you can exchange these for weapons.
- Acquiring the weapon you are aiming for
By clearing Skirmish once, 1-2 weapons will drop at minimum, and the difficulty for obtaining the weapon you would like has not been set very high. We would like to keep the methods for obtaining weapons as they are currently, but plan on increasing the opportunities to obtain statue segments.