This entire update seems to be totally focussed on making cosmetic changes and making another series of balancing changes…
I guess in this day and age the game looks is more important than how the game plays…
Regarding the changes in the update:
I don’t care how my hero looks. I don’t use him much anyway
I don’t need souls, so I don’t play with Valkyrie anymore
I’m not in a guild that is going to complete many Legendary tasks, so that does nothing for me either.
I don’t play with sound (never have actually)…
I have no reason to disenchant any troops (I have over 100K souls laying around collecting dust)…
So really, besides the balance changes (which are mostly to troops people in the high level meta don’t use on defense anyway) this patch has no effect on me whatsoever…
I was hoping for at least some addition or change to gameplay (new kingdom? Anything really), but I guess maybe next update?
It sounds like they have a Pirate themed kingdom almost ready.
With the new patch system, I look to the major patches 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, to have significant content, and the minor patches, 2.1.5, to have fixes and minor content. I do prefer these intermediate updates verses the waiting 3-5 months for a major update.
With big game features- like the new PVP or the new Guild system- we prefer to release them with every 2nd patch update (like 2.0 or 2.1), while patches like 2.0.5 or 2.1.5 we use for smaller features or focusing on bug fixes, it allows us to release patches more often than we used to, which was about every 3 months.
Valkyries in Norse mythology, would gather the souls of dead warrior to take them to Valhalla.
Can you explain the undead and how they make/gather souls? I am looking at those in ghulvania that have necromancy or generate souls. It seems thematic, but is it thematically correct?
Hello Darkness, my old friend (from Aes Sedai and Royal Fire) - it’s not all so bad, and if you’re interested I know of a guild that has already completed 28 legendary tasks…
I really liked the crafting and researching mini-games in Puzzle Quest. Perhaps we could have a mini-game that costs gems and lets you try to craft traitstones by matching a certain amount of that color before you run out of turns. That would be more fun for me than a slot machine.
I second this. Puzzle Quest and PQ2 both had really fun minigames that would be a refreshing change of pace here. As usual, the trick is balancing the rewards to make them optional and not essential.
Fun Fact… they almost never made it into PQ.
They were originally games that looked a lot like poker machines, with a very random outcome.
I was very unhappy with them, and with about 1 month to go on the project we rewrote them into their current form. Our poor producer on the publisher side almost had a heart attack, but it turned out the new games were a lot of fun, so they stayed!
I’m actually very happy with my current guild (Black Pearl).
Black Pearl is competitive enough that we complete all the regular guild tasks each week, but casual enough that the minimum requirements are reachable by just playing when I want to, and not feeling I have to play to reach the standards set by the guild.
@Nimhain: I understand. I think my previous post was just fuelled by the fact that I got very excited that the game had an update (I was hoping for something new to re-kindle my slightly fading interest in the game) and then being disappointed that there was nothing in the update that would affect me.
But the current “big update - small update” sequence does make a lot of sense…
@Sirrian The initial post never mentioned what the soul cap was raised to. I believe it was previously (unofficially) stated to be 60 with 2 necromancy traits.
