Greeting Mistwalkers, At last, we have a new update for you! As you may be aware, we had a talk with our community a few months back about the game and how it can be improved. Many of the comments we got were about our game shop and that was the main focus for this first refactoring update, we have described those changes below. On the content side, we worked on new regions in the northeast of Gantras. These regions are focused on mid-level players and will offer them more to do while they are progressing on the game. We also modified the experience for new players with the default recipe and improved the difficulty of Saharanelle Raid for endgame players. We really hope you like the changes we made to the game! Thanks for playing!

Changelog

Features and Changes

• PvP (Player vs. Player) arena regions are no longer available.
• You can now delete characters.
• When you inspect a character, you can see every item they have.
• The shop has been updated, and all previous items are back.
• There's a new subscription feature that doubles Mastery, Skill gain, and combat XP, and boosts movement speed by 30%. Please note that this subscription is applied on a per-character basis, meaning you need to activate it individually for each character you want to receive these benefits.
• Some items in the store are now cheaper.
• You can now use Blue Crowns to skip the wait time for non-end-game tasks.
• The difficulty increase per Power Level in the Saharanelle Raid has been lowered to 20%, down from 25%. This means that for each level of difficulty, the challenge will now increase by a smaller margin, making the progression through the raid's five difficulties smoother.

Content Changes

• Check out the shop for new cosmetic items!
• Bosses now have reduced Magic Protection, lowered to 20%, down from 30%.
• Enhanced the gaming experience in the mid-level zones of the Eastern Gantras Mountains.
• Updated the initial crafting recipes for a better start.
• Decreased the materials needed for crafting items at beginner levels.

The new game shop

Lets take a few minutes to check out our new shop. The biggest change is the optional subscription system that will double all types of experience and activate the fast travel feature. We hope that this subscription will become our main driver for the creation of the game, it gives us clear metrics on how many players are expecting new content because they are engaged enough to pay for the subscription. In the game, there is a new skip cooldown feature that will allow you to skip all non-endgame tasks. We view this new feature as a means to get a character faster to endgame for players that are in a hurry. This feature also allows a player to skip the end of an almost finished cooldown for a low price when there is a bad synchronization between the play session and the cooldown end. The decision to keep the endgame task out of this feature is to make sure we keep some balance on high level features in the game. The cosmetic shop now offers a wide range of styles, frames and cosmetics that are not limited in time but that will be on sale when they are related to the current game event. This will reduce a lot of the frustration that comes from the possibility of a missed event because you discovered the game too late. Major exclusive frames and pets coming from events like the Portal Pioneer (Early Access) and the Virtysia Festivities (Launch) will stay unique as they are meant to show that you were there. With the improved offer, we decided that the companion slots price could be reduced as we want the player to invest in more elements of the game. This basically means that the base price for the game is now lower.

Our monetization in a nutshell:

Premium

If you buy any of our real money packages (Baronis, Princana, Royonar or Emperator), you unlock:

• The Trade between character features.
• Get a bonus to harvest.
• Unlock the feature to create a custom style for your character.

Subscription

You can subscribe (per character) to the game to get:

• Double XP on all progression (skills, combat and mastery).
• You get a 30% boost on moving speed.

Unlocks

• Account wide: Slot for additional companions.
• Per character: Slot for additional equipped talent slot.

Items

These are power ups for the game. Most of them will help you save time or overcome difficult challenges.

• Blue Chest : Allow to trade pack of 250 Blue Crowns
• Portable Portal : Create a portal at your current location. Only one portal can be active, if you setup a new portal, the old one will disappear.
• Mists Snail : Send all your new items to your domain.
• Change your name : Thats it.
• Change sex : Thats it.
• Mist shard : Is a currency linked to the Mistwalkers progression with Leonidas.
• Phenix Elixir : Forgot to bring a healing potion? Get this item to heal yourself.
• Tonic Biscuit : Forgot to bring a restoration potion? Get this item to restore your stamina.
• Hyperserum : Will give you a serum (potion) with +10 on many skills for one of durability.

Cosmetic

These are cosmetic items (with no skills) that will help you personalize your character. New items are added periodically to the store and they will normally be on sale when they are new or linked to the current event in the game.

In the game

• Trade slots: After your initial unlock of the trade with a real money purchase, you can unlock 3 more trading slots.
• Domain coffers: You can increase the base capacity of your domain.
• Skip cooldown: You can skip the cooldown of a non-endgame task.

[ 2023-11-16 19:59:37 CET ] [ Original post ]