Upcoming patches and race events

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Maverickroll wrote:

It may be crazy but..

One Week Turbo Hardcore Cut Throat Solo

or as I like to call it, Highlander Week.

There can be only fun!

A few issues:

-- you'd need to make the Church Dungeon a safe zone from pvp.

-- The as-yet unannounced 'build your own hovel and make horseshoes whilst living a carefree life with your bonnie lass of a wife' feature would need to be enabled.

-- Clancy Brown will be revealed as the voice actor for the hidden boss.

-- As much as we like Adgio's ambient themes, Queen's 'Princes of the Universe' would have to start playing anytime pvp is initiated.

-- At least one new skill gem will be required. It is, of course, 'Decapitate'.*



-- Trading would be necessary. How else would we receive an anachronistically forged katana** from a random Spaniard who sounds suspiciously Scottish?



OTHER than that, I think we're good to go.

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Perkel wrote:

HIGLANDER RACE !

Every one can start in this mode.

- Hardcore
- Cut-throat
- Once somebody dies he can't join league with other characters.
- People who don't join league on time or they play less than 2h a day are auto kicked.
- Week long
- If there will be players at week end, game will auto drop them in same instances as hostile characters. Also Town Portals can lead you to other higlander portals making you fight.
- The only living Highlander will achieve forum status "Highlander"

The more I think about the better a 1 week solo cutthroat sounds.

I like where you are going but I get the sense you are being over the top.

Leave first day open registration but afterwards it's closed. First 24hrs you can make as many toons as you'd wish, or restrict accounts to having one live toon in the race at once to avoid people farming hillock early on.

Race goes a week or until there's one person left alive (as if there's one person left after 3 days no reason for it to finish out the 4 days).

This bring whole new meaning to ladders. I feel like this was a mild joke but god damn it sounds fun.

Chris I think it's settled with the community, 1 week cutthroat. No 1 hour crap, lets jump into the deep end.

i dont like trading in races.
Next race? HC Turbo with brutus as every mob

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Laellu wrote:

Please do not make a week long solo event ever. Please do not make a week long cut throat event ever.

That is my vote.

Agreed.

Also, no trading whatsoever in any solo race.

Trading in races takes time which i prefer to use to play the game.
I think trading in a solo race should be not able, it is more fun that way.
Other wise it takes a bit of the solo mode away from it.

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TheSwampDog wrote:

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Laellu wrote:

Please do not make a week long cut throat event ever.

That is my vote.

Agreed.

Also, no trading whatsoever in any solo race.

+1

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Guilherme84 wrote:

Another idea I would suggest is 1 week 2h World Record.

Allowing people to create a toon from any class for 1 week long, and once you join the game, the timer starts ending 2h after.

End results would be placed in ladderboard by experience.

So, in the end of the week, we could have an official "World Record" for 2h lenght.
Also, trading and stash shouldnt be allowed between toons (or people would just farm stuff , storage and get advantage every new attempt)

This race mode would give a LOT of fun for one week, and if people see a class that has a low level in the ladder, they would just try to roll that class in the new attempt trying to improve the results.

Any1 else liked this?

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Charan wrote:

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Maverickroll wrote:

It may be crazy but..

One Week Turbo Hardcore Cut Throat Solo

or as I like to call it, Highlander Week.

There can be only fun!

A few issues:

-- you'd need to make the Church Dungeon a safe zone from pvp.

-- The as-yet unannounced 'build your own hovel and make horseshoes whilst living a carefree life with your bonnie lass of a wife' feature would need to be enabled.

-- Clancy Brown will be revealed as the voice actor for the hidden boss.

-- As much as we like Adgio's ambient themes, Queen's 'Princes of the Universe' would have to start playing anytime pvp is initiated.

-- At least one new skill gem will be required. It is, of course, 'Decapitate'.*

Spoiler

*Actual decapitation animation sold seperately.

-- Trading would be necessary. How else would we receive an anachronistically forged katana** from a random Spaniard who sounds suspiciously Scottish?

Spoiler

**And someone conveniently put an anachronistic katana in Wraelcast already...and it also happens to believe in the Highlander credo. ;)

OTHER than that, I think we're good to go.

dont forget the quickening - A shower of lightning bolts from the sky stunning you for 10 seconds after a decapitation

and your skill gem "decapitate" can only be used on a defeated foe(zero health could cause a knockout type status) or he will regenerate and come back too life!

Also more cutthroat I have yet to try it out and I want to so very badly even though I'm a big noob and wouldn't get far...

I also agree with the idea trading should be restricted in solo events in theory but this being beta now is the time to give it a test run to see what happens.

1 week hardcore turbo, with a toned down brutus. Cutthroat or not, Doesn't matter to me, but at some point you guys need to do a longer cutthroat even to see how it plays out, although waiting until OB might be a better idea due to lack of closed beta players willing to do a week long cutthroat turbo hardcore event.

I'm pretty much done with "normal" hardcore as there are so few actual dangers, and most are easily avoided. Most monsters are too slow to matter. I don't have much remaining interest in 2 to 3 hour races as there's not that much depth to them beyond rush to a certain point and farm.

My only gripe about the last hardcore turbo week race was that the population was so low that it was really difficult to trade for anything, particularly support gems due to the tiny population beyond level 30.

I absolutely do not want to see a 1+ week event with trading restricted. With no trading its just a rng luckfest unless you run a standard build for the classes due to lack of selection of support gems. The last thing I want, is to forced into a particular cookie cutter build because certain supports aren't available at all. Even with trading possible in the 1 week, it was terrible getting some supports. Even though I tend to solo, trading is necessary.

I personally think trading should be disabled for solo races completely. Someone could just have friends on voice comm running gear for you early on, giving a huge unfair boost. Don't think anyone has exploited this largely yet though, but the potential is huge.

What I like about turbo is that it makes certain areas like chamber of sins level 3, weaver chamber less rush friendly, and forces you to take huge risks if you choose to run past mobs in harder areas and forces you to kill some of the content that you would normally skip.

I dislike the insane difficulty spike it causes for Brutus fight. Most of the difficulty comes from unpredictability of the desync causes for his abilities, and it becomes a complete toin coss if you play a fragile character relying on tactics where you would avoid to get hit.

I always thought it would be fun if turbo mode had some kind of reward for risk approach. Like 1 week +50% rarity boost turbo league. :)