Wynncraft update retrospective + update ranking

I mostly agree, I've never thought there were any glaring issues with any individual builds per se, but I think the big merit of 1.18's complete rebuild is the consistency. Like, Corkus was clearly the most detailed area and earlier places like the desert and the woods were clearly on the lower end of detail. I don;t think anything looked bad but I think the whole world feeling like it was at a consistent level of quality is really underrated.

 

Voted for 2016 - that's when Gavel was just released (December 2015) and I spent so much of that year exploring and loving this HUGE overhaul and addition to the game. Then we got the gameplay update (which you're right, should have been called 1.15), The Hallowynn update came out too with store changes and some in-game bits, we had the Corkus livestream and then we got 1.15 in December.

We got 3 updates, had loads of content drop a few days before the year began (Gavel) and we got some great clarity and communication from the CT and devs (which we then didn't have again until the more recent, monthly updates before a new update - that was in 2020)

 

I think the only aspect of 1.18 that gets underrated is armor stand mobs, which were a huge game-changer. Aside from that, yeah it's a bad update.

 

Now that 2.0 has been out for a week, how are you guys liking it? High-tier update or nah?

 

My only complaints are ability shards and some archetypes feeling bad to play. Otherwise I think this update is easily within the top three IMO. It feels like it does to 1.20 what the Gameplay Update did to Gavel, adding a lot more depth to basic systems (powders and mob spells/gimmicks for 1.14.1, spell archetypes for 2.0) and improving upon previously introduced content (dungeons and forgery/raids, respectively). It also feels a lot more fleshed out from the outset than 1.20, and the content that was introduced is really good, even if there’s not as much of it. Also, having actual rewarding endgame content that’s not just lootrunning is wonderful (even though lootrunning is still the best way to get mythics).

 

Also, when was the Wynnexcavation questline released? I don’t see it in any of the updates

 

The first two quests were in 1.13, but the rest were in a small update that I didn’t count

 

Added my thoughts on 2.0 - my placement of it in the rankings might be controversial

 

I'd say your placement of 2.0 is fair. Quest-wise you are correct that they are pretty good. It's only a shame that you haven't played Hollow Serenity you sussy baka

 

the fact that 1.20 and 1.17 were above gavel are truly astounding. absolutely everything we have in the game right now is thanks to gavel update. it also has astounding effects on the popularity of wynn. absolutely beyond me

 

With the next update on the horizon, I thought it would be nice to update this thread. Thanks to whichever mod unlocked this!

As time has passed, my opinions on 1.20 have gotten more positive, while at the same time, I realized my thoughts on 2.0 were affected by recency bias. I've updated rankings and the main post to reflect that. I also added a section on 2.0.3, the lootrun update.

 

How did swarms even work / play a part in wynns history, given that everyone is hyped about them returning? Only thing i now know is that they must have been huge when it was still in the game...

 

They were pretty big (for 2013 numbers), but also extremely laggy, and not very rewarding. Now with better servers and a better game overall, there's lots of reasons to be hyped for them

 

I think a special part of swarms was how they involved almost an entire server's worth of players working together. Stuff like old guild wars provided the same mob-killing experience, but they were done for competition, not pure cooperation for experience. So, I'd say swarms are popular for the same reason that a 45-player EO run is.

 

And not a hair more stable.

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Basically, a ton of special mobs would spawn in a city with a large number of players (read: Detlas) and players would have to kill them. There was a progress bar and there were significant xp rewards if I remember correctly? (I never actually completed one because they used to cause my computer to crash, which was fun.) I also seem to recall them having unique scaling for all players, not unlike the nether at the time, so lower-level players could still participate. I also remember seeing the floor littered with dropped soul points from players who died from the combination of mobs and lag. I'm sure there's tons of videos on old Wynncraft channels.

 

2.1 gonna be 1.12 2.0 fr

 

Bumping this because it’s useful

 

Thoughts on the new update coming soon?