Initial thoughts on the trailer??

I think that part was actually just showing more reinforcements marching towards Tasim (who are still going to try to kill him).

It doesn't make much sense if he used to be a captain of the Fruman army because in the quest Recover the Past we see that he was being tracked down for being marked as "cursed". He was then captured, mind-wiped, and sent to Wynn.

I guess it coooould be a recent flashback of Tasim that takes place after he returns to Fruma. But that would mean they forgave him for murdering their soldiers and decided to promote him to a captain, which makes no sense at all (unless they deem him powerful enough to use for their benefit, captured him, and mind-wiped him again lol).

 

I for one hope we get some ragni king lore

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Maybe the used some hypnotizing powers or cursing to make him a captain

 

Ragni king lore would be TIGHT

 

The new UI elements are going to drive me absolutely insane for a few weeks, but it looks like an awesome change.

I think it's worth noting that the new mythic dagger seen in the trailer has a base dps of 740 (1 more than inferno; far less than I'd expect from a weapon 20 levels higher and with earth and thunder mixed in), with a super slow attack speed. It seems like weapon ascension is the new way power will be increased, rather than raw stat changes of the weapons you find. I assume this was done to prevent a decade worth of hard-earned mythics from becoming suddenly obsolete. Also, tri-elemental mythics oughta be interesting.

Animations and models for spells will be nice, although I do worry about how they'll affect the performance of people with really, really low end systems, who play with the majority of particles turned off. I assume there isn't a way to simply turn off parts of the models for performance reasons. Hopefully they're non-laggy enough to make that a non-issue.

Overall, the trailer was incredibly well made and makes me super excited for the update (now bring back player towers so that I may properly express it). It's amazing how far they've come in the ten years(!) since Gavel, which still feels like yesterday.

 

super excited for the dialogue and api changes! also new mounts :D