My Predictions Of The 1.19 Road To Dern Update

back n' forth, bois

yeah, you're probably right. they did the same thing after an update fizzled (dungeons and discoveries or whatever). however, RtD has been teased for much longer, so people are expecting more content, and more levels = longer interest (unless they do the molten heights thing where they put like 4 quests in 10 levels (pre Dwarves/Doguns))

yeah, as i said, i forgot about EoTS. probably they will sometime update it, but just a minor dialogue update, or they could do us a big favor and rework the town (just in looks) as well as add cool cutscenes and stuff

voyage might get an update, but probably not at the start. i'd say they would save updating late-game quests for when interest is low

ehh, maybe. but iirc dern isn't too well established (realm not a province makes it sound like its inhabited by only semi-human things), so i'm doubting we'll get anything like that. fast travel, probably, considering that as of now, most endgame players don't go to the southern edge of wynn much, so they would want to make it easier for us.

dungeon quest could work, due to the aforementioned dungeon level gap. however, it would probably have to be a level 99 or 108 dungeon, due to level (still holding out hope for mortal mountain, RoL, and prison by Ternaves dungeon)

I'm assuming the road will, if anything, have one major city at the end (intro city like llevigar or ragni, probably has a few quests in it and the surrounding area)

however, i'm assuming that at the start of the road, there will by a wynnic outpost, (btw im assuming that dern has a lot more denizens and evils than the other provinces, b/c "realm" and dark them) to defend against any dernic monsters. they will probably be like "oh, don't go in there, it's too dangerous. BUT if you get us some nemract whiskey we could turn a blind eye. aight thanks" (so pretty much a basic fetch quest for entry)

well-balanced quests are hard to come by. imo, Dwarves/Doguns and Aldorei both did a pretty good job of doing this, as well as a few I'm sure im forgetting, Im hoping they add more, due to the community hype around this update
I think people will quickly lose interest over road to dern, but im assuming real dern has a ton of content

i'll concede this point, i dont know anything about guilds. sounds reasonable.

1.20 community-wanted update would be nice (or bloomi. bloomi is fine too)

imo, the key words are "a while back"
they have advanced very far in terms of builds, content, lore, balance, and quest-making
i bet that if they put a bit of time into this, they could make it very enjoyable

yikes, i dont have the time to be a GM lmao. yeah, they do take a while. i'd say one is necessary by the ternaves prison, or some sort of explanation for it


a few other thoughts: i want more dungeons. mainly them. ternaves prison, mortal mountain, realm of light, road to dern, non-corrupted gavel dungeons. anything

i'd say that instead of reworking quests this update, they will do a mid-1.19 update which reworks old quests

hopeful for this update

 

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/the-gavel-dungeon-that-was-never-finished.252389/

Yes, it was cancelled.

 

like, permanently? or b/c they had other better things to work on

any reason?

 

This was discussed in the CT stream we did a while back. There are currently no plans to bring it back because it didn't align with our new dungeon design philosophies for 1.14.1, among various other issues. Of course, it's not impossible it will be implemented one day, but it's not likely.

 

missed the stream rip
what are the new dungeon philosophies, though? less xp for more work? (rip csst :( :( :( :(

 

Good gameplay and a balanced time-to-xp ratio. CSST wasn't fun and it had a ridiculously unbalanced time-to-xp ratio.

 

i loved it was very fun definitely 100%
built community xoxo

but how did mortal mountain not fit with this philosophy? couldn't it be revamped like csst, or changed numbers?

 

That would be cool though, but I doubt that they will add in any other dungeons for Gavel, at least not anytime soon.

 

true, rip mortal mountain
still dont understand why its gone

still hoping for either a CoTL, Skislands, or MH dungeon

 

RTD is no Gavel. So I feel like that they can get away with adding only 7 levels. Well in reality it all depends on how large it will be, and the level jump will justify it.

Yea I hope for a update of the quest too. It was okay but it could do a lot better. With the Voyage, I still have a good feeling that they may change it this update, cause the team has plenty of stuff to do, so I am unsure about the holding it off thing.

The abandoned mines is near Detlas though. But either way I don't think that the road would be easily accessible by having at the abandoned mines, a 20-30 level range area. I feel like that they would have it start out as a Gavel quest or something.

Having a grand city like Llevigar sounds like a great idea, but I just have a feeling that the first city you come upon is like Detlas, in the middle, and you have to survive the environment for you get to it.

Not a bad idea for a quest. But in my opinion a mixed between main storyline quests, and less important laid back ones are the best.

Hm, so you're saying that Road to Dern isn't a community-wanted update?

Irrc the problem was that they hired some guy for Gavel to create a code cutscene system, I don't entirely remember what it was that Salted said, and when he bailed Salted said that they had to rush it. So yes now-a-days it is easier to do stuff like that, but not really.

You don't have to have a lot of time for being a CT, the more activity the better but I believe Grian said that lots of activity isn't required.

Funny that you mentioned Ternaves' Prison. A while back I created my own quest idea about the prison with some cool-ish story.

I generally don't think we need more dungeons on the main provinces, unless the xp gets nerfed so badly that having a constant need for dungeons is needed to advance.

The team doesn't do a lot of content filled mid-way updates, they cram everything into one approximately yearly update.

 

im saying that the community was not the original one to suggest it
dern lore has been for a while now
bloomi is handgrown by the community

ill respond meaningfully when im not tired

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yeah, i really loved forbidden prison (lorewise, quest was aight too), so i've been interested in that

i dont really care about them for exp, i care about the fact that then there is actually something there. like, a reason to go to these cool places after you do the quests

 

I can see what you mean, but the community has been requesting it for a while now.

To be honest the thing is that I am unsure if the team plans on spending a lot of time for something that will not be used much.

 

Could you link the stream? I've heard about it but didn't get the chance to watch.

 

Salted forgot to record it and get a VOD, so there's only a couple of small clips.

 

Barely made the allowed bump time

 

HOPEFULLY, we can get a better insite on what Bob is and what was his cause of death, and maybe an explanation for the Olm which was teasly mentioned at Time Valley? And a explanation for Time Valley in itself, Who were the Olm? What was the cosmic event that eliminated them? I honestly see Time Valley to have some sort of connection with Dern.

 

Bump cause relevant topic

 

maybe

 

I watched the trailer just now. I was quite impressed.