Void Ark Preview: 10/15/15

[Niiro]

If they're following the same patterns then the only items available from Arc at the start will be Coats, with Twines and Dips added later.

But since the Alex loot distribution is different from coil they may do things differently, wouldn't be surprised if Twines were available from the start but I would be very surprised if they started handing out Dips from day 1.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Void Ark will probably drop Gobdips/etc.

They've set everything up to be a clone of the Crystal Tower dev cycle. Void Ark is Syrcus Tower (skipping LotA). ix00 gear + upgrade items for equivalent ilvl currency armor. In CT that was i100 and Soldiery upgrade items. Eso is the new soldiery. By the time 4.0 rolls around, we'll have a new currency, Eso will be unrestricted and gained from everything that drops Law/poetics right now, Law/poetics will be phased out, and the final coil of alexander will drop i230 gear and upgrades for i220 currency gear to become i230.

Y'all might think I exaggerate, but just you watch. It'll be exactly the same cycle.

The ENTIRE patch structure of everything is just "Hey, 2.0 worked decently well, let's just do the same thing with incredibly minor adjustments rather than take time to assess and strengthen what worked and change what didn't." It's really not a very unsafe prediction to expect the 5 major patch, 3-tier system; 4 8-man fights and ilvl jumps on even, 24-man and gear catch-up on odd, a new spammable 'primal' type fight for secondary items every patch.

Given the length of development cycle to live, I feel like it may be too late to reverse course, especially when they STILL aren't admitting there's actually anything wrong with the repetitive structure. Maybe by 3.2 they'll realize it, and have some relevant structural changes by 3.4, but by that point it could be too little too late. I'm definitely not optimistic.

[Eanae]

OH GOOD ANOTHER FENDING SET THAT INCORPORATES A BATTLE DRESS I'M SO EXCITED I COULD SHIT

Less dresses more capes SEplz. DRK Body master race.

[Damane]

the armors look shit tbh, not my type. Looks like they completly droping the ball with 3.1

[Raldo]

Don't worry, I'm sure the story NPCs will have unique gear we can't use.

[Neon_Sea]

NPC will have jet black High Allagen while we get Uldah thrift store robes.

[Niiro]

Leftover Halloween costumes no one wanted*

[Katlan]

Armor is ugly and its a combination of reused gear and thihghboots for all. Only decent set is casting/healing, rest are awful and look like a purple version of started gear w/ the battle mage strap around the front of the armor... because every piece needs that and cant be unique.

I did expect more coming out of a patch cycle that has been more dry then anything since the games relaunch. Its not like I even want to farm this gear for glamour because its ugly. Unless a piece of gear has like BiS stats (when second stats are lolz) I dont even see the point of banging my head against this each week when its gonna be tedious after week 2

[Niiro]

Also it's only just occurred to me that this thing is called the Void Arc rather than the expected Void Ark, given that it appears to be a ship and all.

[solracht]

it's Void Ark

[Rocl]

Also it's only just occurred to me that this thing is called the Void Arc rather than the expected Void Ark, given that it appears to be a ship and all.

what lol if you go to the actual website it's Ark; the OP title is wrong

idk how he changed the spelling in the the first bolded section but not the rest of it

[Niiro]

Yes I was confused looking back, I assumed the OP was just copy-pasted.

[Karbuncle]

I hope he summons waves of Fenrirs too

Late as hell but, You are pure evil sometimes lol.

[Lokus]

Armor is ugly and its a combination of reused gear and thihghboots for all. Only decent set is casting/healing, rest are awful and look like a purple version of started gear w/ the battle mage strap around the front of the armor... because every piece needs that and cant be unique.

I did expect more coming out of a patch cycle that has been more dry then anything since the games relaunch. Its not like I even want to farm this gear for glamour because its ugly. Unless a piece of gear has like BiS stats (when second stats are lolz) I dont even see the point of banging my head against this each week when its gonna be tedious after week 2

I remember when the original CT launched and the ilvl for the gear was revealed. Considering it was 10 ilvls lower than tome/coil gear, Yoshi basically said to farm it for glamour (this was before we even had glamour prisms). Now most of the gear doesn't even entice people to run it for glamour based on everyone's impressions.

[Fhloston]

It was pretty glamour worthy in LotA, and WoD. Only got BRD set in ST, and not interested in any of these sets. I know it's hard to follow the eso sets, but this looks like they didn't even try.

[Prothescar]

I know it's hard to follow the eso sets

tbh I find most of the eso sets to look awful, especially on males. a lot of the crafted and dungeon armor looks far superior. let's not even talk about Gordian (except for the NIN set).

[Silenka]

The Void Ark armors are a snoozefest, rehashed gear with two colors (three if you count healing set which is the ugliest of them all). I liked some of the WoD armor sets for glamour, they were pretty nice as far as looks but this is just fucking lazy. I guess everyone's probably going to be going for upgrade items. I can imagine that even the casuals might be miffed this patch.

[Destinye]

The Void Ark armors are a snoozefest, rehashed gear with two colors (three if you count healing set which is the ugliest of them all). I liked some of the WoD armor sets for glamour, they were pretty nice as far as looks but this is just fucking lazy. I guess everyone's probably going to be going for upgrade items. I can imagine that even the casuals might be miffed this patch.

And if 3.1 under performs, 3.2 being a PvP patch won't help things at all.

[vadre]

I really wish they'd drop this faceroll model or release 2 difficulties. The assets are there, would it really be that hard to provide an 8-man mid/hardcore version? I understand it's set up for 3 teams but would it be so hard to just use one and tweak things (I.e. Only using 1 of 3 lanes instead of splitting up or whatever)

Just seems like such a colossal waste of dev time, even if it was roughly extreme primal difficulty as 8-man it'd give all the mid-core people smashing their faces on Alex (or just not doing it) something to do.

Duuuuumb

[Seravi Edalborez]

I really wish they'd drop this faceroll model or release 2 difficulties. The assets are there, would it really be that hard to provide an 8-man mid/hardcore version? I understand it's set up for 3 teams but would it be so hard to just use one and tweak things (I.e. Only using 1 of 3 lanes instead of splitting up or whatever)

Just seems like such a colossal waste of dev time, even if it was roughly extreme primal difficulty as 8-man it'd give all the mid-core people smashing their faces on Alex (or just not doing it) something to do.

Duuuuumb

Or just upscale the value and mechanics for 24 people. Or even 16 (2 party) or 12 (3 light parties). Guaran-fucking-tee that despite any amount of bitching, a "difficult" mode of Faceroll Tower and it's ilk will be received VERY positively.

Or do more of what Labyrinth did and have the 3 parties have to handle shit on their own from time to time again. There was basically none of this in Syrcus, and WoD's Atomos was just a more faceroll version of Labyrinth's Atomos (it's ok if one party sucks because the others can just beat their Atomoses up more, albeit more slowly).