La subida de nivel

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Alpha-1 early iteration of the level-up effect by Jim Sanders.

One of the cool abilities we all love seeing and gives us a major dopamine response is when our character levels up. – Steven Sharif

La subida de nivel no seguirá el típico camino lineal, aunque si que existen mecánicas clásicas para subir de nivel.

• La experiencia (XP) se obtiene a través de una variedad de vías de progresión verticales y horizantes, como Pvp, PvE, exploración, recolección/procesado/crafteo, eventos/misiones, grindeo de enemigos.
  • Se otorgará XP por participar en PvP basado en objetivos de forma decreciente.

• El nivel de un personaje es visible para otros jugadores.

• Algunos niveles pueden ofrecer más recompensas que otros.

I think you can emphasize some levels more than others and that's a great way to do progression. But I think ultimately that you should see a reward for your progress or effort spent. – Steven Sharif

• No habrá potenciadores de nivel o auto-leveleo (leveleo AFK).

As part of our ideals as a game we're not going to give boosts away. We're not going to auto-level up a character. You have to spend time acclimating yourself to what this game is, to what the world that you're part of is; and that's an investment- a time investment; and that plays towards our ideas of risk-versus-reward; and I've always said our game's not going to be for everybody and that's okay. – Steven Sharif

• No habrá reducción de daño debido a las diferencias de nivel, ni en Pvp ni en PvE.

If I have a skill that does a thousand damage to a target of equal level I don't want my skill to do zero damage to a target that's five levels above me. – Steven Sharif

• Un jugador podría, en teoría, subir a máximo nivel en un único nodo, siempre que ese nodo estuviera en un nivel lo suficientemente alto, aunque no sería el medio más eficaz para subir de nivel.

Nivel máximo

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Se espera que el límite de nivel en el lanzamiento sea nivel 50.

• En el momento del lanzamiento, los desarrolladores prevén que el nivel máximo se podrá alcanzar en unos 45 días si se juega entre 4 y 6 horas al día.
• En la versión Alpha-1 la progresión fue hasta el nivel 15.
• En la Alpha-2 se espera una progresión hasta el nivel 35 (sujeto a cambios).

Los personajes de nivel inferior tendrán una utilidad en los combates masivos (como los asedios a los nodos) que no depende directamente de su nivel, como por ejemplo manejar armas de asedio, ayudar a reparar fortificaciones, aportar buffs basados en la proximidad de posiciones clave, usar el sigilo o escalar muros. Este tipo de cosas son relevantes en el fragor de la batalla y no requieren que el jugador sea de nivel máximo o tengas uans estadísticas de combate elevadas.

The idea is not to be a game where somebody can essentially no life for a week and be max level. The idea is to incorporate some significant chunk of time but still respect the casual player, because the way we respect the casual player is not everything is driven in our game through the adventuring progression line. Not everything is driven through your class level per-se. There's a lot of different progression paths that are available and make you relevant within certain systems and mechanics within the game; and some of those paths are more casual friendly and some of those paths are more hardcore friendly. So with regards to the adventuring class, the idea is to make sure that investment needs to be pretty significant and that the reward then is respective of that investment. – Steven Sharif

Progresión de clases

• Un jugador elige su arquetipo al principio del juego.
  • Un jugador no puede cambiar su arquetipo principal.

• Los jugadores reciben puntos de habilidad a medida que levelean. Estos pueden ser usados para subir de nivel sus habilidades en su árbol de habilidades.
  • No será posible subir de nivel todas las habilidades del árbol de habilidades.

• Un jugador deberá elegir un arquetipo secundario cuando alcance nivel 25. La combinación de los arquetipos primario y secundario son conocidas como clases.
  • El segundo arquetipo no otorga habilidades adicionales.
  • El segundo arquetipo se podrá cambiar, pero no "al vuelo".

• El jugador puede entonces aumentar sus habilidades primarias con los efectos de su arquetipo secundario.
  • Cada habilidad en el árbol de habilidades tendrá diferentes opciones de aumento del árbol secundario. Este es un ejemplo de progresión horizontal.
  • Los aumentos en las habilidades principales pueden básicamente cambiar la forma en la que funcionan - adaptando lo que la habilidad hacía, para incorporar la identidad del arquetipo/clase secundaria.

Si un luchador eligiese ser mago como arquetipo secundario, el luchador se convertiría en "Spellsword". Ésta combinación crea aumentos que pueden ser aplicados en habilidades de su árbol de habilidades primario. Los luchadores tienen la habilidad Embestida que les permite embestir a sus objetivos; y una vez los alcanzan, infligirles una cierta cantidad de daño con una posibilidad de derribarlos. Un aumento en destello puede ser aplicado a la habilidad embestida, lo que teleportará al jugador al objetivo; eliminando así el tiempo de la carga de la habilidad.

La progresión de clase no tiene nada que ver con la progresión de artesanía del jugador.

Los eventos del mundo no afectan directamente a la eficacioa de la clase pero puede haber efectos secundarios en términos de disponibilidad de equipo, encantamientos o tatuajes.

Las zonas y su progresión

Las mazmorras, raids, jefes de mundo, enemigos, misiones, eventos, recursos, narrativa y cualquier otro contenido dentro de la ZOI de un nodo tendrán un nivel de dificultad variable; pero escalará con el avance de ese nodo y de su influencia racial.

We don’t have a strictly level 25 zone. Instead, that zone might have some level 10 creatures near the road, some level 20 creatures deep in the forest, and some level 30 creatures up the mountain. These ratios will change based on the Nodes that inform them, becoming generally more dangerous as the Node grows. All this civilization attracts the attention of Things-That-Should-Not-Be. This does not mean that wilderness areas are safe, by any means. Some may be safe-er, but all will have dangers that even the most experienced traveler needs to watch out for. – Steven Sharif

Elite monster 3D turntable.

It's a really big dude and the idea behind him is you're gonna see big monsters- I think that the character comes up to like his elbow maybe, or just beneath the elbow I'm not sure- but you're going to see these big elites just roaming and wandering through the world. They're not assigned any to to any particular hunting ground, they just roam; and I think that component is pretty cool especially when you have an open world where you can see something unique that's not matching the monsters you're hunting in a certain area but just strolls by. – Steven Sharif

Goblin 3D render. 3D model by Chris Atkins.

There are going to be different types of "Goblinesque" creatures; and this one has not skipped out on his leg or arm day, which is a good thing for him because he's probably going to be in a lot of fights. – Steven Sharif

There will be a mix of different monsters and difficulty levels throughout the world that are tied to the development of nearby nodes. As nodes advance, mobs will present new and increasing dangers that players can participate in.

In the world naturally there will be locations that are going to have a mix of different levels of monsters and difficulty levels; and then those spawn tables relate to the development of nearby nodes. So as nodes develop they'll be changing the spawn tables around them to reflect their further development in the world, presenting new and more difficult dangers that the players can participate in. – Steven Sharif

• Not all creatures are immediately hostile to players. Some creatures may hunt other creatures.

We've talked about this a little bit in the past when talking about taming and/or certain types of like creature gatherable resources there are herds that exist out there. There are big game that exist out there, where they're not going to aggro and attack you per-se. Also lower level monsters and certain type of like social monsters may not attack you off the bat. – Steven Sharif

• There will be flying mobs, but not in terms of requiring a flying mount to engage them.

We will have flying monsters but essentially what that means is there's going to be rotations either in the behavior tree that might make them inaccessible to targets, or they might do some like swooping attacks; they might come and land on the ground and fight you. But generally monsters are going to be accessible from on the ground, so we're not creating content for the limited number of individuals who are going to have access to a flying mount. – Steven Sharif

• Certain world bosses and elite monsters will path/roam throughout the world. Other mobs will have leashes that will cause the mob to reset if it moves too far from its point of origin.

Leashes are relevant. There's other gameplay implications that happen when you're able to actually move populations around. We don't want to really give that to the players perspective. – Steven Sharif

• Named mobs will usually have a unique character appearance.

• In general, mobs will not leave footprints or cause screen-shake; but larger monsters and bosses may do. Screen shake will be customizable in user interface settings.

There is something to be had there about those types of screen-shake effects. We want them to be present when we're emphasizing certain things, but we don't want them to be a nuisance, or annoying, or too plentiful; and having screen-shake apply to every step would probably be too abundant. Will players have control over those on-screen type effects? Yeah I think so. I think that's something we want to provision as a customizable option for players to be able to turn off, because it can be somewhat nauseating for certain groups of people and a distraction from what's happening in the world. – Steven Sharif

• Average non-elite mob time-to-kill for a solo player is intended to be around 6 seconds.

• Certain bosses and creatures will have voice lines along with other audio cues.

Habilidades de clase

Alpha-1 preview primary skills.

If from the eight archetypes whatever you choose as your secondary, you're going to receive a choice of augments that relate to some core ideal of that class. You know like a tank is about controlling the battlefield, is about surviving. The mage is about dealing damage and elements and ability in AoEs. The rogue is going to be about stealth and critical damage. So those augments are going to to play towards those identities. – Steven Sharif

The idea behind the system is that you're skirting the line through these augmentations of your role, right. We have the traditional holy trinity that's present in class designs for MMOs and it's often that those either are not deviated at all or completely deviated from entirely. The augment is to offer a balance between that where you still maintain the semblance of that trinity system while offering the opportunity to customize your play experience towards one of the other angles in the triangle. – Steven Sharif

Habilidades primarias (class abilities) are based on a player's archetype.

• A player may choose a secondary archetype when they reach level 25. The player can then augment their primary skills with effects from their secondary archetype.

• Outside of class-specific skills there may be a subset of universal skills, such as active block and dodge.
• Class skills are not affected by the type of weapon that is equipped.

• Habilidades primarias in Alpha-2 are expected to be very different to those in Alpha-1.

Rested experience

Taberna offer rested experience (rested XP) for those who rent rooms or spend time as patrons of the tavern.

• Rested experience allows players to gain experience at a faster rate for a period of time.
• There are no current plans to replace rested experience with another bonus for max-level players.
• Rested experience increases the rate that experience debt is paid back.

Progresión de mascotas

Las mascotas de combate se podrán subir de nivel y dispondrán de equipo.

• Las mascotas de combate incorporarán parte del poder de su dueño de forma que la progresión de poder sea horizontal.
  • El poder se presta a la mascota cuando es invocada y se devuelve al jugador inmediatamente cuando la mascota desaparece.

Las invocaciones del invocador (Mascotas de invocador) si que añaden poder al invocador cuando son invocadas.

• El equipo no está disponible para las invocaciones del invocador.

Combat pets, which can be acquired by any archetype- and this is essentially an item that exists within your backpack- you cast the item to summon your pet. When it is summoned it's not intended to be a vertical gain of power, because when you make combat pets a vertical power gain, then it becomes a no choice solution: you must have a combat pet if you want to play efficiently- you must have a combat pet; and I wanted to steer clear of that because the way I wanted to approach combat pets was more of a horizontal power choice; meaning: depending on the type of encounter you're facing, depending on the threat assessment you have, a combat pet might be relevant, or it might not. One combat combat pet might be more relevant than another combat pet and that's part of your gear acquisition, your item chase to attain this more comprehensive selection of combat pets that you can have available to you and can be summoned in the event that you want to engage an encounter with a different aspect of your power curve: Not vertical, but horizontal. – Steven Sharif

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