Monday, November 9, 2015

On Hiatus for a bit

Hey everyone =) I know its been a while since my last podcast. I got hit with a lot at one time over the past month. A promotion at work that entirely changed my job LOL!, Programming taking up speed and more time than it previously did, and some other things.

I do not have the time to do a podcast for now, So I am putting the show on a temporary Hiatus. Hopefully I can get it back sometime =)

Sorry, for not updateing sooner but I was in california for a week this past week.  Thanks everyone!
Also, If you would like one of the episodes, or your here for the first time you can download any of them from

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/13aej80y2l3sv/Whats_Up_With_Trove_Episodes

I am going to cancel my Sound Cloud Subscription so the podcast will no longer be avalable from Itunes, Stitcher and such while it is on Hiatus.   I still play trove, So I will hopefully see everyone in game! =)

-Tiny

Twitter: @alan91330




Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Whats Up With Trove E24: Lady Bugs Rule Trove!

Whats Up With Trove
E24: Lady Bugs Rule Trove!
Recorded:
Patch Notes from 9/29/2015 :  Here
Patch Notes from  10/6/2015 : Here

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My Week in Trove

 200 Mastery!

News 

Game
  • Ladybug Invasion
    • Instead of Shadow Invaders, their giant shadow Lady Bugs for this week only
    • Drops Two Helms, and a set of ladybug wings
  • Trade Change
    • Two Step Confirmation to prevent scams
      • Step 1: Both players add items
      • Step 2: Both players "Lock In" The offer
      • Step 3: Both players Inspect what they have locked in
      • Step 4: Both players "Accept" The trade
        • If either player changes something at the Accept stage, The trade is reverted back to the Lock in step. 
    •  
  • 3x Advanture boxes drop rate
    • Bringing ALL previous adventure boxes for this week
  • Shadow Tower Chests
    • Killing a shadow titan spawns a chest that drops rare items and trophies
  • Tome Buff
    • Eye Tome: 15 Eyes Up from 10
    • Legendary Eye Tome: 400 Up from 300
  • Shapers Vision Buff
    • 3500 Flux up from 3000

Store
  • Patron Pass grants 4 chaos factor up from Two
  • New Chaos Chest Randomization
    • Lady Bug Mount
  •  New Costume pack
    • First costume pack to feature a costume for the newest class

PTS

Misc
  • More Styles, Epic pose hides player names, Clones can no longer grant affixes to their clones (IE. No more Yo Dog I heard you liked clones so I cloned your clone with a clone to have more clones) 
  • ItemDrops will now go to the proper bags with stacks of similar items!
 

Weekly Discussion Topic

 

Community Spotlight of the Week 

  Shoutout to the Club: Alan is Awesome
Shoutout to RawBeard in VoxelBusters. Gave me the 20 steedfeed I needed for the infinium pemborg which gave me 200 mastery <3

The Future of Trove 

  Auction House Coming soon

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Whats Up With Trove E23: Trove is complete now

Whats Up With Trove
E23: Trove is complete now
Recorded:
Patch Notes Updated on:  Here

UPDATE: Episode 23 is now live! Thanks everyone for being patient =)

Hey everyone, I had a super busy weekend. Hopefully I can record tonight or tomorrow. In the mean time, here is this weeks show notes. Still being edited so stuff may change before the show =)
Also, If you haven't already seen them, Be sure to check out my new YouTube series "Tiny's Tower Tutorial" if your interested. Its a series of Shadow Tower Boss guides =)

My Week in Trove

Got my PC working Monday evening
New Patch
Swift Programming, working on my game.

News 

Game
  •  New class: Lunar Lancer
  •  Shadow Tower (No more shadow arenas... Kind of)
    • What Shadow Arenas should have been
      • Defeat Four Shadow Arena Encounters
      • Fight a boss with mechanics
    • Normal/Hard Difficulties
      • Normal: Shadow Keys
      • Hard: Moon Key
        • Materials dropped from Uber 6+
    • Hard mode bosses receive 50% bonus damage to any class that is not doubled
      • If there is only One Candy Barb, that candy barb does 50% more damage
  • New Legendary Tomes
    • Once Per week
    • Eye and Tentacle Tomes are bought with Lunar Souls in shadow Towers
    • Chaos and Dragon Legendary Tomes from the Trove Store or Lunacy Pack
  • Challenge update
    • Revamped Ancient Dragon Cache
      • 3x as many dragon souls, 2.5x dragon coins
      • However, No more eyes, 35% less Flux, No more Penta-forged Souls
      • However, Can proc for 5 coins or 10 Dragon Souls 
    • Not effective for old caches. They were renamed "Flux Filled Ancient Dragon Cache"
    • Challenge Changes
      • Three Ranks
      • First challenge gives the daily Dragon Soul
      • Completing Third rank grants another Dragon Soul
      • Uber 6 is now 4x multiplier not 9x 
        • Takes about 15 minutes depending on group size

Store
  • Lunacy Pack
    • Two Lunar Lancer Costumes
    • Two Foxy Mounts
    • Two LEGENDARY Tomes
    • All for 20$  Best deal yet 
  • Deals rotate hourly instead of Daily
    • New deal bonuses: Class Coin, Inventory Space, Golden chaos chests, and the kitchen sink too



Misc
  • Bald Hair Style
  • Noobie Wings at Mastery 10 
  • Challenges unlock at rank 20
  • Reduced consecutive day reward requirements
  • Mac client bug fixes
  • Removed the kitchen sink they added to the hourly bonus
  • New Shadow Dungeons
 

Weekly Discussion Topic

 Shadow Towers are AWESOME!

 

Community Spotlight of the Week 

Congrats to Team Synergy for World First Moon Goddess (Heroic) 42 Whole Minutes!

Tiny's Tower Tutorial: Shadow Tower Raid Boss Mechanics Explained

 Playing Into The Future of Trove, or Exiting the Show with a song from BasuKun's Remakes

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Whats Up With Trove E22: This is an episode?

Whats Up With Trove
E22: Quickest Show To Date
Recorded: 9/2/2015
Patch Notes 9/1/2015 Updated on:  Here
Patch Notes 9/8/2015 Updated on:  Here


So, for the Soundcloud/Audio Listeners. Im not sure how long it will take to get the mp3 version out to listen too. I am very sorry =( I do have the MP4 of this video however so once I get my pc back and functioning I can get it up.  Sorry again =(


Was out of Town labor day weekend, and my PC was out of commission this week =(

News 

Game
  • Ancient Dragons 
    • New Ancient Dragon Caches
      • Flux, Eyes, Dragon Coins, Penta Forged Souls, and Ancient Dragon Souls
    • Ancient Dragon Ascension
      • 1: Ancient DragonCrown Style
      • 5: Ancient Dragonline
      • 10: Ancient Fledgling (Ground Mount)
      • 25: Ancient Arsenal (Ancient Themed Styles)
      • 50: Ancient Dragon (Gliding Dragon)
      • 90: Trimach the Ancient (Gliding/Firebreathing Dragon), Ancient Allure Weapon Aura
      • 100: Spirit of Trimach (+5 Max Energy, +1 Jump, +50 Magic Find)
  • Daily Dragon Soul
    • Every Day, the FIRST challenge you complete awards a free Non trade able Dragon Soul
  • Neon DragonSouls
    • Craft-able for Two Dragon Coins, 1 Golden Soul, 15 Robotic Parts
    • At the Dragon Crucible in the HuB
  • Chaos Chest Randomization
  • 50% bonus Exp week (lasts until 9/15/2015)
    • Good time to prepare for Shadow Tower Update

Community Spotlight of the Week 

Game Music in trove: Trove Forums Post 
Created by: BasuKun : OfficialBasuKun
Club World: Architect Pride
Working on Shovel Knight.
Xenoblade Chronicles - You will know my name Link

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Whats Up With Trove E21: Double The Squeak, Double The Fun

Whats Up With Trove
E21: Double The Squeak, Double The Fun
Recorded:
Patch Notes Updated on:8/25/2015
Can be Read in full: Here

My Week


New Router/Modem arrived Wednesday!
Couple Challanges
Blizzard Galore
Blizzcon Prep (70 Days)

News 

Game
  • Intro Video
    • Plays One Time
    • Can re enable it in Settings > Misc > Play Intro Movies
  •  
  • /epicpose
    • Screenshots are in C:\users\[user name]\My Documents\Trove\
Store
  • Trad-able Patron Pass
    • 30 Day pass = 3000 Credits
    • Can check if patron Status is active by Looking at Character Sheet
  • Squeakers the Sugar Glider!!!!!!! This week only via Chaos Chest
    • In Chaos Chest Randomization
  • Double Chaos Chests
    • Two Chaos Chests Per One Chaos Coin for One Week!

Misc
  •   Fixes, Dangling Pointer Fix?, Ect

Weekly Discussion Topic

Magic Find
-Does not increase the drop chance on gear.
-Magic find instead when it Proc's/Activates the gear drop increases by one Level
-Magic find can Proc/Activate multiple times in a Chain reaction. Which can chain as high as RADIANT *Has Happened Once before: Link to photo

Community Spotlight of the Week 

Trovian's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/trovians
Dreamo
Giveaway's, Great Community, Discussions Ect.

Stalkers Gaming YouTube Channel: Link
Trove Command Guides, Build Guides
-Space Tower
-Castle

 

The Future of Trove 

Live Stream Summary: Here
  •  Shadow Tower Update is coming September 15th
  • Ancient Dragon is coming Tuesday
    • Neon Dragon Souls Still craftable for TWO dragon Coins, Souls, and Robo Salvage
  •  Shadow Tower
    • Normal/Hard Mode
    • Two Currencys
  • Mastery Cap increase On the 15th

Shout-Outs

Matthieux for providing the Live Stream Recap's on trovesaurus/Trove Forums every week

@camb198 on Twitter: "When can we expect the next podcast? Just caught up and ready for more  keep up the good work!"

All the Followers on Youtube!


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Monday, August 17, 2015

Whats Up With Trove E20: I caught a patch THIIIIIIS BIG!

Whats Up With Trove
E20: I caught a patch THIIIIIIS BIG!
Recorded: 8/21/2015
Patch Notes Updated on: 10/10/2015 Here
Second Patch Notes Updated on:  10/13/2015 Here
Third Patch Notes Updated on: 10/18/2015 Here

Update 1: Hey everyone, here is this weeks show notes, sadly my internet is down/not very reliable so I most likely will not be able to record this weekend.  Hopefully I can get it up by Monday =). Sorry for the delay, have a GREAT weekend! -Tiny

Update 2:  So, the net is Decent, still slightly unstable. However, the patch notes were released for this week and there was not Too much so I decided to push to This Friday and do a Double Patch show this week =). This way my net will be stable (Comcast is sending a new modem Thursday!), and there will be more to talk about! Yay! The show notes are still here but Updated.  Have a great week! -Tiny

My Week in Trove

90 Consecutive Day wings *Midnight Mantel*

News 

PSA: Community Chest Scam!
1: Scammer gives a New player a "COMMUNITY CHEST!"
2: New player uses community chest thinking its for their club only, or as personal storage
3: Scammer Teleports to the new players club via /joinworld "Club Name", opens the community chest and steals stuff
4: New player doesn't know whats going on until it hits them.

Game
  • New Adventure Box
    • Blue and Green Manta Ray's
  • Trove Lore Recap/Trailer
    • *Link*
  • Trove PvP Ad
    • *Image*
  • Fishing Additions
    • Trophies
      • Fish have Weights
      • The larger the fish, the better the Trophy
        • Bronze, Silver, or Gold trophies 
        • Trophies Show what Weight.
          • Club Fishing Turni. Event possibilities
  • New Auras
    • View unlocked Auras by Hot Key "y" or, Styles Then Radiant Auras
    • Neon: 50 Neon Dragon Souls
    • Shadow Stain: Dropped while Adventuring
    • Tough Love: Dropped while Adventuring
    • Auras now cycle in Order rather than Random
  •  New Sails
    • Cost Glim, Found at Parrot Pirates
      • Inner Sea, Raider, Foolish Fish, Much, Bee, ladybug, Serpent's Nest, and Compass Rose Sails!


Store
  • Chaos Chest Randomization
    • Mount: BoneWeaver
    • Wings: Arcanium Discord
    • Ship: Chaotic Clipper
    • MagRider: Mahogan Toboggan
    • Sorceress Servant Emblem (Magic Find Minion Spawn)
    • New Meownt's
      • Daimeownt
      • Ari Gato
      • Domo Gato

    Misc
    • New Bow, and Hat Styles
    • Bug Fixes, Crash Fixes, Hair Styles, and Desert Frontier NPC's dropping Trophies
    • /Played: Shows how much time AFTER THE PATCH you have played trove total

    Weekly Discussion Topic

      Trovesaurus Avarem Gamescom Chat: Here
    Shadow Towers
    • Shadow Arenas 2.0
    • *Todays Live Stream*
      • Clear Several Arena Rooms, Fight a Mechanic Driven Boss

    Community Spotlight of the Week

    Community Spotlight 1
    Link to Yoshi Mod: Here
    Mod Feature Video: Here
    Replaces Robo Raptor, or Racing Raptor

    Community Spotlight 2
    Link to Mustache Ride: Here Created by
    Mod Feature Video: Here
    Replaces Regal Recliner (Gained at Mastery 40)

    The Future of Trove 

    *Before Spoiler Segue*
    Sugar Glider next Tuesday (August  25th) From Chaos Chests
    Double Chaos Factor Event (Gain Two Chaos Chests for Every One Chaos factor you have)


    8/14/2015 Live Stream
    Stream Recap Here
     -Trade-able Patron Pass: 30 Days of Patron = 3000 Credits
    *Q&A #AskTrove*
    • Will there be a new biome soon?
      • Soon. Not being worked on at this moment
    • When will we get an Auction House
      • Soon. But not for a couple major updates
    • When will the fae spider mount be coming?
      • Soon, Plans are in the works
    • Will Shadow Towers require the same shadow keys you currently use?
      • Yes Shadow Towers require Shadow Keys
      • Harder Shadow Towers will require a different key
    • PvP?
      • Tested Internally, but ready. Core focus is on Shadow Towers
      • Testing Soon?
    8/21/2015 Live Stream
    Stream Recap Here
    -Ancient Dragon September 1st
    Lunar Lancer Preview
    • Basic Attack: Stab. Damages Through Mobs in Streight Line
    • RClick: Throws your SPear, Can grapple to it causing an exposion
    • 1: Frontal Cone AOE, Causes KnockUP *Kind of a mini stun*
    • 2: Throws down a GIANT spear, Causes AOE damage, Buffs Allys
    • Passive: Gains Power, and makes you big after a certian amount of power is gained.
    End of September is When it comes out

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    Friday, August 7, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E19: Leeching Bag Space

    Whats Up With Trove
    E19: Leeching Bag Space
    Recorded: 7/7/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 7/4/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Fishing
    Leveling
    Mastery  160

    News 

    Create a Boss like a Boss Winner: FriedSushi With Shade Hydra
    Shade Hydra

    Game
    • Combat Numbers (Healing, and Damage)
      • Settings > Misc > Tick off Show Combat Numbers 
        • Dragons fire ball does 10k dmg

    Store
    • Inventory Expantion
      • 105 Additional Slots purchasable!
      • Tradable Inventory Unlockers *Under Goods Section*
      • Sale: Unlocking inventory through the Inventory UI is 50% off
    • Starter Pack Upgrade
      • Two Inventory Expander Items added
        • If you purchased the Starter pack, you receive these!
    • Chaos Chest Randomization
      • Cygnus-01 SpeedCycle

    PTS

    Misc
    • Patron Stats is shown on Character Sheet
    • Minimum Window Size
    • Fixed Minion Kills not counting Magic Find!
     

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Leechers, and Why there is nothing Trion can do to "Prevent" them without Hurting everyone!

    • Pro's for Preventing Leechers
      • Some people stop QQing
        • Temporary Fix, There will ALWAYS be something to complain about
      • Faster Challenges (As if their not fast enough...)
    • Cons for Preventing Them 
      • Close Calls? Everyone has experienced this
      • Terrible Lag Spikes
    •  Middle of the road
      • More people, Less loot?
        • People are still going to show up, Resulting in less loot anyway
        • 10 people there, with 3 leechers.  Even if the 3 leechers helped, There are still 10 people there
    Things that Should be done
      • Make LOOT drops on Boss Tag
    The only positive that I can see for Leeching being removed, is Faster Challenges. And the Con's for "Nerfing" leeching out-way the Pro's by far. I would rather There be 50% leechers, then Me loose out on my caches because I'm lagging or falling behind and cant "Tag" the boss.

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Trove FanArt "Fae Trickster Timelapse" Created by: Brolycia

    The Future of Trove 

    Datamined Uber 7-10 Portals
    Datamined "Adventurer's Keys" for Adventur Portals?
    7/7/2015 Trion Stream

    Closure

    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory Here

    Friday, July 31, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E18: Short and Tired

    Whats Up With Trove
    E18: Short and Tired
    Recorded: 7/31/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 7/28/2015

    Forgot to Mention, Windows 10 is out =) And trove seems to be running fine on Windows 10! 
    Just be sure to update your drivers before updating!

    My Week in Trove

    Minecraft 1.9 Snapshot
    Sword Art Online RE: Hollow Fragment ps4
    Finishing up Capping my last Two classes: Ice Sage (19) Dracolite (16), and Fae Trickster (16)

    News 

    Downtime of 7/28/2015 Compensation by login in this weekend only! (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!)
    -3000 Cubits
    -1 Non tradable Class coin
    (For players who made a purchase during the Rollback time, They were refunded with a little extra credits, and 3 days of patron time)

    Game
    • No more class changers. Just press "J" anywhere
    • Offline Friends Requests
      • Pushes Incoming friend requests to the Top of your list

    Store
    • Weekly Chaos Chest Randomization
      • New Meownts
        • Domo Gato
        • Ari Gato
        • Daimeownt
    • Costume Pack (Into the Nines)
      •  19.99
    • Tomb Raiser Pack is gone, BoneWaver (Costume) , Spite Spider, Soulfire wings on Store
    • Arcanium Steamboat, Crawler Mount, and Discord wings on Store

    PTS
    • 5 Slots = 500 Credits (50% off first week)  Buy from Inventory, not store!
    • 50 slots = 5000 Credits

    Misc
    • Fixed a Game Crash by Calling the Doctor and stopping NPC's from moving outside the world.
    • Challenge UI shows up in Club Worlds
    •  Bug fixes for Classes
    • New Shadow Dungeons, Radiant Lair's, Styles ect.

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Coin Cost Rant (Mostly Done during the PTS)
     
     Battle of the Titans!

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at

    Friday, July 24, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E17: The Buff that Can Nerf Magic?

    Whats Up With Trove
    E17: The Buff that Can Nerf Magic?
    Recorded: 7/24/2015

    Patch Notes Updated on: 7/13/2015 & 7/20/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Just logging in and doing a challenge or two every day.  Not been feeling very well this week.

    News

    GoodBye Grump. Leaving Trion for something else =) You and your art styles will be missed!
    Population Watch:  58,709 (All Time Peak)
    Game
    • Ally Dance with you when you dance!
    • Better, Stronger, Faster Server! Work it!
    • Neon Dragons
      • Uncommon Chance at Neon Dragon Souls
      • Rare Chance for Dragon Coins
      • Normal Chance for Flux, and Eyes
      • More Levels of Progression for Neon Dragon's (100 for Legendary Neon Dragon!)
        •  *Rewards*
          • 1: Neon Dragon Crown
          • 5: Neon Dragon Pet (Neon Dragonling)
          • 10: Neon Dragon T1 Mount (Neon Fledgling)
          • 25: Neon Arsinel
          • 50: Neon Dragon T2 Mount(Neon Dragon)
          • 90: Neon Dragon T3 Mount: Legendary Neon Dragon (Lambent The Neo Lord)
          • 100:  5% Energy Regen, +1 Jump, +50 magic Find
        • Magic Rant!
    • Crafting the Azulian Dragon Soul Changes
      • 4 Azulian dragon Essence (unobtainable, But can be bought from other players) 1 Golden Soul, 50 Glacial Shards
      • 2 Dragon Coins, 1 Golden Soul, 50 Glacial Shards
    • Boats Accelerate faster when not turning
    •  New Adventurers Box: Panda Adventurers Chest
      • Rare chance at Giant Red, or Fae panda mounts *Created by the talented Fried Sushi*
    Store
    •  Neon Dragon Caches
    • Chaos Chest Randomization. Hard to Find Mounts
    • Starter pack Change
      • No longer contains a Minion, However it gives Three Days of the Patron Pass. and a Class Coin
    Misc
    • Added Whisper to Right Click menu in Chat
    • Granted Broken shadow keys are not Unbroken and will work!
    • Game mutes sound when Not in Focus
      • Huge Fishing Nerf here! BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 
    • More Bug fixes and fun goodies
     

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Create a Trove Boss! Here
    Trove is looking for Suggestions for the next Shadow Titan! *Create a Boss, Like a Boss!*
    End of the day Friday July 24th *Sorry late listeners. You may be too late to enter if your just now hearing about this =(*

    Last Weeks Code: Insanisteed
    *Claimed, congrats
    Ty saur*

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Trove Comic: Bim Bomb Boom -Bim
    http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?34062-FouyouComics-Bim-Bomb-Boom

    The Future of Trove

    Data Mined new class Info: Here
    • Lunar Lancer
    • "Ultimate Form" Mechanic?

    Class Changer being removed Next week. Able to change on the Fly now.

    Closure

    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at
     This Magical Place!

    Sunday, July 19, 2015

    E17 Pushed to Friday Due to Late Travel

    Hey Everyone =), So this weekend I went up to an auction (Left on Friday that's why there was no show. But was expected back Sunday morning after a second auction). Well, Saturday evening we were looking at the sale bill (List of stuff being auctioned off) and the schedule said 1pm not 10am Lol! Easy mistake on our end. Totaly happens to the best of us lol. But it worked out in our favor. We got tons of good stuff at the auction! But I did not end up getting home until 9, 9:30pm tonight (Sunday).

    Very exhausted after much moving of boxes, and bidding and such. I am just going to push the episode to Friday this week and do a normal show date =)

    Its actually a good week to do this, because we did not have a Huge amount of news.

    There was an AMA with Avarem (Trove Lead Dev. and just mega Trove Badd-A**) I typed up a couple quick outlines of several questions asked of him. Feel free to skim through it if you like.

    Avarem AMA Wednesday 7/15/2015 during server Maintenance: Link Here

    • What is the Tomb Raisers Biome?
      • Cursed Vale
    •  Any plans for a Priority Que for Patrons/Paying Players?
      • Not planning on implementing a Priority Que for Patrons. If ques are still an issue next week they will discuss it more internally.
    • Is there going to be more than Dungeons for Endgame?
      •  Shadow Tower is Coming
    •  Did you guys expect to be Number 5 on Steam Top played Games?
      • Not at all
    • Ice Cream or Cookies?
      • Ice Cream
    •  Any Goodies (Possibly Shadow Keys mentioned Previously) for the Server issues a few days ago?
      • Going to give out goodies after the servers are more stable.
      • More to Come towards the end of the week\
    • How Many 5th Graders can you take on at once?
      • Armed or Unarmed?
    •  What will the New upcoming class have its own Biome?
      • The upcoming class has a biome not in game yet!
      • #New biome confirmed!
      • New Weapon Type!
    • Lore bomb Soon!
    • Why don't you buy a new server?
      • He ordered some off of amazon with Good reviews! (jk)
      • New hardware and code on the way!
    •  Will there be any gear harder to obtain than Radiant?
      • More likely there will be another type of progression
    • Not against WoW Style Mods.
    • Duping is a ban-able offense!
    • Possibly more Patron Point rewards in the future
      • At least to fill the gap between 200-1000
    • Inventory Expansion on the way!
    • New Dance Pads in the future

    -Misc Features/Answers
    • Fun Fact, Proto-Chicken is the name of Avarems Heavy Metal Band 
    • Dragon Projectile Rework might be in the Future
    • How many bombs have been thrown sense Launch?
      • Probably over a million
    • How many Blocks have been destroyed?
      • So So So So many
    • Dragons make an excellent Club World Destroyer
    •  Ping indicator will return in the future
    • Cereal then milk, or milk then cereal?
      • Cereal then milk.  Mind Blowing question!
    • More/Other Stats are being discussed Internally.  no ETA
     We also got during this weeks patch, the ability to make our allies dance! I made a video earlier this week featuring a large amount of the animations =) Here is a link for ya to that: Groovy Allies!

    Annnd Finlay, I'm hoping for a really good contest "Soon". But I am still working out some details. So, to hold you over Here is half of a Code for an Insanasteed.  If you can figure out the code, Great! However, I will post the Entire code first thing Friday when episode 17 is released.  Enjoy and Good Luck.
    *Please note, If you already HAVE an insanisteed, PLease do not claim the code as it will get sucked into Nowhere town. ie. The code will be claimed but nobody will receive any rewards. And then everyone looses.* Also, please shoot me a message on the forums or youtube or somethign if you are able to figure out the code =)

    WWZJ-3N33-????-????-??C3

    As always, thanks everyone soo much for checking out the podcast! I hope you all have a wonderful week, and I will see you all on Friday! So sorry again for not having the episode this week. But I am very exhausted lol and now i am going to take a nap before work tomorrow morning Lol!
    • Twitter: @alan91330
    • Ingame/On The Forums: Tiny
    • Email the Show: Whatsupwithtrove@gmail.com
    • Shownotes: http://whatsupwithtrove.blogspot.com/
    • Download the MP3 audio file on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Itunes!
    • Intro Music Provided by  Bensound














    Also *Plays The Future of Trove Sounder*Spoilers ahead! Look onward if you dare!




    The Dev team teased a bit this week about the Shadow tower. With something called "the Shadow Titan".  Here are a few shots I managed to grab during the stream.  What do you guys think it is?
    http://imgur.com/a/otRhw














    Sunday, July 12, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E16: Launch Edition

    Whats Up With Trove
    E16: Launch Edition
    Recorded: 7/12/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 7/7/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Scrambling to finish my Goals.
    *Giveaway Hype for people who look at the Podcast Show Notes!*

    News 


    Game
    • EU Servers
      • Automatically Enter EU Adventure Worlds
      • Can still play with NA or EU players. Just expect higher Latency
      • /region shows what Region your playing in
    • Map Updates
      • Dungeon, Lair, and Recipe Icons on Main Map
      • Fog of War (Reveals itself when an area is explored)
      • Compas shows Large Dungeons, and Recipe Lairs
    •  Building Update
      • Click and Drag building
      • Mouse Wheel rotates blocks
      • Red Block when you can NOT place a block 
    • Chat Improvements
      • Right Click Functionality for Players names
        • Add as Friend
        • Invite to Join you
        • Ignore
        • Report for Spam!!!!
    • Mastery Rewards through level 200
    • Game-pad Support
      • Make sure the Controller is connected before starting Trove
    • Newbie Experience
      • Adjusted objectives for newer players
      • Beginner Objectives are REQUIRED to leave the Tutorial
      • Allowed to select your starting class!
    • Badges
      • Quests, Blocks Destroyed, Boxes Opened, Consecutive Days, Fishing, and Total days Logged in! 
        • Tons of Rewards!
    • Crafting
      • Deconstructor Name change to Loot Collector
      • Bounding Boot can be created at the nautical Assembler
    • New Class: Tomb Raiser
      • Passive: Soul Caller
        •   Periodically Attracts a restless soul. (max 3)
        • Slaying enemys attracts One soul
        • Basic attacks return a small % of damage done as Health (Life Steal)
      • M2: Bonetourage, Costs One Restless Soul
        •  Creates a bone minion
        • No Confirmed max (I could get 6 so far)1
      • 1: Banshee's Boon (Uses energy Over time)
        •  Turns you into a Ghost
        • 90% less Damage taken
        • Primary Attack becomes an AOE heal and Damage
      • 2: Grave Goliath (Consumes all minions)
        •  Summons a Giant Grave Goliath to fight (Stronger based on how many minions consumed)
      •  Misc
        • Stats
          • Energy Regen (To get banshees boon up fast)
        • Roughly 3 block distance for basic attack
    • a

    Store
    • Chaos Chest Randomization
      • Wingstravaganza
    • Currency Conversion Rates for the Store
      • Automatically adjusts prices for Euros/Pounds/Ect?
      • Cubits cost One cent less now due to the Currency Conversion =)
    • Patron Pass is Live
      • 15, and 30 day incaments
      • Vet. Players (30+ Mastery) Will get 15 days free on Launch?
    • Necrofancy Pack: 20$
      • Tomb Raiser Class
      • Two Costumes, One Mount, and Wings

    Misc
    • Class, Game, Bug, Ect. Fixes
    • No longer have to wait until the next day to receive updated Chaos Factor Rewards. Just Re-log
    • Updraft is now in the Hub
    • Ore spawns less in Novice and Adept Worlds
    • a

    Community Spotlight

    Fan made trailer Featured at the beginning of the podcast!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPsnMSW9wxA

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    • Twitter: @alan91330
    • Ingame/On The Forums: Tiny
    • Email the Show: Whatsupwithtrove@gmail.com
    • Shownotes: http://whatsupwithtrove.blogspot.com/
    • Youtube Link: 
    • Reddit Link: 
    • Download the MP3 audio file
    • Intro Music Provided by  Bensound

    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at This Link

    Thursday, July 9, 2015

    E16 Posponed until Monday 7/13/2015 due to a Grad Party

        Hey guys, My sisters graduation party is this weekend. So I will have family all over the house, and theres quite a bit of preperation for the party to do as well. Hopefully I can record Friday providing its quiet enough (Probably not Lol, but you never know) If I can not I will be doing this weeks show on Monday! =)  The show notes have been written, I just need to find the time to record it.
        Also, Congratulations to Trion for successfully launching trove today. To celebrate the occasion, Curse is giving away FREE kami mounts.  These are only available for a limited time so hurry fast. The link is below =)

     http://www.curse.com/betas/trove-curse-kami-mount-giveaway

    Also, I will be talking about it on the show this week... But the new class is a blast! 


    Friday, July 3, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E15: Testing for Companion Crabs?

    Whats Up With Trove
    E15: Testing for Companion Crabs?
    Recorded: 7/3/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 6/30/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Trying to Finish my Before Launch goals
    Upgrading Tomb Raiser Gear

    News 

    Light News Week, Due to last week before troves OFFICIAL Launch *time left* Cough!
    Fixes, and a lot of game changes come Tuesday the  7th, Tomb raiser launches Thursday July 9th!

    Game
    • New Character Sheet UI
      • Matches more recent UI changes
      • Have to Click "Stats" to view Stats
    • Crafting Bench Changes
      • Novice Crafting bench = Starter Crafting Bench
      • Crafting Bench is now the Adventurers Crafting bench
      • Some recipes moved to Builders Crafting bench
        •  Novice Crafting Bench
          • Deconstruction, Chest, Two other crafting benches
        • Adventurers Crafting bench
          • All your Adventurer Needs
            • Bombs, Keys, Mounts, Professions, Cornerstone tools
        • Builders Crafting bench
          • All your Building Needs
            • Decorate Benches, Portals, Club world stuff, Class Changer, Ect.
    •  Ore vein spawn has been decreased to compensate for clump change last week
    • Azulian Dragon Caches drop fewer eyes
    Store
    •  Chaos Chest Randomized:  Storm callers Wings
    Misc
    • Hold Down "Alt" for Freecurser quick access
    • Bug fixes and Polish

    PTS is a thing!
    • Only accessible when Dev's turn it on
    • One Max Level Character to play on PTS
    • PTS stands for Public TEST Server: Meaning, Not everything will go live that week. It is for TESTING Purposes!
    • free stuff on store. Just go Yolo
    • Advice
      • Don't go crazy on the PTS. If you exhaust it early, it wont be as fun when it goes live.  Test a bit, and play more when it comes out.
    PTS Features to note
    • Gamepad Support
    • Building Got Awesome
      • Scrolly Wheel rotates Blocks
      • Click and Drag to place multiple blocks
    • Map
      • Fog of War

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Patron Pass, 15/30 days
    7.99 for 15 days
    14.99 for 30 days

    +50% exp, 100% Crafting Speed
    200 magic find
    2 chaos factor (2 chaos chests daily)
    +5 jump, +2 Flask capacity, 

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Drawing by Susimi. New Podcast Coverart! 

    The Future of Trove 

    • 30+ mastery for Beta Rewards
      • Qubeta Ally (unconfirmed stats)
      • 15 Days of Patron free
      • The right to Brag that you played trove before everyone else! (no mastery required)
    • More Tomb Raiser Info
      • Healing Beam heals both you and Allys (excluding Ultimate Ability)
      • Max 6 Minions, Max 1 Ultimate Minion
      • Ghost mode heals more, and reduces your Incoming dmg by 90% 
    • PVP confirmed for sometime After launch, Auction House confirmed for sometime after launch 
    Live Stream Summary (Ty Matthieux)

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at

    Friday, June 26, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E14: I'm Dieing for Launch!

    Whats Up With Trove
    E14: I'm Dieing for Launch!
    Recorded: 6/26/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 6/23/2015

    (The YouTube Version is will be up shortly. Tomorrow Morning when I get up I will edit the Audio and get that up on SoundCloud first thing! Thanks)

    My Week in Trove

    Programming In between challenges
    Saving Flux for Launch

    News 

    End of Beta Stress test Thursday 6/25/2015 all day.  Rewards given out Friday 6/26/2015
    Game
    • World Map Update: Every Biome now has little Icons representing. Much better for colorblind, and seeing in general!
    • New adventure Chest: Paunchy Dragon Pup, and Prodigle Periodeter
    • Challenge adjustments
      • now are T1: 2 caches T2: 2 caches T3: 3 caches T4: 3 caches  Total 10 per hour
      • If you are not the minimum level, you do not receive EXP or Caches
    • Loot
      • Weapons drop based on the class you play
      • Magic Find happens more often even without magic find
    • Bunch of Polish/Bug Fixes

    Store
    • Deals
      • The more patron points you have, the better the deals
      • Every 16 hours the store deals switch around
      • Beta Only, May not ship with launch.
    • Starter Pack is only available for 8 days after a new player joins the game (Veteran accounts had their chance at at)
    •  

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Just advice: Don't give up on Trove. Still in Beta, and many things will be fixed before Launch.  Developers are under a lot of stress to meet the 7/7/2015 Deadline. 

     A hint was dropped during the stream to make sure you were at 30 or Above mastery before troves launch on 7/7/2015.  I can only sense Beta rewards!

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Trove Toolbox has received a Massive overhaul/Update
    http://www.trovesaurus.com/toolbox/

    The Future of Trove (Spoilers Below... You have been warned!)

    • Tomb Raiser:  Necromancer Class that fights with Minions
      • Mouse 1: Laser beam
        • -Damages Enemies, Heals Minions
      • Mouse 2: Summon Minion
        • -Summons a little Skeleton to fight with you (Max 3?)
      • Skill 1: Ghost Form?
        • -Turns you into a Ghost, Mouse 1 becomes an AOE.  Energy Drains until 0 and leaves form
      • Ultimate: Mega Minion?
        • -Consumes any active minions, and summons a Giant mega minion (No confirmed Max)
      • Stats:  Energy Regen, HP, Attack Speed?  Magic Damage with Staffs
    • Mastery Rewards for 100+ are coming.  Showed off a golden dragon, and showed icons for a bunch of Golden Mounts!
    Can watch the stream at http://www.twitch.tv/trionworlds (May not be archived Yet) 
    Streams almost every Friday

    Trove Forums Stream Summary by Matthieux: Summary

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?22792-The-New-Deal-Edition

    Friday, June 19, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E13: The Show Must Go On!

    Whats Up With Trove
    E13: The Show Must go On!
    Recorded: June 19, 2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 6/16/2015

    Ok, so after a lot of evaluation. I cant put the show on Hiatus. It became a part of my weekly schedule, and when I tried to go a week with-out it on purpose it was just too wierd.  So, I want to Apalogise for last weeks Insanity with the hiatus. And who am I kidding... I do have some time, Today I sat and did like 4 challenge dungeons back to back... I totally could have recorded in that time.
    However, There will be a Slight change to the recording Schedule.   I'm thinking, Instead of a weekly podcast, it will be biweekly depending on my schedule. I am going to Try for every week, but I may miss a week occasionally. And probably swapping the recording date to Friday's sometime after Trion's Stream for a New Segment at the End of the Show =)

    My Week in Trove

    Challenges, Challenges, Dragons, Challenges, Challenges, and more Dragons with a Side of Challenges...

    News 

    Challenges?
    Game
    • Dragons
      • Dragon Caches Containing Dragon Souls, Dragon Coins, Flux, and Eyes
        • Rarely Penta Forged Souls
    • Challenges
      • Every Hour (1am, 2am, 3am, 4am. Ect) For U5 and U6
        • Two Classes and a biome are chosen for Rewards
          • T1: 10pts
          • T2: 100pts
          • T3: 300pts
        • Rewards are Dragon Caches
    • Badges
      • Achievment's with Several Tiers
        • Friends, Quests Completed, Blocks Destroyed, Consecutive Days Logged In, Patron Points. Ect
          • More Rewards in the Future
    • Uber 6
    •  Minimum Levels for Ubers
      • Uber 2: Lvl 12
      • Uber 3: Lvl 15
      • Uber 4: Lvl 20
      • Uber 5: Lvl 26
      • Uber 6: Lvl 32
    • PentaForged Souls
      • Like Quad forged souls, but you need Three of them!
    Store
    •  Randomized Chaos Boxes
    • added purchasable Dragon Caches

    Misc
    • Clumpier Ore
    • Sending Stacks of stuff no longer Randomly Dissaperes when putting it in Chests *Was Hotfixed Wensday*

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Challanges

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    The Future of Trove

    A segment all about Troves Live Stream on Fridays
    • New Tomb Raiser: Necromancer Class. More Details Next week
      • Uses Staff, And magic Damage
      • Does Damage by Using Minions (Similar Mechanic to Chickens from Boomaranger Bomb)
      • Shoots a Beam of Death? To Either heal or Buff its Minions
      • Dances with Its minions
    • Incoming Nerf to Challenges. Less Dragon Caches will be obtainable per hour (Roughly 3 or 4 less)
      • Possibly Less Drops from inside the Dragon Caches as well
    • R.A.F Incoming Soon (Before Launch on the 9th of July)

     

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at

    Monday, June 8, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove, Quick Update: 6/8/2015

    Hey guys =)  I just wanted to let everyone know, that There most likely will not be an episode this week as well.  My room is turning out great! however, it is taking a lot longer to finish than expected and there is still some work to do (mainly a closet, and that involves much sawing/work ect) Which means I can not move back into my room *Yet*.  Usually this wouldn't be an issue, however my Internet comes from my room lol! and my desktop is not wireless. So, I have no computer for at least another couple days which means No trove, and sadly no podcast.   But, my mom was awesome enough to let me borrow her laptop to log in and get my login bonus, Its too slow to do any gameplay on, However I can still get my consecutive login bonus (Which will be a badge in a future patch.)

    I expect to be back up and running by next week at the earliest! Two weeks at the latest.  I am really Sorry =( But a big thank you for sticking with me during this unexpected break, I will return soon! this is NOT the end of the podcast!

    But, on a brighter note! WE HAVE A LAUNCH DATE for trove!!!!!! July 9th, Hurayyyyyyyy!  Check out Avarem's Post about "The road to Launch" here: http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?20429-Producer-s-Letter-The-Road-to-Launch

    He talks about future updates, as well as when to expect the launch.  Super exited for this, and I wish you could hear my excitement! Also, rumor is the next class in trove is the "Tomb Raiser" quite possibly the Necromancer class we have been dreaming about lately!  =)  Cant wait to see Trion's version of a typical necromancer!!!!  (Not announced, but rumored to be July 9th as well! quite possibly earler!)

    And lastly, Check out the "Race to the Top" Trove forums post.  Its a contest to see whom has the highest stats in various trove areas =)  its a really neat way to look at trove.
    http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?20616-Race-to-the-Top-Trove-Stats-Ranking

    Oh, and before I forget!  Check out the Costume "Boomeranger 2099" boomeranger Comic themed costume, created by Kukui on the trove forums.  A really neat costume for the boomeranger, One of the effects is when you throw your bomb, it explodes with a "Bang" comic text bubble!  Hype their mod, and hopefully we see it in game sometime!
    http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?20014-Costume-Boomeranger-2099

    Alright guys =) that's all for this week, Il try to put another post up next week in place of the podcast like this one, Once again I am super sorry for not being able to put up a show this week, But soon I Hope to return to normal soon! *Keep Troving for Troves of Treasures in Trove!*

    Thursday, May 28, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E12 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E12: More Progressive, More Confusing
    Recorded: 5/27/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 5/26/2015

    This Weeks Episode is Dedicated to Chuck the Pirate!  R.I.P Good Buddy, Plunder Booty forever in the big Pirate Ship in the sky! (have to Check out this weeks episode to find out what happened!)

    My Week in Trove

    Boomaranger is 19
    Mastery 96
    Tons of Swift Development
    Preparing to Build Walls for my Room next week
    (No Show Next week Possibly, Depending on when the Walls are built)

    News (Forge More, Better Edition)

    Store News
    • Randomized Chaos Chests
    • Costume Boxes give Boomeranger Costumes
    • Pinata Pack Sale, 50 and 100 Packs are 50% off
    Game News
      • -Updated Forgeing *More Progressive, Less Random*
      • -Removed Forge Level, or Hidden Power Level Rolls
      • Equipment Power
        • Five Power Ranks per Rarity (0-5) Each costing progressive more to level up
        • Combo of Power Ranks, and Rarity increase the equipments stats
      • Bonus Stats (Previously Labeled as *)
        • Bonuses are Still Labeled by *'s
        • Each Stat can have Two total, for a max of 6 Without a pearl, 8 With a pearl
        • One * = 10% value Increase, Two * = 20% Value increase
          • More Pearls of Wisdom can be used to grant more *'s if the item already has Four Stats
      • New Shadow Levels
        • Max Four Shadow Levels
      • Forging
        • Perfect Prisms will only upgrade a Rarity from Resplendent to Shadow (No more using pearls on lower than Resplendent)
        • Chaos Forges ONLY!!!!!!! Reroll the Third and Fourth Stats on a piece of equipment
          • WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE FORGE, NOT ON YOUR CHARACTER!
          • Rerolled Stats ARE IMMIDATE!
          • Can still re-roll to your hearts content
          • Only Cost Tentacles
      • Rings
        • Resplendent Boxes drop Shadow Level 1-4 Rings, and resplendent Rings
        • No more *'s on Rings. Just Increased Power which is Random (For Now)
      • *If wondering about Previous Gear conversions, See patch notes for a Full list of Conversions*
      • Loot
        • Equipment drops with Random Bonuses on Stats, and Random Stars
        • Magic find triggers up to Shadow Level 4 Drops
    Misc News
        •  Nerfed Adventure Boxes drop rate, But extended them by one week (Three now, instead of Two)
        • Thursday Bonuses are 200% instead of 100% (Including Adventure Boxes, Pemblocks and Meownt's)
        • Boss chests drop Three items, Minor Chests drop Two items

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

     If All that info I threw at ya sounded confusing, it definitely Is xD  Fear not, On the Trove Forums... Matthieux "forged"  *Snicker, Forged.. Forge Pun* A guide on the new Forging Process! I highly Recommend checking it out if you have any confusion on the new process.


    Also up on Trovesaurus if you Prefer to get your Trove guides there =)

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at This Awesome Fun Link

    Wednesday, May 20, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E11 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E11: Chickens Broke Trove
    Recorded: 5/20/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 5/19/2015

    My Week in Trove

    85 mastery, Only 15 more until my first Chaos Coin!
    94 Mastery, Only 6 more until my first Chaos Coin!
    Stock piled flux, and Mat's for today patch

    News 

    Game News
    • Flask Update
      • Flasks Split into Two parts (Vials and Emblems)
      • All Existing Flasks were Converted into the new system
        • Vials (Limit One)
          •  Grants Health, Number of Charges, and Two Emblems
        • Emblems (Limit Two, Assumed to change with different Vials)
          • Grant Powers for your flask
            • 50% Energy Regen for Medium Duration
            • 100% Health Regen for Medium Duration
            • Double Physical Damage
            • AOE Heal
            • AOE energy Regen
            • CD reduction
            • I call it *Chicken Bonanza* (Summons a Chicken)
            • Attack Speed increase
            • Life steal for Medium Duration
        • Chickens Broke Trove
          • Chicken bonanza was one hitting EVERYTHING.  And Two hitting shadow giants.  It was crazy!
      • Starter Vial (AKA Starter Flask/Elysian Flask?) Nerfed
        • Previously: 10 Charges and Restores 50% HP
        • Now: 8 Charges and Restores 40% HP
    • Chest Update
      • You no longer have to have Items in your Inventory to use them at stores/Crafting!
        • HUGE QOL! CHANGE
        • Will Free up Inventory Space
    • Boss Mechanics *Bosses Now have varying Abilities causing you to die in many different ways*
      • Mechanics List
        •  Multiplication: The boss copy's them self (Copy's have Reduced HP)
        • Pull you in
        • Shoots Lasers
        • Shoots a Bullet Nova
        • Stops you from Multi-Jumping
        • Spawns Spiders
        • Spawns Mushrooms (Must be Destroyed, or Ran over)
        • Damage Shield that randomly activates
    • New Class
      • Boomeranger: "Master of Bow, Blade, Bomb and Boomerang"
        • Able to use Swords or Bows
        • All abilities are CD based, no Energy Regen at all!
        • Stats
      •  

    Store News
    • Chaos Chests are Randomized for PARTY WEEK!!!!!
      • Party Animals
      • Club Phones
      • Lady-bug Mount
      • Stormcaller's wings
    •  New Adventure Pack
      • Boomeranger Class
      • Two Costumes
      • 7 Flask Unlocks
    Misc News
    • Mastery Cap has been raised to 160
      • No Rewards at this time, but when they are implemented you will gain them if you qualify for them.

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    New Forging next week. Make sure to Tentacle roll your gear before the Patch because you will NOT! be able to re-roll ALL stats on gear after next week.
    *Rumor, Tenticles will only be able to reroll certian stats on your gear

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at The Magical Text link in the Sky!

    Thursday, May 14, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E10 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E10: Golden Sushi for All!
    Recorded: 5/14/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 5/12/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Swift for Xcode going well
    Dad was home, spent a lot of time with family
    Dentist Appt. Wednesday
    Pirate hit level 20, Just in time for the new content in a couple weeks!

    News 

    Game News
    • Golden Thread is Live! *J* or the Little window under your Daily Cubit Bar
      • Guide's for New (And Existing) players
        • Explore the game, and earn BUTT LOADS of Cubits for doing so
          • Pulls Info from before.
            • Craft/Use a Forge is already done if you did this before the Golden Thread was Live.
          • Ex: Mine X ore
          • Ex: Do X Dungeons
          •  *Helps guide New players in the right direction* 
        •  Tutorial: 500
        • Adventure World: 500
        • Mine/gain 40 Ore: 500 
    • Buddy Budgie Chests are replaced with Adventurer's Bento Boxes
      • Sushi Mounts
    •  Lowered the number of Buoys in the Treasure Isles (At least 5 every second, was INSANE!

    Store News
    • Four new mounts on the Store
      • Overlord Omniseat, and Love Seat Mounts are available for 1625 Credits, or 10,000 Cubits
      • Ancient Cubit's available for 10,000 Cubits
      • Uni-Cycle is available for 1625 Credits
    • Randomized Chaos Chests
      • Magical Floating Tome *New Carpet?*
      • Chaos Clipper (Chaos Themed Boat)
      • Leftover Love (Love Seat?)

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Contest Winner
    • Main Contest was to Submit a Boot Pun, and a Random participant would win.
      • Congratulations to Zac Kersey
      • Pun: I bought some metal boots. They LEAD me astray.
    • *Honorable Mentions*
      • Gameing Bro's
        • A little boy puts his shoes on by himself, but his mother notices he’s got them mixed up. "Sweetie" she says. "You’ve put your shoes on the wrong feet." The little boy looks at her and says, "But these are the only feet I’ve got!"
      • Beefaroo Games
        • Student: "I can't find my boots!"
          Teacher: "There's only one pair left, are you sure these aren't yours?"
          Student: "Definitely! Mine had snow on them!"
      • Captian Michael
        • What do you call a Pair of Individual Shoes?  Lonely Soles *ba da ch*

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    No spotlight this week, I will have one next week though!

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory Here
    Hotfix 5/14/2015: Here

    Wednesday, May 6, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E9 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E9:Flying Boots and Pants Giveaway
    Recorded: 5/6/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 5/5/2015

    My Week in Trove

    Started learning Swift and X-code for IOS
    Treasure Hunt/ Adventure hosted by <The Crib> club.

    News 

    Game
    •  /joinworld now works with Club names, not just the LONG string of Numbers
    • Digsly has leveled up, Now grants more lazormancy
      • Also gives 50 mastery
    • Digsly is the second "Alpha" pet to be upgraded. Hopefully more will be upgraded in the future!
    • New Shadow Market Items
      • four new allies
      • New Fishing Pole
      • Two Sails
      • A mag Rider
      • The Dark Hood (Can also be bought from the new Starter Pack)
      •  Insanisteed
    • New Boot Allies
      • Crafting table is found in the Hub *Nautical Assembler*
        • Steely Sabaton: Old Boot, 5 Golden Souls, 150 Faerie Dust
        • Sorcerous Shoe: Old Boot, 5 Golden Souls,  150 Faerie Dust
        • Cardio Companion: Old Boot, 5 Golden Souls, 150 Bleached bone and Mushroom Chunks
        • Foreman Footwear: Diggsly, Old Boot, 15 Golden Souls, 1000 Shapestone, 500 Formicite Ore, 250 Infinium.  *Or can be purchased with the new beginner pack for 5$*
    Store
    • Chaos Chests Re-randomized
    • Bloodseeker, and Xero Line wings.  
      • Bough with  2500 credits, OR!!!!!! 20,000 Cubits!!!!!!!! each
    • New Starter pack
      • 5$, Includes
        • 750 credits, 5 Chaos Chests, Dark Hood Cosmetic Hat, Boot Ally
    Misc
    •  Tons of New Community Content, Bug fixes, and polish "For your New Boots *zing*"
    • Miner's Trove and costume mystery boxes can be opened by double clicking in the inventory now.  No more having to equip them and throw them.

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    PvP in Trove
    • Avarem's Post On the Forums
    • My Thoughts on PvP
    • Idea's for trove PvP
      • Hunger Games Arena
      • Single Class 10 man FFA arena
      • Ect.
    Xero Line Wings Giveaway Contest
    *Post in the Youtube Comments, an awesome Boot themed Pun or Joke*
    • Contest Notes*
      • Will RNG the code off
      • All you have to do is post a Pun/Joke that is Boot themed on the Youtube Video Comments and you will be entered in to win the xero line code
      • The Contest will end Sometime Tuesday  May 12, 2015
      • You don't have to subscribe to the channel to win, but if you would like to I will give you tons of Internet points 
        • *Just like Who's Line is it anyway; the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter!*

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Profession Guides by Underrated on the Trove Forums
    Both Youtube Video guides and quick/dirty forum guides

    Forum Link: Ringcrafting And Gardening
    Underrated's Channel: Underrated54

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    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at this disclosed magical link to the awesome Boot Kingdom!

    Wednesday, April 29, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E8 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E8:Welcome to the Welcome Board
    Recording on 4/30/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 4/28/2015

    ***Quick Note, I was hoping to record Wednesday Night like normal. But, Just as I was about to Record my Mom called and asked if I could pick her up from the store, and then I found out my Uncle was going to be staying the night like 10 minutes before he showed up ROFL! So tonight is not a good night to record. But! here are the Show notes for this week. and I will be recording tomorrow night.  So sorry for the late episode

    My Week in Trove

    Not too Much, Lots of Farming to get the last Phoenix I needed (Caved and Bought it Lol)

    News

    Game News
    •  New Welcome screen
      • Whats New/Coming Soon
      • Latest Deal
        • (Probably be swapping out annually, Limited Time offers ect.)
      • Info on the latest and greatest Adventure Chest
        • New Adventurers Chest
          • Buddy Budgie Adventurers Chest 
            • Blue and Pink Budgie (birdlike Creatures)
      •  Displays Current Daily Bonus 
    • Daily Bonuses are Live
      • Different Daily Bonus every day
        • Monday: 20% Harvesting Resources
        • Tuesday: 50% Gain to ore (Seems to also Increase Drop Chance of Miners Sachels)
        • Wednesday: 100% Glim (Double Glim Drops)
        • Thursday: 50% More Monster Drops (Including Adventure Boxes)
        • Friday: 50% gain to Shards (Both Radiant and Shadow) 
    •  New Meownt's are "Live" (Very Similar to Corige Mounts, But more rare.  What the Corige Used to be)
      • Classic Meownt could drop as early as two weeks ago
      • 6 New Meownt's
    • Merchants
      • New Mounts & Allies
        • Caterpillar Mounts
        • Butterfly allies
          • Increases Energy Regen
      • New Sails
      • Pet Soul Traps Cost 300glim Now (Used to be 250)
    •  New Styles, Hotfixes, Ect.
    Store News
    • Randomized Chaos Chest (Watch Out for new Wings) 
      •  The Xero Line wings, or Bloodsucker wings.  Both are AMAZING!

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    • More of a Tip if the week this week
      • In the Character Screen ( C )
        • If you Click on the Box below the Equipment Slot, It will bring up your Style's Organized by Slot.
          • Ex. Clicking the hat box will bring up all your Hats
          • Ex. Clicking the Face box will bring up all your Faces

    Community Spotlight of the Week 

    *New Format for Review's. Please let me know your opinions*
    Dwarf Engineer Pirate Costume by lldur
    Forums Link: Here
    YouTube Review: Here

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    • Twitter: @alan91330
    • Ingame/On The Forums: Tiny
    • Youtube Link: Here
    • Email the Show: Whatsupwithtrove@gmail.com
    • Shownotes: http://whatsupwithtrove.blogspot.com/
    • Download the MP3 audio file
    • Intro Music Provided by  Bensound

    Misc Information

    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at This Blue/Purple Link!

    Wednesday, April 22, 2015

    Whats Up With Trove E7 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E7:  New UI FTW?
    Recorded: 4/22/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 4/13/2015, and 4/20/2015

    My Week in Trove

    • Sick
    • Fishing
    • Netflix
      • Walking Dead

    News 

    Game Updates
    • UI Revamp, Kinda?
      • New Starbar, Action bar, and Throw Interface
    • Incoming Graphics Settings changes (More towards Higher End Systems)
      • For now
        • /postbloom: Bloom
        • /postssao: Ambient Occlusion
    • New HairStyles/Hats
    • Eggster Adventure boxes no longer drop, Pheonix Boxes now drop
      • Drop Two new mounts, Both pheonix Mounts
      • In the game for a week now
    • Candy Fishing  
    • Shadow Giants drop Tenticles
    • Bug Fixes, VFX updates for a few classes
    Store News
    • New Costumes for All classes
      • Gunslinger: Heartbreaker
      • Fae Trickster: Bee Trickster, F43 Trickster
      • Candy Barb: Sugar Skull, Dark Infineon
      • Neon Ninja: Heartbleed, Lunar Ronin
      • Ice Sage: Shadow's Disciple
    • Randomized Chaos Chests (Added in some Meownts, Neon Nightcycle, and a Bouncing Bug lying around 
      • Be weary of Boots in the Chaos Chest.  Apparently during a live stream players were asked what they wanted in the chaos chest and people Sarcasticly Responded with Boots. Trove listened Lol

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    No Weekly Discussion Topic this week, Still not feeling 100%. Please feel free to Suggest Discussion Topics, Id be more than happy to take suggestions =)

     Community Spotlight of the Week 

    Polar Ice Candy Barb Mod (Skin) Forum Link Here!
    Created by Monkeyman on Trove Forums
    Youtube Review: Youtube Link Here!

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    • Twitter: @alan91330
    • Ingame/On The Forums: Tiny
    • Email the Show: Whatsupwithtrove@gmail.com
    • Shownotes: http://whatsupwithtrove.blogspot.com/
    • Download the MP3 audio file
    • Youtube Video:  Here
    • Intro Music Provided by  Bensound

    *Misc Information*
    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at
    4/13/2015 Patch Notes
    4/20/2015 Patch Notes

    Monday, April 13, 2015

    No Whats Up With Trove this week =(

    Hey everyone, So Friday (10th) I was hit with a pretty bad Head cold (Nausea, Stuffy Nose, the works...) I was hoping to be over it by Tuesday, However it looks like its hear to stay. Sadly there is a 99% chance I will not be able to record Whats Up With Trove this week =( but, next week I should be back and feeling much better!  Thanks to all my subscribers and listeners, and hope you all have a wonderful week!

    *Quick Trove Update! 4/16/2015*
    First, Im feeling alot better. And Whats Up With Trove should definatly be good to go Wensday 4/22/2015 =)

    Second, Make sure if you have not gotten the Pirate Pack but think you will want to... That you make sure to get it before Monday 4/20/2015. This pack is being removed from the game *Side Note, The items will still be in the store but the pack will no longer be avable*  This pack is a 55$ value, for only 19.99  Definatly worth it in my book!

    Link to Post about Removing Pirate Pack

    Wednesday, April 8, 2015

    What's Up With Trove E6 Show Notes

    Whats Up With Trove
    E6: Flip the Chaos coin! Heads or Tails?
    Recorded: 4/8/2015
    Patch Notes Updated on: 4/7/2015

    My Week in Trove

    • Pirate hit 17
    • Max 25 Forged shadow gear. INSANE RNG. BIS gun 8 star

    News 

    Very Light Patch this week.
    • Minor Bug fixes
    • Deconstructing Shadow gear no longer drops Tentacles
      • Waiting to see what the future holds before judging this change
    • Super Randomization costs 200 flux down from 250
    • Pembarr the Pirate corgi is now craft able
      • 1 pemblock
      • 200 Golden Seashells (Running Treasure Isles Dungeons)
      • 500 Glim
      • 250 Steedfeed
    • Randomized Chaos chest (keep an eye out for "Retro" things)

    Weekly Discussion Topic

    Question: Would it be a good thing to add a Purchasable Chaos Coin for X credits? How much would it cost, and would it be fine to add it to the store.

    • There are Currently 4 Ways to get a Chaos Coin
      • Every 1000 Loyalty Points
      • Mastery 100
      • Maintaining Max Mastery (Removed when you are not currently max mastery)
      • Random INSANELY LOW chance from Chaos Chest
    My thoughts on Selling Chaos Coins
    Don't sell Chaos Coins! Sell "Rusty Chaos Coins". Whats a Rusty Chaos coin? Let me explain it

    Rusty Chaos Coin: A NON-trade able chaos coin that awards one "Loosely Locked Chaos Chest" per day. These are Slightly different from chaos chests. They are unique to the Rusty Chaos coin (Only obtainable from the Store/Store Packs). What drops from them? Everything that a Chaos chest now drops. Minus a few Chaos Chest exclusives (Ex. Unique mount/pet/wings Ect.)

    The Loosely Locked Chaos Chest's are non tradeable, so the Chest economy is not effected. Introduce the New coin by having a sale on the store promoting it called "Chaotic Pack". This pack will be 50$, comes with 1 Rusty Chaos Coin, and 1 unique Mount. This pack is only purchasable one time. If you so choose, you can purchase a Rusty Chaos Coin for Credits at roughly 40$ in credits.


     Community Spotlight of the Week



    *Misc Information*
    Patch notes can be read in their full glory at This Magical Blue Link!