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

Closure

  • 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!

Closure

  • 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!

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

What's Up With Trove E5 Show Notes

Whats Up With Trove
E5:Episode Farrrrrve?
Recorded: Wednesday April 1, 2015
Patch Notes Updated on: 3/31/2015

My Week in Trove

  • Bloodborne! lots and LOTS of Bloodborne!
  • Level 20 Shadow Hunter
  • New Pirate Class
  • Could not Do a Lets play, Camera was down Tuesday

News 

Fish and Ships Expansion
*Few Slight Bug's Being fixed in a Hotfix Soon*
-Clicking Sound
-Small UI
-Pirate class may require a re-log to activate
  • New Vendor in the Hub that will sell you a starter boat/sail, Fishing Rod and Bait 
    • Pirate parrot with a Pirate hat wandering the Hub
  • Ships are officially launched (Press G to Mount your Boat, Must be over water!)
    • Come From Mastery, Crafting, Pack's.
    • Ships all have different stats
      • Ex. Draconian Ship = Immune to Fire DMG (While Sailing)
      • Ex. Dutchman is more agile than other boats
    • Sales are Completely Cosmetic, Obtained same ways Ships are obtained
  • Treasure Isles now have Dungeons, Lairs, and Deep water
  • Merchants on Pirate ships are now NPC's
  • Fishing is LIVE!
    • Catch and Deconstruct Fish for various Resources
  • Pirate Capetian Class
    • Abilities/Play-style
      •  Passive: Pluderbuss: Enemies Drop turret upgrading doubloons when attacked
      • M1: Attack
      • M2: First mate: Throws a Turret that is upgraded by collecting doubloons
        • Three Stages, Each one doing more damage
      • 1: Pretend Pirate: Throws a Booby Trapped Decoy that attracts Enemies. Explodes when destroyed (No CD: Uses up  Half Energy)
      • 2: Man o'War: Summon a Turret that Lobs explosive Shells
    • Interesting Find-outs
      • NO energy Regen. Its Useless, Default and hard coded at 0
      • All energy Regen is by Doubloons (Insane with a large group. almost infinite) *Confirmed as a Bug by Developer Srayer that pirates dibloons can be picked up by others. Will be fixed Soon*
      • Basic Attack is frontal Eye level damage. Can not Shoot down like Gunslinger
    • Stat Thoughts
      • Magic Damage > Attack Speed (Generate Doubloons faster) > Health/Hp Regen = Stability
Game Updates
  • Cookiephant Adventures box no longer Drop
    • Large increase in Cookiephant Mount prices
  • Eggster Adventure's box drops
    • Same drops as the cookiephant Adventures box, but two new mounts
      • Chocolate Chicanery, and Eggster Bouncer (Slightly lower drop rate than Cookiephant)
  • Mastery Cap is 130
    • Mastery level 120 Reward: Fishing pole
  •  additions to /Stats
    • Shows Patron Points (Previously called Loyalty Points)
    • Boxes Opened, Days Logged in, Consecutive Days Logged in (May be Important in the Future)
  •  Important Bug Fixes/Polish
    • Mounts Move Slower in water

 Store Updates
  • Pirate Pack is now Live
    • Pirate Captain Class, Two pirate costumes, and 2 Pirate theme Boats (20$)
  • Chaos Chest Randomization
    • Pinata Party can drop now
  • Updated Store art for Elysian Gard and Bone Knight

Weekly Discussion Topic

  • Mastery, How to get it and what to do with it?
    • Reward for Doing Things in Trove
      • Deconstructing Gear
      • Learning Mounts
      • Breakpoints in Professions
      • Leveling
    • Best way to Get Mastery is to Play the game. Mastery levels will come eventually, there is no rush to max out everything. Slow down and enjoy the game =)

Community Spotlight of the Week

Trove Class Tutorial's by Scythe
  • Short but sweet class guides
  • One minute long
  • Different entertaining voices that keep you coming back for more!
    • Ice sage is Russian
Trove Forums Link: Here

Shoutouts

  • Everyone! because you all are amazing!
  • Yak on the Trove Forums for Informing people that Ctrl while Deconstructing will deconstruct a stack. Great for Fishing!
  • Trovesaurus for adding the podcast to their Community Media List
    • http://www.trovesaurus.com/



*Misc Information*
Patch notes can be read in their full glory at The Trove Forums