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)
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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

Closure

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)

 

Closure

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!*