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.

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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!
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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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Misc Information

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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