Unsurprisingly (as per previous entries), level 60 is going to be slow rolled out; the initial increment is being called Castle of the Fallen with power crept dungeons which includes ONE new Hell difficulty Fallen Castle that just takes the bosses from several other dungeons, and includes them as additional mechanics. There is also a level 60 Transcendent version of Dimensional Fortress (you see where this is going with how they plan to power creep everything). Note that Firecait mistakingly said they would be Heroic difficulty.
The new gear is Hellspawn from the 60 Hell and Chimera (legendary) from the 60 Transcendent DF. The new legendary gear set was made to be better than Capricious which means that Capricious will become the catchup gear in the future. The request for Capricious souls as an updated Red-eye reward for Patron also won’t come with this update. I know Trion wants that badly because of Patron monetization. Ginno however seems to want to hold off on that.
Enchanting Devilian gear will also be “easier”; lower level enchants higher levels of success while the higher levels will see improvements (but still be challenging). Again, them not actually playing the game shows as she got Kavel’s mixed up with Ael’s when mistakingly mentioning Kavel’s were also used for artifact enchanting.
And speaking of artifacts, no new tier at this juncture either since this is just an initial increment. Looking at the new power creep with Chimera, a new artifact tier in the future is going to be needed to compel players to ditch older legendary gear (will need to datamine the client when they put a build up on PTS in the next week or two to see if they have been testing anything higher).
There will likely never be new talismans; the only talismans which were removed were resistance ones at Trion’s (Drewcifers) request. If Trion is desperate enough, they may go back on that since that is a whole level of grind they could sell to the remaining diehards. While Firecait knows I have been playing this for a whole while dating back to Korea, those days are numbered especially if my friends quit (so that diehard/Devilian fan label is going to be irrelevant soon™). There were also no such things as level 5 (Legendary) Devilian skill runes because that was all post level 60 stuff that was never designed.
This game is pretty much on a slow track to nowhere.
So already overgeared players aren’t going to have much new content (again, power crept existing content does not equal new content) to run except to gear out alts. Players looking for actual new content aren’t going to get anything so the population decline will go on unabated for the next several months. It is what it is.
This update is targeted to go live for late May/early June. With Trion, when a build is deployed to PTS, that is what will go live unless egregious issues are discovered. The highest priority thing for them is that their backend systems are working properly (including the marketplace). In the past, while I did try to post feedback highlighting in-game issues with the hopes they would get earmarked for addressing in the next update, it has ALL fallen on deaf ears (THEY DO NOT CARE).
As written before, power creeping existing content will be the easiest thing for Ginno to do over the course of this year. Firecait did hint that the next raid (on schedule) will be some time later this year or in 2018. That also dovetails with what I wrote before about Trion Worlds taking the approach to milk level 60 and the final gear tier for as long as possible.
This is why I stopped giving this company money and why I am one of those still with sub +9 Alvirs since I have to grind everything the old fashion way. And even then, that is more than good enough for existing content unless you are the e-peen type that has to have the biggest numbers on the server.
