Developer Snippets – 06/06/2014

This edition of Dev Snippets largely features posts by Jinjaah on upcoming Champion and Rune-Keeper changes, as well as some interesting titbits from the Hobbit streams.

Jinjaah

Proposed Champion changes thread – suggestion concerning CBR

Runekeeper healing thread – only the first response linked here as the discussion is LOOOOOOOOONG

Suggestion: New Skill – Triage thread – suggestion regarding Hunter wound removal/self heal

Hobbit stream transcripts

Belegaer run transcript

Nimrodel run transcript

Summary:

Content;

• Planned U14 Small Fellowship landscape group content
• New Dol Amroth quest armour in U14 is ‘very shiny and bird themed, evokes a sense of Gondor and a sense of place’
• Dead Marshes will be an Epic Book, mostly session play. Any region play will be small

New item system;

• Slotted gear will not be as involved or as grindy as legendary items, they will allow to choose exactly what stats we want on our gear
  • there will be a tie-in to crafting of some kind
  • components will also be dropping from skirmishes, end game content, epic battles, festivals and landscape kills
• Components will be bind on equip, and therefore will not go into the barter wallet to allow trading

Beorning class;

• Will not use Power, and will instead ‘start out calm and build up wrath and spend it that way’
• Will be a Race of Man class only, playable as man or woman
• Will start at level 50, so no new starter zone
• Will not have the same starter gift boxes as other classes, but will be given a different ‘boost’ at the beginning instead
• Primary stat(s) distribution is still being worked on
• Armour pieces from recipes and quest rewards will be gradually ‘squeaked in’, but they are mainly focused on the heart and soul of how the Beorning class plays

Props to Frickinmuck for providing the transcripts!