Mark Jacobs, General Manager of Mythic and Lead Designer for WAR has written a summary of the changes that are being planned to make open RvR (oRvR) more attractive and more rewarding. Here are his words.

Folks,

Over the last few months I've spoken about our continued focus on improving our open RvR systems. While we have taken some major steps in the last month, we believe that there is much more we can do to encourage people to take part in oRvR throughout the entire evolution of their character(s). Over the next few months we have some very exciting changes and additions taking place. Please note that as always, this does not represent everything that either we are doing or thinking about doing, just what we, as of now, plan on adding to WAR.

We have a number of major initiatives planned for oRvR in WAR. Please keep in mind that these changes/systems apply to oRvR only and not to scenarios. This is not all we are working on but these do reflect the majority of oRvR additions that we are currently working on/planning for the next few months.

First, we have created an RvR Influence system. This system is designed to reward our oRvR players with lots of new stuff that you can only get through oRvR. This will be a complimentary system to our PQ Influence system. This system is already implemented in 1.1 and is scheduled to go LIVE along with that version in December.

Second, we want to improve the visibility that players have into oRvR and make it easier for players to get involved in the action quickly and easily. We have a number of wide-ranging changes going into our map and travel systems to allow players to better understand the state of oRvR in our game and also allow them to get to the action faster. We have already taken one step with putting a Rally Master in each Warcamp but we will also add the ability for people to have a second bind point to make it even easier for players to move around the maps. We will also make it easy for players to see where players from their Realm are engaging in oRvR, a Campaign HUD for all tiers and other improvements. We will also improve Tier-wide messaging about what is going on in Battlefield Objectives and Keeps. Other additions include changes to the UI, in-game manual improvements, map enhancements, and a few other changes.

Third, we want to provide greater incentives to players to participate in oRvR. In order to accomplish this we will be adding additional layers to the questing system of oRvR including the addition of Keep Quests, "Daily Event Quests", Chained RvR Missions, improve the initial Tome Unlocks and other oRvR-oriented Events. We will also improve our BO itemization. Our goal is to provide players with even more incentive for participating in oRvR than we have already.

Fourth, we want to encourage guilds to take and control keeps, and we will continue our work on adding better rewards for Guilds who own Keeps as well as the addition of a system of Keep upgrades. This system will be added to the game in several stages beginning in the late winter.

Finally, we will begin work on a global oRvR "Fame" system that will be tied directly to the Tome of Knowledge which will provide more rewards, titles, experience, etc. for participating and being successful in oRvR. This system will provide even more incentives for people to participate in oRvR than the current systems and one that fits nicely both with the ToK's concept as "This is your life" as well as an additional advancement and reward system.

Please keep in mind that these additions are subject to change and given the nature of these changes/improvements, they will not go LIVE until we have thoroughly tested them. However, these are crucial improvements to WAR and are being treated as such by the team.

Finally, I want to close this out with a brief explanation about the role that we believe that oRvR should play in WAR. It's really as simple as this, oRvR should be a major focus for leveling, item gain, etc. in WAR. Some of the systems are already in place and in Tier 4, oRvR is alive and well. On other Tiers, however, oRvR is not being engaged in as often as we had hoped when we launched WAR. Our goal is to ensure that oRvR is the place where players can level the fastest, get the best items and overall, have a great time while doing it. It is supposed to be riskier, more challenging but ultimately, more rewarding than any other place within WAR. What is outlined in this letter are some of the ways we plan on making this happen over the next few months and beyond.

As always, we thank you for your patronage and support. We won't let you down.

Mark

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Вольный перевод: http://forums.goha.ru/showpost.php?p=5238305&postcount=5



Радует, что русский сервер стартует практически со всеми этими нововведениями.

Молодцы, а то действительно в нижних тирах на кипах мало народу Стимулов мало)

ааа! Тор Анрок и МурканТемпл!!! СерпентПасаж и Нордленд)) неужели люди откажутся от них? не верю

Да никогда в жизни, это гениальные БГ, лучшие в мире)
Правда, Рейкланд фактори тоже неплох

Серпент имхо не лучший
И фабрика не нравится, ибо слишком много народу левого чтобы что-то делать организованно

Порадовало. Пункт 1 неплох, но и не особо примечателен... собственно, то что сделали 3 золотых мешка с кипа более действенно, т.к. больше народу имеет стимул для захвата замков (сетовые шмотки уже получить "кагбэ" реально, но Великий Рандом значительно продляет удовольствие), а шмот за инфлюэнс фармится один раз и стабильно.
Ммм... вот мне тут мысля в голову пришла... лучше бы сделали реноун вендоров только в кипах, или только в кипах можно было бы покупать особо "модный" шмот, ну и чтоб он несколько отличался в зависимости от локаций (грубо говоря оРвР аналог Бастиона: в одной зоне можно купить самые стильные тапки, в другой - кепку, ну и т.д.). И чтобы покупать у них этот шмот могли только те кто учавствовали в захване замка.
Пункт 2... Марк, ты читаешь мои мысли!
Пункт 3: квесты особенно в оРвР зонах эт хорошо, т.к. вносят разнообразие в фарм как ПвП, так и ПвЕ. Текущий эвент доказал что всем игрокам выполнять квесты по эвенту было намного интересней, чем очередной раз фармить сценарий (в первом же т4 сценарии после открытия всех квестов из эвента наибольший дамаг по окончании был в пределах 50-70к, это при том что учавствующих было больше чем в обычном составе в Серпентисе).
Пункт 4 и 5 - "кот в мешке"... пока не увидишь - не оценишь (надеюсь в системе знаменитости не сделают что-то по типу "Зе-бест-дамагер-из всех-классов", а сделают строгое разделение по классам, иначе кроме детей с рулетками и нескольких пряморуких ДД мы там не увидим).
Насчет "процеветания" т4 оРвР в сравнении с остальными... для некоторых все тиры до т4 - "транзитные", т.е. быстрее фармить квесты и сценарии, да и сеты не так важны потому как выростешь из них быстрее чем нафармишь.

Эвент реально интереснее, чем просто фарм, вон когда обнародовали квест на 15 килл блоу - даже в т3 было бесконечное мясо на протяжении часов 5-6 в авелорне))

Здорово)
Мифики работают,нам хорошо - им хорошо
В декабре...осталось узнать когда...надеюсь слова немца окажутся правдой и 1.1 пустят через неделю после Тяжёлого Металла