Epic Shroud! +6 Exquisite Xbow

[Avidus]

Eladrin always shows up to crush our dreams.

We heard it the first 9 times.. Epic is dead and you have no plans of ever making it again. Dont have to keep telling us. Let us pretend in vain that theres still a chance..

I am actually hoping that they combine epics with the challenge system of crystal cove.

You select the epic checkbox then choose your CR setting from 21-30. The higher the difficulty the better the drop rates. This way less experienced players can get that epic taste and even build their gear (albeit much slower) and the more skilled, better geared, challenge seekers can choose CR 30 and really be tested, while being rewarded with more token fragments, scrolls and seal / shard drops.

Meh, I can dream can't I...?

[Zion_Halcyon]

This was part of experimental stuff from when we were first designing epic mode that's not in actual development.

Ok, no Epic Shroud.

How about a way to upgrade Greensteel items to Exquisite items in the Epic Altar without the need for an Epic Shroud?

[Taimasan]

Moar handwrap love.

[KookieKobold]

So yeah guys. I totally noobed it up here.

As Eladrin said, this item is not in development and is not going to be in game.

Oops!

[grodon9999]

So yeah guys. I totally noobed it up here.

As Eladrin said, this item is not in development and is not going to be in game.

Oops!

Good, we have too much over-powered **** already.

And we're getting lightnings that break DR anyway

[Shade]

Oops!

You act like it was a mistake.

I don't see why letting a player play with an otherwise unobtainable item during an event on a test server has to be a mistake.

It's like your saying:
Opps I let you have fun with a special event-only weapon!

Next time i'll keep it more boring!

In Asherons Call this was actaully a feature. There were special super overpowered event-only weapons given out on LIVE SERVERS. To balance it out, they had timers, after which the time was up they destroyed themselves. Was pretty cool.

[jakeelala]

Eladrin always shows up to crush our dreams.

We heard it the first 9 times.. Epic is dead and you have no plans of ever making it again. Dont have to keep telling us. Let us pretend in vain that theres still a chance..

Epic is dead because it's stupid and failure. It's just another elite, but harder and less played by casual players. It's not special or epic. For the power gamers it's a joke. For new players it's totally inaccessible. That means it is literally the WORST use of resources the devs could possibly pursue.

Far better to design and implement a new system which is flexible and scaling over many difficulty levels to tailor itself to the varied levels of players and skill and gearing that exist.

A la Crystal Cove. Also, I think it's far more motivating to let players move a little bit toward their goal everytime they run a grindy quest instead of making it a TOTAL crapshoot like Epics are today. CC did a great job of this (if not too liberally) letting people slowly collect what they needed (consistently) each run. People overwhelmingly loved CC, and they love Ice Games (even though the rewards need an overhaul it's getting a little stale with just icy burst and sup. glac. 8).

I'm 93% (just a feeling) certain that's what we'll see instead of new epics. I don't play on Mournlands and I don't fanboi the devs so I'm totally speculating here.

[Auran82]

Epic was:

Oh no, the game is dying, we're launching as free to play as a last ditch effort, but the game is probably going to close pretty soon, quick, make something to keep the long term players from getting bored at cap.

*6 months later*

Hmm.. the game is actually doing well again, now what do we do with that stopgap game mode we put in because we never realised the game would do so well.

[The_Phenx]

And the long term players get bored and find something else to do ...

[SableShadow]

So yeah guys. I totally noobed it up here.

As Eladrin said, this item is not in development and is not going to be in game.

Oops!

"See this? It's an epic greensteel repeating crossbow ... magnum. It shoots through Shrouds."

now what do we do with that stopgap game mode we put in because we never realised the game would do so well.

Yeah, I hear you about greensteel, the shroud and the whole atari thi...oh, wait, you probably mean when they chucked favor into the game....oh, wait, you mean epics, nm.

They've chucked various grinds into the game at various times, epic is not especially noteworth.

[HelvanderSeries6]

This was part of experimental stuff from when we were first designing epic mode that's not in actual development.

Buzz kill

[bradleyforrest]

This was part of experimental stuff from when we were first designing epic mode that's not in actual development.

A big boo on this one. Why not give us more epics? Give us something to do at end game other than TR.

Give us epic Shroud. Give us epic Tor. Give us epic Korthos. Just give us more epics.

[MadFloyd]

The rumors of the demise of Epic are greatly exaggerated.

[r3dl4nce]

I remember about a "Epic reboot" ....

[Scraap]

The rumors of the demise of Epic are greatly exaggerated.

Woot Epic Korthos!

/reading between the atoms.

[TheDjinnFor]

The rumors of the demise of Epic are greatly exaggerated.

Epic isn't dead, it's just on hold until you guys learn what you did right and how to continue doing it, and learn what you did wrong and how to avoid it in the future, right?

[bhgiant]

Woot Epic Korthos!

/reading between the atoms.

Epic Korthos would be epic

[NytCrawlr]

The rumors of the demise of Epic are greatly exaggerated.

Woot! Level cap increased to 30 and epics done the way they are, or similar, in PnP?

[Shade]

Epic was:

Oh no, the game is dying, we're launching as free to play as a last ditch effort, but the game is probably going to close pretty soon, quick, make something to keep the long term players from getting bored at cap.
.

Your theory might work..

Except for the fact epic was release long after the game went F2P and turbine sent out there "Turbine proves F2P can work and made millions" press release.

more then 2 months later to be exact. (F2P = mod9, epic = u1)

All we need to know is 3 things:

1. The game wasn't dying.
2. Every bit of the game doesn't need to be every one.
3. Madfloyd is awesome.

[NytCrawlr]

Hmm, which just opens up a new wilderness area, full of nothing but wild animals, with a single, dark cave at one corner, that most animals stay away from.

When exploring said cave, one hears a quite deep snoring, sneaking into the cave you see a lone, rather huge, sleeping figure, a figure that most would recognize they do not want to awaken!




Now that's an EPIC monster!