As for the new raid bosses coming at the end of the year what kind of things can we see so the bosses don’t melt quickly? I was personally a fan of the 5-10 minute long raid boss fights and would hate to see these bosses just melt.
For example will the bosses have damage scaling based on how fast the boss is dying to an extent as to encourage higher skill groups to get better times but keeping the boss alive for more than a minute or two like the current raid bosses.
+1 for the longer boss fights, but specifically for this example mechanic: If I understand, this would just mean the group has to slow down their DPS intentionally to prevent the tank from dying. Rather than a raw damage boost I’d rather see mechanics going off that affect the party, otherwise it will just be DPS snoring. Or, atleast a variety of such effects. One tank crusher boss would be fine.
I thought of an affix / class feature that may help with this and fireball spam
As the mage casts quicker and quicker an arcane charge begins to build around them [static shock is what I’m picturing] while they are casting at nominal speeds (use tile runes as the speed gauge) this then arcs to any other mage/party member who is close for a stacked shared streak buff.
Once they go faster than a nominal mage the static turns red and the Buff turns into a ‘debuff’ “Your on Fire!” damage (minus buff) remains same but they begin to take fire damage proportional to the speed that they are casting at and have a damage AOE proportional to their speed. (Have an 18 triplicity cast = empowered lifewell radius “flame well”.)
Use mistkeeper esk mechanics but closer together.
Can damage party members and mobs.
A strong healer will be required to keep 1 flaming mage alive … many flaming mages in a party and you might need to rethink playstyles.
I’m picturing slightlyfaster than nominal ticking like virus and the fastest mage ticking like an affliction stack.
(Allow decurse to purge it so new playstyles can emerge : have this act like tradu squid boss … actually yes … exactly like squiddy it then takes the same amount of time as squid to come back)
Could use the existing burn dots … have Fire 1 dot Fire 2 dot and Fire 3 dot apply at activation runes. (Or just squid damage at different shard levels … )
And anyone entering your zone gets it too … so it would be as much of a feature as a deterrent to blindly melt without communicating with your healer.
It would also, I assume be a status thing for those who can activate it … let’s give them a title or a flame mantle or something let’s have a faint firy glow eminate from their gear as a transmog … like gold foil but more arcane looking …
I like this idea… then have other effects trigger from standing in a flame well or shooting thru it.
All archer arrows are fire arrows if the shoot thru a flame well
Scoundrels have all burn cards or something standing in a well … because their cards ar burning … get it?
Flaming bard mallets …
Have bosses that heal from fire and target the strongest well to jump to … when that happens that mage has to halt dps or it just heals the boss.
Or a boss that spews explosive gas and he jumps randomly as a mechanic and you get poison for being in the cloud but if it hits a flamewell it goes boom.
Etcetera … etc , etc.
Also all the things Delceri said about improving talents and making existing spells more useful
Fireball 3 needs an AOE all line attacks need to be fixed (they shoot at vive orientation invisibly and not touch orientation and wand orientation does nothing to fix it (steamvrplayedthroculus))
Please we would really really know the answer on the age old question if there are tiles that currently do not proc in the game. And if not, which ones?
Will there be Any updates to pvp in the near future?
We put out the Dev blog post today but I didn’t have room on there to answer all the questions, so I answered more here.
Yes that is correct
With each each new content we try to improve the overall graphics of the game (not just for PCVR but for all users in Orbus). I personally feel like the DLC showed this off with more diverse environments, new creatures, etc. and we plan to continue that with the new future content.
Yes this is on our bug list
Yes I want to include the current class a player is playing in the combat logs, but this is a lower priortiy and something that won’t come until 2021
Yes, with the patch on 11/12/20, we added some additional API endpoints for the Auction house and the Market stalls for community created tools.
Yes we are aware and is on our bug list
Has to be the community and how willing they are to accept and help new players (if your asking about Orbus in general), if your asking specifically about the differences between original Orbus and Reborn then I think my favorite new thing is the new types of missions (dragon racings, critter capture, etc). While they have been out for over a year and are old news for the veteran players, its fun sitting inside of Sicilus dragon shop downstairs and watching new players flying their dragons for the first time.
I went back and tried finding the blog post but didn’t see it recently so this could be another older question, but the Lore quests will be out after the Raid (if you are asking about the lore quests from the mission vendors), there will be a new short questline coming out with the raid though to explore some of the lore surrounding Markos and the Citadel.
The first of the year we will be making some changes to the Mission vendors and their Reputation levels. While we will see an increase in the reputation levels for the mission vendors, we will also be limiting the amount of “saved” missions you can keep stockpiled. We have discussed this before publicly, and we will give a lot of lead time for players before making any changes (which won’t be coming until next year).
This will be coming when we do a balance pass on the Tank and Healers
We will be able to give out more information on where the balancing of the healer, support, and tank classes after the balance pass
Yes the Palidan hammer slingshot was not intended the way it has worked out being used, and we will be taking a look at it when we do the healer/tank pass
Just keep providing feedback of what isn’t working, whats working but no fun, etc. I honestly have no complaints when it comes to the community and the amount of feedback or bug reports we receive. We might not be able to get to them all right away but it is good to see them come in so we can prioritize them and work through them.
We are planning on adding in more races, but I think you mean things like free flying or something of that manner which we don’t currently have any plans on adding.
We don’t currently have any plans on bringing back the wilds where it was forced PvP
We will continue to try and improve the existing classes as well as look forward to future classes, and have already made some tweaks to a few of the existing class talents when we did the DPS balance pass, but I don’t want to promise making any fundamental changes to the classes.
We talk about the threads that are aligned with what we currently are working on during our team meetings, as well as the general wants/likes/dislikes of the community also during the meetings. As far as development cycle goes we generally have some longer term plans that we are working towards and include some of the QOL improvements or bug fixes that the community reports while working towards those goals.
I’m going to assume this is asking about the lack of storage space with the amount of items the players acquire, like the amount of capes, pets, mounts, etc that can not be broken down and transmoged like armor, along with the lack of storage space some players have that have stockpiled a lot of ingredients. We have added additional storage tabs to the main player chest, and implemented other things like the breaking down of tinkerer blueprints to try and free up some space in players inventory but are still aware of it.
Id say our top 5 priorities currently are: Citadel Raid out in Dec along with the Winter Festival, Fix Invisible players bug, Fix the bug with muting players with the new VOIP system, Upgrade the Quest 2 graphics to make more use of the processing power, and healer/tank balance pass along with fixing broken mechanics of those classes.
I can’t answer that yes or no as we haven’t looked into it yet, so I will side with no currently.
Yes we can, I will pass this on so we can get that in game.
Are these still considered “useless” after the DPS balance pass we made? For the second half of the question, yes, we will always work with the community when working on all things Orbus.
I feel like I sorta addressed this in a different question above, but no I’m not willing to promise any fundamental changes to the existing classes.
We can look into this, I’m not sure currently why they don’t appear since it has been a while since we have made changes to the market stalls. I know there was a bug before that was causing nothing to appear on the market stalls other then potions and that was fixed when we worked on the furniture house placement so you should see other ingredients and such appear.
We don’t currently have any plans on adding something like this, currently the only shared chest in game is the fellowship chest.
We have discussed this but have no current plans on them coming on the upcoming Citadel Raid
I know Riley spoke about this some time ago, but we are not currently working on it to bring it into game, but are planning on working on some PvP related content in 2021.
Yes
You can currently use the knuckles to play Orbus, but we are aware of the issues with the bindings and plan to take a look at it when we have time.
This is something that we can look into sharing, though it would probably be in a limited context. I will speak with the team at our next meeting and see how we want to address this and where that information would best be exposed.
Thanks for the ridiculous amount of info/answers you gave! Seriously, that was like, a ton of information and it’s awesome.
Regarding my question of player created content:
How manageable would it be to have the ability for players to import content, if not create in game. As in, we players creating things in Unity, uploading onto the Steam Workshop/somewhere else, and players being able to run that content? I understand creating a dungeon creation system would be a huge project, but if we took care of the building aspect by using other tools would it be possible for us to find a way to play that as well?
There will be a new short questline coming out with the raid though to explore some of the lore surrounding Markos and the Citadel.
Will the new raid be locked behind a Quest line?
Will this effect the ones we currently have stockpiled if we choose not to turn them in? Like, they won’t just disappear will they??
I think you assumed wrong (but of course im assuming too).
I think the question was asking about the breaking down items individually hassle. a good example is when grinding, you get a lot of armour/weapons in your inventory, it takes up lots of slots + is mind numbing to break down each and every one over and over and over.
-possible fix a mass break down button
On another note: glad you answered a bunch of questions, I remember last time feeling disappointed that not a lot of questions got answered but this time you got through a ton. Nice 
Thank you
This might become a huge thing for the community. I would highly recommend getting community feedback on the plan before changing anything… Because the problem is PvP only from the player perspective (as far as I know), I beg you to consider any change only affecting PvP… It is time to detect difference between pvp and pve stuff on more things than buffs…
This is definitely in reference to situations like this. Entire pages of inventory filled up with these chests, and each one requiring two clicks to open, and then three more clicks to break down the gear from each one that we don’t need, and more clicks to deposit the dozens of ingredients gained. It’s time consuming and if you want to do missions, an unavoidable consequence. Your inventory will fill up, and you will spend several minutes then having to sort out all the items.
Need this right here
pro tip, if you’re going to turn in a lot of quests and don’t care about the loot from the reward caches you can split 1-2 stacks of items up until your inventory is full(doesn’t take that long if you place the stacks close to the split button), then since you don’t have room for the caches in your inventory they’ll get deleted(or something, they disappear at least) and you wont have to deal with opening them all and breaking down the gear.
You do have to stack up all the items again afterwards tho, but it’s faster if you turned in a decent number of missions.
I get a feeling this has been asked before but can we expect to see any new dungeons/a possible shard level increase? Shard 15s are getting way to easy. A new challenge be would be great.
When it comes to balancing tanks and supports, which one will you look at first?
Will the lore end at the citadel raid or is there more we don’t know about?
What about tanks need to be balanced?
It’s also been confirmed, support balance is coming soon
The key words are (paraphrased) “take a look at.”
I am not the most qualified person to talk about the paladin, but if I remember correctly, the paladin has intense struggles with keeping aggro.
When it comes to the warrior, the only real issue with it is hitreg/bugs. I have had so many cases in PvP and PvE where I slash at the opponent, it vibrates the controller, saying that I hit the enemy, and it just does nothing. And finally, this one only sticks out during the Seamstress for some reason, but the swords hitbox just disappears, ruining the entire fight because the game decided that your sword never existed.
As someone who tanks shards 90% of the time I don’t see what intense problems you mean but there is certainly somewhat of a gap.
