Santa Baby... Gimme something good for RVR

[sonorous]

Kollands christmas wishlist.

Dear Santa

Rvr is nice and all and I enjoy roaming in a small group but I just feel it needs a bit of spice. A little paprika to bring out the flavour, some grinder to churn out that grade A Himalayan salt. It feels a bit too clinical. Where A -> B -> C. Supplies, rank up, siege. Next zone. Fun. Not really. I mean the fights and all are great but it doesn't feel chaotic, like an eternal war of madness. It feels too objective based. So here is what I want for Christmas. Not for all the zones, god no that would be insane.

But just for Praag Dragonwake and TM.


1) Roaming 45+ lords and their contingent of level 40 heroes. Killing them drops 5-10 level 40 heroes in courtyard of enemy keep. This could effectively trap units in a keep and slow down reinforcements.



2) Random gyrocpter and dragon ground barrages in random coordinates on map. They cover large areas and from announcement time take 20 seconds to hit the area. Coordinates are randomly generated but frequent enough to cover most spots. The higher the keep rank the more frequent.



3) Barrel bombs that you can pick up like supplies from keep but you need to be in a 6man or a full grp in wb to pick up. If any member within that 6man deviates from the others by over 100ft or a member dies the bomb is reset. Once ur 6man is at the location the party leader detonates it to relase MASSIVE dmg within a radius of 75 feet. This is good to break seiges of funnels but also good to defend against them.



4) Twisting tower mechanic to be able to jump over walls depending on keep rank or bos controlled. imagine being able to launch 2 or 3 full grps at a time into courtyard to cause havoc. Timed together with the heroes from point 1 it could make for some interesting gameplay.



5) If a player gets a 15 person kill streak they become a champion for 5 minutes. Once the time is expired their kill streak is reset. Their name is announced and a bounty put on their head.



6) Ogre supply bots. They carry 5 supply crates on them from each wc to the sides respective keep. They are really beefy like the snotling from the anniversery event. They dont engage but have a knockup mechanic every 20 seconds. They are slow moving.



7) Minefields. Rank 4 keep spawns mines. In random area. Just like magus or engie ones. But well are a little more damaging if triggered.



8) BOs if held for 2 minutes spawn giant kegs that aoe heal the nearby area for 700 hp per second. Maybe even some slow puddles around the periphery. Cause really what is the point of holding a bo anymore. Theres no fun in defending them and no reson to be static on them cause u know more enemy numbers will eventually reach u.



9) Spawn the final boss from BS 300 gold with same stats and maybe a bit more hp that makes his way to the enemy keep and has that aoe pull that can pull defenders off walls.



10) Spawn the final boss from GB that can knockdown the door in 1 hit if it reaches it. Moves very slow.



11) If a keep is under attack u can spawn rock lobbas for 100 gold each to through giant boulders over walls.



And basically any other idea that ppl can come up with that would maximise chaos. Remember kids this post isnt about balance. Its about CHAOS. Feeling like ur lost in the madness and are only trying to survive from a thousand different things trying to kill u. Oh **** that gives me another idea...


12) Booby traps.... put booby traps everywhere.


13)Healers at warcamps that randomly choose whether they heal you, extort you for more money, or cleanse you but get the job done wrong and instead infect you with a poison that randomly combusts and launches you 200 feet in the air at a random point in time later down the line.


14) What about hero snipers on rooftops or spires that randomly target any enemy that comes within 150 feet and can 1 shot them? U can counter this by buying stealth potions from healers but remember these potions could be poison with the same concoction that launches you 200ft in the air at a random moment.


15) Random portals that pop up and take you to random locations like giant rift portals. Maybe in enemy wc or keep or next to a lord or next to a pot of gold.....


16) Wait what about random pots of gold that spawn for 15 minutes somewhere in the zone. These pots of gold have 180+ armor talis blue armor pots and like 500 gold. But the catch is they can only be interacted with 5 minutes after they spawn. And only by the group or warband that contributed to killing their chaos dwarf guard. Well yea it has to be a dwarf guard.


17) What more chaos can we add .... A staff. Yea you heard me. Yea some kind of rat race(quest chain) every time the zone opens whereby the first person to finish it receives a staff of immeasurable power that can make any enemy u target naked for 1 minutes - cooldown is 10 minutes. The absolute best way to settle any grudges you may have.


18) Terror mechanic around boss 1 and the pot of gold boss.


19) NPC's that randomly run around shouting "The world is burning we are all going to die."


20) Battlefield generals that spawn at a BO held for 10 minutes. They need messengers to arrive from wc or keep every 15 minutes to remain there. If u kill both the messengers the hero despawns. The presence of battlefield generals is portals to the BO's + local AAO Buff + 5% local dmg increase. With all 4 BOS capped the dmg modifier can cover large swathes of the map. The messengers are weaker versions of City stage two hereos that go and cap BOS. BOS with heroes can also spawn messengers. 3 Battlefield heroes unlocks something cool. I havent figured it out yet .... Its got to be something HUGE though.


21) The killing of zone specific heroes, and the completion of zone specific quests rewards the Bitterpurge currency (trademarked, contact me for more info). Its a cosmetic line of all gory and war themed spoils. Like gear skins, dyes yada yada.


22) More active devs. I genuinely don't mind and i'm sure most people wouldn't :0 if 1 dev each side turned themselves into champions and add even more chaos.


My wish is not for this to be in every zone but only in the middle zones of t4 so ppl that want to continue mindless zerging can still do so in every other zone. I look especially forward to the amount of salt this post will generate for no apparent reason.


IF YOU BELEIVE IN CHAOS AND WANT A LITTLE MORE MADNESS IN YOUR LIFE... spread the word. Let the devs know. Together we can bring more chaos, more madness, more salty tears to more players!

[Shazzkar]

This can be pretty cool man , the only thing.. is for gyro and dragon ground , maybe do some love with a destro-sided thing-like? Maybe hellcannon/goblin-lobba/elves ballista barrage and chaos hound who roam? By the way.. i hope the dev will look at this. I know this can be hard work but can be sooo interesting

[sonorous]

Packs of chaos hounds roaming around the streets of praag would be a really good addition.