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The Old Republic Expansion Drops Talent Trees

Bioware is looking to shake up The Old Republic with update 3.0, introducing the new discipline system. The discipline system will replace the skill trees, removing the idea of receiving skill points to buy powers as you level up. Instead, players will choose between three disciplines per advanced class, receiving passive and active abilities automatically as they level up rather than purchasing at skill vendors.

The goal of disciplines is to offer a level of freedom that was not available with skill trees, allowing players to level up without worrying about gimping their characters and allowing Bioware to increase the level cap without the extensive time required to balance the newly introduced skill points.

Discipline launches on December 9th alongside the Shadow of Revan expansion.

(Source: Dev blog)

MMOrning Shots: Because Face

Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from ArcheAge, and answers the question asked by every single one of the six people who asked me, what does my ArcheAge character look like under that helmet in my Twitter profile? Now you know.

Check out MMOrning Shots every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

ArcheAge Teleport Hackers Caught On Video

Need a good reason to avoid ArcheAge for the time being? Here is one, the game is filled with hackers. Not the kind of hackers that steal your account, the kind that are able to teleport throughout the game, grabbing up land as soon as it becomes available and running trade routes immediately to bring in massive amounts of gold. Bots have dominated ArcheAge since launch, and every day continue to flood the economy with gold farmed through hacks, land automatically purchased through hacks, and trader rewards achieved through hacks. You can see in the above video that there is even a bot to report people for killing other bots.

RuneScape October Updates Detailed

Jagex has unveiled the October update list for RuneScape. As part of the regular weekly updates, players will be able to enjoy the much anticipated ironman modes, a new mini-game, and extra tweaks to existing content. The month will spin off with a Halloween themed event and quest, and players will be able to view the Runefest stream on October 11th.

Ironman mode: no trade, no cooperative minigames, no treasure hunter, no lootshare, no gifts. Can you make it through RuneScape completely on your own? Go even further with hardcore ironman mode, featuring permanent death.
Smarter familiars: Combat familiars will join in a fight immediately, along with multiple other updates to the Summoning system.
Drop tables: Ghosts and beasts will see their drop table reworked for better loot.
Halloween event: Help the grim reaper himself deal with otherworldly issues.
Divination mini-game: Guthix’s hidden rune cache.
Treasure Hunter and Solomon Store updates: New cash shop promotions.
Runefest: Jagex’s convention, taking place on October 11th.

(Source: RuneScape)

RuneScape VIP Q&A Highlights

Jagex recently conducted a question and answer session with the VIP members (people who purchased the premiere club membership this year), and if you aren’t a member you can’t access the forums. The list is massive, so instead of reproducing the Q&A 1:1 and likely crashing this website, I’ve decided to consolidate the answers into an easily digestible list.

If you don’t play RuneScape, many of these answers will mean nothing to you. You can read the Q&A in its entirety at the Tip.It forums.

In the works:
- Bosses similar to Vorago.
- Skillcape rework, redesigns will be polled.
- Clue Scroll rework from February poll.
- New God War event, no ETA.
- New resource dungeon -Elf City Batch 2.
- Invention skill will be player polled.
- Transferring pets to pet interface.
Low priority, but in the works:
- Search function in quest list.
Technically possible, not in the works:
- Bank organization presets.
- Color-blind mode.
Technically impossible:
- Accessing certain interfaces while in combat.
Not currently in development:
- Recolor Drygore equipment.
- Updating Trouble Brewing.
- No ETA on non-holiday quest.
- Floor 61 of Daemonheim.
- City of Menaphos.
- Church of You.
- Penguin series quest.
- Elf quests.
- Skiller boss.
Not being considered:
- Altering Arraxxor drop list.
- Buff Hydrix jewelry.
- Bank booster bundles.

ArcheAge Update Targets Chat Spam

Today’s update to ArcheAge goes up in under an hour, followed by three to five hours of downtime. Version 1.2 build 4.11 introduces a few convenience changes to the game: The Kraken can only be damaged by siege weapons, trial chat can now only be used by participants in a trial, healer weapons are now rewarded in quests, and warehouse expansion has had its cap increased. To fight bots, Trion is introducing a level restriction for chat channels:

Chatting in the Faction, Shout, Trade, Need Party, and Nation chat channels is now restricted to characters that are level 15 and higher.

No, this update will not stop chat spam. The goal, and what this update will accomplish, is to put a stop to the seemingly never ending cycle of spam accounts creating a level one character, typing once in chat, and then deleting said character in order to bypass the ignore list. Of course, a chat filter would also be nice.

(Source: Trion Worlds)

DC Universe Previews New UI

DC Universe is set to get a makeover with the introduction of UI 2.0, and you can get a sneak peek with the following nine minute video. The new interface is designed around a PDA theme and is looking much sleeker, with various menus consolidated and much easier to navigate. Information is more organized and user friendly, and you can even change the tint of the UI to match your character theme.

Look for the new UI when it goes live.

Playstation Plus Prices Increase In Several Territories

Sony has announced that, due to market conditions, the price of Playstation Plus will be increasing in multiple countries. Affected countries are South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and India. While Sony described the price increases as “slightly increased prices,” emails sent to users in affected regions reveal that the prices are increasing over 50%. Sony responded to questions of prices rising in North America by noting that “price adjustments are not being planned for PS Plus in the SCEA region.”

(Source: Shacknews)

Destiny Patch 1.0.2 Drops, Increases Loot

Bungie has dropped patch 1.0.2 onto the Destiny servers, as announced late last month. The patch makes several changes to the way loot works, by ensuring that engrams (loot boxes) will always decrypt into an item of the engram’s level or higher. Legendary engrams are now guaranteed to result in legendary items, and rare engrams have an increased chance of legendary gear. Ascendant shards and energy have been promoted in rank to legendary. Rare and legendary engrams have also been added as potential drops for daily and weekly heroics, as well as the Tiger Strike playlist.

(Source: Bungie)

The Elder Scrolls Online Guild Summit Chronicled

Zenimax Studios recently invited the leaders of twenty guilds to come visit the offices and learn more about future updates to Elder Scrolls Online. The invitees have not been placed under any sort of nondisclosure agreement, and as such are currently in the midst of sharing all that they know with the outside world. The folks over at Tamriel Foundry have begun uploading details on upcoming updates as well as developer responses to Q&A sessions.

The amount of information is overwhelming, and this is only for the first day. According to the post, there is plenty more to come. If you have some free time, check out the write-up at the link below.

(Source: Tamriel Foundry)

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