The Trove developers hosted a livestream this evening, covering launch preparation, the new class  and the refer a friend system.

Following TeeKayM and Bragi’s formats, here’s today’s stream summary:

If you missed the stream you can catch it here.

Hosted by:

  • Adam (Decoy_Trion)
  • Ted (Dopesheet)
  • Andrew (Avarem)
  • Robin (Twixler)

Launch Preparation + News

  • Focus on polish
  • Take a look and post on Avarem’s launch hit list
  • Starter pack is no longer there for experienced players
    • Will have 8 days from when you start playing to purchase the pack before it goes away
    • More deals will be added
  • Map changes incoming

New Class: Tomb Raiser!

  • Weapon = staff
  • Shoots laserbeams of death
  • Summons skeletal minions
  • Necromancer-full details released next week

New Refer a Friend System

  • Method to get the next dragon: Elder Dragon
  • Have to be new to the game (not retroactive)
  • Need to refer friends that reach Mastery Level 30
    • 1 person = Elder Dragonling Ally
    • 3 people = Elder Dragonsquire Ally
    • 5 people = Elder Dragon Fledgling
    • 10 people = Elder Dragon
    • 30 people = Disaeon the Immortal
  • Allies:
    • Elder Dragonling Ally: 8% Physical Damage, 8% Magic Damage, Reduces cooldown time by 10%, Damaging enemies has a chance to blast them with fire
    • Elder Dragonsquire Ally: 7 Superstition

New Shadow Pinatas

  • Going live on Tuesday-will be a bonus on top of things you normally buy in store
  • Shadow Style Surprises
  • Shadow Pinata Mount

New UI:

  • Inventory is now vertical
  • New character UI (coming a week from Tuesday)

Dragons + Challenges:

  • Will have away to convert materials to old ones (to apply towards old dragons)
  • Dragon Spirit (+1-% health, +1 Health, +50 Magic Find)-not all dragons will have dragon spirit
  • Changes to challenges incoming:
    • Way too good at challenges
    • Cache rewards at higher level will be brought down a bit
      • 2 for bronze/silver
      • 2 for gold/platinum
    • World level requirement will be enforced-will not get credit for challenge if you're on a Level 1 bonus class, etc

New Streamer News:

  • Robo Raptors have run their course
  • New giveaway-the week of the launch patch (first week of July): Balefire Wings!

Questions:

  • Inventory Polish
    • Not a pre-launch task    
    • Post-launch will involve ability to unlock more inventory space
  • Aetheonus: Does the Tomb Raiser involve any lich-y-ness?
    • Does not turn into a lich specifically but does have a buff that changes appearance
  • WarTaak: Do you plan on adding new types of challenges
    • One idea-shadow dungeon challenge with a specific dragon cache involved
    • Will look at other potential variations for challenges
  • Magma_Guard: Why 3 Penta-Souls instead of 2?
    • It takes a lot to make Radiant-needs to cost more
  • Eloc Freidon: Old Crafting Benches as decoration?
    • They’ve been using old benches for new things, but if they decide not to they may bring them back as deco.
    • They are looking at branching out crafting system and expanding it a bit (Mr.E working on it)
  • WarTaak: Club-specific PVP/PVE content?
    • Not sure about club-specific content yet but they do want to add some club-based progression
  • Dragon fireballs are causing a crash on some people-will be looked into
  • Bees: Does the game have any bugs that ended up being kept as features?
    • They are certain there are but will need a week to remember, haha.
  • Val1407: Plasma Fishing + High-Altitude Lava Fishing?
    • Will be worked on after polish
  • Magma_Guard: When will Everdark coming or is it never going to be implemented? (vague answer)
  • WarTaak: Will there be more Neon Nightsky type of crafting quests?
    • Not anything slated yet but they want to.
  • Batman: Why is the Trove Creations ship late?
  • Have a TON of creations coming (300+) but will come after they’re doing concentrating on polish.
  • Underground Update-no ETA but may have more coming
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