an audio read in the blog post? we are living in the future.
neat to see what I assume is a lot of the learning from sailing blogs and the ability of us to absorb content in a bigger blog like this one.
Exactly that! I hope it gives people some different chances to process the information in the best way for them :)
The creatures link in the rumours section is broken btw.
Should be fixed now - thanks for that!
havent we already voted down bolas?
it wasnt about where they came from, nobody wants those in the pvp scene.
everything else looks amazing, but idk why you guys feel the need to push stuff we already said no to, but with a shiny new paintjob.
moths r very interesting, i dont see them being better than pot share, but you dont need to be on lunars to take a few of these. even with the 2 dose pots they seem pretty weak.
everything scaling to hunter level is really cool too.
I believe there might have been Bolas pitched before - or at least some history there, but we thought they fit the vibe of the Hunter Guild and Varlamore as a whole, rather than just because we did it before.
We're happy to hear any more ideas for moths, but we definitely don't want to replace any current methods but give some interesting alternatives.
Yeah, we wanted to keep things Hunter-tied but that made sense, and hopefully we've achieved that.
Can the hunter items not have a mixed attack style option? Pure accounts would surely appreciate it.
Examples being the noose, butterfly net , etc.
Also, can the salamanders att requirement be changed to strength? No one uses them, maybe str accounts could find some uses for them.
Something we've not considered, but I can defo raise it as a feedback point :)
For the Salamanders, that's definitely something I'd like the teams and other players feedback on :)
This looks fantastic! Exactly what Hunter needs
New training methods and rewards through Hunter Rumours
An alternate way of getting food. This gives hunting an actual purpose. Currently it's a gathering skill with no production skill attached. This helps that a bit.
Rebalances to existing gear like the hide camos, the hunter crossbow etc. Adding new gear crafted from hunter rewards. Adding new useful rewards like a level 80 Salamander.
Taking some elements from Taming and incorporating them in with the new bird transport network and whistle.
And adding some new hunter creatures to spice things up.
This is a proper skilling update that addresses the issues of the skill and fixes them appropriately.
This is what Forestry should've been, not content bloat and Random Events
Appreciate the feedback! I definitely learned a lot from Forestry and hopefully I've put these learnings into The Hunter Guild and Varlamore as a whole :)
but the larupia’s share of the bonus goes to Ranged attack.
are making bad puns part of the interview process or is training provided after securing the position?
It's why you get hired.
This is the riskiest satire I will ever produce in my life
My cursor was shaking reading this, well played :P
Love the idea and the content seems awesome. Hopefully will break up the monotony of daily bhouse runs/chinchompas.
However, realeasing a new skilling outfit while leaving the old outfits redundant definitely feels wrong. Have you thought about making those outfits work in their specific locations? It could be as a reward from the shop. Like the polar outfit giving a 5% catch rate and 2.5% xp boost when used in that area above Relleka.
It's something we definitely want to revisit and the weight reduction is a step in the right direction, but maybe it will be something we can do if more Hunter content comes from Varlamore.
wow wasnt expecting a varlamore blog so soon! very excited for this.
on another note. any update on a timescale for the COX blog? thought i would see that one before any varlamore stuff
looking forward to the hunters guild!
I want to make sure we have these discussions earlier rather than later so the devs can have plenty of time to refine and work on the content with a poll looming on the horizon.
Hello. Everything looks awesome. A sugestion. Can we make aerial fishing more relevant along with this update? Make the fish caught with this method more useful in some way. For example, include then in the new hunter/cooking content. And also make the greater siren a wieldable new salamander weapon? Maybe between black salamander and the new mountain salamander in terms of stats.
Something we wouldn't probably visit with the Hunter Guild as it's already quite chunky, but definitely not off the table if we visit Hunter again during Varlamore's release.
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Thank you! That's been changed now :)
you’ll be unable to eat another piece of Hunter Meat until one tick after you’ve received the full amount of healing it provides
It would be a little more interesting to allow players to eat meat again, but have it forfeit any delayed healing that hasn't kicked in yet. So if you just ate an antelope for 17 hp but you can't wait for the extra 4+5 hp to hit, you can eat another meat to immediately heal 17 again and just reset the stack of pending heals.
It's an interesting idea! I'm keen to see how many players agree with your suggestion!
I already feel guilty for not doing the 200 different dailies available in the game. Hunter rumours is an instant no from me which is a shame because the pet looks sick.
Can I ask what makes you think of Hunter's Rumours as dailies?
Not sure I’m a fan of the hunter version of slayer tasks being called rumors. I wouldn’t go to someone and say “hey I heard a rumor that there’s white-tailed deer in this forest” they’ll tell me no shit. Maybe sightings? Not sure. Just my 2 cents.
The thematics are more focused on Varlamore hunters having not really ventured across the seas, hence why it's rumours rather than assignments/tasks.
Wow, I've literally not been so on board with an update like this in such a long time. There was scarcely a thing on there that I disliked. Maybe the bolas snaring and praying ranged making the wilderness even more annoying, but that's a minor nitpick.
Now this is the kind of update that Forestry should have been (although couldn't have had because Woodcutting already had uses).
I want to be playing this update already.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the content pitch, is the Bolas the only thing you'd want tweaked - if at all?
Very cool but when are we getting the Cox QOL blog? The update itself was supposed to be this/next month so why does Varlamore have priority?
It's being worked on, I can't say specifically when, but it was because of myself the Varlamore blogs are getting out so soon, as I want to have these conversations around the content/polls earlier rather than later.
this is all fine but feel like this misses a trick in adding something really high level and cool. nothing here seems like it will make hunter actually fun and worth doing, its just slightly better versions of existing mediocre content. it would be cool if we could begin real, actually difficult hunts which take around an hour from the guild, which require skill and have serious gp rewards.
There's nothing to say we can't introduce this in the future, either with later Varlamore releases or as a standalone piece. Personally, I'd also really like some Monster Hunter style hunts or something really huge to track down and hunt.
Omg an audio blog ft. God Sarnie himself, thats awesome, one of my favorite things you added to spice up the wonderful blogs you put out :D. Any news on colosseum blog when to expect?
Thank you for the lovely words! :D I can't give the specifics, but it will be soon! What I can say is there will be another Varlamore blog out before the Colosseum one - so stay tuned!
Are rumours 1 and done tracks or are they more akin to slayer tasks in it's hunter 130 antelopes?
EDIT: Just had some clarification that you'll get given a creature and you hunt until you get the Rare Creature Part to complete the Rumour.
Yeah, you'll hunt X amount of creatures per rumour.
Will reaching Varlamore require boss fighting with complex mechanics? I would hate it to be locked behind PvM.... Too much of the skilling content is locked this way already. Some of the 'Master' quests are harder to beat than 'Grandmaster'...
Access to a skill guild should be related to the skill itself, not combat proficiency. Like the guilds of Farming and WC: they are a (rather) new content in a (rather) new continent, but still to access them you need only a level in the relevant skill.
I'm not going to give away the specifics but getting into Varlamore will be straight-forward :)
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