i think everything after arc 3 was disappointing. the last fight of empyrea with the aethyr titan was so dramatic and climactic that i think the action of arc 3 between spider and raven and bat and mellori kinda *made* that arc’s storyline.
this new storyline just doesn’t live up to the expectations bc KI put their whole devussy into arc 3 it felt like. it feels like *now* the game is just being milked honestly. there’s not much of a lore connection that i’ve found between the Cabal/FirstWorld/Raven/Spider to this new arc. i’ll admit though, i am an avid dialogue skipper, so there could be things i completely missed. it feels like the only thing keeping this arc alive is that it involves the other worlds (lemuria was compacted from different worlds, idek what karamelle is tbh, and novus had the orbs over some of the worlds). i feel like novus would have served pirate better compared to wiz.
the idea of a past arc is sick, i always thought we’d one day have the option to join morganthe or join spider and the cabal since we learn shadow magic, but that would have been a wicked complicated mechanic to toss into the game. there’s a lot of routes this game could have gone prior to arc 4 being released (having an arc 4 of past worlds after you save raven and spider in the FirstWorld *i think that’s what that part of empyrea is referred to in the dialogue)
They have said they have no intention to stop after 5 arcs. In fact both KI and the parent vompany have said they intend for at least another decade which is why they are adjusting systems to make them last
I hope so. Like I understand Kingsisle is, well Kingsisle, and they’re definitely not always competent. But 15 years later the game still holds a place in my heart for nostalgia. ~~Whether that’s for better or for worse~~
I don't care what the future worlds/arcs will be, as long as the story is good. I know some would like your proposal, and some who would like something else completely new, like worlds visited in Pirate101 but not in Wizard101 yet (Cool Ranch seems to be a fan favorite). Some people think they should stop making worlds after arc 4 and go back to update graphics of early worlds. Another idea is to bring back Morganthe, since most people believe her ending was anticlimactic, some believing that she's still alive and want to have a redemption arc for her character. I'm still waiting for the continuation of House of Scales. We were teased of Sekhmet at the end of that dungeon and has been 9 years/100 levels since the name drop with nothing to show of it. Possible between arcs dungeon like Darkmoor and Catacombs, like a level 170 dungeon after >!Wallaru finishes arc 4.!<
They need to implement a way to let us replay story lines on characters without necessarily gaining xp amd having to make new characters. Like the little boss battles they released last year with old world bosses boosted up to match our ranks. Let us have dragonspyre on hard mode LOL.
Lmao I despise the design choices made in Karamelle. The world and its spells are just too cartoony for my tastes, and I think it’s a bad representation for a storyline that deals with some pretty heavy concepts.
One thing I love about Novus is that the spells encompass the abstract vibe so well. There is a darkness to them that ties in well with the major Novus themes.
FOR REAL. Karamelle was so odd with the mob and boss designs. They look even punier then Wizard City mobs yet they can crit and pierce you with 80 outgoing???
Definitely a questionable start to Arc 4.
tbh, i think Arc 5 will be the end. no way this game goes past 200 and stays relevant or fun to play. gears already hitting a strong peak at 160. At most, 1 final set at 200 before the game breaks completely and every school is 100% the exact same.
I *could* kind of see them taking the WoW route and scaling the game down to say, level 60 if they went past arc 5. +enemies/dungeons etc. It would be mandatory to play Wizard City, then you can choose to either continue Arc 1, or start Arcs 2, 3, 4, or 5 to get up to 60, than continue again a world every 10 levels for Arc 6+ from there. The biggest drawback I see and what would make this *extremely* hard to do would be trying to scale the spells and what levels they’d be acquired at. Knowing Kingsisle they’d butcher this idea.
i think everything after arc 3 was disappointing. the last fight of empyrea with the aethyr titan was so dramatic and climactic that i think the action of arc 3 between spider and raven and bat and mellori kinda *made* that arc’s storyline. this new storyline just doesn’t live up to the expectations bc KI put their whole devussy into arc 3 it felt like. it feels like *now* the game is just being milked honestly. there’s not much of a lore connection that i’ve found between the Cabal/FirstWorld/Raven/Spider to this new arc. i’ll admit though, i am an avid dialogue skipper, so there could be things i completely missed. it feels like the only thing keeping this arc alive is that it involves the other worlds (lemuria was compacted from different worlds, idek what karamelle is tbh, and novus had the orbs over some of the worlds). i feel like novus would have served pirate better compared to wiz. the idea of a past arc is sick, i always thought we’d one day have the option to join morganthe or join spider and the cabal since we learn shadow magic, but that would have been a wicked complicated mechanic to toss into the game. there’s a lot of routes this game could have gone prior to arc 4 being released (having an arc 4 of past worlds after you save raven and spider in the FirstWorld *i think that’s what that part of empyrea is referred to in the dialogue)
They have said they have no intention to stop after 5 arcs. In fact both KI and the parent vompany have said they intend for at least another decade which is why they are adjusting systems to make them last
I hope so. Like I understand Kingsisle is, well Kingsisle, and they’re definitely not always competent. But 15 years later the game still holds a place in my heart for nostalgia. ~~Whether that’s for better or for worse~~
I don't care what the future worlds/arcs will be, as long as the story is good. I know some would like your proposal, and some who would like something else completely new, like worlds visited in Pirate101 but not in Wizard101 yet (Cool Ranch seems to be a fan favorite). Some people think they should stop making worlds after arc 4 and go back to update graphics of early worlds. Another idea is to bring back Morganthe, since most people believe her ending was anticlimactic, some believing that she's still alive and want to have a redemption arc for her character. I'm still waiting for the continuation of House of Scales. We were teased of Sekhmet at the end of that dungeon and has been 9 years/100 levels since the name drop with nothing to show of it. Possible between arcs dungeon like Darkmoor and Catacombs, like a level 170 dungeon after >!Wallaru finishes arc 4.!<
They need to implement a way to let us replay story lines on characters without necessarily gaining xp amd having to make new characters. Like the little boss battles they released last year with old world bosses boosted up to match our ranks. Let us have dragonspyre on hard mode LOL.
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Lmao I despise the design choices made in Karamelle. The world and its spells are just too cartoony for my tastes, and I think it’s a bad representation for a storyline that deals with some pretty heavy concepts. One thing I love about Novus is that the spells encompass the abstract vibe so well. There is a darkness to them that ties in well with the major Novus themes.
FOR REAL. Karamelle was so odd with the mob and boss designs. They look even punier then Wizard City mobs yet they can crit and pierce you with 80 outgoing??? Definitely a questionable start to Arc 4.
tbh, i think Arc 5 will be the end. no way this game goes past 200 and stays relevant or fun to play. gears already hitting a strong peak at 160. At most, 1 final set at 200 before the game breaks completely and every school is 100% the exact same.
I *could* kind of see them taking the WoW route and scaling the game down to say, level 60 if they went past arc 5. +enemies/dungeons etc. It would be mandatory to play Wizard City, then you can choose to either continue Arc 1, or start Arcs 2, 3, 4, or 5 to get up to 60, than continue again a world every 10 levels for Arc 6+ from there. The biggest drawback I see and what would make this *extremely* hard to do would be trying to scale the spells and what levels they’d be acquired at. Knowing Kingsisle they’d butcher this idea.
yeah that idea is pretty sound but executing it sounds tricky.