In the dark fantasy MMO The Secret World, the next update will elaborate on the typical MMO elements: currencies, gear, raids, dungeons, group finder.
The Secret World plays out in many ways more like a single-player RPG or even an adventure: the fully-voiced stories take center stage.
In a Twitch stream a week ago, the developers presented their plans for the next content patch: Update 12 “Dark Tower Below.” In this update, fundamental game mechanics will be revised.
The update will come in 2 parts – the first part is scheduled for mid-August, with the second coming a few weeks later.
The first part of Update 12 grants access to a dungeon beneath the Orochi Tower, the Factory. Here, the focus is primarily against the Orochi themselves in a sterile techno-look. You access the dungeon via the elevator in the Orochi Tower. This dungeon is also aimed at hardcore players, like the penthouse, in the Nightmare update. The elite version will also be available to players who are still feeling their way into the endgame. The blue 10.5 items that drop here are expected to be around the level of previous lilac ones.
In the second part of update #12, a few weeks later, a second dungeon will come, where you will face the “experiments” of the Orochi – something like cybernetically enhanced werewolves. The dungeon is still being finalized.
With “Flappy” (featured image), a former event boss is being reworked into a 10-man raid boss, and it’s going to be pretty tough.
They plan to introduce Nightmare modes for existing raids, which will come in the second part.
One of the bosses of the Factory.
World bosses are coming, for which a lot of players are needed, similar to the golem event bosses.
Update 12 will significantly simplify currencies, leaving only two types of tokens: one for endgame activities (Nightmare Dungeons and Raids) Mark of the Pantheon and one for everything else: Black Buillion.
A cap will be implemented on how many tokens one can have overall, and how many can be earned in a week.
The item progression will continue – there will be a plethora of new “best items”.
PvE and PvP items will be balanced to follow a “progression path”; in update 13, new ideas for PvP progression will likely be presented.
The dungeon finder will be revamped, allowing those who “manually” look for a group via it to have more space to describe their preferences – furthermore, an automated dungeon finder will also be offered.
And there will be daily and weekly missions in The Secret World.
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