| Pavlod | Дата: Пятница, 09.03.2012, 01:30 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Instance Finder Rewards
By: Brian "Zombie Columbus" Aloisio
Summary
Instance Finder is gaining the ability to opt-in and out of instances, broadening or restricting the possible matches through the Advanced tab. The Instance Finder Bonus will similarly scale, growing the IF Bonus as more instances are opted into. Additionally, Skirmish Daily quests are being modified.
The Short Version
Currently, the full Instance Finder bonus (50% currency and 5% Power/Morale) is granted only if you are willing to play a fully random instance through the Simple tab. If you wish to play a specific instance you can use World-join, but will receive no bonus.
With Update 6, you will be able to find a place between these two extremes. By indicating the specific instances you want IF to match you into, you will gain a relative IF Bonus. The more instances you opt into, the higher the IF Bonus will get, eventually reaching the current maximum.
Down and Dirty
Instead of 0% or 50%, the Instance Finder Bonus will now be somewhere between these two values. The amount of the bonus is based on two factors: The number of available instances, and the number of chosen instances. For helpful clarifications, details and examples for both of these factors, see below. In all cases, if you select all available instances, you will get the maximum bonus.
Available Instances:
Selecting the Type/Size/Tier configuration options at the top of Instance Finder will determine what instances are available. Additional factors will modify this pool: level, quest completion, subscriber status and LOTRO Store purchases. In the end, you will have a pool of instances that are personally available to you. This is the pool we measure off of when determining your IF Bonus, not some universal pool of what you could have access to, had you made different store choices. In other words, free players at level 20 will be able to get the full IF Bonus.
Chosen Instances:
From within the pool of available instances, you will then choose which instances to opt-in and out of. The more you choose to play, the larger your IF bonus will be. It is important to note that as your pool of available instances increases, you can remove more instances from the pool without greatly affecting your bonuses. For more on this, please see the examples below.
Examples
Bob chooses Instance, Size 3, Tier 1. He has access to Halls of Night, Inn of the Forsaken, Library and School. With all four toggled on, his rewards panel looks normal for now. The 4/4 represents his chosen over available instances, providing the full IF Bonus.
He has played Inn of the Forsaken too many times lately, so decides to toggle it off. He sees that his IF Bonus is now 33%. This is because with only 4 instances in the available pool, it is not possible to remove any without the IF Bonus decreasing.
Resolute to not play Inn of the Forsaken, Bob broadens his search to include Skirmishes. He adds Skirmishes to the Type selection as well as Size 1 and 2. He is now set for Instance/Skirmish, Size 1/2/3, Tier 1. His rearward panel now shows a full IF Bonus.
Because there are so many instances in the “available” pool now, Bob realizes he can toggle off two more instances and still be at the full bonus. He removes Ford of Bruinen and Protectors of Thangulhad and then queues with the full IF Bonus.
On Skirmish Dailies
In order to remove the possibility of Instance Finder placing players in instances where they already completed the daily quests, we moved away from the daily quest mechanic in favor of rewards that appear every time you play an instance. However, the way in which we went about removing the daily gated quests from Skirmishes upset many players. We will not be re-adding the daily mechanic for the aforementioned reasons, but we will be restructuring and increasing the rewards from Skirmishes.
The instance quest present every time you play a Skirmish will now award XP, IX, Reputation, gold and Marks. The bonus XP awards that were added to monster kills in Update 5 will be reduced to make room for this. All these award amounts will be balanced off the difficulty / duration of the Skirmish in question.
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