Greetings Adventurers, there’s been quite a bit going on in TADO the last couple of months with the introduction of some new high level activities; a high level group focused event in Star Island and the raining of high end Star-Metal meteors upon the lands accompanied by some tricky elementals that only the strongest of adventurers would dare meet alone.
But aside from the ongoing march of new content, we’ve also added in a long-requested mechanism for more mass reallocating your hard earnt skill points.
In TADO there are a number of ways to gain character power, at first much of this comes from the skill points you earn and spend when levelling, these allow you to equip the current (and regularly expanding) 130+ ability gems that can be found across the various continents, some via discovery, some via drops and some found in the various town stores across the lands.
Increasing your skill points, aside from granting access to those new abilities, doesn’t however grant a huge amount of extra power, though over time and levels the small benefit it does adds up, but a lot of your characters power comes from the items they equip; which themselves also require skill points invested to equip; a very high level piece of crafted heavy armour will require more investment in the Heavy Armour skill to equip but provide significantly more survivability than a lower level one.
Overtime, some adventurer’s may regret their choices and decide they’d like to remove some of their skills. In a game like TADO, where there aren’t strict classes and where your character is a reflection of the skills and equipment you’ve chosen and collected, resetting all your stats is like completely swapping class in most games. This is something we haven’t previously really made available to a great degree though we’ve made changes to make this easier, particularly on lower level players whilst also giving higher level players some options for full respecs should they desire; though rarely.
There’s a few main ways in game players can now look to retool their character when they had enough of say, throwing dark magic around via the occult skill and would like to invest in sword fighting.
Unlearning Points: These are collected around the world at various shines and give your character access to a way of tweaking/moving small amounts of points between your chosen skills. Not far into the main quest new players also receive 100 of these points given them a chance to change direction if they aren’t too satisfied with their original choices.
Tomes of Unlearning: Adventurer’s will come across these from most activities, be it Events, grinding, collecting materials or even fishing they will pop up now and then. There’s also a reasonable player economy in the buying and selling of these tomes. These give adventurer’s another way of accessing more Unlearning points with every tome granting your 10 more points.
Resting at an Inn: An adventurer now also has a further choice, resting at Inns. There are four Inns scattered across the continents of TADO and at any of these an Adventurer can choose to rest. Resting allows you to remove any amount of points spent in a single skill and return them to the character for spending elsewhere. The more an Adventurer wishes to remove from a skill, the longer it will be before they can do so again and whilst lower levels removing small amounts will find themselves able to rest frequently, a player with thousands of points spent will only be able to do so rarely.
Adventurer’s will also see Herbs of Serenity in the world; one can be found for every Adventurer in each of the four Inns. These humble herbs allow you to clear the cooldown and instantly rest again should you want to.
With the Inn feature now in game, our next big quality of life focus is moving over to the UI, which we've had a lot of er... 'feedback' on since going into Early Access. As such we've been working on a full redesign of the UI moving away from the Fullscreen panels and to more traditional rpg layouts.
Safe hunting Adventurer’s and sweet dreams at the Inn.
Monty