Do you think Storm Legion will have Rifts have large effects on a zone?

[robert4818]

Storm Legion will have two full sized continents on it. Tripling the size of the world. It adds only 10 more levels to the game.

My question is do you think that some of these zones might actually be dynamically tied to the rift and rift events that go on there?

Right now, invasion and zone events happen, but the consequences for losing one are non-existent. With Storm legion, I would love to see a zone get terraformed by a successful invasion. Similar how the area immediately within a rift spot does already.

An area successfully invaded through a failed zone would then have to be slowly recaptured by the players, driving back the legions. Perhaps leading to an "open dungeon" where the primary city/settlement is normally. These would function similarly to the open raid content we have during invasions already.

[Zengar Zombolt]

I hope so. It would be nice to see the main distinguishing/titular feature of the game have more of an impact on the game. I miss the earlier days when leaving a Rift open would actually have consequences since it could potentially spawn a major invasion force that would take over a town. I understand why they removed that from the earlier level zones at least, and Ember Isle's onslaughts kind of bring that feel back of defending against a mass invasion force, but... it would be nice to see more danger in the new continents. Especially since we have no idea how badly the rifts might be damaging things over there.

[MoonfireSpam]

I'd love to see that. But at this point I'm pretty sure the core details and ideas behind the expansion are already set in stone and they're only working on the finer details and debugging before its launch.

So if they didn't have this idea going in, its probably not gonna be there.

One can hope, though.

[Rickter]

some persistent qualities to the game would certainly help. it would be nice to give players a sense of truly defending the land from the threats of Rifts.

[Gray]

Right now, invasion and zone events happen, but the consequences for losing one are non-existent.

if it will be different in the expansion, expect it to be nerfed fast. just like it happened before.

[Gehrgontra]

Hehe just like how if you fail the Army of the Wind event in IPP the map becomes filled with air invasions and footholds

But yeah, I must say that's the kind of thing that got me hooked in the first place. Log out for the night, come back the next day and BAM like 10 invasions are camping you. Like being camped by high level folks from the opposing faction, only there was something I could do about it other than head to town and hope my cries for help were not met with lols or "just quest somewhere else".