Velious Beta

[Lamil]

Pretty sure we have asked for this a few times. Guess Alarti's idea would be best to get things moving along

[Ele]

Get to it people

Weeks 1-2:
Thurgadin
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Tradeskills, Itemization, NPC placement
The Great Divide
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Iceclad Ocean
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Icewell Keep
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement

Week 3-4:
Kael Drakkal
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Tradeskills, Itemization, NPC placement
Eastern Wastes
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Wakening Land
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement

Week 5-6:
Skyshrine
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Tradeskills, Itemization, NPC placement
Cobalt Scar
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Tradeskills, Itemization, NPC placement
Siren's Grotto
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Western Wastes
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement

Week 7-8:
Crystal Caverns
-Goals: Pathing, Vendors, Quests, Tradeskills, Itemization, NPC placement
Dragon Necropolis
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Tower of Frozen Shadow
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement
Velketor's Labyrinth
-Goals: Pathing, Quests, Itemization, NPC placement


Future:
Boss Mob tuning
Sleeper's Tomb
Temple of Veeshan

[Schortt]

A schedule is great but what we need even more is a checklist. Lots of people, myself included, have tested tons of quests/mobs/etc. that have worked just fine, but since no one else knows about them, people are trying them out again anyway.

For instance, I have tested almost every single available Kael quest and most of them work just fine. There's nothing wrong with having multiple people try out the same quest or kill the same mob, but it's best if we get at least one person to try EVERYTHING before we have 10 people all do the same stuff.

I'd really like to see a thread where people can post what HAS worked in some sort of easy to read format so that other testers can better focus their energies on what hasn't been checked out yet.

On a separate note, if there are guilds or groups of players out there who want to test things like Growth, Skyshrine, Velks, Kael, Icewell, DN, SG, or lower level groups who would like to test CC, TOFS, or whatever, I am more than happy to help. I can summon your pals to your raid/group, 100% rez your dead folks, and bring mobs to you if they're inconveniently far away. I've mostly been helping the Kael giant killing parties and a few other crazies who are also spending 90+% of their playtime on beta, but I'd be glad to do whatever. Shoot me a PM or just look me up on Bugen on the beta server.

[Daldaen]

We could use a beta patch.

Including the gnome NPCs in Thurgadin.
Also add 3 NPCs to max Ally in each faction type so quests can be tested without grinding faction on beta.

And fixing all the bugs that have been posted?

[Halius]

I would be more then happy to assist in my free time if there were an NPC to level my character. Can't really do much at level 16. I'm only a casual player but I would love to help out if I could. I played a lot of Velious back in the day when it was first released.

[Laugher]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should just make a goals post. GM's don't seem to have an interest so does anyone want to make a BETA testing goals post?

I.E.
Week of Mar 16th
Goals: PoG Pathing, Quests, Mob encounters, Drop rates, etc.
Week of Mar 23rd
Goals: Skyshrine Pathing, Blah, Yadda, Yadda, etc.

OBV would be better if a Dev with the knowledge of what needed the most help would provide input.

This sounds like a pretty good idea. Not sure about incentives but I do have a level 41 and 55 toon that could be used to test, I would say my top two reasons for not testing so far are:

a. time
b. wouldn't know what to test/look for besides regular bugs- I know what it looks like when a quest dialogue doesn't work properly, have ran my own server for <2 months/written quests lol, but I think this more has to do with a lack of agenda/pop vs not knowing what to look for.

Sorry, I haven't kept up with this thread or much of beta til this morning, but if a list of things or a scheduled zone content test put into place I'd be willing to help with that; it would insure that at least some of the people on the server would be in the same places at possibly the same times.

[Rhambuk]

Most likely not but is there cross server chat?

just beta to p99 live? would make a big difference imo

[Fountree]

There is cross server chat from beta>live

[Bulcan]

to attract more people to Beta, give out some rewards... I've seen that thing work on some other servers

[Kegir]

Originally Posted by Bulcan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

to attract more people to Beta, give out some rewards... I've seen that thing work on some other servers

The reward is velious.