Editing Announcements - 2009/01 - Shifting Tactics (section)

=== Solo Colosseum ===
{{Turbine Developer
| Date = Jan 17th, 2009
| Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showpost.php?p=443562&postcount=17
| Question = Are there any plans for a solo way to get Colosseum Coins?
| Text = The toughest part of a solo colosseum is balancing it for all the classes. It's very difficult to make one thing that will be just as difficult for mages/melees/archers and seeing melee DPS is generally lower than mages and archers (due to melee damage mitigation aka shields).

On that line of thought we're thinking we'll need to make 3 separate runs, one balanced for each attack type. This of course will increase the time necessary to implement these solo colosseum. However it will allow us to make each run more viable for the specific attack type it's intended for. However it'll still be extremely difficult to balance seeing just in the melee family you can have many different builds that use different mixes of items and magic that will greatly sway solo balance.

As another note the current thought is that you will not be allowed to enter a solo colosseum with rares in your pack and the colosseums will be balanced for not using rares. This is most important in things like an archer colosseum where a bow rare would extravagantly increase the players DPS and make it far easier to complete. Also this should give players of all wealth levels equal ability to complete runs.

We currently do not have an ETA on solo colosseums. We're still evaluating the various difficulties we'll need to overcome to make them happen (for instance we'll most likely want to make more than 5 of them so that not only 5 people can actually run them at a time. I also think that we'd want to reduce the run time down to something closer to 20-30 minutes tops or make it a completion competitions rather than a timed competition where finishing at all is the goal instead of how quickly one can finish).
If you win a reward guy shows up near the coin npc.
| Developer = Django
| Title = Turbine Staff
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{{Turbine Developer
| Date = Jan 18th, 2009
| Link = http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?p=443598#post443598
| Question = I hope you only mean rares, and not spectral gems, since those cannot be muled.
| Text =Well I'll have to see what the spectral gems cover again (it's been a while) but there's always a possible resolution.
| Developer = Django
| Title = Turbine Staff
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