Obtaining new/updated nanoformulae

Okay, I'm all ready for a shakeup. Don't much care,
I've started developing a lot of trust in FC, and accept
that things are gonna be really weird, buggy and 'sploity
at first - not an issue, I'm thinking it'll be fun getting
used to things.

But we've been told NT for example is going to have
a bunch of nanos removed completely (i.e. double, triple - yay)
and other ones added (more yay).

So how will we actually get ahold of these nanos?

Will there be a 1/1 replacement? I.e. if you have
double/triple uploaded, will you automagically get
the new ones?

Will we have to dump another potential 100mill
(that's just ~10 high end nanos) into replacing things?

Or god forbid.. are we gonna have to go through
all that **** we did for nano cubes, and re-farm
Victory Points, and kill endless swamp hags for
biodome keys, etc?

Speaking only on my own behalf here- I'd be majorly
pissed off having this character nearing completion,
and all of a sudden having to dump all my raid
points into something that I technically worked
towards about 4 years ago. I'd probably skin
a dev and wear their ears to mardi gras.
Maybe one ear, depends how long it took.
Hell, maybe 2 devs.. but I digress...

Just flicking through the hundred pages of
discussions, it's reminding me of how they
announced Everquest2, really early - leaving
the EQ1 playings thinking
'why bother.. why *did* i ****ing bother',
and well it's already worrying me.

Either way, I'm pretty sure the community
won't appreciate being left high and dry,
so any info on a final implementation or
proposed solutions would be fantastic.

On a final rambling note -
Can't wait to see everyone come crawling
out of the woodwork, trying to master the
new techniques like drunks trying to get
their sea legs. Should be amusing =)
And thanks for keeping us updated, keeps
the panic down. Hoot.

Wop!

That is some funky text formatting you have there.


But I agree with everything you have posted. A little insight into how we will be able to get a hold of the new changed nanos when the go live would be great.

One thing that's important to note is that you guys are seeing mostly *alterations* to previously-existing nanos; this means that when the Rebalancing stuff goes live, the tools, nanos, and items you already have will be changed to what you see in the documentation. Even in cases where there are "new" nanos in the documentation, these may simply be us taking another nano from your profession's toolset and changing its implementation/name (see the MA damage buff nanos, for example - those "were" the Give Energy/Life nanos, and will be updated when the Rebalancing rolls around).

This isn't to say that *everything* will already be in your inventory/nano window - Clarion Call for Keepers, for example, is a *new* nanoline, and thusly will most likely have to be picked up somewhere. That said, for things within the Rebalancing documentation, the odds are *extremely* high that you will have to get *any* of it from anything other than a shop vendor somewhere.

In the specific case of NT nanos, yes - Most of those will be changes to pre-existing nanos, meaning that unless you're already missing some gaps in your nano library you should pretty much have everything when the Rebalancing comes around.

Our goal isn't to make people have to go back out and refarm stuff when all of this goes live; quite to the contrary, we want to try and make the change-over as smooth as possible. This isn't to say that there won't be additions to your toolsets after the Rebalancing is out - We're gonna keep making content, after all, and you guys want new shinies to go along with that. But most of what you see in the Rebalancing documents will just 'automagically' replace whatever you currently have. =)

Thanks for the insight there Kintaii, at least we now know we won't have to farm a shed load of items to make our chars up to scratch again ^^

Yeah, thanks muchly - massive sigh of relief!

I'm sure to get the new nano you will only have to run back and forth across scheol a couple dozen times, obtain 3 backpacks worth of NODROP quest items, defeat a difficult boss inside a long dungeon with no other loot or incentive for the rest of your team, and as a final step, level a froob to 200 and delete it.

It's not quite iambic pentameter, but it's got a beat and I can dance to it.

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Originally Posted by Kintaii

One thing that's important to note is that you guys are seeing mostly *alterations* to previously-existing nanos; this means that when the Rebalancing stuff goes live, the tools, nanos, and items you already have will be changed to what you see in the documentation.

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Except in the case of traders, who already had two of their nanos changes before everything else is going live! Yay for whining :D

Nerf cb double double mkay :@

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Originally Posted by cbus97

I'm sure to get the new nano you will only have to run back and forth across scheol a couple dozen times, obtain 3 backpacks worth of NODROP quest items, defeat a difficult boss inside a long dungeon with no other loot or incentive for the rest of your team, and as a final step, level a froob to 200 and delete it.

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Yes, that's what I was scared of, but the AO dev interview on AO Universe seemed quite promissing, i.e. 'lets not repeat the ado/scheol quests cause they suck'.

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Originally Posted by MachSchau

I want to auto tune what the OP said due to the fact he wrote his post out in stanzas.

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Lmao.. yeah.. the uhm.. the first line there has a good beat to it.
IMO should be mandatory :p