Exploring Astraltrees: Our New Daily/Weekly Reward System
Hey Travellers and Heroes!
It’s been awhile, hope things are going well for you all! Here at the studio, we’ve been filled with excitement about a bunch of new things – from revamping events with entirely new content types, finalizing another round of balance changes, and finally releasing our new daily/weekly reward system: the Astraltree!
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What is the Astraltree?
The Astraltree is a new daily/weekly reward system that should integrate better into your normal gameplay while offering up rewards that will feel more impactful and offer up more control to the player than our current system.
When the Astraltree update (3.19.1) hits your device, you’ll notice two places you can access the new feature – the Astraltree button on the left hand side of your screen and as well the Quests button right next to your character menu.
Let’s explore the Astraltree section first! In this section, from the center the tree will branch off into 4 different Constellations (5, for Aethric). These are:
The Constellation of Wealth: a branch focused on Gold, Orns and various Guild Proofs. This one is my personal favourite as I just cashed in on 6 million Orns.
Constellation of Ascension: a branch focused on Ascending and Anguish. This branch includes discovery bonuses, large batches of materials, Demonworking Tools and Anguished Pathspurs!
Constellation of Avarice: a branch with various items, Guild Proofs, gear chests and a chance to roll at Ornate items! Unlike the previous login rewards, these Ornate Item options contain a chance at event items!
Constellation of Power: a branch with many bonuses including the Monument shrines, and various consumables. This branch also includes additional Activity Slots!
(Aethric Exclusive) Constellation of Speed: This will replace the current daily speed bonus, activating a speed buff for a 12 hour window once a seed is used.
To unlock these rewards, you’ll be using two new currencies: Astralseeds and Constellationseeds.
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Astralseeds! How the heck do I get those?
Daily Login Rewards
Astralseeds are required for most basic nodes on the tree, whereas Constellationseeds are used to at the end of a brand to offer up huge rewards like the Power of the Astraltree, Ornate item rolls and Activity Slots!
You’ll earn these currencies by simply logging in every day, with a Constellationseed awarded at the end of each 8 day cycle. However, the main acquisition method of these currencies will be through the reworked daily/weekly quests.
These can be found on the Quests button next to your character menu. Each day, you’ll find 3 daily quests waiting for you on this screen, from left to right these quests increase in difficulty, but will scale in an appropriate manner to your tier. As the difficulty level increases, so too will the amount of Astralseeds awarded!
As for the weeklies, you’ll always have one quest asking you to accomplish 10 dailies, leaving room to forgo quite a few quests you don’t want to tackle throughout the week. You’ll also have a longer form quest that can be completed through various activities – usually surrounding defeating a particular monster or raid type.
New Daily/Weekly Quests
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Planting New Roots
Now that you’ll get to experience the system, we look forward to hearing what you think! We’re excited to have this framework for daily quests that we can build upon and honestly hope that the rewards are more impactful to your Orna/Aethric journey.
To celebrate the release of this new feature, here’s a code for 3 Astralseeds to start exploring your first Astraltree:
Plantingtheastraltree
Happy gaming!
