"...With the all out warfare, between the forces of Order and Chaos, raging all over the Norath, The High Council of Erudin, have made a decision to call for all out mobilization, and created a new fighting order to cleanse the world of Chaos, once and for all. The order was named - The Diamond Crusade. Its standing orders to recruit and train all kinds of volunteers and send them to fight against all those, who have allied themselves with the forces of Chaos.
The High Council of Erudin have received disturbing news that Heretics of Paineel have openly declared their allegiance to the Chaos! In response to this, the Council have ordered the Diamond Crusade to lay siege to the city of Paineel. Seeing a massive army marching against their fortifications, the Heretic have chosen to abandon their outer line of defense, and retreated inside their hidden city, concealing all possible entrances behind them. The Diamond Crusade forces have set up a permanent camp right above the Paineel. The commanders in charge of siege are firm to continue the siege until the means of breaking into the city could be found, or until the heretic surrender due starvation.
While the Paineel is under the siege, the Diamond Crusade have taken it upon itself to cleanse the nearby tunnels of the Warrens, from the kobold vermin that have infested it for too long..."
From the other news:
"...Centuries have passed since savage Kobolds have claimed the abandoned mines under the mountains. At first, the Kobolds were in constant conflict with those living on the outside. Over time, the Kobolds have stopped surfacing from under the ground, and the people in the above world stopped venturing into the caves. Little was known about what was happening in the vast tunnels below the earth. Until now...
The explorers and scholars, who recently ventured into these caves, have been equally shocked to discover, that the primitive and savage Kobolds have EVOLVED! They fully mastered spoken language, as well as art of crafting tools, weapons, armor, and even powerful magics! The Kobold numbers have greatly increased since the times of old, and now, they seek to burst out of their caves into the open, and lay their claim to the entire region!"
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What is been prepared:
-an alternative progression line specially tuned towards players who do not like to box (the difficulty of the zones will tuned so just you and your bot can handle it with decent efficiency. On other hand the XP modifier for the zone will be lowered to match the reduced zone difficulty. We ask players who like to run their own bot armies, to give this new progression line a chance and play in these zones from level 1 with just a single character+1 bot). There will be few challenging encounters in the zone, and we hope that you will seek to join up with OTHER players to beat them!
-alternative low level Quest and Crafting system which is meant to provide alternative to so often traveled Crusbone+Epic 1.0 path. Players will be given a chance to craft their own magical weapons which would easily match the 1.0 Epic, but will require a bit more questing effort
-the alternative progression line will spawn many zones, logically connecting them with quest lore behind the event of the Diamond Crusade story line.
Time frame of release: SOON
Disclaimer: since this feature still in the work, specific major and minor aspects of it can change before the final release =)
