Lemuria- New world/Expansion/ Island

[Orzee]

Lemuria is definitely a new world in my mind.

One thing I've noticed is that we get a new mechanic and new school at the beginning of each new arc, but we didn't technically get anything with Karamelle.

In Arc 2, we got the Astral Schools, Critical and Block, and pierce.

In Arc 3 (technically shadow is late-arc 2 but the concepts were fresh enough to carry us the 30 levels), we got Shadow magic, Shadow enhanced spells, companions, and pip conversion.

In Arc 4, we got introduced to Musicology which we didn't learn anything about. With the damage / resist limits being decently achievable today, I'm wagering there's a new mechanic soon. Maybe we'll be able to pull resources from the Nothing (cheat casting, ghost companion in combat?).

You could argue we got spellements, but I don't really consider it 'new' to arc 4, since they can be obtained throughout arcs now.

As for story, I hope they remain shorter or more meaningful. I hope we get to battle ourselves or our Paradox versions keep coming back. How cool would it be if the game snapshotted our stats and had us battle ourselves 30 levels later? Lemuria seems too much of an intersection between Monquista, Zafaria, and Azteca to provide a meaningful environment, so I think they're leaning heavy on the "lost" part of it. I'm thinking it'd be most similar to Mirage and Azteca, especially since we already started in Mirage. So I'm guessing maybe a "Lost" tv-show style story. Since it's not a "world" I imagine we travel across the spiral somehow (maybe a modified version of the aeroship we took from Empyrea?) and probably time. I'm hoping we really dig into Time Dilation and Relativity since this island probably transcends the physical Spiral. Once we get there, we realize we're stuck, create a camp, uncover a mystery, explore some answers about the Old One and existence and cavities, solve puzzles, help someone by defeating some pesky mosquitos, get betrayed, and we come back to the Arcanum and Bartleby and nobody knows we left yet (time dilation)... except Melori.

As for gameplay, I like the length of Polaris and Karamelle for their usual variety of low-stakes and high-stakes quests, but I'm a sucker for big reveals. I'm really hoping we can put together more of a 'mystery' with some puzzles, hidden areas, and betrayals in this world. I for one want to see battles with new combat "goals" such as destroying something (like a high health tree creature) or surviving a certain number of rounds (similar to Pirate), instead of the traditional "defeat them all" approach. Also, please bring back more random animated cutscenes like Khrysalis had. I enjoy the big finale-type ones we get, but sometimes you just want to see the results of your quest, like explosions and seeing a huge projection of yourself or turning into a dancing polar bear.

Also, meaningful companions that actively change our playstyle (+1 pip, +300 flat resist, +30% damage, + 50 shadow pip rating, gives a special item card, etc, etc).

[Kingurz]

I still want Wallaru to be the next world (the world where the Balance Professor in the Arcanum is from).

But maybe this Lemuria could be a great side dungeon like Barkingham Palace or Darkmoor Castle (I meant the plot not the gear drops lol well the plot of Darkmoor is pretty cheeeeeezzzzzzzyyyyyyy not gonna lie)

I too think Wallaru is the next world with Lemuria being an elusive "El Dorado" or "Atlantis".

[Lightdragon]

right now for arc 4 we are going on the Cthulhu mythos. or some aspects of it. still puzzled on why he was dressed as president Lincoln . Lemuria as most of us know is one of the fabled mythical islands similar to Atlantis . Although they are adding a twist to it by focusing on Lemurs which was part of the actual Lemuria mythos. who knows maybe we will get sea monkeys like the ones i used to see in old comic book ads.(and not the shrimp in which there were.) in place of Steller's sea ape( possibly the Alaskan Fur seal.).

also i do not think the next world will be Monquista although they might have NPC's come from there or we might have an instance. much like Valencia and Skull island. and going back in time has been done several times already.

[SeptenaryRavens]

Whatever Lemuria ends up being, I at least want to 1v1 King Julien, with the help of Khan.

[Oxnhorse]

Many people fail to realize that KI had utilized two recently newer game mechanics, spellements and photomancy.

To me and many others, this was a stroke of genius because both of them are kinda optional.

Photomancy being used to show proof of nefarious activity of the Nana Corporation, and spellements being gathered to select how we upgraded the spells we received, and only school specific ones.

As for time travel being done before, yes it has been done, but those incidents were temporary in Dragonspyre; not during the entire visit to Dragonspyre.

And if this land of the Lemurs is gonna follow the way of Wintertusk/Grizzleheim, which world will it have a jump point from?

I'd also like to say if Lumeria is gonna be a small side content compared to most worlds, why drag out the April to November agony and just have it moved to live and let the community travel to this billed small island side quest area?

Oxnhorse

[GOOZEKING]

But didn’t bartlebey call it an island that disappeared. He didn’t call it a world, he called it an island. So to me that means “side dungeon” not new world

[Willowdreamer]

right now for arc 4 we are going on the Cthulhu mythos. or some aspects of it. still puzzled on why he was dressed as president Lincoln .

He has been seen in Pirate101 Puppet Shows dressed this way since the beginning:

Here he is with a group of bounty hunters.

I must say, we never actually meet him in Pirate101, but he certainly appears to be everywhere Pirates go.

[Lightdragon]

He has been seen in Pirate101 Puppet Shows dressed this way since the beginning:
Here he is with a group of bounty hunters.
I must say, we never actually meet him in Pirate101, but he certainly appears to be everywhere Pirates go.

from the attire of him now and the other people in that pic my guess was he was first introduced in cool Ranch. although i never played P101 i did check it out. so i do know a little of the basic P101 world attires although not everything.