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Maia: Where did you get the idea for a Kobold Buddha?
Destin: The Kobold Buddha was a surprise by the art team. One artist just thought it would be nice, so we worked it into some quests. But no, we did not find any sort of lore or anything to come up with that. He's really not a Buddha, he just looks sorta Buddha-ish. He's the founder of the Kobold Undercity.
Maia: What's next expansion wise? Next one is the spring free expansion?
Destin: Most likely, but a smaller scale. Frontiers was massive, and took a lot of time and resources. Catacombs really had an accelerated development time due to Frontiers taking up so much of our resources.
The art team had to bear the brunt of this expansion, Catacombs is all dungeons and had to be hand built, every zone was built in 3D Max. Typically above ground terrain zones are a lot easier to build and a lot faster.
Maia: Will you allow folks to /level the new Catacombs classes at release? Or will folks have to rough it?
Destin: No, they will have to rough it. There will be no /level for the new classes.
Maia: With this expansion, will there be new skins introduced for armor and weapons? And will existing armor and weapons receive some graphic upgrades?
Destin: There will be some new skins for some new armor's in Catacombs. All of the armors in the entire game had to be touched up, in order to fit the new player models. So unfortunately the team that would have been building hundreds and hundreds of new armor and weapons had to do that. So there's not a lot, but there are some that will be out at release. Definitely will be some added post release.
Maia: Any new emotes being introduced with this expansion?
Destin: We'd love to have a lot of new emotes. Unfortunately all the existing emotes had to be completely redone for the new models. One new emote that we are going to have is smile. We have an angry face in the works, but I'm not sure it's going to be an angry emote. The goal for that is to have it fire off when you're in combat, but we don't have that quite worked in yet.
Maia: Any new sounds?
Destin: We have all new sounds with Catacombs, every sound has been re-mastered.
Maia: Will there be area's to get respec stones in Catacombs?
Destin: No. If you are looking for respec stones Catacombs will not offer that, dragons are still the best place to get those.
Maia: Is there anyplace in Catacombs that offers the ability to hold huge raids like with Shrouded Isles?
Destin: Actually, no, not at all. Every single thing in Catacombs takes eight players or less. Now of course you can get a large group of people together and go slaughter some guy, you can do that. But the Dark Spires , the final zone, you can only have eight people .
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