Every month or so - it is a bit odd with the timing - there's a livestream from Funcom Official Developers. Usually headed by Tilty, Glaucon, Scriv, Sezmra, and Mags - different combinations of these fine individuals. You can review the past Streaming Ones here: http://www.twitch.tv/funcomofficial/ - there were some technical difficulties for today's stream, so it got cut up into sections. It happens!
In the future, I'm going to try to (or anyone else) advertise when the streams happen - they typically occur on a Friday at 3 PM Eastern, but it really depends.
This Livestream (#9, to be exact)... focused on Carter... the new dungeons dropping next week as a part of Issue 12 Part 2 and other things.
The dungeons will drop 10.8 drops with blue signets already in place and 10.9 drops with purple signets. These aren't custom bits of gear, but they are supposed to help fill in gaps of gear and allow you to make some interesting choices with talisman.
There will be a 'serious' increase in scenario rewards. Rare bosses with lots of loot if you're on point for a platinum rating run. More MOP, which means more BB if you're at cap. Also, they want to increase the chances of augment drops, which is slanted to more of the nightmare runs. Basically, keep an eye on this - more details will be pending with that addition going live.
They're going to add 2 more raids this month.
Marks of the Pantheon will be rewarded in an increased rate in Fusang and higher end dungeons (such as Facility granting more than Slaughterhouse due to the difficulty disparity).
Something particularly exciting? They are going to add a gift function to the store! Something LONG asked for. It isn't clear when this will make it to be LIVE, but it is definitely in the framework to aid with quality of life fluff type of things with gifting things to friends. The functionality is more that you'll be able to select a friend and see what they do and don't have and be able to send them that particular item.
They will be cycling an 'item of the day' at 40% off. So, keep your eyes peeled as to what the steal of the day will be!
Halloween this year will be ALL of the old event,s plus a brand new mission - tied in with the Park stand alone game Joel Bylos team has been working on that goes into the details of the haunted amusement park in the Savage Coast (which is supposed to be released this month on Steam as well).
The theme for this year's Halloween bag will be Horror Movies, so you'll definitely recognize some of the costumes. For example, in the Stream, the GM character was wearing the "SCREAM" black outfit + mask.
So, some interesting things coming up for Funcom this month. Should be fun to watch play out!