It has been very interesting reading all the feedback about the Transmogrification milestones. We fully understand some of the concerns raised, especially your fears regarding the potential cost of the updates so we thought it best to give a bit more information about it. Nearer the various release dates, more in-depth information will be posted but here are some of the basics.
After milestone 2 goes live, all ship designs you currently have will be individual ships for you to select and configure how you want to. Each ship design will therefore have their stats attached to it, in the form of gems.
For example, a design from a few years ago that only has 5,000 additional Hit Points and no other buffs will have a low-level gem with 5,000 Hit Points attached to it. Whereas a new design which has a lot of buffs would have a much higher-level gem worth, for example, 70,000 additional Hit Points attached to it. A new design would also have a Voodoo Point Gem and maybe a Special Gem (for example the Blockade Breaker) depending on which buffs the ship design had in the first place.
You will be able to remove the gems from your ships and place them in the inventory. From there, you will be able to place the gems onto another ship of your choice. Each time you remove a gem from a ship it will cost a certain amount of currency depending on what level the gem is. The low level gems will be very cheap to remove from the ships whilst the higher level gems will cost a bit more.
Don’t forget, if you don’t want to do anything you don’t have to. On the day milestone 2 goes live you will have the same stats on your ship designs as before or, in some cases, the stats will be slightly rounded-up. However, if you want to storm the seas again with your old Nerus, Flying Dutchman or Elite level designs you can do so by removing high-level gems from some of your newer, more powerful ships and putting them into your old ones.
When milestone 3 goes live, you will be able to use your gems to craft better, stronger ones and improve your ship. As mentioned above, more in-depth information will be posted about milestones 2 and 3 nearer to their release dates. In addition, we aim to open the beta server before the milestones go live to give you enough time to test everything and get used to how the updates work.
Next week the Carnival of Souls event is planned to start. This will be very similar to the one last year but with a new ship design and pets to win. About 95% of the Announcement and FAQs from last year will be the same.