Finally, New World fans are getting their first look at the much-anticipated Season 10, and I don’t use that phrase lightly because people have been beating down Amazon’s proverbial door about this since even before S9 rolled out. Ten is called Nighthaven, and yes, it has the spookums theme we were hoping for along with the new zone, which is, well, called Nighthaven too.
“With haunting woods, mighty castles and stories of monstrous creatures, Nighthaven is a land shrouded in mystery, where the dark holds sway over the light,” the studio says. “Players can discover the secrets hidden in the shadows of its ruins and catacombs, and use them to confront the threats endangering not only the people of Nighthaven, but the whole of Aeternum as well.”
It looks like we’re getting the new Tear of Gaea storyline, the new Isle of Night raid, the new vertical OPR map called The Tower, an overhaul of endgame progression, and the new Catacombs game mode that is gonna sound pretty familiar to MMORPG fans.
“Catacombs is a new game mode in which up to three players explore the depths of a procedurally generated dungeon, battling a wide variety of enemies and bosses, gaining unique mode-specific powerups, collecting cursed resources and currency, and racing to successfully exit and cleanse their treasures before time runs out. While the difficulty of Catacombs is moderate at the start of a session, the challenge (and reward) is increased significantly each time a boss is defeated. To counter this, players are able to acquire in-mode power-ups that enhance their stats and abilities. With each boss defeated, players must decide between pushing further into the Catacombs for even greater rewards or safely making their exit before time run out. Failure to make a safe exit results in loss of the vast majority of the treasures collected, but only one player needs to safely exit to avoid this.”
The progression changes include a level bump to 70, gear score max bump to 800, new perk modifiers called charms, the introduction of set bonuses, a new generation of umbral shards, new specialty perks called infixes, and a “complete sweep” of perk design.
Nighthaven launches October 13.
