What it do, what it be? It's ya boi, the Glizzster coming at you hot with a new Patch!

And I hear you asking, "But Senor Glizzy Daddy, we've already had so many today!"

Yeah, we been cooking. Mad that you're eatin' more? Stay mad.

Down to business. We didn't like how Labyrinth Hunts have been going down. Mechanics don't lend themselves well to parties, so you got one goon just soloing the whole thing my bad. And it's really supposed to be a community effort, yeah? But if we changed things around and made it more conducive for a 6-man to hunt it down, then that's still just one party of goons. So here's what we got:

POINTS!

Not just any POINTS! Exploration POINTS!

Everyone gets to participate. Any time you run a thread or do a rumor or finish a Quest, you get to add to the running total. So using Floor 30 as an example:

Exploration Points required: 1,000

Threads Closed on the Current Highest Floor = 3 Points, per person
Quests Completed on the Current Highest Floor = 35 Points
Rumors = 100 Points, up to three
Labyrinth = Upon being fully searched and Labyrinth Guardian slain, all remaining Exploration Points required will be obtained.

At 50% of the total Exploration Points required, the Labyrinth will become available. We're doing something a little different with it. Instead of one big ol' thread, we'll be breaking them up into small threads. We'll still keep the Labyrinth Search threshold, but you will only be able to go up to 20 posts in a single thread. The point here is to involve as many people as possible. Avoid that "stolen thunder" aspect of it.

I want to say here and put it in plain English: The current standard of Raid Boss creation is to significantly ramp up lethality. As a result Point Accrual will be capped until all Rumors are completed. While I don't want to draw a hard line in the sand, I also do not want to set out specifically to make encounters lethal without giving people fair means to play around that lethality. This means, even if you hunt down and slay the Labyrinth Guardian, the boss will remain unavailable until all hints have been successfully gathered.

The goal here is to make this a team effort, rather than something run by a single person or a single party. Because, it makes sense that the Frontlines should learn more about a floor naturally as they explore and interact with it. But you're probably wondering what happens if and when activity dips. We've got you covered there. The Exploration Points will increase by 25 every week passively at midnight Sunday. This keeps us on the same standard 10-month schedule for bosses. But, again, the rumors will need to be hunted down and gathered before the boss becomes available through any means.

All POINTS!, Exploration or Labyrinth will be tracked in a master thread within the Frontlines category. Please use the following template to add your POINTS! to the running total for Staff Auditing ease.

Link to Thread:
List of Participants:
Exploration/Labyrinth/Rumor?:
Points Acquired:

Stay Sexy Babes,
Glizzylord