Pirate Release Speculation

Well, the whole thing on Pirates being released in .60 as a Landmark patch looks to me like out of the question. It's to close. Our next patch is obviously Crimsonwood Keep, and I can bet $20 we'll get a bug patch, either before or after it to fix some issues. Although, It's still possible, but not probable.

Towards the CK Logo, as much as people might think it's a Knuckle, it's not. At least, this is what I assume. If you look at a scarab (Level 70 Claw) It's similar to it, being as there's a pointed blade on top of it. If you look at this, it's more like the end of a Trident on top of it. Almost the same concept, just tweaked a little bit.

Loose, that's a pretty cool concept the only thing is, Sept. 19th is a Friday. Patches are almost always Wednesday nights going into Thursday morning. Although, it could happen. I would love to see them released in September. Seems like the perfect time.

Anyways, does anyone have any information about Pirates being released before Magatia? Weren't there certain quests retaining to Magatia that had to deal with Pirates? What did they do to change this? Any info is nice.

Magatia, Nautilus, and Elin Forest all have a common theme in that they deal with an enigmatic character in Ossyria's past, the Black Magician. The Black Magician ruled Ossyria from Magatia, is being hunted down by the Pirates of the Nautilus, and is responsible for poisoning the Elin Forest during the first expedition to Victoria Island.

However, you don't discover the tale of the Black Magician in Magatia until a very high level for that town (and by this I mean 60-80 area, I don't know exactly when.) The main quests dealing with the Black Magician in Nautilus port are low level (level 20 something), so a character going through the game for the first time would do the Nautilus quests first anyway. For a reasonably high level player, they would encounter the storyline in the order of Magatia >Nautilus>Elin, while a player who started after all this content was released would encounter it in the order Nautilus > Elin >Magatia. Because of this, while the towns are related, either one can be released first without impacting the tale conveyed in the stories.