Russ Brown talks on Heroes of Telara

by Seraphina Brennan on Oct 7th 2009 9:00AM

Fantasy, Game mechanics, Interviews, MMO industry, New titles, RIFT

Information is scarce on Heroes of Telara, one of Trion World Network's upcoming MMO titles, but Trion's Russ Brown is helping to fill in the gaps by sitting down for an interview and talking about what the game will have to offer.

Russ's interview with the MMO Gamer (all the way back from E3, according to Trion's Stephen Reid) is a great read for anyone exciting about the game's "emergent world" possibilities, as Russ talks frankly on how the team can get into the game and hijack the monster AI to control them, or how they can even do little things like have merchants who have limited time sales.

Russ also talks about the game's class switching system and subclass system, where you can pair classes with your main class to emphasize or change their traits. If you want more of a fighting paladin than a healing paladin, for example, you could pair the paladin class with the fighter subclass.

If you want all of the gritty details though, head on over to the MMO Gamer and check out the full interview. As we said earlier, it's worth the read.

[Via MMORPG.com]

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Tags: classes, emergence, heroes-of-telara, interview, russ-brown, subclasses, telara, trion, trion-world-network, vice-president

Reader Comments (5)

*Drool* I am sooo intrigued by this one.

If they can pull this off. I think I'll be playing this one instead of SWTOR.

I always loved FFXI's sub-class / class switching system. I'm glad to see other MMOs adopting a form of it

So far, it looks like another solo MMORGP. Hope i start hearing some aspects of groups.

what interests me is the idea that players can unlock subclasses by doing random things. they mentioned there is a boss monster that is a rare spawn that will drop a subclass.

i instantly think of fighting a boss level Lich in a cemetery and being able to become a necromancer through reading his lich-books