WarCry: What is a hardcore L2 player likely to be most looking forward to out of Hellbound?
Tim Tan: I would definitely say the challenge of the new aspects of Hellbound -not the update name, but the actual zones - actually getting into the Steel Citadel, and fighting Darien who's essentially Beleth's bodyguard, and actually encountering Beleth. That chain of progression is going to be the end all, be all of the PvE aspect of the game. So I think the most hardcore are going to be interested in doing that to get to the highest-end items in the game.
WarCry: Tell me about a feature in Hellbound that hasn't gotten as much attention as some of the other things we've talked about.
Tim Tan: There's actually two things that kind of pop into my head. The first one is the transformations; there were a lot of transformations added in the First Throne and the Kamael, but there are a lot of cool transformations tied to quests as well as classes and stuff like that. I was talking about the Final Form earlier for the Kamael, but almost all the classes and race combinations have something special like that as they get to be higher level.
The other part is the Underground Colosseum. I think that's actually going to be a cool features. We haven't really talked a lot about that, but it should be a really cool, group PvP-type quick match kind of thing that I think folks are going to get a kick out of. It's like a team deathmatch PvP-style colosseum that people can sign up for, automatically join as groups, track their kills and wins and stuff like that. I think that's going to be a lot of fun.
