A prehensile ability on a Beastkin of some kind would be cool, although none of the existing ones seem to fit...

Would be awesome if we could charm/tame/dominate/trap monsters to use in town defense....

@therippyone
Morrowind! What an atmospheric, immersive RPG, except perhaps for sky racers (or were those cliff racers?)....

@tulukaruk
Fishing on asteroids, eh? I like it!

@prometheus
Hmm. We'll see how it plays out, but I didn't mind at all the idea of leveling up spells.

After all, if the level 2/3 alternate isn't an overall improvement in -some- way, why take the time to explore and unlock it?

I kinda want to see how it actually works before crying doom.

@target
Looks like you can get up to 4 additional character slots with the Proprietor basic pack. If those couldn't count toward a town, that'd be disappointing.

If they didn't, however, and player pop was low, I could see creating new character(s) just to fill in a town. (It's kinda what's standard in Wurm Online already: mains + alts.)

@gothix
Sonic weapons, eh?

@kellewic
True, but we get multiple toons from the Governor pack (six total?). Do you think those don't count?

@gothix
Yeah, I was noticing the power shift there, too. Wonder how hard it will be to do all those quests:

• Got to fight a bunch of Fire Spirits, apparently, until you learn all about them: probably found on either on Tartaros or Arboreos, and I wonder if there's any other way to learn about Fire Spirits -besides- fighting them
• Visit a static location on Tartaros: sounds dangerous, possibly easy place to ambush/guard; could become an interesting dynamic
• Walk over scorched terrain without damage: wonder how you do that: another spell/potion/blessing?
• Successfully imbue Primal Crystals with Sparks: I hope "successfully" doesn't mean it's a gambling/RNG mechanic; I also guess Primal Crystals are found on Arboreus; I wonder what skill you'll need to do this: enchanting?
• Hit 15 creatures at once with the same fire-based AoE ability: clearly not getting that one first unless there are other AoE spells
• Consume 50 doses of Axii's Primal Philter: Primal again makes me think of Arboreus, but it also sounds like a manufactured item; wonder if that requires Alchemy skills; might be able to trade for this item

At any rate, seems evident that's not happening quickly: you'll need to do some globetrotting and possibly unlock other skill trees, which I think is cool.

However the balance may appear now, fundamentally I much prefer the way this mechanic looks to repetitive grinding.