[Exclusive] Rising Tide Interview: Tideborn Wings + New Classes Build

Perfect World International's latest expansion 'Rising Tide' was available for players recently. We knew players payed highly attention to this expansion. So today we are pleased to have an interview with Jon Belliss, the Product Manager of Perfect World International. Following are the interview questions for Perfect World International's Product Manager, Jon Belliss:

1. Today we're so happy to get a chance to do an interview with Perfect World International's Product Manager, Jon Belliss. Hi, Jon! We knew that Perfect World Entertainment has launched the largest expansion 'Rising Tide' for its flagship MMORPG title Perfect World International. Here, can you introduce once more what has been updated in the expansion briefly?

Jon Belliss: Rising Tide is by far the biggest expansion to date and we're bringing a new race with new story specific quests, new classes, new questing systems, new crafting/refinement system, new dungeons, the works.

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2. It has been about one week since 'Rising Tide' was released. Does everything go well? Did it meet your and players' expectation respectively?

Jon Belliss: We've received very positive feedback from our players on the new features in the expansion and luckily we opened a new server, Raging Tide, along with the expansion to help handle the additional traffic. We're always looking for ways to push the envelope feature wise and give players what they want, which is why we're able to deliver such big expansions like Rising Tide.

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3. It is known that the secret race unveiled this time is named Tideborn. How did you get the inspiration?

Jon Belliss: While the decision to add a new race to Perfect World International was made years ago, but if you look at the map in PWI there isn't much room for a new race other than in the ocean! The development team had conceptualized the Tideborn race long ago and we're very excited to see this come to fruition.

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4. 'Rising Tide' updated two totally new classes including Assassin and Psychic. Can you introduce the details of the two classes for us? Do they fit for solo tasks or team work? What role do they play respectively in battle?

Jon Belliss: The Assassin is your typical high damage class, which means that they can pack a wallop whether your soloing or in a group and they also have offensive buffs to ensure the most damage.

The Psychic works great in a group since they have a variety of buffs and debuffs that can help your team or hinder your opponent, but can do just as much damage for more sophisticated players who are able to predict their enemies' actions.