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Hey. Hey guess what guys? Guess what? There's a brand new lockbox to waste money on! I know I'm excited. You can get a deer or a spider or a box with crap armor or a box with crap enchantments! Can't wait. (Seriously though I am getting a tiny bit excited about this release even despite myself)
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Hammerstein posted:I still log in daily to do my prayers and set some crafting, but I haven't done dungeons in months. I hope Module 1 brings some goons back, I still prefer the combat in this over any other mmorpg. I haven't played an mmo since Diablo III, which I pretty much hated. I love the combat in this game though. It feels really dynamic and fun. I rolled a CW and chain CC'ing stuff is super satisfying in both PvE and PvP. The shifting around makes playing a squishy class much less frustrating, like it requires better timing and resource management but does away with falling prey to some annoying slow mechanic just ruining your day. Plus it lets you use the environment to a great advantage but still without breaking the game like Oblivion or something. I wish more people were on though, PvP could be a blast with a coordinated effort.
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Should I save up my Celestial coins for 7 days and use them on that Ward/Enchantment pack? Because from the descriptions, the Blessed Professions pack you get for five seems way more likely to give me something awesome I can't otherwise get without spending money.
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Aug 21, 2013 19:24
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I used to think that, but after buying a few Profession packs and getting nothing but Residuum and a few green crafting items, which I get plenty of in dungeons/foundrys anyway, that it would at least be worth the slim chance of pulling a Coalescent Ward out. At the very least, the Preservation Ward helps you get those high rank enchants a little quicker, pretty easy to farm to rank 7 without having to resort to more drastic measures.
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Aug 21, 2013 20:03
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So the dev blog is promising a new class and paragon paths for existing classes by "the end of the year". Yay! They already spilled the beans on the new class (bow ranger) and the one after that (warlock) but it'll be fun seeing how they turn out.
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Thanatosian posted:Should I save up my Celestial coins for 7 days and use them on that Ward/Enchantment pack? The day 5 thing goes for like 10k AD on the auction house, while the day 7 thing goes for 20k AD. Basically the only thing of any real value you might get is a coalescent ward, which I'd guess drops around 1/10th of the time. That's actually not too bad, as they're rather pricey.
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Well that was funny. New patch launched with a bunch of new content, but also an exploit where people were pulling out dozens of rare mounts in quick succession. Inevitable rollback happening atm, way to go Cryptic.
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Oh, so that's why I the server is "unavailable". 
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Aug 22, 2013 17:42
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It's not even an exploit, it's a bug that was discovered on the test server. The price of AD dropped to 500 AD per Zen, and the official word for the moment is that they're not doing a rollback.
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Aug 22, 2013 18:31
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Dilb posted:The price of AD dropped to 500 AD per Zen, and the official word for the moment is that they're not doing a rollback. Dropped to 500? What did it get up to? Two days ago it was ~370!
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500 is the maximum. It's a little counterintuitive but dropped is the correct term, as in AD has lost enough value that it requires 500 to buy one Zen. It's back to like 370 last time I checked. So anyway, the new content is some sort of daily quest type deal. Once you've done all the content in a day the quest marker says "Return to Sharandar Tomorrow." Cue tons of confused people asking "Where's Sharandar Tomorrow?" 
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So I'm curious: Is the Lifesteal (Khelemvor?) companion still essentially a 'game changer' for a GWF to have? I'm kind of considering taking another look at the game and I have my hoard of stupid AD that I never spent. I even have about enough to upgrade it to purple when the time comes. Additionally are there any fabulous GWF builds for dummies that anyone has to share? I ask because I tried a foundry quest at 60 and I just got shredded as my GWF. I have a set of not-trash but not superb armor (I think it's pvp tier) and a nice enough sword. I sort of presume that Clerics are still fairly straightforward to use, and there isn't any 'must have' companion for them.
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Aug 22, 2013 22:59
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I've been running the base tank companion on both my rogue and wizard. Should I be running something else? I seem to end up kiting a lot, so anything else would probably get destroyed pretty quickly, wouldn't it?
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Ioun Stone if you have lots of Zen. Cat if you have lots of AD. Cleric for everyone else. Cat might be better than the Ioun Stone for crit specific builds, but the Ioun Stone is awfully good.
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So well. Elves really like pink I guess.  Also I made a drow rogue named Raiden Dirty because I think I'm funny, and boy howdy is trick rogue so much easier to play than any class I've tried so far.  Edit: oh yeah and there's some sort of bug involving upgrading crafting assets where it'll upgrade stuff that's already in use? I haven't bothered to go look up the details yet. Semisponge fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Semisponge posted:there's some sort of bug involving upgrading crafting assets where it'll upgrade stuff that's already in use? I haven't bothered to go look up the details yet. Apparently your profession items will appear as being available while they're being used, and in that case if you use them again they'll disappear permanently. I'm not sure if it happens every time or just when an item is already in use, so I just stopped doing any profession related stuff altogether. Chubbs fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Aug 23, 2013 14:33
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Aug 24, 2013 11:26
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Datasmurf posted:Is the Sylph worth leveling to 30? Does not look like it. The dazzle might be nice but it's on a 20 second timer and the damage output is pitiful too. Also who is back in the game with the Module ? I would really love to do the new dungeon, but I don't think that I will ever want to pug in this game again. Are there still enough goons around to do dungeons, or is it time to close shop and look for another guild ?
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I'm in the game with the module. The new dailies are easy enough, though I had to use my cleric. Also upgrading her is drat expensive! Anyone have any nice builds for the different classes? I need to figure out how to spec my rogue, my cleric, my gwf, my gf and my wizard, in the hopes that I can do stuff again.
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Aug 24, 2013 20:43
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Does playing this game make anyone else want to play Dungeons and Dragons online?  it had so much more effort and care put into it.
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Aug 24, 2013 21:53
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I never really got the hang of DDO, I like NWO much better.
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I just liked dungeons being actual dungeons, along with all the cool poo poo rogues could do with traps and such. 
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The forums are your best resource for class builds. Also super late response to that guy asking about GWF builds, that is my favorite class and I can say with great confidence that almost all of its power comes from gear, so get ready to grind your face off to get two pieces of Vigilant Warlord and two pieces of Avatar of War plus the Ancient Castle Greatsword. Or try to get whatever the stuff from the new module is, which iirc is also pretty good. In terms of feats I've tried both Sentinel and Destroyer and prefer Destroyer now that I've got the best gear and tank just fine without devoting feats to it. The nice thing about GWF is it's very versatile, with almost every encounter power having its uses. Really I would recommend reading builds for all three. It took me a long time and a lot of experimenting (and some balance patches) to get a good feel for how GWF works but now I don't like playing anything else.  Grandma's the best
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Yeah, I ended up going there to find some. Feels weird going to official game forums filled with pubbies to find good builds, but what have you. This game is strange …
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Speaking of the forums, quote:Known Issues - Please look here for updates! Not included in this list: sometimes Unstoppable will end prematurely, the most likely cause being when the temp HP is consumed. Makes pvp quite a bit more difficult...
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Does playing this game make anyone else want to play Dungeons and Dragons online?
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I've tried the new crafting skill, Artificing. But it just seems weird to me that residuum is required for anything but the most basic gathering tasks. The last time I used residuum, it was to craft some purple chain shirt and pants for my devoted cleric. So Artificing hardly seems worth it at low level.
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"Goon guilds are This is why I get disillusioned by all these MMO's lately. It's been what, two months? We went from 3 guilds to 1 that fast? How many goons still actively play?
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I've been coming back to the game after the module hit at least, usually log on around 11 PM GMT+1 (or is it +2 when it's DST?) and play for an hour or two. Still one of the few originals left in Something Lawful.
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bear is driving! posted:This is why I get disillusioned by all these MMO's lately. It's been what, two months? We went from 3 guilds to 1 that fast? How many goons still actively play?
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Does playing this game make anyone else want to play Dungeons and Dragons online? I could never get into DDO quite like NWO but I do like Wizardry Online. It kinda plays the same as DDO and is very difficult if you dont mind an SOE title :p
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Is there any fun to be had in this game flying solo (like, say, GW2), or do you need to be grouped up to make anything interesting happen?
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Well for reaching the level cap, I did it solo, but there is group content now in the end game.
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With the exception of the new dailies, all "end game" content is group only, technically.
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I had fun soloing and finding the occasional person to party up with on my own. Getting to the level cap was enough of a draw for me to keep playing, and I was able to get purple gear with all the astral diamonds I'd collected, but now the content is basically dungeons, skirmishes for AD and foundry content. I've simply got too many other games on Steam that I want to play, and I don't have much time to play them each week so I'm stepping away from this for the time being. I think it's a good enough endorsement to say that I got 40+ hours of entertainment out of this game, and it didn't cost me anything other than the time I spent playing.
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I'm not much of a MMO player, honestly, so I could barely care less about end game content. If just reaching the level cap is some fun and viable solo, that's good enough for me. Hell, I probably wouldn't be looking into this at all if it weren't for the absolute loving dearth of fourth edition D&D video games otherwise.
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MMAgCh posted:Hell, I probably wouldn't be looking into this at all if it weren't for the absolute loving dearth of fourth edition D&D video games otherwise. Now I'm depressed again.  Seriously, if they made a Tactics RPG with 4e, I'd sink so many hours into it.
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Aug 26, 2013 20:56
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There's that new Might & Magic game you might want to have a look at.
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MMAgCh posted:I'm not much of a MMO player, honestly, so I could barely care less about end game content. If just reaching the level cap is some fun and viable solo, that's good enough for me. It felt much less like an MMO, and more like an action RPG in a D&D setting. Since you get a companion character early on, solo-ing everything is definitely possible. Though I ended up hitting level cap before I completed the "main" story.
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Aramek posted:Now I'm depressed again.  Daler Mehndi posted:It felt much less like an MMO, and more like an action RPG in a D&D setting. Since you get a companion character early on, solo-ing everything is definitely possible. Though I ended up hitting level cap before I completed the "main" story. 
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