Summer Festival keepie-uppie

two30 · June 2016

The upcoming Summer Festival has an interesting twist on the "share with your party" system that we've seen in the Winter Festival.

"LF4M Sahha, no clumsies"

taitinhakkaaja · June 2016

Great. I still have hundreds of gifts left, from winter event

ghoulz66 · June 2016

Tropical fashion is either going to be a huge win, or an eye bleeding cringe. Knowing their habits it'll be more tiefling unfriendly junk.

kreatyve · June 2016

That's going to be very interesting.

I saw it on the calendar yesterday.

rannonhu · June 2016

Tenser? OMG

beckylunatic · June 2016

rannonhu said:
Tenser? OMG

Note that mithral tickets are "a chance at".

beckylunatic · June 2016

defiantone99 said:
Getting 300 volleys seems unlikely for most players anyway.

You kind of have to assume each game allows multiple volleys. Though that makes me wonder how much skill is involved in keeping the ball in play.

vida44 · June 2016

@defiantone99 another ZEN item wink wink

rafaelda · July 2016

beckylunatic said:

defiantone99 said:
Getting 300 volleys seems unlikely for most players anyway.
You kind of have to assume each game allows multiple volleys. Though that makes me wonder how much skill is involved in keeping the ball in play.

we have to see how the volley is counted, looks like will be a 10 man party match, so 10 ball to use, but it will count every ball puted to the match or every hit in the ball ? reaaly hard to undestand before seen the real thing...

If it count only the number of balls it realy is a "pay to TRY to win" like the lockboxes
because a pay to win would not give you a only a chance to get the prize....

silverkelt · July 2016

sounds.. disappointing. I was hoping it would be more like the winterfest , where you could just do one a day on each toon.

waste of time it appears.

zibadawa · July 2016

Because nothing says "fun, relaxing summer" quite like doing the same thing 300 times and playing lotto tickets!

krymkac · July 2016

it might bring tenser prices down... the only reason i care

Still have the currency from last year

ghoulz66 · July 2016

We going to get news on the event today!?

urabask · July 2016

silverkelt said:
sounds.. disappointing. I was hoping it would be more like the winterfest , where you could just do one a day on each toon.

waste of time it appears.

It is like that. Just the party involves a game so instead of yelling at each other for not giving the right amount gifts we'll be yelling at each other for missing volleys.

zibadawa said:
Because nothing says "fun, relaxing summer" quite like doing the same thing 300 times and playing lotto tickets!

I don't get where people think that this is going to take 300 tries. The ball is like the winter bags and you'll get multiple volleys per ball. It'll probably play out similarly to the winter gifts as far as getting to the highest tier.

asterdahl · July 2016

For clarification, and this is something that should become clear as you are introduced to sahha via the event quests, there are two distinct sahha related activities.

Ticket-ball juggling which is cooperative and sahha exhibition matches that are competitive.

Ticket-ball juggling is an activity you can engage in with your party anywhere, given that you have a ticket-ball. Any volleys by you or nearby party members count towards your total, and each ticket-ball can be volleyed 30 times if the ball is not allowed to despawn early by remaining on the ground for a few seconds. Your volley total remains throughout the duration of the event.

Exhibition matches are queued, competitive and volleys in competitive matches have no impact on your total juggles for ticket-balls. That being said, playing an exhibition match can earn you some of the same tickets, in addition it is one of the methods for earning a daily ticket-ball.

Ticket-balls are not designed to be too difficult to volley, even a single player should be able to keep one aloft, albeit with more difficulty than 2 or 5 players. In addition, grouping up will mean everyone gets more rewards.

We're very excited that sahha is now available to you all and we hope you enjoy the festivities!

torontodave · July 2016

Did YOU enjoy the festivities?

Cause ..

tripsofthrymr · July 2016

Personally I am enjoying the festivities (except for the very annoying reset time when the exhibition match's ball goes out of bounds).

It's really not that hard to get to 30 volleys. One party of 5 players with a perfect volley score of 30 per ball and you have 150 volleys. My parties have been decent but far from perfect and I'm well on the way to 300.

@asterdahl - The ball is VERY hard to see while in motion unless graphic settings are cranked all the way up. Please adjust the render priority (for both forms of the game) so that the ball has the highest render priority, not a low priority.

adinosii · July 2016

Sorry to say it, but the ball game is not worth spending time on.

samaka · July 2016

I enjoyed playing Sahha... well for the 5 mins of the 10 min match I was able to play. The other 5 mins being reset to play again, not so much!

hustin1 · July 2016

@asterdahl, please check your mail

kvet · July 2016

Take your purple ball, go to your SH with a full party, stand in the nook just to the right of the ramp up to the coffer deck, kick the ball into the corner, and one person just keep hitting it as it goes up and down 30 times. Done. Wash Rince Repeat with everyone's and enjoy the rewards.

Note, the ball can get stuck on the textures... If there's another very tall inside corner that works better, let me know

You can get one volley doing this inside the goals with the free balls on the sahha field too, hit it 30 times total get a volley - but in the corner you don't have to chase the ball around.

kievitz · July 2016

Get VIP for multiple toons and open your boxes, better chance to get your AD and other items.

This grind is hilariously insane, its totally great that you inform players afterwards for 2 different gamestyles, way to go.

GJ. im not touching this event, mod 10 is what im gonna play and elol + CN easy runs with my guild. easy AD easy drops, this is a waste of time. Those who enjoy, have fun.

PS. i cant even see the ball

asterdahl · July 2016

kvet said:
Take your purple ball, go to your SH with a full party, stand in the nook just to the right of the ramp up to the coffer deck, kick the ball into the corner, and one person just keep hitting it as it goes up and down 30 times.

I just wanted to chime in as I think a lot of players might be nervous about this suggestion, but I wanted to let you all know that we are not considering this an exploit and it's completely fine if this is your preferred method of gaining volleys.

We designed the juggling itself with the hope that it would not be too difficult to keep it up with a group of 3-5 friends, but we also acknowledged that if players want to just play catch with a wall that's fine too. Whichever method you prefer. Just keep in mind that teaming up with other players will net you more rewards, as you'll receive some rewards from other players ticket-balls as well.

kievitz · July 2016

The above developer just demeaned a Neverwinter event. Sorry but i cant make this more clear or less rude.

They are giving us tools to "exploit" this event, fact.

wildfirede · July 2016

ball out of bounds ...

urabask · July 2016

asterdahl said:

kvet said:
Take your purple ball, go to your SH with a full party, stand in the nook just to the right of the ramp up to the coffer deck, kick the ball into the corner, and one person just keep hitting it as it goes up and down 30 times.
I just wanted to chime in as I think a lot of players might be nervous about this suggestion, but I wanted to let you all know that we are not considering this an exploit and it's completely fine if this is your preferred method of gaining volleys.

We designed the juggling itself with the hope that it would not be too difficult to keep it up with a group of 3-5 friends, but we also acknowledged that if players want to just play catch with a wall that's fine too. Whichever method you prefer. Just keep in mind that teaming up with other players will net you more rewards, as you'll receive some rewards from other players ticket-balls as well.

Lesson learned. Devs are telling us to go in a corner and play with our balls by ourselves. Just bring a group to watch because it's more rewarding that way.

nightranger7477 · July 2016

I think he just wanted to ease people's minds about using a possible exploit, and the consequences that would come along with it. Man you guys are harsh sometimes..... Thanks for the info asterdahl

unthoughtknown · July 2016

1200 and nothing - lesson learned - again

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