Hey guys, Basically what the title says. I'm getting bored doing the same campaign rotation everyday. SKT, ToD, and Sharandar, I do these every morning and after that I find nothing else to do. I could grind for AD true but it takes me forever and I groan at the thought that it'll take me months to get to my goal. What I'm trying to get at is I'm finding the game really boring. Does anyone else have a way to alleviate the issue so I can play like I used to?
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Seriously.
There's no point in playing if you don't enjoy it, and forcing yourself will only make the burn out worse. Find something new and interesting to do for a while. Play The Wicher all the way through or something. For instance, I played heavily from around the first of the year up until about a week ago. Then I started feeling the annoyances that drove me from the game for a couple of years before this. So, I did two things:
1) Started playing an old Alt. I had never developed which had a completely different playstyle than my current main ( a HR, as opposed to a GWF).
2) Booted up my copy of Resident Evil 4 for the first time in years.
Between those two things, my burnout is fading fast.
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It will occupy your time much better, and you can do it in several was:
If you are OP/DC you can pug it, you will get invited immediately, and you will have interesting several hours of facepalming and receiving blame, because we all know that it's the DC/OP fault.
Return to the forums, and post about the miserably state of the PUGs, add how content should be made easier.
You can premade it, then it will be actually smooth. It will get boring after a short while, return to the forums, post about the loooong cutscenes and combat sequence that can be summed up as "hurry up and wait"
If you are DPS:
You can try to /lfg, you will spend minutes if not hours looking for a group at your* mediocre high IL DPS (which we have dozen a dime), you will either find a group of pugs, it will fail, return to the forums and post about the evil Meta, and that the minimal requirements should be higher for the dungeons.
Good chance that you will give up before invited to an actual group, return to the forums asking for a buffs for your class, irrelevant which class it is or how well it is doing now, buffing the DPS will surely fix the group finding situation - It's not like the all other DPS classes looking for the same content didn't hint at something...
You can try and form your own group, two ways to do this:
/lfg + channels -> You will either spend enormous time filtering out 20k IL players with R14 utility slots but nothing actual coherent in their build, or AC with power on companions, or buff TRs.
At the end after trying to find what you need, you will just go in, the run will be long or fail. Come back to the forums and post about elitist meta, or the IL inflating pugs, or the too low minimal requirements.
Second option, to coerce people you know to go with you, this will have the best results in terms of dungeon runs, but you risk seeing a mass "@yourfriendshandle has logged off" as you log in, as people mass /hide from you.
After a while your friends list will suddenly be empty of any and all support players. No need to return to the forums in this case, you can just share the misery with your remaining list of DPS friends.
Several other options:
You can PvP, this is well summed here:
As the main PvP is on the forums and not in game.
Or you can skip the in-game PvP altogether, just find a random topic in the forums, there are great candidates, from weapon enchants interpretation via tooltips, imaginary companion tests, philosophical debate about AD generation, classes standing in the DPS food chain, and dive in... I assure you, it will occupy you much more than any in-game quest. Especially if you meet some of the end-bosses of the forums (Yes, hello there). A raid can last for weeks.
Similar options, is to join on of the discords, there you will find from good and solid advice, to facepalming galore.
Similar is the facebook groups, where there, from what I saw, it is towards the facepalming and no offense to healing TRs, or healing CWs, or any other.
Ohh I almost forgot, another viable option, is focus on generating AD: Trade, MW, events, blackmail, taxes, whatever works for you. Your end-game is to be filthy rich, so filthy rich, you will humm this in your sleep:
Edited out a video that, while cool, does not conform to forum policies regarding profanity. Sorry.
Do not forget to NOT buy your friends and guild leader the snail they want.
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On topic - I am very much the same - bored bored bored.
The jump to get to a point where one can happily run FBI dungeon and above is a mahoosive grind. And other than that I have done all content pretty much. All campaigns finished except for SKT [cos of FBI or something] and River District [never had a successful PUG MSP yet] and don't want to face To9G or Castle Ravenloft.
Being honest yes take a break.
SKT is a real pain in the back especially the Sea of Moving Ice - that caused me immense annoyance.
Maybe break it up a bit? Ignore campaigns for a few days and do Random dungeons?
I have enjoyed playing through the Random Intermediate dungeons and learning the best tactics to complete them - Lost Lair, Castle Never, Valindra's Tower, Epic Shores of Tuern. Kessel's retreat - great to revisit these and some good fun as well.
Or try hunts in Barovia - they can be a laugh.
i understand what first post means. with AD refinement cap at 100 000 per day per account, its hard to find reason to play. hard to find motivation to catch up your guildies. i hope we will see Cryptic change it next mod
I think @jorifice1 said it perfectly: "There's no point in playing if you don't enjoy it"
This is a game - if you're not having fun, don't play. The truth is, despite all the problems, NW is actually a pretty good game and worth coming back to at some point. But if you're feeling like you need a break from it, you probably do. I know I did, and having taken a long break, I'm back to a point where the game is, again, enjoyable.
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
I did have some fun recently leveling up a new alt and enjoying all of that really good lower level content. hadn't done it for a couple years so was a nice change to go back and say hi to old npc friends again.
Can always run dungeons, or can do challenge dungeons. For instance, take alts that just barely meet the game's requirements for a dungeon so you actually have to do the mechanics in boss fights.
Do guild/alliance stuff, Marauders and Dragonflight.
GWF: Vretzina
OP: Vee
DC: Evee
CW: nezterV
Leader - Valaraukari Ascension
1. Do Foundry (but I think it is offline)...ho hum.
2. Pursue titles, like the ones from Maze Engine, River District, Underdark, etc. Some of them are not easy to get.
3. Pursue achievements. So, you need to kill 500 Air Archons for a slayer level? Well...you know where to find them.
4. Build Campaign Currency. Revisit the campaigns sporadically to do a couple of the quests and gain some of the currency that does weird stuff. For example, supporting factions in Underdark OR Do some Elemental Evil quests to revisit the evil and just progress towards a bit of nothing.
5. Try to do scrying orbs without looking where to find them. This will take some time.
6. Progress in non-stat based service features (idle companion slots), which are pretty cheap, and moreso with a coupon from invoke.
7. Try clearing zone maps of any unexplored area.
8. Try to get all the special drop quests from certain zones (Lonelywood, Bryn Shandar, SOMI, RD, Chult).
9. Get Volo's hunt achievements.
10. Start zany and fun chats with friends or guild mates to pass the time.
11. Go on a node hunt (sometimes there is a big payoff, like a Unified element, but mostly, this is just to look at what's on the map). Combine this with #7.
12. Do some HEs in various zones. Try and solo a mid or BHE. Drops aren't bad sometimes (black ice wedge, for example).
13. Run Dragonflight (I even did this recently. Wow, are those dragons squishy now).
14. Queue up for an actual dungeon that will vary the time online. Why do random all the time and get the same stuff? Pug one of those RQs or RIQs and see what happens.
15. Masterwork..well, if you have a Gond that is. If not, moving on.
Most of these will not increase your AD account or your stats in the game, but they can be done to vary the Neverwinter experience, break up the monotony of progression by grind, and keep the game fresh longer, whether solo or with friends.
Cheers!
Guild--And the Imaginary Friends
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
Just be prepared for the inevitable - all of your gear/weapons will likely be outclassed by rando blue / purple drops from new zones that popped up in your absence.