Double RP weekend confirmed now yay!

iambecks1 · November 2014

The double RP event this weekend has now been confirmed yippee!

Taken from today's news blog -

Furthermore, this weekend will be a 2x Refinement Weekend! Starting 11/28 at 10 AM PST, this is a great time to start investing in upgrading your precious items!

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9006813-15%25-bonus-zen-%2B-key-and-refinement-sale-now-live%21

Akromatic and dwightmc please could you guys announce these things in advance in future , pretty please with a cherry on top!

EDIT - Ooh nice , 20% off all refinement stuff , better stock up on Preservation wards to sell xD

stah01 · November 2014

but what about this.. is it a secondary event on 12/26? I feel most looked at this

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9004073-season-of-dragons-goals-round-3%21

Goal: $10,000+ Raised during our ExtraLife Charity Event
Reward: A “Natural 20 Weekend" – 2x Experience, 2x Refinement Points, and 2x Glory Weekend
Due Date: COMPLETED!
Reward Date: 12/26

iambecks1 · November 2014

stah01 wrote: »

but what about this.. is it a secondary event on 12/26? I feel most looked at this

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9004073-season-of-dragons-goals-round-3%21

I doubt they will remove that , they gave us that for reaching the goal in the charity donations thing , if they took it away that would be quite sick ( I mean sick in the bad way , not the good way xD ).

koalazebra1 · November 2014

this weekend = 2x rp
dec 26 = 2x on everything

stah01 · November 2014

if this is additional.. its super positive.. and I hope you are right.

If its in place of.. i think many will be super duper duper salty.

truelokaster · November 2014

Inflated prices in the AH... YAY!

ambisinisterr · November 2014

The double refinement weekend was a last minute decision according to DwightMc. This wasn't planned for a long period of time so it was not announced with much notice however the feedback desiring more notice has been noted.

Additionally the double refinement weekend is not part of the Season of Dragon Challenges and will not be replacing the Double Refinement, XP and Glory reward for the Season of Dragons challenges.

madaragataosenai · November 2014

I need info,does this double rp INSTEAD OF 26/12?

iambecks1 · November 2014

madaragataosenai wrote: »

I need info,does this double rp INSTEAD OF 26/12?

No , the forum mod posted above your post , gonna need the one on the 26th to upgrade my artifact offhand xD

truelokaster · November 2014

ambisinisterr wrote: »

The double refinement weekend was a last minute decision according to DwightMc. This wasn't planned for a long period of time so it was not announced with much notice however the feedback desiring more notice has been noted.

Thanks for the info ambisinisterr.

Now I wonder if this "last minute decision" has something to do with the amount of unbound RP stacks currently ingame.

balding2earl · November 2014

I'm sorry if this is old news but I only just realised, hadn't seen it on the forums, thought it may be useful to some especially with the double room.

This is all regarding artifact equipment

Firstly level 60 equipment can be used to refine

The right seems to vary depending on the quality

Secondly epics seem to give double rp. Not really cost effective though.

Thirdly and the main point in didn't realise items in if the same class and type (ie a bow in to a legendary bow) seems to also double. Hope this helps someone.

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cheesegromit · November 2014

ambisinisterr wrote: »

The double refinement weekend was a last minute decision according to DwightMc. This wasn't planned for a long period of time so it was not announced with much notice however the feedback desiring more notice has been noted.

Additionally the double refinement weekend is not part of the Season of Dragon Challenges and will not be replacing the Double Refinement, XP and Glory reward for the Season of Dragons challenges.

That's good to know. My cynical streak kicked in and I thought they'd brought it forward prior to people obtaining off-hand artifacts and other Tiamat artifact rewards.

akemnos · November 2014

good this will allow me to clear out all of the unbound enchants i had already stockpiled before the bound change came in. will clear up a lot of inventory space.

karranor · November 2014

Time to get crunching!

fastrean3 · November 2014

Good news for everyone who has the artifact items need to refine. But player like me don't have the artifact items, the event is meaningless:(

beckylunatic · November 2014

Then refine whatever you've got, improve your enchants, improve your actual artifacts, and wait until December 26 for your artifact gear when they have another event. It looks entirely feasible to have earned enough Linu's favor for *something* by that date.

loboguild · November 2014

fastrean3 wrote: »

Good news for everyone who has the artifact items need to refine. But player like me don't have the artifact items, the event is meaningless:(

Artifact Belts are as cheap as 80k AD currently, so...

fastrean3 · November 2014

loboguild wrote: »

Artifact Belts are as cheap as 80k AD currently, so...

Really?! haven't browse AH for along time, but I actually looking for the artifact necks. ..but the drop rate is horrible, farm every 45 minis and only get the rubissh blue items, even thought they can be use to refine.....

healary · November 2014

I think Cryptic and those AH price manipulators severely underestimate most player's math ability. Double refinement... but prices of the RP items in the AH shot up 20 times. Even if the artifacts drop to 0 value each, players still need to spend 10 million AD to enchant just ONE of them... and there are many many times artifacts, including set ones, out there now.

Why an unexpected double refinement weekend, following one that ended not long ago, and yet another one coming in a month? Perhaps some merchants sent out Mayday calls when their bosses look at the actual sale figures... and again, players can do math better than some people hope otherwise, and even if they really can't do math, their wallets can tell them they don't have thousands of real dollars to get their super-duper artifacts that will probably be replaced by some new sets out in the next module.

nwn2motb9 · November 2014

healary wrote: »

I think Cryptic and those AH price manipulators severely underestimate most player's math ability. Double refinement... but prices of the RP items in the AH shot up 20 times. Even if the artifacts drop to 0 value each, players still need to spend 10 million AD to enchant just ONE of them... and there are many many times artifacts, including set ones, out there now.

Why an unexpected double refinement weekend, following one that ended not long ago, and yet another one coming in a month? Perhaps some merchants sent out Mayday calls when their bosses look at the actual sale figures... and again, players can do math better than some people hope otherwise, and even if they really can't do math, their wallets can tell them they don't have thousands of real dollars to get their super-duper artifacts that will probably be replaced by some new sets out in the next module.

Well now that we all know the next double refinement weekend is coming on Decemeber 26 start making fey blessing and dragon hoard enchants that you can either sell or use the refine points for. In a month you could amass quite a few enchants costing 20k and proabably selling for 50k when the refinement weekend is on, not to mention all the RP stones etc you can use to upgrade enchants and artifacts for double points.

You dont have to spend alot of AD to get alot of RP!! Just have some patience.......

healary · November 2014

nwn2motb9 wrote: »

Well now that we all know the next double refinement weekend is coming on Decemeber 26 start making fey blessing and dragon hoard enchants that you can either sell or use the refine points for. In a month you could amass quite a few enchants costing 20k and proabably selling for 50k when the refinement weekend is on, not to mention all the RP stones etc you can use to upgrade enchants and artifacts for double points.

You dont have to spend alot of AD to get alot of RP!! Just have some patience.......

Do the math please... please tell us how many RP stones can you get in a month? Don't forget you need close to 4 million refinement points to make 1 legendary artifact and close to 5 million for each artifact gear. How many fey blessing and dragon hoard enchantments can you make in a month... and they sell for 40k before the 10% AH cut, not 50k and probably will be worth much less later. You don't need to be a rocket scientists to know it is not possible and even rocket scientists need to sleep and the bots they made should be banned.

Have patience is what most players are doing now... but they have more than just some patience, they have a lot of patience, at lot of patience not to buy the ridiculously priced RP stones from the AH and not even buy the artifact belts, cloaks and such since it makes almost no point to get anything they can't enhance. Maybe to many of them this module 5 is not a bad thing after all since the ones who may spend some real money now know it is pointless not to just play absolutely free and be PATIENT with what they get from the game free.

nwn2motb9 · November 2014

healary wrote: »

Do the math please... please tell us how many RP stones can you get in a month? Don't forget you need close to 4 million refinement points to make 1 legendary artifact and close to 5 million for each artifact gear. How many fey blessing and dragon hoard enchantments can you make in a month... and they sell for 40k before the 10% AH cut, not 50k and probably will be worth much less later. You don't need to be a rocket scientists to know it is not possible and even rocket scientists need to sleep and the bots they made should be banned.

Have patience is what most players are doing now... but they have more than just some patience, they have a lot of patience, at lot of patience not to buy the ridiculously priced RP stones from the AH and not even buy the artifact belts, cloaks and such since it makes almost no point to get anything they can't enhance. Maybe to many of them this module 5 is not a bad thing after all since the ones who may spend some real money now know it is pointless not to just play absolutely free and be PATIENT with what they get from the game free.

Today in 5 hours from 2 dragon hoard enchants I have 1 flawless saphire,5 lesser reso stones,1 aquamarine, 5 minor reso stones and 10 peridots=24 k RP or 48 k in a months time. So if you play on average say 20 hours per week you could get 96k in RP alone from enchants. Over the course of a month you can also make 8 fey blessing enchants @ 12 k RP and 12 dragon hoard enchants @ 12 k which gives you 240K RP on artifact weapons (double that for artifacts). Double all this again on the 26th of December and that is well over 1mill RP.

"Rome wasn't built in a day".

It's a Free to Play MMO what did you expect???

I give you a break as you are quite new to this game.

healary · November 2014

nwn2motb9 wrote: »

Today in 5 hours from 2 dragon hoard enchants I have 1 flawless saphire,5 lesser reso stones,1 aquamarine, 5 minor reso stones and 10 peridots=24 k RP or 48 k in a months time. So if you play on average say 20 hours per week you could get 96k in RP alone from enchants. Over the course of a month you can also make 8 fey blessing enchants @ 12 k RP and 12 dragon hoard enchants @ 12 k which gives you 240K RP on artifact weapons (double that for artifacts). Double all this again on the 26th of December and that is well over 1mill RP.

"Rome wasn't built in a day".

It's a Free to Play MMO what did you expect???

I give you a break as you are quite new to this game.

How many artifacts are out there? How many times of "1mill RP" are required to enchant JUST ONE artifact? And I also have to leave it to those who actually out there playing to tell themselves how many sapphires, resonance stones, aquamarines they actually get from 5 hours of play and whether they are on the average 1 flawless sapphire drop per 10 peridots.

I give you a break as you are one of those who do not recognize forum join date is not the same as the actual join date of the PWE games, which I played since the beta of Perfect World Online.

godlysoul2 · November 2014

This is a very interesting turn of events considering what has been happening to AH prices recently... Perhaps now is the time to sell rather than wait till the December refining event? Ever since I've seen these prices start shooting up at the release of the mod, I assumed changes would need to come quickly to the refining system or availability of refining points, especially with where the prices were on track to be for the December refinement bonus. Perhaps this is a way for them to offer double RP to those still using the current refining/RP gathering setup in place, (which was to be expected for the announced December event), before the December event occurs so that changes can be made before the December one? Especially with how rapid they decided to do this event this is what I am led to believe...

nwn2motb9 · November 2014

Yes I agree I wil be selling my 40 stacks of 99 peridots( purchased @15 k each) and 3 stacks of Lesser reso stones (purchased @80k each) that I got from the AH before Mod 5 came out as it was so obvious the pices would sky rocket with bound RP stones etc from fey,tymora and dragon hoard enchants. I only wish the stock market was as predictable as the AH in NW!

healary · November 2014

godlysoul2 wrote: »

This is a very interesting turn of events considering what has been happening to AH prices recently... Perhaps now is the time to sell rather than wait till the December refining event? Ever since I've seen these prices start shooting up at the release of the mod, I assumed changes would need to come quickly to the refining system or availability of refining points, especially with where the prices were on track to be for the December refinement bonus. Perhaps this is a way for them to offer double RP to those still using the current refining/RP gathering setup in place, (which was to be expected for the announced December event), before the December event occurs so that changes can be made before the December one? Especially with how rapid they decided to do this event this is what I am led to believe...

It may not be a bad idea to sell now if you think the wild fluctuation of the market is not natural. Of course, if the market is not going the natural way, you may not know whether the prices of RP items will be 10 times or 3% of what they are now. In case if you don't notice, pearls sold for 360 AD each yesterday for many hours. Who knows whether they will be 12 AD or 1000 AD each a month from now. I did apparently the most logical things by selling them at over 300 per yesterday though.

piejal · November 2014

healary wrote: »

How many artifacts are out there? How many times of "1mill RP" are required to enchant JUST ONE artifact? And I also have to leave it to those who actually out there playing to tell themselves how many sapphires, resonance stones, aquamarines they actually get from 5 hours of play and whether they are on the average 1 flawless sapphire drop per 10 peridots.

I give you a break as you are one of those who do not recognize forum join date is not the same as the actual join date of the PWE games, which I played since the beta of Perfect World Online.

i think you shoul try to use g hoard high invest high return
yes there are 3 new artifact but you must understant that legedary lv is end game and hardcore content

healary · November 2014

piejal wrote: »

i think you shoul try to use g hoard high invest high return
yes there are 3 new artifact but you must understant that legedary lv is end game and hardcore content

I don't think you know what level of dragon hoard enchantments I use and you certainly don't know there are more than 3 new artifacts - dragon artifacts for all the 3 artifact slots, new necks, cloaks and waists and soon there will be new off hand... and more coming for the next module. You also should know the level of RP material gathering gems only affect the percentage of the drop but not the quality. A player wearing greater hoard don't get more sapphires drop than players wearing the lesser variety.

You must also understand that nobody knows what endgame content and how "hardcore" it is. If Tiamat is as hardcore as he was intended in preview or even as low as 19k gs is required there will be a lot of gear and RP requirement.

piejal · November 2014

healary wrote: »

I don't think you know what level of dragon hoard enchantments I use and you certainly don't know there are more than 3 new artifacts - dragon artifacts for all the 3 artifact slots, new necks, cloaks and waists and soon there will be new off hand... and more coming for the next module. You also should know the level of RP material gathering gems only affect the percentage of the drop but not the quality. A player wearing greater hoard don't get more sapphires drop than players wearing the lesser variety.

You must also understand that nobody knows what endgame content and how "hardcore" it is. If Tiamat is as hardcore as he was intended in preview or even as low as 19k gs is required there will be a lot of gear and RP requirement.

Well if you are true casual player like me epic is enough
if you hardcore player yes that's the amount of grind RP you need to do
Great result need great effort because that's how live works

healary · November 2014

piejal wrote: »

Well if you are true casual player like me epic is enough
if you hardcore player yes that's the amount of grind RP you need to do
Great result need great effort because that's how live works

That wasn't how "live" worked before module 5. You don't need to be a hardcore player and grind everything yourself. You could either buy everybody with AD or real money much cheaper and still get legendary items, not just epic, a couple of weeks ago.

Double RP weekend confirmed now yay!

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