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kaiserin
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This week the 13 Undead Heroes rise up!
Undead Heroes
Open Missions
Misc
This week the 13 Undead Heroes rise up!
Undead Heroes
- The crypt missions now grant more currency and xp upon completion, but now have a 20 hour cooldown (from 30 minutes).
- Undead Hero open missions have had their cooldown increased to 1 hour (from 30 minutes).
- Moved all of the open mission reward circles away from the enter crypt prompts.
- Added Plant Monster head and Wolf hair costumes to the event store.
- Added Zombie Idle 1 emote to the event store.
- Trick or treat bags are now bind on pickup.
- Thrash of the Lich king open mission now has roughly an hour cooldown (from 1-2 hours).
- Night of the Heroic Dead mission can now be completed once a year instead of weekly.
- Toned down some of the FX from Zombie enemies to help with performance.
- Known Issue: Toy Master is missing the Undead hero action figure exchange store. This will be added in next week.
Open Missions
- Scores of 0 will no longer be displayed on open mission scoreboards.
- Addressed an issue where Kigatilik's hounds would constantly teleport.
Misc
- Added Sideburns and Dogz Claw Long costumes as possible drops from Dogz.
- Anniversary Gifts are now bind on pickup.
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Of course they're BoP now, wouldn't want to allow our healers a chance to collect tokens. Sigh..
it's been over a month already, people are still trading these?
This is a big journey, so far if you're reading this, wish you a good day
Dig the Plant Monster and Wolf Hair though, excited to try that Zombie idle!
My gameplay has had me gather them up and put each type into a SG bank or an individual "mule" character. This change, without informing the playerbase first, is narrowly considered by those who made this decision.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
VERY unhappy
It says that Trick or Treat bags are bind on pickup in the same message, so it's not a typo.
Absolutely. At least put all the bind on pickup event store items like auras and vehicles inside a bound-to-account container so we can move them to another character. Then they will bind when they are opened instead.
^ This would be ideal since the devs insist on trying to make everything they possibly can bind to char now. (I'm a bit salty right now, does it show?)
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Totally agreed.
My entire guild just had a collective "I'm so done with this event!" rant on our private discord over this one, stupid change.
*fingers crossed for orbiting taco aura as a Big T drop next week*
The nerve .. how *DARE* we sell something that didn't come from a lock box!
It almost seems like were being herded to buying what we want instead of farming/grinding for it, a few may not care & accept this but for most that have been here, it brings the "do i really want to mess with this event" attitude... Some aspects of the game are dieing out quickly, OV's rarely run the missions, instead begging for free kills in rencen, NEMCON is still randomly run by small groups ( hopefully more is put into it so it becomes more common, the SPACE STATION missions are truly dead, yet another aspect that had promise but was forgotten. It's almost to the point to where the only thing we MIGHT have to look forward to is paying for future patches or the ability to participate in event fights (i hope not)... I say enough of the putting out of the "shiny" lockbox distractions, reunite costume set pieces into 1 item, fix mission/fight bugs, have more GM's seen in game to bring back a sort of policing for troublemakers & just making themselves known & bring back more incentives for players to hit 40 on a character & want to make another alt... I still have high hopes the game isn't on a slow decline & it will start reving up for the upcoming new year... maybe a open world map for event fights to happen that can hold players without the SNR monster showing his face, maybe a rencen open map mini event of every NEMESIS ever made escaping the prison & assaulting rencen heck maybe even changing up the event fights some, some people have asked if there was a THANKSGIVING event (hint hint: giant robo-turkey) put out some more powersets (not just remake one into a AT version of a FF), maybe, just maybe its time the ROIN'ESH show up to claim their downed mothership in the harbor(bout time they cleaned up their litter anyways
Fixed an issue where Nimbus was not granting her crypt mission when her open mission was completed.
Doing so with no warning, however, is just -rude-.
Devs, please don't be rude to your players.
I had some leftovers on some toons I found last week and I discarded them because a) tokens don't drop during non-event and b) it felt a bit scammy to put them in AH knowing this, so I don't get why people are complaining so intensely about it. Did they drop a super rare AF/Costume that can't be found anywhere else?
This has little to do with the current changes and was always the case. As you describe, currently the scenario is "do a lame **** crypt for sad rewards or switch zones for another pain train", whereas before it was "do a lame **** crypt for even more sad rewards OR keep training non stop in the same zone".
In fact, the current changes actually leave a downtime in one zone for you to be able to go from crypt to crypt doing the quests instead of going into 1 crypt, getting out, and catching up with a train in order to do the next.
The crypts have always been there for a) the daily quests and b) the weekly (now yearly) quest, ie. an extra source of Coins for when your toon starts getting diminishing returns from training.
So, I guess what it boils down to is this: Take out the undead heroes and their crypts only once a day, go Trick or Treating or PVP Hunter/Werewolf as much as you like. No more sharing goodie bags with your alts.
Sigh.. ahh well..at least I have fond memories of the Undead Trains...:(
Like, your argument clashes with the previous' guy argument
I do love that this is ALL Kaizerin had to say after all the stuff that preceded it. Holly ****.
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Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day
Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm
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She is a dev, and as such she has to keep a certain level of profesionalism and can't reply things like
"We apologize that you can no longer sell event bags to new players outside of event time"
or
"We apologize that you can no longer get EVENT rewards by not participating in said EVENT".
Now with the nerf you get 2 coins per hero which drops to 1 by the end of the first lap. You can get coins faster trick or treating (let alone the other methods) than doing the hero train.
With the trick or treat bags being bound, and barely anything added to the store theres no reason to even do anything in the event - I already bought the 3 new things on the store and have coins left over before even touching the 3000+ bags i now cant pass around/sell and have no use for/need of coins let alone reason/point to do the event with nothing to do with the rewards.
Stupid change not only for no reason but it kills the event as a bonus!
Players Using OV's Are Farming Undead Hero Spawn Points
It appears that players hunting Death Lords and Undead Heroes are easy pickings for Onslaught Villains. The OVs can survive the attacks from those spawns rather easily while scoring tons of easy player kills. They are doing this for easy rewards. We probably need some protections in place to prevent this. I don't think OV's being able to do this is WAI.
Thanks a lot Alter Egos Super Group!
This is also the reason why the emotes/dances in the lockboxes are Character bound - you have to open more lockboxes - meaning more money into the pockets of Cryptic.
I also agree with the statement that all of this is not Alt-friendly at all, more like a slap into the face of players that have more than two characters (that also includes me)
I assume Cryptic doesn't care if players get frustrated about that - most players who are "still playing" the game are either Silver or LTS (there are still some subscribers - including me) but if I would be a LTS - I would at least try to get the best out of the game, because I payed a lot of money for it.
I personally really love the game but I start to loose my motivation to play it, and yes I'm aware that this doesn't matter to Cryptic at all - even if I'm not the only one.
((P.s. this is not critisism against the Dev's - they have to do their Job - and I think it's a really tough one, its critisism against their employer))
https://time.is/es/PT
You should check this because you might be playing really late in the night. Trains been running in multiple zones non stop when I logged in earlier. Some trains kept running even when DL was happening in the same zone.
I mean I don't know when you started playing, but like 6 or so years ago and for quite a while (till 2015) there was no store and people still did the Heros (which died within 5 seconds) because of their drop devices, which still drop.
Said store was added as a commodity, an alternative to get event items if RNG didn't favor you with drops, but it was never intended to be the go to way, since then there wouldn't be a point for item drops or an economy around them.
And as you said, said store has few additions per week, mostly costumes which are account wide, so I don't really see what you might need 100 tokens/hour for (which incidentally you can still get by doing all the dailies sans the PvP portion of bite pretty easily. I spent 300 tokens today to get wolf hair, did dailies and before i realised I was back to 300 tokens again. granted I did the Night of the Undead quest, so take 60 tokens away).
And on the subject of hero trains...hero train is something in a way introduced by the current dev team. I know cause me and 4 other players (might be wrong but think it was @qawsada , @pantagruel01 , @behemothking#9246 and I think @pubiwodi ?) started the whole thing by rallying up people in zone chat 2 years ago when heroes were bumped into Legendary rank and people were busy QQing in zone chat instead of even making an attempt, so we called people to focus down one hero at a time as if we were fighting a Cosmic, and boom!, the tradition of trains started.
So any changes the devs may see fit to do in order to adjust the speed at which people were farming tokens from this method is completely within their right to do so since again, they are responsible for this particular design.
If the consequence of said changes is that people start participating in other aspects of the content that people never engaged in, then more power to them \o/
What I'm trying to say with this is: adapt to change. 2 years ago people were in zone saying Bloodmoon was ruined forever because Heroes had more Hp, and flashforward now where you are complaining that you cannot train hard enough. There might be a better alternative that you have not considered yet.
Not really. In fact, this year has given many alternatives as to how to get tokens, none of which require paying money.
Let's say that these toons that you are talking about that are somehow unable to participate/farm the event are level 6 costume toons/RP toons.
This year you have:
1) Trick or Treating Quest. Requires the skill of pressing the letter F and an energy builder attack (demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/66mM0nn.jpg), or if you don't even have an attack you can just grab the bags from the ToTs and escape the monsters (10 tokens)
2) BITE gives you a device with corresponding set of skills that you can use to at least do the PvE quest if no player is around to fight/trade kills with. There's a total of 4 quests for this. (15 for PvP, 10 for PvE)
3) ZA now has a quest too, the only thing you have to do is queue and die. (15 tokens for quest + 6 from ZA)
= 51- 81 tokens (if you do the PvP bite quests) minimum + random amount from boxes you get
Meaning doing 2 days of this has a 100% chance of granting you 1 Aura/Costume Transform for a total of maybe 30-40 minutes of gameplay/day.
Now, if you'd put the same amount of effort getting a semi decent vehicle/become device and moving it around your account just as you moved those boxes, or getting a team, you could also do
4) The daily DL quest (20 tokens + 9)
5) The Blood Moon Rising quest (10 tokens)
6) The once a year Night of the Dead quest (60 tokens)
7) The 13 Quests that you need to do to complete the aforementioned quest (7 each x 13 quests).
+ 2 x 13 tokens from 1 Train cycle = 26 tokens
= total amount of 116 (if you don't do PvP BITE, crypts, and Night of the Dead) - 297 (if you do everything) tokens minimum + whatever amount from boxes
Meaning if you do the bare minimum scenario you are guaranteed to get 1 Aura/Costume transform per day for a total of maybe 2 hours of gameplay.
Let's not even mention the fact that DL's diminishing returns start after the 10th run meaning you can get a total of 90 tokens just from that, and ignoring the fact that next week has Tako's quest added (granted, in place of DL's quest).
How much more alternatives do you want???
Was told this is for "next week", thats something to look forward to!
Binding to account or any other alternatives presented wouldn't have worked as well?