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The Protector’s Jubilee event (and why it's awesome)
magenubbie
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It's that time of the year again. The Protector’s Jubilee event is back. Still competing with the Simril winter event for the title of best event this game has to offer.
In all honesty, I wasn't expecting to see it back when it was held last year. But I'm glad to see it return. This is one of the few events in this game where all prizes can be had by everyone, provided you work for it. And before people ask, yes Respen's is third. And the prizes are decent as well: a green companion which fights reasonably well compared to other free companions, good looking fashion, transmutes, very useful buff food, a daily giveaway and last, but not least, 2 thrones instead of one last year. A nice touch to honor the most famous giant miniature space hamster in Faerun, well made and I'm definitely going to get one, no matter what it takes.
Granted, as with any skirmish, you'll run into a few new, weak and low-on-fixed-screws-in-the-head people and you'll lose your bonus a few times, but it's worth it and it doesn't ruin too much for the rest of the team. I basically soloed most of the encounters during the last skirmish I did, trying to protect the rest of the team. But you can't help that. You risk carrying a few people here and there at any event in any MMO and most of these people at least know to try and carry their weight. That's all I need to see, and wish I'd see more often.
All in all, it's a fun event, quick enough to not despise the grind too much, reasonable goals (reward prices) and, apparently, quite tricky for some newer players.
Thanks devs and anyone who helped decide that this event should return. I'd really LOVE more events built like this, where everyone can get the reward he wishes by working for it, without RNGesus butting in.
In all honesty, I wasn't expecting to see it back when it was held last year. But I'm glad to see it return. This is one of the few events in this game where all prizes can be had by everyone, provided you work for it. And before people ask, yes Respen's is third. And the prizes are decent as well: a green companion which fights reasonably well compared to other free companions, good looking fashion, transmutes, very useful buff food, a daily giveaway and last, but not least, 2 thrones instead of one last year. A nice touch to honor the most famous giant miniature space hamster in Faerun, well made and I'm definitely going to get one, no matter what it takes.
Granted, as with any skirmish, you'll run into a few new, weak and low-on-fixed-screws-in-the-head people and you'll lose your bonus a few times, but it's worth it and it doesn't ruin too much for the rest of the team. I basically soloed most of the encounters during the last skirmish I did, trying to protect the rest of the team. But you can't help that. You risk carrying a few people here and there at any event in any MMO and most of these people at least know to try and carry their weight. That's all I need to see, and wish I'd see more often.
All in all, it's a fun event, quick enough to not despise the grind too much, reasonable goals (reward prices) and, apparently, quite tricky for some newer players.
Thanks devs and anyone who helped decide that this event should return. I'd really LOVE more events built like this, where everyone can get the reward he wishes by working for it, without RNGesus butting in.
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Were you using Binding Oath? the dmg it does to you is exploding is calculated towards your Paingiver. (same with Divine Protector)
And!!! Don't forget the amazing cutey horse mount. Parade horse for the win.
and the horse - why its green, im not made of AD to get it to epic
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4 of my characters don't have access to the Protector's Garden, so I was very happy to be working towards my key on them, as well as earning figurines and renown for mounts and fashion outfits. It takes less than 15 minutes to do the daily skirmish and 2 quick quests, so this is within the reach of pretty much everyone.
I think the rewards are some of the best-looking items in the game.
No. I was running with circle of power, divine touch and Templar's Wrath as my encounters. Oath Strike and Cure Wounds for at-wills. And aura of truth and aura of divinity for passives. And Divine Judgment and Healing Font for dallies. Maybe something in there would explain the damage I was doing, not certain.
And I am in the light path, if that makes a difference. And a little in justice.
There was another paladin in the party too, I think he/she was a devotion too, along with a DC, GF and a TR.
what was the duration of the skirmish? changed DJ does pretty good aoe dmg, maybe with some buffs and debuffs from the allies you got some nice boost. It's not a problem for geared paladin to do few milions of dmg during dungeon run, etc.
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I look forward to the rest of the offerings.
Events are always kind of underperforming for high(er)-end players and absolutely great for everyone else. On my lowbie SW, I'll be getting two Thrones of Boo by just doing the dailies which currently converts to 500k AD. I'm sure the price will go down by a decent amount before the event is over, but that's instantly more ADs than the character has ever owned.
That said: Did they forget to scale the event skirmish to 70 or is it wai?
Also kudos for fixing Beachcombing, the Xbox apparently has our last years version with the 3-minute respawn timer of the maps and players piling up at the beach
...is there any preview of the event armor transmutes someplace???
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Now one issue I had was one of my toons had to speak to an Emissary in Sharandar. Sadly she didnt have Sharandar unlocked. Course she's level 68 ( the lazy witch :* ) so she should have it unlocked. It was no biggy running thru Old Sharandar to finaly find the Emissary. Died a few times while wearing level 50 gear still but I was too tenacious for them Feys and Trolls.
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The garden is a nice convenience area. I would love to see a professions vendor and perhaps a training dummy or two added. Perhaps in the future after more pressing matters are tended to
I was a little surprised by one of the daily event quests my newly level 60 CW received. The quest was to find and speak to a harper, who turns out to be (spolier) ..... dead, in New Sharandar - an area in which I had yet to unlock.
Yes, I was able to complete it. It was just rather unexpected to receive an event quest that not only sent me to an area over 10 levels higher than my own but the area itself had to be unlocked prior to being able to even attempt the quest.
FTFY :*
What I currently like best about the event:
Thanks to the Lvl 60 normalizing I could finally dust off, put on, and to good use again... ...my HiProfit gear! >:)
I want to point out this link with most valuable information a player can easily miss in massive stream of information, also it had been published in time (8 AM PDT) when players in Central Europe had evening time already.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9412853-neverwinter:-celebrate-all-week-with-free-items-and-bonuses!
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Tons of lag for me, in PE and especially the skirmish. Once the decorations will get removed the lag will reduce. No need to contact anyone, they won't be able to solve it.
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