Who is ready to for Strongholds?

zman81420

When faced with the feats ahead how (under)prepared are YOU? Will your Stronghold stand the test of time? Open season on new content is here!Whether your a strict PvP, PVE, or comprised of both sides Will your Guild have what it takes to Compete at the next Level? Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

stpensive

zman, you need to scale down the choices to 4 tops and none of the options should be questions.

zman81420

stpensive said:

zman, you need to scale down the choices to 4 tops and none of the options should be questions.

Positive feedback, cheers!

zman81420

Suppose just look at it as if you click on an option, that means yes to the question. Glad I peaked your interest.

As far as the option for 4 tops, that's just boring. There is honestly nothing I see up there as being irrelevant. But I suppose that is why I posted the poll and you commented on it

deathbringer

Option 30: Could barely play previous content, so probably won't be able to play this content either (for those who were unable to play previous content)

zman81420

Unfortunately I can only go to 10 options, duly noted. FYI We are always looking to improve our numbers.

kriptical1

Haven't logged in yet, but my largest concern is: does strongholds force pvp upon those of us who really don't dig it.
I've gotten the vibe over the past few weeks that the EP really digs pvp and it troubles me that this mod would prevent end game pve players from joining end game guilds due to pvp progression requirements.

deathbringer

What? Past 10 options?

zman81420

There is from what I have read in PC forums and announcements a lot of PVE content. Many players said it outweighed the PvP content so I will find out soon as well.

meliboo

Well, with my OP HR I think I am set for Strongholds.

nem3sls

all members of the guild I´m still in have abandoned the game, what reasons? I dont know. I did some SH HE and runs yesterday but its hard alone haha still doable but hard.

randomdigits

I'd trade the Stronghold mod for a few new dungeons any day.
Looks like a grind fest to me. Tyranny of Dragons times 10.
But, let's start running, I think if the guild is strong, it could be a fine journey.

mahburg

Liking this a lot we had some guys come over to our small guild from another one yesterday so we have upped our active player numbers and already have the lumber yard operational and are working on the other buildings just lacking food for the guild hall and some other stuff for the farm to get the food, once we figure the mechanics out we will be flying.
Heroics can be soloed by the squishiest of players if you pick the right ones.
All in I like this I have to say.

cesar

Not interested in Strongholds at all. After having reached level 70 a few days ago, I have months of grinding ahead just to gear up to a decent level.

mahburg

cesar#6784 said:

Not interested in Strongholds at all. After having reached level 70 a few days ago, I have months of grinding ahead just to gear up to a decent level.

Seems grinding will go quicker in the Stronghold map you might want to join a guild to try it out before writing it off, I was pleasantly surprised I have to admit.

cesar

mahburg said:

Seems grinding will go quicker in the Stronghold map you might want to join a guild to try it out before writing it off, I was pleasantly surprised I have to admit.

Really? Ok, I'll follow your advice and give it a try. Thanks!

nem3sls

cesar#6784 said:

Not interested in Strongholds at all. After having reached level 70 a few days ago, I have months of grinding ahead just to gear up to a decent level.

do your daily dungeon runs, do your daily quests for the campaign and youre good to go in no time. I did all my dungeon runs on both my main chars with PUGs, all of them were awesome, yeah some not but most

zman81420

I had a blast last night running around our Stronghold. Item level 135 gear dropping from HE gave me a tone of extra RAD and made a ton of guild and personal resources. I cant wait to log back on tonight. We got the lumberyard going and maxing out each section of the Guild Coffer is going well. If anyone is on the fence about this content join a guild and see what it is about imo. We are also recruiting actively each day. I also noticed that the Armor Pen against us in dungeons is drastically reduced. We ran through eCC in 15 minutes last night just melting everything and not a single wipe. Refinement was also dropping like crazy for my DH enchants which I never saw last mod. Overall happy customer and eager to hop back in later.

kriptical1

As someone who was Leary of this mod I have to admit it's been pretty fun so far.

deathbringer

Fun, yes. Grindy, oh yea. But this game is nothing but a grind. In any case, BLOPS 3 in 2 days...I think I speak for a least a small portion of people when saying, this game will go unplayed for a while once BLOPS3 comes out.

zman81420

BLOPS Looks fun and I am currently involved with Halo 5, but still find myself here playing this game. So much to grind for our new homes to walk away now.

slag

Is strongholds only fun with a good guild? I am current around level 2200 and trying to figure out of I should concentrate on finishing dalies or go deep into strongholds? I've never even done a dungeon since getting to level 70 - have just been focusing on dalies. There is so much to do....

zman81420

Strongholds has rewards for the guild donation coffer made available through quests obtainable from your stronghold for running daily dungeons. We run T2 all the time and this is more incentive for us to do so now more than ever. If you consider running in a giant group fun then that's good or running with a smaller guild can also be rewarding as well. Just a matter of how fast you want your stronghold progression to go.

randomdigits

Imho, for PvE it doesn't matter much if you guild is very strong or just an average one.
If you guild is offline most of the time to the point where you can't even setup a small team to farm HEs then that's not a good guild to stick with.

kriptical1

The guild dynamic will change from; these are my friends, to; this is my team. Not necessarily a bad thing

mahburg

We are a small guild we merged with another small guild all were very active players, consequently in the first 48 hours we have the lumber yard the Farm the Guildhall 14 hours form first upgrade as I type this and we are ready to push the button on the market, sure beyond here it will get tougher, but despite the doomsayers saying that the monster guilds would own strongholds that is not currently the case as I see it.

Obviously where the PVP encounters are concerned that may turn out to be true, but there is no need to participate (although I suspect many guilds will as it looks like a bundle of laughs)

randomdigits

To contradict myself, I can see now that end gamer guilds would definitely have a huge boost at the start. Each Stronghold building resource cost is worth several million ADs. If your guild has a lot of rich players you can jump quite far ahead.

mahburg

randomdigits#2166 said:

To contradict myself, I can see now that end gamer guilds would definitely have a huge boost at the start. Each Stronghold building resource cost is worth several million ADs. If your guild has a lot of rich players you can jump quite far ahead.

Indeed a Guild with ten active players who have been hoarding everything they earned for some time in preparation for this can get things moving pretty fast, caveat being each rank of each building takes progressively longer and costs more to do, so this is definitely a long term excercise to get to the really good stuff

drexci

The guild I'm in has a small amount of players, 5 to 8 people. We were going to join another guild but decided against it as we've invested a lot in our guild bank. We've calculated the amount of resources you need for the market place and the boon buildings and have decided it's not worth the grind.

I've over 2000 hours played on this game so grinding heroics for ranks 5 enchants, re-doing dailies in old campaign zones and the same six dungeons over and over isn't a lot of fun for me anymore. The dungeons are very very easy now aswell.

I'll be logging in to get my daily key and hopefully by the time underdark comes Neverwinter will seem interesting again but until then I have Fallout pre ordered and loads of backwards compatible games coming next week

mahburg

drexci said:

The guild I'm in has a small amount of players, 5 to 8 people. We were going to join another guild but decided against it as we've invested a lot in our guild bank. We've calculated the amount of resources you need for the market place and the boon buildings and have decided it's not worth the grind.

I've over 2000 hours played on this game so grinding heroics for ranks 5 enchants, re-doing dailies in old campaign zones and the same six dungeons over and over isn't a lot of fun for me anymore. The dungeons are very very easy now aswell.

I'll be logging in to get my daily key and hopefully by the time underdark comes Neverwinter will seem interesting again but until then I have Fallout pre ordered and loads of backwards compatible games coming next week

We faced this so we merged with another guild since Strongholds dropped we have the Lumber Yard the Farm, The Market and upped the guildhall to two, we are only waiting for gear farming to start the mine Happy to host discussions with any other small guild that wants to join in with us just reach out to me or come into a party (I am always in Party Chat when online).

Cheers

zman81420

Seeing priorities change drastically now. Before this game was about you (or maybe a few regular friends to run with) for completing content or farming. Now it requires mass communication on every level to continue success each and everyday. Love it!