Will fresh 70s be capable in Underdark?

rozynfirethorn

I returned to the game a couple weeks ago after playing off and on since launch and got a SW to level 64 (almost 65!). I've been levelling pretty casually and will hopefully be in the upper 60s around Underdark's launch, 70 soon thereafter. What I'm curious about is how accessible the new content will be for someone like me, mostly soloing and doing a few dungeon queues here and there, but not geared out like those who've committed a lot more time to the game and I only have like 2 dragon boons. I understand there are longtime players who want difficult content - and I totally get that - I'm just curious if I'll be able to step foot in the Underdark or get completely roflstomped back to sub-70 zones. Is the content tiered for difficulty?

Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks for your time.

mentinmindmaker

Why should they be?

New level 70's got a lot of content to consume in the old campaigns before they really need to worry about Underdark.

However:
My impression of Underdark is it will be a massive farming experience based on farming skirmishes and HE's. Since those are team efforts, new 70's should be ok as long as hey are teamed with someone with more experience/gear.

tassedethe13

There is no new zone with monster, just new HE in sharandar dragon well icewind dale or terror ring as usual.

So if you are a fresh 70, you will be able to do only sharandar / terror ring.

aidek0

Some of the content might be considered 'tiered content'. Meaning, the heroic encounters around the different zones, will increase in difficulty depending on the amount of people that are participating in this. These heroic encounters are not too difficult and I assume, since most of the content is group play (HE, Skirmishes and Demogorgon fight), grouping with other people is what will happen, making the whole experience easy going.

The new skirmishes and HE's are, in my opinion, more content for around the 2k ilvl. The Demogorgon fight might require a little bit more, but since it is a group thing, teaming up with a couple 3k will make it feel a lot easier. The Demogorgon fight is a 10 man, uhm mayor HE/pit fight which teleports you into your own instance. Knowing how the fight should be done is probably more usefull than good gear and not knowing anything.

All in all, in my opinion none of the 2k ilvl, newly lvl 70's should be too worried about not being able to participate in module 8.
On a side note. Ahum, I want CN back.

rozynfirethorn

Cool, that makes sense. "Why should they be?" - I wasn't demanding I be able to play there, just curious what kind of content it was and how long it'd be before I could participate. That's much more cleared up, thanks for the replies.

rayrdan

underdark is a lv 70 campaign which you cant access without being lv 70.
said so, the new content is soloable by a total green character easily.

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urabask

defiantone99 said:

You can get 2 pieces of the new Underdark Dusk gear(which looks and seems awesome) from the trade bar store. So, if you have a lot of them, you have no worries.

Dusk gear costs about the same as two coal wards. Going to be farming HEs for ichor/Fstuff anyways so you can just get Drowcraft/alliance gear.