So i played neverwinter for a long time a long time ago and i came back after 5 years gone a few months ago. Running RTQ's and EDQ's and all other Ques unless they are the Higher ones is pointless at the moment, except to get refinement materials. All the gear that is dropped in anything below undermountains RTQ's etc. Is so low IL and most of it is level 70 at least to equip and no where near as good as the stuff you get when you talk to nevermember in the moonstone mask when you get the undermountain quest line as far as IL is concerned. If we are spending money to buy Zen to buy dragon keys, Then when we use those keys to open chests at the end of ques we should get a equitable reward scaled to our charachter level and our class and there should be a low rng chance of getting legendary or mythic gear doing this. Otherwise what is the point of level 80 charachters that have IL of 30k or higher running constant ques to farm nothing but refinement items that can be bought with tamalune trade bars and Astral diamonds at the AH? This should have been done a long time ago.
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They've stayed true to the roadmap in part, but that particular milestone hasn't been completed, so far as I can tell. I'm sure the easy explanation is 'COVID slowed us down'.
We'll see if/when that update is finally made whether it's worth getting back into dungeons again. I personally don't do dungeons anymore because the level of effort / time investment required is not equitably rewarded by the contents of the chests.
As for the OP, you can craft all of the keys for those chests. At any rate, the reward for running those queues is the RAD but they all have the same small chance to drop food stuff that endgame chesta have. I have gotten 2 account wide legendary mount drops. One was in Vault of Stars, the other in Malabog's Castle.
I do think the OP has a point - rewards used to match difficulty, but the point of scaling is to make all dungeons have roughly the same difficulty regardless of TIL. They have failed somewhat in that goal (see a bunch of level 30 players try to run cloak tower) but for a L80, most dungeons are all the same difficulty - so they should all have the same rewards.
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This could easily be expanded by adding specific drops to players queuing with the hardcore and/or reduced item level modes enabled.
The thing that is on my mind at the moment is the return of Master of the Hunt. It's been reworked and is being released today. If this skrimish takes 10-15 mins+ and the chest at the end has not been reworked then there will again be upset players. This was a fun quick run in the past, rewards were not great but imo they reflected the 5 mins it took to run the skrimish. Now that we need to buy the key for 2500 AD, if the chest at the end only offers 1200 rAD + an overload I know I'll not be a happy camper. Also, would be nice to see the key added to Sharandar campaign store for orders, not AD from the bazaar.
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I agree they should add the key to the Sharandar campaign. I haven't been able to find anything worth spending Potions of Undead on so that would be cool to make the Bramble key available with those....or maybe even the Malabog's Castle key and then part three currency for the Bramble key.
The whole idea of spending AD for these two keys just seems totally out of place.
You can also purchase keys through the Acquisitions Inc campaign store line for the wolf key, webbed key and one other key.
Dragon keys can be made va tyranny, Valindras via dread rings, and Castle Never via underdark and Fangbraker via storm king
Also, bear in mind that we will be swapping refined AD for unrefined AD. If the reward is still in the 1.5 - 5k AD range then it's barely worth running.
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Xael De Armadeon: DC
Xane De Armadeon: CW
Zen De Armadeon: OP
Zohar De Armadeon: TR
Chrion De Armadeon: SW
Gosti Big Belly: GWF
Barney McRustbucket: GF
Lt. Thackeray: HR
Lucius De Armadeon: BD
Member of Casual Dailies - XBox