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Over 100 CTA's and not one shaman drop.
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And it's just not me either. It's happened to at least 3 other people in the guild. What exactly is the drop rate on a green companion in the CTA? I'm just curious. Seems like it was pretty bad in the last CTA with the sprite too.
This is around 50% griping about poor drop rates and 50% wondering just WHAT the drop rate on a green companion should be for something like this.
This is around 50% griping about poor drop rates and 50% wondering just WHAT the drop rate on a green companion should be for something like this.
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Adding my voice to throng begging to put these in the shop so after my 50 or so failed attempts I can at least buy one with the medallions.
Yeah, i second that. At least put it in there for like 3000 points or something.that way when we do them a hundred of times we dont feel like we are wasting our dang time. We can accually see a count down somewhere. I feel like i am being left out on the fun stuff because I work and have responsibilities. What is a game when you have to pray to get something ? Jesus..... So disapointing in this CTA.
Besides I ended up having to buy the Druid last time.
Ice Wind heroic battles are more fun, I think.
There was a time when I wanted to get everything there was to get from every event. And it was doable. Few events like this CtA though and I'll break out of compulsion to invoke daily. And maybe that will help me put an end to my Neverwinter addiction.
And for Christ sake developers , can you make the stupid dyes stack more than 20 .
I have 50-something dyes, so I assume that translates to 50-something runs, and no shaman. Some runs were easy and some were gruesome; inflicting horrible wounds on my poor avatar. I started last week and I didn't have a lot to complain about gameplay-wise. But this was the proverbial BS. I'd like to reinforce what is said above; make it available to buy with those medals so that even the most RNG-cursed player can eventually get (just by playing the game) it.
Please do not use the RNG model to solely determine time-limited events. It is never popular as it enforces a horrible grinding/farming element to the gameplay. Familiarity breeds contempt; I have never felt more contempt for a dragon boss before.
+1
There's only 1 set of dyes that do that and there really is no reason for it.
Drop rate is probably 1% or less - some people are gonna get lucky, most will not.
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The companion is bad anyway, they ninja'd the active bonus right before release.
- Unusually small waves
-To low drop rate
- No way to challenge yourself, that is to say, it is to scripted. For example in Orc Assault, you could play it safe but usually we plowed into all the adds at the start to get them out of the way in one big pull. This gives you the feeling you have a choice in how the mission goes. It is possible to have a script, but leave some room with how it goes. For example, in Temple Defense you could go safe or hard. This one is on rails. Battle for the Bridge was on rails just as hard, but at least there I feared for some peoples safety, and of course the drops were still good.
I get they can't all be great, but of Storming the Keep, Orc Assault, Temple Defense, and Battle for the Bridge, this one is at the bottom.
Good news though. Every finite set has to have a minimum. You have not broken maths.
Admittedly this one tends to bring in a lot of lower level characters and lower geared characters so often I've ended up soloing the thing for them. Which isn't a problem for me because it was a lot of fun. Heck I may go on later tonight and run a few more just for kicks.
I had a lot of fun. I did win a Companion but honestly never needed another healer companion. So I sold it on the AH for about 140k AD used that to buy a cheap green Merchant Artifact for an instant store when I'm out in the field. They are in demand though I can tell, Someone bought it almost the instant I posted it. I also got the Belt of Xvim item, again I have better gear than that and will likely not use it or will put it on a companion.
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It's pretty sad too. How in the world would putting a bound companion on the vendor hurt them as they seem adamant in continuing this RNG 0.5% droprate nonsense that only causes people to leave instead of grind a little.
Also, maybe in the context of Neverwinter 100 runs of a 10 minute dungeon is a grind, but compared to many MMO's out there - this is nothing. I really don't see why some people throw so much fuss about it.
Nobody is complaining about regular drops from regular dungeons here that you might have to spend weeks farming to get, the cta is a time limited event run over a weekend so obviously some people are go complain about lousy drop rates , some people do have to work 8 - 12 hours a day for 3 or even all 4 of the days the event is running you know .
It is especially frustrating when they have shown us they are able to add bound versions of companions to the event shop like they did with the respens event , there is no reason why they are unwilling to do that with the cta ,leaving the cta as they are now will just sow bad feeling towards the developers.
As a software dev, I can't help but wonder if the problem is the same as it is for me: too many people counting beans and not enough growing them.
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If Cryptic was trying to make a fun event to spread good will in the Neverwinter community, I would say this one missed the mark. I feel cheated and I know I'm not alone. As they say, time is money. I give both to this game and expect better.
I work a nearly-full time job and have other responsibilities and stuff that keep me busy a great deal of the time, so you'd probably label me as a casual player in NW. I also happen to have the kind of job that, when everyone else has free time or vacation time, or some kind of holiday, the workload for my job increases and I work even more hours than normal. What this has meant is that, when events are scheduled, they're usually planned over a time period when one would assume people would have more free time to play, yes? Like weekends? Well, unfortunately, I've missed the last 5 events because I was working and would get home too tired to do much. I barely touch my other games in such a situation, so it's not even just NW's grind (which, in focusing solely on NW, can be an annoyance. Literally, the only times I participate in events are when I have some days off that I'm not required to do other major life things. This doesn't bother me so much, because hey, that's the price I pay for the job I accepted and the game is definitely not centered around me and I'm cool with that. What ends up being not so cool is that, by the time I have some time off to play the event, the event is already over. It's a big bummer! I always find myself thinking, "If only they'd extend it another couple days, I could have a chance to just try it out!" This is what I'm saying - the events are so short that I, and likely many other people in similar situations, can't even have a chance to try the event (we're not talking about winning anything, we're talking about just the simple experience of trying and enjoying the event) because we're bogged down with working and our lives 'n stuff.
Building onto that argument, it's true that the few times I've managed to catch a CTA event, the RNG has always been an enemy of mine, so it's pretty frustrating to spend a lot of time not being able to really win much. And please, let's be honest - when people play a game, they like the feeling of being able to accomplish something, of feeling like they're earning some kind of reward, especially in an environment like an MMO where, no matter what anyone says, there is always that feeling of competing against other players in terms of material wealth. Someone above mentioned some kind of idea where the companion - the sought-after reward in CTA events - can be bought with event currency that is bound to your account/character, instead of BoE like the drop companions, and that seems like a fairly decent balance at helping out players who can't dedicate the time for The Grind to win things who still want to feel like they're not simply wasting their time.
In the end, this is one person's plea for something to change with the current CTA event system. It's frustrating and I really want to like them.
What the heck!? Wild Hunt Riders and Cold Iron Warriors, not to mention, Pigs are cheaper.
WUT!?
Devs must just believe WAI (working as intended).
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very well spoken and constructive. we appreciate it greatly.
The game's special events cater to the rich or people who have all the free time in the world. Totally unfair.