test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Masquerade vendors go to a 2 minute cool off.Impossible to mass buy tokens.
hypervoreian
Member Posts: 1,036 Arc User
Pretty much this.I grind last night.Have 78 green ones tokens and need to exchange them with blue ones.I went to PE and there i found:
The vendors are in constant move.
Even if you catch them,if another player is faster than you ,then the vendors will not exchange tokens with you for 2 minutes.
Even if you catch them alone after one exchange ,they will not accept you again.Only after 2 minutes.
Every time you can exchange one(1) token.
So if i want to exchange 200 tokens .....x2 minutes=400 minutes just for exchange.
I am the anyone that has this problem.Am I doing something wrong?
Is there another way?
The vendors are in constant move.
Even if you catch them,if another player is faster than you ,then the vendors will not exchange tokens with you for 2 minutes.
Even if you catch them alone after one exchange ,they will not accept you again.Only after 2 minutes.
Every time you can exchange one(1) token.
So if i want to exchange 200 tokens .....x2 minutes=400 minutes just for exchange.
I am the anyone that has this problem.Am I doing something wrong?
Is there another way?
Post edited by hypervoreian on
0
Comments
What a ridiculous idea.
Aelar Hawkwind - Archer
Karrin Feywinter - Mistress of Flame
Errin Duskwalker - Executioner
Darquess - Soulbinder
I'm just grinding for some cat masks and heading off.
Since it's not the first time, I presume they will continue to find a way to monetise events.
My favorite event was Respens. My second favorite was Challenge of the Gods because it didn't force you to stop the mandated grind - you were killing stuff anyway.
Two things :
1) Another player interaction won't affect you.
2) Each vendor is affected individually, you can rotate between them to counteract the delay.
So your 400 minutes can easily become 30 or so ... Your analyse was so wrong I had to make a remark.
Still I think the objectives of this event are totally unattainable. And it's sad as it could be a great event if only you didn't absolutely need to go through the Zen store ...
Enorla, Oh so devoted cleric.
^^^
I did rotate between them.One is at the stairs just as you enter PE.Another is in the stairs across the fountain.Another is up side the stairs of the bank.Add 2 if you want in another places.
I rotate between them and each time i find one (1) that can interract.
I jump all over the place run around...nagh...i find ventors but everytime the trade icon is missed from their heads and my cursor does not show any possible interaction...
The highest intteraction is at 1,5-2 minutes.
On average.Even if you had 600 green ones and you want to buy the sceleton companion you would have to spend 900-1200 minutes running around vendors. trololol.
Is it so diffucult to trade tokens en masse? Like every other vendor? I find that ....unbelievable.
Did we did something wrong?Does Cryptic punishes us???
One of my guild mates said that he was able to grab his first 200 tokens in only around 4 hours of running a circuit around PE. Only 4 hours??!! No thank you.
It offered a nice change of pace for about 10 minutes, until I realized how much farming of the event I would have to do in order to get one of the not even worth it pets.
The challenge of the gods event was by far my favorite so far. Hopefully we can see more like that in the future.
First, yes, I do wish they'd do something more exciting for Halloween. A themed mini-dungeon, or some quests that took you out to famous hauntings outside of Neverwinter would've been awesome. Maybe actually have a "Mask is coming back" quest line...gathering tokens in PE is boring.
BUT...I just did a circuit in PE, and got 13 tokens in a little over 2 minutes. Even at that rate, it's about 4 hours for the Scarecrow, which is still a bit crazy given how boring things must be....but it's a far cry from 200 tokens in 4 hours, or people complaining about this event taking a bajillion hours to earn the tokens.
It's fairly easy to run a wide circuit where you can both gather charms and trade them to an illusionist nearby.
But looks like we where talking to a wall
200 tokens in 4 hours and last event we had ppl with more than 1000 tokens thats a whole day chasing npc's
thats why we ask for 5 or 10 tokens change for the next event
Q:what would jesus do? A:jesus would overturned the tables and chase them with a whip
This.
As long as you're doing a circuit of illusionists that includes AT LEAST six of them, you can run in an infinite circle grabbing jack-o-lanterns and trading in tokes with little/no cooldown. This event is not hard, people.
So the Halloween-Event basically consists of running circles for hours. Very imaginative.
I would say, a great way to change this event would be to have the chests in every dungeon give liars tokens like 5 to 10, and have the npcs be able to accept more than one each, but not ALL of them. Then, you could continue your normal fun in the game while also building towards the event. You could also have fun within PE, because it's enjoyable to run around a little bit in a changed atmosphere.
Anyway, it's something that for a short period of time really did add some excitement to the game, seeing people in pumpkin heads, talking to a couple of new npcs, looking at the decorations--but then when you realize what you have to do in order to gain anything really (but not really) worth it, it just becomes a let down.
Why do you insist on doing those crazy exaggerations ? It takes away all credibility from your posts. I haven't really looked around in PE and I already found more than a dozen of those illusionists.
So again, your calculations are more than way off ...
Enorla, Oh so devoted cleric.
So you just have to do that another seven hours for that companion. In the next few days. Have fun.
And what's Halloween? But running around in circles knocking on people's doors. While it's not the most exciting way to spend ones time it can be productive and has an undeniable "trick or treat" feel to it. After all, you are literally wandering around town begging strangers for treats.
Are you seriously trying to compare "running around and pressing F hundreds of times in an computer game" with actual real world halloween? O_o
And i do not know why some people actually defend that event at all. Look what Cryptic managed to pull of and look what their competition did. Guild Wars 2 for example. Cryptics attempt looks just incredible dumb to me. F2P does not mean it has to be automatically low quality.
Neverwinters Halloween event cannot even be compared to Guild wars 2 , I'd post a link showing what that game gets but it would just be deleted but to put it simply Guild wars 2 event makes this nonsense we get for Halloween look pathetic.
The Gwynefyrdd minature is supposed to be a ultra rare trick or treat bag drop and even going back to Guild wars one every year people complained about the event hats because the developers always refused to reuse old skins , something that Neverwinters developers have yet to learn.
Well, of course it got also problems and people tend to want more than they get, me included.
But just compare it clinical: The GW2 event had A LOT of effort shoveled into it and you can actually feel this. It might not be perfect, but it is far beyond Neverwinter's event.
Unfortunately you only get peanuts here which you have to trade for a chocolate bar, while in real life you 10-12 chocolate bars.
Five hours. But who's counting?
didn't you ever do halloween as a kid?
did you just sit there at 1 house, ringing the doorbell over and over?
no, you ran around the neighborhood.
so, that's what you do here.
I don't intend to do this event again since there are no rewards I want, but last year I just did a little loop. find an instance with less players and run a loop, picking up pumpkins when you run out of tokens.
easy peasy.
also: 100% optional
There is one reward I want, I don't want to run around to every house in the neighbourhood, getting 1 peanut from each and then have to trade my bag of 200 peanuts at the end of the night for that one kit kat since I started trick or treating at 12:00 AM.
Blackdagger Bandit: You lose!