Anyone else notice that the mount bonus effects are pretty much the killer ones in PvP ???
Maybe they target pvp community because they spend most $?
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ironzerg79Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,942Arc User
It'd be nice to see them embrace the "active bonus" scheme with mounts. Give all mounts an activate bonus, and make it scale from green to gold.
The big problem I see now is it's basically creating a hyper-elite item slot than only the very richest of the rich have access to, and I'm not a fan of that.
If the slug had options for green/blue/purple/gold at 10%/20%/30%/35%, for example, I think it would be better tuned. That assumes, too, that all the other mounts in the game are given bonuses.
The only good thing I see coming out of this is an inventory for mounts. They always stated that they don't do it, because there's no need to have more than one mount. Well, not any longer.
Also all mounts should be converted to BtA, it's hard enough to maintain an ALT already. The best thing would be some sort of separate account stable where you manage mounts similar to your account bank. With the cost of these legendary mounts in mind, I'd even go as far as making any mount an account unlock once it binds, so any character can claim the mount from the stable like in the ZEN store.
With the cost of these legendary mounts in mind, I'd even go as far as making any mount an account unlock once it binds, so any character can claim the mount from the stable like in the ZEN store.
With the cost of these mounts in mind, Cryptic - in order to meet the quotas required by their overlords at PWE - will never do this. The PvP players will pay big money for this, and they'll pay big money over and over, even if a lot of that big money will end up going to 3rd party cheater sites since at 500 AD per zen, its a lot cheaper to cheat and contribute to degradation of the game than it is to pay up legit. I wonder if forcing the limit down so that the AD price of Zen equals out to the price goldsellers are offering would provide an incentive for people to by Zen instead? I mean, why cheat when doing something legit costs the same (if not less)? hm....... There would be implications, of course, but I wonder which would be the worse evil, economically speaking?
I have a good idea why they're failing to understand, but I won't go there. You're right about the raising the zen cap, it would be a disaster and lowering the cap would certainly put a hurt on Zen sales since few people would buy it strictly for the sake of converting it to AD. Perhaps a permanent reduction in Zen price? It would hit them across the board so PWE wouldn't go for it (even if it would likely stimulate more Zen purchases in all games). There's a point where the increased sales from lower prices isn't profitable... I have a hunch PWE isn't anywhere near that point though, but risk aversion will prevent them from changing.
I m not surpised about this mount for these following reasons.
-It will match well with the two missing elemental lockboxes, here the water one.
-The bonus is OP to sell Lockboxes.
-The mount is ugly and don't bring any epic or legendary enjoyement. ( i was wondering what they could design worst than the last chocobo chicken, well a snail ! ok ^^)
I will recommend you to wait for the air lockboxes, may be we ll have a very beautifull mount this time, but this is just a dream ^^ (flying carpet, griiffins, fake magical wings like the air prophet etc etc)
...weeeellllll,...
...by your reasoning the fire-element plucked ostrich was a wrong design. It should've been a 2 inch diameter, 6 inch length fireworks-style rocket...
...also, would've suited the P2W theme better.
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balthezar2Member, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 151Arc User
Come on people..not real..in the "Use:" you forgot to change the strider to snail, so if you are going to post doctored screenshots, don't forget anything.
Come on people..not real..in the "Use:" you forgot to change the strider to snail, so if you are going to post doctored screenshots, don't forget anything.
That happens on tooltips quite often that are still not ready for release or only visible on the preview servers , for a while the Drake mounts had the emperor beetle tooltips at the top before they got released. You might be correct about them not being real however ,if this picture was taken from the alpha test I would have thought it would have been deleted quick time and not left on the forum for days.
Wow they still have no mod powers? , who the fk is setting the forum up? my dad ? lmfao
The big takeaway is that this forum works very well without the harsh moderation. It's even better because they don't have to deal with threads that complain about deletion....
So, after daily use, in the course of five seconds he is "refunded" 41.6% AP (35 + 6.64) with a Legendary rank neck artifact equipment -- which means after 43 seconds, he is back to 100% AP. If we count in active combat and AP gains from it that could easily shave off around 25 seconds from the total time required...
WHICH MEANS WITH THAT THING, EVERYONE COULD BE SPAMMING DAILIES IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS, EASILY FASTER THAN EVEN SOME ENCOUNTER POWER RECHARGE
...
That does it devs. This is madness. Schedule yourselves for AP gain rate nerf for PvP next module.
EVEN FOR PVE THIS IS COMPLETELY BROKEN.
Stop making excuses. Be a man. If you know something to be broken, stop using it. Otherwise, you've got no right to be speaking of 'balance.'
It's obvious there is a nerf coming to AP gain. This mount will just give us back what we are about to lose. This is Cryptic's way. They sell you more power/abilities to make you uber, then nerf them. They then sell it all back to you again to make you uber, then nerf them.
Rinse and repeat
What's with people who put their Ilvl in their Signatures? They probably have a big gold chain and saggy pants too.
...except the way they are slapping on inexcusably game-breaking options on stuff, the odds are if you refuse to use it you'll be treated as self-gimping in both PvP and PvE, lose competency, and will soon be forced to do the same or cope with a game that's just not fun anymore because you keep losing.
The moment they added the "4% freebie AP every 3 seconds" and 2-min SigDiv useable from the start of matches, they opened the door to this. Probably meaningless now but I frickin; warned you people, all of you. But how many did actually listen? Oho.
Stop making excuses. Be a man. If you know something to be broken, stop using it. Otherwise, you've got no right to be speaking of 'balance.'
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Maybe they target pvp community because they spend most $?
The big problem I see now is it's basically creating a hyper-elite item slot than only the very richest of the rich have access to, and I'm not a fan of that.
If the slug had options for green/blue/purple/gold at 10%/20%/30%/35%, for example, I think it would be better tuned. That assumes, too, that all the other mounts in the game are given bonuses.
Also all mounts should be converted to BtA, it's hard enough to maintain an ALT already. The best thing would be some sort of separate account stable where you manage mounts similar to your account bank. With the cost of these legendary mounts in mind, I'd even go as far as making any mount an account unlock once it binds, so any character can claim the mount from the stable like in the ZEN store.
With the cost of these mounts in mind, Cryptic - in order to meet the quotas required by their overlords at PWE - will never do this. The PvP players will pay big money for this, and they'll pay big money over and over, even if a lot of that big money will end up going to 3rd party cheater sites since at 500 AD per zen, its a lot cheaper to cheat and contribute to degradation of the game than it is to pay up legit. I wonder if forcing the limit down so that the AD price of Zen equals out to the price goldsellers are offering would provide an incentive for people to by Zen instead? I mean, why cheat when doing something legit costs the same (if not less)? hm....... There would be implications, of course, but I wonder which would be the worse evil, economically speaking?
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Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
...weeeellllll,...
...by your reasoning the fire-element plucked ostrich was a wrong design. It should've been a 2 inch diameter, 6 inch length fireworks-style rocket...
...also, would've suited the P2W theme better.
That happens on tooltips quite often that are still not ready for release or only visible on the preview servers , for a while the Drake mounts had the emperor beetle tooltips at the top before they got released. You might be correct about them not being real however ,if this picture was taken from the alpha test I would have thought it would have been deleted quick time and not left on the forum for days.
I am really attached to my Blueberry
The big takeaway is that this forum works very well without the harsh moderation. It's even better because they don't have to deal with threads that complain about deletion....
Anyway, for those interested here's my blogopinion about the new mount: http://blog.nwo-uncensored.com/coastal-fail-snail-another-sign-of-a-bigger-change/
Enjoy!
If it does come from water, wonder how overpowered the air one would be
I see I see. Since that thing is in alpha. I'm not going to worry myself too much about it.
WHICH MEANS WITH THAT THING, EVERYONE COULD BE SPAMMING DAILIES IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS, EASILY FASTER THAN EVEN SOME ENCOUNTER POWER RECHARGE
...
That does it devs. This is madness. Schedule yourselves for AP gain rate nerf for PvP next module.
EVEN FOR PVE THIS IS COMPLETELY BROKEN.
If you know something to be broken, stop using it.
Otherwise, you've got no right to be speaking of 'balance.'
Rinse and repeat
I would buy an upgrade kit for my current mount
I really don't want a new one
...except the way they are slapping on inexcusably game-breaking options on stuff, the odds are if you refuse to use it you'll be treated as self-gimping in both PvP and PvE, lose competency, and will soon be forced to do the same or cope with a game that's just not fun anymore because you keep losing.
The moment they added the "4% freebie AP every 3 seconds" and 2-min SigDiv useable from the start of matches, they opened the door to this. Probably meaningless now but I frickin; warned you people, all of you. But how many did actually listen? Oho.
If you know something to be broken, stop using it.
Otherwise, you've got no right to be speaking of 'balance.'
Maybe...
Flensers Flyer of Fast Forwardment - Upon pressing the "I win" button your currently targeted enemy gets instantly decapitated.
/sarcasm
I suppose they'll be hurled across half the map.