Motes of Water

caliosto · October 2016

I apologize ahead of time if this has already been answered (for some reason I can't do a search). I recently hit 70 and got the task to fill the heart of water with motes. Have done 5 heroics in DS but only got 2 motes. Does it have to be the Crabs heroic or can it be any of them that pop up in the zone?

animereaper40 · October 2016

any +10 encounter is 100 % so that would be the crabs , the other encounters have a very low drop chance so you'll need to buy a water wand in the trade bar store or in the ah which i believe is 30k, but you'll need 2 wands. to get 100

armadeonx · October 2016

You'll actually need 3 or 4 wands if you want to bust it out quickly. I've done it 3 times on different characters and if you are running solo but have decent dps you should be able to gain an average of 7 to 9 per use when you factor in the waiting and running times, bugs on some HE's and some people completing them just as you get there.

mebengalsfan · October 2016

animereaper40#6124 said:
any +10 encounter is 100 % so that would be the crabs , the other encounters have a very low drop chance so you'll need to buy a water wand in the trade bar store or in the ah which i believe is 30k, but you'll need 2 wands. to get 100

LMAO....2 wands in water will not work and the reason is there are two heroic that are broken.

1) Save the merchant - merchants are not always there or the enemies
2) Save the elves - elves are not always there

These two heroics required me to use 3 wands and spend another 2 hours in drowned shores on my GF. What a waste of time that was. If the heroic did not have issues I would have only used 2 wands. I even did 3 crab encounters when my wands were on cool down.

Overall it is not all that bad but I hated wasting 30K AD to get a third wand.

I have a third character I'm working on ATM but not sure if I want the burning or the drowned set. I am leaning towards drowned as it would help me out as a CW to stay alive long when hit. But at the same time the burning set provides 25% of your AP after using a daily. Not sure which set I will go with on my CW.

caliosto · October 2016

Thankfully I already knew the merchant epic was broken. Tried doing it once as part of the optional quest to finish X amount of heroics for the Zhentarim agent. Been just stick with Ambush, and Ranger Rescue if I can't get an invite to crabs. Have gotten up to 11/100 and only used 1 charge.

animereaper40 · October 2016

funny i only used 2 and got 100 but ok

continue

dupeks · October 2016

animereaper40#6124 said:
funny i only used 2 and got 100 but ok continue

Same. If you run into a bugged encounter, you switch zones.

But yeah I suppose it has a lot to do with your DPS and move speed as well (or more importantly, mount speed). I was doing this on a TR that was already relatively decked for the end-game so it may have been much faster than a fresh 70 could manage.

drackonaut · October 2016

Was easier for me to just farm for the Twisted weapons

dupeks · October 2016

drackonaut said:
Was easier for me to just farm for the Twisted weapons

And they can be purchased for alts.

But you might not want twisted, and I respect that. The experience of grinding out water motes is a whole lot better than the others (fire jeebus, and the other two are kind of ghost towns which also slows you down).

mebengalsfan · October 2016

dupeks said:

animereaper40#6124 said:
funny i only used 2 and got 100 but ok continue
Same. If you run into a bugged encounter, you switch zones.

But yeah I suppose it has a lot to do with your DPS and move speed as well (or more importantly, mount speed). I was doing this on a TR that was already relatively decked for the end-game so it may have been much faster than a fresh 70 could manage.

I only needed the weapon as I already had the gear, enchantments and artifacts. I was also on my GF. So my DPS is much lower than a TR. Mount speed is 110% respectfully as I own 3 epic mounts for all my characters.

I found switching instances did not always work in my favor and resulted in me wasting time.

Like I said, if those two encounters worked I would have only used 2 wands instead of 3. I only needed 1 charge from that 3rd wand.

mebengalsfan · October 2016

dupeks said:

animereaper40#6124 said:
funny i only used 2 and got 100 but ok continue
Same. If you run into a bugged encounter, you switch zones.

But yeah I suppose it has a lot to do with your DPS and move speed as well (or more importantly, mount speed). I was doing this on a TR that was already relatively decked for the end-game so it may have been much faster than a fresh 70 could manage.

I only needed the weapon as I already had the gear, enchantments and artifacts. I was also on my GF. So my DPS is much lower than a TR. Mount speed is 110% respectfully as I own 3 epic mounts for all my characters.

I found switching instances did not always work in my favor and resulted in me wasting time.

Like I said, if those two encounters worked I would have only used 2 wands instead of 3. I only needed 1 charge from that 3rd wand.

brad · October 2016

mebengalsfan#9264 said:

animereaper40#6124 said:
any +10 encounter is 100 % so that would be the crabs , the other encounters have a very low drop chance so you'll need to buy a water wand in the trade bar store or in the ah which i believe is 30k, but you'll need 2 wands. to get 100
LMAO....2 wands in water will not work and the reason is there are two heroic that are broken.

1) Save the merchant - merchants are not always there or the enemies
2) Save the elves - elves are not always there

These two heroics required me to use 3 wands and spend another 2 hours in drowned shores on my GF. What a waste of time that was. If the heroic did not have issues I would have only used 2 wands. I even did 3 crab encounters when my wands were on cool down.

Overall it is not all that bad but I hated wasting 30K AD to get a third wand.

I have a third character I'm working on ATM but not sure if I want the burning or the drowned set. I am leaning towards drowned as it would help me out as a CW to stay alive long when hit. But at the same time the burning set provides 25% of your AP after using a daily. Not sure which set I will go with on my CW.

You Buy Wands For 30k How Lol Tho It Was Trade Bars?

animereaper40 · October 2016

go to ah ,go to all misc type in the wand you need ex.water seeker's wand they will pop up for 30k or more/less depending on wand.or they can be bought in tradebar

armadeonx · October 2016

People buy from the Auction House if they don't have trade bars.

zheng · October 2016

Complete waste of time to farm for motes in the first place. Elemental artifact weapon pack gives you a set of your choice that comes out epic, saving you a lot of upgrade and time cost. Mod 10 has twisted weapon pack if you have a few mil saved up. And for the new players you already have the basic artifact weapon set from completing the camping. But hey, if you wanna waste 6 hours farming motes to save 200k, knock yourselves out

mebengalsfan · October 2016

zheng#6107 said:
Complete waste of time to farm for motes in the first place. Elemental artifact weapon pack gives you a set of your choice that comes out epic, saving you a lot of upgrade and time cost. Mod 10 has twisted weapon pack if you have a few mil saved up. And for the new players you already have the basic artifact weapon set from completing the camping. But hey, if you wanna waste 6 hours farming motes to save 200k, knock yourselves out

Not everyone has 500K AD saved up. Not everyone has spent hundreds of real world money on keys to open up the LB in hopes of getting the weapon. Not everyone has luck. Some of us have to actually grind for the gear we want and will gladly do it than simply spending real world money we may not have on a game. I am on the game to play and I will do that by spending 6 hours or whatever it takes to get the items I want.

As for simply buying your way to end game, I have seen plenty of bad 3K players. I mean at 2600 I destroyed a GWF who was 3.3K. I left that instance knowing I was in healing mode and not playing to my full DPS potential as a DC.

That player admitted he bought his way to IL 3K+. He was powered level, paid his way to gear, paid his way to get items refined, paid his way for enchantments, etc...end results was he had a high IL, no boons and was a garbage player. He was smart enough to ask the 1.9K GWF who beat me by 5 million for help.

I stated this in another MMO game, skill is required. I don't care if you have the highest IL and all the boons. If you don't know how to play your class you will not perform at the highest possible level and that only hurts you and your group. And this game, I can state 100% that you can buy your way to the top but it does not mean anything.

Give me the players who farmed for the item. While they are farming they have time to fine tune their character and improve as a player.

dupeks · October 2016

It's worth noting that with an upcoming expansion the 4 varieties of elemental arti weps will be craftable using professions. You'll still be able to grind it out but it might be a lot more palatable to just craft it if you have lvl 25 professions (not too hard to get).

http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1223234/sea-of-moving-ice-preview-rolling-patch-notes-updated-2016-10-07

caliosto · October 2016

I strongly dislike people who buy their way to level cap/endgame content. Have since my EQ days. I couldn't count the times I'd run in to people who didn't know how to handle their characters because they didn't take the time to learn them.

Side note, I knocked out the water motes over the weekend right quick. Had a bunch of people in like 5 different groups. Someone would call out an instance that crabs was up, everyone would jump to it, finish the epic, rinse and repeat. Never used a wand.

armadeonx · October 2016

zheng#6107 said:
But hey, if you wanna waste 6 hours farming motes to save 200k, knock yourselves out

6 hours to save 200k? That's totally worth it. Bear in mind that's a REFINED 200k so one character using up 6 days of earnings or spending 1 or 2 days farming is not a hard choice to make - especially if you still run your AD dailies.

If you have the TB's from vip then there's zero cost to you. New L70's should farm for these weapons as one of their first priorities, they'll be effective right up until they get their IL high enough to farm edemo for Twisted.

Speaking as a person who has 3 characters over 3k (and another 3 of around 2.5-2.7k) I have never spent any real money on character development so I'm very aware of the time / earnings / cost ratios.

frenzal · October 2016

I need to look into the wands you guys talk about. I tried farming motes in drowned shore last night and got 5/100 and I was there for a decent while. I can solo everything, rather quickly, with the exception of the Crab. I got 2 motes from the merchant caravan, 2 motes from the tavern, and 1 from the encounter in the cave with all the lizards.

ulthgrim · October 2016

My best friend and I are just running around farming motes, no wands and having a blast, he is new to MMO's while I am a seasoned vet. We have running commentaires during the fights and its a hoot. Don't have very many motes but we are having a good time doing it and don't really care

Better to play than pay.

mebengalsfan · October 2016

ulthgrim said:
My best friend and I are just running around farming motes, no wands and having a blast, he is new to MMO's while I am a seasoned vet. We have running commentaires during the fights and its a hoot. Don't have very many motes but we are having a good time doing it and don't really care Better to play than pay.

You have the right mindset when it comes to farming, playing for fun.

ulthgrim · October 2016

mebengalsfan#9264 said:

ulthgrim said:
My best friend and I are just running around farming motes, no wands and having a blast, he is new to MMO's while I am a seasoned vet. We have running commentaires during the fights and its a hoot. Don't have very many motes but we are having a good time doing it and don't really care Better to play than pay.
You have the right mindset when it comes to farming, playing for fun.

Here comes Khel with a chill strike wind up, oooooohhhhh its a line drive to the face, thats gonna leave a mark. Hope his health insurance is up to date

Motes of Water

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