Are Protectors Jubilee Gifts actually ending up in peoples inventory and if so what is in them? I've shared around 30 hospitality so far and received none of these even though I've seen plenty of characters stood nearby sharing theirs.
You do not receive anything from the gift you share with others. Also you must be in a party with the others. You only get items from gifts they give to the party
Full group is always better since you're all passing gifts to more people leaving more chances for more hospitality
I'm not so sure that that is true for Protector's Hospitality Gifts. I was in a small Party of only three players last night with the hope that Hospitality given would result in all members of the party, except for the person doing the giving, receiving a gift. This was not the case. Only the person the Hospitality was aimed at received a gift not all of the party members as was the case with Winter Festival Gifts. Kind of disappointing really. On a more positive note, Hospitality Gifts do seem to contain a reasonable number of Figurines. I handed out around 40 Gifts and received slightly less back but the ones I received included four Figurines
I also wonder at the legality of having the figurines expire that you buy from the zen market after 32 days (as at posting). This is not indicated ANYWHERE on the purchase (I just checked) - you only find out that information if you actually have a figurine in your inventory and hover over it.
Might is not always right - the powerful sometimes forget that.
Only the person the Hospitality was aimed at received a gift not all of the party members as was the case with Winter Festival Gifts. Kind of disappointing really.
You're right qexotic. I was remembering incorrectly and yeah, it's disappointing that it doesn't work like the winter fest. Also, can we get rid of these ridiculous cooldowns for once? 10 seconds in between handing a gift out makes gift giving take way too long.
Piecing together my own experience and forum comments, I strongly suspect the determination of when you get a figurine from a Protector's Bounty box is based on whether it's been sufficient time (18 hours?) from when you last opened such a box - *NOT* from when you last got a figurine [Edit: out of a box].
Only the person the Hospitality was aimed at received a gift not all of the party members as was the case with Winter Festival Gifts. Kind of disappointing really.
You're right qexotic. I was remembering incorrectly and yeah, it's disappointing that it doesn't work like the winter fest. Also, can we get rid of these ridiculous cooldowns for once? 10 seconds in between handing a gift out makes gift giving take way too long.
It's my belief (and I would love to know for sure) that these cooldowns are overly cautious built-ins to prevent taxing the system. When a gift is used, an item is created from nowhere. En masse, this could result in higher server loads.
That's why (I believe) the cooldown for gifts is 10 secs and confetti is 1 or 2 secs. Confetti creates nothing but noise and graphics (and happiness, but there's no server load in that).
Again I'm disappointed in finding so many items Bound to Character, particularly items that wind up being duplicates of items I already have... or something you don't really want.
What's our recourse in that event?
You can't mail the item to one of your alternate characters or give it away to a friend, guildmate or stranger, you certainly can't sell it in the Auction House so the only alternatives left is to either discard it or sell it to a merchant for a few coins.
There should be a trade in merchant so that duplicate items awarded can be traded evenly for a different item of the same or near same value at least...
Of course preferably I'd like to see items awarded to be binds on equip, but barring that at least bound to account, that way at least some of the item's worth may be salvageable.
Protector's festival runs for 7 days -
Characters need 15 Protector Figurines to get a Protector's Garden Pass -
Absent finding figurine drops from Protector Bounty boxes (much less likely than it used to be after the "change") or having one drop by sharing a toast with someone - that is if you can get something to toast with to drop from the Bounty boxes to begin with (again in my experience, much less likely than it used to be) -
A player either has to hope they get figurines some other way or buy more than half again as many figurines as they can earn during the event just to get a Garden Pass...
Now if a person has little better to do than to spend hours 'farming' Protector's Bounty and IF they happen to receive Protector's Hospitality drops from those Bounty boxes - then they still have to find someone else with a number of Protector's Hospitality mugs with which to exchange a toast...
And if after all of that they still don't get the number of figurines needed to get a Protector's Garden Pass, then it's back to grinding out Protecting the Merchant in the hopes that more Protector's Bounty will drop Protector's Hospitality to eventually earn a Garden Pass before the event ends and all the effort people put into earning Figurines, Boundy and Renown just disappears 45 days after the event.
Unable to finish the four quests on two of my characters because two of the quests have disappeared from the map and from the journal for those two characters. I've been doing the quests on at least two of my characters each day (I thought it was at least four, but the broken content is messing with my ability to track what broke for which character). I've been collecting Protector's Reward Boxes (that are supposed to drop at least one Figurine from the first box opened) from at least three characters per day.
Customer Support has told me "We leave actual in-game strategies up to the players to figure out themselves, so that they can enjoy the experience of discovery." and directed me to this thread. I'm beginning to think that there's no recourse for these broken content issues, but still hold hope that there will be some sort of retroactive resolution and continue to pursue the content. I Only pray to the Devs (in a non-religious manner) and Dev bosses that I won't need to hold onto the Protector Purple Boxes that're supposed to drop the Figurines in order to enact whatever solution is brought to the table for us abused-by-broke-content players.
For the sake of complete information this is what I've submitted to Customer Service, thinking that Missing Items was an appropriate reason to submit this to customer support.
Customer via CSS Web 06/24/2017 09:16 AM
I am unable to finish my Protector's Jubilee quests for my Hunter Ranger.
They do now show up in the journal, but when I submit a big report I see Jubilee quests on the list.
I try to go to the maps that have Jubilee quests and still nothing shows up.
The quests that HAVE shown up are the Protector's Speech Skirmish and the Escort the Merchants.
I have no Idea how I'm supposed to do the dailies and get my full rewards from this event with broken content.
Also, all my other characters have had problems with collecting the Figurines.
And now my GWF is unable to do more than those same two quests.
[Edit] 10 pm Pacific time - GWF for no apparent reason suddenly sees the missing quests pop up
Magic loss of .... I just have no words.
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plasticbatMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 12,233Arc User
Characters need 15 Protector Figurines to get a Protector's Garden Pass -
This is probably too late now. If you keep the character in the garden and stay until after the event is over, it will get permanent access. At least, it used to work.
*** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
Did this event on 3 toons, every quest every day. I got the dragon throne on them, but doing the quests seems like it was a huge waste of time, I should have just followed the merchant, I didn't have enough figurines to buy anything good.
My older chars have Neverwinter Renown from years past that now indicates it will expire in 30 days.
That's not possible. This currency has always expired.
Yeeesss... because everything WAI!!!
The couple of event currencies that still time out have lampshading as to why, which you can still view as irritating BS, but with in-game justification.
Summer festival flower petals rot. Jubilee currency says right on it "fame is fleeting". I can't think of any others that still have a working decay mechanic.
plasticbatMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 12,233Arc User
edited June 2017
I think I might make a big mistake by cashing out bounty pack of 3 toons last night. The vendor is still available for a few days. If I can still get one figurine by opening "the first" bounty pack everyday from now, I could get enough to get the unicorn.
*** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
I think I might make a big mistake by cashing out bounty pack of 3 toons last night. The vendor is still available for a few days. If I can still get one figurine by opening "the first" bounty pack everyday from now, I could get enough to get the unicorn.
Just tested that - the first is NOT automatically Protector's Figurine, BUT you do have a chance to get one randomly. I didn't NOT get figurine from first grab, but second toon got one figurine from like #6 and from #8 box.
Bags of Figurines are unbound, just buy them off the AH.
Asking price for them on the AH now is 105K AD. I would try to get some zen from the zax (a day or two wait) and a 15% coupon. Cost about 53K AD that way.
My older chars have Neverwinter Renown from years past that now indicates it will expire in 30 days.
That's not possible. This currency has always expired.
Hmm, logging into some old chars on Preview suggests that they didn't have old currency after all. Which means that the currency tab is just randomizing where it places things.
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Might is not always right - the powerful sometimes forget that.
The Small BandThat's why (I believe) the cooldown for gifts is 10 secs and confetti is 1 or 2 secs. Confetti creates nothing but noise and graphics (and happiness, but there's no server load in that).
What's our recourse in that event?
You can't mail the item to one of your alternate characters or give it away to a friend, guildmate or stranger, you certainly can't sell it in the Auction House so the only alternatives left is to either discard it or sell it to a merchant for a few coins.
There should be a trade in merchant so that duplicate items awarded can be traded evenly for a different item of the same or near same value at least...
Of course preferably I'd like to see items awarded to be binds on equip, but barring that at least bound to account, that way at least some of the item's worth may be salvageable.
- Characters need 15 Protector Figurines to get a Protector's Garden Pass -
Absent finding figurine drops from Protector Bounty boxes (much less likely than it used to be after the "change") or having one drop by sharing a toast with someone - that is if you can get something to toast with to drop from the Bounty boxes to begin with (again in my experience, much less likely than it used to be) -- A player either has to hope they get figurines some other way or buy more than half again as many figurines as they can earn during the event just to get a Garden Pass...
Now if a person has little better to do than to spend hours 'farming' Protector's Bounty and IF they happen to receive Protector's Hospitality drops from those Bounty boxes - then they still have to find someone else with a number of Protector's Hospitality mugs with which to exchange a toast...And if after all of that they still don't get the number of figurines needed to get a Protector's Garden Pass, then it's back to grinding out Protecting the Merchant in the hopes that more Protector's Bounty will drop Protector's Hospitality to eventually earn a Garden Pass before the event ends and all the effort people put into earning Figurines, Boundy and Renown just disappears 45 days after the event.
I've been doing the quests on at least two of my characters each day (I thought it was at least four, but the broken content is messing with my ability to track what broke for which character).
I've been collecting Protector's Reward Boxes (that are supposed to drop at least one Figurine from the first box opened) from at least three characters per day.
Customer Support has told me "We leave actual in-game strategies up to the players to figure out themselves, so that they can enjoy the experience of discovery." and directed me to this thread.
I'm beginning to think that there's no recourse for these broken content issues, but still hold hope that there will be some sort of retroactive resolution and continue to pursue the content.
I Only pray to the Devs (in a non-religious manner) and Dev bosses that I won't need to hold onto the Protector Purple Boxes that're supposed to drop the Figurines in order to enact whatever solution is brought to the table for us abused-by-broke-content players.
For the sake of complete information this is what I've submitted to Customer Service, thinking that Missing Items was an appropriate reason to submit this to customer support.
Customer via CSS Web 06/24/2017 09:16 AM
- I am unable to finish my Protector's Jubilee quests for my Hunter Ranger.
- They do now show up in the journal, but when I submit a big report I see Jubilee quests on the list.
- I try to go to the maps that have Jubilee quests and still nothing shows up.
- The quests that HAVE shown up are the Protector's Speech Skirmish and the Escort the Merchants.
- I have no Idea how I'm supposed to do the dailies and get my full rewards from this event with broken content.
- Also, all my other characters have had problems with collecting the Figurines.
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- And now my GWF is unable to do more than those same two quests.
[Edit] 10 pm Pacific time - GWF for no apparent reason suddenly sees the missing quests pop upMagic loss of .... I just have no words.
My older chars have Neverwinter Renown from years past that now indicates it will expire in 30 days.
Neverwinter Census 2017
All posts pending disapproval by Cecilia
Summer festival flower petals rot. Jubilee currency says right on it "fame is fleeting". I can't think of any others that still have a working decay mechanic.
Neverwinter Census 2017
All posts pending disapproval by Cecilia
I didn't NOT get figurine from first grab, but second toon got one figurine from like #6 and from #8 box.
Which means that the currency tab is just randomizing where it places things.