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Random Queue: New Player Bonus

anomaleaanomalea Member Posts: 100 Arc User
in Bug Reports (PC)
Not sure if this is a bug, or I don't completely understand how it's supposed to work.

When I random queue with a friend, he will get the new player bonus and I won't. We've both been in the dungeon before, so the new player is the other member/s of our team. At first I though it was because I was getting the role bonus (tank/healer), but when he tanked, he got both the role and new player bonus.

We thought maybe it was because he set up the queue, but the same thing happened when I set up the queue - he got the bonus, I didn't. We tried queueing separately and entering as individuals (we sit side-by-side so can co-ordinate), same thing happened. He's gotten up to 3k AD new-player bonuses in one run, and I got nothing, and I wasn't the new player.

This is happening in Random: Dungeon and Random: Epic Dungeon. I have gotten the new-player bonus in Random: Epic Trial (Tiamat).

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  • time2011time2011 Member Posts: 125 Arc User
    i've noticed this perk from doing non randoms i think it is mostly because of people in your party who don't have random que's unlocked that give the party their 3k rough ad bonus.
  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,522 Arc User
    anomalea said:

    Not sure if this is a bug, or I don't completely understand how it's supposed to work.

    When I random queue with a friend, he will get the new player bonus and I won't. We've both been in the dungeon before, so the new player is the other member/s of our team. At first I though it was because I was getting the role bonus (tank/healer), but when he tanked, he got both the role and new player bonus.

    We thought maybe it was because he set up the queue, but the same thing happened when I set up the queue - he got the bonus, I didn't. We tried queueing separately and entering as individuals (we sit side-by-side so can co-ordinate), same thing happened. He's gotten up to 3k AD new-player bonuses in one run, and I got nothing, and I wasn't the new player.

    This is happening in Random: Dungeon and Random: Epic Dungeon. I have gotten the new-player bonus in Random: Epic Trial (Tiamat).

    That sounds like a bug.

    That is copied from Dev's description.

    Next I’ll outline the new player bonus. Although I’m mentioning it here in this thread about random queues, the new player bonus is technically independent of the random queue system, but it’s coming as a part of these changes. Whenever at least one player is present in a queue who has not yet completed it, a new player bonus will be in effect for all players in that queue who have already completed it.
    *** 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. ***
    "If if that was the case, if it was something then I probably was chasing. I would have never gotten it. That was the whole point, if you chase something, then sometimes you never get it. uh huh if you put forth to work and all the attitude, next you know it's bestowed upon you." -- Michael Jordan
  • anomaleaanomalea Member Posts: 100 Arc User
    Thanks for that, plasticbat.

    There's definitely something going on.

    I ran mini Spellplague for the first time on a character tonight and he didn't get a new-player bonus, then he took a new character and I didn't get the new-player bonus.

    We did Valindra's next and he got 3x new-player bonuses again and I got nothing. Based on the performances of our teammates, none of them was new to the dungeon.
  • anomaleaanomalea Member Posts: 100 Arc User
    Still happening. FBI tonight, he got 6k new player bonus, me, nothing. Both of us have done FBI tons.
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